Just stop using Instagram. I quit mainstream social media (Facebook, Instagram, Reddit,...) and the experience has been quite cathartic.

Minecraft would've died under Notch.

While it is annoying to people like you and me, this is a good thing for the average user. Your average downloads folder probably contains sensitive information that shouldn't be visible to apps. Same with Android/data. Locking it down is annoying for sure, but it's admittedly a good privacy&security measure.

This is your nostalgia talking. CRTs were absolutely awful. I think my family still had one of lying around in the mid aughts. It was heavy, ugly, big, with truly awful picture quality and sucks down on power. Even the cheap LCD TVs we upgraded to were so much better than that crap.

Soap is soap.

I just checked it out. LOL no they aren't. Reddit is still thriving.

What kind of mentality is this? Don't we all want the Fediverse to grow and succeed? Don't you want more apps for the Fediverse to spur adoption? And what is so wrong with it being exclusive to iOS? What do you say about Android exclusive apps then? Fuck them too? Aight listen, I'm a GrapheneOS user. I have been on Android exclusively for the last decades and I'm so sick of this attitude. You Android elitists are so utterly anhedonic. You tire me out. Grow the f up up and let people enjoy what they want geez.

RIP. My favorite actor from Friends.

Thank you ❤️. Honestly, it was really really weird. He was his usual playful self, running and jumping all over the place. And then suddenly out of nowhere he screeched really loud from the other room. When I checked up on him he was just on the ground meowing out. And then he started walking weird, didn't come out for food (had to pick him up and bring him to the bowl), his tail got all weird so I brought him to the vet. It was literally like a switch flipped. Looking back now, I'm feeling really guilty. Maybe there were warning signs and I missed them, idk.

Reddit, we're coming for you. Better watch your back. Sleep with one eye open. 😏

I am a tech, foss & privacy enthusiast 🥹

Reddit is really not backing down, huh? Welp slaps knee i guess I'm leaving for good.

I believe that once you buy a device, you own it and you should be able to do whatever you want with it. You should be able to root or install a custom OS and customize it to your heart's content. Knox coupled with Samsung's locked Snapdragon bootloader prevents Samsung phone owners from doing any of that. And on Exynos phones, when you trip Knox, some features stop working on the stock OS and your warranty is void. Doesnt matter if you relock the bootloader, those things are gone. That was already unacceptable to me. Recently though, they also began disabling the camera on the Z Fold 3 when the bootloader is unlocked, which makes me even madder.

You should switch to AntennaPod.

Thankfully lemmy.world defederated a long time ago.

how about we stop talking about reddit and enjoy lemmy instead?

In no particular order

• File management works like a charm
• USB-C and fast charging
• Customizations
• Custom ROMs
• Privacy (getting a Pixel soon for GrapheneOS)
• Easier to repair
• More efficient (takes less steps to do stuff)
• Looks better
• Sideloading
• More choices for phones

Dumb clickbait title smh

I have only had a couple days on Linux, and it's my first time posting here so I'll try to do it the best I can. Here we go

• OS: Fedora 39
• DE: GNOME
• WM: Mutter
• Wallpaper: http://imgur.io/xzilCU9
• Shell theme: Marble + adw-gtk3 for consistency
• Icon theme: Colloid
• Extensions to replicate the look: Blur My Shell, Dash to Dock, Just Perfection, Logo Menu, Media Controls (this one's for the media player on top there), Shortcuts (for a shortcut cheatsheet), Simple Timer (for a timer on the menubar), Status Area Horizontal Spacing, User Avatar in Quick Settings---

Meta jumping on the Fediverse bandwagon would kill it one day. It's an EEE strategy. We need to keep them out. Defederate from them.