Good night everyone. Sweet dreams. 🦇👻
Nighty night. Don’t let the bed bugs bite.
Just one day of using the Samsung UI for more than just work and I’m reminded how much I hate it. And the fucking bloat. Can’t delete the Facebook app off the phone, only disable it, what a joke. Can’t be stuffed dicking around with custom ROMs for this one, I think I’ll be using this phone for work only as much as possible rather than making it my primary.
Gonna be hopefully clocking some overtime this pay cycle, maybe I’ll get a Nothing Phone 2a or something else with stock Android. Although once again, hisssss at modern smartphones not having headphone jacks
Nova launcher beats Samsung UI hands down
Red Magic 9 Pro user here, it has a headphone jack and is a beast of a phone and comparatively cheap.
I could not possibly recommend it more highly. I no longer have to charge my phone every day and when I do charge it it’s done in less than 30 mins, performance is insane for a phone.
It’s a gaming phone, and so is also like having a Nintendo switch in your pocket for nearly half the price of the latest Samsung / Pixel / iPhone, whilst it blitz’s day to day stuff.
You don’t have to ever use the gaming mode btw, there’s a literal physical slider on the side to enable it. It feels like a 2000s gamer designed their dream modern portable device that’s primarily a phone.
Do check it out!
Oh wow, that’s really high praise and sounds like an amazing phone. It’s beyond my budget though, I think I gotta go for something more mid range with all the moving expenses coming up.
It is genuinely is fantastic, it even has an IR beam (TV remote) and when abroad we just hook up my phone and use it like a fire stick. And I love using my wired IEMs. And 120hz on a phone is so overkill.
Completely understandable if your budget is constrained due to the move, but with renting these days you’re going to get what 2-3 years out of the place vs. possibly 5-7 years out of the phone?
Zero bloatware on the OS, but there is a super weird completely optional waifu when in gaming mode. I didn’t know what it was when doing set up and now keep it installed just to show people how ridiculous it is haha! If you take selfies a lot then it’s not so great as the selfie camera is behind the screen. It’s also not technically waterproof as it has fans for cooling, but mine has been dropped in the toilet and is fine. I feel like I’m living in the old Nokia days where a phone is unbreakable :D
For ref my partner’s phone just got the 3g ban despite her doing the firmware upgrades and has a OnePlus 12 on the way so I’ll be able to do a comparison in a few days if that’s an option for your budget?
Financially, it’s more that I need enough of a buffer if I need to hire movers/bond clean/storage and it costs more than I like, I don’t want to touch my savings just yet as honestly this 3G bs locking out the device completely caught me unawares.
My existing phone was an older OnePlus (before the whole shebang about going away from Oppo or whatever), had a custom ROM right from the start. Not sure I’d bother with that now but I’d like the option. I’m definitely open to considering newer OP offerings though I’ve heard the quality isn’t quite what it used to be. Have been considering Nothing Phone 2 from the ex CEO of OnePlus though frankly it’s a bit more than I’d like (trying to stay under 1k, preferably around 600-800 mark, but need to weigh pros and cons)
Moving is insanely expensive, I really feel your pain and understand the weightings going through your head. 6 moves in 9.5 years for me, I feel like a broke vagrant.
The 3g stuff was/is utter bollocks.
“Hey, some people might not be able to make emergency calls anymore so let’s disable everyone’s phones that may be impacted altogether so that they definitely can’t”.
I do wonder who that bandwidth is going to be sold to and what it’ll be used for.
My partner was getting messages every day about it though for roughly 3 months but she thought she’d worked around it, only to have them just blanket ban the device. Frustrating.
On the quality of OP, yeah they lost me (a former OP5 owner) when they switched and ditched the headphone jack which is a hill I will die on. But my partner primarily uses bluetooth IEMs over her wired IE80s. We’ll see the quality of the latest build soon and I’m happy to update you.
Again though, the Red Magic 9 Pro is like a Swiss army knife that’s built like a brick shit house door. After owning it it would pay double the RRP to get another.
Edit: I know nothing about the Nothing phones so can’t comment on that.
I went from a Samsung to a Pixel, because of the Samsung bloat. I mean I get a bit of Google bloat, but nothing like Samsung.
Also I miss phones have a charge port AND a headphone port. My Pixel uses ONE usbc port for both and I fucking hate that shit. I feel like they’re forcing me to buy wireless head/earphones and I don’t want to fucking dammit! I prefer wired ones tyvm
Same!!! I will never use wireless headphones - sorry but I already have trouble remembering to charge my phone as it is, I do NOT want to have to remember to charge headphones as well and I would be fuming if I’d headed out and the headphones had no charge. No thank you.
I can get away with a 3.5mm to USB c converter if I have to, but it sucks on flights, PT etc when you want to charge your phone and listen to music at the same time.
Sigh. I remember the days when you could swap out phone batteries 😭
I had a navy blue Motorola flip phone, and a friend had a pink one, so we swapped the backs. Mine navy with a hot pink back and her vice versa. It was super cool!
Corpse is in the oven with marinade and some chopped tomato, carrots and onions
I’m currently warming up the bath for my pasta.
ACH AURELIE!
DER DEUTSCHEN FLIRTEN SEHR SUBTIL!!
Das liegt an ihrem großartigen Sinn für Humor
Sie ist Französin, sie würde es nicht verstehen lol
Ich habe Hunger.
Wer hat mein Haferbrei gegessen?
Boo! Try not to stab anyone before breakfast 😼
Idk, that’s a big ask…
Ok, stab somebody for breakfast?
Ok, I’ll be bad just this once. Only as a treat
That’s the spirit.
I had a dream I could see death. As in, I could see where people had died, no matter how long ago, as ugly growths and it was everywhere. And I could see upcoming deaths in people via grotesque disfiguring and mold. Rather disturbing.
sounds like an awesome idea for a movie
Oh damn… turns out while I knew I was near one bad spot, I’m actually right between two. On a busy highway per se. No wonder I’ve been getting a lot of grief.
Even with how much I keep to myself and mind my own it was unavoidable.
The writing competition blew up over the weekend. Ended up with 83 entries with maybe some more coming in today. I am super proud of the effort.
I have now come to realise that it takes about 4 years of early mornings to ruin my usual sleep schedule. No matter how late I sleep, how tired/exhausted I am or whether it’s a day off, unless I’m unusually unwell, I cannot sleep in the same way I used to.
This is an annoying revelation. Even napping, which I do very poorly, is worse now.
I need to find a way around this. I need more hours.
You have to find your natural sleep length. For most people it’s between 7 - 9 hrs. Food, alcohol, caffeine even water plays a big part in how well we sleep. Higher the stress level the shittier the sleep, the tired we are during the day.
Tinyest has started repeating words back to you. Shit is ADORABLE. Bathtime, GO!, Buh Bye and Ball are all big ones.
I saw Vampire Survivors has a local coop mode now. I’m going to try it out with my girlfriend soon, and it sounds like a good excuse to get addicted again and get a friend hooked too
I can’t figure out how this works. Possibly because I’m on a phone? Can see multiplayer in settings but nowhere to use it.
I haven’t booted it up to check. I noticed it had the local coop community tag and there’s an announcement on the product page about it
With a phone, apparently you’re meant to connect bluetooth controllers to the device to enable multiplayer I think.
Oh? Well Nevermind that I guess.
Castlevania dlc coming out on the 31st as well.
yay, booking for new glasses has been made :)
this is the first time i’m going to be getting my second pair adjusted for my astigmatism, i just can’t have the glare anymore, it’s unsafe
I am short sighted and have astigmatism, all streetlights are staaaaars
same here
not great for night driving , plus i’m curious what the world looks like without it
So Elder refused to go to school this morning. Yes we are back to this again. Mondayitis. But Miniest refused to go because her brother isn’t. I ended up having to leave or I’d be late for work.😥😬😫And now I’m I T C H Y. The rash (or whatever the hell it is) had actually gone down a bit overnight and didn’t look so livid this morning. Off to work so I can stress less🫤
My tactic is to make it as boring as possible if they stay home. Youngest stayed home today, and he nearly went insane without people to stimulate him. He’s going to school tomorrow. 😁
ordered a “new” PC to take over plex responsibilities. The old XPS is starting to show its age. Heres my question, do I go Linux? Or stick to win 11? I’ve heard Linux performance is a lot better, but my experince is pretty limited to a few Ubuntu Distros. The other challenege is my library sits on a 12tb internal drive on the XPS. Is Ubuntu going to be ok reading off what I assume is NTFS?
Yes Ubuntu can read NTFS. And yes, I’ve found Plex runs happily on low spec Linux machines. Running mine on an Ubuntu VM with 2GB ram allocated quite happily.
Plex install on Linux is very easy from memory.
any special deployment of Ubuntu required as far as drivers go? I know you can just chuck it on from a live USB but I’ve never actually optimized anything. Frankly, it runs like crap on Windows.
Depends on your hardware. I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 onto an old Dell laptop with zero issues. If you’re using new hardware you’re more likely to have issues.
Nah its a Optiplex 7070, nothing fancy so hopefully plays out the same as yours. thanks heaps!
I put Debian on my optiplex with xfce as the desktop environment and it uses less than a gig at idle. Debian’s great too because it has a slow update cycle so you don’t need to worry about anything breaking. You could set Plex to autostart so you never actually see the OS, then you have free extra RAM from using a lighter system
I was just reading about the whole snaps debate. No experience with Debian but I might give Mint a go. Sounds like its the darling child these days.
I first used Ubuntu and found snap to be really slow so I switched. I’ve put Mint on a computer and it works great. It’s justified in being the new linux favourite.
The UI has been designed to look a lot like Windows as well, so it’s easier for people to make the switch
does it have a built in “take control” for folder management? if so, that could be a winner!
I saw you’re having trouble with Debian at the moment. I don’t know what the exact problems you’re having are, the two things I can think of is making sure you’re in a root user, and you can edit individual files through terminal using nano
win 11 is such a cluster of bullshit the hassle of setup is gonna be about the same, but the nix box isn’t going to rape its own hardware to death and snitch on you for mp3’s
I booted 11 because it was installed and just to make sure the desktop runs (and I new how to review system specs on windows easier). Having to use OOBE to bypass account creation requirements is such bullshit.
Saturday is going to be a high of 27 and low of 21. Friday high of 17, low of 7. What a juxtaposition.
