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https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy?tab=readme-ov-file#easy-way

It’s fairly literally just a download-and-run kind of deal it seems. Does seem pretty trivial.

The building you just linked was built by a cooperative association as well, many of whom now live in that building.

I actually think this form factor makes more sense than a two-fold. With two-folds you get this weird not-quite-square aspect ratio, but this gives you something much closer to a very typical 16:9. Perfect for watching movies or streaming games.

I do want a proper android device though, which Huawei can’t provide anymore unfortunately. But I hope other manufacturers try their hand at this form factor. Still, massive props to Huawei on the design and engineering feat, it’s genuinely the first phone I’ve seen in years that made me reconsider what I want in a phone.

And no, obviously a tri-fold isn’t necessary, but neither are smartphones in general. Took me years to decide to purchase one and I was fine without one (started with a year-old Samsung S7, for reference).

Those are really quite rare. Most have workarounds these days or just work outright.

You can degoogle on Android you know. Takes some effort, but the end result is better than moving into a walled garden.

Put it in rice overnight. It will attract asian people who will fix it right up.

For real though, don’t put it in rice. Small rice particles can get stuck in your device and cause damage.

I probably change the brightness setting the most. Why is it all the way at the top of the settings, the furthest out of reach it could be?

That’s fairly normal for any battery, regardless of charging rate. I have a OnePlus 9 and haven’t really noticed any huge battery degradation, my phone still easily makes it to the end of the day.

And if not, I charge it for just a couple minutes and get half of the charge back. It’s pretty great. The newest phones can even charge at 100W+. You barely need to bother plugging it in overnight, just plug it in when you take a shower or have breakfast or something.

The very first date I had was an escape room under a restaurant. We got there early so we opted for drinks beforehand, then did the escape room together.

We’re still hapoy together after 5+ years and we recently adopted a cat, so I’d say it worked out alright.

If I understand correctly they already can. It’s not user-facing, but votes are federated if I understand correctly.

That’s a very specific usecase though that the majority of programmers likely will never have to face.

You’re mixing the definitions of sideloading media and sideloading apps. Sideloading media follows your definition, e.g. transfer via another local device. Sideloading apps refers to the installing of apps outside of the (pre-)installed app store, e.g. by installing an APK directly.

The Darkroom of Damocles.

The big “twist” in the book basically gets pretty obviously announced in the first chapter “oh this person is exactly like me but better in every way I can conceive, how vexing. Gosh would I like to be him”. It’s almost spelled out.

Once the twist is known, the rest of the book makes little sense. Sure, the main character becomes an unreliable narrator, but he’s not just twisting details; hugely important events can no longer happen if you assume the twist, because there’s no physical way of it happening, unless the narrator is so extremely unreliable that you might as well be reading Jurassic Park only to reveal it was actually Terminator or something.

And then the book tries to end all clever by dangling the whole “was this the twist? Was it all real? Who knoooowws” making the book feel like a massive waste of time. Clearly the author wanted you to doubt the narrator at the end so you’d go back and think “oh was this/that a hint?”, but with the twist being so painfully obvious it lands flat on its face.

I was hoping there’d be some clever ending that meta-played on the whole “the reader has been distrusting of the narrator”-ordeal, but there was nothing. Very unfulfilling reading experience.

I don’t think we are, at all.

I mostly say it because SMS is so ancient. Not encrypted, messages are storied by the carrier and can be requested by the government, etc… In that sense, even a corporate-controlled messaging system that offers E2EE would be a step up. After all, SMS is pretty corporate-controlled too, just different ones. But again, this is very much a European perspective, I can see why in the US this might be different.

iMessage is by far and away the most popular chat platform here, and is largely responsible for Apple’s local dominance in the smartphone market.

Ah true, iPhones are much more popular in the US. Quite interesting actually how that happened, iPhones aren’t all that popular here at all and Android phones dominate the market. I wonder why Apple hasn’t managed to copy their dominance here as well?

I’ve never heard of such a thing.

Looks like Tello, Cricket, MobileX, US Mobile and T-Mobile can offer it at least. Apparently it’s often marketed as a Tablet plan, which I suppose makes sense, but it seems a lot of carriers allow you to disable SMS in their web portals these days. I thought it’d be more niche in the US but it seems a more common option than I thought.

It’s been interesting to hear from you about your perspective on this, thanks!

I personally occasionally experience delayed sending/receiving of messages, or messages suddenly coming in in bulk. Only very rarely do messages not come in at all thankfully, but mostly the occasional delays in sending/receiving I think led to the reputation of poor reliablity for SMS. But it makes sense that the US would try to keep those issues to a minimum if so many people still use it, whereas in Europe perhaps it’s less of a priority?

Ah, I see. Your point isn’t necessarily reliability but availability. It’s an interesting perspective to hear that the US appears to be so behind (at least from a European perspective of course) when it comes to messaging apps. As far as SMS reliablity goes, I have occasionally had messages not send, or have messages come in delayed considerably. Or stuff like 2-factor auth texts not coming in, requesting a new one and then suddenly receiving 3 at a time. Not deal-breaking or anything, just the occasional annoyance.

I don’t think WhatsApp allows you to send a message to someone who doesn’t have the app. So WhatsApp would just inform you. Although I don’t recall the last time someone did not have either WhatsApp or Signal installed. But again, that appears to be far more common in the US?

Do you ever miss the extra features that web messaging brings, like in-chat polls, voice messages, etc…? I’m not sure how much of that RCS supports (because almost nobody uses that here). To me it seems like the convenience of web messaging outweighs the “does person x have app y” question, but that’s probably because I never really have to ask myself that question.

I also just realised that you state that everyone has SMS messaging. There are phone plans available here that don’t offer SMS messaging anymore. You can still receive them, but sending them either doesn’t work or costs a high premium (obviously this disadvantage is offset by a lower price for the rest of the plan). I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if SMS eventually just gets phased out.

If you send someone an SMS you know with great certainty that it will be received.

Not to get too bogged down in this debate or anything, but this European is surprised you say that SMS is reliable. One of the great motivators to use web-based messaging apps is because SMS is so notoriously unreliable, with messages occasionally not receiving or sending. Has SMS reliablity been improved much in recent years? Or is web-based messaging less reliable in your experience?

Genuinely curious btw, I’m not in the same party as the troll elsewhere in this thread.

Better rebrand to Clownstrife I guess.

In the Netherlands 112 is fine, most critical systems are. It’s mostly airports that are getting fucked by this it seems.

Banks and PSPs are fine here too.

Kickstarter does share it with the projects you back iirc, and those projects do occasionally sell that data to 3rd parties.