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And I’ve spent $0 on 19 billion free games that I’m never going to play…

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Yep, tor me it’s because it requires a Pixel. And specifically poor Pixel battery life.

I value battery life, and every Pixel I check out on gsmarena has an endurance rating < 90h.

For comparison, my current phone’s endurance rating is 113h, and this is why I ended up shopping by chipset. Everything not Snapdragon had poor battery life. (Disclaimer: haven’t looked for a couple of years)

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Yeah, but did you include any biobs?

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Offtopic, but what do you use for music?

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Every now and then I think ‘OK, this time I surely should be able to switch over to Wayland!’

And there’s always one application or use case that stops me.

Yeah, I’m on nvidia which hasn’t helped either…

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Jesus Christ.

I use the calculator in Ubuntu tor very simple purposes. It was crashing on me every time I opened it.

I tracked down why.

It was trying to get a foreign currency exchange rate file - which I was horrified that you’d think about even having in a calculator.

The reason that was failing? Because I had a VPN enabled.

And it wouldn’t even fail gracefully. Nope it would poof, disappear.

The fix is to disable vpn, and disable foreign currency in the preferences.

I was so pissed off. And on the next upgrade the same thing happened, which I’d forgotten all about, so went through it AGAIN!

What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....

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I tried upgrading instead of a fresh install.

Needless to say, I ended up doing a fresh install eventually…

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I set a different background color on all my machines because of exactly this while using VNC/RDP

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All my drives are nvme* now.

I feel so much safer punching in of=/dev/sdaX

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Only at “Boil my skin off!” difficulty level

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Just last week, I fired up Portal with RTX (on Windows, I’m ashamed to admit), and holy guacamole, I think it stresses my gpu more than any other game in my library!

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Yep, even says in the article ‘destroy or de-identify’. So, they will summarize or transform/anonymize the data and just throw away the source.

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After what Domino’s electric scooter does, the least they could do is make the sound go:

Fe-RAR. RAR-RAR-RAR-i

I guess all these electric cars will start having a brand sound the same way they think having different ‘halo’ headlights somehow makes them special or cool. Then they’ll turn them up to 11 so you hear their sounds over the competitors…

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they’re on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can’t be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

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I’m in Australia, and when I search for Device Lock Controller in Play Store, it says “This app is not available in your region”

This happens on 2 separate devices from different manufacturers. Both devices were purchased in Australia and have Australian ROMs

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Yeah, I checked installed apps (checked system apps), and I don’t have it installed on either of my devices

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It’s kind of funny.

They treat them like royalty. Even more royal than royals are treated.

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