Groxx

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by Groxx 4mo ago
Bangle.js 2 is the only smartwatch I've kept since Pebble. It's definitely not a polished experience, so I can only recommend with pretty strong caveats, but it has the main things I want from a tool : notifications, long battery
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Viewing angles are also fantastic compared to almost all T/R LCDs - they tend to be fairly directional. It's a great display tech for many things that don't need 60+fps.
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by Groxx 4mo ago
The gunpla family has especially prominent ones, apparently used in mating displays.
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by Groxx 4mo ago
yea, from my understanding Google has had E2EE when messaging itself for a couple years or so now, mirroring how iMessage encrypts messages to itself. iMessage is even very similar (maybe identical) to MLS, and Google Messages might be a
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by Groxx 4mo ago
I parry the taco and use Vicious Mockery.
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by Groxx 4mo ago
I wouldn't be particularly surprised if they're hiding the spec / charging pointless $$$ to reduce access, but I was under the impression that it would be available, like RCS's spec itself. e.g.: the RCS v3 page: https
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Totally agreed on multiple owners... but that kind of brand-memory is literally what you're paying for when you buy a company and keep the name. Every buyer decided to keep the name.
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by Groxx 4mo ago
It's always good to be wrong about good news, then :) I'll definitely be curious about the source code when that happens, and if it'd be reasonable to get it into a SMS-provider-like shape eventually. Particularly since Andro
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Keep in mind that this is a brand which has offered 1TB free in the past. They kinda only have themselves to blame for any minimum-price assumptions.
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by Groxx 4mo ago
This is an extremely strange rewriting of history in which Google is some kind of altruist, moved by the plight of suffering school-children in a brief period where the rich bullying the poor (something truly shocking and unprecedented) ove
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by Groxx 4mo ago
There have been consistent problems with activating RCS, for many years. But it does work for some/many, yes. And AFAIK they have only been desiring to build their own RCS app, and researching it, but have no concrete plans. It'
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Yea. Want to meet with all your graduating friends at once? Just go after! All you can really do at the thing is whisper to your neighbor and grow increasingly bored for X hours. And remember how much going to it cost. Mine wanted a couple
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Yeah, it's pretty awful tbh. I generally recommend disabling RCS, after learning a lot more about it - it feels like a hostile grab at global messaging at this point, heavily entrenched by telecom agreements. Use Signal or something i
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by Groxx 4mo ago
> > I don't know if Rust will ever attempt to fix this mistake > It was discussed many times, and the conclusion is: it is too expensive, and the default will only change if that will change (due to better optimizations and&#x
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by Groxx 4mo ago
I don't believe it's necessary, it's move of an "if you want a dedicated voice keyboard, the UX is a little better" option. I don't have both installed though, as anecdotal evidence.
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Regarding 2: that is literally how SMS reactions work. Apps that recognize it just interpret it as "put that emoji on that message". It is unfortunate that it doesn't do that tho. RCS is different, which you can sometimes
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by Groxx 4mo ago
More than half of the ones I have installed have no internet access. Most because they don't have the permission (thanks, F-Droid!) and the rest because I've rejected that permission (thanks, GrapheneOS!)
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Because it's safe to do so now, anyone on a visa is immediately in an extremely uncomfortable position if they lose their job. They won't leave. And anyone else who does voluntarily gives up on layoff packages. See also Twitte
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by Groxx 4mo ago
I somewhat suspect the auto-play is a bug with "accessibility -> remove animations". There are quite a lot of Google-product bugs with it enabled (nearly all other apps I use are 100% fine), though most don't render thing
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by Groxx 4mo ago
It's wild to me that "internet access" is not revokable or even displayed in the Play Store in stock Android. It's such a huge security and privacy concern, even if most apps semi-legitimately need it. Or, it would
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Subscriptions and even viewing history(?!) pull shorts out of order and place them at the top. Hell, many times I launch YouTube and it immediately starts playing a short , no interaction required. And I have "show touches" on, s
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by Groxx 4mo ago
It's surprising and potentially buggy behavior, but that's very different from undefined behavior. To such a degree that I think you honestly might not understand what it means, and what the risks are around undefined behavio
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by Groxx 4mo ago
I skipped mine. Definitely worth skipping - I don't really need the super expensive pep talk by someone who I almost always really don't want to hear from, inspiration porn is free (and largely unavoidable) by the gigaton nowaday
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Supporting evidence for this: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-02-data-types.html#integ...
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by Groxx 4mo ago
I'm caught somewhere between interpreting this as "C is all we need. git gud" and "rust hurt me and I'm still mad" and I'm struggling to see any other option. It's an unfocused rant that seems keyed
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Kinda fits with what I remember when I used iOS daily - I suspect it's because there's so much more UI customization compared to Android (where practically everyone uses the stock animation core pieces, of composes stuff from it).
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by Groxx 4mo ago
It mostly works fine, I ran with it for a year or so. Actually needing to disable it is extremely app-specific and rare enough that many people probably never experience it (it's essentially always a sign of buggy code). Though it does
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by Groxx 4mo ago
One can consult the oracle, /dev/random
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Try "reduce motion"? It's not quite the same thing (prefers cross-fades in many cases), but it might help. Anecdotally some things are noticeably faster, and not having them swing around before settling lets me get a read o
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Most shoulder-surfers who see my phone ask me how everything's so fast, and get me to show them the settings. Being able to disable the extremely-excessive animations many things have nowadays is fantastic, and is a great reminder tha

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