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Cake day: October 10th, 2023
  • boomzilla@programming.devtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What smartphones are people using nowadays?
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    7 months ago

    I’m at my 3rd moto atm. A slightly outdated g31. It came with Android 11 and only recently 2 years after I bought it, it got the 12 upgrade. Still gets regular security patches.

    Next the apps installe by Motorola (where I mean by optional that you can deactivate them, not uninstall). None of these apps are in the top 12 in the battery usage statistics and most of them are activated.

    Moto App (117MB, optional)

    A tutorial center with “kurzgesagt” like animations e.g. for gestures. A selection of shortcuts to settings for customizing your device and Motorola QOL settings.

    Moto Actions and Gestures (20MB, optional)

    Enables the gestures (has no other brand a shaking flashlight gesture or has Motorola patented it?).

    Moto App Launcher (4MB)

    The Motorola specific desktop customization. I don’t know how close it is to the Pixel stock image but it doesn’t get in my way.

    Moto AI Services (whopping 200MB, optional)

    The reviews for this service are scalding. I’m honestly not the biggest fan of having AI on my phone that’s not in my control. Two reviewers point out, that it probably isn’t very invasive AI and rather used for QOL features, like the shaking flashlight feature.

    Moto Feedback (31MB, optional)

    Helps the user sending feedback (bug-reports and memory-dumps?) to Motorola. Again smotheringly bad reviews. Never had to do with it or used it knowingly. Can be deactivated.

    Motorola notifications (88MB, optional)

    Again some furious reviews. Double edged sword as it’s used to send news about updates but also push ADs. But the latter isn’t very spammy. Just every few weeks or month a push notifications about a new moto. That’s about the only place where I would see ADs (apart from regular apps).

  • boomzilla@programming.devtoMildly Interesting@lemmy.world•We hit one third of boomers being dead in the last few days.
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    9 months ago

    Hey maybe a bit close minded view there? I’m a millenial and I cheer for gen z (extinction rebellion, FFF) all the time. You have all the right to hate those who don’t see the multitude of extreme problems they left for you. I’m antinatalist, vegan and try to reduce, reuse, recycle. Degrowth all the way. Use my bike where I can. My car is barely moving now and I need to get rid of it. I listen to a lot of music from gen z artists. Since I’ve gone vegan my whole body is energized to the max and I’ll fight the cleptocracy on social networks where I can. I detest Zucks recent endeavours as a bull fharmer. Hang in there. We got your backs.

  • boomzilla@programming.devtoaww@lemmy.world•These cows have earmuffs, your argument is invalidEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I hope you can accept my apology. I just was in a very agravated mood because of all the ignorance on xitter. We’re try trying to make people less dumb there on multiple fronts and I think we starting to reach people in the last days and they change their stance.

    I never watched IT Crowd, but I’m a big fan of Always Sunny, The Office and Arrested Development. I hope there’ll be times when I can enjoy those again and be in a better mood.

  • boomzilla@programming.devtoGaming@lemmy.ml•With the year coming to an end, what was your favorite video game you played this year?
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    9 months ago

    Nice. I started Ratchet & Clank on PCSX2 yesterday. Holy hell is that Emulator a work of art. The graphical options for the emu make that PS2 game still shine and the gameplay is lotsa fun. Sadly the libretro core for Retroarch/Emulationstation bugged out for me and was slow compared to standalone PCSX2.

    Also I’m still puzzled how it’s possible there are so many retro-achievements for so many games. I looked up how to implement them and it’s really complicated. I totally underestimated how big the retro games scene still is. I really want to get into the netplay thing.

  • boomzilla@programming.devtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some recent breakthroughs or findings that haven't received much attention?
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    10 months ago

    BioNTech has several mRNA based cancer vaccines in different trial stages.

    The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is in a phase 2 trial of a mRNA vaccine against pancreatic cancer. The first phase found that the treatment prevented the spread of tumors in 8 of 16 patients.

    I can confidently say that I understood maybe 5% of the Nature paper about the phase 1 trial linked in above article but my takeaway is that even 2 years after the study, 50% (8 of 16) of the patients who got the vaccine against pancreas cancer where attested with significantly higher amounts of T-Cells. I can imagine this is pretty remarkable, considering the severity of that type of cancer.

    I don’t know if the phase 2 trial still is open for patients but I 100% would try to contact them if I was a patient. I mean mRNA isn’t exactly new but over 30 years in the making.

    Nevertheless I hope this will beat most cancers as well as cultured meat will beat the animal agriculture and renewable/fusion will beat nuclear/fossile. Image the paradise that would be. I know thats naive considering the world rn.