NateSwift @ NateSwift @beehaw.org

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No clue, all I know is imported phones don’t always work, it varies from carrier to carrier, and the only way to check is with the IMEI

I thought it was a news outlet! I’ve know that G2A and the like were “not good” but didn’t have any insight why and am definitely going to look into this more. Thanks for the link!

I’d be super interested in reading the full interview if you could point me to it? I’m not familiar with the “NiX” acronym

Glad it works for you! I was really hoping you’d come back with some kind of “there’s better support for that now” haha

The main appeal of “everything apps” is the amount of control and influence they afford to whoever owns them.

The benefit to users is that various services should interact with each other better and single sign on

Short answer yes.

The longer answer has to deal with the way that our cellular networks are set up. Most people “rent to own” their phones here and usually trade in their phone long before they get to the owning part.

Contracts are set up so you can get discounts, but only if you stay with the carrier for 2-3 years. The discounts are given as monthly credit towards your bill and if you pay off the phone early you forfeit all future credit.

This system allows for carriers to sell more expensive phones at rates that, while not low, most people will stomach. Phone manufacturers avoid selling good budget phones here and I think that’s a big part of the reason. Why sell a budget phone when you can probably convince someone to finance a flagship?

Now, as an enthusiast aware of other budget phones you might think importing might be an option, but that unfortunately isn’t the case. A couple years ago all the carriers here switched off using the 3G network for phone calls and instead we use Voice Over LTE (VoLTE). This new system requires cellular carriers to explicitly support phones/models for them to be able to make traditional phone calls. These support lists are not public and make it incredibly difficult to tell if a phone not sold by the carrier will function on their network. Gone are the days were you can just check the bands the phone supports and pop in a sim.

This got a bit long and probably was more me ranting than actually explaining anything, but I hope someone finds it at least a little bit informative

I think the ISP you use matters a lot. I personally haven’t had issues with it at home, but I was at my parents house the other day and it wouldn’t let me in. Started working immediately when I got home though

I tried to like qutebrowser so much, but the lack of a good adblock really killed it for me. I’ve been using Vimium and firefox to try and get something similar and it mostly works okay

I have no clue what half this is but it feels wholesome :3

The more you know! It seems the best way to learn is still by saying the wrong thing online

You aren’t hosting any of the images from federated instances, so legally you should be fine. I do agree that the clutter from them can be a huge pain though, and I don’t see many users from those instances involved in SFW conversion

Last night? There was some updates that took longer than expected to install.

I think online the topic has broadly fallen into either “no abortion ever” or “abortion is always okay” and most people’s opinion falls somewhere in between.

Like, I think most people would agree that abortion the day a baby is due is wrong and most believe that abortion the day after conception is okay

I don’t think I could daily drive this but it looks really neat! It gives a futuristic windows xp kinda vibe

I was hoping someone mentioned Xyla Foxlin!

If you’re using the lemmy website, you should only see crossposted posts once in your feed. App support varies IIRC

I don’t have notifications turned on, so I can’t comment on that, but Memmy has been really stable on my 12 pro recently

I was going to make a comment about it not being glued in, but it turns out even as far back as the iPhone 6 you had to use head pads to release the adhesive

Not on iOS unfortunately

Manjaro breaking itself pushed me to arch and i’ve never been happier