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Is there any closed source android app that you wish had a good open source alternative?
  • Isn't this literally what Waistline is for Android? You create your own local food database (which you can automatically fetch info from Open Food Facts or USDA if desired, but not required) which lets you put in as many nutriments to track as you wish, all with graphs and information with different timelines.

    No clue if there's anything like this for desktop.

  • What are your favorite Dreamcast games?
  • Definitely Phantasy Star Online - even today I still play and work on it because it's just the perfect type of game for myself.

  • Workers united!
  • Everyone's commenting about how it's obviously the wage increase that made the prices go up but also it's March 29th to 1st April, which is usually when prices go up anyway because the next financial year is about to start.

  • X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making
  • You can have links open in NewPipe by setting it in Android's settings:

    Settings -> Apps -> All apps -> NewPipe -> Open by default

    And then set things up in there

  • Xbox Is Not Your Friend
  • There was definitely a lot of support for this merger - people see it as ABK's "redemption arc", and there was a lot of excitement around ABK games coming to GamePass / other platforms like Steam because of this.

    Ultimately this is how people think: What is in the merger for them? And they don't think macro, but just simple things like "now I can finally get this game on [platform]"

  • Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
  • https://floorp.app

    Firefox fork with features like the sidebar, vertical tabs, and more. It's a vivaldi-like gecko browser, give it a shot.

  • Israel 'has a right' to withhold power and water from citizens in Gaza - Starmer
  • While this is true, politics is unfortunately about feelings and optics, not actual facts.

    People believe that Labour is antisemitic, and therefore that impression is going to stick with people even if it might wholly be false.

    I'm not a fan of Starmer either but politics is a stupid game and I'm not so sure a different response would be a good idea to the public, as much as he should have said literally anything else.

  • Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble
  • In this case, I would check out the Floorp browser. It is a Firefox fork that plans to be more like Vivaldi and have lots of features, including vertical tabs.

  • An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (for when someone says it's too complicated to catch on)
  • Yes, because I want my friends (who aren't tech orientated) and interest groups (which aren't tech orientated) to be on the Fediverse.

    They're always complaining about this, that, and the other about the big platforms but they have so many hang ups regarding Fedi software, so they don't use them.

    A lot of it is perception, but you have to try and make it so people don't have those perceptions or break them.

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  • Right, the point of the 4 day work week is that it will become the new standard for full time work, rather than the current 5 days.

    So all your points are kind of moot, as they will ideally be addressed through cultural changes, employee expectations, or regulation.

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  • I have worked in service/retail, and this argument doesn't make a lot of sense. Most service/retail is actually 7-day weeks, but the workers average out to 5-day weeks with rotating shifts etc.

    All that would have to happen is the workers now average out to 4-day weeks, with a similar level of pay (which is what the 4-day week advocates are asking for).

    The 4-day week isn't about office workers, it's about everyone.

  • Westminster Voting Intention: 🌹 LAB: 50% (+4) 🌳 CON: 25% (-4) 🔶 LDM: 9% (-3) 🌍 GRN: 7% (+2) ➡️ RFM: 4% (=) 🎗️ SNP: 3% (+1) Via @Deltapoll
  • I'd really love to see the conservatives completely collapse like this, although I suspect it isn't going to happen. One can dream though.

  • The Phoronix forms, where AMD and NVIDIA engineers can effectively communicate
  • Debian doesn't push the responsibility to the user to finish setting things up though, it is designed to be complete out of the box, especially since Debian 12.

    For what it's worth on my computer with a GTX 1650 and Debian 12, I am unable to use Wayland at all as the drivers simply do not work (yes, this is the nvidia-driver package, not nouveau). On Plasma, everything seems to move at a snail's pace, and on GNOME the desktop is constantly flickering and showing old portions of the screen. X11 is perfectly fine though.

    On my cheap laptop with integrated AMD graphics though? Debian 12 with Wayland works like a charm and has no issues.

    So, I'm going with nvidia being the problem here.

  • Elon Musk admits X 'may fail, as so many have predicted'
  • I don't get this take - because if this was the plan, why not just shut Twitter down straight away instead of whatever is going on right now?

    The actions of the platform don't indicate they're trying to kill it, just that they have really bad ideas trying to make money off it.

  • Hey Linux devs - Build a GUI or gtfo
  • Your issue seems less the command line and that things aren't "working", or the tools you want aren't pre-packaged.

    Using Arch Linux was not the best idea if you want something that "just works", as it works on a philosophy where you install the minimum amount required and then add things, such as drivers or packages, as you need them. In other words, it's a distribution where you know what you need for your system. It is also a command-line centric distribution, so it's strange that "GUI" is your bug bear when you picked one that deliberately forces command line.

    Regarding overclocking and GPU configuration, you just get CoreCtrl, which even has a GUI.

    Now don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree that everything should have a user interface as much as possible, but the whole "Linux means you have to use command line all the time!!" is simply just not true anymore, and I feel this issue comes from people recalling memories from 10 years ago or using distributions where command line is necessary, rather than something like Ubuntu or Linux Mint where it mostly isn't.

  • ‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones
  • Wouldn't it make a lot more sense for the article title to specify it's specifically about the US, then? The US is the only country that doesn't do this and it's really annoying when just browsing (especially since lemmy.world is hosted by a Dutch individual using software made by Europeans).

    Your "suggestion" is far more condescending.

  • ‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones
  • If concerned about privacy you wouldn't switch to Apple - you'd actually install a custom OS on your Android phone, since you're allowed to do that on most phones.

  • Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology?
  • It depends what we mean by "bad with technology."

    A lot of posts here are talking about how the current young generations (Generation Z and Generation Alpha) are bad with technology as they don't understand anything, and this is true, but to most people being "good with technology" means you're good at using it for desired results, not necessarily understanding how things work or how to troubleshoot.

    In my opinion: No. Due to the type of technology that the millennials grew up with, they are generally good at adapting to new and changing technologies, so I suspect they'll be quite good at keeping up. Whether this will hold true for Z and Alpha is to be seen.

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  • Yes - but the vast majority of people are not going to be downloading forks or modified versions of software, they will always get it directly from the source.

    The "default", so to speak, has a lot of power.

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