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Is Pixel 9 worth it? (instead of Pixel 8)

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/31616900

I currently have an iPhone 14 Pro Max and I want to switch to an Android phone.

First of all, I eliminated all Chinese phones. Since Samsung has limited custom rom support, I gave up on that too. At the end, I decided to get a Pixel because of its GrapheneOS support.

But right now I'm stuck between Pixel 8 and 9. There's a big price difference with small improvements. I can afford both but not sure if Pixel 9 is worth it. What do you think?

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Is Pixel 9 worth it? (instead of Pixel 8)

I currently have an iPhone 14 Pro Max and I want to switch to an Android phone.

First of all, I eliminated all Chinese phones. Since Samsung has limited custom rom support, I gave up on that too. At the end, I decided to get a Pixel because of its GrapheneOS support.

But right now I'm stuck between Pixel 8 and 9. There's a big price difference with small improvements. I can afford both but not sure if Pixel 9 is worth it. What do you think?

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The dilema of charging the users and a solution by integrating blockchain to fediverse
  • Why a user should use your instance where there are other free alternatives though?

  • The dilema of charging the users and a solution by integrating blockchain to fediverse
  • Who will keep the money? Who will calculate what users will have to pay? Who will verify that the money is being used for the purpose it was paid for? How will bringing crypto payments to fediverse increase users, considering that 99% of people have never used crypto before? What will happen to the data of users who decide not to pay anymore? Let's assume that all instances offer paid membership; wouldn't monopoly occur if a corporate/suspicious instance offers completely free membership? Wouldn't offering paid memberships hold instance admins legally liable?

    Who will leave the mainstream platforms that are completely free and have many more users, and then pay and use a platform that is 1 in 100,000 times the size?

    Even though I received a donation of about $10 for 1 year, I think the current system should continue. If money is involved in something, it would be abused.

  • The dilema of charging the users and a solution by integrating blockchain to fediverse
  • Money involvement = enshitification

    Let fediverse be unprofitable.

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    Live thread requests
  • nice stuff.

    @LiveThreadBot@lemmy.world -football superlig@lemy.lol fenerbahce-galatasaray

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    Instance Admins: Check Your Instance for Vote Manipulation Accounts [PSA]
  • @ptz@dubvee.org I have cleaned these and some other bot accounts from my instance. I was ok to open registrations to this point because we were able to get reports for almost every activity and we could easily manage them. But unfortunately Lemmy does not have a regulatory mechanism for votes, so I'll keep it manual approval until then.

    Also it looks like they're manually creating accounts since we had captcha + email approval in our instance from the beginning. So this means that even with manual approvals, a botnet can be created – just in a delayed manner.

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    Instance Admins: Check Your Instance for Vote Manipulation Accounts [PSA]
  • Alright. I’ll check this ASAP.

  • Turkish president vows to 'purge' military graduates who took a pro-secular oath
  • in 2016, an attempt to overthrow Erdogan and his religious-conservative administration was foiled

    It was not a secularist coup. It occurred because of Erdogan's disagreements with his former Islamist partner, Fethullah Gülen.

  • The two most upvoted comments on any Lemmy instance are on Feddit.dk, but you won't see them on your own instance
  • Does the receiver instance federate that like object to other instances? If not, it is shit for sure.

  • Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user?
  • About $50 monthly for server, backups, image hosting, mails etc.

  • What do people here think of Nebula?
  • I’m using Headscale for work and Tailscale for personal use. I tried to use Nebula but it’s not easy as Tailscale.

  • Is Stable Diffusion still best local image generation tool?
  • Thx. Looks like there's also ComfyUI. How about that?

  • Is Stable Diffusion still best local image generation tool?

    I tried SD once and it was pretty good. It was a bit difficult, of course. Now I want to try image generation again. Do you still think I should use SD or a different tool?

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    What is your preferred API error response and why?
  • You’re right, I was just giving an example though.

  • What is your preferred API error response and why?
  • I've mistyped, I meant message in JSON body :)

  • What is your preferred API error response and why?
  • This one looks nice. Very detailed.

  • What is your preferred API error response and why?
  • Looks like they're recommending object of error code (number) and message.

  • What is your preferred API error response and why?

    I prefer simplicity and using the first example but I'd be happy to hear other options. Here's a few examples:

    http HTTP/1.1 403 POST /endpoint { "message": "Unauthorized access" }

    http HTTP/1.1 403 POST /endpoint Unauthorized access (no json)

    http HTTP/1.1 403 POST /endpoint { "error": "Unauthorized access" }

    http HTTP/1.1 403 POST /endpoint { "code": "UNAUTHORIZED", "message": "Unauthorized access", }

    http HTTP/1.1 200 (🤡) POST /endpoint { "error": true, "message": "Unauthorized access", }

    http HTTP/1.1 403 POST /endpoint { "status": 403, "code": "UNAUTHORIZED", "message": "Unauthorized access", }

    Or your own example.

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    Lemmy Federate integration problem with P.D
  • Yes, it fixed 👍

  • Lemmy Federate integration problem with P.D

    Hi. I’d like to inform P.D admins that Lemmy Federate integration is not working for P.D because Fediseer preferences.

    P.D is using “don’t follow censured instances” option in Lemmy Federate while blocking 3rd parties on Fediseer. So Lemmy Federate can’t fetch P.D’s censure list.

    So please either:

    • Disable Fediseer usage in Lemmy Federate
    • Grant access of censure list to 3rd parties in Fediseer
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    Gamescope mouse is not aligned correctly

    I have a 32:9 screen and I want to play CS2 in middle, 16:9 way. I couldn't do it natively and tried Gamescope.

    While Gamescope works as I would like, the mouse is doesn't work properly. As you can see from the video, game is centered but mouse is aligned to right of the screen. The params I'm using are;

    gamemoderun gamescope -f -w 2560 -h 1440 -r 240 --force-grab-cursor -S integer -- %command% -fullscreen

    Any recommendations?

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    Asking for moderator Rooki's removal for misconduct
  • I wonder if we feed our animals with "vegan food" for a year, would they start to choose that instead of meat or meat based food?

  • Asking for moderator Rooki's removal for misconduct
  • Then we should be against pets too. If we are not okay to breeding animals, we should also discuss pets too. That's not natural either.

  • Thoughts about new fancy JavaScript tools in Rust?

    I've heard many of them. For example: rolldown, rspack, swc, oxc, esbuild, parcel, vite etc.

    I can currently use JS projects without these tools. What extra do they add? Why should I use them instead of simply using tsc?

    Though I must admit I like vite simplicity in front-end.

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    Registrations are manual approval for a while

    We have been under troll attack for a while now. For this reason, I am giving up on the open registration policy for a while.

    I will also add a rule for extremist users. Even though I care about freedom, I don't like moderation duties very much :) These users must find a new instance that matches their identity.

    We’re also looking for an admin who can volunteer to moderate. They should be someone who has spent a few months in our instance, has a clean moderation history, and is active. In short, they must be someone we can trust. @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol and I are busy these days :)

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    Thoughts about desec.io (DNS service)?

    I currently use Cloudflare's DNS with disabled proxy and I want to ditch Cloudflare completely now (for known reasons).

    I found the desec.io service and it’s looking pretty good to me. What are your thoughts about this site? Would you recommend it? Any other recommendations?

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    Self hosting is hard. How do you overcome?

    Not exactly self hosting but maintaining/backing it up is hard for me. So many “what if”s are coming to my mind. Like what if DB gets corrupted? What if the device breaks? If on cloud provider, what if they decide to remove the server?

    I need a local server and a remote one that are synced to confidentially self-host things and setting this up is a hassle I don’t want to take.

    So my question is how safe is your setup? Are you still enthusiastic with it?

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    (COMPLETED) Lemmy version upgrade on Sunday

    I will upgrade the Lemmy version to 0.19.4 on Sunday 10:00 UTC. Therefore, we’ll experience about 1 hour downtime.

    Normally, I do not announce these version upgrades, but since the database will also be upgraded and migrated, down time may increase in case of a problem.

    For local time: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=lemy.lol+update&iso=20240609T10&p1=1440&ah=1

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    BTRFS for Linux gaming?

    I'm using EndeavourOS with ext4 file system for daily usage and a dual bootable Windows for gaming. What I want to have right now is getting rid of Windows completely.

    When I tried it before, I had to try multiple tweaks for a game and find which one worked on Linux. Therefore, I want to take a snapshot with BTRFS and try it until I find the right configuration.

    While I have quite a bit of experience with Linux, I've never used BTRFS. Do you think it's worth it?

    I thought about keeping the games on the ext4 system, but I hate splitting the disk. I'm thinking of keeping the games in a non-snapshot volume.

    UPDATE: I just re-installed EndeavourOS with BTRFS + snapper + BTRFS Assistant :)

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    BTRFS for Linux gaming?

    I'm using EndeavourOS with ext4 file system for daily usage and a dual bootable Windows for gaming. What I want to have right now is getting rid of Windows completely.

    When I tried it before, I had to try multiple tweaks for a game and find which one worked on Linux. Therefore, I want to take a snapshot with BTRFS and try it until I find the right configuration.

    While I have quite a bit of experience with Linux, I've never used BTRFS. Do you think it's worth it?

    I thought about keeping the games on the ext4 system, but I hate splitting the disk. I'm thinking of keeping the games in a non-snapshot volume.

    UPDATE: I just re-installed EndeavourOS with BTRFS + snapper + BTRFS Assistant :)

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    fediverse@kbin.social and opensource@kbin.social are instance-wide blocked

    I'm tired of removing spam posts from these two communities for the last 2 months. With the decision we made with Quazar; We're removing these two communities until Kbin's moderation improves.

    There is almost no real human post, so I don't think we'll lose much. You can see the situation in home instance: https://kbin.social/m/opensource https://kbin.social/m/fediverse

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    I thought donations were optional

    Donationware: you must donate to use it. Not like regular optional donates.

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    Email problems (update: fixed it)

    We're having some issues sending emails (thanks to Amazon). Therefore, I manually accepted the existing email verifications and moved to manual verification for the registrations for now.

    Also, I am proud to celebrate that we have exceeded the 500th number of users 🥳

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    Lemmy Federate - automatically federate Lemmy communities

    cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/19638968

    I would like to introduce you to the tool I have developed in last 2 days.

    As you know, when you create a new community on Lemmy, it is initially only available to your instance until users in other instances follows too. To fix this, this tool automatically follows the community from remote instances.

    I have previously published a similar but simpler version at boost.lemy.lol and now I remade it because I didn't like some of its features. This time, instance admins will be able to strictly choose which instances they will allow or not. I'm open to your suggestions about different settings.

    Please ask your instance admin to add their instance to this tool. To add it as an admin, all you have to do is log in and activate it from the settings.

    https://lemmy-federate.com

    Here's some tasks I'll implement in the future: https://github.com/ismailkarsli/lemmy-federate/issues

    !

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    Lemmy Federate - automatically federate Lemmy communities

    I would like to introduce you to the tool I have developed in last 2 days.

    As you know, when you create a new community on Lemmy, it is initially only available to your instance until users in other instances follows too. To fix this, this tool automatically follows the community from remote instances.

    I have previously published a similar but simpler version at boost.lemy.lol and now I remade it because I didn't like some of its features. This time, instance admins will be able to strictly choose which instances they will allow or not. I'm open to your suggestions about different settings.

    Please ask your instance admin to add their instance to this tool. To add it as an admin, all you have to do is log in and activate it from the settings.

    https://lemmy-federate.com

    Here's some tasks I'll implement in the future: https://github.com/ismailkarsli/lemmy-federate/issues

    !

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