My submission was actually to a comment, in which the article's subject (i.e. the source article's author) showed up and declared that half the quotes attributed to him in the article did not exist in the referenced piece he wrote--suggesting that ArsTechnica's editors had used an AI to write the article, which hallucinated details.
That makes a lot more sense, but just as a note for the future: HN replaces submission URLs with their canonical URL for most pages (they have disabled this for some where the site's canonical URL is reliably wrong). So when you submitted a link to the comment section, HN stripped that out and replaced it with the link to the article itself. It's done this for years.
Had various issues with Heroic and whatever the other popular one was (Lutris, maybe). I personally don't need official support for a single launcher that tries to integrate every gaming platform ala Steam, GOG, Blizzard, Epic, Amazon. A single-platform launcher with native Linux support would be good enough for me.
Given that the cancelled PoP title in question was supposed to be a remake of PoP: The Sands of Time, it would seem that not even remakes/remasters can save them now.
How expensive is the sterilization process, though? That would be my primary concern if tilapia-skin bandages started to get widely available/mass-produced: that unscrupulous vendors would cut corners during sterilization, and then the burn victims would get nasty infections from remnant bacteria on the tilapia skin.
Pretty much confirms that ads will become a thing. However:
> If ads are introduced, Nova Prime will remain ad free. Our guiding principles are clear: keep the experience clean and fast, avoid disruptive formats, and provide a straightforward way to keep the experience ad free.
That's probably why I wasn't seeing any ads even after I got the update.
I've still reverted to a previous version and disabled auto-updates, because I basically have zero faith that being a paid member will turn off any of their shady tracking stuff, even if ads are not visible.
So, frustratingly, I can't seem to get the launcher to downgrade after it automatically updated last night.
Someone on the thread linked to the previous version APK from a site called uptodown (glanced at it, didn't seem to be malware, but didn't do any real forensic analysis). I enabled sideloading on my phone, tried to "update" the app, but the OS then refused to install it, claiming it was invalid.
Can't tell if it's an OS level safeguard or an app-level one. Very frustrating, either way. I had my version of Nova launcher locked for years on both my phone and tablet after the acquisition, but when I got a new phone I obviously had to install the latest-greatest, and at that point I forgot to disable the auto-update flag...
Rollbacks pretty much only work on LineageOS. I've seen this come up a lot in the last year as multiple F-Droid apps pushed out a bad update and people wanted a fix ASAP rather than in a couple weeks.
You can probably extract the apk of the old version on your other phone, btw.
Thanks. I took the nuclear option and uninstalled Nova completely before sideloading the previous version.
Luckily, Nova has a very good backup/restore option, so I made a backup right before uninstalling and was back up and running in short order. I of course unchecked the box to allow auto updates.
I'm hoping this buys me a little bit of time to explore other launcher options in detail.
> Can't tell if it's an OS level safeguard or an app-level one.
App version rollbacks are not allowed on Android. Even if it were, apps will have had to implement support for rollbacks (think database schema changes that must be undone etc).
Meh. I installed Octopi, but it's like death by a thousand cuts. The dock looks like hot garbage when you flip to landscape mode--it ends up taking up like 60% of the screen. I don't know why it doesn't just switch to vertical mode the way Nova did.
Lack of being able to name the folders is also an annoyance, as is the way the folder icons pop out to the side from the dock rather than up-and-over.
The article has now been pulled by Ars.
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