Ahh, it seems like I’ve mistaken the cause. Thank you for the info.

All/Hot

But if “Hot” is broken, I think the next best for me is All/Top-Day

No, this just sound like some lazy person’s weird vision of a future without paper because writing takes too much energy.

(The lazy person is me)

I don’t think its digital handwriting replacing paper handwriting, it will just be typing. Writing takes more energy and we humans are lazy. I’ll bet most kids in schools rather type their homework rather than write it. I know from experience.

I hate writing by hand. Typing in Standard Notes gets synced to the “cloud” and also I get daily backups sent to my email. In addition, it’s end-to-end encrypted (supposedly, though I’m not knowledgeable enough to audit the source code, although a quick internet search doesn’t reveal any scandals, and it has been recommended by many internet users and privacytools.io), and I can send the encrypted backups to multiple cloud services on the internet so the risk of losing my writings are almost impossible, unless there’s a nuclear war. Honestly, I don’t see why people still enjoy writing by hand, its just too much work for my hands to deal with. But each to their own, I guess. If you have writing on paper, and you don’t want to lose it, you’d have to scan or take pictures of every page you want to backup, and you better have great handwriting or else you wouldn’t be able to use OCR on it to make the text searchable.

Lol people still use SMS/iMessage? I mean aren’t people these days using discord for grouo chat?

If I’m a bot I have to tell you. It’s in the internet constitution.

I’ll report them for harassment because everyone who knows my birthday does not give me gifts, so they must be a stalker that somehow found out my birthday.

Um wtf, I’m starting to doubt if I’m a human. 🤔

Beep Boop, am totally not a bot. Nothing to see here, please carry on.

Lemmy isn’t blocked in Hong Kong? Oh I guess its much more difficult since they’ll have to block all lemmy instances.

Anyways, here in the United States of America, tap water is safe to drink, except in certain places like Flint, Michigan, but thats more of a lead pipe issue than a germ issue. I regularly drink water directly out of the tap, I don’t have any health issues that result from drinking water.

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Sail the High Seas!

If you want to delete something on lemmy, make sure you edit the post/comment and replace it with something like “Deleted” then go to another instance to verify that the edit got sent to other instances. If you still see your old comment, then try editing it again later to a different text like “Deleted 2”. Only click the delete button after you’ve verified that your original text is no visible from other instances.

Now why do I say this? Because if you delete the comment without overwriting it, the deletion request might not get sent through the fediverse and now someone on another instance is still able to view your post. You can’t sent the deletion request twice, but you can edit a comment as much as you want, so if the federation is broken, you can always try to overwrite the comment again at a later time. Even then, there might still be a instance somewhere that didn’t receive your update/deletion request, so please make sure you don’t accidentally post your personal information.

Huh, interesting choice. I think a normal non-rugged phone with a case is still a better option. Power banks > swappable batteries in my opinion. I always put a powerbank in my pocket and whenever I’m not using it, I just connect it to my powerbank and leave both in my pocket, so I never have low battery on my phone and I have zero downtime. Speaking of downtime, make sure you disable automatic updates on your phone, I read a news story about someone needing to make an emergency call and found out their phone was automatically updating. Best time to update is when you are certain that there wouldn’t be an emergency for the duration of the update. Preferrably when you are near family members so you can use their phone if there’s an emergency.

Anyways, isn’t the Xcover for corporation only? How did you manage to buy it for personal use?

I don’t recommend getting the cheapest. I had a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy A32 two years ago and the camera lens glass just start falling off. Its why I got the iPhone 11 in the first place, because of the perceived quality of Apple products. Now I realized its not an Apple vs Samsung thing, but more of a Low-end vs Flagship thing. The Galaxy A32 issue isnt just one standalone case of unluckily getting a defective device, I know several relatives using that phone (All are T-Mobile versions) that notices they camera lens glass is feeling loose. Lens falling off is somehow considered “physical damage” so Samsung warranty didn’t cover it. Many low-end phones are cheap because of lower quality. Paying more usually means higher quality.

I’m an American 😔.

Brave on iOS works fine last I used, which was yesterday.

It more like I bought into the peer pressure of getting Apple devices so I started looking past their unethical practices. The apps they ban weren’t really the type of apps I’d use. What I’m concerned is that Apple one day just start banning ad-blockers, maybe ban VLC and cite piracy as a justification, banning encryption apps like signal, or banning VPNs (which they did in China, but I don’t live there so I kinda ignored it). They hadn’t done any of that yet so I just didn’t think too much about it, but now I kinda randomly started thinking about it and I switched to Android.

Um no? Depends on what you mean by “locked down”. For custom ROM? Probabaly. But for me, I just want to install apps without the approval of a corporation. If the appstore servers shut down or gets DDOSed for some reason, you’re out of luck.

Ahh cool, I’ve messed around with rooting, bootloaders, TWRP, and Lineage OS and all that stuff when I was younger, and I kept bricking my devices. I don’t do that anymore nowadays. Too much hassle.