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by agile-gift0262 8mo ago
Luckily, they never install anything, and they send me a screenshot whenever they get a notification, email or SMS they didn't expect. Honestly, I do regret not having given them iPhones when they still had the cognitive ability to lea
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by agile-gift0262 8mo ago
That is also ths reason why I migrated my parents from Motorola to Pixel. Well… that and the amount of bloatware and ad notifications a new Motorola I bought had. I returned it inmediatelly, and it's then when I went for Pixels.
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by agile-gift0262 8mo ago
I've been using it for more than 2 years, and I can't think of ever going back to a stock OS. I had to send my phone for a screen repair, in the meantime I picked up my old Samsung, and the sheer amount of apps I didn't want,
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by agile-gift0262 8mo ago
I am running it, and I used to use NewPipe before. I honestly don't notice much difference in stability. In both cases I would experience issues every couple of months for a day or 2. As YouTube made some change and I need to upgrade t
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by agile-gift0262 8mo ago
That comment is wild > Here's the AI-written copyright analysis... I'm not going to spend more time reading than what you have spent writing!
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by agile-gift0262 8mo ago
it saddens me how quickly how quickly we have accepted the term "local" for clients of cloud services
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by agile-gift0262 10mo ago
exactly this. My Galaxy Wear sits in a drawer 10 months per year, as I only use it as a wrist-strapped mini-smartphone when I go to the beach. It's too bulky and cumbersome to wear every day. The Pebble Time 2 I plan to use every day,
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by agile-gift0262 11mo ago
In the beginning I thought my IP fell on the wrong side of Cloudflare and thought I was being blocked from ~80% of the internet. I was starting to panic
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
it's been years since the last time I go to zdnet. My experience when opening the link: I've been greeted by a dialog asking me to enable notifications, then the classic cookie dialog, and 5 seconds into reading the article, an au
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
The OS on desktop situation isn't comparable to the OS on mobile situation. You can buy any PC and expect being able to replace its OS. On phones, you have to look for the ones where it's possible, and depending on the phone, it&#
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
My Toyota also got that game in a DLC about a year after I bought it
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
and this is why you must minimise and be extra careful with the extensions you install in your editor of choice.
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
OMG! thank you! I was unaware this was possible. I can't stand the fact that my expensive TV came with ads built-in. I use it in "only apps mode" so at least the only ad id showed is the top third of the screen one, but not t
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
> I’ve tried to use my feed reader to segregate by 'frequency' before, but I haven't really given it a full trial—it still feels a bit awkward. I'm in the middle of that myself. I have folders labelled rarely, weekly,
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
I don't know about "the best", but I'm very happy with Fastmail. It has a very nice UI, it has contacts and calendar, uses open standards, and their privacy policy is fine.
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
you can also start a conversation going to the URL wa.me/<phone number> in a browser
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
On Android WhatsApp also requires access to all media files on the phone in order to use certain features that don't really need them, but that sound plausible. For example, when you receive an audio message, if you want to listen to i
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
I only know that my time tracker says that now I spend 9 times longer reviewing MRs from some of my senior colleagues than what I did before. I'm not sure the company is realising that the tens of thousands of dollars it's spendin
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
I don't think that it's people no caring. I think many (most?) of us are biased to accept what we already have that's working. I noticed that of myself when I tried programming with an LLM "agent". After all the fuz
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
I switched to Firefox and it's been wonderful. I wonder why I didn't switch earlier. It's only been a couple of months, but I can't imagine going back to a browser without multi-account containers.
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
> I recently suggested that GrapheneOS support devices with average security on Mastodon. Much like yourself, I think "moderately okay security" is better than "just use Google's spyware infested OS". For most us
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
phone wishlist: - user-replaceable battery - 7+ years of security updates - iPhone 13 mini size - iPhone 13 mini camera quality - plastic exterior - headphone jack - fairphone-style sustainability, repairability and part ava
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
while True: print("This model that just came out changes everything. It's flawless. It doesn't have any of the issues the model from 6 months ago had. We are 1 year away from AGI and becoming jobless") sleep(timede
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
I assume they trick people with dark patterns and free trials so that they don't even know they are susbcribing or what's the price
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
... and once they have proof of they power because WhatsApp use keeps increasing despite all the enshittification done in the last few months, they'll feel encouraged to enshittify further in even bolder ways.
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
I used to use many apps from Simple Mobile Tools and migrated to Fossify's forks when the whole acquisition thing happened. I just went back to check the Simple Mobile Tools to see the effect form ZipooApps' acquisition [1]. What
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
I didn't know Bitwarden exported passkeys. This makes me consider migrating from 1password to Bitwarden. I've been a happy customer of 1password for 8 years, but it doesn't export passkeys, so I've been quite reluctant t
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by agile-gift0262 1y ago
Another alternative to mapy.com you could try is Here WeGo. I prefer it to any other Google Maps alternative I have tried. And there are some things, like the car navigation, that I prefer on it over Google Maps. I don't find their pri
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by agile-gift0262 2y ago
I agree. Helix has been the first TUI editor that I have been able to be productive on. With Emacs, vim and neovim, there was so much fiddling just to get started. And the more functionality I added, the slower and bigger the editors became
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by agile-gift0262 2y ago
For starters, forbid behaviour and engagement surveillance. Without that data it would be impossible to fine tune the apps to be addictive for each individual. Just with that, it'd probably tackle most of the "device addiction&quo

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