[-] Genericusername@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

No. It should be minimalistic by default. If you want to add a tail just grab one from the AUR.

[-] Genericusername@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Remind me how many Palestinians support Hamas and its ideology. You cannot make this comparison. Nothing Israel ever did comes near these levels of brutality.

[-] Genericusername@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Arch User Repository. If you're using Arch, you get the basic stuff from the official repositories. But for most programs there's the AUR. They're often less polished, some of it may be proprietary. There are package managers dedicated for it, that also know to handle the official repositories. Read more

[-] Genericusername@lemmy.world 108 points 9 months ago

There are gaming phones, phones with crazy cameras, and iPhones where the lack of features is a feature. What I wish to have is a phone with as many features and functionality as possible.

That includes (but not limited to): IR blaster Headphone jack MicroSD card slot FM Radio RGB Notification/Status LED

Rather than a slim phone with a glossy finish that will pick up scratches right away unless wrapped in a phone case, the outer cover of the phone should be rugged and replaceable. Like with old Nokia phones. I don't care about few extra grams, or another millimeter of thickness. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I was hopeful about the Fairphone at first, but they started removing features as well.

[-] Genericusername@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

I really liked the times when features were added and not killed off.

10 years ago you could purchase a flagship phone with IR blaster for controlling whatever you couldn't find a remote for, or trolling people in public spaces by turning off their TVs. Cloud storage wasn't as popular, but if your phone died, the images were safe on the micrSD card. Bluetooth headsets were a thing, but you could always just use a cheap pair of headphones to stick in the headphone jack. People who desired it could install a custom ROM with all kinds of optimizations and less bloat. It used to be a lot more popular back then. Other than cameras, battery life, and reversible and more robust USB-C connectors, there isn't much innovation. I used to feel like I owned my device much more back then. Now I only use the stock ROM, can either use wireless headphones or ones that use the charging port. I can't insert a microSD, or test new features for Android ported from other devices by someone on XDA Developers. I'm not using the phone the way I want, but the way the companies who made it decided on.

[-] Genericusername@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Out of all types of space junk, I'd be least worried about stuff on the surface of the moon. If anything, these piles of human waste contain the gut bacteria of the astronauts and was exposed to decades of radiation, temperatures and extreme conditions. It will be an interesting thing to study once they'll be able to create a research lunar base.

[-] Genericusername@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

They did decide for me by the point that a once obvious feature to include in a phone is discarded in all but a very slight number of niche phones where I'd have to compromise on a bunch of other features in return for something that used to be almost mandatory feature at once point.

[-] Genericusername@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

While I do care about the headphone jack, I am mostly bitter about the manufacturers deciding for me that I don't need it. I'd heavily trade off 10% reduction in thickness for a user-replaceable battery and a headphone jack, but it was decided for me that a thinner phone is a big improvement.

[-] Genericusername@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

HP can make good printers. It has the right hardware, capabilities and price (Of the printers, not the ink) to be a very good product. It's just their obnoxiously asshole-design software that is designed to make you to keep paying for using a product you already own.

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Channel 14 at it again. Denied that Biden asked Netanyahu to stop the Reform. Didn't even bothered to delete this when even they acknowledged that it wasn't true.

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As I'm writing this, the protesters are marching towards Jerusalem, over thousand pilots will stop serving, investors are losing their confidence, the current government refuses to negotiate while finding the problems in anything but themselves. While likely there is no majority of citizens to support their actions, the judicial reform still has a significant number of supporters. Failure to pass the legislation may cause the government to dissolve. And yet there might be a few coalition members who are reasonable enough to do the right thing.

What do you say?

[-] Genericusername@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Knowing that guy, he'll use his elevated admin permissions to remove it like he edited other people's comments.

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My wife was abroad, and my kids missed her. I suggested they'd paint her something. My older son decided to draw lungs to express his love, and took it seriously trying to draw a realistic one. He also draw lungs and arteries, and explained that the little lines on the sides are to show that it is beating, like they show motion in comics.

He draw this out of memory.

[-] Genericusername@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

How hard it is to replace the backend while keeping the experience the same?

[-] Genericusername@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Back when I was a kid and got my first computer, I was mostly offline except for the occasional dial-up session. I didn't have much to do on the internet anyway and it was quite expensive. I remember being amazed the first time I have set up to meet a friend over ICQ, rather than a phone call, of being able to communicate with other computers from mine. It didn't matter whether these computers were at a neighbors' house, a different city or entirely different country. I was looking forward to the internet giving us ways to connect like never before. No barriers, just directly communicating and bridging cultural differences and whatnot. Little did I knew that this was just one phase, as the internet gets more and more segregated. Rather than connecting with people, it gives you the ability to filter out whatever you don't agree with, while staying connected with those who share your beliefs. It's like we are no longer living the same reality and can't even agree over fundamental things. I miss the old naive days of the internet when we feared viruses and the occasional pedophile in a chat room. Nowadays it's the possibility of spreading misinformation that could overthrow a government. Either having it going uncontrolled and unregulated, or having a private company in control of such power.

Personally, I think that this should be the choice of an individual user rather than the platform.

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It would be one click for the user to generate the text and another one to post the comment. Very easy to troll Reddit.

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It would be one click for the user to generate the text and another one to post the comment. Very easy to troll Reddit.

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