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Iced Raktajino

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I'm beautiful and tough like a diamond...or beef jerky in a ball gown.

  • Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android

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  • Yeah, I've got all those turned off. Actually, they came disabled by default (one of the OS customizations Minimal does in their base image). I usually turn those to at least .5x on my other phones to make things feel faster, lol, but in this case, they were already off.

    But there's still subtle transitions and some animations that aren't affected by that. One of the latter is the animations on the lock screen when you're entering your pin. Those have to be disabled separately in the security settings (and weren't disabled by default by Minimal).

  • Do we need more users ?

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  • Look at it from a new user's perspective; someone who has not curated their feed or otherwise "made the fediverse what they want" yet. e.g. They land on Lemmy World or another big instance and their default sort is "active". Doing that now in an incognito window, and half the front page is rage, same on the second, and the stuff that's not are some random shitposts and Linux filling in.

    Truth be told, looking at that, I probably wouldn't want to sign up. Especially if I didn't know that different instances have different cultures, etc.

    Assuming they're a normie (which we desperately fucking need here), I just don't see that they'd want to stick around. Aside from trolls and spammers, the only people we seem to consistently attract here are the "Wah wah I was banned from Reddit" types and, while there's certainly a sizable pool to draw from, I wouldn't exactly consider them the pick of the litter for growing the fediverse.

    The point of OPs post is that usage here is declining, and I am simply pointing out that I feel all the rage and politics is not particularly inviting.

    Edit: And you know what? I'm just going to fucking say it. There's too many armchair activists here who won't let you enjoy a single moment without reminding you that something bad is happening somewhere in the world and that you have some kind of moral obligation to be angry all the time about it. And if you're not angry all the time then you're somehow part of the problem.

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  • We had the same thought. Right before I saw your reply, I added some hobby communities to my comment as examples.

    This place is so flooded with politics and raging over the news that I'm about to choose a random hobby community that's active and pick up said hobby just to be able to have something besides Star Trek and Linux to talk about here lol.

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  • Just my two cents, but there's just no reason for people to come here when it's 80+% political shit and rage bait and virtue signaling. Hell, I've got 80% of the content here filtered out as it is, and I want to be here.

    Find your nearest non-political hobby community and start posting things people actually want to see and maybe we might see some growth or people sticking around. My current hyperfixation/hobby is Meshtastic, so I've been pretty active there lately. If that's not your thing, then there's:

    If you're like me and not good at any of that, tell us about cleaning your gutters or doing your laundry over in !Dullsters@dullsters.net

    The point is, we need more posts about what make us happy and less about what we're angry at (which is pretty much goddamned everything).

  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • I'd love to see the keyboards and trackballs manufactured again if for no other purpose than having them available for other projects.

    There was a project a while back called Beepberry that was a little handheld Linux thing that used Blackberry keyboards. Among other reasons, the supply of the Blackberry keyboards dried up so the project died.

  • Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android

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  • Quite possibly. I don't think I have anything running below A11 that still functions so that's been my baseline. Most recent was my OP3 that had LineageOS's A9 but the battery finally gave up the ghost a few months ago.

  • Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android

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  • Yep, to all of that.

    disable that annoying "you haven't used those apps in a while so permissions were removed" thigny

    AFAIK, you can only do that on an app-by-app basis.

    Settings -> Apps -> {App} -> Permissions -> Pause app activity if unused

    That's on Android 14, so YMMV if they took that away or made it worse since then.

  • Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android

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  • AFAIK, it's just the base Android UI because it's the same in LineageOS and vanilla builds.

    • The quick actions have gone to hell. There's nothing quick about them anymore and customizing them is even worse than it already was.
    • Every UI element is oversized and seems made for the hot doggiest of hotdog fingers
    • The organization of the settings, especially the network/mobile settings, somehow makes even less sense than before
    • You can't configure a wifi profile without a gateway. God forbid I want to do anything on a local network.
    • You can't disable the connectivity checker and Android treats not being able to reach Google with not having internet. And if there's no internet, you have about 5 seconds to catch the prompt to stay connected otherwise it'll disconnect.
    • Even if you do catch the prompt to stay connected to the no-internet wifi, the DNS resolver will not use its DNS server unless you're in airplane mode. I've got a RasPi-based "internet in a box" mobile server that's useless when accessing it via my phone (unless in airplane mode) because I had the sheer audacity to configure it to use proper DNS hostnames and SSL certs.
    • The wallpaper / background config is just awful nowadays. I don't know if that's "Material You" or what, but just let me pick an image or no image or a solid color. Don't present 3 different apps to handle changing the background, two of which do nothing.
    • On the Google side, they're shoving more Gemini shit in
    • Now Google is gatekeeping even the apps you want to sideload
    • Even with animations disabled, there's still too many animations/transitions. I'm using an e-ink phone and this alone just destroys the experience.
    • Gesture navigation is just terrible but at least you can dig through the settings to re-enable 3 button nav
    • A litany of other small gripes
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    Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Going about my day in 2026 be like...

  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • I pre-ordered last June and got it toward the end of July. It seems to ship directly from the factory in Hong Kong, so you have to use the tracking link they send you until it clears customs in your country.

    I did a first impressions post about it when I got it.

  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • I'm really starting to feel like Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android.

  • Hey, Jane! Get me off this crazy thing!

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  • Loudly saying "Computer, end program" is basically part of my morning routine now. So far it hasn't worked, but I keep hoping

  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • I had the LG Genesis that was the spiritual successor to the enV. Loved the form factor but the battery life was abysmal at like 2 hours of use. Yay Android 2.2 lol.

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  • Gemini PDA

    Is that the one from PlanetCom? I've been looking at both their Gemini and Cosmo Communicator. Both were out of stock when I ended up going with the Minimal.

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  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • Source

    Looks pretty pocketable (and gorgeous) to me.

  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • I've been rocking a Minimal Phone for about 6 or 7 months now, and man am I excited to have options for QWERTY phones again.

    just plain boredom with glass slabs

    This. So much this. They're all boring, too tall, and too skinny with about as much personality as a used up dryer sheet. It's like they're designed solely for scrolling an endless feed of mind-numbing slop. I remember being able to actually do things on my older smartphones (RDP, SSH, editing documents/spreadsheets, etc). You can still do those things now, but you basically have to break out a bluetooth keyboard to do anything more than the most basic things and it feels like trying to look at a panorama through a keyhole.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

    gizmodo.com /qwerty-phones-are-really-trying-to-make-a-comeback-this-year-2000709717
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Current Mood

  • [Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

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  • Love my deck ... Kind of got side tracked gaming

    You sound like me lol: Side tracked by the device's primary purpose.

  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
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    Deck

    A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

    hackaday.com /2026/01/12/a-linux-power-user-puts-steamos-to-work/

  • Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard

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  • Nice. I'll look into that one.

    My ultimate goal is getting a decent-sized touchscreen, putting an LCARS-themed HomeAssistant UI on it, and hanging it up as a functional MSD for my house.

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard

    hackaday.com /2026/01/11/smart-home-make-it-smart-quarters-with-this-lcars-dashboard/

  • You can choose any celebrity's facial hair and make it yours. Who do you choose?

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  • Apparently I said "Joe Dirt" sometime earlier in my life and my wish came true.

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
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    old.reddit.com is overrated and 2021-era "new" Reddit was better

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    The Issue With Wii U Gamepads And How To Clone Them

    hackaday.com /2026/01/08/the-issue-with-wii-u-gamepads-and-how-to-clone-them/
  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    Make your own Bajoran Airpods

    learn.adafruit.com /bajoran-airpods
  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Good FOSS design software for beginners?

  • 80s Music @lemmy.world
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    Journey - Any Way You Want It - 1980

    song.link /y/kLDVTfQGDe4
  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Why don't bears wear shoes? Because they would still have bear feet.

  • science @lemmy.world
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    Raindrops form 'sandballs' as they roll downhill, contributing more to erosion than previously thought

    phys.org /news/2025-12-raindrops-sandballs-downhill-contributing-erosion.html
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The proliferation of 3D printers probably had a negative impact on the sales of Altoids

  • Raspberry Pi @programming.dev
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    Anyone ever used a 1TB (or larger) SD card in a Pi or Pi clone?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    A boot meme for Gen X to complement the earlier one for the Millennials

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    The labeling on OTC pain relievers, etc. This is why I just pop 3 and hope for the best.

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field.

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Short

    Man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
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    Have some old TV shows on in the background and caught this nugget