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wait. Does Western Digital own SanDisk?

I like my Fitbit Charge 5. Honestly, really the only reason that I went with a health/fitness tracker instead of a smartwatch is battery life. As much as the extra features of a smartwatch would be nice. The problem with smartwatches is that you have to charge them daily (something I already do with my phone, and I’d rather not add another device that I have to do that for). Whereas, with a health/fitness tracker (like the Fitbit Charge 5) I only have to charge it like… every couple of days (I haven’t kept track, sadly, but I’d estimate at least a minimum of 5 days)

I keep hoping that smartwatches will get good enough battery life like health trackers that they’ll be viable (the pixel smartwatch looks nice), but we haven’t reached that day yet.

Saw someone else make a good point. I hope all these people that shouted about supporting net neutrality back in the day will make noise about how anti net neutrality this is. (I doubt it, but it’d be nice)

Tweetdeck has been dying a slow death since they killed the Android app back in 2013 (RIP. Still miss you buddy!)

you should check out linustechtips. The sponsors they get/accept are actually decent reputable companies with decent products.

they can’t even keep their power grid functioning in extreme hot or cold weather 🤔

too real

It’s crazy how much the creator of pixelfed does. And it’s literally only 1 person working on all the things he does.

and this is why I’ll always choose Google over Apple. Despite Google’s flaws of surrepticiously killing their products. At least they don’t have these ridiculous walled garden that Apple has. See, for example, Google’s parental control app/solution: https://families.google/familylink/

Anyway, small side rant. I am a big big big advocate of parent’s doing their job as parents of setting up parental controls on devices their kids have access to. It is SO MUCH of a better option than the government requiring us adults to give up our privacy to verify that we are indeed adults to see adult content. Like, yes, I do want to see adult content. But hell no there’s no way in hell I’m violating my privacy with privacy invasive big brothery bullshit.

Just another reason why messengers like Signal and SimpleX that don’t require phone numbers or email addresses are much more private

Correction: Fuck Putin. Let’s not be Russophobic towards the good Russian people (especially: gorgeous Russian girls). After all, it’s not their fault they have a dictator in charge of their country.

Either that, or with a freaking war going on, I suspect the police are occupied with much more important matters (like public safety and whatnot)

It’ll probably never happen because the unemployment rate for autistic people is 85%. But in an ideal world, I’d love to build my own (if there’s any sugar mommies/daddies out there that feel like spoiling someone 🤔):

• Motherboard: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089D34SZT
• Processor: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B092L9GF5N/
• RAM: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y4ZZ7LQ/
• Power Supply: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JFLGGQ6/
• SSD (Cache): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MF8G7KF/
• SSD (OS: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZGK3K4V/
• Drives (x4): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TBF6GHJ/
• Case: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/BWFPxr/fractal-design-case-fdcanode304bll
• Operating System: https://www.truenas.com/truenas-scale/

Just for funsies I just built it in pcpartpicker https://pcpartpicker.com/user/JoshuaACasey/saved/cqjnpg

edit: motherboard seems out-of-stock, so if this ever becomes a reality, might have to make some adjustments for a different micro itx motherboard (plus compatible cpu of course. no biggie, thanks to the existence of pcpartpicker, compatibility is a breeze!)

especially on mobile. On desktop, where you have a keyboard and mouse, and even tools like browser extensions or whatever it’s definitely easier.

don’t underestimate the greed of capitalism (re: making two different devices for EU and NA markets)

loved the pixel 3a. traded mine in last year when the pixel 6a came out because they had such a good deal of a $350 trade-in value, essentially making the new phone just $150 (which, sad to say, is low for a new phone. So I had to jump on that deal. Plus, with having a nonreplaceable battery it was time for an upgrade anyway since battery life was beginning to sufer.

So excited for the day when I can just replace the battery and keep using my phone (for as long as it received updates at least!)

Get a Pixel phone. 5 years of updates (technically I think that’s only for security updates, which, arguably are the most important kind of updates. Sure, new features are always nice to have, but if your phone is vulnerable to security flaws because it’s outdated that’s an immense problem)

Even better, get a Pixel phone and put GrapheneOS on it for a more secure and more private phone.

I mean…Hungary has it’s own problems (right-wing anti-equality government) https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/embassies-urge-hungarys-government-retract-discriminatory-lgbtq-laws-101273052

I can get onboard with (micro) sd card slots. But honestly I’m fine with not having a headphone jack. I never used it anyway. And wireless earbuds are way more convenient anyway because you don’t have a wire tethering your phone to your ears.

Edit: I should add that GrapheneOS is way more privacy-oriented and secure than LineageOS.