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I've just noticed something daft with my Razr flip: optimised charging does not charge above 80% but battery saver does not turn off until the battery hits 90%. The 90% threshold is fixed and will only be reached once a week. irritatingly, I can adjust when battery saver kicks in (away from the default 20%).

sigh.

is optimised charging really worth the bother?

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I see that there are two seperate charging modes: optimised charging which keeps to 80% until an hour before wake up, and overcharge protection which avoids charging over 80% except once a week. So the setting which makes it more likely that you need to auto enable battery saver is also the setting that prevents auto disabling of battery saver. Dumb.

I am not sure how to approach this. It seems like a simple use case but my googling is failing.

I simply want to create some small rectangular open containers to sort out my drawers. That is trivial but I want the walls to be latticed to save on needless printing material - like a chicken wire fence.

I think it can be achieved with a sketcher array transform but I'm not sure if that is very efficient. Equally I can probably punch a hole and then use the lattice2 workbench to replicate that hole. Neither seems satisfying and both need duplicate action on the xz and yz faces.

Is there a better way?

Why YSK: Tab groups on Android Brave are forced on you and can't really be disabled. Switching tabs the normal way means opening the tab switcher, finding your group, then finding your tab. It's several taps for something that should be instant.

But there's a "secret" swipe gesture on the address bar that skips all of that. Just swipe left or right on the address bar and it cycles through your open tabs directly. No tab switcher, no groups to deal with.

If you also move the address bar to the bottom (Settings > Appearance > Address bar position > Bottom) then the swipe target is within thumb reach on a normal sized phone, which makes it actually usable.

I've been using Brave on Android for year and had no idea this existed. It's not surfaced anywhere obvious in the UI. I also searched for a solution (without a lot of effort, tbh, but I did search) for years on and off and only have a bit more of a persistent session did I find it. I think it is good info and hopefully doesn't break rule 8.

(while I was writing this I also noticed, only after moving the address bar to the bottom, that there are icons for your most recent tabs sitting right there in the toolbar. You can just tap them directly. I somehow never saw them when the bar was at the top. So, I guess that works too. I'm choosing to believe this says something about the UI design and not about me. )

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I've been losing my mind trying to navigate tabs on Android Brave. The forced tab groups feel completely pointless on mobile and the workflow to switch tabs is ridiculous: tap the tab count button (after accidentally tapping the Android app switcher out of muscle memory), find your group, then find your tab.

Two things that completely fix this:

1. Settings > Appearance > Address bar position > set to Bottom
2. Swipe left or right on the address bar to switch tabs directly, no tab switcher needed

That's it. The swipe gesture works across groups so the group structure stops mattering entirely. And with the address bar at the bottom it's actually reachable with your thumb.

While I was writing this I also noticed, only after moving the address bar to the bottom, that there are icons for your most recent tabs sitting right there in the toolbar. You can just tap them directly. I somehow never saw them when the bar was at the top. So, I guess that works too. I'm choosing to believe this says something about the UI design and not about me. ¯\(ツ)/¯