Use Soulseek (you don’t have to use their app, there are alternatives like Nicotine+). Free yourself from a reliance on streaming platforms.

But as a guy who has used the iPhone almost exclusively for 10 years… they have absolutely stagnated. They aren’t doing anything new and exciting. I think they hit a wall performance wise, the gains aren’t that great year after year in anything, so they do dumb shit like the foldable one coming out this year

I think many Android users would argue the same about the major Android phone manufacturers. It’s an industry-wide phenomenon, which I think is also part of the reason we are seeing new and smaller companies entering with very different designs and ideas (Clicks, Minimal, iKKO, Mudita, Sidephone, etc) and a renewed interest from the public in features that had previously fell out of favour (small form factors, physical keyboards, etc). Android smartphones haven’t been this interesting for a long time, despite the lack of innovation from the major players and Google continuing to slowly kill its operating system by a thousand cuts.

Since this is a piracy community, you should know that the best websites for anything don’t adhere to these types of laws. I’m always surprised by the number of people who don’t bother to look beyond the mainstream options (wikis exist for a reason) and either cave to whatever is being enforced or desperately look for ways to circumvent it. You don’t have to play that game at all.

I’m not sure making it that much wider when folded down makes sense, given the original point was that they are tablets that fold into a regular phone shape and vice versa. This is going to feel very uncomfortable in pockets, if it even fits.

Probably Crimson Desert. That’s the big new release with this bypass. It does cost a lot, so I guess some people could be desperate enough to try this. Personally I’d just wait for a sale or a safer alternative.

Make Bixby great again!

I wonder what Samsung’s figures would look like if they hadn’t tried to follow Apple so closely in the last few years? They aren’t really seen as leaders or innovators in any area now. Flip and book foldables have been picked up, and in some cases done much better, by many other brands. The TriFold seems to have been a short-lived experiment that has since been abandoned due to a lack of profitability. Samsung rushed out the S25 Edge to beat Apple to market, but it was massively overshadowed by the iPhone Air. Galaxy AI was also ahead of the pack when it released but it was mostly limited to gimmicks and I"m not sure it did much for their sales. iPhones now have Apple Intelligence, and Google clearly has a significant advantage going forward considering its Ai development is in-house with Gemini. All other notable brands have their own suite of AI features.

But then again, maybe Samsung would be performing even worse if it was genuinely trying to be different. Maybe it’s impossible to beat Apple and the leftovers strategy is actually the best option available.

I hope his creation lives on. That’s an iconic site for visual novel fans.

Nah F-Droid sucks. Not enough North Korean spyware, for a start!

I’m not aware of a workaround for Facebook. I also use a second pseudonymous account for accessing information shared in groups and on business pages.

Found a Chromecast Ultra in an op shop for $5, cast to it with Grayjay, no ads.

Oh sorry, I think I misunderstood you initially.

As in, they literally do not talk about Graphene (or any other projects, for that matter).

???

At this point it’s like an unwritten rule of the internet that every GrapheneOS account comment chain will eventually regress into cooker conspiracy theories about other privacy ROM projects. And I still have no idea why Micay has started lumping iodé in with them, because I have been following that project closely for many years and no one there gives a shit about GrapheneOS. As in, they literally do not talk about Graphene (or any other projects, for that matter). They never compare themselves to GrapheneOS, on security or anything else. It’s the most bizarre, one-sided internet war.

I can’t remember what the default client is like, but Nictone+ sorts by user speeds (by default). So unless people are looking for specific encodings, they’re always going to download from the fastest user (the top result). If you’re not among the fastest and/or don’t have a niche library, you’re not going to see much traffic.

I agree. The connection between all of these things is that they involve relationships. Humans are social animals that can suffer from loneliness and AI companies are exploiting this in a similar way. Loneliness is a common thread throughout all of these AI psychosis suicide cases.

The tone of this article is way off. This guy comes across as the most clueless, naive person in the world.

I don’t understand why so many people default to “wouldn’t happen to me, that person was just stupid” every time this happens. Did you guys not read the bit where he was being encouraged to commit violence in public by the chatbot? If it’s getting to that point then there is clearly a massive fucking problem that needs urgent addressing, regardless of the intelligence of the user.

Humans are very social animals and these companies prey on the lonely by making their chatbots as affirming, sycophantic and approachable as possible.

Have you found an alternative use for the Fairphone Moments switch? Did /e/OS include anything to set that up?