As much as I’d like to see a viable alternative to Android phones that isn’t Apple, until we see a significant adoption rate of Linux phones, we’d need to have an OS capable of running Android apps natively. Else it’s just a linux desktop station in pocket format.

Liberals are genocide apologists?!

Same here, in my productive browser (Fennc on mobile, stock Firefox on desktop) WebRTC is blocked. I keep a chrome variant around in case anything truly doesn’t work (Cromite on mobile, Edge on Windows, since I have to use some MS applications for work that I don’t care to install on my system).

I rotate VPN servers, not services though.

As if they’d impose maximum penalties, no matter how deserved. But hey, fingers crossed!

And imho the whole issue can be avoided by using mobile websites and/or alternative app front-ends for meta services, if you can’t steer clear of them altogether.

And blocking apps from using background data should seal the deal.

She already said that she’d do just that. Let’s see how fast they’ll let her leave next time. If at all.

No. With moderate exercise and checking for correct sitting postures, you shouldn’t ever have back pain. I’m in my 40s and only feel a bit tight when I overdid my exercise routine.

The developers of Lemmy also run lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml, the former being a hardcore communist anti-everything delusional conspiracy crapshoot of a platform, the latter a tiny bit more relaxed, but moderated/administered by a bunch of dicks that are essentially also tankies (= hardcore leftists) and Russia fans/apologists.

They (the devs) recently asked for funding to support their work, and in doing so, disclosed that part of the funding would be used to run those two instances, thus giving users no alternative to support without cross-financing extremism.

Piefed is developed independently and has none of those links to moronic ideologies.

Piefed as a platform uses the same underlying protocol as lemmy, mastodon, etc. (Activity Hub), so users can seamlessly interact with one another.

There’s one near my house, and it has no mute button whatsoever. No buttons at all, in fact. You tap your card to the reader, then lift the pump of whichever variety you need, and that moment the ads start. With sound on full blast as well.

I’ve left a negative google review and make sure to update it monthly so that it stays on top, and drive to another station quite a bit further off just to avoid this crapshoot.

Oh so it’s ok to selectively shoot journalists if you don’t agree with their ideology? I bet the other cop didn’t agree with that journalist’s. Case closed, following your logic.

Right, thanks!

Never heard of that thing, but apparently it was Apple exclusives? Deserved death then.

I’m hoping ladybug will be operational for mainstream use, before the enshittification of Firefox progresses too far.

But which peers? A client-vendor-transaction is a 1:1 encounter. Pushing buttons on a terminal is a 1:0 interaction, same for writing numbers on a check. Can’t be that hard to decline.

Define “loosely”. You really think there’s more than maybe 3 or 4 states that’d have a chance to sustain themselves on their own? And if a bunch of states would stick together against the others, you’ve got civil war reloaded. With drones, nukes, and blackhawks. Fun times.

Who’s forcing them to?

I hate Google’s material design with a passion. Everything looks exactly the same, and many buttons and other touch elements are indistinguishable from highlights and general design elements.

I think it has been there for a bit, but was still in alpha. Preferred.social had it running for a while, that’s their official test instance. But good to see it working!

This article is a thinly veiled ad paired with fearmongering to get gullible users to buy the shit phones they sell (or not, some people have been on “waitlists” for 5+ years after providing a full payment).

Granted, their phones are fully open, but have next to no apps.

Personally I’ll stick with Android 12, rooted, and see what the future brings.

Is the API active? I want to use PieFed over Lemmy, but don’t like to join so called “flagship instances”, they always go overboard with moderation at some point.

So instead of joining piefed.social I signed up with .au, only to find out that the admin never bothered to activate the api, so can’t use any apps, and posts aren’t federating outwards properly.

Edit: Confirmed working, registration sent.

Edit 2: Approved within 5 min, thanks for that!

To use a neti pot you use a saline solution. If you don’t trust the water you got at home (boiled first, naturally, both to sterilize and allow for easier dissolution of the salt), you can just buy a bag of NaCl solution in any pharmacy instead.

Just put the sealed bag into a pot of warm water first to bring it up to room temperature or slightly above. Flushing your sinuses with cold water ain’t fun.

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