averyminya

joined 1 year ago
sorted by: new top controversial old
Why is the outside cold? in c/shittyasklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 4 points 3 hours ago

Earth's atmosphere can only keep out some of coldness of space

DM/Players of Lemmy, what are some silly magical items I should add to a campaign? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The bag is stolen by the main villain while you are in the pocket dimension, and he eats it.

Game over. Lol

Overkill is doing their annual Steam Deck survey in c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's very odd. Have you factory reset the controller then done the upgrade?

Other than Smite, what video games have a lot of playable mythological pantheons? I already know about Megami Tensei, Persona, and Fate video games, what about others? in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 6 points 3 days ago

Since it hasn't been mentioned, Okami. You play as Amaterasu, the Japanese sun god

Ubisoft sued for shutting down The Crew in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 4 days ago

Ah yes, California, the EU of the US lol

Democrats bet on women showing up in force. They didn’t. in c/worldnews@aussie.zone
[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago

A key part of educating people about progressive causes and initiatives is running progressive campaigns and motivating people to get involved in those campaigns or to support them

Then I suppose our state ballots should be separate from our federal ones. It is wrong to not vote for anything if your one reservation from the rest of your ballot is the choice of president.

Democrats bet on women showing up in force. They didn’t. in c/worldnews@aussie.zone
[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It seems short sighted to throw away all of your local election voting power just because you don't like the presidential options you have available.

And, as mentioned, particularly when one of them is specifically meant to be able to pick a better presidential candidate. Seems like the kind of thing one would want to go vote for.

Democrats bet on women showing up in force. They didn’t. in c/worldnews@aussie.zone
[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I think if that was the case, people would have showed up to vote for ranked choice voting which was on a ton of state ballots this year.

Oddly, they all failed since people didn't bother to vote for those either. Not voting for the thing that will change the system that put these voters in this situation in the first place...

Suffice to say, it's a lot more than just one reason.

Steam store pages are now required to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat [2024-10-30] in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 28 points 6 days ago (23 children)

I'm assuming the user meant all kernel level anti-cheat is malware

U.S. editor in Kansas urges judge to do "what was once unthinkable" — force a president-elect to take the oath of office in a jail cell in c/politics@beehaw.org
[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 6 days ago

If anything, him being jailed would just make it easier for his cabinet to push through their policies. With Trump around he might be incompetent enough to slow it down. With him out of the way? No shot.

And I say this as someone who really wants him to be imprisoned.

What will it take for staunch Democrats to vote third party? in c/usnews@beehaw.org
[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 6 days ago

I don't think Republicans of today care to know the difference. But good to point out!

The country is done for in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

Close, but not quite. It's actually "L M N O P", but that's okay keep trying!! ;)

10
What are you time crunching right now? (beehaw.org)
 

I made a mistake in my dates and so I have a few chapters to edit and upload and I have work tomorrow morning. Gonna be rough.

So, to make myself feel better, what are you time crunching this week?

23
What are you up to this weekend? (beehaw.org)
 

I've been trying to clean for a week, yesterday and today I've spent actually making some headway. My grandma is coming to town so I'm trying to spruce up the place! Not very exciting for the fleeting weekends of the summer, so I thought I'd live vicariously through you all!

P.S. you can't clean without music: Sorry for the YouTube link but I've been unable to use the alternatives recently

6
Travel documentation apps like Journey? (beehaw.org)
 

It featured geotagging and made it pretty easy to get really nicely organized albums for trips.

However I don't really want my stuff on their servers nor am I fond of the subscription for trips I get to take maybe once a year these days.

Currently I use syncthing and some gallery apps (immich, photoprism), but due to network conditions (CG/NAT) accessing these outside my local network can be annoying at times. Ideally I could sync&transfer photos and have them cached on the device instead, which is what Journey accomplished for me.

17
My first interaction with Meta Services last night. Thought I'd share what I learned. (Cross-posting from my KBin) (imgur.com)
 

I was up late last night and we know how that goes - rabbit holes. This time I was trying to find some ways to make my phone feel a little snappier and possibly eliminate the issue I was having where my recent apps button stops working until I restart the phone. On Android 13 I found that if I changed to gesture based navigation it solves the problem - recent apps can be switched to for just a small change. But the fluidity of gesture based navigation got me thinking about the animation speeds, so off I went into developer mode to play with some settings. This is where the rabbit hole begins.

(Small edit for phone!) I've only recently gotten the Sony Xperia 1IV direct from Sony, put in my TMobile SIM and have been running it the last 8 months or so. I haven't looked too much into the A13, but I made sure to do all my usual protections - disable Facebook and whatever other bloatware comes preinstalled. I saw a category to see a list of running services and there's some pretty innocuous ones - wireless charging service, accubattery, google, KDE connect, Vanced MicroG and Meta Services. It just looked like an RSS feed with a notification icon, really and I didn't think much of it.

Well with (edit for clarity) Vanced being dead me not liking ReVanced as much (end edit) and should have switched to LibreTube much sooner, I was trying to find where and how to uninstall MicroG. I came across my active processes again and I remembered about Meta, did a little digging (and I mean little) and saw that many Android phones come with a Meta App Manager and tracking service that runs automatically in the background, whether or not you have their apps installed/disabled. We all knew about bloatware coming preinstalled, but this was the first I'd come across full on background services using data and RAM (minute as they may be).

So I thought I'd share. It's simple, but here we are. To find them (in Android 13)

Android Settings > Apps > See All Apps > top corner Show System

Scroll down to the M's and be sure to disable background data, clear cache and storage, and disable these 3 Meta services.

And if you're curious to see your Running Services, enable developer mode, navigate to it and it's the 8th option, right under "OEM unlocking". Handy for finding sneaky apps.

While I don't use Facebook on my phone (app wrapper), I do use Instagram and I've noticed zero issues with the app. Almost like the tracking is completely unnecessary for the user experience and its removal breaks nothing! But obligatory YMMV and do this at your own risk etc. The risk is likely that Facebook wont serve you ads as well, the horror.

Anyway, I thought I was up to date on everything that needs to be done to debloat a phone, but I found some more that I've yet to see any mentions or guides for until after I started researching what and why Meta Services was running on my phone. I thought I'd share since I'm tech savvy and try to stay up to date, so if I feel this way then there may be others who would like to know about this as well.

view more: next ›