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Really depends on the carrier. For example, here in the United States, T-Mobile and Verizon seem to pretty much take anything that will work on their network, and most things will. But AT&T runs a whitelist system, and so I highly do not recommend them at all. As for VoLTE I Have found the only definitive way to make sure is to actually purchase the thing and see and return it if it doesn’t. Either that or stick with the big brands.


I use Aurora store if I absolutely need an application from the Google Garden. But otherwise, yes, I agree. I use almost exclusively fdroid.



Really depends on the person. I have never managed to fill up a 128 gigabyte phone, but that is because I am blind, so I am not taking pictures in 4K videos. The biggest thing on my phone is my music collection, which only takes about 5 gigs or so. This phone that I have now is a 64 gigabyte phone and while it’s mostly full, it’s still not there yet. According to the Android settings, I still have about 23 gigabytes left on this 64 gig phone. It says I have used about 64% and if this were a 128 gig phone, that would be about 32% or so.


You have to grant permission to update each app one single time and then after that it will no longer ask you to manually update that app anymore as it will just be able to do it. For apps that are very commonly updated you will see this once and then not again. Some apps are rarely updated and when everything else has been updated automatically you’ll still get this one app that has not been and needs permission.


Fair enough. LineageOS or GrapheneOS with no GApps is the only way I have used Android for the past ~5 years and it works really well. I will not buy a device at all until I can put either Lineage or Graphene on it and I only boot into stock android long enough to enable USB debugging and OEM unlocking which are needed for flashing. After that I flash the device and then set it up fully.


Why not use Android when things like lineage OS and graphene exist? The way I see it from least private to most private would be standard Android then Apple then Android running like lineage OS or graphene with no Google apps.


I didnt care about the camera since i am blind, but i found the moto one 5g ace to be a pretty good phone until my charging port died.


Protonmail. I dont have a backup email registered for recovery so if i loose my password and 2fa im totally fucked



I just signed up for kagi and so far i like what i see. I am still in my 100 search trial though.


Yeah, its either a phone or a small tablet. A 212g watch would be way heavy and earbuds are nowhere near that. Maybe bluetooth over ear headphones, but my bet is on a new phone.



I used to spend a lot of time on reddit. Now since middle of june i have spent like 10 minutes total their and came streight back here. Lemmy has totally replaced my reddit usage slot and i am really happy about that. Also, shout out to the fantastic Thunder devs as i really love this app.


Its true. I bought a phone recently new in box that was released in 2021. I did it because it was a good price and gives me everything i need. Its perfectly fast enough, has enough storage, and has good connectivity and a good screen. I dont need the newest thing and i am absolutely not paying for a “cloud”.



That my friend is where keepassdx comes in quite handy. No lost accounts for several years now.


I tried infinity and already submitted an issue. https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy/issues/56. While i may not use it others may and it needs to be up to snuff.


Fair enough. I like it because it reminds me of redreader which was my reddit ui of choice



Mine was laggy too and i had to be cautious of which model i bought so as to not get the carrier varient because that one is bootloader locked.

Edit: lag totally cleared up after flashing Lineage. I dont use gapps at all and they wereost likely why it was lagging out so bad


When did oneplus do this? I just bought a new oneplus nord n200 which was made in 2021 and am running Lineage on it.


Ah, see both of those are whitelisted. Try anything from Motorola or OnePlus and you will quickly find your phone unusable even if it supports the correct radio bands.


What device? i know AT&T maintains a very strict whitelist and if you are not using Samsung, Pixel, or a device they sell your device is unlikely to be in the whitelist.


I know nothing about cricket since it runs on AT&T and AT&T hate almost any device that is unlocked. They make it nearly impossible to use an unlocked OEM device on their network. Verizon and T-Mobile are pretty good about letting you use whatever you want.


No way do i trust dish to offer good service. I will stick with my T-Mobile Connect $15/mo plan thanks.


Good question. Contributing to OSM seems like the better route. Pun intended.


Totally fantastic app that reminds me a lot of RedReader. I have helped bring a lot of screen reader accessibility issues to the forefront and the dev has fixed most of them rapidly.


But the back side of the panel gets much less light because it is getting it indirectly. If there were a sun hitting both sides then you would be correct


What i got from the article is a panel can get 20% more energy this way. So a 500 watt panel could harvest 600 watts. 500 from the front and 100 fromthe back.


Really depends on the size of the receiver. Its possible to use it at interplanetary distances if we are willing to build a mirror 10s of square miles in size. For point to point my guess would be a few miles. The horizon is the cutoff point for sure so one beam could never be more then the line of sight horizon at the altitude of the receiver for sure.


Idk. Lifi uses actual light waves which are quite high up the spectrum. For sure Wi-Fi and Li-Fi are both electromagnetic waves, but light itself is a very small section of the EM spectrum. Above that wavelength you get ionizing radiation that gives you cancer and below that is harmless non-ionizing light and radio waves.


If speed boost works the same as other OEM ROMs then it downloads a file over both wifi and mobile to speed up the download. If you do not have unlimited data this should be left off for sure


Crazy to think about, but other than through searx i have not used google in about 4 years now. Like i have not loaded google.com in that amount of time


I use searx and DNS level adblocking. Online ads are almost a completely foreign concept for me as 99.9% of the time they just never even load.


I am 28 and i have always thought that the as long as you know how to operate a search engine you can find out what you need. The reason computer people know computers better than you do is because computer people can use a search engine better than you


I am really loving thunder as i am strongly reminded of redreader


Screw the FBI. As long as the admin in their activism wasnt breaking the NAP i see no problems. “Anarchists” are not for chaos, they just want no governmyth


The only instance that knows your IP and has your hashed password is the one you signed up on


Thunder for sure. Its freakin fantastic.