I was recently amazed to discover that you can now buy 10W portable solar chargers that are ACTUALLY portable, and cost like 9 euro
Feels like yesterday that they were 10x the cost and it took 3 bulky panels to get enough juice that you could maybe theoretically charge your phone if there are no clouds in the sky!
my default assumption with things like this is that the company in question is complicit, but not actively guilty.
Just because they have no reason to do it themselves, there’s plenty of other people willing to do it for them in return for some sort of favor.
i mean, i think there would be a lot of merit in maintaining a minimal linux platform that’s basically just an android VM, that way it’s basically infinitely easier to port to new devices and sandboxing becomes quite ironclad.
good to see work being done on the torment nexus
“Dating App is great! It helped me find my soulmate 15 times!”
you just get posts in precisely whateverthefuck order the server ends up pulling them from its database, which isn’t an algorithm because obviously that means the Lord himself is deciding the order of your feed.
i mean theoretically you could just find the sorting algorithms in the lemmy source code, add your own, and ask the instance admin to pwetty pwease apply that patch.
huh? are you getting recommendations in your subscriptions feed???
i have yet to have any problems
Even if there was a straight up minecraft port on the luanti contentdb, that wouldn’t really warrant a DMCA takedown on the play store, it would warrant getting that specific game removed from the contentdb…
it’s like taking down the youtube app rather than just claiming the actual infringing videos.
if valve manages to not only normalize linux gaming but also make usable linux phones, that might actually make up for them inventing lootboxes and leaving TF2 to languish.
one day i will afford all their devices, put them in a single room filled with copper pipes, and call it my steampunk shrine. After that of course comes the surgical installation of a red valve on the back of my head.
what kind of annoys me is that linux phones didn’t start out with just making android virtualization/emulation as fast as physically possible. That way we could actually have genuinely functional linux phones now and the hardware wouldn’t matter much at all!
Like i don’t need every single piece of software to be reimplemented natively, that’s a great goal for the future but i just want a phone that doesn’t feel like a ticking bomb…
considering that caching exists, almost everything should do just fine with slow storage. It’s just a matter of how many things you want to write/have active at once.
this ignores the other benefits of replaceable batteries though, like not needing to spend time charging the phone and being able to easily replace a broken battery or straight up upgrade the battery in the future.
Like, using a battery bank is annoying… Unless you have a fancy setup with a TINY battery bank stuck to the back of the phone, it means spending at least half an hour having to wrangle another brick and keep the cable attached to both it and your phone!
i too enjoy spending all my mobile data on spotify
worst part about the SD card thing is just how incredibly useful it is, with other features i can understand that most people don’t think they’re worth the tradeoffs, but having a single fucking SD card slot not only immediately lets you have A TERABYTE of storage if you so wish but also lets you fill the card with photos or whatever and then switch to another one!!!
like if SD cards could only give you 32 gigs extra storage i could understand not bothering with them, but you can fucking quintuple your god damn storage with them, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
we don’t even have to build anything new, aside from installing heat pumps which we should be doing anyways for a multitude of reasons such as “i like not dying of heatstroke”.
right? You only have to go a couple of years old for the price of a refurbished phone to absolutely plummet, and that’s for as-new quality!
If you go for one that’s just a little bit scuffed but still perfectly functional you can get something indistinguishable from a brand new phone for a quarter the fucking price
same, the only big improvement i’ve gotten is going from 60Hz to 120Hz display, and i really can’t think of any more major improvements that would be possible.
Sure, it’d be sweet to have more battery capacity or better cameras, but the standard has been more than sufficient for any sort of normal usage for years and years now.
mapquest doesn’t seem to have anything to do with OSM, sadly