News
cole
1 month ago
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what happens when we lose the trifecta?
Google Pixel
Pixel Satellite SOS is coming, but it won’t be free for long (APK teardown)
cole
2 months ago
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100%
soon :)
Google Pixel
Pixel Satellite SOS is coming, but it won’t be free for long (APK teardown)
cole
2 months ago
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100%
well, and SpaceX Starlink's Direct to Cell which isn't too far away!
Not The Onion
Trump Finally Weighs in on Controversial Shark vs. Electrocution Debate
cole
3 months ago
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100%
you're right. voltage differential takes the shortest path(s), so it'll just discharge itself p quickly. you are effectively isolated unless you're in between the terminals
cole
3 months ago
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you may have INTENDED to imply only that, but you did imply both unfortunately. I agree with you on the cyber truck part, but I deal with a lot of slightly more rural folks and the big fear RN with electric vehicles is somehow battery fires. which is crazy since they don't happen anywhere near as often as gas vehicles. so I'm just trying to say we should be careful to avoid that particular cliche (the battery fire part) since it misleads people
cole
3 months ago
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100%
no but they ARE repeating the falsehood about battery fires being likely or common: https://lemmy.world/comment/10496586
(which is something your joke implied)
cole
3 months ago
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100%
repeat falsehoods often enough and people believe them, even if you originally mean them as a well-intentioned and obvious joke
Technology
United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens
cole
3 months ago
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100%
A) to go and earn any money B) I actually pollute less in the place that I moved to since I don't have to drive a car
Technology
United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens
cole
3 months ago
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100%
I don't think you understand - I can live poor and destitute without a job in my hometown, or leave to find work somewhere else. This is the reality of many Americans in rural America.
This isn't a quest for "wealth", it's a quest for life
Technology
United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens
cole
3 months ago
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100%
sometimes people don't want to live in the middle of nowhere forever. not many engineering jobs there. we all want economic mobility too
Open Source
Is there any closed source android app that you wish had a good open source alternative?
cole
3 months ago
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100%
I built an open source app a while back that had some similar functionality to sleep as android called "Go to Sleep". Haven't updated it for a long time, always wanted to add more things
cole
3 months ago
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60%
battery fires are not at all common in electric vehicles. this is propaganda
cole
4 months ago
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100%
Your submission in "No Mobile Network Connection after Android 14 Update" was removed for support questions -> !askandroid@lemdro.id.
cole
4 months ago
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100%
Beehaw is an excellent instance, and the admins who run it are very nice and easy to work with.
It's true that the moderation tools on Lemmy are quite limited, and I frankly don't blame them for defederating with anything one bit
cole
4 months ago
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100%
Your submission in "Should I flash my phone?" was removed for post questions in !askandroid@lemdro.id.
Android
To my fellow Android custom ROM enthusiasts, I highly advise you uninstall and stop supporting @projectelixiros
cole
4 months ago
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100%
holy shit their site has a lot of ads
Android
The Motorola Razr+ is about to get a sequel, but still hasn’t gotten an Android 14 update
cole
4 months ago
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100%
oh god this is a flash to the last, I think I had that back in 2014,2015? It sucked
Open Source
What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
cole
4 months ago
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100%
your links are broken I think
Android
Is there any solution available for controlling the volume without pressing the physical volume buttons ?
cole
4 months ago
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100%
Your submission, "Is there any solution available for controlling the volume without pressing the physical volume buttons ?" was removed for Rule 2: post these in !askandroid@lemdro.id.
cole
4 months ago
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100%
do you really think that Hamas would stop launching rockets if Israel stopped intercepting them?
Google Pixel
May update is here
cole
4 months ago
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100%
anybody gotten the find my device prompt yet? I'd like to enable that option to track my phone even when it runs out of battery. seems useful
cole
4 months ago
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100%
Currently tracking this issue. I restarted the pictrs server for now which might fix the issue. Our pictrs is backed by S3 object storage which is effectively infinite. Additionally the pictrs database definitely has not run out of room, the root vol is only 822MB/3GB.
I'll look into this more this evening after work if it is still not resolved!
cole
4 months ago
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100%
I actually run the infrastructure. Our pictrs is backed by S3 object storage so it should not be possible to run out of space. I'll have a look this evening
Fedigrow
cole
5 months ago
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100%
We're certainly not against merging again, but it'll need to be initiated by the mods of !android@lemmy.world with the blessing of the admins there (and I suspect the mods are not open to this). We've already given it our best shot!
cole
5 months ago
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100%
I've played 2077 and RDR2 on my PC (running arch Linux) with no problems. couple hundred hours between them. tbh I couldn't compare to windows, since I just haven't used windows in ~7 years
Technology
Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants
cole
5 months ago
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100%
wtf is that bullshit. interning is basically required experience in some fields (engineering especially). companies will usually pay for your housing and food even
Linux
cole
5 months ago
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86%
really rough to use honestly. I'd rather use non-FOSS (on shape) while I wait for this to hit the "blender inflection point" and actually get good.
Fuck Cars
cole
5 months ago
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100%
Hey maybe I've ridden on your bus before! Honestly, we need more protected bus only lanes, like not share with HOV at all. This would be a big boon especially on the 520 bridge. I think that + traffic light priority would be a big step forward. fuck cars
Technology
Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants
cole
5 months ago
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100%
hol up what kind of intern can afford to buy a Model 3?
linuxmemes
If you see me on street.... Please do not approach me
cole
5 months ago
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100%
lol no, it's alpine based. basing something on Manjaro would be pretty dumb anyways, might as well go straight off Arch (especially dumb since neither have official ARM support which phones need)
cole
5 months ago
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100%
man y'all keep duplicating each other's posts haha
cole
5 months ago
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100%
plus, it isn't like this isn't exactly like adding another "door" to the "systemd building". It's a modular component of systemd, so more akin to replacing the sudo building with a new, but still separate, systemd sudo building
cole
5 months ago
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100%
I'd say PopOS, EndeavourOS (or just Arch), or just Fedora Linux 40 (might need to check a box to enable proprietary drivers on install for Nvidia to work right).
Nothing will run MS365 though, that's just not on Linux (and Wine doesn't work very well for modern versions). Best you can do is a Windows virtual machine if you need the actual applications and not the cloud version.
cole
5 months ago
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100%
Very very interesting. I haven't seen a trend in increased response times for that region. This is Europe, right? That looks like you had a 1+ second API call to the backend there. I'll look at my stats and see if I can find a culprit. Things should've gotten faster lately, not slower!
cole
5 months ago
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100%
Oh we aren't switching to it by default, I'm just providing options! We run a bunch of different front ends currently.
a.lemdro.id l.lemdro.id old.lemdro.id next.lemdro.id m.lemdro.id
...there might be more that I've missed
Hey all! I've done a lot of database maintenance work lately and other things to make lemdro.id better. Wanted to give a quick update on what's up and ask for feedback. For awhile, we were quite a ways behind lemmy.world federation (along with many other instances) due to a technical limitation in lemmy itself that is being worked on. I ended up writing a custom federation buffer that allowed us to process activities more consistently and am happy to say that we are fully caught up with LW and will not have that problem again! Additionally, on the database side of things, I've setup barman in the cluster to allow for point of time backups. Basically, we can now restore the database to any arbitrary point in time. This is on top of periodic automatic backups which also gets pulled to storage both on my personal NAS as well as a Backblaze bucket (both encrypted of course). Today, I deployed a new frontend at https://next.lemdro.id. This one is very early stages and experimental but is being developed by https://lemm.ee and seems promising! If you live outside of the US and experience consistently long load times I want to hear from you! I am deploying the first read replica node to Europe soon, so if you live in that region you'll soon notice near-instaneous loading of content. Very exciting! Finally, looking for feedback. Is there anything you want to see changed? Please let me know!
cole
5 months ago
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100%
Your submission "So many sites suddenly blocking Mull browser?" was removed for violating rule 2.
Space
cole
5 months ago
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75%
Totally valid, SpaceX doesn't do a great job of trying to manage burnout. On the other hand, I personally work 40-50 hours a week to avoid burnout and have suffered no ill effects from doing so.
You don't HAVE to work long hours here.
cole
5 months ago
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100%
I'm not sure how innovative this is since even Microsoft teams has this but I agree with the sentiment
Selfhosted
How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves?
9to5google.com
Google today announced a handful of wearable and navigation updates, starting with public transit directions in Google Maps for Wear OS.
www.androidpolice.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10370094
I am rolling out the Photon UI as a replacement to the default lemmy UI right now. Initially, only about 50% of requests will be routed to Photon, determined by a hash of your IP address and user agent (sorry for any inconsistencies...). As I determine that this configuration is stable I will be slowly increasing the percentage until Photon is the new default frontend for lemdro.id. If you have any difficulties, please reach out. Additionally, the "old" lemmy frontend will remain available at https://l.lemdro.id **Edit:** I am aware of some problems with l.lemdro.id. It wasn't designed to run on a subdomain so I'll need to add a proxy layer to it to redirect requests. A task for tomorrow! **FINAL EDIT:** https://l.lemdro.id is now fully operational, if you choose to use the old lemmy UI it is available there
Over the course of the last couple weeks, I managed to root cause and solve the problem causing stale sorting on lemdro.id. My apologies!
www.androidpolice.com
We typically like Pixel phones a lot, but we have some reservations about Google's quality control
9to5google.com
Google Maps is changing with pretty significant redesigns across key surfaces, including when searching for directions...
Edit: Upgrade went off without much of a hitch! Some little tasks left to do but we are now running 0.19.3. Seems like a lot of the federation issues have been solved by this too. You will have to re-login and 2FA has been reset. This update is scheduled to take place this weekend. No specific day or time because I am infamously bad at following those. I will try to minimize impact by keeping downtime to lower-traffic periods. Ideally, there will be no downtime, but if there is it is likely to only last an hour maximum. During this time I will add an "under maintenance" page so you can understand what we are up to. Feel free to join our Matrix space for more information and ongoing updates! My apologies for how long this took - I was in the middle of a big move and a new job. Additionally, there may be small periods of increased latency or pictures not loading as I perform maintenance on both the backend database and pictrs server in preparation for this upgrade.
There was a brief (~5 minute) period of downtime on lemdro.id recently. This occurred during a routine database upgrade when some strange issue caused a member of the cluster to become inconsistent and refuse to form quorum. This locked the entire cluster into an invalid state which took some troubleshooting to fix. My apologies. I will be rolling out read replicas for folks on the East coast of the US as well as those in Europe sometime in the next week, you should notice a pretty dramatic reduction in latency if you are from those areas. Additionally, other recent changes have increased reliability and decreased latency which may or may not be noticeable. I will post another update before I start rolling out the read replicas since it is kind of a big change (and I will schedule a time for it)
I recently rolled out an infrastructure upgrade this last Monday (Dec 4) with the intent of reducing peak response times and removing occasional scaling errors. Unfortunately, my metrics system showed slightly elevated error rates, so I've decided to rollback these changes for now. I will make another announcement before I roll them back out in the future. Thanks for your support!
Hey there everyone. I think the Photon project has matured enough to the point where I feel ready to replace the default lemmy frontend with it. Since this instance serves roughly 1000 people now, I figured this was worth holding a vote on! Please check out Photon as currently hosted at https://p.lemdro.id. If you support changing the default frontend to Photon, upvote my comment on this post. If you don't support it, downvote that same comment. Thanks!
Earlier today, I identified the root cause of an issue causing annoying 502 errors intermittently. If you've ever had an action infinitely load until you refreshed the page, that is this issue. I deployed a fix, and am slowly scaling it down to stress test it. If you encounter an infinite loading occurrence or an HTTP 502 error please let me know! UPDATE: Stress testing complete. Theoretically we should be equipped to handle another 5k users without any intervention from me
Hello folks! I am migrating the image backend to an S3-compatible provider for cost and reliability reasons. During this time, thumbnails and other images hosted here will be borked, but the rest of Lemdro.id will remain online. Thank you for your patience! UPDATE: Image migration is gonna take a hot minute. Should be done in around 6 hours, I'll get it fully fixed up in around 7-8 hours when I wake up (~08:30 PDT) UPDATE 2: It failed, yay! Alright, fine. I turned the image proxying back on. I am migrating to S3 in the background and will switch over when it is done. **Any images uploaded in the next 8 hours or so may end up being lost**. UPDATE 3: Migration complete. Will be rolling out the update to S3-backed image storage in around 6 hours (~6pm PDT) UPDATE 4: Object storage backend deployed! Thanks for your patience folks.
I'm sure you all have noticed the latency problems on this instance. Stage 1 of my 4 stage scaling roadmap is taking place tonight as I migrate the database to physically run closer to the machines running lemmy. I will do a more detailed write-up on this later, but the gist is that each db operation required a new connection from lemmy, and that means a brand new SSL handshake since the db is managed elsewhere. Pooling would solve this, but lemmy does not handle a properly configured pg bouncer correctly in my testing. So the solution is move the database closer and within the private network to avoid SSL handshakes altogether. TL;DR instance gonna go brrrr, downtime starting at 10:30pm pacific time tonight, should be done by 11:30pm
For all curious, Lemdroid now runs via fly.io and neon.tech. The database is hosted by neon tech while the frontend and backend are horizontally scalable and deployed to fly.io. This should be massively scalable both up and down, so we can handle nearly any amount of users. Pretty neat, right?
This instance is intended to host the official presence of some subreddits, namely relating to Android but not necessarily.