I remember getting these for games. They were awesome, but they never fit my keyboard.

It’s feature complete, but there are bugs.

Yeah. As much as I like Sync, I’m envious of aeharding’s constant improvements to Voyager.

Lemmy is substantially less combative.

That may depend on the community.

I have the opposite experience. I mostly post in niche communities on Reddit, and I find I’m ignored or get positive replies. On Lemmy I get responses, but odds are even that the response is snarky or bitchy.

I hope that will improve as the user base grows and we get more niche communities here.

I really enjoy Sync.

I was using Voyager until Sync got ported over to Lemmy. Voyager is great, but I find Sync more responsive. I also really appreciate Sync’s appearance customization. I’m old, so I like cranking the size of some text.

I think there’s an ad supported version of Sync if you want to try it. I paid the CDN$10 or whatever it cost on release. It’s worth it to me.

Phew

I trust my crap to update itself. Is that wrong?

The app now needs to validate the response from the back end. If the attacker can bypass the purchase check, what prevents the attacker from bypassing the response from the back end?

Isn’t that link an ad for TunePat? It looks like a ripper that pulls tracks from Spotify.

I’m facing the exact same problem. My guy isn’t used to computers yet, so I’m trying to figure out how to get music onto the device in a way that works for him. I’ll probably end up buying and copying stuff by hand. 😞

It’d be great if there was a decent offline hardware option.

Google is removing features from Fitbits so people have a reason to buy Wear devices. Running a bespoke OS they’re able to get 5+ days between charges and had (roughly) the functionality of Wear.

Like another poster stated, Garmin seems like a better option.

Also: it’s really hard to spell gonorrhea.

Not known to cause gonorrhea.

The developer mentioned in the article complains about a:

worsening struggle with red tape, [other stuff], and rampant piracy

The article goes on to describe some of the costs of piracy to the developer:

Piracy doesn’t just mean lost revenue, Reichenstein wrote, but also increased demands for support, feature requests, and chances for bad ratings from people who never pay. And it builds over time. “You sell less apps through the [Play Store], but pirated users keep coming in because pirate sites don’t have such reviews. Reviews don’t matter much if the app is free.”

it sounds more like a poor choice of backend tech (syncing via Google Drive instead of your own server + allowing exports elsewhere)

I’d rather sync to Google Drive than some weird home grown service. My expectation (probably unfounded, but whatever) is that Google Drive is likely to exist for a while and, when it folds, I’m likely to have a couple of months to get my crap out of there. I’d feel less confident about some rando service from a company I’ve never heard of.

In theory, as a user, we should not at all dislike companies having to jump through more hoops to proof they’re not shitting our stuff out every orifice the moment we close an app.

I think the complaint is that there’s a heavyweight validation process (pay KPMG), a stupid review process from Google (suggesting a writing app should use read only access), and 90% of users aren’t paying for the app.

The last one is clearly the most important, since a robust income stream would justify the other problems.

I’ve seen a bunch of developers complain that piracy is rampant on Android. As in this case, the ongoing cost of pirates outweighs the income from paying users.

It’s shitty.

The industries supporting journalism have basically collapsed over the past few decades. If you have the means to support decent research and writing, please do so.

There are a tonne of realities that are very close to ours are populated by cockroaches and mutants.

If it had worked, it would have been cool. Sadly, it often failed to register movements.

Your original statement was

Those that just vandalize random art or monuments that have nothing to do with climate change can fuck right off.

From the links you supplied, in two of the three cases (Stonehenge and Flowers) no damage was done. In the case of Stonehenge, the protestors chose a marker that wouldn’t damage the monument. For Flowers, I’d assume they knew about the glass. But that’s me giving them credit.

For the third (Warhol’s soup), damage was done but remediated.

The protestors are being unfairly accused of fucking up art without justification. Others have used that to dismiss the protests and the cause, which is bullshit.

The protestors have a good cause, they’re getting people to (at least) talk about climate change, and they’re taking the punishment for their actions.

The protestors stuck around to be arrested and sentenced, that makes it way easier for me to excuse.

IMO minor damage is acceptable, given the cause.