So I redid my phone homescreens to avoid having application links, and replaced everything with widgets.
For years I've felt like desktop widgets are mostly a gimmick and pointless, and basically after a day this way I've completely reversed my decision on them. I basically got annoyed at the way that the shortcut model leads to just a soup of icons and I usually just go to the display of all and then use the link from there, and I completely reversed my decision. Feels very weird.
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •@Hypolite Petovan Got home assistant buttons for my few smart lights, got my media players, email and calendar widgets. Means I can quickly start and restart music, stop my kids turning on lights in the night, and so on.
It's very weird - I'm starting to worry that it's becoming a tiling window manager for android
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •@Hypolite Petovan Yeah - I think the iPhone and how it grinds all the apps into your face and rejects the idea of organization apart from folders makes this more complicated.
Also - yeah - smart lights are very nice for making sure kids can't turn their lights on in the middle of the night and stay up and play.
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