Darren

Mr Mobile talked about this in his review of Oppo’s Find N5.

Essentially, while the product is great and folding phones are finding more utility, the price is still prohibitively high.

I upgraded to a Pixel 9 a few months ago because I specifically wanted to run GrapheneOS. I did considered a Pixel Fold, but really couldn’t justify the extra cost. Maybe next time though…

Hungrambed

Is it that he’s a cunt?

The last Marvel offering I saw in a cinema was Avengers: Endgame.

Literally nothing since then has looked like it offered anything different or better, so at most I’ve watched a couple on D+, or torrented them. I just don’t give a shit about any of that stuff any more.

The last Marvel thing I watched was Agatha All Along, which I only finished for the sake of completion. The moment we learned the identity of the kid, I pretty much stopped giving a shit, because at that point it just dropped into being yet another MCU property being used as promotional material for whatever they’ve got coming next.

I really enjoyed S01 or Andor, but I can’t be sure I’ll bother with S02 because I don’t trust them to keep it self-contained, basically requiring me to watch 3 other series so I can have some idea of what’s going on. They pulled that shit with S03 of The Mandalorian, so I never finished it.

See, I don’t understand why anyone would need to immediately follow that many randoms. And I don’t get the need to speedrun social media.

But hey, it takes all sorts.

You can follow hashtags on Mastodon. So if you want music recommendations you can follow #NowPlaying, (for example) and every time someone uses that tag it’ll appear in your timeline as if you follow that person. It’s nice for follow discovery too, because if the same people keep posting links to tunes you dig, then it’s a fair bet that you’ll have similar interests.

I’ve not tried it myself, but I guess that in theory, you could follow a bunch of hashtags without ever following an actual account.

I dunno. I joined Mastodon back in 2022 and just…followed people.

They weren’t the same people as on Twitter, but it didn’t really matter in the end. I now follow almost 600 people and never feel like my feed is empty.

One social media site doesn’t have to be better than another, it just has to be sufficient for your needs.

As someone who has recently moved away from an iPhone, while still having much of the rest of the Apple ecosystem in place: for me it’s things like AirPlay and AirDrop. There are alternatives to AirDrop, but as I have an Apple TV, it would super handy to be able to AirPlay to it from my Pixel. As it stands, there appears to be literally no way to achieve this.

I have a Vivoactive 4 that I picked up used from Facebook a couple of months back. It’s a few years old now, and the regular LCD screen looks pretty janky once you’ve got used to OLED. But it cost me £50, works perfectly well with GrapheneOS, and the battery still lasts a week.

It’s left me pondering upgrading it to a new one with an OLED screen.

I can only speak for Apple TV, I’m afraid.

We use Moonlight instead of Steam Link. It requires a little more setting up at the PC end, but overall seems to be a more smooth result.

I don’t.

flaunts

Has Anna added it to her archive “store” yet?

I have ADHD, so a massive bonus of a smart watch for me is not having to look at my phone every time I get a notification. If I do, there’s a strong likelihood that I’ll just keep on looking at it. Having notifications go to my watch means I only get my phone out for important ones.

Also, an alarm clock that taps my wrist without waking up my wife at 5:30am is worth its weight in gold.

I moved from 16 years of iPhones to a Pixel 9 purely so I could put Graphene on it. It’s been a couple of months so far and I’m loving it.

If only Fred Trump had pulled out in 1945.

Hootie, however, has very little to say on the matter.

Honestly, the base level M1 mini is still one hell of a computer. I’m typing this on one right now, complete with only 8gb RAM, and it hasn’t yet felt in any way underpowered.

Encoded some flac files to m4a with XLD this morning. 16 files totalling 450mb; it took 10 seconds to complete. With my work flows I can’t imagine needing much more power than that.

it felt more like what you’d expect from a labor-of-love indie game

I thought that too. It was like a long cutscene and I loved it.

If only the goal of the tech firms was to make the world better while making enough money to achieve this, rather than their goal being to make as much shareholder value as possible while ekeing out improvements on a schedule that fits their need to maximise profits.