Same. I have 5G off because it’s just so bloody slow and unreliable.
Let’s not even talk about the problems where periodically I can’t make any outbound calls and no one can call me. Which has been a problem for at least the last 5 years, for both me and my wife.
On Pixel phones you have the search bar at the bottom, which you cannot remove, replace, resize, or configure.
In the EU you can configure it to change your default search engine. In North America you cannot, and are forced to use Google.
And on Google forums anyone who complains gets attacked by a wave of simps saying “Then just don’t buy a pixel then, go somewhere else if you don’t like it”.
Being a non-voter has always benefited Republicans over the last few decades.
This is why campaigns to suppress and reduce the voting population or the ability for people to vote are so effective for republicans. When you reduce the number of voters Republicans win, there is a bias towards Republicans being more willing to go out and vote and Democrats being less willing to.
Remember, this is not only the kind of shit that would get proposed but would be the kind of shit that would pass in a future Republican controlled state with Fuhrer Trump at the helm.
It sounds ridiculous and insane now, but remember, there are representatives that actually believe in this, and don’t think it’s rhetoric.
Their voter base as well would happily see “the other” carted off, in good fascist fashion.
The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...
I mean, that’s not surprising though is it? If a FOSS tool I made has an additional feature that requires my own backend to support, then there has to be a backend to support it.
The FE that uses it is still FOSS, and one could always build their own API to the specs outlined by the client.
They could OSS their server side code ofc, that’d be cool. But that also takes sometimes double the effort to do well, and keep custom tweaks and changes either separate and proprietary, or build out a complex way for them to be dynamically injected. So I don’t really blame them on that one tbh.
As a little background, I didn’t actively use Reddit for months following the blackout. I still barely stop in over there and if I do I’m never logged in our contributing to the communities there (where I was previously a daily poster/commenter)....
If you had a grain of rice that tasted unimaginably, unmitigably, good. The highest quality grain of rice ever seen in the world, in all of history.
It will not change the flavor of 30k bowls of rice.
We’re talking an absolutely tiny amount of users here. And we shouldn’t delude ourselves over it, circle jerking for being the “higher society”. Reddit didn’t change because we left, the number of users on Reddit change more on a daily basis than 5 Lemmy’s.
That said, the smaller niche subs definitely saw some hits. I won’t deny that. However, by definition, a small number of users leaving from small subs isn’t a “gotcha” moment for what I’ve stated. That’s is, almost by definition, what would be expected.
The discussions here are of higher quality for sure. But you’ll still notice that in many threads it’s almost indistinguishable from Reddit in many ways.
It’s really disingenuous to mud sling people with a different view by implying they themselves don’t exist/are astroturfing/are bots.
I’m a real human who decided to use their service for kicks and actually like some of the benefits and control over the results compared to other search engines.
Especially when I’m doing research, which is usually half of all my time searching anyways.
Enough that I decided to pay for the service. I’m happy with it and want to share that happiness with others. Are you saying that because I liked a service that I can’t seem to get anywhere else I’m now the bad guy? Because I like something and want to share it with others, that’s bad?
Is the alternative that you might prefer to be corporate astroturfing instead of organic discussion and growth? Like, really, seriously, what’s the alternative here if people talking about and sharing something they like is not acceptable?
T-Mobile imposes $5 monthly price hike on customers using older plans (arstechnica.com)
The world’s best airline is paying staff a bonus of 8 months’ salary after record annual net profit of $1.98 billion (www.cnn.com)
'Stop threatening Taiwan', its new president William Lai tells China (www.bbc.com)
Taiwan’s newly inaugurated president William Lai has called on China to stop threatening the island and accept the existence of its democracy....
Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? (lemmy.world)
Joe Biden spreads more insane Zionist propaganda at a graduation speech (lemmy.world)
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" (www.eff.org)
Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/12739856...
That Blue MAGA outreach... (lemmy.world)
Horrible voter outreach.
Teen who ate spicy tortilla chip died of high chile consumption and had a heart defect, autopsy says (apnews.com)
Get rid of them. (lemmy.world)
"Portal" Between Dublin and NYC Shut Down After OnlyFans Model Flashes It (ca.news.yahoo.com)
GOP introduces bill that would send anyone convicted of unlawful activity on a campus since Oct. 7th, 2023 to Gaza. (www.thedailybeast.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15286303...
1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog (blog.mozilla.org)
The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...
If Reddit had a soul/conscience, I think it was us, and we're all on Lemmy now...
As a little background, I didn’t actively use Reddit for months following the blackout. I still barely stop in over there and if I do I’m never logged in our contributing to the communities there (where I was previously a daily poster/commenter)....
Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings (www.cnbc.com)
At an all-hands meeting last week, Google executives responded to employee questions about declining morale even with financial performance improving.
Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website
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Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats (arstechnica.com)
Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors (english.elpais.com)