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Cake day: June 30th, 2023
  • HipPriest@kbin.socialtoAndroid@lemmy.world•What's your favorite Android tablet?
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    11 months ago

    So because I play a lot of games and read a lot of eBooks then I would say getting my first tablet was pretty great, even though it was a midrange one that was just thrown in to the deal when I was upgrading my phone and I probably wouldn’t have bothered otherwise

    It was a Samsung A8 from 2019, had about an 8" screen and I used it mainly as a kindle and games device. The games I play are mainly strategy or board games, but there were certainly some games that you wouldn’t necessarily think would cause a problem (Wingspan?) that would lag or crash. Since I review games it helped to have a second device to check things on, and a bigger screen is better.

    Last year I upgraded it to a Samsung S8 which is a flagship. It’s a 10 or 11 inch screen which felt more unwieldy though I’m used to it now. It can run more things. It’s a really nice device. The screen isn’t actually OLED but feels like it, the quality is amazing. It actually came with a stylus which was a neat touch. The screen is good enough that yes I have found myself watching more TV on it.

    However, when people say ‘productivity’, I don’t know really know what they mean by that tbh. I’ve got a work laptop for work. I’ve got my own laptop for other stuff. Do people mean drawing and things on tablets but that?

  • HipPriest@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Can porn be used in a healthy way? or should it be avoided completely?
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    1 year ago

    That’s a very black and white way of putting it. As long as you’re an adult who can tell the difference between fantasy and reality, and you’re not spending hours obsessed with it I don’t think it’s unhealthy. The way you phrase ‘avoid it completely’ makes it sound like you’re going out of your way to avoid it already.

    (I think the problems are coming through with the generation being ‘brought up on porn’, and thinking real sex is like it is in the videos online but that’s a different story really.)

  • HipPriest@kbin.socialtoMovies and TV Shows@lemmy.film•Doctor Who: Here's Why David Tennant is The Face of The Modern Era
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    1 year ago

    See I got the impression when watching it was kind of like she was told to ‘just play it like you’re a female 10th doctor, yeah, that’ll do’. Which was really a shame because she could have owned her own character you know?

    I actually thought her best episode was the one with the Daleks and the time loop in the warehouse (Eve of the Daleks I think). Her run got overshadowed by the whole timeless child thing which was more fanwank than anyone needed or asked for. Not that Moffat or Davies had individual episodes which were just as bad for continuity stuff but it felt like a lot of the 13th Doctor stories were arc obsessed. Maybe Flux didn’t help.

  • HipPriest@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do you use firefox?
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    1 year ago

    I just started using it for Android the last month or so when Chrome dropped the flag feature that let you toggle dark mode for websites with system dark mode.

    I have a VPN with an adblocker so that aspect of Chrome never bothered me so much. Chrome felt like it worked slightly smoother but at the end of the day a browser is a browser and Firefox does the job. (Samsung’s browser is actually surpringly good for those with a Samsung device looking for a Chrome alternative)

    Firefox does seem more trustworthy overall, although I’ve learned by now that trusting tech companies is not a sensible thing to do.

  • HipPriest@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are your thoughts on restricting children’s access to pornography online?
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    1 year ago

    This makes absolute sense until they get to secondary school (ages 11-16). All the kids at school have mobiles. You might have put the best parental controls on your sprogs phone but someone else hasn’t and his son - he’s the one showing pictures and videos at playtime. The problem is that kids don’t live in a bubble.

    I’m in the UK, don’t have a clue about what laws are coming in but am against this type of state intervention into private life of adults. Adults uploading id online is not something I am for.

    But I am pretty much in favour of banning smartphones in schools with kids that age these days - I’m a very liberal guy but I’ve heard so many horror stories from friends that are teachers.

    I actually think the main problem is the nature of the pornography itself. The stuff that comes up with choking and hair pulling and all that… There’s porn which is just people getting it on but it seems to be this violent stuff that gets to kids first and that’s the bit I don’t understand. I’m old. When I was their age it was magazines of naked people. A more innocent time.

  • HipPriest@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Failed driving test. parents want me to bribe???
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    1 year ago

    From your tone it doesn’t sound like you’re comfortable with the idea. Would it be so bad to try retaking it? Would your parents be angry or give you grief over it? I know there’s different levels of acceptability of bribery in different parts of the world so I’m guessing your somewhere where it’s not as strictly monitored as where I am.

    But go with your instincts. At the end of the day it’s you taking the risk of paying a bribe, not your parents, and it’s your moral choice, not theirs. But at the same time I know how annoying parental pressure can be!

  • HipPriest@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•A week in, Threads has lost half of its active users
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    1 year ago

    I left Twitter back in 2016 when I realised I wasn’t using it anymore and it had come up in a you’ve been pwnd result. Figured I’d just delete the account instead of resetting the password and didn’t miss it.

    But I signed up to Mastodon today, because why not? I don’t really see why it’s being called hard to use. There’s some nice apps as well, which is making me more excited for a Kbin app when I wasn’t so bothered before…