In order to feel happy, here is depressing news.

Easy for a billionaire to say.

There’s one in my neighborhood with a fart can. I love hearing it every morning at 6am.

Earlier rumors speculated that Apple would cripple it via software, either restricting charging speed, data transfer, or both.

A few more than that if you count the S versions.

I enjoy using different apps and will continue to do so. I’ve got a few Lemmy apps installed and looking for to installing more. I enjoy seeing the differences between apps and how devs implement features differently.

Even with Reddit apps, Sync was my daily driver, but I would switch between other apps. It’s a nice change of pace.

Connect isn’t open source? I don’t think I realized that. That’s been my main Lemmy app but I’ve been a long time Sync for Reddit user so I’ve been using that quite a bit today.

Same, I have accounts on lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, and Kbin.social. I’m just waiting for a good app to be compatible with Kbin. Right now all the apps coming out are geared toward Lemmy.

I’m certain an all-out legislative war would be waged against TOR if it were to become popularized for most of those reasons, under the more convenient guise of “criminals and children!”

I guess we’ll have to see what happens after that right wing Twitter account posted CSAM, Twitter suspended the account, then Elon said they removed the posts and reinstated the account 🤷🏽‍♂️

He convinced his supporters a long time ago that anything against him is a hoax or witch hunt or the deep state out to get him or whatever, so they’ll vote for him regardless. They don’t care he’ll be in trial.

I’ve been an AT&T customer for years, mostly out of necessity. They just offer the best all around service for my needs.I tried switching to T-Mo, but they have a lot of dead spots (especially along interstates) and has weaker signal strength in most buildings than AT&T. And I just refuse to use Verizon, but they’re in a similar situation.

Yeah, I know, but it just seemed weird to include \ when / seems to be more widely used? Or maybe it’s just me lol.

Okay, makes sense. Maybe they’ll reintroduce it with RCS once it’s more widely adopted.

I’m the same way regarding quirks. I’ve been using Gboard and for a while bounced between that and Samsung Keyboard. Gboard has the best overall usability for me but a couple things I’m not a fan of: Gboard deleting clipboard history (only from Gboard as it’s still available elsewhere), and including \ as a long press symbol rather than /,where you have to tsp the symbols key and then tap /.

Samsung Keyboard has a few quirks as well, but the biggest was predictive text isn’t as good as Gboard. But I like the customization of it. But I can’t see the symbols on the keys as well as I can on Gboard.

I was a fan of Chroma Keyboard years ago because I liked that it would change color based on the app.

I never looked into why the removed it. Is SMS a securi risk? Maybe they’ll bring it back with RCS.

I’ve been using Brave for a few years now on my desktop and after reading the threads lately about it, I’d like to switch. I don’t seem to have the issues other users have, but I don’t want to use it based on the CEO’s views on some things.

I’ve always had Firefox installed with uBlock Origin and I use it occasionally. One of the things Chromium based browsers have is built-in tab grouping. I know there are extensions and I’ve only tried Simple Tab Groups but it didn’t behave how I was expecting it to behave, which is like how Chromium handles it.

So far that’s the only thing I’ve noticed.

After everything went down and Sync stopped, my usage dropped considerably. I was still using Joey and Infinity for light browsing, but I haven’t really browsed Reddit in about a week and have been on Lemmy and Kbin exclusively. I feel more engaged here too.

Browsing Reddit just seemed different, like the quality of posts and comments dropped considerably.

Samsung S23 Ultra. Been using Samsung phones the past few years, since the S10 Ultra, and I’ve enjoyed using them. One UI isn’t the bloated garbage it used to be, and Samsung has added some nice tweaks and features. Also, the Good Lock tweaks are fantastic and I’m surprised some just aren’t baked into One UI. Battery life has been stellar too.

The weight is probably the thing I don’t like most. Makes a difficult to use one-handed sometimes.

I got a Synology years ago hoping to do this, but I didn’t do enough research and the model I got couldn’t quite decide and stream very well. I ended up just using it for backup and using my PC as a Plex server for a while. I eventually got an Nvidia Shield and just plugged in a large SSD to it and that works well.

And now kids in Arkansas get to experience the grind.

I, for one, am disappointed in our evolution. We should be able to control every cell in our body by now and not have to exercise. But I guess this is the end of the road for our evolution lol. This is as good as it gets, folks.