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Lemmies who post or comment way too much by your own reckoning(raises own hand), how do you have so much free time? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A while ago, I had A LOT of free time to shitpost on social media, and I was beginning to miss it.

I don't have as much time anymore. ๐Ÿ˜ญ

Barbie in c/[email protected]
Bananas in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fun fact: Queensland accounts for 97 percent of Australia's banana production, so this sounds like a question for a Queenslander.

Now, if only there is someone we know on Lemmy from Queensland...

After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Which goes to show that if you are a public figure whether in politics, entertainment, or otherwise, owning your own server for social media instead of relying on Zuck and Musk should be a critical concern at this point.

There is no reason for the Harris campaign to not dip their toe into federated social media at this point given Musk's antagonism towards them.

White Man's Burden, Lloyd, my man! White Man's Burden. in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

No, I meant Barbie in general.

Before Barbies, dolls for girls were always baby dolls, and Barbies were part of the change that showed women can have careers and be more than homemakers.

I thought we addressed that pretty well with during the opening "2001: A Space Odyssey" sequences.

White Man's Burden, Lloyd, my man! White Man's Burden. in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Oh no, does that mean Barbie is woke now too?

(Just kidding, Barbie has always been woke.)

Assortment of batshit sovcit questions. in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Now available on Blu-ray and select streaming services!

Assortment of batshit sovcit questions. in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

NO

NO FEET PICS

NO

Eric Andre and the millennial experience in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!

And while I don't remember who it was, she sound like she's from New York.

Eric Andre and the millennial experience in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Pssh. Every self respecting actor should do a full frontal on camera at least once in their life, like that really hot and cellulite free actress whose name I can't remember did on "The Wolf of Wall Street".

British cuisine is like... in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (30 children)

I know British food tend to be memed as "brown stuff", but this doesn't even look half bad, the lighting makes it look worse than it actually is.

Slap an Instagram filter on it and it will look way better.

Hey guys I love Jodie Foster so much any tips on how someone like me can impress her? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why not a Barbie elephant? ๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜

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AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)
 

Promoting products on reddit by blatantly advertising in the comment section? Who would do such a thing?

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And the 2024 Golden Lemmy for best Android device goes to... (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
15 comments fedilink
 

The Fairphone 4, as nominated by @[email protected]!

As promised, you will be receiving 1 Lemmy Silver, and of course, bragging rights.

But, we also have an honorary Golden Lemmy award, which goes to...

Every Android device that is not the Samsung Galaxy S22+, as nominated by @[email protected]!

You get 1 Lemmy Silver (and bragging rights) too!

That's it for this year's Golden Lemmy, folks!

(Nomination thread is here for future references.)

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The 1st Ever Golden Lemmy Award for Best Android Device (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink
 

To celebrate a particular movie's nominations for the Golden Globes next Sunday, Jan 7, we are hosting our very own Golden Lemmy award for Best Android Device on [email protected].

Rules are simple, tell us about your favorite Android phone from 2023 in the top level comment, and the device with the most up votes wins the esteemed and coveted Golden Lemmy Award, along with 1 Lemmy Silver.

Our regular discussion will resume in 2 weeks.

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How did you de-Google's your Android device? (lemmy.world)
 

Previously on Lemmy: Tablets

Let's talk about deGoogling Android this week, since it's a common topic of interest around here to talk about GrapheneOS and CalyxOS.

I feel like Google services has been lacking for the better part of a decade to the degree that I am reluctant to rely on most Google services nowadays. However, I don't think I have the effort to actively remove all traces of Google from my phone, as the cost of bootloader unlock and rooting is a bit too much for me.

So, I would like to hear what your deGoogling experiences, since I'm unlikely to do it myself.

Past Discussions

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Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence (www.ifixit.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9491179

While they were happy with what the fairphone 4 brought to the table, they seem to like what was changed for the fairphone 5.
What are you guys' opinions on this? A welcome change? would you get one if your phone died within the next year?

We talked about this a while back. Curious if people's thoughts have changed since then on the Fairphone 5.

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How do you use Android for productivity? (lemmy.world)
 

Previously on Lemmy: Emulators

Past Discussions:

For the last couple of weeks, it was all fun and games. This week, we are going for a more generalized topic on how you use your Android devices for work.

I'm boring in regards to work apps, so I very much favor using Microsoft apps over Google apps for work, as overall I feel Google apps work better on iPhones than on Android (to my great frustration). Office and Teams work exactly how I expect them to, while their desktop version are a bit bloated, on Android they work super well, and there really is no replacement that's as good as Microsoft Lens for scanning printed documents into PDFs.

But, I understand my use for Android for productivity is fairly limited, so, I'm interested to see if we can put our head together and find some interesting ways to use your Android devices to help us all be more productive.

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The future of selfhosted services is going to be... Android? (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://packmates.org/users/Wander/statuses/111280488886937575

The future of selfhosted services is going to be... Android?

Wait, what?

Think about it. At some point everyone has had an old phone lying around. They are designed to be constantly connected, constantly on... and even have a battery and potentially still a SIM card to survive power outages.

We just need to make it easy to create APK packaged servers that can avoid battery-optimization kills and automatically configure an outbound tunnel like ngrok, zerotrust, etc...

The goal: hosting services like #nextcloud, #syncthing, #mastodon!? should be as easy as installing an APK and leaving an old phone connected to a spare charger / outlet.

It would be tempting to have an optimized ROM, but if self-hosting is meant to become more commonplace, installing an APK should be all that's needed. #Android can do SSH, VPN and other tunnels without the need for root, so there should be no problem in using tunnels to publicly expose a phone/server in a secure manner.

In regards to the suitability of home-grade broadband, I believe that it should not be a huge problem at least in Europe where home connections are most often unmetered: "At the end of June 2021, 70.2% of EU homes were passed by either FTTP or cable DOCSIS
3.1 networks, i.e. those technologies currently capable of supporting gigabit speeds."

Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/broadband-coverage-europe-2021

PS. syncthing actually already has an APK and is easy to use. Although I had to sort out some battery optimization stuff, it's a good example of what should become much more commonplace.

cc: @selfhosted
#selfhosted #selfhosting

Saw this post on [email protected], want to get some thoughts on it, because the idea seems a bit crazy to me.

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Xiaomi is retiring MIUI, replacing it with "Xiaomi HyperOS". (www.androidauthority.com)
 

According to Xiaomi's CEO, it is a heavily modified Android and Vela (Xiaomi's IoT OS based on the open source embedded OS Nuttx) to replace MIUI in all Xiaomi mobile, auto, and intelligent home products.

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Phones should have FM radio again (as an emergency safety feature) (www.spacebar.news)
 

I didn't even realize Qualcomm removed the built in FM radio from their chips. Huh.

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Let's talk emulators this week. (lemmy.world)
 

Previously on Lemmy:

Past Discussions:

Now that our buying guide (or a first draft of it) is done, let's get back to our usual discussions. This week's topic is emulators, by request of u/AlmightySnoo. As emulators could not be loaded on iPhones without jumping through many hoops, Android remains the preferred OS for emulation on smartphones.

(Reminder, rule 2 is in effect, so please don't give out links to ROM sites.)

Now, as we all know, the mobile gaming landscape in 2023 is not great exactly. Most of the games in twr Play Store are designed for frustration instead of fun, littered with microtransactions, timegating, and of course, ads. Even the good games have terrible monitization practices, and there are a lot more bad games than good.

But emulated games are a way to get away from that, and let us remember a time when games on the go are simply games that are fun and nothing else, the nights when you are sitting in the backseat of your parents car with only the glow of your GameBoy and the passing streetlight as you play Pokemon. Nostalgia from a time when we didn't have grownup things to worry about.

But of course, many emulators didn't only aim to "emulate" the original console, but to enhance them into the modern age: Save states, rewind, enhanced graphics, texture replacements, easy cheats, touchscreen and gamepads. Things we could only dream of as kids are now reality.

So, please share your experiences with emulation on Android and give out some cool tips and tricks here.

(A special shoutout to RetroArch for having the (dis)honor of staying as one of the most frustrating software that I have ever used.)

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Irregularly Updated Community Feedback: PipedLinkBot Gone Rampant Edition (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
11 comments fedilink
 

Previously: Submission Statement Edition

Haven't done these in a while, so let's get started.

  1. Since we haven't really heard any feedback one way or the other, rule 8 is now official. To be fair, we've had a lot less microblog posts than I expected (only one Twitter/X post in the last month even after I waited longer than the initial 1-2 weeks expected, and that was a crosspost.)
  • Again, the rules are always a work in progress, feel free to give your two cents here whenever you like.
  1. As you guys know, PipedLinkBot went completely insane 2 days ago and looks like it's temporarily shut down. So, I'd like to use this opportunity to explain why I banned the bot pretty much immediately after our community reopened. (And gloat a bit, of course)

  • Even though I do agree with the principle of using open source, privacy focused frontend instead of using Youtube directly, I have a real problem with using a bot to respond every time somebody posts a Youtube link. It feels like spam, and it doesn't feel like it serves any utility besides pushing an agenda (even though many people here would agree with it). Most people have seen it around here enough to use pipedvideo if they wanted it to use it already.

  • I think it's always been a rage inducing part of the reddit experience that you see you received a response to your comment, but only have it been a bot smugly correcting your grammar or tell you all your letters are in order or something useless like that. So, for this place, I would like to make sure that everyone you talk to here is a real person as much as possible, because people inspire people to be greater, but bots don't.

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Making the 2023 [email protected] Buying Guide: Low End (lemmy.world)
 

Yeah...

Sorry this is a week late. Too busy funposting elsewhere on Lemmy this week.

Previously on Lemmy:

Past Discussions:

Not much to write about, rules are the same as the one for midrange guide. Price range would be 0-300 USD for the States, and use your local currency as appropriate.

I would like to see people list some interesting budget models that we don't usually talk about here this week for sure.

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