As an Android user, I'm considering switching to iPhone due to how much worse the Android experience is becoming without Google Play Services. I'm using a custom ROM with microG, which potentially means no RCS since it is only available through Google Messages which doesn't work with microG.

As much as it would suck jumping ship, at the very least, Apple is still a consumer hardware company first & foremost while Google will always be an ads company. Android exists to that end & that end alone.

2y ago

Are we yet?

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Throughout the entire OS. Image CDNs are adopting JXL on some scale - Cloudinary reportedly ships billions of JXL images regularly

2y ago

What is your favourite shell to use

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

I have customized ZSH to be very similar to Fish

2y ago

Who was your first?

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Pop! OS

2y ago

This community got removed from lemmy.world (again)

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Lemmy.world is also notoriously mismanaged and has had dubious privacy issues in the past, such as their Discord situation regarding user messages

2y ago

QOI Encoding in Zig

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Well, that's for you to decide.

2y ago

QOI Encoding in Zig

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

That's super smart!

2y ago

HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

I'm running a black & white wired Brother printer through a CUPS relay & I couldn't be happier without HP's bullshit

2y ago

What do you think of a mobile app to capture and utilize knowledge?

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

This post looks LLM generated

2y ago

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

I'm all for this change, but hopefully it means Mozilla will put some more energy into Gecko to make it competitive with WebKit in speed and multimedia capability (P3 colors, HDR images, JPEG-XL, etc)

2y ago

A good, privacy respecting and FOSS PDF viewer for Android?

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

MuPDF comes by default on CalyxOS, and is what I use.

2y ago

Choice of Compact Android Smartphone - 2024 edition

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

FYI, the Pixel 8's processor is certainly less efficient than the S23's. If it is reportedly getting better battery life, that's likely software related.

2y ago

(Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

I agree with this the most. People obsess over the start menu paradigm simply because they like it in Windows. I desire more open mindedness when it comes to looking into alternative ways to interact with your computer, so I align with GNOME.

2y ago

(Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

"Anything immutable" is bold. Any bad experiences, personally? I don't think they've negatively impacted the desktop Linux landscape as a whole...

2y ago

(Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

This is a balanced take in my opinion. Also an Arch user. Distrobox has helped remedy things somewhat.

2y ago

Linux laptop recommendation thread🐧💻

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Gianni R @lemmy.ml 2y ago

I see a lot of Framework recommendations, and I had the 12th gen Framework for around a year running Fedora. I faced a bunch of excessive power use issues, and had to add some kernel flags just to get maybe 4 hours of battery life. The device is notoriously repairable, but the one thing that conked out on me was actually the mainboard, which was like the price of a new device. Support spent two weeks trying to find out if it was anything else before sending me a replacement mainboard.

My friend recently got a Zenbook 14 OLED with the same processor. The entire device was $200 cheaper lightly used than the Frameworks mainboard alone, and the only issue is the speakers don't work. That being said, he gets almost double my battery life, and a 90hz OLED screen on top of it all. Plus more ports; even with Framework's modular add-in cards I don't feel it is as flexible a system as having >4 useful ports.

My time with the Framework was great, but I wouldn't recommend it. Getting something secondhand is an environmentally conscious option, and you can get great stuff secondhand.