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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • The are closing the source, so custom ROMs won’t have the same code they did before.

    GrapheneOS, for instance, a privacy focused rom that focused on pixels, won’t be able to release to the same schedule as regular android. Only commercial developers will get the required code.

    It’s one more nail inthe coffin of androids open nature. I’m looking forward to limix phones. A return to control, customisation and less data harvesting.

    It’s truly awful what the smart phone ecosystem has become.






  • On Lemmy, you might find it overwhelming by looking at the all communities feed and then blocking those you don’t like. Instead subscribe to the ones you want and then just view the subscribe feed.

    Personally, I use all to find more content and block communities I don’t want. I then just jumpnjnto subscribed occasionally of there is too much junk.

    It’s a shame that there aren’t finer controls, like to ramp up and down communities rather than just block or subscribe. Some communities, I wouldn’t mind seeing their popular posts but I don’t want to say the hordes of junk posts. Only option is to block.









  • Lol, title fail, but I finally got around to watching “Before Sunrise”. I was taking a flight and loaded it onto my ipad. Then after takeoff, I realised I had the sequel, “Before Sunset”. How lucky was I that the in flight entertainment had the one I wanted. Strange coincidence.

    I now have the sequel to watch on the flight home. It’s a night flight though, so I might try to sleep instead.

    I enjoyed the movie but it wasn’t the revelation I’d hoped it to be. I suppose that was inevitable after having it on my watchlist for years at this point. I enjoyed their banter and their evening but there were too many points where I felt they just continued the plot as planned but real people wouldn’t have. Suspension of disbelief was what I’d hoped I wouldn’t need.





  • Australia did too. QR codes are probably the least invasive tracking you can imagine. You can open each one in a clean browser, like Firefox focus, if you like. They are just a shortcut for entering urls. If china wants to track its citizens, it’s not with QR codes as they track so much more from the data already on your phone.

    Most places with public transport have moved from cash to card based payment. It’s all traceable already. Sure, some places, you don’t need to register the card and can cycle through some, but many places you need to register to use one, or register for reduced fares.