In other other news: The planet is burning alive and pushing blindly glorified, inefficient and power hungry word calculators won’t necessarily make that better.

I recently watched a (german) video about the exact development of McDonalds depicted in the meme and it made me realize how much of the experience had been catered towards children and how I felt when I went there more often (or at all) when I was younger.

He has been the most subscribed youtuber for a while in the past. But yeah, mostly gaming and he already “quit” YouTube several times.

I’m not into drama in general, and those are serious allegations. The guy sure had questionable stuff going on, but considering him being an actual nazi had always seemed far off to me, but we’ll never know.

A guy rambling about degoogling and GrapheneOS, to an audience (700k views after 3h) that sure af has nothing to do with that, is just great news to me as of now.

Crazy to see people stating that they never saw a video of him, but I guess the intersection of his audience and the fediverse is predictably low, especially in a degoogle community.

His recent arc with Linux and now this are pretty nice though.

My work environment is chaotic enough for me to have to cycle through 4 different instances of VSCode, terminals and Firefox, while simultaneously doing tech support for windows issues. I’d have switched to Linux if it wasn’t for the last bit.

I work on a 14" Laptop with 1080p60 that is the second display, while i use the 27" 1440p as the main one. I use a USB C dongle to connect and can therefore can only get 60hz because the screen will flicker otherwise (though on Linux the dongle works even for 144hz, which is above the dongle rating of 120hz, but I digress).

I’m a bit constrained with the available space, so I use only my Laptop + screen for work and only the single screen for my personal rig, which is kind of a bummer. Will opt for a 4k ~120hz ~40-50" OLED TV for my next second “monitor” though (:

I meant to say 1440p144 is as a sweet spot concerning price performance ratio imho. The rest of the hardware, especially the GPU have to be considered as well.

Even on a 1440p 27" LCD I zoom in to about 133%, mostly for the viewing experience of the people I share my screen with.

I’d love an OLED with the same specs, but they are still to expensive to potentially suffer from burn in some time.

Compared to Displayport, here is a Techquickie (LTT) Video about it.

1080p60 is/was the norm for a long time. 1440p144 is the current sweetspot for desktop/gaming I suppose.

Your last paragraph hits really close to home. Nomad Century by Gaia Vince might be worth reading to you.

Might as well give him a fetish over time.

Will they though? Facebook has already created undisclosed bot accounts themselves before. A Platform where real users and such bots are indistinguishable (for the user) sounds like a social media corpos and authoritarian governments wet dream to me. Also reminds me of the attempts to disguise ads as natural content.

I like the more plain approach that Aurora Store is going for. It is an alternative Frontend to the Google Play API, but has just apps and nothing else. Posting reviews seems pretty straight forward although I never did it.

SimpleMobileTools has been sold to a questionable Israeli publisher called ZipoApps two years ago.

I’m advising anyone still using them to switch to the Fossify App Suite, which are the forks created as a reaction by some of the original developers.

Not OP, but I actually downloaded all of my saved posts when I left Reddit with the APIcalypse. Maybe I should dig that up and start cooking 🍝.

There are numerous benefits in IoT / smart home and ubiquitous computing. Used in the right ways it can make your life so much better and even save lives. It is just sad to see all the wasted potential, the greediness and straight up noncompliance with basic human rights and needs for simplicity and privacy in its design.

Funny enough, it got me into reading some threads of people reverse engineering air fryer APIs (didn’t expect that to ever happen) and it reminded me again of how great and compassionate some people are. Makes the stupid cat and mouse game seem even more stupid when 3 guys in their spare time can rebuild a 5 layer deep authentication stack with some unknown Philips / Xiaomi server that probably needed tens or even hundreds of engineers to build in an obfuscated manner in the first place.

Manufacturers: To deliver solutions to nonexistent problems. Free money.

Politics: To save our economy. It can only survive if people buy new stuff all the time. Could also come in handy as surveillance measure one day.

People: Oh how cool, I can monitor my chicken nuggets from my couch ~5m away.

Guy could use 3 iterations of painfully bad worded LLM prompts to get an almost correct summary, problem solved.

This is not a selling point but rather a unfortunate but comprehensible circumstance. Nexus and later Pixel phones have not been anything more than reference hardware without significant sales until the Pixel 6. Google has been a software company that has greatly benefited by android being an “open” platform you could contribute to and use their services on.

The App / Cloud ecosystem has gained a lot of competitors, so Google is doing their best to reverse this course of action by pulling more and more functionality out of AOSP into Play services and now into Cuttlefish. We can only wait and see how other phone manufacturers react to this.

Would be great indeed, but “more neutral” in this case seems to mean vendor agnostic by abstracting the hardware away and have anything run on a closed source google container.