good enough but I can download “pixel camera” app to get all the features of stock pixel camera? Including magic eraser, unblur etc?

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s how it works, I think I downloaded it once just to try the camera-translate feature.

Does GOS give me option to disable any internet access for any app? Help would be appreciated 👍

Yup, %100 sure about that one. You’d have to root your phone on stock to be able to disable Wifi for an app, but GOS lets you do it easily with a simple permission toggle. I do this for Gboard, as I like using it but don’t want Google to be in my business.

It really just depends on luck. You can check the GitHub list of banking apps reported to work or not. My credit card banking app (Discover) works but not my debit card bank (Navy Federal), and PayPal has a stroke and hates me. I tried using exploit compatibility mode.

According to some new reports, there might be hope to get other apps working, but overall it’s not “plug and play” for all banking apps.

I have the same model, the GOS camera pretty much uses the same basic features that the Pixel Camera uses, but when I checked their page for more info, apparently GOS Pixels only support night mode, you lose HDR, Face Retouch, Portrait, etc. My friends often have me take group pics and think my photos look good, so I wouldn’t sweat it, but you could always download pixel camera and restrict wifi access.

Anki (and AnkiDroid):

The gods of learning and studying with flashcards. You will never want another flashcard program, especially if you were still using Quizlet (so enshittified now…) because Anki uses SRS (spaced repetition system) which makes you review things right before your brain forgets it to reinforce the subject material.

Add-ons: Bread and butter of Anki, I use several to make beautiful automatic flashcards of reading material/videos/games when I study Japanese. There’s an add-on for literally anything.

Cross platform: Free on desktop, cost $25 on iOS, and free on Android, although Ankidroid is an unofficial app. Still great though!

Cloud: Syncs your anki database across devices. If you don’t use anki for a while, will delete from the cloud, but as long as you have your own local database intact, you can reupload again later.

Sharing Decks: If you don’t feel like making your own decks, download ones that others shared for free.

Anki is used by language learners, college students, med students, etc. If you need to memorize it, use Anki.

Not original comment but I use it to not directly go to Twitter, Reddit, and sometimes YouTube (ReVanced or FreeTune for me). They have a shit ton of services that can be redirected, although you have to worry about the proxies that are dead (Instagram, Tiktok). Even then, you can use it to avoid directly visiting the real site if you miss-clicked.

Either racism/Nazism or network effect. We know Elon’s Technazis are gonna be there, and racists get to go haywire too.

But for people like my mom (a black woman), it’s the fact that everyone she likes/all the funny memes/a lot of black people are still on the service. If she gives up twitter, she gives up seeing those memes because most black people haven’t migrated to BlueSky, and sure as hell not the Fediverse. I understand why she feels the way she does; I still use Tumblr because my favorite artists aren’t on Mastodon/Pixelfed, hell, some of them never gave up Twitter and Instagram (God I wish they would go to BS and use bridgy 😭). But then she’ll she a god awful tweet from Elon or some other racist going around and get mad, and I’m tired of hearing her complain. And then I always tell her, “why are you surprised, you’re on Twitter. Just leave,” but then I get the network effect issue.

uBlock can do the same things as noscript afaik, so you don’t even need noscript anymore (and yet Tor forces it…), but yeah other than saving your global and site based decisions, I’m not sure you can avoid having to toggle domains for every brand new site you visit…

I love the kind of woman that will actually just kill me

I’m talkin’ full on, watermelon-in-the-thighs level carnage

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Edit: Invidious link (cause I’m dummy)

With VShojo specifically, I’m not sure. But there’s definitely been other VTubers who work for other companies that have openly said that a company sucked/mistreated/poorly paid them.

I’m not the biggest VTuber lover, nor did I watch IronMouse all that much, but man, is it impossible for these VTuber companies to not suck? Like Hololive hasn’t burned or had some major scandal in terms of mistreatment/payment as far as I know, but still it feels like every month a crisis is happening in that industry.

And like, I thought the whole point of VShojo was for talented/popular VTubers to escape their shittier former companies and join them. Like at this rate being indie/solo is better than joining a company.

Hope she gets her money for her donations.

Eng Learning TLDR: I was raised with both sight words and phonetics, and realize that my gen was fucked over.

I’ve heard about the reading wars, but this was the first time I actually thought about it with my education, and I realize why I probably wouldn’t read as well if I didn’t have parents who actively read with me as a child.

I’m a 2006 baby, so I guess my elementary years were at the perfect time for this little debate to occur. I definitely remember doing sight words and their flashcards, but I swear we still did phonetics (thank god). But like, how would anyone expect a kid to magically learn words by just looking at it 50 times and hearing a teacher say that word? I get that according to this article, a large portion of Eng words can’t be read properly first try, but still, I see the value in having a kid connect the sounds of “cat, bat, hat, that,” etc. Yes, some homonyms like “to, too, two” are gonna have to be “sight words” but that’s unavoidable.

I hated Eng class, not because of sucking at it, but how we never really got free reading time after elementary, and that we were doing lame ass journals and reports on books I didn’t want to read. And there were high levels books I did want to read, which is why I loved a banned books project that gave us the freedom to pick a book to do a creative, in any format you want, presentation of the knowledge from the book.

So if I, a person who actually wanted to read and can read well hated Eng class, then people who have learning disabilities, are simply bored, didn’t have parents who cared, etc were cooked. I guess that’s why my college classmates are so incompetent rn…

Also side note about Chinese (or well, Japanese in my case):

Yeah, CN and JP use hanzi/kanji respectively, which are logograms, but both CN/JP have “alphabets” that can be used to tell you the reading of a word. Chinese uses pinyin (which is actually what most of their keyboards are based on I think), and JP has hiragana/katakana. It’s still however more useful to learn the readings for these characters in the context of what you’re reading (esp. Japanese, they got their writing system from China but used their own bastardized readings for words, so 生 has like 10+ readings depending on the word it’s paired with).

But they still have a neat trick in which kanji have two parts, the phonetic component, and the meaning component. Kanji are made of radicals, which is like using lego blocks to make a single character (i.e. 米 + 青 = 精). The neat part is that you can potentially guess the reading of a word if you already know that phonetic components reading. 青 can be read as “sei”, and these kanji 精, 清, 圊, 睛, etc. all have “sei” or a similar version as a potential reading. Now sometimes the radicals don’t always make sense meaning wise when added together. 青 is “blue/youth” and 米 is “rice”, but 精 means “spirit/ghost”, “energy”, and uh… “semen” (mostly in the word 精液 “spirit fluid”). Why rice + youth = spirit or ghost, is beyond me, but these kanji usually have interesting stories behind them that could potentially explain their reasoning.

JP Kanji Learning TLDR: JP is fun to learn and kanji have reading patterns based on their components.

+1 on Aegis, love it, it’s FOSS and on F-droid. Can make auto backups/exports (encrypted/not), can register codes from a screenshot of a QR code (love that feature when I’m on my phone), it’s a simple and clean design overall.

Only problem is Do Not Disturb will silence all your contacts. Now, you might say well just have set so it doesn’t silence your important/starred/specified contacts, which is true. But then, you’ve got it where a started contact is sending you texts at 7 am and you sleep until 10 am, and now you’re mad cause they woke you up. Only option is to silence them too, but now you’re not hearing their texts/calls until it’s scheduled to be off, and if an emergency ever happened you’d feel like shit.

So yeah a “silent send” option would be really nice.

Lol, depends on the group and mod level. Yeah, the overall Tiktok and Insta moderators get paid (poorly) to do their job, but do subreddit and individual sever Discord mods get paid?

If we’re talking about Fediverse, maybe the mods of an instance would get paid, but I can bet most Fedi mods rn aren’t being paid, they do it for love.

The biggest point is this:

a team with tonnes of support from the get go, both each other and mental health services etc as a bare minimum

There was a post the other day about protesting Tiktok mods who talked about the horrifying amounts of gore and NSFL stuff they had to remove from the service, getting no support nor concern for their well-being from Tiktok. So you can absolutely pay someone (although not well probably, even for a billion dollar company), but all the money in the world won’t erase looking at 300 beheading videos.

I think the biggest thing helping the Fediverse is the fact that it’s fragmented and not meant to get too big per instance. No one is ever gonna have to moderate millions of accounts like big tech does. Mods can suspend sign-ups and set their own limits. We could make a pretend scenario where each instance is only 1K people, which is far easier than what YT and Insta have to do.

Interesting article, and I feel that it’s pretty fair. At first, I thought they were talking about this checklist, but I see they’re different. The version I followed doesn’t seem to have the same issues (lists jurisdiction but doesn’t give it a rating, doesn’t list or rate encryption methods at all, no summary at the beginning, etc.).

I think checklists/matrices still have their place, as listing all the branches/options might get too cluttered for a diagram, but I do understand why flowcharts (or the neat venn diagrams that get posted here often) can express information better. I don’t think checklists are inherently biased, I just think you need a good decision maker behind the list.

value proposition isn’t great for long term unless you constantly play new games.

This. I never understood why people bothered with this mess in the first place, you need to be playing a new game like every two-three months to make this worth it/cheaper than just buying a $60 game. Which I think would be extremely hard for some games like RPGs that might take 100hrs to beat, especially if you have a life/obligations. I was busy with college, so Metaphor Re:fantazio took me like 5 months to beat, so a gamepass would be more expensive that buying the damn thing.

I mean, was Roblox more about building in the past? To me, or at least when I played it back as a 10 yr old or so, Roblox was always about playing the diverse amount of games. If you wanted to build stuff, that was for Minecraft. I was always playing party games, anime clones, survival games, etc.

Really just depends, one of my banking apps doesn’t work, but another bank’s app does work. When it comes to payment apps, I only use PayPal, which unfortunately doesn’t work for me either. They have a long GitHub list keeping track of what apps have been reported to be working.

Actually they’re doing votes for logos, they ended round 1 about a month ago according to their Mastodon account. I think the globe one and the CM w/ a compass logos look best so far.

Of course, I don’t want my game to look like utter dogshit, and graphics can be apart of the fun, but my biggest concerns with games are how they play and what the story/characters is like (if it’s that type of game).

There can be times that I can appreciate more realistic looking games, but honestly it’s boring to see so many games try the same style over and over again, especially when it isn’t executed well. And if worrying about graphics causes my game to be an unoptimized game with a lackluster story, then I’d rather people just stick with a less detailed style to preserve the the fun (imo) part of games, which is literally everything else.