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shinigamiookamiryuu, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

Free and easily added custom ringtones

13esq, (edited ) in Who doesn't use an adblocker and why?

I just don’t usually find ads to be intrusive enough to have blocking them be worthwhile.

As others have said, I don’t mind supporting small content creators by watching the ads.

Edit: imagine getting downvoted for an honest answer lol. So sorry that you don’t like my opinion!

fogstormberry, in Should I wait for the "Snyder cut" (director's cut) of Rebel Moon?

I don’t see any mention of the awful backstory monologueing. with all the other crap mentioned here, honestly just skip it. don’t even hope for directors cut to fix anything

my_hat_stinks, in What do the symbols next to usernames mean on Lemmy?

Do you mean the user’s avatar?

This isn’t the right community for tech support questions, you should try your app’s community or !techsupport instead.

YoBuckStopsHere, (edited )
@YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world avatar

B - Bot

A - Administrator

M - Moderator

OP - Original Poster

bartolomeo,
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Where do you see those?

YoBuckStopsHere,
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bartolomeo, (edited )
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

Nice! Is that a web browser or an app that you’re using? It doesn’t look like that for me on Jerboa.

YoBuckStopsHere,
@YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world avatar

Standard browser view. Apps change the appearance quite a bit.

bartolomeo,
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

No, not the avatar. I added an example of the icon to my post.

Thanks for the suggestion! Is it possible to cross-post? I don’t see the option here.

solitaire, in What is your earliest memory?
@solitaire@infosec.pub avatar

I’m not sure how old I am, maybe three or four. It’s the only memory I have from the first place my parents lived in. I’m outside the garage and I’ve got a hammer.

My mother is smashing computer components and I’m “helping”. I remember being so fascinated with what they were and how they worked. I was particularly enthralled by what I now recognize were the internals of a hard drive. The platter is just so shiny! This memory sparks a long term interest in computers.

Later I’d learn my father had been caught consuming particularly violent BDSM pornography.

lightnsfw, in Should I wait for the "Snyder cut" (director's cut) of Rebel Moon?

I thought it was alright but I’d wait til the sequel or however many movies they’re making are done. Netflix likes to cancel shit in the middle. They’re doing the 7 samurais thing which I dig but I don’t want to watch half of it and then they pull the rug out.

Bondrewd, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

If anything, this thread kind of shows how much people fail to get informed about their smartphone before they buy one.

Literally every single one of these features is available on the market. Most of those phones are actually the quality stuff, like the German produced Gigaset/Volla, or the Dutch (assembled?) Fairphone. But no, you have to go out of your way to get the bottom of the barrel Iphone and Samsung made in China.

ulph,

People gotta have their blue bubbles you know.

Bondrewd,

are you calling being informed about smartphones redpill?

rob_t_firefly, (edited )
@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world avatar
ulph,

Wtf are you on about? Lols

the_post_of_tom_joad,

Is this the thread to troll? I don’t know if people are that invested in lost features that theyd get baited, but get that gator!

Bondrewd,

I cant really do anything to such fragility. Let em break!

markr, in Should I wait for the "Snyder cut" (director's cut) of Rebel Moon?

Unwatchable mess. Mulan meets Star Wars. Was there an actual plot?

finestnothing,

Save the farmers something something build up group of good time heroes something something betrayal something something palpatine pt2

markr,

I did manage to get (on the second try) to THE OBLIGATORY BAR SCENE before killing it dead.

sanguinepar, in Who doesn't use an adblocker and why?
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I only recently started using uBlock but it’s not really because of ads (which I don’t mind too much as long as they don’t prevent me seeing the page content). I use it mainly to automate the rejection of cookie popups, which have become absolutely absurd.

Cornucopiaofplenty, in Will ublock Origin be blocked on chrome soon?💀💀💀

Genuine question here, whenever these posts about browsers come up (which is very often) I never see anyone mentioning Opera. What’s the reason for this? I seem to remember it being very popular with the tech crowd a number of years ago, that might be misremembering on my part!

Kramt,

They used to back in the internet explorer era have the fastest web engine. The reason they aren’t talked about much these days is because they are yet another chromium browser.

Cornucopiaofplenty,

Ah I see, thank you!

Dehydrated,

Opera is owned by a weird group of Chinese investors, collects your data and sends it to China. They also use crappy marketing practices, and the Opera GX “Gaming Browser” is a fucking joke. And their VPN isn’t even a VPN, it’s just a proxy. Not a company I would trust, especially when there are much better options like Firefox.

Cornucopiaofplenty,

Oh right, that’s not great. I suppose I’ll see if I can make the switch to FF

Nindelofocho,

I thought switching to ff would be painful but the migration tool handles most of the heavy lifting! You will have to sign into most sites again but your saved passwords transfer. Most youll really have to do is just find any addons you use again

RainfallSonata, in What do the symbols next to usernames mean on Lemmy?

Like stinkyhat said, I’m seeing user avatars to the left of usernames, and community icons to the right of usernames. Those are all going to have individual meanings, if they aren’t set to the default.

As for search, I’m in a web browser, and I don’t find the UI to be very user friendly, either.

Waldowal, in Should I wait for the "Snyder cut" (director's cut) of Rebel Moon?
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Yes, I would wait. It can’t get any worse.

wee_butterfly, in What hobby do you have that no one else in your family shares?
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I do pictures for people who have lost their furries over the rainbow bridge.

gamermanh,
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Props

I’ve lost… Too many this year and I cannot imagine being more immersed in that absolutely depressing industry (pet death and grieving in general). Well that and I can’t draw

Important work though, I’m sure it helps people immensely

PP_BOY_, (edited ) in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

Less of a feature and more of a design, but I miss phones being small. The iPhone 4S was the perfect physical size IMO and that thing looks tiny compared to my fuckhuge S23U. The physical bloat of the past 5 Galaxys is why I’ve decided not to go with Samsung for my next mobile

GregorGizeh,

Seconding this. I can appreciate a large screen but it has limits, if I can’t use my phone with one hand because my fingers can’t reach half the screen while palm holding it the design sucks. Sent from my unwieldy modern smart phone force using both hands.

kibiz0r,

I’m on an iPhone 13 Mini — probably the last Mini model ever.

I like the form factor, but you really do notice the smaller battery. Most days, I’m at 20% by bedtime. If I run anything even semi-intensive throughout the day, I need a pit stop. I miss not worrying about it.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Main reason I stopped buying Motorola was the ever increasing screen size. I have bad elbows and extended phone use causes pain. A few ounces really does make a difference. A sub-5-inch phone with decent specs would be awesome.

Vlyn,

But why did you buy the Ultra then? I have a S22 and it’s just the right size (hell, even slightly smaller would still be nice).

You could have just gotten the normal S23?

TrickDacy,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

They probably have their reasons. Still doesn’t justify almost every phone being too big. whether it’s 10% too big or 50% too big it’s still too big.

w2tpmf,

Yep. I’ve been looking for my next phone for when my pixel 5 eventually goes and looking at Asus as it’s the only current high end phone that’s not bigger that 5".

I do not want a 6"-7" display. I want a 4"-5" display I can easy get in and out of my pocket, and be able to hold and use with one hand. Even a 5" screen is to big for my thumb to reach about 1/4 of the screen without moving my hand.

Buffalox, (edited )

If you have access to an iPhone 4S, then try to use it for as couple of minutes, and then see if you still consider that 3.5 inch screen perfect size.
If you want a tiny phone, then why use the biggest one available? It’s like saying I wish I could get a small economic car, and then drive a Humvee.
Apparently when it comes down to it, you don’t really want a tiny phone.

PP_BOY_,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

I do and it’s perfect.

why use the biggest one available

Because the biggest are often the top models and at the time that I bought this one, my job required a powerful mobile. The battery bypass feature, exclusive to the S23U, alone made it a non-choice.

You’re making a lot of assumptions in your comment about me, what my workload on a mobile is, and my own tastes.

Buffalox, (edited )

You’re making a lot of assumptions

Try to read it again, I make zero assumptions, apart from the 2 you have stated yourself. You want a phone the size of an iPhone 4s but use a S23 Ultra. I’m just pointing out that those two are contradictory.

If I were to make an assumption, it would be that it seems you want a flagship phone the size of an iPhone 4s. Which you kind of can with a foldable.

Battery bypass is not exclusive to the S23 Ultra, the entire S22 and S23 series have it:

androidauthority.com/galaxy-s23-bypass-charging-f…

Perfide,

Battery bypass is not exclusive to the S23U, it’s on other recent Samsungs and it wasn’t even first introduced on Samsung phones, it’s been on multiple Sony and Asus phones. So yeah, people are gonna make assumptions when you’re complaining about how big phones have gotten while owning one of the largest phones on the market.

gedaliyah, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Kinda surprised that no one has mentioned the FM tuner. For reasons I never really understood, a lot of companies continued to build the hardware into phones but then wall it off with firmware.

My first MP3 player had one, my TV had one, there were even watches and lots of other devices that had one. People still listen to radio, so why don’t they give us a tuner?

Peppycito,

Data sellers probably paid them to turn it off.

CosmicTurtle,

Are you sure the hardware is still there? I only ask because given the number of hackers out there, I’m surprised someone hasn’t come out with a patch or something to make it more ubiquitous.

ArbiterXero,

A lot of it isn’t there anymore….

But because it was a hardware thing, the patch would involve rooting your phone, something most people won’t do.

gedaliyah,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t know if they still have it, but this was a well-known problem for a long time.

Aux,

It’s not strictly there as a separate feature. Modern radio chips in phones are universal programmable radios, they can catch and process any wavelengths if you install correct code into them and plug a correct antenna. The same radio chip processes your 5G, Bluetooth, WiFi and everything else.

What phones are missing are FM antennas and radio firmware with FM support. This FM support is a paid feature for phone makers, so they don’t add it.

FerbFletcher,

i think I recall that the Bluetooth hardware is essentially an FM tuner. Just needed a wired headphone to use as an antenna. My Moto Stylus 2022 still has it.

I_Miss_Daniel,

Mostly because they needed a wired headset to act as the FM antenna since it needs a decent length to capture FM compared to the much higher UHF and GHz frequencies that the mobile network uses.

I_Miss_Daniel,

Mostly because they needed a wired headset to act as the FM antenna since it needs a decent length to capture FM compared to the much higher UHF and GHz frequencies that the mobile network uses.

DudeDudenson,

Wouldn’t you be able to use the coil for wireless charging as a pretty okay antenna?

PM_Your_Nudes_Please,

Imagine blowing out your phone speakers because you put your phone on the charger while listening to the radio.

Typically speaking, it’s a bad idea to use power sources as an antenna. Because power pushes a lot more amps than something like a radio signal.

andrew,
@andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

I mean, we have incredibly simple circuits that can limit amplitude.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please,

My point is that any sort of radio would be immediately drowned out by the massive amounts of EM interference as soon as you tried to charge.

In fact, professional audio devices often have to take extra precautions to avoid their power cables from becoming accidental antennas; Anyone who used a cheap set of computer speakers back in the 2000’s and 2010’s will know the distinct buzzing pattern that preceded a text message or phone call. That’s because cheap speakers would use unshielded power sources, and simple circuitry which didn’t bother to isolate the amplifier from the power.

DudeDudenson,

You could just not allow the user to use the FM tuner while wireless charging

Natanael,

You probably want the NFC antenna for that instead of Qi coils

TheInsane42,
@TheInsane42@lemmy.world avatar

They solved the ,issing FM tuner by pushing DAB+. (Yeah, + so users can’t record from radio)

yamanii,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

If the phone has a headphone jack, it probably has that FM tuner.

Aux,
0x2d,

It is commonly a thing in budget mediatek devices

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