Kind of wild how this guy feels entitled to have people pay him

F-droid is awesome, but I don’t think it will ever be mass market

I remember T-mobile enabled RCS for Samsung’s text app, but excluded unlocked devices. I was able to find some dial tone command work-arounds to force it to enable, but eventually some Samsung update took away the ability. But then a few months after that I installed Messages, so now I have it everywhere. Very handy when I’m inside a building and need to text. Doesn’t change the fact that I have like 3 regular contacts who actually use Android

Yes, this seems designed to target the broad “who was in this area” warrants. Must have been a big enough headache for them that they came up with this new system. For me, I keep this location on indefinitely. Has been handy for me in a couple situations: I’m a scientist and helped me reconstruct my field work locations when I lost some field notes, and it helped me contact trace when I caught covid!

Yes, they still can build a targeted profile per user, but no longer store a database of who was in an area that the police can issue a broad warrant to find out. So they get to have their cake and eat it too!

The owner of the server I’m on wrote a nice post describing his reasoning https://about.scicomm.xyz/doku.php?id=blog:2023:0625_meta_on_the_fediverse_to_block_or_not_to_block

It’s an interesting story in itself. I had it in my pocket queue and this development made me go back to revisit it :)

The ruling probably put Reuters employees in India in jeopardy if the article wasn’t taken down worldwide.

Yeah, I use Samsung Internet on my tablet. Firefox on everything else, so I obviously miss the syncing, tab push and access to extensions with my tablet. I even put it up as an Idea on Mozilla Connect, where a lot of people seem to agree, but I don’t foresee Firefox ever addressing this. I think they’re buried under a mountain of back-end issues.

I wouldn’t say gas stations have the same frequency of problems honestly. 19 times out of 20, my gas is dispensed without issue. And I’m able to buy it without joining a program or going out of my way. Electric charging is not yet that convenient, and it should be.

When I bought my Volt 10 years ago, I knew more about the car than any of the dealer sales people. I doubt the situation has changed much. That being said, I would hesitate to recommend an EV to a non technically inclined person, because the charging situation is still rough even in CA. Stations are often broken, or the billing doesn’t work, or they are in inconvenient areas. Gas is still the idiot proof option. We will know we’re really in the future when you can go to most grocery stores or strip mall and charge with tap to pay (no stupid app to pre-configure). There has to be 95% reliability. Right now I’d say about 1/5 of stations I visit have something wrong with them in terms of no internet connection for billing, slow charging, illegible UV-damaged screen, or just outright broken hardware. https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/nema-14-50-mobile-charger-lucid-air

Thanks! That one has some great features too!

There has been no tablet UI for Firefox on Android since the Fenix update 4 years ago. It’s just the phone UI stretched out. It’s a big bummer

This is also why languages like R and Python are supplanting SPSS and Matlab. Open source is just better in some ways, particularly once it gets over the initial usability barrier, which Jellyfin seems to now be achieving.

Cookie Autodelete

Privacy Redirect

And a tablet UI

It handles all the dynamic DNS stuff out of the box for remote access. Took me a while to figure that out for Jellyfin (as opposed to VPN tunnel)

Yeah, I wouldn’t take him as a completely reliable narrator, but still an interesting inside perspective

It’s had this for a few years. Microsoft has its Office Lens both as a freestanding app, and built in to the combined Office Android app. Adobe has a pretty good scanning app too, though I’ve moved away from Adobe anything. All of these companies are chasing after corporate clients who might already have the app installed as part of their enterprise subscription. Probably helps with locking in if employees are used to opening the Drive app for their scanning, as opposed to a freestanding app.

Every billboard in SF is just these words shuffled