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Gogo Sempai

@ gogosempai @programming.dev

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  • What is a technology/gadget you refuse to use and why?

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  • Smart Watches.

    1. I don't want to take care of charging for yet another device. Plus, analog watches are beautiful!

    2. Already trying to limit my screen time, no reason to check notifications the instant they pop.

    3. Don't want to be conscious of my heart rate and sleep schedule all the time. Also have some privacy concerns about real time data associated with me making its way into big tech's servers.

  • What Are Your Favorite SBCs (Single Board Computers), Why, and How Did You Get Into Them?

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  • BBB was my entry into SBCs but had to shift over to the Pi as my requirements got complex. Apart from what you've mentioned, there's also the fact that BBB is waaaay less powerful than the Pi, I mean we're talking 512 MB RAM and a single-core 1GHz processor here.

  • Has anyone used Kagi Search (search engine)?

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  • Yeah +1 on Google Search becoming shit lately. I shifted to DDG for a while but settled on Brave Search for now. Their new AI summarizer is quite good and I like how they club Discussion posts together.

  • First evening at the beach for Suki ⛱️

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  • Suki is a cute name, you must suki her very much :)

  • Children addicted to video games ran away from home in the middle of the night to find WiFi when parents turned their internet connection off, says expert

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  • I used to do this lol. Lights out at 10 PM on a school night but if I was ever in the middle of an interesting book, I just couldn't help myself. Would sometimes read till 1 in the morning and then yawn all the day at school.

  • What's the most toxic game community you know of?

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  • CS:Go has some pretty unwelcoming and newbie-haters out there.

  • What android client do you use?

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  • And the development on it is just remarkable, we're getting updates almost daily (knocks on wood)!

  • In which game did you spend the most hours?

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  • 30 of those hours were spent on Malenia lol.

  • In which game did you spend the most hours?

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  • That would be Elden Ring. Spent 200+ hours on that game (might sound like rookie numbers but that was my first open world game, was just a casual gamer before that).

  • What series did you rewatch most often?

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  • I know it's cliche but Friends.

  • And I also looked like I am judging you harshly.

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  • Been there, used my phone's camera + screen as my eyes for a good few hours.

  • What movie did you rewatch most often?

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  • Shawshank Redemption

  • Horimiya -piece- • Horimiya: The Missing Pieces - Episode 3 discussion

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  • Pretty fun episode. A highschool rom-com anime is incomplete without a sports/cultural fest episode after all. It was cute seeing Hori and Miyamura struggle with the question of who should they cheer for.

  • Updated my Samsung phone and it installed unwanted apps

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  • Actually, Pixel is the go-to choice for privacy-concious folks as well. That's because the two most secure and private mobile operating systems, Calyx and Graphene, support only the Pixel lineup.

  • Updated my Samsung phone and it installed unwanted apps

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  • They do this even with their A7X series phones, which is priced in the upper mid range / lower flagship category. Not only do they use a lower end chip than their competitors in the same price segment, they have the audacity to give software updates disguised as ads. No amount of money will satisfy these greedy companies.

  • Discussion: What Android devices are you using?

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  • LG Wing.

    Love the dual screen functionality of course but what's more impressive is the fact that the 2nd screen is concealed beautifully such that on first glance, you can't even tell that it's not a normal phone! The primary camera is also excellent.

    The software is pretty shit. LG sacked their mobile division 2 years ago and while they have kept their promise of giving this phone Android 13, they've done the bare minimum effort to support it. You couldn't even tell it's android 13, has the same UI and features that they shipped with Android 11. The settings app is also inconsistent, some screens have that stock android feel others have the traditional LG UI. And bugs are plenty. The processor is another weak point, it's not able to keep up in 2023.

  • The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training

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  • On Firefox. But I do like Brave Search over something like DDG, their AI summarizer is quite good.

  • What book are you in the middle of reading right now?

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  • Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

  • best foss peer to peer, encrypted file transfer app

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  • Can be installed on Linux, Windows and MacOS. There's an open source client on Android as well. If you don't want the hassle of installation, there's a website: wormhole.app. Claims E2EE and open source algorithm but the client itself is not open source.

  • best foss peer to peer, encrypted file transfer app

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