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Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good
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I hate being hinted and asked to click on the link, so I save you a click:
Now that Nova is in literal limbo, if not allegedly in the hands of some data miner, there should be talk about substitutes.
Are you using a different client? Without teaser texts? The Lemmy website mentions Nova in the teaser.
I'm on the PC and using Firefox, viewing Lemmy directly rather than on mobile.
I see only this.
Seems like lemmy.world has the opengraph/teaser stuff disabled? When I open the post on lemmyworld, without an account, it doesn't have a teaser at all.
If you open this comment source link it may very well show.
The interoperability of ActivityPub is nice, but all these differences make it confusing and cumbersome too.
I hate clickbait too. Just downvote posts like this
it's android. what do you expect? It's one giant data miner.
That talk about substitutes happened when it was initially handed over to said data miner, and anybody concerned should have switched back then. I did, moving to Lawnchair, and never looked back. Oodles of other options are doubtlessly available.
Lawnchair was too bare bones for me. However, I was able to recreate 90%+ of my Nova setup with Neo.
https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher
Hasn't had a release since 2023 🫤
Their other projects are in active development, so I wouldn't consider it to be abandoned.
I haven't had any issues besides the desktop being occasionally unresponsive. Same thing used to happen to me in Nova.
It's FOSS and suits my needs. But I can see why others may want to stay away from it.
https://github.com/NeoApplications
I would be so happy if Kevin got accidentally 'hacked' and the source leaked, by now im so ingrained in nova that it just feels wrong switching.