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[Weekly thread] - Discuss anything related to Android - 27-08-2024 in c/android@lemdro.id
[–] butter@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

Thinking about buying a nexdock, when and if they ever release ChromeOS for Android.

If I bought one now, would my pixel 8p be totally useless

Ik ik but control yourselfs in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] butter@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Donger is my middle name

On Bears in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] butter@midwest.social 26 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Polar bears don't find food as readily as Grizzly bears. If a Grizzly hesitates on a salmon, it'll find another salmon.

If a Polar hesitates on a penguin, it could starve.

Google Confirms Play Store App Deletion—Now Just 6 Weeks Away in c/android@lemdro.id
[–] butter@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Samsung really wants to be Apple. Making it one of the worst Android phones in terms of 'doing your own thing with it'

How did gravity worked on the Death Star? in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] butter@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It wouldn't need to generate gravity.

Acceleration "down" would be enough.

Centipedes aren't bugs, they're arthropods in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] butter@midwest.social 12 points 3 months ago

The question here isn't "will this work".

The question is "what will it take to make this work"

Looking for a music server in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] butter@midwest.social 12 points 3 months ago

I know you didn't want to, but I'll bet two navidrome instances will be faster and lighter than JF or Plex.

TOPPED RULE in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] butter@midwest.social 30 points 3 months ago (13 children)

What is this supposed to have meant?

Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
[–] butter@midwest.social 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've seen one video on the subject that my wife showed me, then I had a conversation with my wife about it.

When you're looking at statistics, women attacked by bears per year vs women attacked by men per year, it's not taking into account the fact that 99% of women don't get into situations where they are near bears. Most women (and men) don't go hiking in bear populated woods frequently. Like how the overall odds of getting struck by lightning is low, but some people are struck 8 times are survive.

The better statistic for this argument is that a man is more likely going to kill you in an encounter, should it escalate. I didn't fact check this, but I'll take this video at it's word.

Spotify quietly moves lyrics behind a paywall. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] butter@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which one? Cough cough

And here I was, never even knowing that daddy Disney didn't want me to watch this episode... in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] butter@midwest.social 0 points 5 months ago

Lol. Someone sent this to me. Didn't even notice the name, though.

NOT EVEN MORTAL, MACHINE! A MERE OBJECT! in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] butter@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty afraid of what it is...

It's not very widely used, but even if it doesn't get any better it's going to kick our ass

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Looking for a good, cheap backup solution. (midwest.social)
 

I've been using pCloud to back up only the most important information. The stuff that's hard to get back if something bad happens. Kept in sync with rclone.

Now I think it's time to scale up. I have 1 computer with 4 hard drives plugged up to it. I want to either back up the whole things. I'm thinking of something like backblaze. What does everyone here do for backups?

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Droidian on OnePlus 8! (midwest.social)
 
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Users with personal music libraries, how do you decide what to download? (midwest.social)
 

I recently made a post asking about getting spotify cheaper via vpn.

My question to everyone: how do you decide what to download?

Do you just grab everything, do you use last fm, do you erase music that you never listen to?

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How are you people faking location to get a better price for subscriptions? (midwest.social)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by butter@midwest.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Spotify wants me to have a card from said county. I read that you can use PayPal, but they want a phone number from that country.

Any advice?

Edit: I'm aware that there are a lot of solutions to get it for free. I'm aware that I can just download my music.

Currently, I'm running running navidrome for my downloaded music and x manager Spotify for myself.

My wife has an iPhone. I don't want to download her music. But she's paying full price for Spotify.

I also like to listen from my work desktop. I have administrative rights, but it would be really dumb to download something like this to my work machine.

In several countries, I can get Spotify for like $30 dollars a year for 2 people. This price would be worth moving to legal. Especially for her, since she's paying $11 right now

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How likely am I to brick the fairphone 4 if I buy one? (midwest.social)
 

Thinking about buying the fairphone 4. Coming from oneplus 8, which is almost unbrickable, thanks to an EDL MSM tool.

Obviously, I'd be careful. But am I likely to brick a fp4 by ROM hopping? Is it dangerous enough that I should not go into buying this phone with the intention of installing a ROM?

Mainly, I want to play with Ubuntu Touch, PostmarketOS, and maybe sailfish. But I figure if those don't quite work out, I'll land on Lineage with MicroG or /e/, since that'll be stock fp4 in the US.

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Homarr with torrent/jellyseerr security (midwest.social)
 

I'm interested in running a service like homarr. This would give my family access to view stuff easily, and I could link to the rest of my services. My main concern is linking jellyseerr, and giving what could be strangers access to make requests.

Is anyone out there using a home screen with seerr capability? How is it working for you?

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Looking for a better SMS system. (midwest.social)
 

I'm very tired of SMS being horrible and necessary. Matrix has a bridge for SMS, but it doesn't work very well. There's other SMS bridges, no idea how well they work.

Does anyone have a good solution for dealing with SMS?

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