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smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in Elon Musk Suggests He Will Charge All X/Twitter Users a Fee to Be on the Platform

Maybe I missed something in this thread but it seem like the point is “my friends would be there”? Like the same thing we hear over and over with every shit platform.

I can now comment on Wordpress blogs from Mastodon, follow PeerTube channels, host it myself in my closet, BBC is on there, Flipboard joined, Tumbr said it’ll join, Facebook’s Threads said they apparently want too. I see goverments and parties there. Yet the argument is “people would be there”. No they won’t, look at the boring corporate logo, who would leave awesome community of animals for blue box? Or am I missing something?

smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in Elon Musk Suggests He Will Charge All X/Twitter Users a Fee to Be on the Platform

Why Bluesky when there is ecosystem of dozens community-baked and deployed apps?

smileyhead , 10 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in I hate using mobile to read articles

Clever people recommending browsers, DNSes, extentions… But is it how this suppose to work?

Normalize pure HTML websites.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to android in Mishaal Rahman: Google plans to let third-party apps read the measured battery state of health, ie. the remaining estimated full charge capacity relative to the rated capacity in %, in Android 15

Finally some good news about Android.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to android in Mishaal Rahman: Google has deleted all code related to Fast Pair from AOSP

I’m convienced in next 5-10 years I won’t be using Android anymore. This is sinking boat, the only thing keeping me on it is that other boats are just being build.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in What if public transit was like Uber? A small city ended its bus service to find out

He got cool T-Shirt.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to memes in android companies vs apple

My dream phone is iPhone hardware with ability to run whatever OS you want like Raspberry Pi.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in Internet developments have gone from exciting to dreadful.

Hard to selfhost and no E2EE by default I guess. First one can be blamed on Gmail and OutLook, second one is lack of mass PGP usage.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to memes in That guy used to be cool.

I am sure I saw an app on F-Droid that can do redirects, but cannot recall the name right now.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to memes in That guy used to be cool.

Invidious, Piped, etc. instances come and go. We shouldn’t link to them and break links.

let’s just install LibRedirect or Privacy Redirect extention and just pick our own.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to linux in Purism Announce New 11-Inch Linux Tablet

But it still has a phone OS. Android is really resource hungry taking into account it’s limitations.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to games in Creators of Slay the Spire will migrate their next game to a new engine if Unity doesn't completely revert their changes

Fanatic is really good word here. We should be sorry for the devs and just give them advice.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to games in Creators of Slay the Spire will migrate their next game to a new engine if Unity doesn't completely revert their changes

This is what we get with propietary software. We can’t go to another entity or create one to develop the engine for us moving forward. We can’t take the current state of the engine and just patch it to keep existing games alive.

If you depend on some work and that work is being done by software only some other company control, this company is really in the control of that work.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to programmer_humor in Markdown everywhere

At least on Android and iOS. Other systems like PostmarketOS or Mobian can use Git just like computers.

(This is mostly a joke)

smileyhead , 10 months ago to programmer_humor in Markdown everywhere

Why you need special app for that? Just sync the files with Git.