ladfrombrad 🇬🇧 @ ladfrombrad @lemdro.id

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

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I kinda disagree on the weather app subscription model.

The API usage cost devs a fair whack depending on the sources they scrape from and while I've never used Today Weather, I have used FlowX (formerly WeatherBomb) for ages and the free version has no crap / ads/ nag pages with basic radar models available, but I decided to subscribe since it (besides supporting the dev) gives me high resolution radars for longer time-spans. And since I'm an outdoor worker too I thought it best to be on top of the weather.

But overall I do agree some of the forced "subscribe or ads" model can die in a fire.

2 week old account blathering as per usual in the OP

I’m able to torrent on it without issue

Proceeds to comment that it doesn't have port forwarding

No, unfortunately (at least to the best of my knowledge.)

OP doesn't even realise that I and others use torrents from public trackers and don't need me no third party VPN because I use my domestic ISP w/ external IP address and, throughly ignored the two emails they sent me saying I was "bad" downloading Animal Kingdom in around 2016? I should print them out and use them as shit roll.

Fucking noobies trying to shill some bait if you ask me.

Over half of us in r/Android left and while a few of headed over here and made our very own instance, some stopped on and, I paraphrase

I'm not seeing some shitheel coming and doing spezs deeds, and I'll just mass approve/remove shite

Brave fucker that mod.

I managed to stave off the threats until a couple of months ago since someone put a reddit request in. Oh well, fuck spez and reddit.

I don't need to do nothing because as I said, there's no copyrightable content hosted here.

Now go over to /r/piracy on reddit and ask them why they're not taken down. We'll be waiting.

You do understand that hosting copyrighted works, and linking to them are two entirely different things?

Cars don't belong in city centres.

There's a fair bit of controversy about this here in my locale, insomuch the comment sections (don't breathe these) are lighting up about an old jorno complaining about pedestrian areas

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/24928732.former-t-journalist-mike-priestley-critical-new-look-bradford/

Again, pro-tip, don't visit the comment section on that rag but it pisses me off that I can't even insure/use my escoot still riding into those "pedestrian" areas without threat of 6 points / fine / confiscation. Fucking utter bollocks

edit: man, the censorship on that Newsquest (quest muh arse) article/comments is currently at 12 out of 51 visible unless you visit via /new. Pepperidge farm remembers that Reddit does this for mods viewing modqueues too

https://files.catbox.moe/6x8euu.png

Aye. I've still got my Nexus One somewhere and while it feels dinky and have svelte enough pinkys to use it, it does feel like a EDC kinda thing that does phone calls + mp3 + browser.

But I also like the "plablet" era since what's the point of straining our eyes and trying to poke at the smallest advert "X" box on a likkle phablet?

Cargo pants + wifi + VPN at work I likey and saves me a few quid each month too.

Crazy to think in a couple of years RCS will be two decades old in the making

https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/press-release/gsma-to-take-rich-communication-suite-forwards/

I remember getting all excited when googs tried to take it by the reins in 2016ish but the amount of people that still....

1 - simply hate it and only use SMS still (and turn off mobile data too like neanderthrals)

2 - hate it because RCS sometimes just does not work because they got a backlog of "texts" suddenly coming through, and turn it off

3 - use a third party app for messaging instead and have done with it

I really don't see how it's gonna compete with Apple being, Apple too :/

I have no idea where it got Andraiod daydreams from but thought I'd make you a nice personal AI wallpaper 😇

On a serious note though before peeps rip me a new one for even suggesting AI images?

Muzei is still pretty cool to this day, Xiaomi theme thingy has some probably knocked off images that I'm currently using, and even just searching for something when I'm that bored enough to actually change my wallpaper.

I was just fucking around generating images with Gemini right now, and this reminded me of what you probably need in regards to a mod 🙈

The hell is the problem with generating these things to some peeps? Stealing from, artists?

At least I plan to set it up on my server to try it out - as soon as I'm having some time to breath...

The install script is wonderbar and I installed it here at work, from my phone 🙈

I know I know, I really shouldn't go curl'ing > random bash scripts from the internet but it is some damn fine script if you read through it

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lanedirt/AliasVault/main/install.sh

I look forward to playing with it when I get home, and thanks for the heads up!

I started with a small APC UPS which most protect drives/devices from anything from a brownout to full power cut for you to power down those devices.

I protect my NAS / router / modem which the former has a USB port that can connect to the UPS via a data port and allows it to monitor the battery level and, if it sees it getting to a X low power level emails me and then shuts it down gracefully. Awesome thingys and there's other ways of monitoring them

https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-nut-server/

Have fun emptying your wallet ;)

Would you have any recommendations on hardware?

Yup!

No matter what external storage you buy be it an external drive / NAS / SAN / whatever, make sure you buy a UPS firstly. I dunno about where you live, but here the amount of "brownouts" through the night damages electronic gear irrevocably and I learnt my lesson.

Best investment(s) ever.

Ministers are also looking at tiering the licence fee so that lower-income households don’t pay the same rate as more affluent users.

Another option was to leave the licence fee largely as it is, with a few tweaks, but with better enforcement, a person familiar with the internal deliberations said.

These greedy people, honest to god.

How about a tweak of letting home owners re-transmitting the DVB signal locally since they have such a good home internet connections these days, saving on the required transmitting POWAR of the BBC funded ones such as Emley Moor etc? I'd love to see the power usage of that thing.

Too radical, oh well....

Nope, like I said some in general just dump their questions and leave hence there been a separate place for support questions.

I don't use any, so I'm curious what the community thinks

yeah I suppose that's the crux of the issue. Some want "more numbers" to view their post whilst not really engaging the !askandroid (or !android) community otherwise :/

edit: clarity

Well yeah, but like I also said over on Matrix this post of yours should really include the prior ROM's you've used/problems you encountered to spark more discussion?

It's a bit of a cul-de-sac of a post to be honest.

I don't think much has even been removed here but there is also something else that occurred to me.

Direct image links. Users just dumping a screenshot of their "problem" and then just scooting off with not much context and why we asked them over on r/Android for them to at least contain that image in a .self post, and then describe what they've already done to try and resolve their issue etc.