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KidDogDad

@ KidDogDad @lemmy.world

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  • Android noob struggling with photo picker

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  • Yeah I think I'm just going to need to build muscle memory to do it that way instead. I think it's especially not useful for me because I recently imported all of my photos from iCloud. A whole bunch of what shows for me are old engagement photos of me and my ex. 😂

  • Android noob struggling with photo picker

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  • Thanks! Glad to hear I'm not the only one who is flabbergasted by this design, but kinda bummed it wasn't just user error. I appreciate the suggestions for workarounds.

  • Best way to add work Google account to phone

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  • Thank you! I really appreciate getting concrete info on what can / can't be seen by IT admins.

  • Best way to add work Google account to phone

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  • Thanks! I installed this and it seems like it will do almost exactly what I want. I think I'd still prefer to have a calendar app where I can see both work and personal, but I can leave that as a project for another day.

  • Android @lemmy.world
    KidDogDad @lemmy.world

    Best way to add work Google account to phone

  • Grown Adult Coward: 'I'm OK With Just Watching Alan Wake II' - Aftermath

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  • Anyone have a recommendation for a good let’s play of this? Anytime I’m thinking about watching a let’s play I never know who to pick.

  • I'll never not want to

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  • This is our new puppy, Hiccup

  • Switching to Android: good resources for learning?

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  • I originally was planning to install GrapheneOS, but now I’m not so sure. I’m honestly quite interested in features like Call Screen and the photo editing stuff, and my understanding is that at least Call Screen won’t work on GrapheneOS. I’m definitely keeping it in my back pocket, but I want to try the full experience first, and I also need to go through a threat modeling exercise as well to decide whether I truly want to do custom roms or not.

  • Switching to Android: good resources for learning?

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  • Not really anything specific that I’m worried about, it’s more just that I don’t know enough right now to have informed opinions on whether I should do things like give an app ABD permissions, other than that I’m planning to not root or expose other lower level permissions until I understand more. Your answer actually really helps, because I can categorize ABD permissions in that bucket. Thanks!

  • Switching to Android: good resources for learning?

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    KidDogDad @lemmy.world

    Switching to Android: good resources for learning?

  • Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome

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  • I'm a happy Linux user. The biggest problem with Linux for the average user is that you have to install it. Most people use Windows because it's on their computer when they buy it. The average person isn't going to distinguish between the hardware and the software. They see the computer and the OS as a package.

  • Chinese video games are on the rise, but I wish they got more respect

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  • Wow! Maybe this was naive, but I wasn't expecting this to get so much controversy and downvotes. I'll post a few thoughts here FWIW.

    1. I see a lot of comments in here that remind me a lot of this New Yorker cover. As with any other country, there's lots of different types of people in China with lots of differing opinions, but some comments in here feel like they're casting all of China as a monolith. I should probably know better than to expect nuance on the internet, but the amount of opinions in here that were expressed as if they were total undeniable truth was still kind of annoying.

    1. Following up on that, the main point of the article was requesting that people not conflate the CCP w/ companies and players. No one who was born in China chose to be born there. But they still have to live their lives, find creative expression, etc. I also hate the CCP, but I was surprised to see so an article that was trying to distinguish between the CCP and ordinary Chinese people receive so many comments that just brought up the CCP.
    2. All that said, while I definitely disagree with many comments in here, I personally didn't feel like I saw comments in here that were racist, despite what some people suggested.
    3. For me, this article made me interested in finding out what cool games might be getting made in China that aren't being released to the West. I also found it disappointing that the article explicitly called out that lots of the cool stuff isn't making it to the West, and yet so many comments here talked about how China hasn't made any good games, with no acknowledgement of whether the commenter has tried anything other than a small handful of the ones that actually got translations and came over here.

    Anyway, that's it. Thanks for reading and hope you have a good day.

  • Games @lemmy.world
    KidDogDad @lemmy.world

    Chinese video games are on the rise, but I wish they got more respect

    www.theguardian.com /games/2023/aug/21/chinese-video-games-are-on-the-rise-but-i-wish-they-got-more-respect

  • Loving PopOS but apparently I can't get the latest Nvidia driver? (Your regularly scheduled "What Distro should I use" thread)

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  • On my gaming rig I run and love Garuda, which is also based on Arch. I’m technical enough to handle Arch but I don’t like having to search around a bunch to figure out which combination of packages I need to make certain things work. Garuda comes with a ton of stuff preinstalled, which makes it a lot less lean than Endeavour, but I think they generally make good choices for default settings (I love their Fish terminal setup), and things like Nvidia drivers and configuration backups through btrfs snapshots just work out of the box.

    For gaming I think Garuda or Nobara are the best bets, personally.

  • Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa's deliberate Dart crash

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  • Somewhere a dev in the real world is scrambling to fix the bug in the simulation’s physics engine.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 and Disco Elysium on Metacritic for PC all time best: both #1 sitting with 97. Half Life (two) finally THIRD!

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  • Thanks! I’ll keep this in mind when I go back to it.

  • Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls

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  • I respectfully disagree that the shrug should be read as indifference to the issues going on. I think the rest of his apology, regardless of whether it was sufficient or not, shows that he is taking it seriously.

    That's not at all to question your decision to be done with LMG. Anyone who chooses that in this situation is completely justified, IMHO. Madison's accusations especially are very troubling, and I hope they deal with it thoroughly, and tell us what they did after it's taken effect. That sort of behavior is completely unacceptable and if it means that Linus needs to go, then Linus needs to go.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 and Disco Elysium on Metacritic for PC all time best: both #1 sitting with 97. Half Life (two) finally THIRD!

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  • I was actually in the middle of my first playthrough of Disco Elysian when BG3 came out. I wasn’t planning on buying it until I saw the crazy positive reaction. I had been struggling a bit with Disco, but BG3 grabbed me immediately and I’ve been playing it a ton, and haven’t had any interest in putting it down to go back to Disco. At least for me, I can appreciate that Disco is good but it doesn’t get anywhere near they same level of interest and engagement from me. But fantasy is just my bag, so that’s a big part of it.

  • Obscure games talk

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  • I’ve been playing through Anchorhead, a text-based game from the late 90s that got a reboot in 2018. It’s fun and my first time really going through a text-based game.

  • The Hi and Lo directions on my range’s knobs

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  • what in the actual fuck

  • Opinion | Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough

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  • Fascinating to see these two come together on this. Rare to see cross-aisle collaboration on anything these days.