I’m not sure if the same can be said for the 7a, but a close friend of mine was having awful battery experiences on his 7. I saw a lot of people saying their battery was vastly improved on the Android 14 Beta so I told him to try it and he’s said it’s a night and day difference. May be worth a shot.

For me, it depends on the website.

Twitter to Mastodon is easy. I’ve never understood short form text social media. I never made a Twitter account but I have a Mastodon account so I guess that says something. But I still don’t use it.

Instagram to Pixelfed has been a hard sell. I enjoy photography but have hated Meta. I hated Instagram and ended up making one just because it’s the only real active community, even though it’s compression, resolution, and aspect ratio garbage are all awful for actual photography. I’ve tried 500px, Flickr, Vero, and a bunch of others and they all have problems. Pixelfeds UI and community just both aren’t great so I can’t buy in yet. And I’m not even using Instagram much these days anyway.

Does YouTube count? I don’t comment/post much, but I have very little faith in PeerTube or any of the others ever gaining reasonable traction. So many other attempts at this have failed and the content is too important.

Reddit to Lemmy has been a mix. I completely axed Reddit apps and don’t check it daily and instead use Lemmy. Been having a hard time filling the content void. And when I want hive mind type feedback on obscure things / recommendations / tech problems, you just can’t beat reddits 15 year history of content and opinions. But I am actively posting/browsing on Lemmy instead.

Maybe my interest are too niche, but the trending communities stuff has felt too… Bland/general for me. I’ll keep trying it though, thanks.

The stuff I’ve seen has had communities with many posts but only a handful of comments. Maybe that only exists in those larger, more general communities for now though.

While I agree with your position of current reddit comments, the OP was comparing to old reddit. I feel like it’s only been true in the past 5-8 years of reddit. And while that’s not what I’m looking for, the low amount of engagement here is a bit too low where I start considering just getting like a news aggregator app. I’d prefer something with SOME discussion as that was part of the value of reddit for me.

The official one doesn’t. I’ve used a couple others that didn’t.

Ahh, that’s where that went… I couldn’t find it in my apps and figured I’d removed it.

There are a slew of Android TV remote apps that do all this and more, like including home/back buttons, integrated search etc. They also pair easier. The first party Google TV app covers this smoother than a BT keyboard/mouse app.

Sony’s claim is that standard Bluetooth isn’t fast enough to stay in sync with the screen and your control inputs, so they have their own bespoke wireless (but not Bluetooth) headset.

To be fair, this is kind of true… Most Bluetooth latency is fucking atrocious.

This is the sad truth. I’ll continue watching their shows on a family account as long as I can. The second that’s gone, I’m done with their garbage.

Yeah, I used to happily subscribe to Netflix because anything I could want was there. Now I use it on a family plan on occasion since it already existed, but there’s no way I’d pay for it so I could watch like 2 shows and 4 comedy specials a year, and have to find everything else somewhere else.

I was happy with YouTube and just purchased things there but recently you can’t watch beyond 480p in any browser except for Safari. So fuck that too.

They captured this off the TV using a cell phone camera and uploaded to Lemmy and the difference is noticeable. It’s not a dynamic range problem.

I agree, but I just wish it was easier to find interesting communities. Sorting by “hot” definitely dredges up more content, but they’re all like 0-5 comment posts. Sorting by active shows the same few posts for a few days. I’ve been trying to sub to communities that seem interesting in “hot” content, but there just doesn’t seem to be a lot of content yet? I may just be spoiled by the scale of reddit, but this seems fairly low and feels a little empty.

Am I just missing good communities? Is there somewhere to find them? Or are we still just really “too early” where most content is only getting 5-10 comments?

They also increased the saturation/contrast too.

Google is dead as a company now that AI is taking over the search process

That’s some copium right there. The company has been doing AI for years and they are synonymous with search. Their primary income is advertising where they’re basically unrivaled. You’re kidding yourself if you think they’re going anywhere.

As someone pursuing a career in health care I became more and more concerned because some store patient files and notes in unsecured text files/apps like notion, google docs and even excel.

This is just the beginning - the medical space is notoriously awful and also a place where you probably really care about privacy. But using secure alternatives is too annoying for most medical staff and they just see it as ankther hurdle. Actually getting people to use secure software that’s not the software they’re already used to is way harder than it should be.

People just don’t understand or don’t care. Convenience is way more important to people than anything else.

How is Apple “independent”? You’re just trading one mega corporation for another.

It’s not Chromium specifically, but it has basically the same issues.

IMO the thing is that people don’t care about their privacy. Sure, some people around here do, but your average person owns an Alexa, has a FB/Instagram account and constantly posts their location, uses the same password on many sites, uses TikTok, doesn’t block cookies, etc etc etc.

Most people don’t actually care. Some claim they do, but then can’t even be bothered to stop using Instagram etc because of the “inconvenience”… So do they really care?

Some companies (Apple, etc) push their products under a narrative around safety and security, and people will repeat that point as a way to justify a decision they already made, but if they actually cared, they would be doing other things too. But they don’t.

The number of us who do actually care about privacy and security is actually very small.

I’ve seen YouTubers also say “nothing else has any users”. I think this is generally the public sentiment and the reason people stick around. I would say that even if there’s no alternative, just leave but… Unfortunately people feel like they “need” Twitter.

And people say social media isn’t addicting.

Yeah, my main problem so far has been finding communities actually worth following/joining/contributing to.

If suddenly tons of average people join, they won’t really find communities, they’ll deem that their analysis of Lemmy, and leave with tiny chances of a second chance. It’ll just boom and bust in it’s current state. Most people aren’t interested in starting or growing a small community.

Meanwhile, if we stay at this size for a while, communities may form/grow, and as people trickle in, they’ll grow bit by bit.

My point is these are just making you feel better at best. Even a perfectly efficient split system running off a perfectly efficient power source which was manufactured out of thin air without having any effect on climate change is still moving heat around. None of these address the core problem with the climate. Even at perfect efficiency they’re just building you a small bubble to feel better in.