Same, I didn’t bother upgrading to the G8 because of that. I wouldn’t get a pixel bc they removed the headphone jack. I actually was leaning towards the sony xperia line but it’s not sold in my country. The CAT smartphone meets the specs I want but it’s expensive. I just replaced the battery in my g7 so I hope to get another year at least out of it and hopefully something better gets released.
Did apple shut down sideloading then? When I was testing on iOS, dev local installation was a pain but I would assume that’s still an option if you enable the dev features
I don’t think they are any more “locked down” than the other vendors, usually they have a bunch more features on top of base android. I never used their store tho so idk if that’s what you’re refering to
LG G7 Thinq. It had all the features I wanted and was a good price. I actually did look around a month ago and nothing else on the market compares even years after it came out (I could get close to what I wanted but I would need to go high end) which is a shame bc I’ll have to switch for 5G at some point. Google and Samsung removed the 3.5mm jack so I’ll never buy from them.
Um well the food communities seem to be active and drama-free. Plus the gardening communities. Neither of those topics is on your list. There are also a bunch of animal communities if you really want cat pics lol
Good: I got support from people when things in my DnD group got weird.
Bad: Once, I asked a technical question that I had asked people irl and researched a lot and not found what I was looking for. On reddit, I had people making assumptions and nitpicking the terminology while avoiding the actual question completely. It was a good example of the CS/math departments friction (which makes a whole lot more sense to me now). I did get a better answer on another site by just posting the equation and using zero jargon but I ended up abandoning that topic bc it was impractical.
Idk for everyone else, but when I was on reddit once I had set up the subreddits I wanted to see, I really spent 99% on my time on just those. Every so often I would leave or join subreddits but it was rare. Like if people are not doing searches as often then the lag is more tolerable. Plus, won’t content from larger and older instances be indexed by search engines eventually? Right now because so many communities are being created on so many different instances, it’s more obvious that the searching is laggy but things will surely settle down as time passes.
Could that be solved by caching? Can’t the smaller instance avoid some duplication?
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The thing that’s missing here most is the niche communities (I’m talking about like the ended 10 years ago tv shows and people are still posting about them). On the other hand, I noticed while most countries have 1 or 2 communities, my country already has at least 7 for specific locations and people still want to make more so it feels very much like home already
Canada - Many people here put water in the fridge or a britta jug to get rid of the chlorine taste