The room might stink, but nobody intentionally shat on the floor.

I like this figure of speech a lot, stealing it 😁

it’s got telemetry on by default.

Very, very hard pass. Might even blow out my suspension doing so

Then use ANY other messaging service. Preferably Signal,

🤩

but if that doesn’t work… Facebook, Whatsapp, literally anything.

So Facebook, or Facebook? That might work for most people, but when there’s an open protocol right there, I’d rather steer clear of their products and services

Edit: add quotes

They’re adopting the RCS protocol, that’s what people should want

Standard RCS is not e2ee, only google’s implementation on top of it is. I feel most here would prefer an e2ee messaging protocol over something else that can be observed by third parties

Samsung is the only other company that integrated Google’s e2ee implementation into their stock messages app fairly recently, it’s supported standard RCS for a good number of years now

Just to clarify: this affects Beeper Mini which sends iMessages directly from Android, not the full Beeper app that sends iMessages via a Mac bridge

Anybody crashing a Cybertruck at highway speeds into one of those is instantly turned into red colored mashed potatoes

Why does that sound delicious 😭

48k subs and only 3 mods is quite the ratio difference, think they’re probably sleeping too depending on their timezone

(The other mod accounts look like alts and bots)

This tool will have some really disgusting consequences if LLaMA-type leak happens 🤦‍♂️

Shame that nobody wants to stop Facebook!

Free google play credit, I usually get an email every year for it

But I do pay for Plex, despite Jellyfin being a thing. If I like something and it’s worth it to me personally, why not 🤷‍♂️… but you will never find me defending their kinda crappy decisions like the new Discover feature, removal of “All Songs” from the plex apps in favor of moving people to Plexamp, removing the Gallery sync a few years ago etc.

Some people want their software to be 100% FOSS all-eyes-on-the-codebase, others just do a balancing act based on their personal values.

I value my software to be “transparent enough” in how it operates, “just work”, and hackable to some extent - if I really wanted to I can swap out the ffmpeg binary that Plex uses for transcoding to something else (doesn’t remove the Plex Pass limitation for those curious), I can hook into the server API to change ambient lighting colour based on the cover/background of whatever media is playing, I can create speakers running a Linux board to cast Plex media to, etc. But once that hackable ship sails, then I will look to FOSS alternatives.

For Niagara, everything “just worked”. No noticeable bugs, fast search, consistent feel and design, useful contextual info (e.g. next calendar event shows under the clock), and gestures that made sense for its overall UX. Using it felt less like you were using a “launcher”. The yearly sub was cheap enough that I wouldn’t mind covering for it if I didn’t get credits, and having a single person working on software usually comes with a high level of attention to detail (particularly in performance and UX) but it does have the downside that the experience may be more opinionated and closed compared to if it was a community-driven FOSS project instead IMO.

Alas, google didn’t send credits this year, Niagara made less sense for value/worth-it compared to Kvaesitso, so I abandoned it.

For me, Kvaesitso does everything in a slightly different, much more customizable way, and being FOSS was one of the things that made it particularly attractive as a replacement

At least “Twitter” can be blocked nice and easily, “X” is pretty damn tricky without catching stuff like Xylophones, Exercise, Xbox etc

If you plan on running Google services, it won’t let you reset because of FRP…

In the unlikely event that the thief managed to bypass FRP, it will be reinstated by GMS as soon as there’s a network connection, assuming the IMEI or Android device ID haven’t been spoofed (either of these on a Samsung would trip the Knox hardware fuse and disable a lot of features, making the device worthless to anyone who isn’t a power user)

On my older Fairphone though I think there’s some documentation on how to bypass FRP, but you need to get authorization from Google for your specific device on your specific account otherwise GMS will not work

Ouch! Did you manage to purchase a replacement? The last time I checked out Sailfish it supported older xperias that can be a bit difficult to get a hold of…

Mujico sounds spanish to me, using an app though so can’t actually visit that instance to have a look…

This made me literally LOL

I would expect better from xda to be honest, considering most of the early days in android rooting and roms really took off on their forums

As a side note, how are we going with instance agnostic post IDs

Tapping it works fine on my app, redirected to the post on my instance 👌 although I believe the situation is still pretty awkward for desktop frontends, they need to put the link into the Search box to open it on their instance AFAIK

I throw all my links into piped if I’m on desktop, no need to have an additional sponsorblock or RYD extension that way

Well that’s destroyed any interest I may have had in them

It was both I think lol, except that the ps2 one still works if you can find the gear for it (especially an old IDE HDD, and the original HDD+network adapter for the phat PS2)

Anddd this is why I run LTSC on my gaming desktop, with automatic driver installation OFF 👍 and Linux on my laptop + everything else that doesn’t have peripherals that only work fully under Windows.

I went to my Makerspace a few days ago to print something (both of mine are dead) and they only have HP printers… which weren’t working. The HP Smart app would freeze on the logo. Eventually got it sorted, but I’ve never had that issue when at my parents, or at my partners parents who both have Brother laser printers