We need better alternatives

We’d need a quantum leap in storage and bandwidth first - orders of magnitude better, if we want competing to be financially sane 😮‍💨

Maybe when Google is (hopefully eventually) shattered into a million pieces by some US judge, YouTube could be splintered into several smaller companies, each with some portion of the infrastructure and channels/videos - thus forcing competition. Vaguely similar to the Bell divestiture.

I’m not well versed in the machinations of the Chinese government, but if a relatively “normie” VPN like Nord works in China… it’s probably controlled opposition (i.e. they’re logging everything to a government server.)

set timers

This broke for me a few months ago. It just randomly… won’t start, despite saying otherwise.

That sounds like more effort than just… writing the code.

Too late, already moved to Garmin after my third dead Charge 5 in ~1.5 years.

Good, I would like to avoid interacting with the hallucination machine.

Wow, I can talk to the hallucination machine! What an innovation!

… God, imagine if this all this effort went towards fusion power or space infrastructure. What a waste.

Yeah, no thanks. My third Charge 5 in 1.5 years “randomly” died a few days ago - I’m not that gullible.

Unicode versions (what this is talking about) and encodings are different things.

Encodings kind of by definition don’t really change. Unicode versions add new codepoints (such as emoji.)

Full Unicode text and images is likely all we’ll get, but honestly I never understood the appeal of all the crap they stuff into (say) iMessage.

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I would, if not for a combination of a few factors:

Firstly, I currently own an S22 that can’t be unlocked, but I’m loathe to trade away a perfectly good phone so soon.

Secondly, Pixels (which seem to be the best supported in the custom ROM scene?) are still kinda shit hardware wise. At minimum they need a proper ultrasonic fingerprint sensor before I consider switching.

And finally, I don’t have a strong enough motivation to switch.

I’m concerned about my privacy, yes, but at the same time I really don’t do anything interesting with my phone. Most of my computation happens locally on my Linux desktop, far out of reach of any prying eyes.

And it’s not like they can use what little information they can harvest for anything, since all my devices are juiced to the gills with adblockers.

Yeah, there’s no reason to pay for Premium unless you have an iPhone (and hopefully even that will change once the EU drags Apple kicking and screaming away from their App Store monopoly.)

Hopefully Google moves to a proper ultrasonic sensor like every other brand with the Pixel 8. I really want to move from Samsung so I can take advantage of rooting and stuff like Lineage, but the hardware is just… so awful.

If Canada uses the same bands as the rest of NA (and I assume it does) you should be able to get one remailed to you, no?

• On my desktop: GNOME Evolution - but only because my university uses Outlook w/ Exchange (cringe) and the UI is slightly more tolerable than Thunderbird.
• On my phone: I just use the baked-in Samsung Mail app.

In terms of provider, I used to use Gmail for my personal, but got tired of Big G scraping my correspondence. I tried Proton, but its integration story is a complete joke (you can upload your calendar and contacts but there’s no DAV support, their IMAP bridge is a non-standard-compliant dumpster fire that doesn’t work with half the clients I tried…) so I ended up on Fastmail.

Only Spotify, and that’s on a family plan. The discovery features are what make it worth the money.

… However, I do have a spotdl script on my desktop that maintains local copies of all my playlists (runs automatically every Monday).

No, which is a shame. It would be a pretty elegant solution.

Unfortunately you can’t stream media through tunnels on a free plan. I also don’t like how it requires Cloudflare to do TLS termination - not like I’m sending anything sensitive, but it still bugs me.

I’m not sure about the current offerings, but I think former Reddit apps transitioning to Lemmy (such as Sync) should retain any accessibility compatibility/features they had.