Really like this!

Only one additional thing that came to mind - get a phone with lots of storage! My two previous Android devices died as a result of EMMC failure, and they had a pretty small onboard capacity (16GB, and 32GB)… my current device is 64GB and I now keep most of my data on a 512GB sd card.

Lots of empty storage space allows the EMMC firmware to perform wear levelling as needed, prolonging the life of this non-replaceable component. Most well-designed Android devices also run a “TRIM” on the internal EMMC storage when the device is idle, a kind of self-maintenance procedure that allows the firmware to keep track of how much space is unoccupied.

For Android users who are curious about the details (or have rooted devices and want to run a trim manually) see here

I do the same

Another option i’m aware of is CTRL+C, T, V and enter (Keyboard combo to Copy, open new tab, paste, go)

Sadly doesn’t work for gov level blocks that look at the SNI rather than blocking at DNS level

Edit: correction from ESNI to SNI

Ohh I was referring to the pic posted behind the “No problem” link in that user’s comment lol

I can hear the case vibration in that picture lol

Ah, good ol’ Microsoft Office. Taken advantage of their documents being a renamed .zip format to send forbidden attachments to myself via email lol

On the flip side, there’s stuff like the Audacity app, that saves each audio project as an SQLite database 😳

All the alternatives work great for cycling, driving etc… but collapse instantly when you try and use them for public transport

User in OP’s screenshot is from Lemmygrad

Someone share the glassdoor post here pretty please? They’ve got a login wall

Haven’t heard of this before - at first I assumed it was StreetComplete before realising it was something different entirely.

Seems pretty neat from a quick look at the site, similar to StreetComplete at first glance - but allows you to focus on themes (cycling, playgrounds etc) rather than being asked what material the road is, or whether the street lighting is on all night 😅

What inspired you to develop it?

A lot of the arguments on that subreddit seem agenda driven from my perspective. While there are real concerns (user data sent and stored outside of Europe, right to be forgotten as mentioned by another user) the people there seem really fixated on the developers specifically and their beliefs, as well as deletion of user data.

If any one of the users there put their money where their mouth is and explained in a logical, sensible, neutral way to the devs why Lemmy should send federated deletion requests for example (claims made in that thread that Lemmy doesn’t, I haven’t verified if this is the case myself), the devs would probably take it on board the same way they removed the mandatory hard coded slur filter.

At the end of the day though, Kbin and Raddle seem like a solution to the general consensus in that thread, yet they get very little mention. The majority of the participants chose to bash rather than to fix, forcing their views on others inconsiderate of people’s threat models, and while they have every right to do so, a community with that kind of closed minded perspective is not something I’m into. I’d rather they stay on Reddit 👍

As for me personally… Lemmy could be better, but as a federated network with no need to be supported by ads, no API restrictions, as well as public mod logs for transparency & accountability, I really like it and interested in seeing where it goes. There are inevitably going to be issues, and a lot of the discussions I’ve seen here on Lemmy show an interest in improving things, vs reddit discussions where it’s the opposite.