I used them on Windows to manage a handful of websites. I’d have a Websites folder with sub folders for each site, and a few portable apps in each one. I’d have Thunderbird and Firefox at least, and they’d keep everything separate.

For me at least, it made things a lot easier than trying to remember to log in to profiles etc individually :)

At least they’re summarising it, which implies that they’ve done some work. Lots of UK online ‘newspapers’ now have a brief story with a load of quoted tweets at the end. They’re absolute shit.

That’s part of my point. For most people, giving Google their data means things like their travel info. The majority of people don’t understand that tracking data is different, or what it means. When you tell them not to give their data to big corporations, they think you mean any data, and don’t know that they can get data that you might not want shared

The thing is though, that most people don’t know why that’s a problem, and privacy advocates seem to think that ‘you’ve got a door on your bathroom’ is a gotcha.

If someone is giving Google their home address and work address, and planning the route to get traffic data, they’re not going to be concerned when Google Maps suggests their work address as a destination through the week. Same for their shopping data. ‘Of course Amazon knows what I like, I do my shopping there!’

We need better ways to explain it to people who don’t understand it, and who are not interested in it or the tech behind it. We have a big problem on Lemmy where we tend to assume that everyone understands the same issues as us, just not as well.

Or, for my pet hate with FOSS, the instructions assume that you understand the underlying technology.

‘Hey, we’ve made this fantastic new program for Linux newbs, it’s so easy that even your grandma can use it! To install it, clone the repo and pipe the results of awk through sed using grep. You can add flags in the usual way!’

Oops! At least the ring was waterproof 🙈 😂

Media player with apps like media monkey

Just be aware that Media Monkey has issues. It regularly swaps my track numbers for the play count, and has consistently lowered the volume of my tracks.

I used the volume leveling function, and found out that it was decreasing the volume of all the tracks it had access to. Luckily the originals on the computer were unaffected

I do this by running a MagicMirror server on my media server, and Fully Kiosk browser on the phone / tablet. It’s pretty handy in the kitchen, as we’re all in there in the morning :)

It’s a nice little party trick too. When iphones could first detect heart rates, some of my friends were talking about it, so I said that I could slow my heart rate down. None of them believed me, so I got them to measure it. Once it was done I asked them if they wanted it to be faster or slower. They still didn’t believe me, so I did both.

It’s one of those silly little things that isn’t really useful, but can shut your friends up for a bit :p

I know what you mean, there was something that changed. I can’t remember exactly what happened either though. I just know that I can uninstall a lot of the apps that I couldn’t before :)

I had something similar when I first set up the phone, but I disabled it along with most of the other junk. Apart from immediately after an update, I haven’t seen it again. Even then it was easy to disable.

I had an automatically installed games folder after the update too, and that was a bit trickier to remove, but it was just a case of finding it in the settings. I’m stuck with Facebook because of a music festival I’m involved with, but long pressing it and dragging it to the top of the homescreen gives me the option uninstall it. I don’t know if it’s an actual uninstall or just disabling it, but it looks legit

I’ve just switched to a Motorola from a Xiaomi, and I’m in the UK. The Xiaomi wouldn’t let me uninstall quite a few apps. The Motorola is giving me the option at least

I really like that, it’s got a lovely dreamy quality 😊

The passing helicopter’s pilot :

:o

That’s odd, I’m sure I remember taking Aurora photos of my house a few years ago, when the major storm hit the UK, but I can’t find them anywhere 🤷🏼‍♂️

Ouch! That’s a proper once in a lifetime shot too 😫

I hope everyone was ok

I’m sure they do it on purpose 😂

A Kingfisher is on my wishlist. There’s a wetlands near me that apparently has a resident Kingfisher, but I’ve only ever seen it once, as it was flying off.

Nice!

Just remember to check the price. I’ve seen Cex selling things for above retail if they’re popular

Define donate or give away.

I’ve mentioned before that I help run a small music festival, and that it’s to help my local area. Raising money for that is a lot of work and takes a lot of energy. Pumping some money in would massively help the festival, which would help me. Would that count as donating, or would it be selfish because it helps me?

On a similar note, my area is quite poor. If I set up a factory with offices and other facilities that employed the low and unskilled workers at decent living wages, and included child care and employee training and education, would it still count as giving the money away if I made a profit, even if a small one?

I would be a bit selfish though, I’d build a house and some outbuildings on a large plot of land and soundproof everything completely. I function better at night, but still want to fix up my motorbike and do some woodworking, and I don’t want to wake the neighbours.