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kadu , 11 months ago to technology in New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed

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kadu , 11 months ago to retrogaming in Anyone else still rocking the 351V?

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kadu , 11 months ago to technology in Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts

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kadu , 11 months ago to retrogaming in Anyone else still rocking the 351V?

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kadu , 11 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Updated my Samsung phone and it installed unwanted apps

Ah… So not a Samsung thing, but a carrier thing. I should have guessed, carriers are disgusting. Nowadays it’s rare where I live, but not so long ago they even got in the middle of Android updates and replaced the bootlogo with their own branding, I even know of some devices stuck on old Android versions because while the official release is available the carrier never bothered shipping the update.

I also dislike how SIM cards run independent from the main CPU and can spawn their little Java applets whenever they want, my carrier used to randomly display ads as full prompts that got in front of any other app with highest priority using the “SIM toolkit” feature of Android, which you can’t disable. Only stopped after I gave them a call claiming if I see another one of those I’d report them to the consumer rights watchdog from my region.

kadu , 11 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Updated my Samsung phone and it installed unwanted apps

Is this a regional thing? None of my Samsung phones (Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S23) ever installed apps like these automatically. They did come with Microsoft apps bundled in, and I believe Facebook too, but after deactivating them they never came back. Never games though.

kadu , 11 months ago to android in My emojis started spinning in Google Messages beta today

They haven’t animated the eggplant emoji, the cowards

kadu , 11 months ago to fediverse in 12 years ago. Wonder what Lemmy will look like in 12 years?

That’s easy to say now, but Orkut (another Google social network, mostly used in Brazil) also had a beta invite system… And that helped it grow tremendously. The secrecy and “status” of getting invited made people go wild - they would even sell invites.

The strategy can work. It’s just very timing sensitive.

kadu , 11 months ago to nostupidquestions in Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?

Yes. It falls back to the protocol that doesn’t have any of the last 20 years worth of added features. How amazing.

kadu , 11 months ago to nostupidquestions in Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?

Well… If the entire world except one region manages to install a third party messaging app, I’d say I’m not misunderstanding anything and the average person is more than capable of doing so. WhatsApp is installed in over 92% of Brazilian smartphones - this includes grandmas, tech illiterate people, and all other examples you couldn think of.

kadu , 11 months ago to nostupidquestions in Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?

Yes? SMS is ancient, limited, and Apple’s added proprietary layer on top of it isn’t interoperable so “most widespread protocol” doesn’t even make sense.

There’s a reason Asia, Europe and South America aren’t using SMS in 2023.

And you know, it’s a smartphone, installing apps is kinda the whole point.

kadu , 11 months ago to nostupidquestions in Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?

In some social circles, yes. Teenagers tend to cling into anything that could potentially be interpreted as a social status symbol or group identity - in the US, for some bizarre reason, people still use the default messaging app and SMS so iMessage and it’s “green vs blue bubble” design immediately fills this space. This can also show up in very shallow dating scenes, like someone using Tinder and just looking for a random hook up with a nice dinner beforehand - they could see the iPhone as a sign of wealth and available money to spend.

But for most adults, living normal lives… I don’t think so. At least, never have been an issue with any of my friends, family members, academic peers, coworkers…

kadu , 11 months ago to fediverse in This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads

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kadu , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to android in Lemmy apps

I loved Sync and will download it for sure.

That being said, Jerboa is extremely good, open source, getting better every week and relatively new. It’s got a lot of potential, respects Android’s updated design guidelines, and has the advantage of having one of Lemmy’s backend developers as the main project head.

Who knows, I might end up staying with Jerboa. I don’t think users should dismiss it so fast.

kadu , 11 months ago to askscience in If we have such a high field of vision, why can't we focus on everything within the vision simultaneously?

I’m sure there’s a physical answer as to why a spherical lens can’t focus the entire image (or maybe it can, physics is not my area and I think it shows haha).

But the biological explanation is that your retina isn’t uniform, instead you have a very small region called fovea where the vast majority of your cone cells are concentrated. If you could take an instantaneous snapshot of your vision, like a picture, you’d be scared to see that everything is grossly blurry and distorted save for a very small circle where the image is very clear - that’s the fovea. Your brain takes multiple images where different parts of a scene are focused on the fovea to create a composite end result that looks better. The rest of your eye still captures light, but with less detail, and therefore it’s mostly dedicated to getting broad positioning of objects, noticing fast changes in movement, tracking peripheral motion, and so on - not on focusing on text or small details.

Curiously, you also have a circle that would be completely black if your brain didn’t fill it in - it’s the blind spot left by the insertion of the optical nerve, where your retina can’t capture anything.