What I like the most is the music recognition button, because its really quick and convenient, and it also works for content playing on your phone, as long as you use the phone’s speakers. I think it doesnt use the media volume but rather the microphones only, but having the phone’s volume enabled it probably feeds back into the microphones and it works this way.

banks will do everything in their power to restrict who can use their services in the name of security but are absolutely fine with 6-char password size limits and SMS 2FA

I wonder how that will work for graphene os devices with the sandboxed Google services

Not really since it’s opt in for the developers who chose to distribute only on the play store

Good. Now when can I use RCS with 3rd party apps?

I think it’s more like what Mozilla is to google; Linux to Microsoft is a tool to prevent antitrust issues

Fair point

Ive never really understood the appeal of desktop modes like this or Dex, like, whenever i am somewhere with a keyboard, a mouse, a monitor with some cables, the likelyhood of there already being a fully working computer are very high, and the chances that the computer works better at what I want to achieve are much higher than my dinky phone with phone apps on it

So that they can say they have a better screen on the marketing, because they know damn well the actual UX will be inferior, so they need a selling point

In 2021 I ordered from mi4canada, they were legit at the time, shipped in about a week

1080p is just fine, but it’s not good and definitely not great. If you’ve tried a high DPI display like the ones on MacBooks, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Using a computer at 200% scaling just makes everything so much more pleasing to look at, especially the text. The pixels are gone, so everything looks sharp and smooth. I really cannot wait for 5K 27" monitors with high refresh rates to come out. This will likely be an instant buy from me, except if it’s like 2 grand.

General high DPI with the same relative UI scale as 24" 1080p, but with much sharper visuals:

24" 4k 27" 5k 32" 6k

And the good thing is you can always set your game to use half the resolution and it will look as if it was the lowdpi equivalent, because the pixels are simply grouped using 3 neighbors, no fractional scale BS.

My laptop has a 3072*1920 screen that I use at 200% scale on Linux, and I wouldn’t buy anything that doesn’t work well at 200%. Apple seem like the only ones who understood this with MacOS that is designed to be used at 200% on basically ALL their retina monitors. this is why they have weird definitions, because they need to hit 200%, and based on the size of the display, a standard resolution won’t reach exactly 200% and the UI will be too small or too large.

Why would I use a Google VPN anyways

Intel is involved in risc-v chip development

They want to be apple so bad. I can’t wait to watch Krazy Ken’s video on this in a few years

I have not used Microsoft or Google as a primary email provider in years, only Tuta or Proton. Never had a single issue communicating to either google or Microsoft.

People don’t use xmpp because it sucks, the UX is close to terrible and setting up a server is a hassle. The documentation is very lacking and the client options are very scarce. It is plain old and people have moved on to Matrix anyways. But still, I have used XMPP recently a lot thanks to JMP.chat. xmpp is very much not dead and there are very much improvements made regularly. What I’m trying to say is nobody uses xmpp anymore because it’s old and outdated, not because it was killed, because it was not.

Most websites are not bloated because they want to extinguish http wtf. They are huge because of stupid JS libraries and frameworks that web devs use for every little feature. I can guarantee you if Google or Facebook could make their website as pretty as they are while being 1kb, they fucking would, the bandwidth costs savings are worth it for them at their scale

They just want to avoid EU regulators. And also that EEE thing is just bs fear mongering “they want to take mastodon away from you!!!1!!!”. Email still exists and is alive, xmpp still exists and is alive, http still exists and is alive, all open standards and protocols that have been embraced by big tech companies. Big companies using and connecting to other servers can’t make them disappear. People who use the fediverse today won’t stop using it tomorrow even if the theoretical mass exodus to the large platform happens like described in that one blog post, because the fedi power users of today are there because they don’t like meta or twitter. There will always be users on activitypub whether meta uses it or not, and nobody is forcing you to use their platform either.

Old 5w iPhone chargers are good if you want to leave your phone charging over night, but the reality is after about 2 years the battery will still be worn and need replacement. You can limit the charge level but then again that doesn’t really change anything because it will still need to be replaced in a slightly longer amount of time (say 2.5-3 years instead). The best way to prolong your battery health is to not use your phone and leave it powered off at 50% in a dark closet. I personally prefer semi fast chargung only when it reaches 20-30% and unplug at 60-70 or whatever I feel is enough for what I will do for the rest of the day

POG

Yeah I think it’s all gone, but maybe some old comment got restored

Not on my PC 😎

unfunny outdated memes, or also unfunny outdated highschooler memes

So glad I purged my content from there last summer

On Fosstodon I didn’t see a single spam message, the only reason I learned there was a spam attack was through people complaining about it. I guess it comes down to selecting an instance with good moderation

Oh cool another magical battery technology that we will never hear about again

I mean, a local-only AI would be really cool to have, especially if they need to be competitive against Google and Microsoft with Edge who are investing significant ressources in AI and are trying various ways to integrate it into their products

Yikes, in Québec we have hydro electricity that’s owned by the government, everyone gets the first 40kWh of the day at 0.065$CAD and the rest is like 0.10CAD. I think the energy situation in Europe is too dependent on private companies that decide what price they want between each other and they agree to keep the prices high, kind of like here we have that with internet and cell service…

The year of the linux desktop is coming for real this time…!

Not to forget that Google also supplies iFixit with official parts which I think is pretty cool

idk for you but in my area the “ma and pa” stores are all like 2x the price of the big names because they all have a weird gimmick like “all we sell is gluten free”

That doesn’t make it not theft

You’re not getting an iPhone or any flagship phone for their cost effectiveness

We should have done that with poutine…

I swear telecom companies are the most openly greedy

That’s cool, so they are almost not 5 years behind everybody else, unless their 7nm node is actually like Intel’s, ie. Bigger number but same density as the competition

and you’re doing it for free

Full self driving is a paid add-on, this person actually paid real monies (and a lot of monies at that) to beta test this… So basically Tesla gets money and free data

I already know this, which is why I’m saying it could be of use for things like game licenses that you can then sell to an individual like you could with a physical copy of the game. It’s not for the exclusivity it’s for that it’s a good way to bring back some of the benefits of physical games to a 100% virtual system

I personnaly think there are very genuine use cases for NFTs, like for owning music, movies or games just like they are physical copies. You would own them and could resell them when you want. But for ugly randomly generated drawings of monkeys, theres litterally no point.

I hope there are not too many tunnels or that they found a way to relieve the pressure when going through them at high speed. This is a thing I noticed in France when taking the TGV (300kmh), when going inside tunnels at a rather high speed, there is a lot of pressure, it kind of feels like a plane landing, but shorter and more intense

Yeah, the XMPP client landscape is pretty bad. Mostly 10+ year old clients that did not have a refreshed UI ever since. The only one I really like and is modern is Dino on Linux. It’s a very neat looking client that also happens to be responsive to it works on small screens and even Linux mobiles!

Yeah I meant the c3 branch, and I have no clue about the timeline the dev is aiming for, though I recall them saying they wanted to release it this year, but that could have changed by now