Maybe, just maybe, Samsung needs to stop pushing its bloatware? They make great phones but even the non-technical folks are more and more getting turned off by Samsung’s bloat.

Thank you! I thought they were talking about the Play Services and I was like “why isn’t the version numbering the same 🤨”. So yeah, same for me, no issues with the Jan 2024 version.

Side Of Burritos made an unboxing video + GrapheneOS test of the Pixel Tablet: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jfbz1RzSJh4

This was 7 months ago so you should assume that GrapheneOS got even better now.

Lemmy seems like a nice person, even helping with bootloader unlocking and stuff

What version is the January 2024 update? I have the 24.02.13 on GrapheneOS but I’m not sure if it’s the one that the different articles are talking about.

If you like chess puzzles: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/jwtc.android.chess/

It’s a full-featured chess app, but what’s nice about it is that it’s also got a large amount of short chess puzzles that are available offline (unlike lichess).

Pro-tip: use NewPipe and you’ll never want to go back. You can install it from F-Droid.

That doesn’t really mean that they store it in plain text. They sent it to you after you finished creating your account, and it’s likely that the password was just in plain text during the registration. The question still remains whether they store their outgoing emails (in which case yes, your password would still be stored in plain text on their end, not in the database though).

I dig this one, though it’s debatable whether it should be Lemmyest or Lemmiest 🤔

EDIT: ChatGPT’s take on the similar merriest (correct form) vs “merryest”:

The word “merriest” is the correct form in English because it follows the standard rules for forming the superlative degree of adjectives. When an adjective ends in a consonant + y, like “merry,” you change the “y” to “i” and add “-est” to form the superlative. This is a common spelling rule in English to maintain pronunciation and prevent double vowels. Therefore, “merriest” is the proper way to express the highest degree of merriness. “Merryest” would be considered incorrect.

won’t be big and professional like gnu

that didn’t age well

yoo I didn’t know about used/refurbished Thinkpads being that cheap, I just checked and indeed you can find a T480 with 16GB of RAM for $248 on Amazon!

I really wish the dev the best of luck. But personally, the idea of trying to make something lucrative and introduce ads (& the accompanying trackers) on top of something that people joined because they rejected that in the first place just doesn’t sit right with me, especially given that we have awesome apps like Voyager and Memmy that are purely donation-driven.

here’s my submission for the icon 😁

It’s a combination of three things:

1- most people still google things;

2- the more content you have the more organic traffic you’re likely to attract from Google;

3- displaying ads on your website makes you money.

Websites full of LLM generated content are just the natural continuation of MFAs (Made For AdSense) and there were lots of tools on sale back then in the 2006~2008 period that promised to automatically create websites for you and fill them with randomized content that is optimized for AdSense.