Vanon

I hate ads, but these were beautifully done. And effective: I do indeed feel the need for some very long Sakeru Gummy candy. I wonder over how long these originally played out in Japan. Bravo.

I’m also using Nova Launcher (on Pixel 6A), received Android 14 update, haven’t had any problems. Or frankly noticed many differences at all, which makes me hope they spent the year squashing bugs? Right, Google? …

Same here. I played around with the settings (extremely limited, typical of Google), but ended up just deleting the widget. I’m using Nova Launcher on a Pixel 6A. Hope it at least fits the default launcher UI better, otherwise it’s just terrible.

I do this with passwords, too. For example, generate 15 digits and add 5 digits (like +LMY!) to end. Many of those sites will list which passwords were stolen, easy to see to see which sites have unforgivably poor security.

For email addresses, the variation is useful, but it’s probably inevitable that it’s eventually sold, stolen or guessed. Still nice to have the evidence.

I also use PIA, for many years now. The performance for price has always been fantastic, along with their policies. However, I’m becoming worried about the company now, noticing signs of bad health. Software development and updates have stopped (I’ve now switched to OpenVPN). Help and documentation has stopped (and blog/news). Customer service seems extremely understaffed as well.

Almost unusable right now. Excruciatingly slow. Many errors (“502 Bad Gateway”, Liftoff, Android). Website is not any better. Not sure if “hug of death” DDOS effect from new users or server problems (esp. from new updates).

Allegedly, yes. Where did the millions of dollars of revenue go, from all the ads and sponsors (which completely infest their app)?

Reddit execs decided they needed thousands (?!) of employees, despite mods running the subreddits for free. They could never make an app as fully featured as those with literally one employee. And it took years for them to deliver promised features and mod tools (many are very recent or still unavailable).

Lemmy and Mastodon, and all their apps, are running thanks mostly to a few dozen awesome people and donations.

Where did Reddit’s millions of dollars disappear to again? And how is that not damning proof of their current execs incompetence?

(Note: I direct this /rant in Reddit’s general direction.)

“crashes on occasion”

Unfortunately, the occasion seems to be at least once every five minutes for me. thisisfine.jpg This is not fine and definitely a major issue. Especially as we get closer to July 1. After this news from lemmy.world, I will have to switch, probably to Connect, until Sync arrives.

I first thought my Jerboa was fine (despite the popup warning about version), since I could browse a bit without it obviously exploding. But no, it crashes regularly now (closes, no warning or messages).

I don’t understand why a Lemmy update would be considered for release that removes security features like captcha support. (Especially during this time of high rates of signups, and well known bot wave in some instances.)

Combined with Jerboa update that needs the Lemmy update, and popularity of instances that need captcha, it’s unfortunately causing a mess for many users.