favoredponcho

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[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago

Never had to upgrade memory or disk in the lifespan of the machine. What really makes a difference though is 20 hours of battery life. You can run around the office without worrying about staying plugged in.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I tested migrating Bitwarden to Proton, but there were some incompatibilities, and I didn’t trust it not to mess something up. If I was starting from scratch, maybe I’d use Proton for passwords. Bitwarden does the job though, and it’s way cheaper.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

As an engineer, I would rather develop on Mac than any other OS. I have shit to do and need to work in a POSIX compliant OS without bloat, while also not worrying about my OS install getting borked arbitrarily because I looked at it wrong.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Same. Though I have received pushback from airlines. On some international flights they try to use facial recognition at the gate. When I saw this I frantically searched the internet and learned it’s optional. So, I told them no, and the guy was flustered and told me “it’s the only way on the plane.” So, I said, “No it’s not. Your privacy policy says this is optional.” So, he sent me to the desk. There the gate agent looked at my passport and printed a paper boarding pass. Then, I just walked by Mr. “facial recognition is mandatory” and boarded the plane.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Not sure if you’re being sarcastic. If so, hilarious! But, it’s the expected response from an android Lemmy user to reference graphene os.

I actually bought a pixel and installed graphene on it just to give it a try. It’s not bad, and I can do probably 90% of the things I need on there. There are even some nice apps and features you can’t get on iOS (storage scopes is cool). But, at the end of the day, switching is hard. My biggest gripe is backups suck and fail 100% of the time, also no support for touchless payments. Also, android doesn’t manage battery life that well. Some days it’s fine, but other days it randomly drains to almost zero. At the end of the day, I don’t think the solution is to hack together an OS to work on a company’s hardware that doesn’t really support the mission. I wish the Graphene team would partner with Fairphone or something. Anyway, I’ll probably keep using the Pixel here and there, but I don’t know if I could daily drive it. I did try.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 43 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Typical boomer, pulling the ladder up behind her

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago (10 children)

When android isn’t spyware, I’ll consider switching.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Can I play Xbox PC game pass on Linux? Because I don’t use windows.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Been waiting for this

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thumbnail looks like multiple pictures of the same person

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago

I read another article that said ICE was in an unmarked vehicle ahead of him and then slammed on their breaks and he rear-ended them, despite trying to stop. It sounded like the ICE vehicle then continued to back into them. Despite the accident, they didn't arrest him or anything at the scene. Then, they show up at his house a week later like this.

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