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- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 3 days ago:
I completely agree, but despite OP or Samsung looking better on paper, overall experience is just so much smoother. Shit just works. And at some point I began to value that over specs.
Just for some perspective, I’m basing what I’m saying on OP 3T, 5T and 8Pro, Samsung S21 and Pixel 8 pro and currently 9 pro fold.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 3 days ago:
Nah, I’m not doing back to OP. I hate to say it, but If you’re going to use android, nothing beats pixels. Not even close.
If GrapheneOS manages to actually work with a decent hardware maker to get a phone to the market, I’ll get that next, but only if Android auto and banking apps work. Phone’s useless to me without those.
Only reason I’d give those up is if I can get another Linux phone as polished as Nokia N9. Still the best phone I’ve ever owned.
Not a popular opinion, but if those two options are unavailable, I’d rather switch to iPhone than use a non pixel android.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 3 days ago:
Oneplus had great success but then enshittified. Raised prices to match Samsung and Google, outsourced support to some place that didn’t sound like they were even in the same dimension as any English speakers and took away their ability to help customers even by accident and finally quality of their phones went to shit.
They could’ve sucked the Chinese government subsidy tit for another few years and would’ve established themselves as legit competition, but that would only delay inevitable enshittification by a few years.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t work for every use case, but perfect for mine. I was just pointing out other options.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 3 weeks ago:
Valid points. I use it for my media collection I can easily restore and won’t miss. Cache would be sort of nice to have and redundancy would just be wasting space.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 4 weeks ago:
Mergerfs can do that too and you can keep the underlying fs as whatever you want.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
Ah, makes sense. I don’t mind sharing history and have never used bookmarks or customized any settings.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
This is what I do now, just trying to figure out why ff keeps spending time on profiles. Do they hadn’t any advantages over containers?
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
I think containers (that Firefox already has) are a much better way to handle this. Profiles, art least the way they are implemented on chrome, feels like a massive downgrade.
- Comment on PRAISE HIM 1 month ago:
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 1 month ago:
Breadstickius
- Comment on Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs 2 months ago:
Is this for people that are able to transfer themselves? Because Uber WAV works just fine. Used it several times without any issues other than extended wait times due to small number of appropriate cars.
Also, I’m willing to bet real money this issue is caused by assholes claiming their chihuahuas are service animals and not by Uber drivers rejecting to drive blind people or people in wheelchairs.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 months ago:
Curve is not available in US and has terrible reviews on Play store.
I’d switch in a heartbeat, but I can’t live without a smart watch and having to pay with physical cc again would be a massive downgrade.
I have a suspicion that all the android clones will become a much worse/unusable experience once Google implements these changes.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 months ago:
Do any alternatives allow using banking apps or android pay or android auto?
I realize there are no substitutes for banking apps, but are there any alternatives for android auto or pay if those cannot be installed? Preferably Linux alternatives.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 3 months ago:
I’ve got 6 in a random mix of brands (Seagate and WD) 8-16Tb that are all older than that. Running 24/7 storing mostly random shit I download. Pulled one out recently because the USB controller died. Still works in a different enclosure now.
I’d definitely have a different setup for data I actually cared about.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 3 months ago:
Hard drives aren’t great for archival in general, but any modern drive should work. Grab multiple brands and make at least two copies. Look for sales. Externals regularly go below $15/tb these days.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 4 months ago:
I’ve been charging my phones exclusively wirelessly (not counting plugging in cars or emergencies) for about 15 years. From Lumia, to OnePlus to Pixel now. Zero issues.
Even iphones finally invented wireless charging a few years ago and it works very well.
I realize it’s not as efficient, but I charge overnight and we’re probably talking about $10/year in losses.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 4 months ago:
Could you name a few successful boycotts? I did a quick search and recent examples don’t seem that successful to me. Amazon is still doing amazingly well and Nestlé is still killing people.
- Comment on The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About 5 months ago:
I don’t think you watched either video.
He very specifically said it’s nearly impossible to take off without flaps because plane will aggressively complain about taking off in incorrect configuration.
He also very clearly said that new footage made RAT deployment obvious and that’s why he changed his opinion.
Not defending him or trying to convince you and I’m certainly not an expert, but he knows what he’s taking about (a lot of his prior analysis was confirmed by investigators) and is not afraid to admit to being wrong. I have no reason not to trust him.
- Comment on The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About 5 months ago:
Did some new information come out? Last analysis video I watched seemed to point to pilots accidentally retracting flaps instead of landing gear.
- Comment on An alien who sees in the radio part of the light spectrum would probably be blinded by all our wireless communications 5 months ago:
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 months ago:
It’s relatively inexpensive and makes life much easier for people who are not tech savvy. Your position is that of an incredibly egoistic person that never had to help an older relative or dealt with an adult who doesn’t have time for random bs during an hour or so of downtime most people get in a day.
If spending hours trying to figure out which “free” streaming service had not gotten shot down today and magically has the content you want is worth less to you than a one time payment of a few bucks to plex, then you really don’t value your time.
- Comment on Seattle Sets the Stage for Automatic Traffic Camera Expansion - The Urbanist 6 months ago:
Red light cameras are fine as long as they work properly, but fuck the speed cams. Glad they are still illegal here.
- Comment on Anting 6 months ago:
I’d agree, but the joke was funny.
- Comment on Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence 6 months ago:
Also zypper is a fantastic package manager.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 7 months ago:
You do know Firefox has profiles you can use to effectively make it two (or more) separate browsers?
Not shitting on Waterfox, just FYI.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 7 months ago:
Huh? I can reach my site via curl that has neither. How did you come up with this random set of requirements?
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 7 months ago:
I’m not sure how they actually implemented it, but you can easily block ML crawlers via cloud flare. Isn’t just about every small site/service behind CF anyway?
- Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. 8 months ago:
Sensors are cheap and have been around for a long time, but I’m going to guess the number one reason is the small part. Fewer cars = less traffic.
I’ve actually watched a city I visit regularly grow over about 20 years and it went from them having zero traffic to Los Angeles style traffic jams. This is despite their best efforts like making extra wide roads, using roundabouts, etc.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 8 months ago:
So you stopped using an iPhone too? Because Apple also renamed the gulf in their maps app.
Is Symbian still good these days?