Good point. I'll try invizible.

I chose NextDNS when Android supports custom DNS. And dont wamt to run a "VPN" all the time. It just works for my threat model.

Found out about it from Tech Lore. Customizing the filters just felt natural since that's what I do with ublock anyways

PIA I use for torrenting as well so I don't think I'll ever stop that subscription

It definitely is still Winging. But I keep delaying to fix the the broken USB C and now I only charge using wireless. It also needs a battery replacement and each day I delay pretty sure it gets harder to get genuine parts.

It has fell a few tines with it open and I'm surprised that it's still working.

Will miss the bad boy when the time comes. While unconventional, it convinces me that I want a dual screen / foldable phone / "small phone that can go big phone in one device". Just that those are too expensive to justify.

From the description:

InviZible Pro is an all-in-one program. After installing it, you can easily delete all of your VPN applications and ad blockers. In most cases, InviZible Pro works better, is more stable, and faster than free VPNs.

Obviously it would be better than free VPN services. But I'm wondering how it would stack with my current set up. I already paid for NextDNS and PIA. Usually I don't run PIA unless I want to access spicy stuff. And 99.999% my NextDNS stuff works fine.

I'd love to pay less but I also want to know what I'm trading for it

To LG's credit, if you have the correct version of phones, they did support and update them as per their schedule. My Korean version LG Wing is now on the last version it'll ever get, Android 13. That was I think 2023.

Now if anything happens to my Wing, I guess it'll be a relic and e-waste.

Such a shame that LG decided to exit the smartphone market all those years ago.

Good shout. I'll do that, thanks!

To add to what have been said, instead of QR code for users, have it for communities instead. That's what Lemmy/threadiverse is more built around.

Ooh I love this

Is there a community where there's daily interesting words, either from old timely English or just plain uncommon even in today's English?

That's how I learned English way back then, on top of having an awesome teacher encouraging it. She would ask the class to find a couple of words or give some weekly, have us write a couple sentences using it and she would correct us.

Since Google wants to take the TikTok crowd, they are boosting Shorts. So content creators are pushing Shorts.

I think he means reaction content. Where some influencer or some other reacts to viral stuff or whatever. Most are shit.

But if you managed to find it there are some good ones where they add good content on top.

I personally am following a chef doing this reaction content. He adds a lot of advice and suggestions for the normal home cooks.

What I wish is more viable is the Huawei Pura SomeNumbers. It's passport sized when closed, with a usable portrait-ish small outer screen to fit besides two cameras. Opens like a book into a landscape orientation, to a 16:10 ratio screen. A dream device.

Too bad it's locked in China. Technically.

Xiaomi and Poco phones are champions of bang for buck most of the time. But always at the cost of whatever data collection and ads.

It's made worse that Xiaomi have been clamping down on unlocking the bootloader with more and more hoops.

One of the reason I can think of is some kind of "match" making. idk I never played with randoms. I especially do not want to play with randoms in a game that "requires" mic input for the monster mechanics.

Also probably P2P or player-hosted is such a foreign concept nowadays, since almost anything online-only is all centralized.