I didn’t believe you until I read the article myself. Here’s another source (New York Times):

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/charlie-kirk-bullet-casings-engravings.html

Neo launcher hasn’t had a release for 3 years, sadly.

Lawnchair is alright but it is missing a bunch of features compared to Nova.

I think Lawnchair is the closest visual / UX replacement to Nova that I’ve found, but it is missing many features compared to Nova 🙁.

Also, I’m starting to learn Private Space is a pain, as amongst other shortcomings it forces you to use a logged-in Play Store to install apps (“private”, my ass!). You can install apks via ADB, but who can be bothered to do that.

Under the hood, it looks like Private Space uses another hidden user, so I think I’ll just make another user logged into nothing and switch to it occasionally instead of using private space.

Does anyone know of a good replacement launcher that supports Private Space?

I had noticed that Nova had been falling behind for the last couple of years, but I didn’t know why. I’ve been using it for over 10 years.

It sounds like a case of “buy it, kill it” which is pretty sad. If it had been open sourced we might have been able to improve it and keep it alive.

I would have paid $40-50 myself. Maybe I’ll get a second copy at some point.

Given how crucial to exposing government misconduct FOI requests are in the UK, I imagine this is a path you very much don’t want to go down.

I first thought this was talking about the UK government, as I wouldn’t put it past them to try and push something like this through. I’m both sad and relieved it’s our Australian cousins going through it instead.

To be clear, this seems to be about Australia (?)

I wonder if the burst in activity is from all the companies and government entities in Europe wanting to distance themselves from Microsoft and the US, switching to LibreOffice and improving its funding.

I remember a story a while back about an energy company suing to get a church to take down their solar panels because they were selling their power cheap to residents.

Sadly energy company won.

Don’t forget transphobia. They seem to have suddenly decided that’s a good idea in the last 3 years.

Good. Now repeal the Online Safety Act.

You can tell they are really improving competition and efficiency by raising the C - suite salaries.

Yeah unfortunately one vote every 4 or 5 years is not enough granularity to weigh in on specific issues. Also, politicians lie about what they will do all the time.

Showing that a large amount of people are against an action, whether by petition or protest, is one of the tools we do have.

This particular piece of legislation has been in the works for two administrations of two different parties. We’re kind of sick of both of them so I think many people will likely vote for a 3rd party the next time around. Possibly the more progressive splinter group of our 'left" party.

Doesn’t stop us from continuing to push. Since they responded we got 300 000 more signatures.

Reminder that there is a petition for UK residents, now with 500 000 signatures: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

Well, I know what studio they are closing next.

Reading the attached article, this seems to be a directive, rather than a law. We don’t know what shape the law will take, or whether it will actually be implemented… No?

Please correct me if I’m wrong. Not too familiar with this stuff.

There’s still time to push back, I would guess.

I’m paying £20/m for a lossless family plan from Deezer… That’s how they get you 😭. Now I’d have to apologize to my family members if I took away their subscription. Used to be around £17 when I started a few years back.

I do not recommend getting a family plan.

Not any more 😭