BladeFederation

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[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

This is a little bit douchey with the wording but not entirely incorrect. Nintendo fans play Nintendo games, and that's usually it. As much as they've gotten better at third party support, it's cheaper to just buy a separate console or PC, which has games go on sale and have it run better. Rather than buying Witcher 3 running sub 30 FPS at full price years after release because Nintendo tax. But if you do that you're not a "Nintendo guy". You're just really onto video games, so BoTW won't surprise you.

Similar to how Apple repackages features. If you use Apple products you're usually either a tech guy or an Apple guy. The tech guys have a healthy respect for Apple but don't appreciate the repackaging and business practices. The Apple guys are impressed, because Apple facilitates being locked into their ecosystem, and therefore they've never seen it.

Last I heard there is still no site isolation on Android

PineTime is probably the best choice privacy wise. It hits all your requirements but it is definitely not fancy. Pretty much everything will require an app, but the GadgetBridge app is FOSS with no trackers or uploading your data.

[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm going to go against the grain slightly and say that it's not as bad as you might think. Schools and businesses have deals with Google when they pay for the software. Google is not allowed to scan everything to train Gemini the same way that they do for a personal free Google account.

That being said, it's always best practices to disconnect work/school and personal activities, for a wide variety of reasons. The more present threat is the work/school being able to see everything you do on the device. Like, EVERYTHING, sometimes even keystrokes. Furthermore, using your personal third party accounts will increase the attack surface by Google and your school/employer being able to associate the service and/or account with you. So at the end of the day, don't do anything personal on school/work devices, and you can't get burned by either party.

I can agree with that. As much as I'd prefer pressing the "delete all Ai in the world" button, it has some uses and doesn't have to be predatory.

Thanks that is useful

What is a code prettier?

[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If devs are reading this, please put it in the app description if you support Piefed. I thought there were only 2 apps available for Piefed until this very moment.

[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Jump button for comments that jumps instantly (like Red Reader)

Ability to turn NSFW masking off for feed, or at least not make it two taps to open the full image AND demask it.

Redgifs internal feed integration

Have recent subs be account-specific instead of shared. i don't want to see a NSFW sub on my main.

Cross posting + cross post comment combination.

Maybe some more themes and customization like ability to create custom sub combos from the app (or whatever it's called on the fediverse, on reddit it is a multireddit)

Please and thank you. A+ app name BTW. Love that it is on F-Droid.

[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is crazy to me. I would have gone insane as a child if I couldn't have imagined badass scenarios in my head when I was bored.

[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't think "the left" needs to abandon religion. I have the left in quotes because most of the time we're actually talking about progressives. And you can't be progressive while dictating the beliefs of others. Leftism, however, benefits greatly from being united in belief. Unity is what it's all about. But they don't, because leftists are usually more progressives than anything else. Even when it happens, the hive mind mentality is what makes extreme leftism easy to fall apart and easy to slip into dictatorships at high population levels. And yet, we are approaching a post scarcity, post career having society, which demands socialism to some extent. But with a reliance on globalism. And bad foreign policy in place.

I don't have an ultimate point in this I guess. I don't know the solution, but it's not stamping out religion and it's not the reactionary fascism that America is a part of now.

I'm not saying it should happen. I'm just saying I'm surprised it isn't constantly happening.

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