Actually the keyboard is touch sensitive. I’m wondering if they couldn’t make it so that you could swipe to type even on this…

That’s kind of the point of Gentoo. Though it’s not as hard as it sounds, the package manager (emerge) pretty much does it for you. It just might take a while.

Yeah. Praying for the camera to be good enough.

I’m sure if this sees any kind of success more localization is inevitable.

It would really have to be bad for me to hate it I think. I don’t do anything that needs crazy performance, I’ve come to realize.

Yeah I thought I made it clear what I was trying to say. This looks like a good phone on it’s own. Like sell your old phone and buy this to replace it. Not a second phone.

if all that crap is truly bugging you, put a blank android on yo phone. set up all apps to work without any intrusions. if I want to talk to people, I open the talk-to-people-app. if I want to read up on stuff, I open the reading-stuff-app. no notifications, no reminders, no nothing, my device doesn’t beep at me and demand shit, it’s there to serve me when I need it.

I think you’re missing the point. I don’t want it to be something that makes me use phones less. I want to use it as my regular phone. Like I’m saying I want it to be my next phone and use it just like any regular phone.

I mean they said the bootloader is unlockable so at least being able to disable Google services should be possible. We’ll see how community support goes.

I don’t know. That’s not what I want it for. I just want to use it as a regular phone.

Not a clue. Wouldn’t want that either. That’s why I want it as my only phone…

I have done this lmao

Management doesn’t work Saturday. College football on the TV in the office and burgers for all.

Really had to clean the desk tho

Huh?

lemmy.ml lemmy.zip lemmy.dbzer0.com discuss.tchncs.de

I suppose you’re talking about .ml but that’s only 1 of 4.

Uh, out of the top 10 instances by monthly active users (https://fedidb.com/servers) it looks like 5 federate with them and 5 don’t.

Edit: I was mistaken, it was 4 do and 6 don’t. But still, clearly not universal and tons of people are able to coexist just fine with them.

Clearly it’s polarizing. Clearly anyone spinning up a new instance certainly would know what site of that fence they fall on.

I think the biggest thing is just including one of the oldest and most active instances in there. Hexbear (or Lemmygrad) is not everyone’s cup of tea but a default block, or even to lump them in with an instance like the one you mentioned is kinda crazy. Some of the other bigger instances out there federate with one or both just fine.

That’s terrible and immediately makes me question the trustworthiness and motivations of a dev team that decides to block instances by default.

I’m not saying they’re not trustworthy but that just feels icky.

If you’ve gotten to the point of something as advanced as spinning up your own instance of a federated software you probably know who you want to federate with.

It would not crash an instance. What are you talking about…

Ah, someone who wasn’t around for the reddit exodus to Lemmy.

Lemmy is established, having existed very long before. But also they work together. So unless you have some major issue there’s no real reason to up and switch.

Having two softwares actually contributes to the decentralizing of the fediverse IMO, as long as we don’t devolve into tribalism and attacks between the two that deter new users…