Bongles
@Bongles@lemm.ee
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 3 days ago:
Having been with android since it’s first mainstream phones (and not rooting), a lot of those were made up non issues over the years and I’ve consistently been at parity or better with ios, with one exception - God damn fucking Google recreating their own messaging apps to be separate and worse and then shutting them down when they fail! Now with every company’s nonsense AI push you have Google replacing assistant with Gemini, which does less and their LLM is clearly the worst (hence the Google search result memes), and this messaging thing. Modern Google is the worst thing to happen to android.
- Comment on In heat 3 days ago:
- Comment on It's no longer easy to play April Fool's jokes on Americans because their reality is so chaotic that it's no longer easy to tell what is real, funny, fake or sad. 3 weeks ago:
It’s a stretch, but i wonder if things like the onion, with us laughing at the insane stories has had any impact on the general reaction to what’s happening now. Like people don’t really care.
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 4 weeks ago:
That’s what pushes it over into a threat I believe. Just using the other words would normally be fine and protected speech.
- Comment on YSK, that on most smartphones, if you press the power button 5 (or more) times in quick succession, you can quickly call emergency services. 2 months ago:
So cops can’t hold your phone in front of your face to unlock it if you do this.
If you have android (and probably ios too) give your phone a quick restart if you have the opportunity to achieve the same thing.
- Comment on Bluesky Becoming New Social Media Sensation As Millions Of Americans Snub X Over Musk's Support To Trump 5 months ago:
If you avoided Twitter, why would you think you’d like its alternative?
It’s just a microblog site. Depending on what you’re interested in, it can be good for news, social movements, updates from companies (i followed game devs and would see patch notes and things), keeping up with celebrities or content creators, following topics or hobbies you’re interested in (like you might here), or like when nearly everyone was on Twitter - just seeing what trending things people are talking about. If something is going on, like the Mike tyson Jake Paul fight, seeing everyone’s takes on it, jokes, memes, can be fun for people or make them feel connected.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 5 months ago:
The way sign up currently is, probably not. It would still default to bsky.social and your average person isn’t going to think about it.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 5 months ago:
For what it’s worth
“Recent comments at Ignite about Windows 10 are reflective of the way Windows will be delivered as a service bringing new innovations and updates in an ongoing manner, with continuous value for our consumer and business customers,” says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge. “We aren’t speaking to future branding at this time, but customers can be confident Windows 10 will remain up-to-date and power a variety of devices from PCs to phones to Surface Hub to HoloLens and Xbox. We look forward to a long future of Windows innovations.”
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows
- Comment on We should have elections with no candidates. 5 months ago:
What stops them from just saying what people want to hear, then doing what their party wants? There’s no accountability because you wouldn’t know that the party that lied last election is saying the same thing this election.
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 5 months ago:
Current Lemmy will circlejerk about the end of any company or product with the smallest nudge.
Every slightly negative post above a certain threshold of views will have comments about abandoning whatever thing it’s about.
- Comment on Should i be giving a shit about my posture? 6 months ago:
Only in that direction.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 6 months ago:
Is there an ebook service like GOG is for games? DRM free so you can keep the books regardless of what happens to the service?
(I know it’s easy enough to remove it, but I’d rather support a service like that if I can)