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  • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websitetoLinux Phones@lemmy.caWe Must Break The Chains
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    5 days ago

    There’s options, yes. Ubuntu Touch is getting better.

    AFAIK, the main bottleneck (aside from hardware support) is a working open source IMS stack. IMS is the IP Multimedia Subsystem that is responsible for things like VoLTE/VoWIFI, SMS/MMS, etc. The last time I looked at Ubuntu Touch, it only supported baseband (not sure if that’s the right term?) calls and SMS/MMS. Basically those only work in “3G” mode and won’t work if your carrier requires VoLTE.

    Lack of an open source IMS is also problematic for some other Android distros as well (and why flashing a newer GSI ROM to an older handset won’t necessarily give you VoLTE).

    And don’t even get me started on the complete fustercluck that is RCS 😠











  • Most recent one today included a comment saying videos are not allowed, which it says nowhere in their rules, unless there’s some portion of my vision that’s failing.

    Literally the first rule: Post only links to articles. Video != Article

    The previous piece he rejected over there was because I included an image link, in

    Again: Post only links to articles. In 99.9999% of cases, rules of that variety mean the post’s URL (the main URL for the post) must be to the article.

    The community is not a general political discussion, political opinion, meme, or “see what [blank] talking head shat out on social media”. It’s to discuss political news centered around articles from credible sources.

    He just writes a comment in the post, then deletes it.

    It’s a comment reply so still shows up in your notifications (at least it does in Lemmy).

    Just kind of wondering what people think about this

    I think you need to learn to read and follow the rules before throwing out inflammatory posts like this. That, or find more appropriate communities for what you want to post.

    Political videos: !politicalvideos@lemmy.world

    Images/Memes: Find a political memes community. There’s plenty of them.

    General Political Discussion: !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world





  • Not against mergers per se, no . I even said so in the post. Though I’m not necessarily happy about it.

    TL;DR of my life is I’ve been screwed by M&A’s way too many times, and it’s never made things better. lol

    Okay, but if that community didn’t merge in the first place - the likelihood would be that it wouldn’t even explode in activity for that to even happen as the audience would be split between multiples.

    Bigger isn’t always better. I stand by that.


  • You see bug, I see feature.

    I like having options. Meme community gets too political? Just block it and use another.

    On the flip side, if a niche topic community merges with another and turns to crap (for any number of reasons), then there’s nowhere else to go unless I start my own. And if it moves to an instance I’ve blocked? Well, I’m just gonna have to go without it because I blocked that instance for a reason.

    It all ends up in the same feed whether it’s a 1 active user community or a million active user community. 🤷‍♂️

    As an example, there’s multiple Star Trek meme communities. I just switch back and forth and post to both (unique content to each).