Lakes The Guy

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draggianuniverse's avatar draggianuniverse 1 month ago

Plus, in my experience, SIM cards are software-dependent, so I'm pretty sure that under most phone plans, a third party Android client wouldn't work as a phone. Which, like, I'm sorry, but "dephoning" is a lot of extra expense and e-waste and simply not practical. It's posturing, not an activist statement.

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draggianuniverse's avatar draggianuniverse 1 month ago

I looked into the "sustainable smartphones" before settling on Moto for being a relatively low-nonsense Android fork, but found that they don't work on reasonably priced North American phone plans, or in some cases, any at all. Plus if you need to order the replacement parts from overseas, that kinda removes the environmental benefit.

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discopotato2's avatar discopotato2 1 month ago

damn this sucks so much 😢

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draggianuniverse's avatar draggianuniverse 1 month ago

good news is that you should still be able to download things direct from APK if you load them in browser / on your desktop long as sideloading apps is enabled in phone settings, which even iOS still lets you do I think with direct download if you know where to look

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draggianuniverse's avatar draggianuniverse 1 month ago

I know that most android phones (even google pixel), you can open as drives and copy files directly to / from on Windows and Linux, so that's always an option as long as you can download APKs directly on desktop. hopefully APKMirror and pals step up to preserve emulators, F-Droid, etc.

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draggianuniverse's avatar draggianuniverse 1 month ago

if you want to be able to install apps straight from web browser, you should be able to enable "install unknown apps" or something of that sort in app settings for your browser of choice. you may need to also enable installing apps from APK in developer options depending on your specific phone model. on most droids, if you go into "about phone" and click the build number a bunch of times it'll enable developer option

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draggianuniverse's avatar draggianuniverse 1 month ago

Do we have a date for when the verification is happening, so folks know to install emulators etc. before then? (thinking about flappy bird getting kicked off the app store back in the day and the market in phones with it already installed)

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draggianuniverse's avatar draggianuniverse 1 month ago

while this indisputably sucks, since that's the main thing Android had over iOS, I suspect that direct APK downloads will continue to work indefinitely because of their importance to development, so get your faves onto APK Mirror and other databases if they aren't already!

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lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 1 month ago

@draggianuniverse thanks for the advice. i might start doing that

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discopotato2's avatar discopotato2 1 month ago

Looks like it will be implemented september 2026 for users in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand, then globally in 2027.

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oh sorry i forgot to answer your question. i'm multigender and that includes being a dude so yes
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marufunland's avatar marufunland 2 months ago

ohh okii thx!!

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marufunland's avatar marufunland 2 months ago

also i js drew the concept art for the oc, hope u like it when im done!! <3

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draggianuniverse's avatar draggianuniverse 2 months ago

That's been my thing with Chrome since day 1, is that it's completely pointless -- if you want Google that badly, just use Android, and then you can...actually run programs. It's an "OS" that literally only exists to be a web browser (and a shitty one at that).

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cvcarloscv's avatar cvcarloscv 2 months ago

fr i hate chromeOS so much. my main laptop is dead and i'm stuck with a chromebook, the thing is powerful but you can't do NOTHING with this shit, i can't even stream a fucking video through discord without jumping through 9238493284 hoops and it still doesn't work with audio. google will pay i promise u that

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i think if i were to switch web hosting platforms, i'd use codeberg pages. since nekoweb's data limit is apparently smaller than neocities' and i really don't wanna join a discord server just to interact with other webmasters. plus i'm already hosting my source code on codeberg anyway
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grockodile's avatar grockodile 2 months ago

ive never heard of that, is it better than neocities? i dont plan on moving but i am curious

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lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 2 months ago

@grockodile i dont think it's better than neocities perse. since neocities has more of a community which i like. but it does let you set custom domains for free which is nice

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musictelevision's avatar musictelevision 2 months ago

OOOO been looking into moving! I heard github pages is good and free!

cvcarloscv's avatar cvcarloscv 2 months ago

is there any particular reason you'd switch from neocities to any other particular site?

lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 2 months ago

@cvcarloscv i was just thinking in case if it gets bought out from some company or the site stops working

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lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 2 months ago

@musictelevision sorry i meant to codeberg pages. idk why i said github. but they're also an option i guess

planning to draw fanart for u on saturday!!
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lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 2 months ago

thanks buddy

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marufunland's avatar marufunland 2 months ago

hey lakes, ur a dude right?

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how do you guys block people on neocities? i keep seeing people say they blocked others on here. but i cant find a block button on anyone's profile
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vanityruins's avatar vanityruins 2 months ago

its right under the tags of a site, in the right panel

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lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 2 months ago

@vanityruins thanks

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marufunland's avatar marufunland 2 months ago

u better not be blocking me ;)

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lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 2 months ago

@marufunland dw it's not you lol. just some anti-sjw that ended up following me and has a list of nazbol websites linked on their site

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seasoups's avatar seasoups 2 months ago

ew what the hay. how do nazbols even still exist like that's just genuine level 100000000000 brainrot

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