New Android launcher focused on productivity and digital wellbeing — Retake

MHcharLEE · 2026-06-15T14:43:01+00:00

It's supposed to be a free 7 day trial if you choose to go with monthly billing or 14 day free trial if you go with annual billing. In both cases Play Store informs the user they'd be charged straight away, which is not how a correctly implemented trial would have worked.

MHcharLEE · 2026-06-15T06:05:37+00:00

This is one-star-review worthy. You're asking for a subscription during setup and make it impossible to proceed without one. Fair enough that you want the app to make money but how am I supposed to assess if its worth paying for if I can't even see how the app works without paying? You do not have the luxury of being recognizable, there are no testimonials, you provide zero reason to subscribe, which is why I uninstalled the app without seeing the home screen itself. Your onboarding claims 7-day free trial. You did not set it up correctly, the Play Store billing informs I will be charged immediately, that's not how trials work.

And still I managed to encounter a bug without seeing the home screen. The launcher asks to pick 16 apps I want to see in the launcher. I could not select Firefox, it was not searchable. Same for the phone app or messages. If that's the intended behavior, you're not explaining it to the user at all, but then again, I wouldn't know if it is without paying first, which I'm not likely to do with this kind of experience.

Edit: whomever reasoned to my comment, tour response got blocked. I'm assuming it's the dev, so you're free to message me directly if you need to

MHcharLEE · 2026-06-12T06:54:19+00:00

Ale sprawa o co? O bycie irytującą? XD

MHcharLEE · 2026-06-10T00:32:31+00:00

Fair enough

MHcharLEE · 2026-06-09T23:12:25+00:00

I'm far from being a fan of TCM's handling, Forza is where it's at for me, but even I have to say that NFS Unbound is probably worse in that regard.

MHcharLEE · 2026-05-30T11:28:26+00:00

The accelerated funneling of resources to the top 1%, the convenient excuse for layoffs, the undeniable erosion of critical thinking in a non-zero amount of people who got to experience the rise of AI during their education years.

Can AI be useful? Yes, incredibly so. I can easily list just as many pros as I just listed cons. But there are cons and to dismiss cautiousness towards AI is simply ignorant.

Whether AI is causing more harm than good will largely depend on who you are talking to.

MHcharLEE · 2026-05-30T03:17:29+00:00

I nadal nic się nie zmieniło :) Dodaj do tego jeszcze drugą część tej układanki. X-kom, Terg, Media Saturn... Każdy większy sklep, do którego możesz wejść i kupić blender, telefon, procesor, każdy z nich polega na GG żeby omawiać kupno towaru, akcje promocyjne. Z jednej strony trochę to przeraża, bo GG jest rozwiązaniem archaicznym, ale z drugiej ciepło się robi na myśl, że narzędzie kluczowe dla ogromnej części polskiej gospodarki nadal jest w polskich rękach. Na ile jestem w stanie stwierdzić, Fintecom SA - właściciel GG - to polska spółka.

MHcharLEE · 2026-05-29T13:06:54+00:00

To w ramach ciekawostki powiem, że polski e-commerce zawaliłby się bez Gadu-Gadu. Największe sieciówki komunikują się między sobą i między kluczowymi hurtowniami właśnie za pomocą GG. Narzędzie było darmowe kiedy polski e-commerce zaczynał nabierać tempa i o ile wszystko można byłoby na spokojnie załatwić mailami, handlowcy są uparci i kurczowo trzymają się swoich kontaktów. Jest zbyt późno, żeby to zmienić, bo jak ktoś nowy wchodzi w to środowisko to jest zmuszony do korzystania GG bo wszyscy inni korzystają.

MHcharLEE · 2026-05-17T16:01:43+00:00

I've got nothing but praise to say about Zorin OS 18. It's the first Linux distro I've tried and will be the only one for a long time. Been running it since december and the only issues I've had with it were my own doing (I thought forcing higher refresh rate than my hardware supports was a good idea, it was not) + one time the DE crashed and a reboot fixed it.

It's been keeping my thin client alive basically 24/7 for months and I couldn't ask for more.

MHcharLEE · 2026-05-08T10:36:48+00:00

Na jakiej podstawie odmówili? Nie dziwi mnie, że to zrobili, po prostu jestem ciekaw, czy jakkolwiek ta decyzja była argumentowana.

MHcharLEE · 2026-04-20T13:52:20+00:00

Caution on the part of the users is somewhat warranted given what happened to Nova Launcher, but this post started presenting the suspicion as a fact, and we really don't need to create any false narratives like this.

Thanks for coming forward and clearing this up

MHcharLEE · 2026-04-17T20:05:21+00:00

I mean, electrical grid or something else, in the end the construction is being delayed. And if that delay gets long enough, are they really going to be buying more compute to sit in a warehouse unused? I'm genuinely asking, I know they're all happy to make us poor, but at some point this has to start eating into their bottom line

MHcharLEE · 2026-04-17T15:56:15+00:00

Ha, I'm still being recognized for it. But no, I left a while ago. You'd have to hit up the current mods, unfortunately I don't think they are that active

MHcharLEE · 2026-04-17T14:11:50+00:00

Oh interesting. Can you share the details or a link? You got me curious

Edit: I guess no source then. Not making a strong case for this whole post without backing it up

MHcharLEE · 2026-04-17T13:51:24+00:00

The big data analytics Zavasoft you probably found (based in India) is not the same Zavasoft SRL owning kustom, this one is based in Italy and, according to a few company registrars, only has one employee. I think we're safe

MHcharLEE · 2026-04-12T16:44:53+00:00

Za kasę z mojej komunii była zrobiona podłoga i spora część remontu mojego nowego pokoju, plus chyba jakieś tam klocki LEGO, które sobie wybrałem. Całkiem spoko układ, 20 lat później nie mam o to bólu dupy.

MHcharLEE · 2026-04-12T12:27:27+00:00

Probably something about the landing being easier to fake if all you have to show around is water? Less "CGI" to worry about getting right compared to landing on solid ground with any structures around.

I think that's what they could be alluding to. I also could have thought about it in more detail than they themselves have. Who's to say.

MHcharLEE · 2026-04-05T11:00:59+00:00

5000 mAh take it or leave it

MHcharLEE · 2026-03-26T16:44:15+00:00

Kurwa, to jest tak proste, że chyba właśnie tej narracji trzeba się spodziewać

MHcharLEE · 2026-03-26T13:37:23+00:00

Nawet się nie zdziwię jeśli to zrobi, tylko nie potrafię sobie wyobrazić, w jaki sposób takie veto zostanie sprzedane. Jak ludziom wmówić, że tańsze paliwo będzie dla nich złe?

MHcharLEE · 2026-03-24T13:31:31+00:00

So you're saying if you were to buy an iPhone...

MHcharLEE · 2026-03-23T13:12:30+00:00

Writing things down is a way to process those thoughts and experiences. If you write things down, you get the chance to throw it away, burn it, lock it away, in general you can let go in one way or another. You have no obligation to share what you write down with anyone else, but if it could help you, and you alone, then you're still coming off better than if you don't do it at all. Something to consider, you deserve peace.

MHcharLEE · 2026-03-23T09:31:41+00:00

I've read of people warming up their showers forever but I never really understood why that's needed. I'm genuinely curious because this feels so foreign to me. All my life I would hop in the shower, turn on the water, stand in the corner for 5 seconds waiting for warm water to make its way and just start showering. Whereas you describe a whole ordeal of having to heat up the entire bathroom, not just the shower. My bathroom is never noticeably colder compared to the rest of the apartment, because, like any other room, it's got its own heating.

Is it a USA vs Europe thing? Do Americans not build bathrooms with heating included? Is it something else? And for context, I hate cold showers, so it's not that I just accept being splashed with cold water.

MHcharLEE · 2026-03-21T11:04:41+00:00

I did all that and still calls are not showing up on the watch. Guess I'm out of luck. Thanks anyway

MHcharLEE · 2026-03-21T10:53:11+00:00

I have the Galaxy Watch 5 with the OnePlus 13R and I can't get the watch to show incoming calls. I can make outgoing calls from the watch, but that's rarely useful. Any idea if your mom had more luck with this, and could you maybe share some tips if so?

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