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Teknikal, in What makes a smartphone useful to you?

I mean it does everything really, mp3 player, GPS, Internet, compass (maps), communication even games. That said I am a little disappointed because they have been removing things like headphone Jack’s, Sd cards and I really thought at this point we would all have flir cams etc on every phone.

sbv, in What makes a smartphone useful to you?

No. Do what works for you.

bernieecclestoned, in What makes a smartphone useful to you?

I can do spreadsheets lying down

mlekar, in What makes a smartphone useful to you?

For me the most important thing about my smartphone is battery life. It needs to have USB-C for convenient charging and accessories - I have tiny USB-C DAC with headphone jack that drives my wired headphones. Also I use it with my external SSDs while traveling to move data between devices.

bloopernova, in What makes a smartphone useful to you?
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The more sensors the better. I want a motherfucking tricorder.

Ejh3k, in What makes a smartphone useful to you?

I’m not a gamer, nor does my work rely on word or excel or PowerPoint. My phone had social media, music, podcasts, and what other apps I need.

I have a cheap laptop that gets used mostly for 3d printing stuff, and a smart TV with the various streaming services.

I have a pixel 7, and before that a pixel 4a. I never feel as though I’m missing out.

JoeKrogan, in whats a song you heard for the first time recently that gave you a powerful reaction?
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Just this morning I was listening to Ramsey Lewis - Only when I’m dreaming and I had to run it back a few times just to soak it in.

Kolanaki, in whats a song you heard for the first time recently that gave you a powerful reaction?
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Fucking meme songs… Literally. Two specific ones I had heard a while in meme videos always sped up so I couldn’t understand the words. Find the original songs, Pretty Boy by Naethan Apollo and Cupid, Twin Version by FIFTY-FIFTY.

I definitely feel the lyrics hella hard to both after hearing them legitimately for the first time. To a lesser degree, The UwU Song is fucking hilarious.

Squorlple, in whats a song you heard for the first time recently that gave you a powerful reaction?
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For me, it was The Beatles’ new “Now and Then” track. A couple of things to mention though:

  • I was born after 1996. This is the only new Beatles song released in my lifetime that hasn’t appeared as bootlegs or the like. Unless Hell freezes over and they release “Carnival of Light”, this is the only opportunity I will ever have to experience a truly new track by the group.
  • I didn’t have as strong of a reaction the first that I heard it. Or the second time. I suffer from TMJ, which tenses and aches my jaw and puts pressure on my inner ear, oftentimes dampening my hearing. It wasn’t until late the date of release that my jaw popped and released the tension which it had had that day and I could hear clearly. The first thing I did was put on the new song so I could experience it in its whole. And there were so many layers to it that I couldn’t hear with the first listens. There was a mix of appreciation marred by the frustration of how fleeting the moment was, not just from being part of the once in a lifetime zeitgeist but also a brief moment of physical relief and undamped senses.
Granixo, (edited ) in What makes a smartphone useful to you?
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3.5mm jack, MicroSD slot.

hactar42, in whats a song you heard for the first time recently that gave you a powerful reaction?

The Beatles - Now and Then

It just came out Friday and the fact that it is being called the last Beatles song just hits me a lot harder than being called the new Beatles song. The Beatles have always been a part of my life.

My mom raised me on the Beatles. One of my proudest moments as a son was taking her to see Paul McCartney in concert.

I proposed to my wife by hiding her engagement ring in the Hard Days Night DVD case. We had watched it on our first date. Our wedding song was In My Life.

We used to play Beatles songs as lullabies for both of our kids. When my son, who is autistic, was a toddler, playing Hey Jude would instantly calm him down.

So even though I wasn’t ever expecting anything from them again, the fact this song from the band who is my favorite, my mom’s favorite, my wife’s favorite, and my kids favorite has been dubbed “the last Beatles song”, hit me harder than I imagined it could.

spoilerThe empty stage at the end of the video made me cry like I was watching a Pixar movie

yardy_sardley, in Does federation connect to a single lemmy network, or can there be multiple?

The way I think it works is that your local instance hosts its own communities, and then it will reach out to other instances to grab content from every external community that at least one local user has subscribed to. “All” mode is limited to that set of content.

So I think the only way to see the entire set of all content on lemmy would be to meticulously subscribe to every single community on every single instance.

And someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but I think you can still subscribe to subs on defederated instances, it’s just the interactions that don’t get passed back and forth.

wetferret,
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Interesting. Is there a way to see which servers mine is currently federated with?

wetferret,
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Ah, I found the link at the bottom of the main page. I had no idea there were so many instances!

Max_P,
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and then it will reach out to other instances to grab content from every external community that at least one local user has subscribed to

It’s the other way around. The local user subscribes to the community on the remote instance, which causes the remote instance to then push you every action that occurs on that community as it happens. The pull method is only used once and doesn’t bring in comments, it’s meant as a preview for when a remote community is used for the first time.

And this is why their content won’t make it to your instance: it expects the other instance to send it to you, but they’re refusing to. Similarly, they won’t accept content from your instance, even though it’s trying to.

Local and remote communities are pretty similar internally, federation happens as a separate process in a queue system.

This leads to this:

you can still subscribe to subs on defederated instances, it’s just the interactions that don’t get passed back and forth.

ji88aja88a, in What makes a smartphone useful to you?
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Convenient distraction

spacecowboy, in whats a song you heard for the first time recently that gave you a powerful reaction?

I don’t seek out her music but anything by Sia makes me emotionally charged.

i4mb4tm4n, in whats a song you heard for the first time recently that gave you a powerful reaction?
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