Yeah, but you will see the list of phones, and you can select from them. Outside the EU it works like a certificate, “available in the EU” means consumer friendly and sustainable

Look up microg, with that you can use apps like that without play services

https://microg.org/

And you generate traffic for them, thanks. You could just directly link to the install docs on PostmarketOS, not for a shitty third party site: https://postmarketos.org/install/

Yes, title is very misleading. For the curious here is the list of currently supported phones: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices#Phones

You could write a similar article: How to install docker on your microwave oven: Step one, install a linux distro on your microwave…

Nonetheless PMOS is genial, I installed it on my Kobo ebook reader.

I think google already read everyone’s messages which were ever stored on their servers,and used it for ad personalization.

It’s a feature of an Android app (I even guess it’s preinstalled on some devices), and it was clearly stated in the title, that it’s not an Android feature, but it’s a feature of G**gle Authenticator.

Yesterday you agreed to my comment, that the problem is when Android and other app features are mixed up. Here it’s clearly stated that it’s not an Android feature.

You request more tight moderation, but unnecessarily strict mod control can kill communities. This news is related to Android, and isn’t against any of the rules on the sidebar. If you don’t want to see it downvote and move along. If a lot of us downvote it maybe OP will think differently and stop posting these articles.

I’m also ok if both of them are posted here, as most people use android with Google Play Services (GMS). But I’m annoyed when the two used as a synonyms. E.g “Android will get a new XY feature” than I open the article and I see it will be a feature of GMS not mainline android.

On a basic news website, or even in a more casual lemmy community I wouldn’t be bothered with this. But we should be a bit more professional in a dedicated android community, with less clickbaity titles.

BTW I use microG

Is this that though? Isn’t MKBHD just a youtube personality? I mean, you can live well from youtube if you do good quality stuff, but is he considered a “rich person”. If it would be zuck or elon or warren buffet, I would see your point, but I don’t see a reviewer as someone from a “higher class”, he is basically just a specialized journalist, who is looking for more ways to convert some of his fame to money, because youtube still doesn’t pay enough to him.

Do you also hate Linus because he constantly advertises his underwear, which is exactly the same as one you can get in any shop but for double price. It’s also a “scam” if you think about this way. I don’t know why there is this huge outcry for this as it happened a million times before, and I’m sure it will happen in the future.

You will loose your mind when you will learn about the girl who sold her used bathwater…

Why do you care? People do a lot of stupid and wrong things, you don’t have to care or share these things. See my example: I read about this backround image app or whatever is this, I thought “yeah, it’s stupid and I don’t care” and moved on with my life. Never thought about this again until you posted this here. There are a lot more important things to be angry about. Ignore the unnecessary. This guy makes nicely edited reviews, that’s all, forget the extra bullshit around that. Your life will be better.

Why don’t you just reflash the LOS image? You can get into bootloader, right? If you are there, just fastboot flash the LOS image: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/dubai/install/#flashing-additional-partitions

Than you should get to the LOS recovery, from there you can wipe? Or do you need authorization for fastboot as well like for adb?

Or is it a requirement that you need data from the phone?

Early iOs and Android icons were one of the last offshoot of the style called “Frutiger Aero”

Flat icons don’t necessarily bad and undetailed, it’s just harder to create something more recogniseable with less tools, but I actually like the order, that they look like they are related to each other. Back in the day I created icon packs for the programs I used on pc, so my desktop would look clean and uniform.

Design styles are in a cycle, just wait some years and they will show up again, I’m sure. There is already some connection with the new style of windows 11.

Easer is not perfect, but really close:

• https://me.ryey.icu/Easer/en/
• https://f-droid.org/packages/ryey.easer/

Redmis usually have a good 3rd party rom support, if you can open the bootloader. Literally any rom is a better experience than MIUI or whatever they call that nowadays.

There is already a crdroid official available: https://xdaforums.com/f/xiaomi-redmi-note-13-pro-5g-poco-x6-5g.12860/

It’s the most common and most supported 3rd party Android rom:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LineageOS
• https://www.lineageos.org/

Usually you can have 3 kind of rom for an android device:

• Default from manufactuerer: usually locked down, shitty default apps and preinstalled crapware, updates stop soon. Usually stable.
• Cooked/unofficial rom from xda or telegram: some script kiddy has the same phone as you and they share the rom they built from source. Hit or miss, sometimes very good, sometimes terrible. Updates stop when script kiddy gets a new phone.
• Official 3rd party rom, Lineage is the most common, Crdroid, Graphene, eos and other secure and special roms are in this category, but they support far less devices. Updates are automatic, built by a server every month. Someone have to set it up, so you still need someone interested about this in the community, and the manufacturer have to release drivers, firmware. (They should be legally, but noone cares) Usually that’s the best experience you can get on an Android device nowadays

You can still install android on them, BlissOs is a rom for x86 devices. Intel and amd gpu hw acceleration works ootb: https://docs.blissos.org/knowledgebase/frequently-asked-questions/hardware-compatibility/ If you just need for media consumption they are good, some apps don’t work as they only support arm cpus.

The reason is choice and support. On an arm android device you have to wait for the manufacturer for updates or to publish source, so someone can support the device for you. With x86 it’s just a normal, standard pc, you can do whatever you want.

Never heard of Transsion before:

Transsion sells mobile phones in Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America. It operates mobile phone brands Tecno, Itel, and Infinix, as well as after-sales support service Carlcare and accessories brand Oraimo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsion

I see, so all instance admins can see that theoretically, but regular users can’t. I don’t remember where I read what I wrote, can’t find it now.

It’s a bit misleading that lemmy developers themself call votes “essentially anonymous” like in this issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4088

With this in mind I will go back to upvote memes with my other accounts, and switch between them more regularly.

Afaik on lemmy only your host instance knows what you upvote/downvote, instances just sync the number of upvotes, not the users who voted. So they cannot analyze that, even if they spin up a their own lemmy instance l was wrong, see reply

Comments are 100% public though, that’s true

Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi

Antartic treaty says it’s not part of any country, but I guess steam is available there.

That’s link rot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot I warned you that it’s expected for such an old device. If noone mirrors the links in the thread you are out of luck to find old roms. Maybe you can try to message the original uploaders, maybe they still have the files on some old drive. Maybe look at the end of the thread.

Yes, I wanted to write it as a general caution for this old model, not a solution to the problem

This phone is 3G only, so it’s possible that mobile data won’t work anymore, shutdown of 3G networks are ongoing worldwide. Here where I live all carriers switched off their 3G networks. Wikipedia has a list with shutdown dates per country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G#Phase-out You can still use this phone with wifi though.

I found some threads about this phone on xda, there are some tutorials on how to get started with no rom flashing experience. But these threads are old, so expect rotten links. https://xdaforums.com/f/samsung-galaxy-s-duos-2.4723/

I recommend this one after a quick glance through the threads: https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-5-1-1-cm-stable-unofficial-cm12-1-galaxy-s-duos-2-trend-plus-s7580-s7582.3225297/ It has detailed instructions, stable and 5+. Most Android apps nowadays require Android 5+.

The official name of this phone is Samsung Galaxy Trend Plus, and it’s really similar to S Duos 2, also search for those.

Can you check the package names of the apps? On F-droid website you can see it in the url, for example https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jens.automation2/ the code is com.jens.automation2. You should see the same name on the page of the app in settings if you scroll down.

If the names are the same than nothing nefarious should be happening behind the scenes.

Unknown source can mean it’s not from a built-in store. If you would be rooted and install the F-droid Privileged Extension it should show up there correctly. Maybe they just block reading this kind of info from F-droid.

On common Xiaomi phones the rom cooking community is very vivid usually, you can just replace the shitty default rom really easily. Start to look for roms and tutorials about rooting on xdaforums

The seller didn’t said they pay for their electricity. If they live in a dorm, or charge the phones in their workplace or school, there are lot of illegal ways to get free electricity. It’s easier to conceal a regular phone than an antminer

He is coming from a finance background, so the math and logic part of programming should have been easy for him. I guess he was also familiar with Excel formulas, from there to learn python is not an unbelievably big step, 1.5 years should be enough.

On the photo you can see the phone connects to a webpage(172.28.172.2:3000), which I guess running on the black box, so it’s just a website actually. There are literally tutorials on the internet to create something similar, first result: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-an-intelligent-chatbot-in-python-using-the-spacy-nlp-library

The article also mentions 40 people working for Jolla, I just don’t understand that line, why the manager had to learn to program, if he had 40 programmers to do this?

Actually their Sailfish os is not bad, it’s based on Linux, originally developed by Intel and Nokia, and they have a proprietary Android compatibility tool which can run Android apps very well on their phone. There was an article about this tool recently, compared to waydroid by a Gnome developer: https://blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023/12/20/a-dive-into-jolla-appsupport/

Maybe all the programmer had better things to do, everyone could see that this current AI hype will just disappear in some years, and they just wanted to show something on MWC, and only the boss had time to dive into this bullshit.

Saarnio himself built the first product mock ups, after spending the last 1.5 years learning to program — upskilling from his former finance-focused background to close in on the AI opportunity.

It’s so hard to find programmers nowadays that this entrepreneur had to learn to program to create this raspberypi in a box.

Someone else had problems with this module and syncthing: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/scanning-syncing-with-syncthing-android-is-extremely-slow-1570/15770

In this thread there are some possible solutions and workarounds: https://xdaforums.com/t/fix-android-media-scanner-sdcard-cpu-utilization-battery-drain.2544220/

Here is another: https://xdaforums.com/t/battery-drain-com-android-providers-media-module.4321313/post-85829175

What is the actual name of this Media app? It should be org.media.something or similar, you should see it if you go to it’s settings, and scroll down.

BTW it’s very fishy that the usage time is exactly the same as syncthing. Maybe you sync something and it want to cache image previews or something like that. What do you sync with syncthing, do you download something or only upload?

With Goldberg Emulator you can play a lot of online games on LAN from Steam:

Steam emulator for GNU/Linux and Windows that emulates steam online features. Lets you play games that use the steam multiplayer apis on a LAN without steam or an internet connection.

https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/

I used it a long time ago, but it always worked flawlessly.

Everyone recommends an ssd for everything since around 2010, what is the news here? If you don’t have an ssd you already lost years waiting for your computer

Amp url!!!

Normal link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-is-moving-shopping-list-and-other-notes-into-one-app-to-worry-about-keep/

We need amputatorbot on lemmy

It’s a 2 and half years old article. But afaik nothing changed since.

I wouldn’t call it unmaintained, maybe just not actively developed. The developer is still frequent on Github, but not in this repo, and I can’t find any notice about stepping down as a maintainer.

For the most interesting options you need to be rooted.

There are like 8 buttons in the app. I just tapped through all of them, it was clear where should I select what. That graph thingy doesn’t help a lot though, basically check only the options in the Data menu.

I use Easer for some automations, I never needed to check docs, the app speaks for itself. There aren’t a lot of buttons in the app.

It’s not that unique, RORO trains aka rolling highways are used throughout Europe, but for freight only: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_highway

It’s just a propulsion/transportation system, so the size of each car is not defined. Like a bus and a personal car use the same system…

Maybe you think about his boring tunnels which are just normal tunnels for normal cars: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Convention_Center_Loop

For hyperloop only prototypes were built, not for real usage. Considering the price of maintenance and construction of the vacuum tunnels, bigger cars will be used in normal operation. It’s also a separate system from any other current transport method, so there is no benefit of smaller cars, maybe something like a RORO system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll-on/roll-off

Maglev, they hold the current rail speed record with 603 km/h: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_speed_record

By comparison the cruising speed of a current airliner is ~900 km/h

Without root it works the same way as blokada, as a local VPN. I always root my phones, so I don’t have experience with that, I guess it’s similar.

But you can just try it, and if you don’t like it you can get back to blokada. Also as both of them are just VPNs, you can just switch between the two, while both are installed. Also on their website there is a good FAQ: https://adaway.org/