sugar_in_your_tea

@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works

Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install?? (sh.itjust.works)

You’re twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You’ll be leaving for Grandma’s in about a half hour, and she’s lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and...

sugar_in_your_tea,

Libby works great in my area. Connect it to your library card and grab some ebooks.

sugar_in_your_tea,

You missed a huge one: merch. Gamers love gaming-related merch, so make a lot of it. Partner with game studios to prepare merch around big launches, and secure rights to make memey merch a bit after launch to keep the hype going. If done correctly, the journalists don’t need to sacrifice integrity in reviews because even flops can sell spicy merch.

I think that could sell well. Start selling merch before launch, discount it right around launch, and then launch the memey merch right after launch.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Easy: worse results with more ads means more searches and thus more ad impressions, therefore profit.

That’ll only work for so long, but that seems to be what they’re doing.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Risk.

Not sure why though. I dislike Hasbro, the game isn’t particularly exciting, and I don’t like the monetization, but it’s relaxing for me. I haven’t spent a dime and I only play for 15-20 min/day, but I like it for some reason.

Likewise with Magic: The Gathering Arena. I don’t play as much recently, but I do like it.

Most of my time is spent playing older AAAs and indie games though.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I have a couple in my garage because the previous owner liked carpentry, and I’ll use it when I get an EV.

That’s not that uncommon.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Same, except I’m not an attention whore (or at least I don’t openly admit it).

I would really like to unicycle to work, but that goes a bit too far down the attention-whore path (not to mention I work really far away).

sugar_in_your_tea,

Don’t let your dreams be dreams.

:)

I loaned out my 20" and never got it back, so I picked up a 29", which I absolutely love. I still miss my 20" though, so I might just pick one up the next time my kid wants to learn to ride. :)

sugar_in_your_tea,

My kid wants one.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Eh, I got it for $50 and it worked to get me to learn, so I’m not too hung up on it. And I leant it to a coworker who was contracting with our org, and after the job ended, he didn’t reach out to return it (I didn’t either). It was kinda crappy, so whatever.

That said, I’m casually in the market again. I’ll get a good one this time too.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Good advice. I’ve never had surgery outside of wisdom teeth removal, and other than then, I’ve never used anything stronger than ibuprofen. I’ve taken some pretty rough spills, so I think I have a high pain tolerance, but I don’t know for sure.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Idk, toxic glue might do a better job, and you can make it safe by adding in some detox suppliments.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yup, delete your account. They can still use your past submissions, but going forward you’re convered.

sugar_in_your_tea, (edited )

Here are fewer words: 1password didn’t get hacked (you claimed they did), LastPass didn’t expose user passwords.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I’m the same way, I use Bitwarden myself.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Lastpass exposed encrypted passwords in 2022

Yes, that’s bad, but attackers would still need to break the encryption. Nobody does that, except maybe state level actors, and if you’re worried about that, you wouldn’t use commodity password managers.

1Password app had a bug where it didn’t clear master password after logof

I think you’re talking about this study:

On the negative side, the master password remains in memory when unlocked (albeit in obfuscated form) and the software fails to scrub the obfuscated password memory region sufficiently when transitioning from the unlocked to the locked state. We also found a bug where, under certain user actions, the master password can be left in memory in cleartext even while locked.

To exploit this, the attacker would need access to the memory of the device and know how to find the password in memory. It’s certainly not ideal, but it’s also not very exploitable.

The newer version is worse in this regard, but it still requires that relatively advanced exploit.

In the conclusion:

However, each password manager fails in implementing proper secrets sanitization for various reasons.

This isn’t unique to 1Password, it’s probably common across password managers. Unfortunately BitWarden wasn’t part of this research because I’m interested to know how it fairs here.

That said, I don’t use or recommend either LastPass or 1Password because they’re not FOSS, I just don’t like FUD. I use and recommend Bitwarden because it’s audited, FOSS, and competitively priced.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Idk, S. Korea’s chaebols actively reduce competition. So be careful who you want to provide that competition…

sugar_in_your_tea, (edited )

Requirements exist. It’s just that device manufacturers don’t seem to care.

I think it’s more reasonable to look at Linux phones than GrapheneOS supporting anything beyond Pixels. I was hoping to get a Linux phone this time around, but they just don’t support the basic features well enough. Hopefully my next phone will be a Linux phone, but we’ll see.

Giving into Google hardware to escape Google software is a step I don’t want to take

Yeah, it’s annoying. However, it’s important to note that Google is generally really good about security, so it’s not a surprise that their phones have a lot of cool security features.

I also didn’t want to give Google money, so I bought a used Pixel and saved a ton of money. I got a Pixel 8 in like-new condition for <$400 on eBay after a big discount from an eBay sale, and I can expect 6+ years of updates (not just security updates, but OS updates). I’m really enjoying GrapheneOS so far. I guess I tangentially helped them, but at least my dollars_ didn’t go to Google.

That said, CalyxOS and DivestOS are also fine projects, and I seriously considered using them instead.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yup, I’ve been on the fence about buying one since the launch of the OG Pinephone. But I kept waiting until the software support for the things I need arrived (MMS and decent battery life), and that still seems to be unresolved.

I will hopefully have time to hack on it sometime in the next year or two, so I’ll probably get one eventually. Then again, maybe I’ll just ignore the problem until they release an update or something (would be awesome to get a new SOC with better power saving features).

sugar_in_your_tea,

If all this engagement slop went out of business tomorrow, my life wouldn’t change lol

Your life would probably improve.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Or just… install an ad-blocker. With Container Tabs on Firefox, YouTube doesn’t associate those links with me (at least not through my Google Account), and I don’t see ads with my ad-blocker.

No need for using random websites that may just be stealing my data a different way. I’m happy to watch on YouTube, I’m just won’t watch the ads or opt-in to tracking.

sugar_in_your_tea,

But YouTube links auto-open, which is why I post YouTube links. I suppose I could figure out how to associate all these random sites (Piped, Freetube, probably others) with YouTube, but surely URL redirectors work better when using the original source URLs instead of a laundry list of different URLs.

On Lemmy, we have the Piped bot, so the inconvenience for those who don’t have those URL redirects configured is to go to the comments and click a link.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Thanks, I’ll check it out. :) That should do nicely.

sugar_in_your_tea, (edited )

Ah, okay, thanks for the clarification. I’ve never used it, just seen it mentioned here.

Regardless, I think it would be easier to use YouTube links instead of Piped links for redirecting links to it. Then again, I don’t have experience with it, only with Android YouTube alternatives like NewPipe and Grayjay.

sugar_in_your_tea,

My new phone doesn’t seem to have the rotate issue, so the biggest annoyance for me now is the lack of channel playlists (i.e. go to a YouTube channel and see their curated playlists). I don’t need that to pay though, so I’ll probably go pay soon.

And yeah, it’s a great app. I still need NewPipe though.

sugar_in_your_tea,

If they go back to non-floating tabs, you’d save like 2-3px per my screenshots. You seem to want more than that, and that’s where the accessibility issues come up.

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