The fact that Reddit uses a stock image of confetti with the watermarks still on it is pretty shameful honestly. I wonder if that could be reported to the copyright holder.

Yeah this is what it does; all it is is essentially another player to sit in a game and listen and report players. More games are adding ToxMod and I’m here for it. It’s funny when people get mad and review bomb games for adding it because they’re mad they can’t say the n-word anymore and call it “spyware”.

For the record, you know you don’t have to take the USB-C adapter off the headphones if you exclusively use it for that device, right? It’s not as much of a hassle as people believe it is, they just haven’t used one yet.

I suppose that’s fair, good point. A locked-down discord is just an odd choice for that, in my opinion. Mastodon makes much more sense.

I don’t necessarily care much about the FOSS arguments and all that stuff that some of the other users complain about, but I kinda don’t like the fact that I have to verify my account and link it just to go to a discord server for updates. I’m fine with just having the main community with updates, not sure why discord has to be thrown in to complicate things. If the main community is here to stay and I don’t have to join a discord and go through the verification, hey that’s fine by me. The verbiage is just odd how it makes it sound like the community will go away and you’ll have to go to the discord. Hope that’s never the case, though.

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I’m okay with that, hence why I want it as an option I can opt-in to. If it’s the same person posting the same post and title to two different communities, I’d rather just see the one for my main instance and miss the conversation on the other, rather than seeing my feed cluttered with duplicates. I’m not unsubscribing to the other one, I won’t miss content unique to it.

Do you have any suggestions for a better one? I’m all ears, but the solution definitely isn’t “hey guys stop crossposting”. Any other solution would require structural refactoring of Lemmy, and changes like that are not easy. I saw a post talking about combining sibling communities, but that would get very messy very fast. This solution is pretty elegant imo. Just a checkbox that says “I prefer posts from my main instance, hide any crossposts” would be perfect. No one has to subscribe to sibling communities either; if you’re fine sticking to one, then the issue doesn’t apply.

I wish apps would hide duplicate posts. People that crosspost everything results in my feed having double everything because I subscribe to both. It’s super annoying, and I’m tempted to leave one of them, but I don’t want to miss anything because they’re comparable in size.

Fair enough. Here are three ways I can see this going:

1. Get a privacy focused phone like PinePhone or Librem. I can’t speak much for them since I don’t use them, but I’ve heard good things. This is the “all-in” approach. Depending how focused on privacy you are, you may want to go this route if you want a completely stripped down Android experience without any of the Google parts.
2. Get a Google Pixel. Pixels are a very clean Android experience. No bloat from vendors or carriers since Android is Google already. Plus. Android 13 already has a lot of focus on permissions and such, and it’s only improving with the upcoming Android 14. Routinely apps’ permissions will get disabled when the app hasn’t been used in a while. You can also disable ads tracking in your Google account and in the Android settings.
3. Root a phone. I saw in another comment you likely won’t do it, but leaving it in for fairness. If you are going to, make sure you know how to root it, what it’s doing, and if that root method will work for the phone you’re going to buy. You can search “how to root xyz phone xda-developers” to get info there. XDA-Developers is the name of the forum that is home to the rooting community. I don’t recommend this path for reasons I suggested before, and if your end goal is more privacy, typically it’s either “go big or go home”. Rooting and doing a couple small things for half-privacy is just not worth it.

Cool. Never touch phone batteries again and throw it away at a safe battery recycling place like a phone repair store.

There is not a chance this happened in the US, because the moment he noticed the battery was in an unsafe condition, he was expected legally to perform due diligence and dispose of it safely. The fact that he not only returned it to you, he made it even more unsafe, you would be able to sue him had it blown up later.

If you still have that phone, give it to a (DIFFERENT) phone repair store to throw away immediately, or another battery recycling center. It’s not only a danger to you, but to those around you. Potential for fires, toxic smoke, and injury.

If they are smart enough to create an account on Lemmy and find this community, then this is 110% a troll.

Wait is this some sort of joke I’m not privy to? That’s not actually Margot Robbie right? I can never tell what’s real on the internet nowadays.

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I get frequent headaches due to posture and tension. Do you have any stretches you’d recommend?

They open-sourced their code which is nice and can help researchers inspect their security, plus it’s made by reputable people: the guy who made Pebble! I don’t have a use case for Beeper personally right now, but it seems really cool and I’m excited to see where it goes.

You need to understand this a very privileged way to think. There are a lot of people far from civilization that moving is not an option for. A lot of people can’t just uproot their lives for. What if they are farmers? They should just leave their farm?

Very clear where your bias lives now. No one wants to bike for an hour to work. Depending where you live too, even if you had public transport, it might add an hour or two to your commute time.

Yeah for real. Can we all grow up and move on from that please?