As someone who lives through the height of the mall era I'm sad to see the go personally. However before online shopping it was sort of a pain in the ass. Not only did you have to go to the mall for clothes shopping sometimes you would have to go to more than one. I remember school clothes shopping would be a multi day affair to buy some jeans and shirts and a pair of shoes. If the mall didn't have the store you needed you would sometimes have to drive really far to go to that store. If the mall didn't have what you needed you were sort of SOL. So when online shopping started to provide anything you want in a few clicks it was not just the hard to obtain stuff people bought it was everything else too. But it's sad so many teenage sagas played out in malls for me. Friendships were solidified and dating occured there. It was a place you could hang out for a few hours with no parents and navigate teenage social life. I am sure teens will just do something else but it holds a special place in my memory.

I honestly think it's everyone's responsibility to make their job as hard as possible. Use providers that prioritize privacy and that are located outside the US. Don't ever use telephony or sms always use end to end encrypted services for conversations, leave your phone at home or turn it off, use a rom without Google play services. Really drive them nuts and use cash for most purchases. This by no means stops everything but it makes it harder. You can't stop all data collection but you can reduce it and every reduction helps.

Not much has changed. It's really only secure if you are sending emails between addresses within the same local network like gmail to gmail. Thankfull with end to end encryption it can be pretty safe just good luck finding someone that knows how to use it. but thankfully proton makes that pretty seamless.

exactly if it's a company they have to comply with laws. This is not a service to rely on if you doing espionage or something. It's for people who want more privacy and choice.

Bridge

I am actually sort of worried that now that they put this out they will retire bridge. We will have to wait and see. Is having a browser tab open really that bad... ?? I suppose but I still like programs over web pages.

yeah headline should have been "told ya so"

disappointed is an interesting choice of words. But I guess not having a roving hellscape is kind of boring.

I always think it's interesting when I read these stories. No matter how bad it gets. No matter how many red flags are raised no one is going to do a single thing. Our governments are completely failing us by doing nothing useful.

honestly it's sort of useless for that function. The only thing my family posts is dumb crap. I still basically have to see them or talk to them to actually catch up. As a means of keeping up with people I have found FB as practically useless.

let me just say it does work but if you try to suspend and resume the whole tablet sort of crashes at the moment. It still has a ways to go before it's exactly stable.

we sorta haven't. We haven't even made it a few hundred years without a civil war or some sort of uprising.

Recently it's become even better and more stable. I don't ever find a need to open another browser at this point.

God I hope this is true.

This is sort of an interesting article. It seems like ( unlike what I thought ) the Supreme court might not have much it could even do to overturn the situation: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lawyer-explains-supreme-courts-only-wiggle-room-in-trump-colorado-case/ar-AA1m1hit

I think they mean ten

I'm feeling sorta quilbert

not to be a jerk but there are much smaller companies than them that have linux developers. Or they take some in house people and say hey learn how to develop for linux. It's actually not that hard ( source: I am an Engineer for a software company for 12 years )

there isn't exactly no linux developers. I get what they mean but I also feel like there is talent out there.

What is the actual shape of this person's head?

If you are running the latest version you should be able to do : sudo systemctl start pinetab2-wifi-enable

it's documented here: https://gitlab.com/ook37/pinephone-pro-debos/-/releases

Yeah rotation works fine in kde. It doesn't work in Ubuntu touch.

Yup you have to turn it on. But the instructions are simple once it's done and you reboot WiFi just works. No screen rotation yet though so everything comes with a tradeoff right now.

They made it and they use it. So if they intentionally put a flaw in it that would be very stupid.

I will be writing up a thing as soon as I get some more time to really test some stuff with this thing. So far it's decently solid now that I have one that actually works. there has been some ups and downs.

Just use new pipe on mobile and freetube on desktop and it basically fixes all the issues with YouTube.

This is seriously not me being a jerk. I have been following this project for years. At this point can you actually just buy a phone from them or do you buy one and get stuck on some wait list for an unknown period of time? From the video shared a few things are sort of shocking out of the box for a consumer release. first of all no account creation on login or at a minimum a prompt to change your password on login seems not great. Sure you can just change your password but having 1-6 be the default password that doesn't get updated on login is so easy to fix I am surprised it's still like this. Next that keyboard is definitely overly cramped and seems very difficult to use. To me that is a bit of a deal breaker for a phone now a days because typing is so essential. 1300 for a phone that is essentially beta and a project phone still seems unobtainable for most people. Again I don't want to hate on this as I really want it to work but there is so much working against it at the moment in my estimation.

I wouldn't know if it was on reddit. I don't think it belongs to them anyway.

As someone with ADHD I can tell you this is normal for me. I am not sure if this is normal for people without ADHD but yeah it's hard for me to stay on track with any idea and follow through with it. It sure is fun to explore all this weird crap but not very useful to not get much done. I will say to give you hope I have still been able to cobble together the skills and abilities over the years to have a professional career but it has taken organization and perseverance that definitely don't come naturally to me.

I think not having Trump making out with Obama is clearly a missed opportunity

Yes and I will add to this... Just degoogle your phone and slowly stop using Google services. Even this is not a perfect solution but its better than doing nothing.

No, can't see it

Aye

On mobile I long press open in new tab, on desktop I Ctrl click to open in new tab. I do the same when I read an article so I don't lose my place in the feed. It works for every site so you don't have to learn a special trick just for Lemmy.

It says on the wiki that they don't have pen support... however Wacom tablet should be doable because it has normal IO and works with regular desktop apps. I know that is not a "fix" but it's a doable workaround for artists I think.

gadgetbridge for android is amazing also itd for linux is great. I would say don't use lift to wake as it's a bit too sensitive IMO and drains your battery super fast. Know that some apps like the stop watch get interrupted by notifications so when using those apps I turn notifications off. Same for the timer app it has the some indication vibration as a notification so you should turn off notifications when using that app. Long press on the wallpaper to get options to change the color schemes and such. Such a cool feature I like to change my color schemes a few times a week. Don't forget to put the watch in sleep mode when you sleep otherwise it will be vibrating all night and the screen will keep turning on. Not required but I keep an eye on the github repo to see what issues are being reported and so that I know when new releases drop. Also when you first get the watch be sure to update to the latest release.

well it is better but by no means fixed. I still get heart rates of 0 or like 200 occasionally. Also battery life may be better but realistically I am getting about 3 - 5 days before I need to charge... better than some smart watches but I think it could still use some tuning.

OMG Yes this is awesome!

somehow every kind of bank, business, and rich person can get tax breaks, and bail outs yet average middle class people can't get some help on their student loans.

I am pretty sure we either agree in full or mostly agree with each other.

But what if there is a significant number of people who are just awful humans, or don’t have a thought for learning, or are not being open or honest etc.

Yeah I agree at this point if people are being systematically terrible then they should get banned or if there is a whole instance of them that instance should be defederated. I say systematically because maybe someone just brought up a hot button issue or maybe they just had a bad day. Like if it's 90% posts are normal and then just now and then they have a rage post I don't think that makes them a terrible person. If for example out of a whole instance there is one or two slightly problematic communities but as a whole that instance is fine then it probably shouldn't be defederated.

I support the idea of engagement and discussion but let’s be honest there are people who aren’t interested in that. There are people who are racist. There are people who really do think you and I are going to hell and they are happy to know that. Sorry there is a reason I don’t associate with people like that in real life and I don’t want to on line either.

Right I get that but I think we already have a fix for that. We can already block people and block communities we don't like so we don't need to associate with people we don't like if we don't want to. However we also don't need to shut down their voice entirely if they are doing nothing else then posting horrible memes now and then. However that might not always be true some instance might want to focus on a certain type of advocacy like Open Source and so a meme community for racists might just make no sense for a instance like that.

It is not my mission to discuss this kind of thing with all those people. Trolls and awful humans sometimes do need to be ignored. Otherwise we cannot have interesting or productive conversations with anyone.

Yeah I think that makes total sense there is no need for anyone to do anything they don't want to do in their free time. I do just wonder for the people who are not terrible but maybe just fallen into an ideology or have been radicalized. Would banning them and pushing them into a corner of the internet with only other radicalized people make them ever figure out they are wrong? How are they going to realize that they are wrong unless they are allowed to participate in a wider discourse where someone can challenge them on their beliefs? Does banning and defederating actually the problem in the case of people we just disagree with or does it make the divides worse and more entrenched?

thanks for the suggestion the post has been updated.