Thinking about buying a nexdock, when and if they ever release ChromeOS for Android.
If I bought one now, would my pixel 8p be totally useless
Planned obsolescence is an extension of anti right to repair.
If a company doesn't want to release software for an 5 year old phone, then I should be allowed to flash a ROM on it and get more life out of it.
Polar bears don't find food as readily as Grizzly bears. If a Grizzly hesitates on a salmon, it'll find another salmon.
If a Polar hesitates on a penguin, it could starve.
Unironically, they should go home
ITT: People who don't know as much as me.
All they killed was the branding. The Chromecast with Google TV was such a far cry from an OG Chromecast that it was stupid for them to have the same name.
OG Chromecast could only cast and did not have a remote. The CCwGT did still support casting, but also had a remote and a real UI.
The TV streamer is just the CCwGT in a fancy shell with probably a more powerful processor. I'll bet money that it still supports casting, and can only do pretty much exactly what the CCwGT could do.
You can install LineageOS on one of the models of Chromecast for Android TV.
In other news, the rich run the country?
Now there's the delima. You find yourself a way to make money that isn't working, and everyone else will start doing it. When everyone is doing it, some people will start to invent in doing it (education for example). These people will do better, and take a higher share of the activity. These people, having invested, will be required to preform consistently. Just to make there money back.
Now you just have a new job.
Like everyone else said, just go get the shot.
A bat isn't like a spider or a mosquito. It has lived in your house for who knows how long. When a bat bites you, it's not gonna swell up and itch like a spider or a mosquito. Your gonna wake up with two pin pricks on your ankle or something and totally miss it. Or it'll salavate on your toothbrush or take a nibble out of an apple on your counter.
The shot will either be covered by Medicaid or any insurance or your government if you're not American.
If you want any help or information please reach out. I have plenty of generic advice (since I don't know where you live) and I'll help you in any way I can remotely.
If you want to be scared into it, just look up anything about rabies. It's literally the scariest disease I've ever seen. No cure, no treatment, going crazy, the whole shebang. It can also live in your body for years before it hits. And the vaccine works at any time before symptoms hit.
You need to get yourself vaccinated for rabies.
Also, he was very cute.
SSDs Dude, my only laptop is a T420 that is mostly just a better keyboard than my phone. It ain't got an SSD
Lol. Defragging alone feels obsolete since it happens in the background nowdays.
I've been using pCloud to back up only the most important information. The stuff that's hard to get back if something bad happens. Kept in sync with rclone.
Now I think it's time to scale up. I have 1 computer with 4 hard drives plugged up to it. I want to either back up the whole things. I'm thinking of something like backblaze. What does everyone here do for backups?
I recently made a post asking about getting spotify cheaper via vpn.
My question to everyone: how do you decide what to download?
Do you just grab everything, do you use last fm, do you erase music that you never listen to?
Spotify wants me to have a card from said county. I read that you can use PayPal, but they want a phone number from that country.
Any advice?
Edit: I'm aware that there are a lot of solutions to get it for free. I'm aware that I can just download my music.
Currently, I'm running running navidrome for my downloaded music and x manager Spotify for myself.
My wife has an iPhone. I don't want to download her music. But she's paying full price for Spotify.
I also like to listen from my work desktop. I have administrative rights, but it would be really dumb to download something like this to my work machine.
In several countries, I can get Spotify for like $30 dollars a year for 2 people. This price would be worth moving to legal. Especially for her, since she's paying $11 right now
Obviously, this will probably never happen. In the best future for humanity, maybe we can drop our emissions enough to allow for such a thing. But more likely societal collapse
I have a full set of instruments on ps4 with at least a hundred songs of dlc. Is this something people do regularly?
I want to get my wife a digital picture frame. Just a little screen that we can add pictures to. Nothing too complicated.
Half of them out there run on frameo. A friend of mine has a frameo, it seems nice. The privacy policy isn't great. Facebook, Google, the usual offenders. Supposedly, it's end to end, so the pictures are secure. I don't know and that
Is there a decent alternative? I'm not against going with a flash drive, if that's my only option.
Thinking about buying the fairphone 4. Coming from oneplus 8, which is almost unbrickable, thanks to an EDL MSM tool.
Obviously, I'd be careful. But am I likely to brick a fp4 by ROM hopping? Is it dangerous enough that I should not go into buying this phone with the intention of installing a ROM?
Mainly, I want to play with Ubuntu Touch, PostmarketOS, and maybe sailfish. But I figure if those don't quite work out, I'll land on Lineage with MicroG or /e/, since that'll be stock fp4 in the US.
I'm interested in running a service like homarr. This would give my family access to view stuff easily, and I could link to the rest of my services. My main concern is linking jellyseerr, and giving what could be strangers access to make requests.
Is anyone out there using a home screen with seerr capability? How is it working for you?
By now, it's well known that Pokémon Go sucks. My biggest problem with it is just how shallow it is. It's like a minimum viable product with a vaguely addicting gameplay loop.
Here is a short list of ideas that could've made the game more interesting. Pretty much every problem boils down to "but implementing this would've made us lose money"
Pokestops could've been "typed". Like "hospital" could've been a free heal or have better healing item rates. "Museum" could've been the place to get fossil Pokémon, or maybe revive fossils that you find from regular stops. Maybe a grocery store would've had better item rates. A school could've been a move relearner. Maybe some Pokémon only evolve at church, or at an amusement park. The lures could've done something similar, turning normal stops into typed stops. They had so much power at their disposal. They ran on Google maps, ffs.
The friend system is just so stupid. For some reason, it's the best way to farm items? Why can I send a gift at no personal cost to someone else and they receive items? This caused communities to form where people just share friend codes. Also, the fact that theirs a limit to how many you can open a day, and that each one must be opened individually taking about 10 seconds is to cause you to form either habit or routine. Friends should be people you know or maybe people who live in your area, so you can get to know people.
The battle system is weird, but I don't explicitly hate it. It's more interactive than mainline, and that's fine.
The shadow system is dumb, and designed to be extremely addictive. A small rotation of Pokémon with higher attack, lower defense isn't a horrible idea. But the rates are so hard you're encouraged to log on just to fight rocket balloons.
Why does trading randomize stats? I'm obviously trading because I want their Pokémon. Not just any Pokémon of that species.
Why is there no way to increase appraisal stats? This is what the buddy system should've been. Like raising stats of a Chao from Sonic Adventure 2. Work hard, and reset the Pokémon frequently to slowly increase their stats overtime. Maybe every 10 km as your buddy increased 1 IV by 1 point. This would've been great for Shiny Pokémon. Instead, having a good shiny just means you're lucky.
I hate the limited time moves so much. If you evolve your Pokémon at the wrong time, it can be less than half as useful. The only fix is to pay a lot of money for an elite TM.
I'm very tired of SMS being horrible and necessary. Matrix has a bridge for SMS, but it doesn't work very well. There's other SMS bridges, no idea how well they work.
Does anyone have a good solution for dealing with SMS?
Obviously, the closer to AGPL, the better, in my opinion. But I'll run some MIT, if the product is sufficiently better, for my use case, than the alternative. For example, I want a multilibrary photo album. Photoprism (AGPL) doesn't offer it, but Immich (MIT) does. As soon as Photoprism has that functionality, I'll switch back simply for the license.
My hard line is open source. I don't use any proprietary solutions.
My wife is using Google Photos, and I've been using Photoprism for a few months. I just had a baby, and I access to download the pictures that my wife takes. I'm not too sure of what I want. I guess I want two separate libraries, but I want to be able to view her pictures easily and add them into my library. I believe if I spin up a second photoprism instance, I'd have to download her pictures individually and reupload them into my instance.
What do any of you do? Do you even host photo storage for your family?
Just a heads up, if you're looking to have children in Ohio. If you and your spouse work at the same place, your company can give you a shared FMLA pool, rather than two separate pools. Not sure if this is a common rule, across the country. And obviously your company can give you more as they see fit.
The company my wife and I work lets us take 2 weeks off with no approval needed, which is what I'll do, and I'm giving my wife the 12 weeks of FMLA. I only have 2 weeks vacation time, so if I took any more, I'd start eating my cash.