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  • ctry21@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.worldclub penguin rule
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    3 days ago

    I don’t remember much innuendo on the sites I played as a child (club penguin, bin weevils) although I’ve got vague memories that the censoring was so severe you could learn swear words based off seemingly innocent words being blocked out of the chat. The bigger issue at that age was how exploitative some of those sites were with microtransactions and I can only imagine it’s gotten worse with the current MMO’s for kids.

    There was one I briefly played as a child where one of the starting missions was growing something in a garden but if you were a free playing customer you had to plant in the public garden and wait 24 hours, so I’d come back the next day and find someone had stolen the stuff I’d grown and couldn’t progress. It was a weird way to learn about wealth inequality and the privileges wealthier kids got at the age of seven.

    There was another site advertised on one of the kids TV channels here when I was younger that encouraged kids to sign up and mark off the chores they’d completed and each chore you completed netted you a prize like a trip to Disneyland. What the ad didn’t tell us at that young age was that your parents would have to pay for the prizes through the sites affiliate link. I think I was at least mature enough by that stage to understand we’d been had and it wasn’t my parents fault but it’s crazy that nearly twenty years later the internet’s somehow gotten worse for exploiting kids for micro transactions.


  • They seem pretty good for not trapping too much heat, but we have quite cool summers here so what I would consider an unbearably hot day is probably different to most people. I could comfortably sleep in it under 24°C, anything above that and I can’t sleep no matter what type of blanket I have anyway. There are cooling ones made of cotton that might work if you’re in a hotter climate but they cost a fair bit more.



  • No luck with the reinstall unfortunately, but I’ll leave it til the f-droid build. It may be something to do with Google play being disabled on my device, because if I install .12 from Aurora the app attempts to load posts and then gives an error saying “check that Google play is enabled on your device before opening the app.”

    I was swiping from the right side of the screen to the left to go back with Android’s gesture navigation, but it’s conflicting with Blorp’s gestures so the accounts page comes up instead of going back to the all feed.




  • Thanks, the only big issue besides that I’ve had is it conflicts sometimes with android’s gesture navigation. It’s fine at the start of posts, but if you scroll down into comments and then swipe right, android tries to go back but blorp’s gestures take me to the sidebar with the accounts.

    Great app though, it’s got the best out of the box experience/theming of all the clients I’ve tried. I’ve been trying piefed on it and loving it so far.


  • Not just the time theft but they have become unreasonably privacy invading. When I still used Reddit last year, despite having targeted ads disabled & Android apps supposedly being sandboxed, I got ads related to my workplace after accepting a job offer, car ads after installing a used car sales app, and ads for snake oil related to a chronic health condition I have that I’d been researching. Now that I’m off corporate social media and have pi-hole running & uBlock origin in my browser, I haven’t seen a single targeted ad all year. When I deleted my Meta accounts I requested my data first and I could see the companies I had bought from that then told Meta I’d been shopping there which was really eye-opening as to how bad it is.


  • That’s good to hear! I’ve ADBed almost all of the Google & Samsung stuff off my phone already so I’m well used to fighting with Aurora to download certain apps by now. Nearly all my apps are from F-droid as well so that will make the transition a lot easier, and I do a lot of self hosting so I’m not relying on any proprietary services that are going to demand play services be installed. Balatro on my steam deck already steals enough of my time, so honestly if my phone won’t let me install it that’s probably for the best.



  • It’s a shame, it was the client I found that stayed out of the way the most. It’s very function over form which is great. Still usable for now, but I think when Lemmy v1 rolls out there will be breaking changes that require updates.

    I’ve moved over to thunder which took a bit of tweaking to get right but it’s a good alternative once you have your settings in place. It’s one of the most customisable clients so even though I didn’t like the stock experience with the gesture voting, it’s easy to tweak.

    Blorp looks pretty good as well, it’s got a bit of a retro vibe like eternity and I like the pixel art they use to represent your instance. I haven’t switched over to it because it still has a couple issues like not being able to quick-save images but it’s nearly there.