Metallibus

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[–] Metallibus 17 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Should Trump be convicted, I think it will alienate a group of voters into full disbelief of the existing system.

Good? Our existing systems across the board are entirely fucked. Straight white men generally benefit the most from these systems and have generally continued to turn a blind eye to these problems, as it's easy when you're in the "winning" position. If this somehow wakes them up, maybe we can actually fix something.

[–] Metallibus 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'm not sure if the same can be said for the 7a, but a close friend of mine was having awful battery experiences on his 7. I saw a lot of people saying their battery was vastly improved on the Android 14 Beta so I told him to try it and he's said it's a night and day difference. May be worth a shot.

[–] Metallibus 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

For those interested in solving this problem...

Cats generally use furniture because it works better than the alternatives they are provided. Companies aren't selling your cat a scratching post - they're selling YOU the scratching post.

If your cat uses a particular piece of furniture, find a post of similar size/shape and place it next to it. IE, if they're scratching the back corner of the couch, get a 3 foot tall post and place it next to the corner of the couch. If they're tearing up the rug, get one of the scratchers they stand on, and place it near that spot.

Cats scratch in different ways/angles/shapes to not only sooth their nails, but also to stretch certain muscles. If you can give them a scratcher that is aimed at similar muscles, it'll be more pleasant to use than the furniture, and they'll likely use that instead.

[–] Metallibus 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For me, it depends on the website.

Twitter to Mastodon is easy. I've never understood short form text social media. I never made a Twitter account but I have a Mastodon account so I guess that says something. But I still don't use it.

Instagram to Pixelfed has been a hard sell. I enjoy photography but have hated Meta. I hated Instagram and ended up making one just because it's the only real active community, even though it's compression, resolution, and aspect ratio garbage are all awful for actual photography. I've tried 500px, Flickr, Vero, and a bunch of others and they all have problems. Pixelfeds UI and community just both aren't great so I can't buy in yet. And I'm not even using Instagram much these days anyway.

Does YouTube count? I don't comment/post much, but I have very little faith in PeerTube or any of the others ever gaining reasonable traction. So many other attempts at this have failed and the content is too important.

Reddit to Lemmy has been a mix. I completely axed Reddit apps and don't check it daily and instead use Lemmy. Been having a hard time filling the content void. And when I want hive mind type feedback on obscure things / recommendations / tech problems, you just can't beat reddits 15 year history of content and opinions. But I am actively posting/browsing on Lemmy instead.

[–] Metallibus 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe my interest are too niche, but the trending communities stuff has felt too.... Bland/general for me. I'll keep trying it though, thanks.

The stuff I've seen has had communities with many posts but only a handful of comments. Maybe that only exists in those larger, more general communities for now though.

[–] Metallibus 2 points 11 months ago

While I agree with your position of current reddit comments, the OP was comparing to old reddit. I feel like it's only been true in the past 5-8 years of reddit. And while that's not what I'm looking for, the low amount of engagement here is a bit too low where I start considering just getting like a news aggregator app. I'd prefer something with SOME discussion as that was part of the value of reddit for me.

[–] Metallibus 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The official one doesn't. I've used a couple others that didn't.

[–] Metallibus 3 points 11 months ago

Ahh, that's where that went.... I couldn't find it in my apps and figured I'd removed it.

[–] Metallibus 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

There are a slew of Android TV remote apps that do all this and more, like including home/back buttons, integrated search etc. They also pair easier. The first party Google TV app covers this smoother than a BT keyboard/mouse app.

[–] Metallibus 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sony's claim is that standard Bluetooth isn't fast enough to stay in sync with the screen and your control inputs, so they have their own bespoke wireless (but not Bluetooth) headset.

To be fair, this is kind of true... Most Bluetooth latency is fucking atrocious.

[–] Metallibus 1 points 11 months ago

This is the sad truth. I'll continue watching their shows on a family account as long as I can. The second that's gone, I'm done with their garbage.

[–] Metallibus 0 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I used to happily subscribe to Netflix because anything I could want was there. Now I use it on a family plan on occasion since it already existed, but there's no way I'd pay for it so I could watch like 2 shows and 4 comedy specials a year, and have to find everything else somewhere else.

I was happy with YouTube and just purchased things there but recently you can't watch beyond 480p in any browser except for Safari. So fuck that too.

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