Skip Navigation
Deleted
The "essential" firefox addons/scripts/ublock filters etc?
  • I'm not sure which build of firefox the other user is using, but in the stable stock build I can't add it in settings page itself either.

    But if you go to a website that can do search, eg. Startpage, then right click on the browser's url bar again, a new option to add the search engine pops up at the end of the context menu.

    Another alternative is installing addons that adds the search engine too, I believe duckduckgo & Startpage has theirs.

    Here's firefox's docs about it - it's got screenshots of how it looks.

    Edit: Ah, I see you've tried it already - probably plugins are the next easiest way to go about it then :( The docs do give a direction though of where to go, like repositories of supported sites.

  • Do you prefer private or public trackers?
  • There are much easier trackers to get into that doesn't require this much prereading prior.

    Private trackers (not the biggest ones though) do open signups from time to time too (ie no interview no vetting, just sign up), so look out for those.

    The most important thing is if you're into the content offered on the site - RED's only attractive if you're an audiophile for instance, it doesn't have movies/games etc. Get a name, then find out from there how to get into it. Read the rules on how not to get into leecher status almost immediately once you get in. Once you get your foot into an easier tracker that at least has some content you're into, then make your way up if you want more.

  • Do y'all use eSim or Physical Sim for your phone?
  • Phone models sold in China (even iphones) have had dual sim capabilities for a long time before eSims were a thing. I mean like 2 physical sim card slots in a phone. Adoption of eSims isn't much of a necessity when the phone itself already can carry 2 sims by default.

    On the other hand American phone models only ever had the one sim card slot. It's a bit strange that eSims haven't been as widely adopted.

  • Jump to next comment

    Not sure if it's just a setting that I'm missing, but a button to jump to the next parent comment would be a great QOL addition.

    And on that note I couldn't figure how to search this sub to see if this had been requested before given it's a pretty basic feature in every reddit client I've used. Maybe it's a lemmy limitation.

    Love the app, already one of the most used apps on my phone like Apollo was.

    2
    Netflix’s test of streaming games is small, but it’s poised to be a big deal
  • Didn't you need to pay a sub to access Stadia & purchase the game on top of that? Or was that just for a more premium tier of Stadia.

    Like buying expansions to WoW, pay for the expansions & pay the sub to play the game.

    The cyberpunk fiasco was a perfect time to have pushed it, too bad they didn't try to ride the waves of being the best place to play one of the most anticipated games of the decade (I know it was a disastrous launch, but the hype leading up to it for years was on a whole other dimension).

  • The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.
  • It appears to be so - I personally don't have an iPad to check. Strange decision to omit it in that particular mode given it's a parallel to iPhone keyboards, so I'd have to assume it was a deliberate omission. User experience (too many grandparents triggering it by accident)? Who knows.

    Now we know we have to pinch it to make it float and then slide that way. TIL!

    But if you're using a newer iPhone, definitely able to slide as long as the owner haven't turned it off.

  • Searching for a 'library manager' that looks awesome.
  • What's wrong with Kodi - it has a lot of skins you can use to change the appearance to look like streaming services'

    ...If it's because it's a mess to use, totally get you lol, but if you're willing to arrange & rename the files to be scanned properly then kodi works pretty well as an offline media library.

  • The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.
  • Unfortunately no easy way about it :(

    You can sorta increase keyboard size by going into accessibility settings > display to increase text size as a whole.

    As for additional number line on iPhones, not possible without third party keyboard afaik, but there's a couple tricks (link to reddit comment) to speed up typing numbers. iPad has the number line in their keyboard.

    I'm just used to not having these features in exchange for generally much better integration of autofill passwords etc. I have an android tablet to compare with & it's a pain to have to switch over to a dedicated keyboard to access my passwords & back because swiftkey borks it most of the time (I use keepass as a password manager). The keyboard also auto-detects those pesky SMS OTPs, which is a small convenience but surprisingly satisfying to not have to flip apps/squint at the number in my notifs to slowly input it. Pros & cons I guess.

  • The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.
  • 3rd party keyboards exist for iOS - I used to use them too. Keyboards can access every app that you use a keyboard in, so basically everything from your passwords to credit card can be logged. There'd be a popup warning about it on installation that everyone ignores.

    But the native keyboard does adopt parts of other good apps + lack of substantial development in said apps (looking at you, Swiftkey iOS). Once the native keyboard added slide to type + spacebar navigation years back, third party keyboards lost their lustre for me lol.

    Technically Apple could log all our keypresses too. It's just a matter of whether that sort of data is worth it for them to collect, or are they prioritising security with their current focuses on privacy features in newer updates.

  • I've used Lemmy more in the past 12 hours than I have in the past month since signing up. All because of Sync.
  • He's working on a onetime purchase to remove ads as stickied in the release thread. No idea where you got the $20 from. (Update: it's in the beta lol)

    I'm actually already getting no ads by blocking with adguard's dns already. Just a thing to set in your phone's settings.

    If you're already not seeing that many annoying ads in the first place, maybe just hold out on purchasing anything then lol.

  • The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter
  • Mostly cosmetic stuff positioned in annoying places to bug you to subscribe, but some features like larger upload limit, faster downloads etc are paywalled.

    Nothing that really stops the average user from using the client though. Still the best messaging app IMO, esp since the server storage is still unlimited. Newer features are still coming to free users. If they keep along this balance, the subscription push is fine for me.

  • InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)BO
    boooooboo @lemmy.world
    Posts 1
    Comments 19