IcedRaktajino
@IcedRaktajino@startrek.website
- Comment on Shower Thought: The man, the legend, the one-man show 11 hours ago:
Good catch. Fixed!
- Submitted 11 hours ago to risa@startrek.website | 6 comments
- Comment on Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android 3 days ago:
Yeah, I’ve got all those turned off. Actually, they came disabled by default (one of the OS customizations Minimal does in their base image). I usually turn those to at least .5x on my other phones to make things feel faster, lol, but in this case, they were already off.
But there’s still subtle transitions and some animations that aren’t affected by that. One of the latter is the animations on the lock screen when you’re entering your pin. Those have to be disabled separately in the security settings (and weren’t disabled by default by Minimal).
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 3 days ago:
Look at it from a new user’s perspective; someone who has not curated their feed or otherwise “made the fediverse what they want”. e.g. They land on Lemmy World or another big instance and their default sort is “active”. Doing that now in an incognito window, and half the front page is rage, same on the second, and the rest some random shitposts and Linux.
Truth be told, looking at that, I probably wouldn’t want to sign up. Especially if I didn’t know that different instances have different cultures, etc.
Assuming they’re a normie (which we desperately fucking need here), I just don’t see that they’d want to stick around. Aside from trolls and spammers, the only people we seem to consistently attract here are the “Wah wah I was banned from Reddit” types and, while there’s certainly a sizable pool to draw from, I wouldn’t exactly consider them the pick of the litter for growing the fediverse.
The point of OPs post is that usage here is declining, and I am simply pointing out that I feel all the rage and politics is not particularly inviting.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 3 days ago:
We had the same thought. Right before I saw your reply, I added some hobby communities to my comment as examples.
This place is so flooded with politics and raging over the news that I’m about to choose a random hobby community that’s active and pick up said hobby just to be able to have something besides Star Trek and Linux to talk about here lol.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 3 days ago:
Just my two cents, but there’s just no reason for people to come here when it’s 80+% political shit and rage bait and virtue signaling. Hell, I’ve got 80% of the content here filtered out as it is, and I want to be here.
Find your nearest non-political hobby community and start posting things people actually want to see and maybe we might see some growth or people sticking around. My current hobby is Meshtastic, so I’ve been pretty active there.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 days ago:
I’d love to see the keyboards and trackballs manufactured again if for no other purpose than having them available for other projects.
There was a project a while back called Beepberry that was a little handheld Linux thing that used Blackberry keyboards. Among other reasons, the supply of the BB keyboards dried up so the project died.
- Comment on Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android 3 days ago:
Quite possibly. I don’t think I have anything running below A11 that still functions so that’s been my baseline. Most recent was my OP3 that had LineageOS’s A9 but the battery finally gave up the ghost a few months ago.
- Comment on Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android 3 days ago:
Yep, to all of that.
disable that annoying “you haven’t used those apps in a while so permissions were removed” thigny
AFAIK, you can only do that on an app-by-app basis.
Settings -> Apps -> {App} -> Permissions -> Pause app activity if unused
That’s on Android 14, so YMMV if they took that away.
- Comment on Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android 3 days ago:
AFAIK, it’s just the base Android UI because it’s the same in LineageOS and vanilla builds.
- The quick actions have gone to hell. There’s nothing quick about them anymore and customizing them is even worse than it already was.
- Every UI element is oversized and seems made for the hot doggiest of hotdog fingers
- The organization of the settings, especially the network/mobile settings, somehow makes even less sense than before
- The wallpaper / background config is just awful nowadays. I don’t know if that’s “Material You” or what, but just let me pick an image or no image or a solid color. Don’t present 3 different apps to handle changing the background, two of which do nothing.
- On the Google side, they’re shoving more Gemini shit in
- Now Google is gatekeeping even the apps you want to sideload
- Even with animations disabled, there’s still too many animations.
- Gesture navigation is just terrible but at least you can dig through the settings to re-enable 3 button nav
- A litany of other small gripes
- Submitted 3 days ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 19 comments
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 days ago:
I pre-ordered last June and got it toward the end of July. It seems to ship directly from the factory in Hong Kong, so you have to use the tracking link they send you until it clears customs in your country.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 days ago:
I had the LG Genesis that was the spiritual successor to the enV. Loved the form factor but the battery life was abysmal at like 2 hours of use. Yay Android 2.2 lol.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 days ago:
Gemini PDA
Is that the one from PlanetCom? I’ve been looking at both their Gemini and Cosmo Communicator. Both were out of stock when I ended up going with the Minimal.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 4 days ago:
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 4 days ago:
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 4 days ago:
I’ve been rocking a Minimal Phone for about 6 or 7 months now, and man am I excited to have options for QWERTY phones again.
- Submitted 4 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 103 comments
- Comment on Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard 5 days ago:
Nice. I’ll look into that one.
- Submitted 5 days ago to startrek@startrek.website | 3 comments
- Comment on No Ship, No Adventure, Just Poker. Honestly, I'd watch that. 1 week ago:
No offense taken at all, haha. Just making an observation and trying to be funny.
- Submitted 1 week ago to risa@startrek.website | 0 comments
- Comment on No Ship, No Adventure, Just Poker. Honestly, I'd watch that. 1 week ago:
Ah. I’ll admit, my TOS lore is lacking. Was trying to deflect with a smile and nod, but you caught me lol.
- Comment on Good FOSS design software for beginners? 1 week ago:
Nice. A lot more than RPis, too.
This is actually for a Banana Pi but it’s in the Pi Zero form factor so should be easy to modify.
- Comment on No Ship, No Adventure, Just Poker. Honestly, I'd watch that. 1 week ago:
Yes!
And Worf tells this highly embellished story of honor and victory, everyone reacts in awe, and he folds.
- Comment on No Ship, No Adventure, Just Poker. Honestly, I'd watch that. 1 week ago:
Right? I feel like it would be a high quality, low budget, low stress series. No CGI, minimal costume and make up, the writers may just have to give them some in-character stuff to work into their banter. The cast’s age wouldn’t be a concern since they’d be comfortably seated the whole time.
It could work 😆
- Comment on Good FOSS design software for beginners? 1 week ago:
If you have any coding experience, I recommend giving OpenSCAD
That’s certainly an interesting way to go about it lol. That said, I read through the tutorial and honestly I’m gonna give it a try. The syntax doesn’t look too awful and doing it in code seems like it would allow for easy precision and also eliminates having to learn the UI of FreeCAD which I agree is absolutely horrendous.
Thanks.
- Comment on Good FOSS design software for beginners? 1 week ago:
I’ll check it out. Thanks!
- Comment on No Ship, No Adventure, Just Poker. Honestly, I'd watch that. 1 week ago:
Unless the player on the right is Worf who gets none because he’s just going to fold anyway.
- Submitted 1 week ago to risa@startrek.website | 17 comments
