[LUG] Android tablet

[George Parker <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxx>]

After the usual months of thinking about it and researching I have got 
myself an Android tablet running Android 4.1 Jellybean.  After so long 
being able to configure everything to within an inch of it's life on 
various distros it is very frustrating to be back in a box.

Google is nasty and pernicious and very difficult to sidestep. Very 
controlling.  I don't have an Android phone or i anything so I'm having 
to learn a lot from scratch but in between I'm trying to configure 
myself out of the traps as far as possible.

I've loaded the Firefox android browser to get away from the inbuilt 
browser that has Google in big letters on every web page you go to. I 
synchronised with my desktop PC but I can't find my bookmarks on the 
tablet. Hey ho...  The email takes some getting used to and I must get 
away from Google play.

But, after only one day, I quite like the thing and I think it will 
repay the effort.  Even if it's only to let herself sit in bed in a 
morning with her cup of tea checking the BBC news and emails, leaving me 
in peace on the desktop.

Any tips from other Android users?

George

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