… and that’s why I’ll stick with Pixel devices, thanks.

Who are you to say what my icons should or should not be? It’s my phone.

Classic Lemmy holding a anti-google stance even if it doesn’t make sense. This is something power users have been complaining about since Android 13, but of course when Google finally does it Lemmy user cries about Google overreach 🙄

It’s clearly not profitable, and I can kinda understand that people who bought the app once in 2013, like me, don’t create a good business model.

I never bought the web app back in the day, so I never got grandfathered into Premium, but I was fine with them adding premium features that I couldn’t access.

But the forced ad shown on my podcast list AND the player UI, with a cheeky X button that doesn’t actually close the ad, is a step too far. I have a lot of respect for this app and the original company who made it but I’m almost at the point of switching.

I’d love to fully self host my podcasts. Unfortunately the self hosted options are all lacking on Android, so I’d probably look at something like AntennaPod but I’m not clear on whether that has a web player or not…

You can’t sneeze in this sub without someone complaining about evil Google and pushing Graphene as the solution to all our problems. I wasn’t sure if it was astroturfing or whether Lemmy was just hardcore about FOSS.

Agree with this - I wanted to love Hollow Knight so much, and there was a lot I did love about it, but I really struggle with that specific type of 2d platformer.

Pixel 8 and newer, but not the 8a or 9a.

Agreed, it’s made my 3 year old Pixel 7 look and feel like new.

My Pixel 7 is apparently up to date. So whilst the OTA URLs are available it seems the update won’t deploy automatically until tomorrow.

Respectfully, what are you going on about?

The EU and UK antitrusts also came to the same conclusion as the US.

Back in those Gingerbread days, Amazon were basically doing the Epic Games thing where every other week they’d release a paid app or game for free. It was worth tolerating the crappy app store just for that!

Gotta get you to scroll past as many ads as possible.

The Android/Pixel Lemmy communities are insanely sour and pessimistic, I’ve noticed. Every single Android post will have a comment bemoaning the subject, and another comment saying that Google is evil. It’s tedious and so much worse than Reddit.

The yanks are still too comfortable to do anything about the blatant fascism rising in their country. Rich right wingers have pulled off the amazing feat of keeping people happy with bread and circuses and convincing them to look at the evil foreigners whilst they’re robbed blind. It’s happening in other democracies as well.

I fear the US is just the beginning. The EU is growing more right wing and the UK is looking at giving Nigel Farage total power in 3 years time. Forecast does not look too good.

Didn’t we agree over 20 years ago on “toaster”?

The latest LLM’s are pretty damn good as a research assistant - that was its original purpose. Using chatgpt as your first go at researching a new subject (like self hosting) is perfectly valid.

I think sometwo could learn to be a little less sensitive about made up numbers on a social media site 🤷🏻‍♂️

I had a Pixel 3 before the 7, and basically just Nexus phones before that. Sounds like maybe I’m just used to this particular shortcoming of Google’s hardware! 😅

I have a Pixel 7 and haven’t really ever noticed issues with my modem. Has it gotten noticeably worse in later models or something?

Good job it’s an option then, huh