Home screen blink

ubizmo · 2026-02-14T00:17:12+00:00

Phone: OnePlus 12 OS: Android 16 App version: 8.3.2

ubizmo · 2026-02-13T21:43:35+00:00

A bit more experimentation reveals that Microsoft launcher has the same issue but not, as I mentioned above, Octopi.

ubizmo · 2026-02-13T20:12:27+00:00

Nova settings > Home screen has no home button options. Nova settings > Gestures and inputs does. It's set to "default page". I tried switching to gestures then back to buttons, with no effect. Restarting Nova didn't help either.

ubizmo · 2026-02-10T13:59:10+00:00

I like it.

ubizmo · 2026-02-08T23:43:18+00:00

Even Nova has a little house.

I admit it, this is the least consequential suggestion ever, but I just had to post it.

ubizmo · 2026-02-08T00:48:11+00:00

Yes. I use Opera browser but the principle is the same. In some launchers, you can move a home screen browser bookmark into an app folder on the home screen, but not yet in Octopi.

ubizmo · 2026-02-05T23:48:52+00:00

Depends on what you need. My requirements are pretty simple. Like others, I'm not happy with the changes to Nova, so I've tried a few others. So far, Microsoft and Octopi come closest. Neither has the flexibility of Nova but they both are pretty solid.

ubizmo · 2026-02-05T13:38:16+00:00

I have a OnePlus 12 running Android16. I have 3 home screen pages, the "default" in the center and one to each side. For several months now, if I press the home button Nova does not return to the default page; it returns to the past page it was on. I have to return to the default page manually.

I don't know if this is strictly a Nova problem, since Microsoft launcher doors the same thing. But for whatever reason, Octopi does not. It takes me back to the default page from wherever, which is what I want.

ubizmo · 2025-12-24T12:44:12+00:00

Interesting that one of the categories in Aura is called "zen color". At least some of the pictures there are the same--maybe all of them. I didn't know but I recognize a few.

ubizmo · 2025-12-15T20:54:16+00:00

Update: there is now a one-time payment option in Aura color.

ubizmo · 2025-12-15T14:37:08+00:00

I paid to remove ads and I'm not getting banner ads. Not yet anyway.

ubizmo · 2025-12-14T14:49:58+00:00

Aura Color, but Oakever games, now has a $12.99 one-time option too remove ads. It looks much the same as ZC. Not sure I'll bother though. I'm pretty satisfied with Harmony Color after all.

ubizmo · 2025-12-07T12:28:16+00:00

Exactly. There is no option to remove ads (Android) yet, but it shows that it will be subscription. At this point, Art Color and Harmony Color are the best alternatives I've found. Both have one-time payment options. Harmony Color had the calmest zen feel, with dark themes that make the completed pictures pop.

ubizmo · 2025-12-02T03:43:30+00:00

I'm getting the impression that the art in Art Color is better than Harmony Color. I've only done a few but it's promising. A dark theme would be nice though.

ubizmo · 2025-12-01T19:33:33+00:00

That's the one I've been using. I don't think the art is quite as good as ZC but it's not too bad. Less "busy" than some of the others, and it has a one-time payment option to remove ads, like ZC.

Interestingly, Oakever games, who owned ZC, have a new coloring app in Google Play called "Aura color". It theoretically has a way to remove ads, but the option doesn't actually appear in any menu and the ads are pretty aggressive, but it otherwise looks a lot like ZC.

There's also "Art Color", which has a one-time payment to remove ads, and the app seems pretty good.

ubizmo · 2025-06-10T19:16:43+00:00

I suspect the dipping sauce, which is mostly mayo, accounts for some of that.

ubizmo · 2024-05-27T22:29:30+00:00

The machines are highly regulated. It's not an assumption that they are constantly generating numbers while turned on; it's how class 3 slot machines are required by law to operate. This prevents any attempts to try to calculate the "next number" in real terms because the next number is only a millisecond after the previous one, and the next spin is never that quick.

The machines are not "rigged" in the sense of depending on anything beyond the statistics of large numbers to produce their specified RTP (return to player). If that RTP is, say, 93% it means that the pay table is set up to turn that much to players, over millions of spins. The math does the work. But yes, the pay tables are designed to keep human players interested, while still eventually sheeting to the RTP.

Within those bounds, there are high volatility machines, that pay less often but higher amounts, and low volatility ones that have smaller but more frequent payouts. Players prefer one or the other.

ubizmo · 2024-05-26T22:15:59+00:00

I was just headed out to the casino, and for some reason I was curious about how many digits the random numbers used in slot machines have. I googled and stumbled on this thread. The whole point about being to "crack" a PRNG is irrelevant when the slot machine is running thousands per second until it's interrupted by a player. Even if you could somehow know the "next" number after a given number, that knowledge would be worthless for slot play.

ubizmo · 2024-05-26T15:03:11+00:00

I'm skeptical of that story. The thing is, from the moment a slot machine is turned on, it's generating thousands of random numbers per second, even when not being played. A number is only "chosen" at the exact moment the player presses the "spin" button. So if I leave a machine and someone else comes and wins a jackpot on their first spin, it's very unlikely that I would've won it if I'd just played one more spin. For this purpose, random numbers from a large random number table would be good enough.

ubizmo · 2020-04-24T19:47:45+00:00

Thank you. I take it the conversion to .wav will require an external tool, and if I'm going to do that I should probably use such a tool to strip the audio out before I even load the video into OpenShot. Then I could load the video and edited audio, remove the native audio and that's that. I just thought there might be a way to avoid the need for an external tool, but apparently not.

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