Zak @ Zak @lemmy.world

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I insist on having root on principle; if I don't, the device isn't really mine.

In a practical sense though, ACCA is probably my biggest use case for it. I could work around most everything else.

Thanks for your lists. It's hard to find mobile games that offer fun and a fair deal.

See also https://nobsgames.stavros.io/android/

Many of these are paid, but they're one-time payments and usually a reasonable price.

The article only tests whether the batteries get hot. High electrical loads, both charge and discharge can also degrade batteries directly.

I've been setting limits with ACCA for years on my Pixel 4A because its battery is difficult to replace. I didn't expect to keep it for five years, but there isn't a new phone I would like better.

My standard limit is 60% charge and 500mA charge rate. Sometimes I increase the limit to 80% or the charge rate to 1000mA for convenience. I rarely allow 100% or the full 3000mA charge rate, and it's set to pause charging in response to temperature.

Who had concentration camps on their 2025 bingo card?

It's OK not to know what you want. It's especially OK when you're 18 and in high school. It's OK to choose an option now and change your mind later (though if you choose no, she probably won't be available to you later if you change your mind).

It's even OK to tell her that you don't want to talk about your relationship, but she's probably going to take that as you not wanting to be in a relationship with her. If you don't want her to take it that way, then you need to talk with her about your relationship even if the thing you have to say is you're unsure. Of course there's a good chance she'll respond unfavorably to your uncertainty; most people don't like being a second choice or a backup plan.

I'm seeing a little of what I'd describe as toxic monogamy in this question. That's not to imply a monogamous relationship isn't right for you; it's what most people want, so just statistically, it's probably what you and your girlfriend want.

What I mean by toxic is that the belief that it's unacceptable to be friends with an ex or that you can't be in a relationship if your feelings for a former partner aren't completely gone can poison relationships. People are usually more complicated than that, and while both of those things sometimes lead to problems, they don't have to. Talking to your partner about their feelings surrounding the issue and agreeing on boundaries that are acceptable to both of you will prevent a lot of problems. That brings us to...

she asked me about our relationship and I told her to stop talking about it

I don't usually like to speak in absolutes when it comes to human interactions because different people are different. I'll make an exception here though. This was the wrong answer if you want to have a relationship with her.

It's still the wrong answer, and that's where you left things. If you don't want it to end there, your best chance is to tell her you know that was a mistake, apologize, and offer to talk about your relationship as much as she wants to.

With ten finger typing, having the most-used keys on the home row is a significant advantage for speed and ergonomics. With swiping, having a sequence of characters close to each other makes it hard for the algorithm to predict the intended word. With tapping, it's a disadvantage to have adjacent characters in a sequence on a small touchscreen because it increases the chance of fat-fingering them.

Maybe. I use Dvorak for real keyboards and QWERTY on my phone. I tried Dvorak on my phone and didn't see any benefit.

Heliboard offers the option. The ideal layout for a small onscreen keyboard may be rather different from one for typing with all your fingers though.

Anything to weaken Trump will help.

Calling your senators and representative to urge them to vote against specific legislation sometimes has some impact. It's my understanding that phone calls have a bigger impact than emails or letters.

While it’s essential for keeping devices safe, it can sometimes interfere with third-party app installations.

That's... kind of biased language. I can't keep my device safe without Google playing sysadmin for me?

I learned about it looking through lists of projects using ActivityPub. Decentralized Reddit seemed like a good idea, so I checked out the dev-operated lemmy.ml and found little other than far-left and CCP-sympathetic politics. There was maybe one other operational server I could find, and it was pretty dead. I stuck it in the back of my mind as something to check out again later to see if things changed.

Reddit pissed a bunch of people off, and I saw that the team behind the generally well-regarded mastodon.world was spinning up a Lemmy server, so I joined it and started participating regularly.

We need root on our car computers.

He was. Not for that. Didn't stick.

The AI thing I'd really like is an on-device classifier that decides with reasonably high reliability whether I would want my phone to interrupt me with a given notification or not. I already don't allow useless notifications, but a message from a friend might be a question about something urgent, or a cat picture.

What I don't want is:

• Ways to make fake photographs
• Summaries of messages I could just skim the old fashioned way
• Easier access to LLM chatbots

It seems like those are the main AI features bundled on phones now, and I have no use for any of them.

it’s as simple as editing a single config file

It isn't. Mastodon has a character limit hardcoded in two places. Critically, that's not a limit on what it can receive and display, just on what local users can post. With Bluesky, it's part of a schema that would be enforced on posts from elsewhere, if anybody was actually running a Bluesky-compatible appview in the wild.

There is a chance that I just don't get microblogging. I've always felt that short character limits encourage people to make bad points that resonate emotionally but fall apart when thought through, and to yell at people they disagree with rather than being thoughtful.

I think the idea that forced brevity is an important component of microblogging is mistaken. Low friction to post, minimal formatting, and (optionally) collapsed long posts in feeds all encourage short posts without requiring them.

It might have served more of a purpose when Twitter launched because people weren't in the habit of short text posts at the time, and because Twitter supported posting via SMS.

I don't see value in a character limit other than whatever might be needed for technical reasons. Bluesky allows alt text for images to be 2000 characters, so clearly any technical limitations allow at least that much.

For those who prefer short text posts, hiding posts longer than a user-configurable setting behind a "see more" link would do.