I find it funny that Cozy Grove is exactly the kind of cozy game hiding a really sinister plot title they're talking about but there's no mention of it. You know, the game where you (a girl scout style spirit guide) get sent to an island all by yourself for your first scouting adventure and then shipwreck, essential marooning you on an island, and your Troup leader then realizes she sent you to the wrong island but not to worry, she'll rally to recover you. Eventually. If she remembers and can figure out where you are. In the meantime she'll comfort your parents as best she can and remind them they signed a waiver and can't sue. Just you know. Help the spirits that haunt the island you're on until rescue arrives. If you can get them to move on, more power to you, you can have a badge for that.
This is how it happens for me. Names, dates, important details. I know them. They are on the tip of my brain. But I can't access them in a timely fashion.
So, there's a inherent problem with blocking working both ways on a forum style site or platform like Lemmy.
When you block someone and the block goes through, if it works both ways, that means your comments or exchanges with that person disappear. The problem with that? They disappear for you and the person you blocked. Anyone else who comments can see the thread. But you both no longer can. So say someone comes along and responds to you on that thread. Or to the other person on that thread? Will their comment go through? Will you be able to see their comment? Will you be able to reply to their comment?
It becomes more complicated and further can affect users not related to or involve with the block depending on how it's handled and for the most part that's problematic.
I think we should be differentiating a "block function" (and neither the twain shall meet) from a "mute function" (a one way filter).
I feel like this might genuinely just be better than giving people a false understanding of what the filter they are using does.
I'd love to know what you do when you can't find a DVD still in print? Media companies like Disney and Paramount etc have been deliberately limiting the number of DVD's and other physical formats available, putting whole movies and series "in the vault" for the purposes of manufacturing scarcity. Piracy is largely a matter of economic affordability and ease of access. I can pirate. The point is when I had these titles available to buy, I bought media rather than pirate it. I preferred to. And when it's not easily available or locked to specific services I'm boycotting etc there's few avenues left. I can appreciate that you were trying to give me a legal avenue to obtain what I want, but I feel like you missed the forest for the trees here.
I was. Until they made that so difficult and time consuming that the barrier to entry was too high. Not because of the price. But because of availability. When Google play music was a thing? I bought music. When streaming took over I moved to Bandcamp. But Bandcamp doesn't have everything. There's no music stores anymore where I can just go and buy music. It's all Amazon and similar.
I'd love to own the ghibli collection. But to get it I have to buy the DVD's (and have a DVD player to play them on), or I have to pirate them. No digital store front seems to have the whole collection. This happens all the time with media that I'm willing to pay for.
I block people mostly because I don't want to upvote anything they have to say in the future. Usually because something they have said to me or someone else is so egregious that I don't care to know what else they might say.
The other reason comes down to harassment, or deliberate misuse of tags.
While I appreciate some of the clarification in the actual linked article, I don't like that it makes claims that Google has done this but doesn't post a link about the specifics. When did Google make such claims about their AI and what were the claims?
It's interesting to me that they infiltrated what's essentially been kind of a bastion of rabid pro LGBTQ+ rights media. There's a lot of pro-trans users on Tumblr. It'd be like going to xitter and trying to infiltrate and spread pro-liberal information. The main user base doesn't really align with that.
My biggest issue right now is trying to figure out what I need/want to work vs things I don't need.
This list is one I've been keeping of things that I want it to do/be compatible with:
-Weather
-Calendar
-News/RSS Feed
-Light Panel
-Media Panel
-Search Query Panel
-Use of Voice controls
-Singular touchscreen hub and android phone
-Works with Google home max speakers and Google nest mini speakers
-Chromecast equivalent functionality
It's based on the things I use Google Assistant for daily or at the very least weekly. Most all of it can be done with an android tablet and my raspberry pi. But implementing it to be the way I want isn't as simple (hasn't been as simple for me) and I think that's down to following guides for a lot of things that weren't necessarily intended to work together cohesively.
So, I have several legacy Google Assistant compatible devices that do not work with Google's new AI. As a result I haven't switched over to Gemini for pretty much anything and I probably won't. I'm currently building a Home Assistant system to take the place of Google Assistant when it finally sunsets but the going is slow (I have limited time to dedicate to that specifically at the moment). But for phone specific use, I'm taking the wait and see approach.
I have a Google voice number. You actually can't. You can get spam filtering which works sort of but definitely not in the same way. I have never had a Voice call use Google's call screening on graphene os for instance because it doesn't work. I have graphene os running on a pixel 8 pro for the purposes of seeing what works and doesn't work to see if I can ever daily drive it. I like graphene os a lot but rely too much on certain Google specific android features and that's what my first comment was generally talking about.
Honestly kind of cool. I don't use split screen much but when I do it's usually for maps and music because having the ability to swipe to the next song is often more reliable that my steering wheel controls. Easier to use in rental cars in my experience too. Not sure I need it to be that extreme for my use case though.
Part of the reason I haven't yet moved away from Google services on my pixel is because of the call screening and anti-spam features. I screen unknown callers pretty much all the time so Google is listening if they call me anyway. I'm fine with that, knowing A. That the callers get a heads up that they're talking to an AI and being recorded and B. That the ones who are human and trying to scam me generally don't call back once they know the line is being actively recorded.
There's no feature parity for this on any of the roms I would move to. Taking it a step further is unnecessary for me, and I'll probably opt out. But I can fully understand why someone might want it (for their elderly family members for instance).
This is what I do when I want to search Lemmy. I put Lemmy: "search for this" into the search box and see what comes up. It works better than Lemmy's internal search function a lot of the time.
Fuchsia? It became the OS for their nest line of products I think.
Now they're doing away with chrome os I guess to make Chromebooks run android in an attempt to compete with Apple's iPad line. I actually suspect Dex is part of this.
Nothing at all in this about how few actual cars are still being sold. Because the NHTSB have made it so that passenger vehicles require a certain number of safety features and fuel efficiency, bigger vehicles means more money for auto makers and not having to produce vehicles that are as fuel efficient or safe as their larger counter parts.
We tested this extensively. On Android we all have the setting to turn off read receipts. It's broken. It does not turn off read receipts for us. Our phones run the gamut from pixel 9 pro/+ to a pixel 5. To get read receipts to go away we had to turn off RCS completely.
I find it funny that Cozy Grove is exactly the kind of cozy game hiding a really sinister plot title they're talking about but there's no mention of it. You know, the game where you (a girl scout style spirit guide) get sent to an island all by yourself for your first scouting adventure and then shipwreck, essential marooning you on an island, and your Troup leader then realizes she sent you to the wrong island but not to worry, she'll rally to recover you. Eventually. If she remembers and can figure out where you are. In the meantime she'll comfort your parents as best she can and remind them they signed a waiver and can't sue. Just you know. Help the spirits that haunt the island you're on until rescue arrives. If you can get them to move on, more power to you, you can have a badge for that.