Thanks!

Thank you - that’s a really useful answer. I’ll check them out

Thank you - I’ll have a look at that

It feels like Twitter did 12 years ago - in my experience it’s a really engaged place with high-quality conversations. It really highlights how far Twitter has fallen, and after the last couple of years on Twitter I had to re-learn how to have civil conversations with people who are acting in good faith, because I’d grown so unused to that

2 and 3 are massive. I’m on Mastodon, but am having a much better time on Bluesky. Mastodon is full of gatekeeping and policing and people complaining - Bluesky is just fun and interesting, like Twitter 12 years ago

If they’re like the originals, let’s hope nobody ever needs to control them with the slightest bit of moisture on their hands.

I got some of those Chipolo trackers shown in the photo. So far I’m pretty disappointed. Based on the locations being reported, I’m pretty sure my phone is the only one in my city working on the Find my Device system, and even that is intermittent. For example, I’ve left my bike, which has a Chipolo tracker hidden on it, in public places such as a busy train station. After two days on the station platform - with goodness knows how many Android phones passing by - the bike is still showing as being at home in my garage. Like, it didn’t even get logged on my own phone as I cycled to the station and left the bike and tracker there. The system really isn’t up to speed yet

Rain Alarm! It’s great, and you can customise alerts too

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They shoot down training drones all the time, so shooting things down isn’t novel. “In anger” is a normal phrase to describe doing something in a conflict situation, in contrast to training

I think the problem is that you’re not explaining which country you’re thinking of, and seem to be suggesting it’s the same legal situation everywhere

This is not good news. Cramming more cars onto the road means more emissions and more collisions

Pocket Casts is great - I’ve used it (on the free tier) for years. If I didn’t use this I would jump to Podcast Addict

I already use a (Garmin) smartwatch to unlock my phone using the Smart Lock feature (which can use any Bluetooth device to unlock your phone when in range). From the sound of it, the difference here is that the range is way shorter. I guess that’s a tiny improvement over what I have now, as in theory somebody in the same room as me could unlock my phone if I wasn’t looking, but it’s not exactly a game-changer

Until recently I had both a Samsung phone and a Samsung tablet. According to my PiHole, the phone wasn’t too bad, but that tablet was contacting Samsung almost constantly

I felt that Google Maps has been getting ever harder to read. The palette had moved towards a grey-on-grey scheme with very little contrast. This new scheme looks less distinctive… But I think that’s a good thing given how hard it was too read the old one sometimes

You’re right, it at the same time a small number of people trying to post regularly, regardless of whether they’ve got something that really needs posting, doesn’t tend to provide high-quality content - and I fear that’s what we’re seeing a lot on Lemmy right now.