[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Weren’t the trackers opt-in? This doesn’t seem like a bad thing if you don’t mind giving up those user metrics for them to build something better. It is the opt-out stuff with no transparency over the kind of data collected to be worried about.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Only 128 characters? You’re gonna have issues converting everything to ASCII when you can’t even write “café”.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Embrace your forefather ALGOL: 🤚‍ and, && 👉

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

I wish we could stop with smart TVs. I want a dumb TV with a nice screen & my own hardware without worrying about the data collection

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Voice, YouTube, & occassionally Translate (sorry, your FOSS option doesn’t cover non-European languages well) are the Google servers I can’t quite shake. I almost never use the Voice account but when I do, it’s some required voice call from a US number for a bank or similar—which is very important, to make these calls, but it is so infrequent that I can’t justify paying for an entire service for 1–2 (usually very long) calls annually.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
  • Prosody XMPP server (might move to ejabberd) with Movim front-end
  • Murmur VoIP server
  • Miniflux feed reader
  • Nix remote builder & substitutor
  • Upterm terminal sharing
  • Some small static sites on Nginx
  • Darcs, Pijul, Git hosting (no forge, basic SSH + HTTPS)
[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

2.8k seems about the sweet spot on a laptop to be from your face & see no pixels or even have to think about font hinting & the like. The bigger wins are OLEDs for blacks & picking up something with 100% DCI-P3.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

The SponsorBlock integration is a major difference from NewPipe

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

That conspiracy is one I believe too. Seems too odd that all OEMs dropped their jacks at the same time they started selling buds.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Would be nice if I could drink the tap water here

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

It used to be headphones but the stuff in recent years out of China is so good on sound quality. You can get what used to cost over $1000 USD for < $350 with great stuff @ $150 & even servicable stuff @ $20 for a spare.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

You’re likely thinking KaiOS. They are still contributing what is required under MPL-2.0 but the rest is proprietary. KaiOS 3.x finally got off of a browser from 2016 as the base, but very few have upgraded their apps to be compatible (the tweaks were minor) & others have used it as a reminder that they were still ‘supporting’ a platform like whoever is maintaining or using that WhatsApp thing for chat.

There’s also Capyloon built from B2G, but it’s still early on & is targeting touch phones, instead of feature phones.

It would be nice to see it around IMO since it’d just be another enhancement to progressive web applications & JavaScript is a better target than Java or Swift.

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