https://www.404media.co/ai-is-poisoning-reddit-to-promote-products-and-game-google-with-parasite-seo/
A market for manipulating Reddit using AI have emerged.
The Fairphone 4, as nominated by @be_gt@lemmy.world!
As promised, you will be receiving 1 Lemmy Silver, and of course, bragging rights.
But, we also have an honorary Golden Lemmy award, which goes to...
Every Android device that is not the Samsung Galaxy S22+, as nominated by @OpenStars@discuss.online!
You get 1 Lemmy Silver (and bragging rights) too!
That's it for this year's Golden Lemmy, folks!
(Nomination thread is here for future references.)
To celebrate a particular movie's nominations for the Golden Globes next Sunday, Jan 7, we are hosting our very own Golden Lemmy award for Best Android Device on !android@lemmy.world.
Rules are simple, tell us about your favorite Android phone from 2023 in the top level comment, and the device with the most up votes wins the esteemed and coveted Golden Lemmy Award, along with 1 Lemmy Silver.
Our regular discussion will resume in 2 weeks.
Previously on Lemmy: Tablets
Let's talk about deGoogling Android this week, since it's a common topic of interest around here to talk about GrapheneOS and CalyxOS.
I feel like Google services has been lacking for the better part of a decade to the degree that I am reluctant to rely on most Google services nowadays. However, I don't think I have the effort to actively remove all traces of Google from my phone, as the cost of bootloader unlock and rooting is a bit too much for me.
So, I would like to hear what your deGoogling experiences, since I'm unlikely to do it myself.
Past Discussions
https://www.ifixit.com/News/87664/fairphone-5-keeping-it-10-10
Is the Fairphone 5 just a repeat of a proven formula or a real improvement compared to its predecessors?
Previously on Lemmy: Asus
Android tablets are devices that I don't know a lot about. I've seen plenty of them around, but I haven't seen many people actually use them, but I've seen plenty of iPads and sometimes Surfaces out in the wild. Many large Android manufacturers have tried, like Samsung and Huawei, but reception to them seems lurkwarm at best.
Tablets, to me, are more of media consumption devices than productivity devices. So, I guess the questions of the week would be, what is your experiences with Android tablets, and what are some features you are looking for in an Android tablet to make it worth buying?
Past Discussions:
Previously on Lemmy: Productivity
I've actually been pretty busy IRL recently, and my schedule on this has really been slipping, so, probably no more big writeups until things slow down. I'll probably move the discussion to a biweekly schedule, but no promises.
Not that much experience with Asus phone on my part, I know they use to use Intel processors until they suddenly stopped.
The new Zenfone 10 looks nice, and the ROG Phones are a bit overkill, but still very interesting spec wise.
Past discussions:
Previously on Lemmy: Emulators
Past Discussions:
For the last couple of weeks, it was all fun and games. This week, we are going for a more generalized topic on how you use your Android devices for work.
I'm boring in regards to work apps, so I very much favor using Microsoft apps over Google apps for work, as overall I feel Google apps work better on iPhones than on Android (to my great frustration). Office and Teams work exactly how I expect them to, while their desktop version are a bit bloated, on Android they work super well, and there really is no replacement that's as good as Microsoft Lens for scanning printed documents into PDFs.
But, I understand my use for Android for productivity is fairly limited, so, I'm interested to see if we can put our head together and find some interesting ways to use your Android devices to help us all be more productive.
cross-posted from: https://packmates.org/users/Wander/statuses/111280488886937575
The future of selfhosted services is going to be... Android?
Wait, what?
Think about it. At some point everyone has had an old phone lying around. They are designed to be constantly connected, constantly on... and even have a battery and potentially still a SIM card to survive power outages.
We just need to make it easy to create APK packaged servers that can avoid battery-optimization kills and automatically configure an outbound tunnel like ngrok, zerotrust, etc...
The goal: hosting services like #nextcloud, #syncthing, #mastodon!? should be as easy as installing an APK and leaving an old phone connected to a spare charger / outlet.
It would be tempting to have an optimized ROM, but if self-hosting is meant to become more commonplace, installing an APK should be all that's needed. #Android can do SSH, VPN and other tunnels without the need for root, so there should be no problem in using tunnels to publicly expose a phone/server in a secure manner.
In regards to the suitability of home-grade broadband, I believe that it should not be a huge problem at least in Europe where home connections are most often unmetered: "At the end of June 2021, 70.2% of EU homes were passed by either FTTP or cable DOCSIS
3.1 networks, i.e. those technologies currently capable of supporting gigabit speeds."Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/broadband-coverage-europe-2021
PS. syncthing actually already has an APK and is easy to use. Although I had to sort out some battery optimization stuff, it's a good example of what should become much more commonplace.
Saw this post on !selfhosted@lemmy.world, want to get some thoughts on it, because the idea seems a bit crazy to me.
https://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-hyperos-3376622/
Xiaomi has announced HyperOS, a new Android-based operating system that will eventually replace MIUI. It will debut on the Xiaomi 14 series.
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