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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I hate that LG left the market. A LOT of innovation came from them, including a lot of quircky (and often cool) features. They experimented a lot which didn’t always work out, but often it did work out great and it made their phones a lot more exciting then most other brands. Because of this a lot of features that are now the industry standard, like having a wide-angled camera lens, were popularized by LG. And yet, somehow, most people don’t know this and always saw it as a lesser brand.


  • One of the reasons why I would buy a repairable phone is it’s reliability in the long run. For instance, my previous phone, a Nokia, had a broken USB-C port. Replacing it would be pretty hard to do myself, or expensive to let somebody else do it. And that is if you can find replacement parts at all. One of the main benefits of a phone like the Fairphone, is that I can just order a new port from the manufacturer for a low price, without any unexpected costs, and replace it in 15 minutes. I still have some photo’s on that phone because they were not automatically backed up. The Nokia also was pretty unusable even when it worked, because the software was borderline criminally bad. However, the bootloader was locked so I couldn’t change it.

    buying a second ahnd flagship is also a great way to save a bit on the environment, but it’s won’t be as reliable, the condition of the battery will probably be worse and you’ll have to watch out that you don’t buy a phone that doesn’t get any updates anymore (or at least has a unlocked bootloader if you’re willing to flash a custom ROM)



  • In that case I’m afraid I don’t know any solution, hopefully you’ll find something that fits your needs. If you needed to cast Youtube-videos and such, I would’ve shared my own bodged method that combines KDE Connect, MPV and a regex-enabled fork of “handlr”.












  • Commenting from Liftoff! My first impressions are really positive! I think this might be my favorite Lemmy app so far. Everything is where I expect/want it to be and extra features like being able to change my user settings within the app make it feel more mature than most other apps I’ve tried so far.

    I also really like your implementation of how to switch instances + accounts! Feels way more smooth and natural than having to switch accounts manually.

    The only feedback/suggestion that I have so far, is adding a visual representation of the used account when commenting. Also, it would be nice if you could select one of your other accounts to post the comment from thag account (without having to exit the comment). I’ve added 3 accounts to the app right now, and although I think I’m commemting from my lemmy.world account, I’m not entirely sure.

    Anyhow, Thank your your work! This is great!