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Removal of piracy communities
Yea, I'm leaving. Not as a protest, I just want access to something without caring if devs like it or not.
All hail Piracy!
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Removal of piracy communities
Yea, I'm leaving. Not as a protest, I just want access to something without caring if devs like it or not.
All hail Piracy!
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never buying this again
But, but... It looks kind of nice. Honestly I'm wandering what would it taste like.
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I'm the author of an April Fool's Internet Standard, AMA
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I love this. Thank you so much.
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Meta Services, Sorry WHAT!?
One more reason to use a custom ROM. Death to the bloat!
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Is Rooting still as essential as it used to be?
Essential? no.
Worth it? maybe.
Nice to have control of your own device? absolutely.
I have two devices, primary with root (through Magisk as KernelSU still has some issues for me) and secondary without root. Anytime I have to do something more demanding on the unrooted device I really wish I had root. Local terminal access, ability to disable some annoying "features" (verified app links) and multiple other things I use daily make it worth it for me.
EDIT: I saw mentions of custom roms in other comments. I have a custom rom installed (AOSP based). If I was on a stock rom (or god forbid something like MIUI) root would be a must for me.
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The new system to replace Reddit coins and awards is here. You got out at the right time.
I only needed to see blockchain tokens. No need to know anything else.
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Is there something like launchers for windows?
Sort of. Already mentioned classicshell allows for some customisation. Things like FancyWM introduce window tiling to the os, but none of it is comparable to what android launchers can do.
Also an obligatory linux mention. If you do not depend on certain, windows only, applications, Linux provides much more customisation. Different desktop environments can be though as something analogous to android launchers.
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Infinity for Lemmy
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I think getting it submitted to fdroid would be a lengthy process. As an alternative IzzyOnDroid repository could be considered.
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Opinion - What are your thoughts on password managers? Do you use one? Would you recommend it to others?
Currently I use Bitwarden on both my phone and my pc, but I'm looking into self hosting it with vaultwarden. This gives you access to premium features (such as TOTP support, for which I currently use Aegis Authenticator). It also gives you full control over your data.
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Button navigation is objectively better than gesture navigation.
That's one hell of a controversial opinion.
I personally prefer gestures. I find them quicker (you don't have to move your fingers as much to do anything, especially back gesture) and more intuitive (like swiping on the navigation pill or whatever it's called to quickly switch apps, much better than double clicking recents button). Gestures also integrate nicely with the rest of os (like swiping from backspace to erase whole words in gboard).
One thing I hate and I can't understand how that's not fixed in stock AOSP is opening left side menus (those hamburger ones) with gestures enabled. Half of the time instead of opening the menu it will just go back, even if sensitivity on left edge is set to minimum.
This is something that custom roms address nicely as most of the time setting sensitivity to minimum would actually disable gestures in this area (take note Google). If this is something that's bugging anyone, you can disable gestures on left edge over adb (without root) with:
adb shell settings put secure back_gesture_inset_scale_left 0
or with:
su -c "settings put secure back_gesture_inset_scale_left 0"
if you have root access (for more info look here).
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Is Xmanager a Scam?
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Xmanager doesn't compile the apk. I downloads the same files you have on telegram.
The main advantage of it over manually downloading the files is somewhat easier usage and update notifications.
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Is there an alternative to Androidacy Module Manager?
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Lemmy.world reaches new milestone: 100k users and counting!
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Exactly. In a "this is for the future" way.
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Futurama s8-10
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I think it's a different story with the original seasons. The intended version was 4 seasons, but Fox being Fox aired the episodes out of order, ending whenever they wanted and that's how 5 seasons came to be.
One might try to call it artistic privilege, but I don't think it holds when you're responsible only for distribution and not making.
I use MediaTracker which takes information form imdb and tmdb and it labels it as following:
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Ultra-detailed picture of the Sun
Do you have the full resolution?
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The original X
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Doesn't play in the jerboa, but I love it regardless.
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If I want to stream locally to multiple platforms what is best software to use?
Plex and Jellyfin are good and all, but you know what's better?
UPNP - simple, efficient, effective. I recommend Gerbera.
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It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027
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I'm not a fan of xiaomi (even though it's my daily driver), but most of their phones fit your needs. In the past I used redmi note 4, note 9 pro and now note 10 pro and they've all been great.
Custom roms community really is something.
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Is there an alternative to Androidacy Module Manager?
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I think you can use already maintained ones like magisk module alt repo
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Removal of piracy communities
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You're right.