soulfirethewolf 3d ago • 100%
You’re somehow making this sound more fun than it should be.
soulfirethewolf 2w ago • 25%
Ok
soulfirethewolf 1mo ago • 77%
A global launch for the Xiaomi Mix Flip means the device will make its way to markets outside of China, such as countries in Europe. A US launch is not expected.
Not much of a global launch then
soulfirethewolf 1mo ago • 100%
As if YouTube didn't have a messaging feature they killed off
soulfirethewolf 1mo ago • 100%
I miserably tried to leave and go for.computer science. I tried to avoid IT as much as I could, but in the end it didn't even matter.
soulfirethewolf 1mo ago • 66%
All right then, name a single plug and Play solution that allows you to dismiss a notification on one Android device, and automatically dismiss it on another without any intervention.
Systems and macros such as Tasker do not count.
No seriously if there were any alternatives I would love to know about them
soulfirethewolf 1mo ago • 100%
Wish this could have been in the US
soulfirethewolf 2mo ago • 100%
Part of what I've hoped about Gemini is that Google would actually take advantage of its Cloud infrastructure and build Gemini in a way that makes it truly cross-platform compared to the Google Assistant with a consistent set of features across the web, the speaker, and anywhere else they choose to cram Gemini into.
Instead they choose to channel everything through WhatsApps Android app.
soulfirethewolf 2mo ago • 100%
Microsoft products are always so hit or miss. I find Outlook to be a lot better than Gmail, but at the same time it lacks in so many places.
soulfirethewolf 2mo ago • 100%
I don't want more app stores I just want something like a cross platform version of obtainium
soulfirethewolf 2mo ago • 70%
I'm not sure exactly. But I personally don't like GNU because I think they have been embedded in a form of wishful thinking for far too long. Expecting that developers and manufacturers willingly relinquish their rights to their copyright for the benefit of others, regardless if they want to or not. And expecting that end users only seek out those kinds of systems as well. In total, providing everyone with free reign with minimal regard to consequences. And pushing away those that simply want to try and make the things only a little better.
For an organization primarily devoted to ensuring that software remains open, accessible, and modifiable, they sure do seem to like to bend over backwards. Looking directly at GrapheneOS, my personal thought would be the fact the goals of GNU tend to conflict with the goals of security (the FSF has actively spoken against the concept of Tivoization, or systems that use free software but are locked down by hardware restrictions)
They're also horribly out of touch with the general public. And in some cases, simply too radical to be taken seriously. To name a few examples:
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They have very little understanding of the actual public or anyone else outside of the tech field. Their Gift Guide is an absolute joke, suggesting adapters and old ThinkPads as gifts. With their most appetizing gift (a Vikings D8 Desktop computer) is literally mentioned as being out of stock. Suggesting you instead give, once again, a ThinkPad with Free software. Their only reasons for not using an actively manufactured and relatively modern (as in 3 generations ago) computer that are because of "restrictions to users freedoms" and "spyware" without very much definition aside from a few links (they've got much more to say about the computer than they what they believe in).
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Their "preferred terminology", lists a bunch of jargon they don't like and their alternatives, making a lot of automatic presumptions of guilt. My personal favorite is "Internet of Stings". As if projects like Home Assistant aren't trying to improve the scene (though they're presumably ignored because they're also willing to connect with proprietary services)
TL;DR the GNU foundation is made up of a bunch of nerds who care more about messing with their computers than actually trying to do important things with them.
soulfirethewolf 2mo ago • 100%
The polls are completely idiotic but I personally find info cards to be quite helpful.
soulfirethewolf 3mo ago • 100%
At 99$ the Google TV streamer better not have ads on the launcher
soulfirethewolf 3mo ago • 100%
The ministries want you to think not, but they probably can.
soulfirethewolf 3mo ago • 50%
Mainly Firefox. It has quite a good extensions engine, but the overall UX just still isn't there compared to other browsers. I really don't care about all the ethical or moral reasons people try to come up with for using it, I just want a browser that has a lot of good functionality in comparison with Edge or Vivaldi.
And while I am aware of some of the forks like Floorp and Librewolf, I find the latter to be too hardened, and the former to be behind compared to upstream.
soulfirethewolf 3mo ago • 100%
I use Bing. Partly because it's the only real option if you want to search from the windows start menu. But also because I do like how it presents info a bit better, and also like its knowledge graph a little better than the one Google has.
That being said, the engine does have a lot of issues with relevancy. And its image search is almost unusable. So I often find myself needing to go to. Other than that, I'm fine with changing it to my default across everything I own. I just wish MS would fix its most blatant issues instead of bullying old people into using it.
soulfirethewolf 3mo ago • 100%
Bing images is simply terrible
soulfirethewolf 3mo ago • 100%
It's like Google and starts off by showing you the most relevant answer you wanted through an info card. But then it goes on longer and longer under things that are less and less relevant.
Like, one of their examples is "What is a spaghetti western?", And it starts with the answer you were probably looking for
A subgenre of western films produced by Italian filmmakers
But then it just starts going on and on with increasingly less relevant things like "History and origins", "Best and most influential movies", and then "Music and Soundtracks" before then getting the actual search results.
It's literally designed to keep you from leaving the site. And all the sources seem to require quite a few clicks on mobile.
I really can't stand their skewed priorities in contrast to the state of Firefox.
I'm trying to move a bit to Firefox in advance for the upcoming changes to Chromium's Manifest v3 changes next june. But one of the major problems I have is that bing [looks awful on Firefox for Android](https://wackywolf.xyz/files/a2979c1c-75ae-48a9-b84f-57f9064c18e7) in comparison to bing on [Microsoft Edge for Android](https://wackywolf.xyz/files/ff9fd6ff-18df-413c-9046-0d5029ee49c1). It seems to be just the mobile version for smart phones, stretched out to a tablet. Is there any way that I can make it look a bit nicer?
I'm just sitting here frustrated because I'm wanting my family to move away from messaging me over SMS (they mainly use iOS), but they refuse to download any extra apps. But Google's RCS really doesn't look like a solution either since it mainly just seems to be a way of enforcing Android as an ecosystem, and they don't even make RCS available for 3rd party apps to use either.
I have a pixel phone and a pixel tablet running Android 13, and I would like them to both synchronize do not disturb (basically, when one turns on, do not disturb, it activates on the other, and vice versa). Are there any apps that are capable of doing this?
The bugdroid is now in 3D lol
I found this, I'm wanting to get a pixel tablet in about a week or so. Title just got me wondering a bit, though it's probably just a little bit sensationalized