Notnotmike

@Notnotmike@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[WIRED] 6 Best Phones With a 3.5-mm Headphone Jack (2023): Rugged, Cheap, Luxe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I refused to give up my headphone jack, so for my latest phone I switched to the Moto 5g Stylus

  It’s an OK phone. It often has performance issues, but the battery life is massive and I expanded to storage to nearly 500Gb. The phone is long though - they increased the screen size and avoided increasing the width, so it’s just comically tall. That’s good for scenarios when you want to see more of the screen while keeping the keyboard out and for split screen apps and games, but mostly it’s a burden because you can’t effectively use the phone one handed. For its price, I’d say it’s probably worth at least a year or two of service, but I find myself wanting more power again like the Pixel 3a (my last phone).

  I’m interested in a couple of the phones they listed in the article, but definitely will have to double check performance in the future. It’s the most annoying part of this phone

  Oh one pro tip for the 5g stylus - the camera is good, but only when using their “Ultra-rez” mode instead of the default mode, and the preview looks a lot worse than the actual picture. The picture will preview as blurry and pixelated while you’re taking it, but once processed it will look great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Streamers Now Wasting Record Amounts of Time Finding Something to Watch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Plex has a random button for movies and TV so often my friends/family and I will play a game I like to call the random game.

  Everyone gets 1 veto, and any movie can be skipped by majority vote. Just keep hitting the random button until something sticks. Eventually you’ll hit a movie to watch, and it’s never failed to be a good time.

  Bonus game is try to guess the movie first - unfortunately I usually win because I put the movies on there so I know the approximate list of options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here is what’s coming in Cyberpunk 2077’s free 2.0 update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  On PS5 it’s still a little janky. I’m hoping the update will stabilize some of the issues

  It’s playable, justice not immersive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Programming audiobook recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pragmatic Programmer is OK, there’s not any code that I can remember and it’s just general purpose, helpful ideas for programmers to follow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[HN] Sync for Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a bit of irrationality with FOSS. People claim they work better, but I almost universally find that they work significantly worse and have much worse UX.

  Granted, I still use and prefer FOSS alternatives a lot of the time, but I’m not using them because they’re functionally better, and pretending like they are in many cases is just disingenuous

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[HN] Reasons to Drop Docker for Podman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am interested in trying Podman and Rancher for alternatives to Docker, but I don’t think this article is very good at convincing anyone… Two of their three points are VERY weak

  The ease of creating pods is unmatched by any other container engine, whether CLI or GUI.

  I would definitely challenge that opinion. For starters, I use the Docker CLI for 99% of my use cases, so really I don’t care about the GUI but about how the CLI commands are designed. Secondly, if I am going to use a GUI for Docker, I just use Portainer which is the best GUI I’ve found so far for container management.

  This point is extremely subjective.

  Unlike Docker, you can pull an image while in the Podman Desktop application

  This is just incorrect, and I don’t know why they couldn’t just look at the Docker Desktop documentation for two seconds to find the truth

  The strongest argument they have is for the rootless containers, which my company’s shared pipeline runners are now beginning to enforce. We use buildah for that (which I believe wraps around Podman) and I appreciate the increased security and lighter load on the system

  Overall, this wasn’t a very convincing article. I’m interested in Podman but if I weren’t I think I’d find it pretty easy to dismiss this one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[HN] Sync for Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know a lot of people don’t care for Sync because it isn’t a FOSS application. But it’s genuinely the best app out there right now by a huge margin. It’s extremely polished and it works so much more reliably.

  I use Jerboa mainly, and I’m constantly having to switch instances or restart Jerboa because something breaks. Sync doesn’t have the same issues, seemingly, it just works.

  For example, Jerboa makes it really difficult to “restart” the infinite scroll when something does go wrong. You hit the bottom of the infinite scroll and can’t scroll any further and the only way to recover is to either (1) scroll all the way back to the top of the feed so you can refresh or (2) restart the app. With Sync you can easily just press the home button again to go to the top of the feed. But honestly I never have to do that because it’s broken, I only ever do that to start a new session

  Overall, I’m a little stunned by the difference in quality. It’s actually remarkable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel Studios' The Marvels | Official Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a comic book reader, but from what I’ve heard the characters never dying permanently is a common theme, so at least there’s a precedent