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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • I’ve been spending less time on Lemmy and Kbin overall, but I’m more engaged and commenting more. Basically, I’m getting more out of the conversations here. Not saying the conversations on Reddit were any less meaningful, because there are a lot of intelligent people that posted and are posting over there (I’m assuming they’re still posting over there, I honestly haven’t been there since the 3PA Purge). Maybe because the amount of comments here are fewer so it’s easier to read more comments and respond vs the wall of comments and still missing a lot of information. I don’t know. But I feel like I can spend less time here and get more out of the posts and comments.


  • I’ve been an AT&T customer for years, mostly out of necessity. They just offer the best all around service for my needs.I tried switching to T-Mo, but they have a lot of dead spots (especially along interstates) and has weaker signal strength in most buildings than AT&T. And I just refuse to use Verizon, but they’re in a similar situation.




  • I’m the same way regarding quirks. I’ve been using Gboard and for a while bounced between that and Samsung Keyboard. Gboard has the best overall usability for me but a couple things I’m not a fan of: Gboard deleting clipboard history (only from Gboard as it’s still available elsewhere), and including \ as a long press symbol rather than /,where you have to tsp the symbols key and then tap /.

    Samsung Keyboard has a few quirks as well, but the biggest was predictive text isn’t as good as Gboard. But I like the customization of it. But I can’t see the symbols on the keys as well as I can on Gboard.

    I was a fan of Chroma Keyboard years ago because I liked that it would change color based on the app.





  • After everything went down and Sync stopped, my usage dropped considerably. I was still using Joey and Infinity for light browsing, but I haven’t really browsed Reddit in about a week and have been on Lemmy and Kbin exclusively. I feel more engaged here too.

    Browsing Reddit just seemed different, like the quality of posts and comments dropped considerably.


  • Samsung S23 Ultra. Been using Samsung phones the past few years, since the S10 Ultra, and I’ve enjoyed using them. One UI isn’t the bloated garbage it used to be, and Samsung has added some nice tweaks and features. Also, the Good Lock tweaks are fantastic and I’m surprised some just aren’t baked into One UI. Battery life has been stellar too.

    The weight is probably the thing I don’t like most. Makes a difficult to use one-handed sometimes.


  • I got a Synology years ago hoping to do this, but I didn’t do enough research and the model I got couldn’t quite decide and stream very well. I ended up just using it for backup and using my PC as a Plex server for a while. I eventually got an Nvidia Shield and just plugged in a large SSD to it and that works well.




  • I’ve used it for a few years (paid family plan) and it works pretty well. I have no reason to try to switch to something else, at least for now. Password sharing is handy, and the Android mobile app is nice and integrates nicely into Gboard. It’ll remember apps and autofill those as well.

    That said I’ve been messing around with Proton Pass, since I’m paying for Proton Mail and other services. Seems pretty decent but I haven’t tried the Android app much.