ladfrombrad 🇬🇧 @ ladfrombrad @lemdro.id

not called Brad but rather a lad, from [Bradford](https://en.wikipedia.org/

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We've had a no piracy rule over in the Android subs/communities for years and the funny thing is, by time we ever got to someone trying to post a pirated APK the community themselves tore them a new arsehole.

Easiest rule to enforce when the community will absolutely hiss at you. Love em.

edit: a fun talking point I suppose is YouTube, and its app. We got a lot of people arguing that Newpipe 'was piracy' and I even had many debates with other members/mods about is it, or isn't it piracy?

My view it's a website that you can parse even with other tools like yt-dl, and if Youtube.com wanted to stop use of Newpipe / Revanced whatever they could in the blink of an eye.

You ever get the feeling for a flowchart?

Someone please make one.

So let me get this straight.

You're being purposely opaque (aka, those in the knows comment) with sharing information around here?

Wouldn't it be conducive sharing context here instead of a 4 character title most people (will use their preferred search engine) in the first place will have to search for?

I think from some of the comments they're concerned that it won't be a toggleable flag, that at any point, some spooky man from Google or some 3 letter agency can enable and/or override.

At any time. Which is a very fair point?

However, swings and roundabouts from my end likes the idea of being able to recover lost/stolen hardware so I'd like to hear others voices on it.

I kinda like the camera layout?

While it reminds me of the 🥺 emote, it'll sure be an interesting device @£319 and midrange buyers / tinkerers.

An ideal case would be where you comment against the post itself, and then a community allowed bot removes your comment and gives you a tldr: in your inbox.

Having bots spam comment sections like this only leads to users saying....

Bad bot?

It should be banned, outright, for spamming every goddamn comment section "un-invoked". This is the most important bit, because "hiding" bots via your profile then means you can't see any if you do want one.

If a human does want some bot spam in their inbox, the maker should allow it to send that human some gibberish in their own inbox rather than each comment section.

Google Maps?

I was searching for somewhere the other month and with my phone didn't realise it could superimpose things like that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=QW1QT7DOOdA

I have a Cubot King Kong 5 Pro. Yes, it's named that.

I haven't even had the endurance to test its battery life. Thing lasts forever if it has no SIM card / WiFi / BT and might as well be a MP3 player that lasts you weeks.

edit: I turned it on 5 days ago after this comment and turned weefee/BT/NFC off. 85% remaining.

Should be a fun thing to watch.

Is curious.

I share one of my TVHeadend servers with someone in India so they can watch BBC and other DVB/FTA content without having to jump through hoops/VPN's for the many streaming apps that are restricted to UK only IP's.

Come at me, Channel4?

:) You do know that bot is banned in lemdro.id right?

And to be fair, it is unsolicited bot spam (I miss BotDefense) although it ultimately is up to the admins and mods in this....instance and there is always the possibility of useful bots. Blanket blocking them via your profile seems a bit, meh, e: especially if you want to invoke one which is always the better way?

It was interesting as a concept, but streaming torrents have never been the optimal way

While this is true to some extent, I never had an issue with BitCast (Casted, torrents) until Google didn't like it and banned it (edit: wait, have they unbanned that or is it visible to me because I had it prior installed?), even though they allow other torrent clients such as Flud etc.

Maybe they didn't want Cast™ to be associated with arrrr's but it worked well for me, especially for well seeded seas.

edit II: RIP

is available still to my Google Account because I had it prior. Time to play and see if it works still.

eIII: no bueno :(

Yep, and then you have the blue Vs green bubble debacle.

As a fully grown adult the amount of shit I get from friends and co-workers for not using WhatsApp is crazy.

Probably read the rules and post in !androidmemes@lemdro.id, which got auto populated by Boost for Lemmy upon me typing it. Which was fucking neat.

Then, learn how to use adb shell list packages` to list your entire app list.

Also, androidcirclejerk has a really good list of the common apps peeps usually jerk about, but I ain't linking weddit.

Good luck!

Things we never asked for.

I think they're called extensions because they are an extension of what the original product, intended?

Feel free to correct my confusion .

I think you meant to reply to my top level comment and Lemmy can be a little iffy, at the best of times?

But I don't agree that Syncthing is "way easier than using CIFS/SMB. I actually find once you understand how the syncing process is happening and when makes things much more apparent.

Also yay no more worrying about it being off site and fulfilling the 3-2-1 mantra.

I now have a 6+5+4+3+2+1 thanks to two routers with OpenWRT on them off site 🥳

Gotta be honest I've used Syncthing for a while and the forked app too, but yet again gone back to SMB2Sync

I don't know if it's the nerdiness or granular nature of it, but I prefer it and I don't have to worry about the client/device being up to date like you do with Syncthing?

Is there no sign of a Pixel 8a?

You are probably going to say "but those are Lenovo laptops, not Motorola phones".

I asked for sources on Motorola phones being compromised, but I ain't seeing that still?

Aspersions don't equal anecdotes > evidence. You show me that and I'll shout louder than you.

Have you got any sources for Motorola phones coming with spyware on them?