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ladfrombrad 🇬🇧

@ ladfrombrad @lemdro.id

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not called Brad but rather a lad, from Bradford in the UK.

Enjoys breaking apps, escooters, spam rings and sometimes bones, drones, but not my own. Because that sucks.

  • ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

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  • I don't think I'd feel "attacked" but more impressed that I came to light if they sent me them very much like a naughty "copyright warning" and would send it back with a brick in it.

    Cheers!

  • ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

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  • I regularly get letters from the power company about how I'm using like 3x the power of the average person in my type of unit.

    I'm also using a lot of self hosted things but have never received any of those.

    Where do you reside generally where they're sending them because it ain't a thing here in the UK?

  • Input On Storage Expansion for Torrent Data

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  • Really appreciated, and you use either of these?

  • Input On Storage Expansion for Torrent Data

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  • I am finding it difficult to find a reliable Cloud service

    I'll tell ya what I have issue with.

    Tailscale allows me and others to access our own locally hosted storage but requires a SSO provider. Currently using Google and Github I ain't too confident with that and would love others thoughts on how to self host it?

  • ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

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  • It was the sheer arrogance of that "supervisor" I escalated it to and I hate to think how someone like a pensioner would've dealt with them that day wanting to access their bank account, especially since all the local branches have been closed 👺

    RIP Yorkshire Bank

  • ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

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  • See that's the thing, I work far too hard and after a night shift and then getting onto a "customer support" agent reveals the cracks in our society.

    Maybe you could work harder too!

  • ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

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  • Maybe I could try buying and scalping an iPhone on eBay

    :thinky face:

  • ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

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  • I literally had to switch bank accounts because I couldn't reset my password "on the web" and required me to use Virgin Money's app.

    Customer service agent(s) on the phone after prolonged discussions why their app wouldn't work on three Android phones right in front of me surfaced, and I shit you not

    Well sir, I have my iPhone here and can login just fine maybe you should buy one of those instead

    That day I found out about this

    https://www.currentaccountswitch.co.uk/

  • Started trying out TinyBit Launcher and have been enjoying it a lot!

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  • Aye!

    I think one of the most concerning things for me thou recently is Google Play just chucking off dev's apps from the Store because they don't update them at a rate of knots / some arbitrary thing that hasn't been disclosed to devs or left in a puddle of legalese in the TOS :/

  • I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares

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  • I've too noticed the very same thing even over in the piracy community where they're complaining about the use of AI art for banner / post images.

    It's kinda one of those irrational hates when like you guys say it's an insta downvote for the content.

    So yeah, upvoted (after reading the fucking article content)

  • Started trying out TinyBit Launcher and have been enjoying it a lot!

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  • I think your concerns about lack of updates is something while it worries some, I find it nice when updates are released only when it's stable.

    If you check the devs history they reviewed a pull on KISS launcher itself back in Nov

    https://github.com/Neamar/KISS/pull/2345#issuecomment-2496214318

    and I like slow burner builds and especially when the devs make the app for themselves to use like this one ;)

  • Huawei's tri-foldable phone hits global markets in a show of defiance amid US curbs

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  • without Google's android, and in Western world you can't use it for banki g purposes due to lack of security

    Weird how I can use this PC (Made in China) without needing no oversight from lel Google to access my bank without issue. Right?

  • RFC: "kicking" posts instead of removing them

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  • We could certainly have mods for this default community too, that's not crucial to the idea.

    It is thou, and why /r/reddit.com got archived eventually since the reddit admins (mods) couldn't keep up.

    Where do you pool them from?

  • ISP Must Unmask 100 Alleged BitTorrent Pirates in RIAA Lawsuit.

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  • This research aims to examine whether a preference for popular music of a specific era still exists and whether it still follows a non-monotonic non monolithic relationship with age.

    I went with a typo at first :/

  • RFC: "kicking" posts instead of removing them

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  • So furthering on this would shunting things to a !bucket@instance.com (maybe a somewhat better named community since I'm terribad at these things might work better....) within Instances but still viewable and crosspost-able by other, Instance users?

    This would negate the need for a global admin since the Instance could have mods of that particular /c/, allowing the other Instance admins to review it for suitably if and when they drop in?

  • Newsgrouper will block access from the UK starting 16th March ( source /r/usenet)

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  • Because you're trusting and paying two third parties instead of one? Like I say - my provider I imagine is dumping the copyright violations directly in the bin these days and if I wanted to really get off the clearnet and things went to shit I would simply spin up an I2P node/moar bandwidth if I was really concerned.

    But I'm not currently, and find it weird how many want us to use things hosted in a different country which might be at any time under obligation to release all my details to a foreign entity. Each to their own and all.

  • RFC: "kicking" posts instead of removing them

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  • It's definitely something we could get on board with over in !android@lemdro.id and shunting app requests etc that belong over in the respective !askandroid@lemdro.id community.

    But I think like @Dessalines said re-writing posts rings true with us because over on reddit, when we got to a post that violated our rules but had already met a threshold of engagement (100 votes / 10 comments) before we got to it left it up (with a sticky comment explaining why) regardless.

    Anyhoo, my 2c and thanks for all your work :)

  • Newsgrouper will block access from the UK starting 16th March ( source /r/usenet)

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  • I really don't bother, and last time I got emailed from my ISP was 2019.

    I have family members on my Tailnet seeding happily away on another ISP which also seemingly doesn't give a fuck too, so why the big push recently for everyone to funnel their traffic through a third party?

  • Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash

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  • So why can't we predict when I need to defecate and take that suit off in time since I don't work in an office, and have none of these "heat and air" systems you talk about?