He got mad at me for texting him an anti-CCP joke (both US Phone Numbers)
He’s right to be concerned. You should be using Signal far any communication you don’t want sucked into a mass-surveillance system (i.e. most communication). He might not want to have Signal installed when he enters China though.
When I can’t use the old one anymore. Every time so far, that’s been because of a hardware failure.
I’m currently on a Pixel 4A. It’s running Android 16 (LineageOS), and I limit battery charge with AccA so that it doesn’t wear out. It’s currently showing 92% capacity, which seems pretty good for five years. I don’t think I’d actually like a new phone; it would be faster and have a better camera, but my current phone isn’t a bottleneck, and a new phone’s camera will still be worse than my Olympus. It would have 5G, but why should I care? Most new phones are bigger, and as an adult, my hands are not growing.
I love that answers like this are popular here. There was a time when phone tech was improving fast enough that frequent upgrades made a lot of sense, but now is not that time.
I’m a little surprised that’s an active decision from carriers instead of whatever has compatible radios just working.
Most 2016 era smartphones have 4G.
I am not a doctor and I am definitely not your doctor, but this sounds like an eating disorder to me. Are you in a position to talk to a doctor about it?
I am, with the obvious username. I mostly only post in /r/flashlight now, as it’s the most active community anywhere online for that niche interest.
I’ve had at least three different people on different continents provide my Gmail address to various services. I’ve ignored most messages meant for those people, but one gave it to his lawyer when he was charged with a serious crime for which his conditions of release forbade contact with children. I took the time to tell the lawyer that’s nothing to do with me.
I was among the first hundred people to join Reddit.
Including Edge for Android, which puts it in a compelling position for certain use cases.
Getting uBlock Origin to work with Chrome requires a workaround, and that is not scheduled remain available long-term.
Yes, I prefer FOSS. The degree to which proprietary software actively works against the users’ interests has increased significantly over the past couple decades, as has the tendency for anything successful to get enshittified. I’m not a hardcore ideologue about it, but if a FOSS option does what I need, and it usually does, then that’s what I use.
Some important software on my laptop:
All FOSS. I play a few games that aren’t, and a lot of things I access through the browser aren’t. I have a Windows 11 install I used to boot somewhat frequently for games, but don’t since I discovered Lutris takes the fuss out of running most games on Linux.
And on my phone (italics indicate not FOSS):
I have FOSS fallbacks for the things that aren’t aside from a couple group chats in WhatsApp. One of those is toying with moving to Signal, but collective action problems are hard.
What characteristics did I cite as reasons I like wired headphones? Was audio quality among them? Did I ever claim to be miserable or that anyone should feel sorry for me?
I have a phone with a headphone jack and I’m content with it. If I break that one, I know what I’ll replace it with, and that model also has a headphone jack.
Oh, I see. You’re trolling. Got it.
I’m not making myself miserable. I’m a happy wired headphone user. They’re quick to switch between devices and battery-free.
Unlockable bootloader.
Maybe that’s not underrated on Lemmy, but mainstream reviews never even mention it.
Who is she to decide who deserves to live? God?
Of course, I’d hesitate to accept such a judgment from a god who presumably made those people that way. That would be a dick move.
As for pronouncements about mental health, I will accept citations, or maybe credentials. With neither, hers have no value.
It looks like Session has video calls in beta.
Note that most services requiring a phone number for registration don’t actually require that phone number to be connected to a SIM card in the device you’re using. That may be helpful depending on your use case.
It does not appear to require a phone number. It even looks like an email address is optional.
The character limit is hardcoded in two places. They could, and should make it a setting, or just eliminate it.
LLMs don’t understand things. They repeatedly predict the next token given previous tokens.
I don’t think something without predictable patterns is likely to work as a language. A very complex grammar probably means the LLM will make grammatical errors more often, but that’s probably the most that can be done to make a language hard for LLMs. Other comments mention languages without much training data, but I don’t think that’s what you’re asking.