Markaos
Nah, this development version is way worse than both Android 12+ design and Android 11 design - it just has random unlabeled tiles for system settings where you have to guess the meaning by the icon.
In Android 11, this was only used for the six quick settings you could access when you were looking at the notifications, and they would get labels when you expanded the settings side. In 12+, there are no unlabeled settings anywhere. But this redesign introduced unlabeled tiles for settings you don’t use often, which just seems insane to me.
Wow, first time I feel strongly about a quick settings update. It looks awful, taking the worst parts of the Android 12+ redesign and combining them with the worst ideas from the older design, like unlabeled icons.
It looks like there are unlabeled icons in the expanded state? Wtf? If I’m expanding the quick settings, that means I’m fishing for the less used settings, so there’s no way I’m going to remember that for example the weird circle with a small segment cut out means “Data saver”. It will just be a mystery icon that does some mystery action - that has nothing to do in a modern OS.
It looks like this design is heavily sacrificing usability for people who don’t spend hours every day mucking around with quick settings in order to please some hypothetical user who feels more slowed down by swiping over one or two screens than by having to find the one setting they currently need in a big matrix of poorly designed icons.
Edit: also it looks like the home screen is visible under the quick settings - I’m not a big fan of that, I really like the current design where the notifications are pretty much their own separate screen without distracting app content, but that’s just my subjective taste. Unlabeled icons are objectively bad.
someone just plain lying about what OS they’re using in order to break fingerprinting.
The idea with avoiding fingerprinting is to look like whatever the biggest group of users looks like, because that’s who you share the fingerprint with. If you use an uncommon value for something, you make fingerprinting easier.
That’s one of the reasons why for example Vivaldi on Linux sets its user agent to match the latest version Chrome on Windows.
That really depends on the technology used. For example, all modern Ethernet standards (which includes both copper and fiber optic) are full duplex, meaning they can provide the full bandwidth in both directions at once. So a gigabit Ethernet link can do a gigabit in one direction AND a gigabit in the other direction at the same time (but not two gigabits in one direction).
