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sabreW4K3

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Born and raised in London. Just a normal guy with a moral compass.

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People buy Firesticks and run the Amazon software?

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www.firesticktricks.com/smart-iptv.html

sabreW4K3,
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Man I hate this flippant pseudointelligent passive-aggressive crap.

Then proceeds to spew different pseudo intelligent passive-aggressive crap. 🥴😮‍💨

We’re not talking about installing Linux or anything close. We’re talking about downloading an app, paying for an IPTV subscription and a VPN. 🫠

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Someone mentioned, either in this thread or another thread going outside and I found that amusing as in the same way that people used to come into pubs to sell pirate DVDs, they’re now selling Android TV boxes and fire sticks for £100. You’d be surprised at what the layman knows.

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Shout out to Ramson

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See that’s the funny thing. It is probably ripped off of concept designs if anything, because given how long it takes Amazon to turn anything around, you can bet your house on them working on this for a while and it having been waylaid by bureaucracy.

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So basically all Bluetooth devices are affected? This is huge news.

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Wireless Network Stack War? Do you mind enlightening me? I’ve never heard of such a thing.

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Oh wow, I’m glad Bluetooth lost given that it’s vastly inferior. I mean we’re even starting to see wifi headphones now, soon Bluetooth will be relegated to legacy devices.

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Even now I think we should’ve added a second USB Port if we were going to remove the headphone jack.

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The format in the first half makes it difficult to read

sabreW4K3,
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That Elzhi and Oh No might be something.

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The first requirement is where they tend to fall down.

That said, the defacto standard is Moon+ Reader. That said, I use Legado for my epub consumption needs.

sabreW4K3,
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Finally

Make daily tasks easier with Assistant Routines on Wear OS

Coming soon, you can start Assistant Routines right from your Wear OS smartwatch with a voice command to get more done on the go. For example, if you have a ‘commuting to work’ routine set-up that helps you navigate to work, check the weather and hear your day’s agenda, then at any time of day you can start that routine by saying “Hey Google, commuting to work.”

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Just a week ago when they mentioned making watches into VR controllers, I said I’d much rather see this because it’s been so frustrating. I refuse to believe none of the designers at Google thought the same: lemmy.tf/comment/3586848

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This is bloody excellent. Template please

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You’re bloody excellent too.

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Discoverability sucks balls. I still can’t find an instance that’s not just a list of one person’s videos.

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But theoretically, if someone set up an instance to host their videos, they could serve banner ads right? Wouldn’t that at least partly diminish the monetization problem?

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That’s really good, thanks for sharing.

Pet Adoption Down (kbin.social)

Probably going to be obvious that I never post here, but the article at https://www.newsweek.com/american-animal-rescue-shelters-breaking-point-1846274]() details the woes animal shelters face after the pandemic. Surprisingly, it isn't the return of COVID pets that is driving the high population of animals languishing in...

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What has dog adoption got to do with the Fediverse?

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The formatting is broken in the top half

Wanted to share the libredirect Firefox plugin, for abandoning Youtube. (libredirect.github.io)

This is a plugin I found recently and really enjoy. It gives you the opportunity to redirect several webpages to alternatives. For example Youtube to FreeTube or Piped. If I search for youtube in Firefox, FreeTube automatically opens and shows me my feed. I like it, I use it, I can recommend it.

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Never heard of Fast Forward before, only LibRedirect. How do they compare?

Edit: They appear to be totally different use cases

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Unless I found the wrong extension, Fast Forward simply skips short URL redirects where as LibRedirect redirects you to FOSS (for the most part) front end alternatives.

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Sadly the developer passed away. I found out after looking into the development when trying to edit some redirects brought my phone to its knees. It’s a good extension, but clearly needs a bit of love.

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From what I can gather, Fast Forward is more of an alternative to Redirector rather than LibRedirect.

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It’s like comparing apples to oranges, both are fruit but very different. LibRedirect has a nicer UI than Redirector and also has content discovery mechanisms for each of the supported sites as well as the ability to ping each instance and TOR support.

Redirector is just an extension that takes URI, passes them through a REGEX find/replace and then sends the user to said new URL.

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Wish we could pin tabs on mobile

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Then my homescreen becomes a mess 😭

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So all of that palava just so they could change the board and mission?

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The latest Niagara beta fills in empty icons pragmatically.

Next smartphone I buy, which one do you recommend?

Things that make me angry about my current smartphone Samsung Galaxy S21Ultra on a Verizon plan is the mandatory software updates in which they install WITHOUT MY PERMISSION stupid apps like Netflix and addictive gambling games and stacking block games and Candy crush. God knows what else they install without my permission. I...

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Get a Pixel

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They make it sound like all the for profit stuff was Sam Altman and they just wanna make cool tech.

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The best comparison I can think of is, imagine Xitter to be Internet Explorer and ActivityPub as Firefox and then AT as Opera

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Huh?

3 browsers that at the time of the browser wars had three different rendering engines?

3 social networks that at the time of the microblog wars run on three different protocols.

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With BlueSky moving towards finally opening up federation, I'm interested in how people feel about it?

Would you be open to the idea of Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and other Fediverse platforms adopting the AT protocol in order to federate with it?

If those technical hurdles could be overcome, would you support your instance federating with BlueSky?

Does the same go for other commercially-owned platforms, such as Threads and Tumblr?

@fediverse

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Let’s have this conversation once BlueSky is actually open

sabreW4K3,
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This sounds like an old head judging things through the lense or the radio

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BSky is the media’s favourite, so of course they’re doing the PR campaign.

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Honestly, WTF? Who and why? I have a feeling it’s someone who doesn’t understand how the app works and is blaming FairEmail for their crush not getting back to them.

who the fuck are you FairEmail and why are you preventing Scarlett Johansson from getting my emails? I’ll kill you!

I truly hope the developer persists, because we need all the high quality open-source apps we can get. Maybe the EFF or someone can assist with the audit?

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It’s riding the train, so either 119 or 120, can’t remember.

Also worth noting that add-on authors still have to update their add-ons.

sabreW4K3,
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Haha, you’re making him sound like the new Meth

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Damn, that’s super harsh. Method Man, had a classic (according to some) and but couldn’t for the life of him follow up his initial success. Ultimately what cost him was his energy. To most it sounded like he didn’t know how to write an album. Some would say he didn’t really know how to write a song and it hurt him. But at the same time, the music he enjoyed making was what got the crowds amped. He needed to lean into his charisma and spit smooth playful raps over even smoother beats but he wanted jump up, in your face beats…

But J. Cole is a whole different animal. He writes songs and albums excellently, Kids on Drugs aside and now, writes features even better. I get that he may not be everyone’s cuppa, but he should certainly garner respect for his record.

In comparison, you look at Drake, who is very hit or miss and in fact suffers from trying to cater to his audiences rather than put out a cohesive project. In fact sonically, the one with 21 Savage is probably his best in terms of cohesion. That said, when he hits, he hits.

Another comparison would be Kendrick who is very good at cohesion, but some would argue that’s his downfall as sometimes his tracks fail to stand up on their own without the other album tracks. Objectively speaking, Mister Morale isn’t a great album, it’s for the best part very average, but it’s Kendrick and so people are forgiving.

If you did a versus with Mister Morale versus The Off Season, Cole wins. I say all that to say this, in terms of the big mainstream, Cole is clearly in pole position right now, some would argue he’s even about to start lapping rappers. That’s a million miles from Meth.

Sorry for being so long-winded.

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