He would put himself at risk to avoid admitting he needed help

Are you sure he just doesn’t feel bad about potentially bothering someone (as I do)?

Not everyone knows everything. Actually, nobody does.

Computers simply became an easily available necessity, thus you get a lot of computer-illiterate people using computers.

Well, I do fuck up a lot.

Does that count?

OH, least favorite.

I was wondering why everyone is so sarcastic.

Well, buggy software (MIUI) and the surveillance. I mean, there’s a higher chance MIUI bricks itself during an update than with any Alpha-release custom ROM (so I don’t update… [But it’s also due to Android often removing features from API and breaking niche apps]).
E.g.: Wallpaper bug (stretched or awfully upscaled after changing brightness), brightness slider not working, broken screen rotation, battery drain, swapped L/R microphone audio channels, FM radio cutting out, system crashes and waves of killed apps, camera app in landscape has some buttons off-screen, MIUI screenshot tool occasionally breaks and stock screenshot tool is used (with full-blast audio sound effect no matter current volume settings), notification access service needs to be manually reset for each app after the app is restarted, 120Hz gets laggy after toggling battery saver on and off and needs to be manually reset, dark mode is forced on all apps but the setting to change this sorts all apps in random order,… Also, the Poco X3 Pro motherboard has a tendency to die. I am on this phone’s third motherboard currently.

Also… the volume buttons can get stuck. Xiaomi phones have issues with dust particles making their way into buttons and activating them randomly.

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I thought FAQs were always just made up.

I also like the idea of ptunnel

Ptunnel is an application that allows you to reliably tunnel TCP connections to a remote host using ICMP echo request and reply packets, commonly known as ping requests and replies.

Linksys WRT54G WiFi router.

The WiFi router DD-WRT was originally designed for.

This legend is older than me:

But I am an adult already (at least on paper…).

Hear me out, the entire universe is most likely temporary, so technically all the code you write is in fact temporary.

the pharmacist had to call the doctor to work it out.

Oh god, that must have been better than AES256 if even a pharmacist couldn’t decrypt it.

There’s also some official groups for normal projects. I know for example PixelExperience ROM used to have a community over there before shutting down.

Based on this Chromebooks can run Firefox flatpaks.

What are you talking about? It clearly flips it inside-out.

Well, because it doesn’t flip anything. The light just bounces off, thus light from your right bounces back to your right.

How long has it been? It’s just a 502, happens sometimes.

Check Sweet Home 3D for visualizations. Though it’s probably not what you’re looking for.

Ooof, that’s hard. There’s no single favorite.

Xiaomi and similar (like Poco) I like because of their higher performance and usually including both headphone jack and IR blaster. Currently have X3 Pro.
What I do not like about them is the tracking. Ads I don’t mind, honestly, but data collection kinda bothers me. You also need a Mi account to unlock the bootloader with a proprietary Xiaomi tool, plus there’s a waiting period. Yuck. Also, the software feels like unfinished rushed project. I am pretty sure Alpha releases of most custom ROMs are more stable. Anyway, I kept the stock ROM on this one anyway.

Moving on…

Google. Yes, you read that right. They not only allow easy bootloader unlocking, but also relocking with a custom key, thus being the choice of Graphene OS.
What I outright hate is no headphone jack and Micro SD card slot. Otherwise, I’d just get one of the Pixels pretty damn quick.

Lastly…

Pine64. Easy to obtain spare parts, pogo pins for hardware expansion (like a keyboard or LoRa module), possibility to communicate directly with the modem over internal serial interface because that’s possible too, built mainly for GNU+Linux distros.
But the whole idea is very much experimental.

Could have been Nokia up there if they kept it up with N900.

I am 35, you’re classified

The Lemmy energy is strong here.

With LemmyUI that also applies to videos and audio. With images, you can put them inside a link text field to get a button.

CyberTruck X(ylem).