I’m relying on some of you folks to do a “trial” for me and let me know. Your efforts are appreciated 😛

How are you doing that?

Do you mean just manually copying a link, switching into the Mastodon app and pasting it in, or is there a better method?

Agreed. I recently discovered Affinity Photo 2 on my iPad and love it.

Would be great if a smaller mobile version were released for my Android phone.

It’s not a full replacement of Photoshop, but Photo Studio Pro is the best one I’ve found. It has a pretty good background replacement function that blends two photos.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kvadgroup.photostudio_pro

For “official” Android products, maybe eventually.

In fact I can see a future where all computing/devices are locked down and become appliances, much like your tv or fridge.

You use them how you’re “meant to”. Sideloading? Programming? Tweaking? Why do you need to do that, are you a terrorist?

I hope we don’t get to that world, but for a while now I’ve been thinking it looks like a possible outcome.

Connect for Lemmy.

It’s being updated to add features and fix bugs pretty much daily. Which means it is improving at a crazy speed.

It’s come a long way since I first started using it - about 3 days ago!

I don’t know the ROG Phone 6, so can’t comment on that, but I have an S23 Ultra since Feb.

It’s a great all rounder IMO, runs super smoothly. But there are two things I like the most, the battery life (epic) and the cameras are very very good (I know you said you don’t care though…).

One other thing to keep in mind is that this will get Android updates up to 2027 and security updates until at least 2028, if you care about keeping it for a while.

I’m also getting sick of subscriptions.

A calculator app that requires a subscription? To hell with that.

However, I am tolerant of small subscriptions where an app is providing an ongoing server-side service. In other words if my use continues to cost them money in order to provide the app’s functionality.