MattMist

I'm currently using a Mi Band 6 (with a nylon strap that's real comfy), but I wish the Pebble still existed. The e-paper display, the nice UI and tactile buttons, with good battery life and the ability to make apps was great.

Once my Mi Band breaks, I'm torn between Garmin (since they check almost all of the Pebble boxes, even if I don't do fitness and they're more fitness oriented) and a Galaxy Watch with the rotating bezel, since that was really cool to play with, plus the Android integration might be nicer.

It's just a patch in the Manager. You may need to download the free version APK from somewhere like APKMirror and patch that though (you can also disable ads so it's like the Pro version), as there don't seem to be any Pro APKs and you can't patch an installed app without root.

It's basically a really well polished app to browse the website on Android. It has a lot of features and also very good customization options since it kept adding features over the years.

Having a Lemmy client that good will make it much easier to use on a phone.

Where were you when NA was kill

But I do wonder what prompted Liquid to get rid of basically their only selling point (majority NA roster)

I'm the type of person who gets tired of a DE after using it for too long, so I'm using Budgie right now and I really like it. However XFCE is pretty nice, too, it's what I used to use.

IIRC there might be a torrent floating around somewhere for those that really want it

I wonder if the ability to easily unscrew a backplate with regular screws (like PH00) and replace the battery underneath would still be enough for the regulation.

That depends, if you buy a flagship device then in 5 years it will probably still be quite usable, but the battery could already be shot.

My phone (not even a flagship model) is coming up on 4 years old and it's still pretty fast and on the newest Android version (yay custom ROMs), but the battery now struggles to get me through a regular day, so it will probably need to be replaced soon.

That's true, but aren't federated pages at a disadvantage since you can look at them from any instance thus decreasing the number of links to one specific post (which is how PageRank works)? Since then instead of one post on page 1 you'd have 10 from different instances on page 3. I'm thinking this could be fixed if all posts had a link to the post on the original instance, which is where the ranking scores would then be more likely to aggregate.

I'm running Evolution X on my Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro and have been for the past 3 years or so. The main maintainer uses this phone so it has always been pretty polished and feature rich.

It's supposed to be -saffee +fallen so that still might happen, especially since the article says they might have to use another academy player as 5th due to high buyouts in the BR scene

Yes and no.

I agree with you that Discord is trash if you want to use it like Reddit. It's really only good for free-flowing discussions and things like that.

But when it comes to the basics of link aggregation and commenting, Kbin (and Lemmy) is exactly like Reddit. The only things it's missing is like 15 years' worth of UI and UX polish that Reddit has done and a lot of the content (well, and better moderation tools, but that's not really relevant for me as an end user). Those can be fixed within months or years at most if we keep going at this development speed. So I'll be staying here at least for now, and when my third party Reddit app no longer works, I'll almost stop going there. And I don't think I'm the only one.

The only negatives of Kbin/Lemmy are the whole federation aspect, where you have multiple sites that communicate with each other, which can cause chaos if these decide to defederate (= basically stop sharing content). But the more I think about it, that is where the internet is headed. Big services are and always will be in a cycle of enshittification and the only way to fix that is to build something ourselves. Federation helps a lot with that, since everyone with a server can create a community and the users can join one they like and get content from the entire network.