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GrayBoltWolf

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Linux & Azure cloud engineer. Sometimes a wolf, or a fuzzy dragon.

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You’re probably thinking about homerf, which was the competitor to WiFi. I don’t think Bluetooth was ever marketed as an alternative to WiFi.

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What he really means is “we want our 30% cut”

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The quest already runs android, so in theory all the support is already there for Vulkan and OpenGL since it runs a regular-ish Snapdragon phone SoC.

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The entitlement is crazy on lemmy.

Google doesn’t owe you anything, video hosting is extremely expensive. There’s a reason no competitor exists.

How dare they charge to deliver you a service?

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OP is probably referring to allowing side loading.

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Imagine paying $1000 for a computer you don’t fully own.

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same here. The desktop app is bloated electron garbage.

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Same here. Not sure why but being told all my domains were being sold to squarespace really pushed me over as well.

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I see it being useful if you wired up your car stereo or something with a lightning cable and you don’t wanna have to take the whole dash apart again.

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Wut?

You’ve been able to download files since like iOS 5. You’re just being obtuse at this point.

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I love the Xperia line but even the 5 series is almost an inch taller than the iPhone mini. It’s massive by comparison.

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Except several (non M1 iPads) have USB 3.1 already….

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Did you even read my comment?

Several NON-M1 iPads have USB 3.1. Even the iPad mini on the A15 supports usb 3.1.

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Same, all new iPhones are just utterly massive.

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Geez downvoted for an opinion.

Sony has good hardware but it does come with Facebook, OneDrive, LinkedIn, Call of Duty, and a few more. It absolutely has bloatware.

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motherfuckingwebsite.com

Any chance to have a separated [PORN] tag to avoid blocking all kind of NSFW posts?

Many NSFW have nothing to do with porn. Sometimes are horror contents, some times are crude images, some times are just lazy people who don’t know of the Spoiler tag. Can we have a quick and easy way to filter off all the (very funny but not alway wanted) Porn posts without locking out those other contents???

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For real, if I could block lemmynsfw that would remove 90% of the porn from my feed.

I swear I blocked every community on there but more keep showing up…

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Ha, great reply

Nothing against your instance, just wish I could hide it from my “all” feed without hiding all NSFW content.

Why don't I see the newer phones in the Lineage OS list?

I’m starting to see not as many newer mobiles in the Lineage OS list as I used to. The US is a lost cause with companies not allowing their bootloader to be unlocked, but even the Chinese companies like OPPO, Vivo, OnePlus etc don’t seem to have their recent devices on the Lineage OS supported list. Am I imagining this, or...

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Every device requires a maintainer, someone who builds Lineage specifically for that device.

On top of that most of these OEMs don’t provide device firmware drivers publicly (camera, modem, speakers, etc), so the maintainer has to either use a generic driver (which typically sucks), or reverse engineer something more suitable.

It’s just a time and effort thing. As with all open source projects it relies on the community to volunteer their time for the benefit of others.

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both google and Sony provide firmware blobs publicly, not sure about others.

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For real, if google didn’t completely screw up messaging every single year it wouldn’t be as big of a deal.

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Hangouts was already the iMessage competitor. Video, voice, high res photos and videos, etc with SMS fallback. But as usual google kills every good product they create.

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FYI downloads are good for 30 days, not 3.

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iOS is a majority share, but not by much.

My opinion here might upset some fanboys:

Android is in a sad state right now with only a few big OEMs pushing into the market, and the fragmentation is what’s killing it. The average person doesn’t care about customizing or having a micro SD slot, they just want to text and browse TikTok - so they choose a phone that’s simple and works without headache for years.

On the android side you have really only Samsung, Motorola, and sorta google. Motorola covers a lot of the budget android market, but it’s cheap disposable phones. Samsung covers the whole range, but then you buy into the bloatware and duplicate apps. Then you have google sitting in the corner eating glue, consistently releasing phones with hot SoCs, bad reception, and botched software updates.

For the average person the iPhone makes complete sense as Apple only releases a few phones a year, and for a while now every single one has been relatively issue-free. Customers feel confident that the newest iPhone will be a similar experience, copy all their data over in 5 minutes, and work well for years to come.

So really I wouldn’t say it’s a case of “profitability”, moreso lacking compelling feature to draw in new customers, while continuing to bleed customers to the iPhone because the average person doesn’t want to be bothered with complicated features that aren’t consistent across android OEMs. We’ve seen a lot of Android OEMs leave the US market because of these reasons.

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Top class enh?

Must be why the forums and communities are full of people asking about battery drain, reception issues, and software update bugs.

Also what iPhone you buying that’s $1200? You do know samsung has several devices that are more expensive than even the top tier iPhone, right?

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Battery issues and overheating from the Tensor SoC, which we all know is based on the Exynos (which Samsung stopped using because it was so bad).

On the price:

Top spec models -

Samsung S23 Ultra 1 TB is $1619

iPhone 14 Pro Max 1 TB is $1599

Normal models-

Samsung S23 128 is $799

iPhone 14 128 is $799

How is the iPhone more expensive? At worst it’s the same price, and you get more than double the years of software support.

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I made the switch recently to a 13 mini, just hated how big everything is now.

Personally I’d say just get the regular one and save the money. The Pro is a big cost increase for 120Hz and a third camera, otherwise they do basically all the same stuff. Apple supports both models for 6+ years anyway, so longevity isn’t an issue either way.

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Well keep in mind the 14 has the same SoC as the 13, so Apple will probably provide software for the same time since they are essentially the same phone.

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Why did google kill [product]?

Insert anything from the ever-growing google graveyard.

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Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/02/googles-plan-to-drm-the-web-goes-against-everything-google-once-stood-for/

@technology

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The rebuttal is correct.

DNS response from pihole makes it so your browser doesn’t even make the request to the server providing the AD. A blocked ad via DNS doesn’t make it to your device, and doesn’t even get downloaded from the remote server.

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Your local animal shelter.

Adopt!

How do I look for phones that run cool?

I’ve had a Pixel 4a for ~3 years at this point. I had to replace it some time last year because I had lost my original in a lake. T-Mobile gave me whichever lower-end Pixel there was at the time and I immediately gave it back because of the offputting amount of warmth it produced doing very little. When the time does come to...

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I’d say the 865 was the last “good” Qualcomm chip before the 8 gen 1 broke everything. It can be found in the Galaxy S/Note 20 generation.

Pretty much any soc made by samsung is hot and slow. The return to TSMC with the 8+ gen 1 we saw the thermal improvements.

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Sony Xperia works fine on Verizon and is even whitelisted for VoLTE.

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If they have your passcode then no? Why would you give your passcode to someone you don’t trust?

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Noticed this as well, I keep seeing the same topics and articles posted 4-6 times within a day or so. Getting annoying.

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Port forwarding? Just put nginx in front of it or something, no VPN required.

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Exactly, port forwarding + nginx or your proxy of choice for SSL and you’re done.

Anyone else looking to replace their accessories with USB-C once the got updated?

It seems that USB-C iPhones are on the horizon. There’s a high chance that the rest of the accessories that still uses Lightning port will get updated with USB-C port. I do have have the MagSafe Battery Pack and Duo Travel Charger. Having them all in USB-C seems like a breeze as you don’t need to bring Lightning cable...

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And US models have a different chassis to remove the SIM card.

Not saying they will do this, but they obviously don’t care about region specific models.

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This may be a really basic question, but the regular android clock app can set recurring alarms already right? What is the added value of using home assistant externally?

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There’s a LOT of medication apps already available, seems like a lot of work to create one from scratch, no?

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Idk what phone you have but my 13 pro easily lasts 2 days for me, light usage I could probably get 3.

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I’m not aware of any carriers in the US that still support CDMA. Verizon and Sprint were the big two, and neither supports CDMA anymore.

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Can confirm here, am on Verizon and they 100% support fully-GSM devices assuming the LTE bands line up.

(I’ve had Oneplus 6T, 7T, and Sony Xperia 5 ii on Verizon, all of which are not CDMA compatible)

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Everything works except wifi calling which Verizon only allows whitelisted IMEIs to do. VoLTE, visual voicemail, etc all work fine.

I’ve never tried mmWave 5G (no coverage where I live), but regular 5G works fine.

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The bands are going to be region-specific. Some areas use some bands, others don’t. Just depends where you live and the nearby towers.

In the early days (2016 ish) Verizon had very limited LTE coverage, but now I haven’t had any issues traveling anymore with unsupported bands.

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Rectangle is the only way I find MacOS to be useful when it comes to window management.

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Rectangle is the only way I find MacOS to be useful when it comes to window management.

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