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@FredOnline@kbin.social

A brilliant disguise

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That's happened to me today, both on my desktop and on my 'phone.

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The next day, and still getting logged out.

What's the point of buying new phones every years?

Other than your carrier give it for free or cheap, I don’t really see the reason why should you buy new phone. I’ve been using Redmi Note 9 for past 3 years and recently got my had on Poco F5. I don’t see the point of my ‘upgrade’. I sold it and come back to my Note 9. Gaming? Most of them are p2w or microtransaction...

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As mentioned by others, security updates and the camera. If the right 'phone comes along at the right price, then is when I'll consider doing the upgrade. Upgrading when the latest greatest 'phone is released is something I would never consider.

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I have zero tolerance for trolls, just block 'em and move on. Life's too short!

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What about Lappy?

It's similar to Lemmy, but with 'app' in the middle.

What "third generation" Trek is worth watching?

I started with Star Trek after watching the Star Trek (2009) movie in college. After that I went wild watching everything I could since I was young with loads of time. I watched most of TOS, all of TNS, all of DS9, all of Voyager, all of Enterprise and all of the movies. I then stopped since I didn't have the time and wasn't...

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Personally, I think they peaked with 'Star Trek: Voyager', although I must say I never liked the character 'Q' in any generation, and even now when I re-watch Voyager episodes, I will always skip the 'Q' ones.

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is crawling this morning.

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@ikt @TimPurdum Yep, mine's really slow to load up and update on my computer, and the app on my 'phone keeps timing out.

What do you eat in the morning?

I've never been a breakfast person, and I don't wake up hungry. I used to go a few hours without eating anything and then have a breakfast of two scrambled eggs, 1/2 cup of brown rice, and a sliced avocado with some salt or soy sauce. That's a very tasty and healthy breakfast, but I get hungry again within a couple of hours....

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Two slices of toast with Peanut Butter, a glass of Orange Juice and a cup of Coffee.

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Why do the thumbnails, and my profile image, appear as 'squashed'?

It's not only my account, but also others.

I changed my image to a perfectly square image, thinking that may help, but it still looks the same - squashed!

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@ernest Hey, thanks for letting me know!

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On my Android 'phone I just use the official app from the Play Store, it fulfills my needs. There are no ads, which was the reason I wouldn't use the official app for Twitter.

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Recently their prices have skyrocketed, Gandi are now poor value for money.

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The majority of my domains were with Gandi, they're now with Porkbun.

Also, check out this link for prices/offers, etc:

https://tld-list.com/

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Be nice to everyone, from the receptionist upwards, and if you're offered a cup of coffee/tea, offer to wash the cup yourself afterwards. Little things that show you're thoughtful.

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Not one, but five General Motors TBM Avenger torpedo bombers.

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Has anyone tried K9 Mail for Android? Trying to find a good client for my phone.

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@j I've used K9 in the past, and it's currently installed on my 'phone with accounts set up (with manual sync only), but it's not my main driver.

My main e-mail app is FairEmail, I have the Pro version and I've used that for a few years and it has an excellent feature set. The only concern (for me anyway) is that the creator of the app (Marcel) is very sensitive to criticism, even if that criticism is not warranted. He gets very upset to see his app being criticised on the Play Store, and frequently has intimated that's he might close the app down.

Should that ever happen, I will revert to K9 - it's been undergoing some updates recently and I believe it may be renamed to 'Thunderbird'.

"outsource" email from my self hosted shenanigans

Hello friends, I am considering using some of my domains for email in addition to my self hosted stuff and i cannot stress enough how much i do not want to host and run my own email service. My objective is to find a service that i can hook up with Gmail, so i think it'd have to do mail forwarding and submission/SMTP for sending...

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You have to absolutely know 100% what you are doing with MXroute, they're not into hand holding you through any problems caused by inexperience.

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I used to have the vast majority of my domains with Gandi, but over recent times, I've favoured Porkbun and most of my domains are now with them. I used NameSilo for a while, but their prices aren't as competitive as they once were. Tried Google Domains for a short while, but was concerned if I was ever to lose access to my Google account, I could lose access to my domains.

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Share your experience(s) of free and/or paid email service providers, ask email-related questions, etc.

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Is this the reason why, when I do a search for my kbin account - from Mastodon - it gives no results?

I've been able - from kbin - to follow my Mastodon account without problem.

Kbin Roadmap 2023

A certain stage of development has ended - a prototype was created that allowed me to verify whether such a form makes sense in the #fediverse. Until now, it was a project that I developed in my free time. Now, thanks to the great people from Nlnet, I will be able to devote much more time to it. This time, we have already...

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Ernest, looking at all the previous comments, you must feel like you've been connected to 'The Borg Collective', with it's 'thousands' of voices!

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