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[-] butter@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thinking about buying a nexdock, when and if they ever release ChromeOS for Android.

If I bought one now, would my pixel 8p be totally useless

[-] butter@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

Donger is my middle name

[-] butter@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

I do not know.

[-] butter@midwest.social 12 points 1 month ago

ITT: People who don't know as much as me.

All they killed was the branding. The Chromecast with Google TV was such a far cry from an OG Chromecast that it was stupid for them to have the same name.

OG Chromecast could only cast and did not have a remote. The CCwGT did still support casting, but also had a remote and a real UI.

The TV streamer is just the CCwGT in a fancy shell with probably a more powerful processor. I'll bet money that it still supports casting, and can only do pretty much exactly what the CCwGT could do.

[-] butter@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

You can install LineageOS on one of the models of Chromecast for Android TV.

[-] butter@midwest.social 0 points 1 month ago

You've got me there

[-] butter@midwest.social 0 points 1 month ago

Now there's the delima. You find yourself a way to make money that isn't working, and everyone else will start doing it. When everyone is doing it, some people will start to invent in doing it (education for example). These people will do better, and take a higher share of the activity. These people, having invested, will be required to preform consistently. Just to make there money back.

Now you just have a new job.

[-] butter@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

It did email really well. And it had the best VPN. Didn't like the calendar or drive Didn't touch the password manager.

[-] butter@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

As a userbase grows, companies have 2 options to make it more competitive.

More services Lower prices

And no company chooses the later.

And that's how you get bloat

[-] butter@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Samsung really wants to be Apple. Making it one of the worst Android phones in terms of 'doing your own thing with it'

[-] butter@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

Drop a link to a few places people ask tech questions and I will do my part to contribute

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I've been using pCloud to back up only the most important information. The stuff that's hard to get back if something bad happens. Kept in sync with rclone.

Now I think it's time to scale up. I have 1 computer with 4 hard drives plugged up to it. I want to either back up the whole things. I'm thinking of something like backblaze. What does everyone here do for backups?

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Droidian on OnePlus 8! (midwest.social)
submitted 6 months ago by butter@midwest.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I recently made a post asking about getting spotify cheaper via vpn.

My question to everyone: how do you decide what to download?

Do you just grab everything, do you use last fm, do you erase music that you never listen to?

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by butter@midwest.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Spotify wants me to have a card from said county. I read that you can use PayPal, but they want a phone number from that country.

Any advice?

Edit: I'm aware that there are a lot of solutions to get it for free. I'm aware that I can just download my music.

Currently, I'm running running navidrome for my downloaded music and x manager Spotify for myself.

My wife has an iPhone. I don't want to download her music. But she's paying full price for Spotify.

I also like to listen from my work desktop. I have administrative rights, but it would be really dumb to download something like this to my work machine.

In several countries, I can get Spotify for like $30 dollars a year for 2 people. This price would be worth moving to legal. Especially for her, since she's paying $11 right now

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I have a full set of instruments on ps4 with at least a hundred songs of dlc. Is this something people do regularly?

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submitted 1 year ago by butter@midwest.social to c/android@lemdro.id

Thinking about buying the fairphone 4. Coming from oneplus 8, which is almost unbrickable, thanks to an EDL MSM tool.

Obviously, I'd be careful. But am I likely to brick a fp4 by ROM hopping? Is it dangerous enough that I should not go into buying this phone with the intention of installing a ROM?

Mainly, I want to play with Ubuntu Touch, PostmarketOS, and maybe sailfish. But I figure if those don't quite work out, I'll land on Lineage with MicroG or /e/, since that'll be stock fp4 in the US.

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I'm interested in running a service like homarr. This would give my family access to view stuff easily, and I could link to the rest of my services. My main concern is linking jellyseerr, and giving what could be strangers access to make requests.

Is anyone out there using a home screen with seerr capability? How is it working for you?

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I'm very tired of SMS being horrible and necessary. Matrix has a bridge for SMS, but it doesn't work very well. There's other SMS bridges, no idea how well they work.

Does anyone have a good solution for dealing with SMS?

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