Good choice with Mint, I think its the best distro for people transitioning from Windows.

Not normal.There was an issue with some 15 models having image retention that looked like burn-in but it turned out to be a software issue. If you have the latest update and still seeing burn in I would go to apple for a return / exchange.

Probably. I don’t own one of these but the Genesis controller layout is awkward for playing many Nintendo games.

That’s pretty brilliant, reminds me of the old school Nokia phones that had a split qwerty keyboard and the display in the middle.

These are used mostly for playing retro games through emulators.

Yeah that’s the one I was thinking about, thanks!

A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience

Back in the day there was a phone called motorola atrix 4g, they made a lapdock for it that let you do this. There was also 3d party company that made lapdocks for modern Samsung phones that support Dex, but I’m not sure if they’re still aournd.

You might like this concept phone I saw the other day https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23930668/lenovo-moto-flexible-wrist-phone-concept

It was not great when I tried it a few years ago. It seemed very low-effort, basically a glorified web app shortcut. The only feature I liked over my go-to podcast app (PocketCasts) was that it worked much better with the Google home speakers. Then I heard YouTube music was rolling out podcasts and I knew it was only a matter of time until they killed it.

Nope, fuck this. Been thinking about canceling Prime for a while now, they just keep raising the price while at the same time all their services get worse year after year.

Yeah you’re right, I just checked and the way to set it up makes no sense. No wonder people don’t know it works again!

• bring back letting me use google Assistant to add stuff to my Keep shopping list.

FYI they brought this feature back a while ago

In case you didn’t know, Pixel phones also have a built in feature called quick tap that lets you toggle the flashlight (or do a few other things) by tapping the back of the phone twice.

Brave has always seemed shady as hell to me. I don’t understand why so many tech people keep recommending it.

Yes he was one of the co-founders of OnePlus, but he left to start up Nothing.

RIP Sync for reddit 😢 I hope Sync for Lemmy will be even better!!

I’ve been using the PWA on my tablet and I switch between the PWA and jerboa on my phone. The PWA seems more stable but the upvote and collapse comment buttons are a little too small for my taste.

We had an XMPP server at work but 90% of people wouldn’t bother using it. As much as I dislike Teams it the only client that’s ever been deployed in my company that everyone actually uses.

Not a fan of all of these fake features being added to modern cars. Fake air vents, fake tailpipes, fake engine noise being piped into the cabin, fake transmission shifts, it all seems so pointless and a waste of engineering effort.

Enjoying it so far, thankfully I had already been using Mastodon for about 6 months so I’ve had time to get used to the quirks and discoverability issues that come with the Fediverse. I hope the learning curve doesn’t turn off less tech savvy users.