Never heard of anything on the playlist before and I doubt I would have really stumbled on it normally because it’s not the style I normally seek out but so far it all slaps. How is it they’re allowed to include this stuff on their website?
When I want to find an app I haven’t pinned to the home screen I swipe up from the bottom of the home screen to bring up a search bar where I can search for an app by name or scroll through list of all apps on the phone....
Planning to switch to Graphene OS for several reasons, but I have a reason why it will be better for me not to do that until a bit later so until then I’m just trying to be comfortable with stock.
It sounds like it but, in general I prefer to have 1 maybe 2 home screen pages of stuff I know I’ll use all the time right away and anything else I’d rather just search.
I suppose if you have only enough apps to fill maybe a single home screen page then by that standard I’d have a lot as between my less frequently used apps and all of Google’s pre-installed ones that’s probably a few pages, but generally I try to be sparing with them.
It’s strange but listening again to music from about 20 years ago, during a time when I was mostly sad and depressed, and where the musical choices reflected that, gives me a weird sense of nostalgia and longing for that time....
The experience of nostalgia I understand is bittersweet and often melancholy. I guess what I’m finding strange is that normally one experiences nostalgia for something they’d actually like to be able to return to, and that usually means something that they actually liked, a previous happiness. Weirdly I seem to be pining for a particular way I felt that actually, sucked at the time. It’s weird. I know what you mean about it being best not to dwell but it’s such a powerful draw, it’s like I’m swimming around the edges of a vortex.
It’s just like that. Actually it’s an interesting point about wanting to try it again and get it right. I think that’s a layer that probably explains some of the feeling like I miss something that actually wasn’t great to experience.
I wouldn’t dare defile Douglas Adam’s memory by not mentioning that you should keep a towel with you at all times, but my second contender is a surprisingly short three-parter:...
I guess it shouldn’t bother me, after all I try my best to avoid watching anything on youtube that I didn’t go there to watch in the first place but nevertheless, it’s hard not to see the clickbaity thumbnails for suggested videos to the right of the one I’m watching, and also, when I’m researching something it’s...
The trouble with that idea though is that for a start I’ve always done this, and also, it’s very specific in which kind of rage bait and cultural warfare it’s pushing. I don’t want to sound all “both sides” but, if I wanted to, I’m sure I could design a similar kind of keep 'em angry list of suggestions that looked very different. I could have suggestions filled with videos of police brutality, I could have videos filled with women being mistreated by misogynysts, the suggestions could be about court cases about abusers being jailed or they could have been about lack of diversity and inclusion in film and media. All of that could be rage bait, it’d all be about being aggrieved in some way. I’d say in a way I could sympathise with vastly more but it would still be cultivating outrage and extremism.
Something about how sudden this is and how hard it’s pushing and the specific bias it’s pushing towards is indicating something’s changed. It’s like a dog with a bone. An interesting thing I’ve noticed is that on Newpipe there’s a related items button that I started pressing after watching something just to compare to my desktop and those items are well … related, there’s no fucked up shit. On one video it was suggesting a lot of stuff related to guns and I was starting to worry but I realised it was only when watching a slow Mo Guys videos involving shooting so it actually made sense. On all other examples it’s just something vaguely related to the topic of what’s been watched. Admittedly I don’t know if the related items button is akin to suggestions but if so then there’s a clear difference.
Anyway thanks for listening to me moan about YouTube recommending things I don’t like. I hope it stops.
You’re not totally wrong, this does boil down to “person who deliberately avoided giving machine that turns data in to relevant recommendations shocked that they are given irrelevant recommendations” but in my defence, I have always done this and there was no obvious agenda to the suggested videos. They weren’t random, because clearly despite my best efforts YouTube can identify me from visit to visit, and there was a clear link between them and my viewing habits but at least the link was comprehensible and there was no ideological basis for any of it.
That would be interesting, but it’s really only been going on about 2 weeks and I haven’t noticed a change pushing ant further in to the crazy at my location in that timeframe.
Back in 2007-ish I told my Mum all about how you could jailbreak iphones and unlock them to make the phone with other carriers. I helped alleviate any concerns by convincing her and myself that if there are any problems after the procedure, nothing physically has been changed on the phone and as long as I made a backup first, we...
This is mostly sounding reassuring. My wanted banking app is on a list of apps that people have successfully used on Graphene OS so it’s probably ok, but yeh, definitely want to be able to go back. I guess I don’t know what answer I’m looking for, but in the anecdote I started this post with, I was amazed that it was somehow possible for changes to somehow survive a re-flashing to stock. I really, really don’t want that to happen.
It was brand new at the time come to think of it, it wasn’t released until 2008 so this more likely happened in 2009. The timing and the dramatic difference from stock to jailbroken is just too striking to have been a coincidence, although you might be alleviating some 15-16 year old guilt, that perhaps it triggered something. Still very worrying that a new and very expensive phone was triggered in to dysfunction from the process but maybe it was unlucky defective model. I definitely think that while it was jailbroken the problems were as a result of the OS but maybe the Cydia apps or something else were particularly draining and then that fast draining cycle triggered something else physically.
I haven’t really used any kind of messenger service since probably MSN Messenger and IRC back in the day so I’m a bit behind on a lot of the basics. Part of what’s quite different now than the experience then is what modern messenger protocols seem to be used for, as in they have public channels dedicated to topics that...
This is what I find so odd about modern messaging systems being used in the manner that they’re used. I get that the immediacy of conversation is sometimes extremely helpful for discussing topics and I can understand why like minded people would then want to hang out together to have those conversations, but like, it’s also kind of flawed for this because of the ephemeral nature of conversation. That’s why I wondered if this flaw had been addressed through some forum-like features.
I’m using Element. Good to know about the threads thing. They didn’t work how I expected they would, I thought I’d be able to essentially do something similar to forum where I come up with a topic of discussion, name it and have a means of identifying all discussion within this topic as part of the thread, the way it works is kind of like that, but it’s more that something has to have first been said, and then you can reply to it in a thread thus essentially making it a thread. I kind of get it, it’s a bit like how emails work i that regard.
It looks like it would be hard to entice people to reply to things I ask in a thread since they have to think to click reply in thread and which message uttered as part of a topic should be considered the start of a thread is random and up to the reply-er so someone might pick something said much later in the conversation, and click ‘reply in thread’ to that thus splintering everything. Good to know there’s something at least. I kind of thought it might use something more akin to #hashtags so I could make my first statement intended to be part of a thread thus starting a thread and then anyone joining it later could easily slot in to the timeline of discussion by just using the hashtag. I see there’s a list of threads so hopefully people would use that, but it seems like a lot of hoping everyone employs best practice for the feature to really be useful.
Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows (about.winamp.com)
Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware (feddit.it)
One of those two sites is distributing adware. Which of them?...
On Google pixel, is there a way to search ONLY locally when searching apps?
When I want to find an app I haven’t pinned to the home screen I swipe up from the bottom of the home screen to bring up a search bar where I can search for an app by name or scroll through list of all apps on the phone....
Do you ever feel nostalgia for a type of sadness?
It’s strange but listening again to music from about 20 years ago, during a time when I was mostly sad and depressed, and where the musical choices reflected that, gives me a weird sense of nostalgia and longing for that time....
What would you ask to a potential partner in a partner compatibility survey?
If you had to give one piece of advice that is pretty much universally applicable, what would it be?
I wouldn’t dare defile Douglas Adam’s memory by not mentioning that you should keep a towel with you at all times, but my second contender is a surprisingly short three-parter:...
I never sign in, I delete cookies everytime my browser quits, but Youtube keeps pushing right-wing, incel bullshit at me
I guess it shouldn’t bother me, after all I try my best to avoid watching anything on youtube that I didn’t go there to watch in the first place but nevertheless, it’s hard not to see the clickbaity thumbnails for suggested videos to the right of the one I’m watching, and also, when I’m researching something it’s...
The youth's slang is so hard to keep up with... (lemmy.world)
Is there any permanent risk to the phone itself if you install graphene OS?
Back in 2007-ish I told my Mum all about how you could jailbreak iphones and unlock them to make the phone with other carriers. I helped alleviate any concerns by convincing her and myself that if there are any problems after the procedure, nothing physically has been changed on the phone and as long as I made a backup first, we...
Does Matrix have anything akin to 'posts' as in Lemmy and Reddit?
I haven’t really used any kind of messenger service since probably MSN Messenger and IRC back in the day so I’m a bit behind on a lot of the basics. Part of what’s quite different now than the experience then is what modern messenger protocols seem to be used for, as in they have public channels dedicated to topics that...