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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ramsey has some views that don't align with everyone. The important thing to keep in mind is that America is so diverse, your neighbor could be a different religion and most of us (despite what media will lead you to belive) don't give a fuck.

If I were to re-work the advice to be less extreme, I'd say don't put your self in a finacial struggle trying to help your parents.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

There's a lot terrible articles with clickbate titles too. A lot of the articles I'm interested reading are either clickbate/ragebait or way out of context or just completely false.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

I'm not aware of major downsides to using a different luncher.

The biggest incovience is initial setup and putting your home screen apps back where they belong.

Spend a few hours to escape to some of google bloat and set your search bar to use Firefox (which has ublock support).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You can change it on other launchers.

Personally I like neolauncher.

https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher The search bar can be set to immediately directly open Firefox search, or you can pick form a list of various engines.

There's a dozen other launchers to try. Lawnchair is a more popular choice, probably better for someone switching from pixel default. There's a few very specific features it's missing for me.

If you search Lemmy for "Nova Launcher" you'll find some threads listing a dozen alternatives due to nova's downfall.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The feature exists on desktop, works great, but the setup is convoluted. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles There's a way to make desktop shortcuts to easily pick profile, but I don't remember how, it has been a few years since I needed profiles.

Wish they had something for mobile too, that would be huge. I use my phone for both work and personal stuff all the time, not my desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've started ignoring random posts about it.

Its the equivalent of telling your little sibling about it and having to listen to them shout "I lost the game" for next 5 months. It gets old quick.

Now if I think about this post and comment later on my own, then sure I'll have lost the game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I tried, and tried to like it. We all work differently. I like widgets on the home screen, swipe up for apps. I guess it's the "start menu" mentality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I hope that's a good thing....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good luck. It is a bit weird getting setup at first with the way they do profiles, but once its set you dont have to think about it if you need to make a new alarm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

"Alarm Clock for Heavy Sleepers" also known as AMDroid Alarm clock.

Yes it can shuffle music.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amdroidalarmclock.amdroid

Downsides; Not FoSS and not free, however it is a cheap one time purchase, no subscriptions. free version ads are just unobtrusive banners. I have Netgaurd blocking WiFi and cell with no issues.

Features: (no idea what's paid and not)

  • Incredibly customizable, I never knew there could be so many alarm options - but there are.
  • you can make different alarm profiles, so you only have to set up each "type" of alarm you want once. From there, you just set a time and pick a profile with your settings. Everything from this point on is profile specific.
  • pick any sounds on device (or a folder for random picks), set volume, vibrate, ingnore do not disturb, ignore headphones plugged in, etc.
  • Calandar integration. If you have a schedule that varies, you can set it up to follow that instead of set-days and times.
  • One time skip and one time adjust buttons. Need to wake up an hour early one day, got tomorrow off? Just use these to make the adjustment, next day the alarm will back to normal.
  • optional post alarm "are you awake?" notifications. Dismiss the alarm but fell back asleep? After a few minutes (user set time) it will ask if your awake. With no response, after some time the alarm will go again. (With a different sound or volume if you like)
  • snooze timmer can decrease each time you use it. First snooze 10 min, next is 8, then 6 and so on.
  • various optional challenges that I don't use. Easy things like type out this text, to the WiFi signal must be higher than X (go stand next your router to shut off alarm).
  • location based settings - for example, morning alarms only go off at hone, break alarms only go off at work.
  • the list continues for some time, but I'll stop here.
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Guys this a fake review from the zombies! Never let your gaurd down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you for your suggestion.

Having just tried it, it is not for me. The categories is there, but having the search/app drawrr on the top won't work me, especially with these stupid large phone everyone makes. (I'm guessing theres a way to change it, but I didnt get that far)

The ultimate reason its not for me is how widgets are a scrolling thing. It's a different idea, but I like the widgets on my home screen where I can passively see them.

If there's a way to change that, I didnt see it. I didn't even find a way to get rid of the big clock at the bottom.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The solution is Settings -> Account preferences -> Show read posts?

Thanks [email protected]


I've posted a few time, but the post list always remains empty for some reason.

I can see other people posts on their profiles.

 

Basically looking a calandar that stays on the deaktop, and can show events (Otherwise I'd just use a wallpaper). I don't need much interaction with it, if any, essentially just open the actaul calandar program. Sync with iCal is a big plus.

While FOSS is ideal, I'm open to anything free (that can be firewalled or is actually private (unlikely, I know))

I found one that used windows 7 widgets, but it was too small and didn't seem to work right anyways.

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Android Tablets (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Does anyone have good experience with android tablets, and possibly replacing the OS? I see some interesting options from Google, lenovo, one plus, etc... I imagine the pixel one will be the easiest to load a new OS to, but I also wonder about the tablet support of things like lineage or graphine.

The hardware doesn't have to be groundbreaking, just good enough to be my "travel laptop" for movies, comics and general interneting. I don't want a laptop, as I often like to sit in chair/bed to read comics or watch movies and a keyboard would make that awkward.

One of my main concerns is the update support - my iPad has been getting updates since 2017, a lot of the android manufactures are promising a pathetic 3 to 5 years. I don't want to be "software bricked" in 5 years (I.e apps eventually requiring an Android version I cannot update to)

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Squidward (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 
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