[-] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

I think for consumers it doesn't matter the reason. A bad experience is still a bad experience, and that's something I found the Apple appstore to be, so avoid it most of the time.

[-] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Accessing chats in big picture mode seems worse than how it worked in old big picture mode. Usually if you are in big picture mode it is because you are using a controller, and with the new one it is hard to navigate chats with the controller so I end up using a mouse.

Also, would be nice to have an option to display the entire text of a comment in pop ups, since it often cuts off and I have to entire toggle to overlay , alt tab, or look at the terrible steam chat mobile app. Apps needs work for basic messaging with it not refreshing to show the most recent chat consistently so having to exit and reopen.

[-] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kbin only shows favorites. They don’t show actual upvotes/downvotes (which is a good thing IMHO).

But it’s not like you would check anything properly before opening your mouth…

No. The reduces tab is what downvotes are registered as. Not all instances are in sync so it records what it can as opposed to only kbin users. That's the nature of decentralization so votes will be different from instance to instance.

Anyways, I downvoted your comment as a example and you should see my username pop up. It's public on kbin.

https://kbin.social/m/linustechtips@lemmy.ml/t/369189/Dr-Ian-Cutress-s-take-on-the-current-situation/comment/1845298/votes/down

There was even an amusing situation where a mod went into a users profile and downvoted that users comments and everyone could see it.

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/271692/Is-there-anything-that-can-be-done-about-troll-powermods

Relax and take a breath.

[-] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Random people holding a camera with one hand while awkwardly trying to record them going through their phone with the other hand has been more useful lot of times for answering questions I had.

[-] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not subscribed to anymore phone youtubers anymore for probably that reason. At the height of Android youtube I was subscribed to MKBHD when the tech was fresh exciting, and then subscribed to people doing custom roms or app recommendations.

But, now days when it comes to tech youtubers I prefer ones that at least go through the motions of seeming like they are being objective like Gamers Nexus or Hardware Unboxed or Digital Foundry by putting on a show of testing different configurations and so on. Lot of other tech youtubers just feel more like adverts lot of times with how shallow the presentation is, so whether product is recommended or not feels more like the purpose is to just get the brand out to viewers.

Which becomes really noticeable when they cover a product that you do actually use and watch their review on, and see how much stuff they glossed over with really the main highlight being nice cinematography. Videos aren't even straight to the point and short either, which is really part of why I stopped watching lot of them. If they at least were more straightforward and brief 2-3 minute overviews it'd be fine, but now they all push 10 minutes and over so waste your time.

[-] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That's been easy to do with Ubisoft games. Real test is when it's games you really want.

[-] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Tip I have is to adjust the angles to one that makes it feel most consistent to you for the up and down gestures. You can also set up long swipes too for where if you swipe a little further until you feel a haptics you can have it do stuff like make it show a mini quick tools so you don't have to reach up and pull the status bar down to access them.

It's pretty useful and you can have it behave differently for the left and right side so have lot of different actions available.

[-] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'd rather have that return than have a foldable.

[-] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Screen scanners seem much more sensitive to dry and callused fingers than dedicated finger print scanners of old. Some can't even use it because their skin texture isn't picking it up well, or have to do things like lick their finger before using which is gross. I miss the power button scanners or rear ones.

[-] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Depends one what function. Volume and power on a phone I find better than touch controls, since I can control it without looking. And do things like hold the power button to turn of flash light or double tap power button to bring up camera. No need for screen to have been on.

For more complicated UI then touchscreen is better with it being more dynamic like selecting songs.

[-] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Aside from the initial install is GrapheneOS a simple forget about it type of experience, and no fiddling around with safety net or whatever so someone with no technical experience can be given it and use it and stay updated?

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