Kieron Quinn

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To revert back, just long press and open the search settings, then select the Google app. Note that unfortunately only the search box check is bypassed, this wouldn't allow a third party app to replace the Discover feed yet (not without root anyway).

With this method you can set any app as the provider, but the widget must be set as "configuration optional", ie. if you add it to the home screen it doesn't open a configuration UI before being added. It also takes the first widget for a package, so apps with several widgets may show the wrong one.

And my personal favourite, Pixel Search (play.google.com/store/apps/d...), which looks like the old search box but is more customisable. It opens a similar UI to the old search interface too.

adb shell settings put secure selected_search_engine rk.android.app.pixelsearch

Chrome (looks a bit weird with broken scaling):

adb shell settings put secure selected_search_engine com.android.chrome

Here's Firefox:

adb shell settings put secure selected_search_engine org.mozilla.firefox

Will this change in the future to allow third party apps to replace Discover? Maybe, who knows. But what use would that be anyway when the list of allowed apps is server-controlled? Well...

The setting is writable using ADB and can be set to any app, bypassing the check (also enabling the settings)

Interestingly, this setting is also used to control which app to use for the "overlay" (minus one / Discover feed), but the selected app must be on a hardcoded list of packages (see the code: cs.android.com/android/plat...). Querying this on a device reveals the list only allows the Google app.

This suggests that the change is actually more to do with antitrust, and also at the same time will finally allow people to change the search box - something that's been asked for for a long time.

The list of apps that are "allowed" here is server-controlled, it reads from www.gstatic.com/android_sear... (download and drop into protobuf-decoder.netlify.app to read this), and seems to be a similar list (if not the same one) to previous antitrust requirements.

This is an intentional change, but the claims that it's being done to push AI mode don't seem to be (entirely) true. There's actually a hidden settings UI that only appears if you change the setting (presumably this will change later), which allows you to pick a search provider for the search box.

In the first Android 17 beta, there's a change to the search box in the Pixel Launcher. Some sites are reporting this as "similar to the Google widget" - but it acually *is* just the Google widget. The methods to revert back to the old search box (internally called "one" search) also don't work

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Do you have one of those cinema passes or are you paying to see Nick every time?

Queueing up at the landlord's house at 5am on boxing day for the best deal

Yeah I think it's this, it's quite common to get it with 50Hz displays here since most phones will default to 60Hz refresh rate in videos. Lights get detected and adjusted to quickly, but smaller screens you end up with the scan effect.

Old Fridges Can Kill Public Information Film PIF 1971 CLIP YouTube video by Retro Pixels

We had this: youtu.be/A4aVU3LFq_E

It's so very '70s that the correct thing to do is the last mentioned option, after smashing the shit out of it to prevent a child from getting stuck when you've dumped it in the local woods

Spotted while visiting the world's most approachable Royal Mail sorting office

Salford graffiti hits different

Hate this shit so much, I've done all the ID crap for Bluesky, Discord and Reddit and yet I'm still having to VPN to France more and more because I can't even scroll Reddit without being blocked.

Imgur isn't even the Online Safety Act, they just got fined and decided to block the entire country.

I hope the same for the apple.news links, though at least that was limited to news sites

Seems the CPU in question does have the required instructions since it supports SSE4.2: www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/In...

So either could be bypassed in software or potentially a TPM added to the board might be enough

When MPs can't look at "tractors" in parliament they'll suddenly care.

There do seem to be better alternatives nowadays, eg. store-beta.rebble.io/app/67a8c311..., so it won't get updates beyond station list changes if/when I remember, but it's nice to know someone is still finding it useful.

GitHub - KieronQuinn/pebble-train-times-gb: Source code for Pebble JS app displaying train times in Britain Source code for Pebble JS app displaying train times in Britain - KieronQuinn/pebble-train-times-gb

Yes, that was mine - 8 years ago! Somehow I still had the source knocking around, so I've updated the list and published a release, as well as dropping the source at github.com/KieronQuinn/...

I reckon Microsoft. Google tried and failed to make a social network already, probably won't want it. Meta would get hit by every single anti-competition suit under the sun.

There were also Salesforce and Oracle bidding when *he* took it over, both of those options sound god awful.

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Still, could be worse

At least you didn't find a path

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