Pika

Yes, I post a review on every product and restaurant I visit. I wish more sites let you review more than once as there are some places/products that had amazing visits at one point, but then some visits that sucked hardcore, so allowing the average visit would be nice.

Why? Because I want to share what /my/ expereience with the service was. If they screwed up, others should know. If they did amazing? Others should know. If I was in the other persons shoes, I would rather have known.

Yea, which is a fair expectation, but it’s not a safe assumption. Verify it does before prolonged use. Make sure its well ventilated(heat is killer to batteries as well), and that some form of BMS is present on the system, and that it’s enabled because some have the system but have it disabled by default.

it only works as a UPS if you periodically discharge the battery. My first “server” was a compaq laptop, I had used it for years and then reprovisioned it to Ubuntu Server, after 2 or 3 years of 24/7 if you unplugged it at all it just instant died because keeping it 100% charged all the time killed the battery.

I had something similar when I was using reddit. Constantly addicted to the site.

I didn’t know how bad it had actually gotten until when the API changes happened I uninstalled the app I was using.

For like the next 2 or 3 months, I would consistently catch myself sliding the side bar open and tapping where the app used to be. In some cases I would get in a loop and I would have attempted it like 6 or 7 times before realizing what I was doing.

The solution like others have said is disengage. The entire point of those platforms are addiction and entertainment. Shorts are even worse than entertainment posts as you can’t use the time waste on an individual level.

I had to fully block reddit at the DNS level to separate as I kept wanting to go back. I’m starting to notice the same effect when I’m on lemmy so as of late so I’m working on that.

I’m not sure location but, if it’s the US my parents had something similar with the no assets thing. Someone stole their car, took it for a joy ride and burned it up the road, they were charged and given a verdict of guilty and had to pay it back, but they claimed no assets. After a few years of no payments whatsoever my mom started complaining, eventually she complained enough they started the legal process of garnishing wages. If he has a job or an income source, they can garnish that either via tax time or via the wages. Being said, the garnish system is super lax for living costs, if they are making bare min wage, you probally won’t get money out of it

I havent used any reverse lookup search in years, I used to do it but most of them want money with not promise of info returned so I decided just doing an exact search of a phone number usually works well enough. If it doesn’t appear in an exact search of common phone number formats, its not worth it to me.

I have 440+ but they are leftover from when i actually used them, I haven’t used the bookmark feature in at least 12-15 years now.

I have a feeling most of them are from an old addon that I had, because I think it abused the bookmark feature in order to keep browser sessions.

This isn’t entirely accurate. RCS itself is an open protocol, meaning anyone can use it.

The locked down/restricted version of it is Googles version of RCS, which they expanded on to add things like end to end encryption (which don’t take me wrong, is nice to have).

But, once the towers supported data, nothing was stopping them from implementing the standard RCS form, or even designing their own modified form that was open access that anyone can use. The latter honestly may have forced google to open their version sooner as they would risk losing leader status on the RCS protocol if they didn’t.

That’s honestly a good solution to a lot of proprietary services based off open protocols. Just make an open version that has similar features and invite everyone else. insert blackjack and hookers joke here

as another fun fact on it, this isn’t abnormal for google to do. They did the same thing with XMPP which was a big reason that usage of it died. They took the XMPP protocol (another open protocol) and threw it into google talk, and expanded on it so much that it didn’t make much sense to use the original one, and then just killed development on it.

I actually had the exact oppisite of this happen:

I was invited to an interview for a position, called into the office for it (was an internal promotion interview), and when the manager sat down she said “Pika, out of respect of both of our professional relationships, I don’t want to waste either of our time by going through with this interview. They have already decided on who is getting this position and it isn’t you. This wasn’t an issue with your skill-set, other factors were at play here that I’m not at liberty to disclose”

And that was it. I later learned that there was a legal compliance issue (the company had royally screwed up with another person), and that the only reason they had done interviews in the first place was due to corporate requirements, but it was really weird to have an interview and be told that straight up. I appreciated it, but was very weird.

Honestly… almost 10 years later most of those points are still pretty valid.

I agree with all but #2 (mostly because that defeats the entire purpose of a decentralized platform) and #4

But I also believe that it can’t go mainstream. If it did that would ruin what many went to these style platforms to avoid.

I believe the same thing with the Lemmy as well, if it became mainstream, it’ll just ruin what is already here.

I can’t say much on that though, since I was one of the “refugees” that came in around the time that the core ecosystem of lemmy started changing. So I’m sure some of the OG lemmy members feel the same about us.

I love the cross posts: 3 hours, 3 hours, 3 years.

I almost responded to the 3 year post, I had to do a doubletake.

Yea you are right, the privacy switches are under the battery cover, so it requires taking the cover off flipping the switch and putting it back on again.

The cover is made similar to how the Acatels are if you have ever used them, so its a pry instead of a slide which is annoying, but at least its there

I firmly agree. It’s a give and take, I don’t have the time or energy to spend a couple hours mapping the local area on OSM that way it can be properly used. I did that for my home town, and then realized that outside of big corporate entities, it wasn’t done at all for any of the surrounding towns or even cities. To me having an accurate map with ability to give directions and traffic reports is worth more than my location data.

the pinephone does that, its not built into the lock screen button but, it has a switch for most the privacy central features.

However much is earned by time saved by that app.

I stopped using openstreetmap because it wasn’t reliable enough for me. I found myself going the wrong direction, or not finding what I wanted to find and having to swap back anyway.

I liked the goal but, it just wasn’t a valid tool for me.

That may have been my problem, I had no option for RCS at all on my unlocked s20 through tmobile

I ended up bailing on samsung message a few years back due to their refusal to do anything RCS based, not surprised they dropped it

I think samsung or android does this. I noticed that my tablet at night will randomly be paused on a black screen and when I wake it it’ll be paused on a video around 5 or 10 minutes after I fell asleep, it’s creepy but I guess it helps me not miss my youtube videos

I would actually prefer that 90% of the time. I hate having to watch TV with someone else, I either miss what’s on it or feel awkward when I have to rewind, then people have this warped perception that I care what they are trying to tell me as if it’s not obvious I’m watching something on the TV so my focus is elsewhere.

My usage of a TV in the common room is when I’m feeling social or want to have whitenoise, any serious watching is strictly in my den or bedroom

I do not have a “TV” in my bedroom but I do have a tablet that I use for videos at night I like falling asleep listening to YouTube or twitch