kuneho

@kuneho@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when carriers not just locked the phones, they also had custom firmwares filled with bloat and customized skins and even locking down features and all that shit. For example, I had a Sony Ericsson K700i and it had a disgustingly customized FW on it, and aside that it was ugly, I could only play MP3 files that I purchased through Vodafone. Sending them via bluetooth (or even with IR) didn’t work, the phone refused to play it back.

  (Then of course I found out that Sony Ericssons were pretty moddable phones so I replaced the FW with an original one and that solved all my problems. Using VKP patches were just

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed it meant using a separate device or software on the side

  That’s what it is. I remember actually sideloading apps to my BlackBerry 10 devices (Z10 and Z30) (though it really wasn’t that long ago not to remember it…) using a PC with a Chrome based browser (though it worked on Firefox too with some minor fiddling) to push .bar files to the phone. That is what sideloading to me.

  Now this term changed, so everything you install from a different source than what the built-in appstore is called sideloading, which is ridiculous IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What is your most 'comfy' anime?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Space Dandy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  though now that I think about it, simply “butthole” would be enough. everyone has one, still feels offensive enough to work universally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  loose butthole

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  to me it’s more like post Enterprise that I just can’t get into anymore. Time to time I try again though, hoping one day I will magically like them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  for newcomers, maybe this is the best combo. Debian stable with KDE Plasma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you pronounce "centaur" and why?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s weird, too, but no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you pronounce "centaur" and why?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ken (as the name) - ta (with a hard T and A as in catapult) - ur (with an u like in Vonnegut’s name)

  tho I’m from europe speaking a weird ass language

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, sure, a really nice thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They should open-source it, as they did with Calculator.