wason

@wason@lemmy.ninja
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Joined 11 months ago

Unpopular opinion but I switched from RSS to Google News and Reddit / Lemmy for basically 2 things:

I like the Google algorithm for news (guess that's why it's called that) it shows relevant news, especially local. When I subscribed to local news papers' RSS, for example, they pump a lot of articles and the relevant news were difficult to spot. It still lags behind on tech news for instance.

I switched to Reddit because of the community content: conversations. On RSS you get all the news and all that but it lacks the social aspect, people discussing an article, learning from others. This is why I'm still here.

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So I read many times that it can store "several TBs of data" but how many exactly? 2, 3, 5, 10?

Do they know exactly? Is it possible that they write 5 TBs and when they try to read it, they can only read like 3, losing the other 2 TBs?

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Settings / Appearance / Themes / Device mode / Android (beta)

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Is Floris Board still maintained? Latest stable release was in June 2022 and latest beta in September 2022.

Their GitHub says that stable versions are released "1 release per 1-5 months" and beta "up to 1-2 releases per week".

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And don't forget that Google is pushing to restrict Android just like iOS where if you unlock the bootloader and root, SafetyNet fails and apps stop working, while in windows having admin accounts is normal.

You can use MIUI by Xiaomi.eu. It's a custom rom based on Chinese MIUI.

Chinese MIUI has more features than the other regional roms. Everytime they showcase a new MIUI version most of the features only arrive to the Chinese rom, all other regions get just basic stuff.

You can use a downloader like Seal and when you want to download a video just share it to Seal.

https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal

To answer your question, you're missing Infinity for Lemmy, Arctius, Beyond for Lemmy and Slide.

Check the Lemmy apps megathread: https://lemmy.world/post/465785

Money

At system level you can use AdGuard DNS. Search in the settings app for DNS and set custom DNS to dns.adguard-dns.com

On Safari you can download the AdGuard app and configure it as a content blocker.

If you already use Piped and have Android then you can use LibreTube, a client for Piped

I believe the microG builds by inotia00 don't support Chromecast but the latest microG by team vanced does. You can still get it from GitHub. https://github.com/TeamVanced/VancedMicroG/releases

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Well correct me if I'm wrong but Memmy is an iOS only app so you're using an iPhone/iPad and Sync is an Android app.

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Xiaomi phones still come with infrared, mostly used to control TVs, fans, AC units, etc.

Never heard of that one before but will definitely try. Thanks

You can sideload uYou or uYou+ on the iPad

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Apparently not implemented yet. I requested the feature here: https://lemmy.world/post/2673227

Indeed

Since we are doing a big mix of everything why not throw there Minix that resides on all Intel chips?

Yes, still get my share of spam, especially on politics, but other than that it works ok.

About Firefox, all browsers on iOS have to use Safari engine so they are basically just a Safari skin so I don't know if you can use uBO but probably not.

Are there any revanced patches for Niagara?

I'll check that one out.

New version fixed it!

That's weird. Might be something in the settings then but don't know.

Is it working fine for everyone? For me it crashes after I sign in and opening the app after being closed.

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No but the time at the top center and the bottom bar stretching all wide I thought it was an Android launcher

Yes, I like RSS for tech news but I still prefer to read a discussion on it.

What launcher are you using?

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What launcher is this?

Why? It's easy to use, there's no ads, has many features, etc.

Is it only because it's owned by a big corp?

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Hi. I'm definitely not an expert on the subject but I had a teacher in highschool who taught us about this and this is what I remember.

Communism is an utopia, is a system that goes against human nature therefore it'll never work. It has never worked, the so called communist countries are actually socialist.

First, in communism there's no government. You as an individual who is aware that lives in a community you do everything for the "greater good" of the community. So if you're very good at singing and dancing but the community needs let's say potatoes then you, by your own choice you go to the farm and produce potatoes. Now once you have all your potatoes you say:

Ok, I have a wife and a kid, that's a family of 3 so I'll take only 3 potatoes. My buddy Rick who has a wife and 4 children, that's a family of 6 so he takes 6 potatoes.

Again it goes against human nature, since when we plant something we consider everything we harvested ours.

Now socialism is just one step back but a huuuuge step back where a government exists.

So a random guy comes in and say:

Hey people of the community since we are not ready just yet to give to the community from our hearts, I'll act as a government and dictate what you do and how to distribute what you produce.

Billy I know you are very good at singing and dancing but we don't need entertainment, we need potatoes so get your lazy ass up and go to the farm!

Billy since you have a family of 3 then you get 3 potatoes.

My cousin Rick, I know he has a family of 6 but give him 20 potatoes because I'm the government, I decide how much everyone gets.

So socialism is very prone to corruption.

There you have it. Again I'm not an expert here, everyone is welcome to correct me. I'm just regurgitating what a highschool teacher taught us.