I like seeing more uncommon TLDs be used that aren't just .com, .org, or .net. Variety's kinda cool.

The fediverse, while still social media, has a level of authenticity unrivaled by most major social medias in my opinion. Hopefully it stays that way!

NewPipe is a great app, it really makes watching YouTube so much easier. Even though some things are out of date or kinda broken (they're rewriting NewPipe because of this), I find it works well enough for me to watch videos from my subscriptions.

I've been using OLauncher for years now, it is extremely simple and lightweight but it works for me.

I ended up playing a video game (BeamNG.drive) for a while, which has a realistic car driving experience as one of its selling points. I decided to try and drive there, because crashing wouldn't matter; after a while I couls drive for hours with as many other AI cars on the road as my bad computer could muster without crashing. The experiences then helped me learn how to drive a real car, because by then I had a feel for how cars drove. Would reccomend if you have an okay computer for gaming, a couple dollars to spare, and a lot of time.

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This is probably one of the better pieces of news I have heard about ChromeOS, it seems like this could make ChromiumOS easier to support and make Chromebooks less useless.

I've been having this issue a lot, I hope they merge the PR to fix it soon.

I have a Pixel myself and I have to say, it's a good phone. It has a coherent experience and I've been able to customize it to my needs.

I also had a couple of phones from other OEMs (not Apple, lol) and they had more useless bloatware that was a pain, and an overall less coherent UX. I think the UX is what gets users to stay (obviously), so I do hope that more Android OEMs will focus in more on that so they can break Apple's market domination in the US.

Maybe he shoulda just stuck with the bird, or thought of a name that is even a tad more creative. I'm pretty sure a hamster or a piece of paper could do a better job at managing Twitter than Muskrat is right now.

It seems to me that recently, Big Tech CEOs have been searching for interesting and creative ways to utterly destroy their company with no chance to rebuild it. Maybe he is trying to do that? At this point, it seems to me like Elon is doing his best diligence to set money on fire and run Twitter into the ground.

Exactly, most headphones that I like are wired with an ordinary audio jack. I don't really feel inclined to get new headphones for a new phone, and a phone without an audio jack just makes things more difficult for me.

Yattee seems to be the best option, but it seems to be an app where your mileage may vary due to it being a beta.

If I remember right there's an app named Yattee for iOS devices, but I don't know how to install it. Maybe that could work?

I've been using Mullvad DNS (the adblocking variant) on my phone to block ads and I have to say, it works pretty well. I didn't even know some of my Play apps have ads, it's that effective.

They got it right: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. No point in spending useless money to upgrade something that already works and where upgrading would be pointless.

I've also heard they are decent cars, at this point I'll just keep driving what I've got and hope that in a couple years, more manufacturers will return to making most things controllable by physical buttons.

Same, whenever I tried and use Chrome with another application running, it always slowed down my computer an insane amount. Firefox doesn't do that, I can actually use multiple programs on my machine with Firefox open.

More reasons to keep using Firefox just keep on coming up like excellent extensions, in-browser PDF editor, and now more speed. I switched to Firefox 2 years ago with uBO and I don't think I'd ever switch back to Chrome.

That too! I just don't use it myself because I find NewPipe works well enough for me. However, I should still try it out eventually to see if I'm missing anything big.

If something like the AC, gear switching, volume controls, or another essential function is only usable via the touchscreen, I'd just stop considering that car because it's unsafe and time consuming to use touchscreens in cars. They're right, too much tech in cars is very annoying and I think most people (like me) would rather have dedicated physical buttons to control most actions in a car.

I would pay more to get a car with more buttons than you can comprehend and a small little infotainment system that allows you to play music than a super futuristic car with a iPad in the center and nothing else in the center console area.

I'd always use a VPN, you never know what could happen in the future. Better be safe than sorry!

Don't forget NewPipe for Android, Yattee for Apple devices, SmartTube for most Android TV boxes, Playlet for Roku, and Invidious for PC (if you don't like Piped).

The only (usable) platform I can think of without a ad-free YouTube client is maybe webOS for LG TVs.

(some of these clients are also missing some features because they are new, but they should all be better for watching than the official app)

NewPipe costs $13.99 less on my phone (where I watch YouTube most), and it has a better UX (for me) than the official app.

I don't comment at all, so NewPipe gets most of the functionaloty I would ever want from YouTube. Plus, it also helps by not having personalized reccomendations to keep me stuck watching it.

There's even Playlet for Rokus!

NewPipe for the win! Probably one of the best apps I have ever downloaded.

I've been enjoying my Pixel 5a as of late, but I would switch in a heartbeat if another OEM offered a product that's better for me. Brand loyalty doesn't make that much sense in my opinion, what does is looking for the best product for you.

ViMusic and InnerTune are both available on F-Droid, and are both YouTube Music clients (with reccomendations!). ViMusic is more established, but InnerTune seems to be more up-to-date.

Probably schools, those bad boys are pretty much designed to be used in schools. They are easy for the sysadmin to manage and they are easy to use for the student. They charge fast and stay charged for a long time, and most things a student would need can be found online. They also make it harder for a student to brick their own computer or do things they shouldn't. Even if they are horribly Google-ridden, they do work well in schools.

Chromebooks are nearly perfect student devices, especially newer ones.

They charge quickly, have long battery lives, and most things students would need are easily accessible on Chrome. As well, it's a little bit harder for students to exploit and put their own apps on in my experience, because it requires more knowledge than what most students have to counter things like social media blocks (Games are kinda an exception though).

While they probably aren't the best for other forms of usage, they are very good school devices. I wouldn't even consider using Macs or Windows laptops at schools instead.

NewPipe is currently doing a big rewrite of the app, so that's probably why development seems stagnant.

Also I have heard of Clipious being good too

NewPipe is great, it gets around the main issue with Piped/Invidious instances (that being rate limiting by Google). I've been using it for years and it's been great all this time.

Stremio + Torrentio + Real-Debrid is becoming better by the day now. I never had a Netflix subscription in the first place, but I don't think I would ever get one now.

Can reccomend Droid-ify, it's my favorite F-Droid client.

There is Plexus which does this, I think they have an app now which could have more recent data than the website that you could get off of F-Droid (but I'd rather just use the website anyway).

Agreed, I'm hoping that someone could figure that out soon. I would myself, but I'm pretty bad at coding.

I used Libreddit a ton, so sad to see it go. Fuck spez and fuck reddit.

That being said, I really have been enjoying Lemmy lately, I hope it catches on a little more.

Here's a GitLab link in case anyone wants to copy the repo or download the source code themselves.