vga

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

What most people don't seem to understand is that every Android phone is a Google phone unless you go through the degooglification.

I would (and did) just use Apple phones if it weren't for GrapheneOS.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

Banking apps generally speaking work, it's the NFC payments via google pay that don't and probably never will.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

No, the hardware of Fairphones lacks certain security features.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 77 points 3 months ago (34 children)

I realize that I'm an asshole for telling them what to do but here's what they need to do: They should drop all development of their own Android and put significant resources to making their next phone work with GrapheneOS.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I just tried to use Reddit with a new account. After spending about a week in it, I suddenly noticed that all my comments and postings received no upvotes or downvotes.

That's right. I was shadowbanned, which is to say that some part of the Reddit system (AI?) decided that I need to be put into a cage that I don't see, without telling me that it happened. Perhaps I was "evading a ban" or something. I don't think I did anything to deserve it, and the reddit admins don't answer to queries about it.

So yeah, Lemmy is infinite times better than Reddit.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

That's beyond dumb at all levels. I mean even if you were a 100% Israel supporter and you wanted Gaza to just vanish, this is an absolutely bad idea in literally every possible way. Even the wildest most super-orthodox LSD tripped Torah study group couldn't produce this shit.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

Yes, I think so. There's are interesting large scale trends in the book's world, and even though the protagonists are powerful beings, they're forced to mostly just witness and react to the events. The characters are deep and interesting and the overall plot is rewarding.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Just make the voting pricier and donate all the proceeds to the UN.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I didn't like Witcher 3. I played the main storyline to Skellige and after a while of adventuring there, I just could not bring myself to continue the game.

I've read all the books, perhaps that has something to do with it.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Open source, I assume? Extremely laudable and I hope you don't have to make big financial compromises for that.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Then again, application software wasn't cheap. Given inflation, would you pay a thousand bucks for a lifetime license of a piece of software that didn't get any updates ever?

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Reverse question: would you maintain a program that you wrote 11 years ago if it wasn't making you money?

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