INCOMING!!!

It must have been another reason, or he would have been named Jeigh-Den 🤷🏼‍♂️

I’ve got the G86 5g. The live lockscreen can be disabled, there’s an option in the settings. You can tell it not to ask again too.

Mine came back after a system update, but that’s when I found the don’t ask again checkbox, and it hasn’t come back since 👍

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 :)

Sending in accurate meter readings, even if you’ve got a smart meter, will allow them to bill you correctly. Bills are often based on estimates and can be inaccurate.

I used to work in the billing department of one of the big suppliers, and saw things like this all the time

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 🙈 😂

Alright, calm down Frodo

They definitely feel like cheating, but that doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t get one.

I live in South Wales, in the UK, and probably have similar weather to you. I’m in a Bortle 5 site. For the handful of clear nights we get where I’ve also got the time and energy to get everything set up, I’ve got to hump and carry a load of kit into the garden, because it’s too heavy to take anywhere else, and hope I remember how to do everything again. The decent nights are so far apart that I usually need to get everything aligned again, and end up with some ok results if I’m lucky.

For about £500 I could buy a SeeStar and pretty much just plop it in the garden and let it go. I’d lose the feeling of accomplishment from getting the setup right and getting a good photo, but I get that so rarely that I honestly can’t remember the last time I enjoyed doing it. I’ve had more fun with a cheap little 70mm beginner scope because it just works.

In short, they look great, and there’s one on my wishlist 👍

I’ve just tried it now, and the whole app looks slightly different. Let’s see if it works… Edit: It worked! 😁

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 :)

TIL I was a Greebo before I ever read any Discworld 😁🤘

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 use Firefox with Ublock Origin on Android, and if I watch youtube in the browser, it filters pretty much all ads. Sometimes I get one at the start of a video, but closing the tab and starting again has got rid of them so far 👍