Comment has a typo in it; it sholud be typo not typoo ☝️🤓

I use the “control nipple” occasionally, but I use the physical mouse buttons every day always.

Even though they’re slightly oddly positioned to use with the touchpad, they’re a million times better than not having any buttons at all.

“FLICK OFF, CLINT”

This is a great, well thought out post. Thank you :)

It says “paradise planet” on the marketing material, yes - but it only needs to be as true as the least true thing they ever told us :)

I don’t know about guest user stuff either actually - I might look into it at some point if I feel the need.

And yes, I’ve only ever used the “pin app” practically for letting young relatives play games and stuff on my phone, knowing they won’t be able to switch apps and send anyone a message - like the “Poo poo willy bum message” incident last year :)

Well yeah, if they really wanted to “get you” for something, I’m sure they’ll find a way - but it’s a good bare minimum for casual snooping - avoiding the awkwardness of someone accidentally swiping onto your Jerboa app and then you having to explain how “writing silly comments about guillotining billionaires and throwing right-wing politicians into the sea isn’t actually a serious terrorist threat, officer”.

It won’t solve the above, but may be useful information for cases like this:

If you’re not aware already, you can “pin” an Android app to lock it to the screen, so nobody can easily switch to another app without using your login pin/code/pattern.

Firstly, to turn it on, you need to go to Settings>Security & Privacy>Other Security Settings and switch on “Pin App”. The location of this setting may be different depending on the manufacturer of your mobile phone.

Then, to lock a particular app to the screen, press the three-lines button (maybe a square on your telephone?) to open up the program switcher, then press the circular thumbnail of the icon at the top of the screen, to open up the menu you didn’t know existed, and select “pin this app”.

Without your password or login pattern, your telephone will only show the currently open app. Nobody can switch to other programs or mess with other stuff without unlocking the phone.

To unlock it afterwards, you then hold the < and the three lines buttons for a few seconds, then enter your normal login code/pin/pattern to unlock. It will tell you this when you lock it.

I didn’t see it before, but I can see it perfectly now.

Thank you :)

The invention of Racism is often credited to Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Racism - though it’s generally now considered that German inventor Johann Philipp Reisism had a practical example of Racism fifteen years earlier.

I imagine cleaning up after “beep beep chair” Captain Pike wasn’t a popular job either.

Bitty! Bitty is one of my favourite cats-that-aren’t-my-cats :)

Lemmy user says anyone who doesn’t quit being CEO of Meta is ‘guillotine signaling’

It was trying to plug its power output plug into one of its power input sockets to get “free electricity”.

In the American special forces branch of the Navy, you receive extra Sausages, Eggs And Lard (S.E.A.L) in your rations, so these people are called “Seals”.

Obviously, after a few years of eating so much extra greasy food, they’re no longer capable of participating in military operations, so tend to retire and write books about what they did at work.

I think that’s correct anyway - don’t quote me on it.

I think it’s meant to be a young John Lennon, though oddly it says “jelly” (American word for jam) whilst showing jam and toast and spells “favourite” in the American manner, so I guess it’s an American comic about a British band?

That’s called a “clacker” where I come from.

[Edit] That might be a really local dialect term that nobody else understands.

Because of the size difference between humans and tardigrades, it’s hard for tardigrades to attend music lessons and otherwise learn about human musical instruments, so give him a chance, he’s probably trying his best.

That might be a bit tricky - perhaps he could simply distance himself from both dry land and boats, by “Maxwelling” himself into the sea?

I did find that a little odd, I wondered if he had an elaborate z-shaped cigarette-holder, or as you say, had a smoking exhaust installed in his chin/cheek.