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[–] aleph@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a flagship Galaxy device and there was nowhere near that many. As I mentioned before, the budget Samsung devices are much worse than the flagships when it comes to bloatware.

In any case, the subject at hand is not bloatware (which is undeniably bad - no argument from me) but ads. Not the same thing.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee -5 points 2 years ago (9 children)

A pre-installed app is not an ad, though.

Plus pretty much of of them can easily be disabled.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Where'd you hear about flagship Samsung phones having ads?

As far as I know, the only Samsung models that feature ads tend to be the lower end series that get sold in markets like India.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

That's a problem with XWayland, not Wayland. Forcing electron apps to run using the latter generally fixes the problem.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

It's also paradoxically driven by the success of the vaccines themselves. Some people think "what's the point - when was the last time I heard of a kid dying of measles? It can't be that serious."

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Going from 192kbps to 320kbps would be audibly negligible unless you used a really bad codec to begin with, in which case adding AI into the mix would likely just compound the problem.

Probably not even worth it, tbh.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Fractional scaling has been perfectly functional on Gnome's Wayland implementation for some time already.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Very succinct summary, IMO.

I like the movie but it does lose a lot by dropping the character's inner monologues. I totally get why you'd do that for a film adaptation but the book characters are so internal and introspective that you really get a sense of their mental subtlety and the labyrinthine nature of the political landscape that they inhabit. Then also of course is how Paul (and later Leto II) subjectively experience prescience.

I'm hoping that Part Two really delves deeper into the psyches of both Paul and Jessica.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think it would be fairer to say that homeschooling in the US offers a wider distribution about the mean, with comprehensive, school-board curriculums on the one hand and whatever backward, ahistorical, pseudoscientific garbage the parents want to fill their kids' heads with on the other. It really depends on the state and the family.

Here in California, we do the same as you for our daughter's schooling and it works great for us.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

For Gnome I use adw-gtk3 on automatic day/night switching because it makes everything look nice and uniform.

I prefer Tela icons to Papirus as they're less cartoony.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Yup. People often start fussing over bit depths and sample rates, but more often than not it's something as simple as a difference in volume.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's been working flawlessly for me for quite some time, but I guess other people's mileage may vary.

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