Was definitely on by default on my device.

Personal data is still accessible, if the app you choose to pin is something like the dialer, or your mail app, then yes, you can obviously access contacts and emails. The feature doesn’t block the pinned app from accessing everything it normally accesses.

As for opening other apps, this applies to stuff like links or launchers. If the app has links somewhere, you could open your default browser app. It does not allow you to “escape” the pinned app to anywhere else in the system, unless the pinned app has a way to launch other apps the way launchers do.

The feature could certainly use improvement, but if it were only useful with people you trust, it would be pointless.

It’s obviously intended for situations where you have to let someone use your phone, and don’t want to give them free reign. With people you trust, you wouldn’t need something like that.

It’s far better than nothing, and is in fact part of android.

It is.

Apole has “guided access”, android has “pin app”.

I only have experience with the latter, it works by opening the task management view, and selecting “pin application” on a running app.

That then locks the device to that app. To access anything else, it has to be unlocked as if the screen were locked.

They seem to be what Tidal pretends to be.

Apparently Tidal finally ditched MQA and went back to flac. How they ever went in for it with how shit it it turned out to be with some basic investigation, I have no idea.

And they let you buy the music outright, too!

Recently quit youtube premium due to the price hike finally hitting my country. I’ve been using yt music for my listening.

Since that went away along with yt premium, I dusted off my old music file collection (mix of itunes and bandcamp purchases, cd rips, and soundcloud downloads).

Discovered Qobus looking for places to buy my favorite music to update my collection.

I used to keep my entire collection on my phone, but I opted to start using ytm since I had it and my collection got too big…

But now, I have to say I am blown away with how nice Symfonium+Jellyfin (or another music server) is to use!

Last time I looked into it, nothing handled dynamically keeping a portion of your music on-device for offline play this well!

Yes.

Especially over on !catposting@lemmy.blahaj.zone and !meow_irl@sopuli.xyz

There is on mine.

I just pet him a bit a pull him closer, and pretty quick he’s opting to snooze right along with me.

I feel this so much it hurts.

Some people are TERRIFIED of devices.

They look at the UI like it’s the cockpit of a fighter plane, with a thousand buttons, some of which make things explode.

Unless they know exactly what to do, they won’t even try anything.

Nevermind that UIs are usually designed to allow a user to figure them out by just prodding at everything and seeing what it does.

I learned using python.

I’ve yet to find anything that would have been a better place to start, and the concepts you pick up coding almost anything are extremely transferable.

A small project is good because it doesn’t just teach you the basics, it makes you apply what you learn to actually do stuff.

I write little python scripts to do various things all the time. Most recently I made one that automatically posts the next comic strip to !moomin@sopuli.xyz.

My recommendation would be to come up with something like that, then start figuring out how to do each step of accomplishing the task you want the code to do, then putting it all together. Look things up a lot, use print() often, and trial and error your way to the goal.

You could also read guides or watch videos, but personally I learn WAY faster by just doing.

Reading the code, making changes based on how I think something should work, then being proven right/wrong also seems to give me a better understanding than just following instructions.

Of course you can’t.

But picture putting your life on hold for 30 years. Would you not then feel extremely out of place with your own “peers” who didn’t do that?

Age isn’t really what defines where you’re at as a person, that’s stuff like culture, hobbies, career, education. People don’t connect over being the same age. They connect over stuff like video games, philosophy, books, nerding out about their industry, how that one class at school sucks, etc.

The age gap itself is absolutely not a problem. Is he a good person? Finding out can be more than a little tricky, and you risk coming off a bit like helicopter parents at best, and grossly overbearing at worst.

Your own son is not a child anymore. He is perfectly capable of independent thought and judgement. Is he good at it yet? Probably not, but the only way for that to change is practice.

Still, you can’t keep him on a leash anymore, so trusting him to navigate life on his own isn’t optional.

Make it clear that whatever happens your son can come to you for support. And tell him, explicitly, that you understand that ultimately, as a legal adult, your son has final say in how he lives life.

Once I was legally an adult, my parents made it very clear that my life choices were now up to me, but that they’d always show concern for me, and always help and support me, if I ask. They give unsolicited advice at times, but they do not try to make decisions for me, and I adore them for it.

There are tons of things about my life I’ve kept, and keep, from my parents, but never anything big or serious about my well-being. Their unconditional willingness to let me make my own mistakes, and be helpful rather than judgemental when I do, has ensured I will always turn to them in times of need.

Once your kid is control of their own life, that’s kind of the best you can hope for.

Oh I’m sure there’s still some super mean spirited stuff that happens today, but it remains interpersonal and fairly private.

The old timey stuff was more like the kind where some scientist would go out of their way to straight up publicly slander people with ideas they thought were bad.

The modern equivalent would be like scientists calling each other “smooth brained” on twitter for proposing new theories that didn’t immediately make sense.

Scientist trash talking used be savage af.

Nowadays though there have been enough “trashed” theories that later turned out correct, that people have learned not to discount any possibility.

How to finally make sure people start playing DnD, without calling it DnD.

And you know, the led shouldn’t be fucking firmware controlled!

It’s a really good idea, but to work reliably, it should be HARDWIRED to light up when the cmos is receiving power.

Pretty well summed up. I checked in on things now and then when kbin was still fairly functional.

Ernest went radio silent for long stretches of time, where before he was pretty active on kbin. He resurfaced a couple times to let people know he wasn’t dead or anything, and explained that some fairly serius medical issues were keeping him from doing much work.

He expressed a desire and hope to return to running kbin, but it wasn’t to be. Eventually the main instance just broke, and without Ernest around to fix it, it stayed that way.

As mentioned, we now have mbin (fedia.io) which is being developed by other developers and building atop kbin.

Hopefully Ernest is able to take care of himself, whatever he is now up to.

Let me put it in much fever words.

How can you claim to love me, even as you accept a god that judges me deserving of literally infinite pain? If I am truly that bad, how can I possibly deserve your acceptance?

And if I’m not that bad, how can you be ok with worshipping a god, that so insanely arbitrarily, condemns someone you love?

You cannot save me. The only way out for me, in your belief system, is for your god to spare me. But you and me both know you don’t worship that kind of god.

I’ve deconstructed theological “logic” to the point of boredom.

I can’t say as a secular thinker that I’m anything like “open-minded” to religion. I used to describe myself as agnostic, but that is a mere stop along a road to the truth of anti-theism.

And that road absolutely has a “wrong” direction. At this point, there is zero chance of anyone converting me. No-one has ever said a word to me that managed to shake that conviction even for a second. I’m at a point where I fail to see the point of religion even as a mere human institution of utility. All it seems to do is twist perception of reality en-masse, causing all the evil it does, and making all the good it does less efficient.

Both sides do not need to be open to convincing, for us to have a discussion about whether Santa exists. We can still talk about it even if one us knows he doesn’t. And I would consider an adult changing their mind on Santas non-existence, to be an obvious regression. A child who is never falsely told by anyone that Santa exists, will never need to have that belief dispelled. The very same things are true for religious discussion.

It’s not even that I won’t listen anymore. It’s merely that where I am now, I starting to hear the same arguments repeatedly, to the point that I can regularly re-use counter-arguments.

You speak of behaviour you’d consider destructive, as if we’re talking about things a person chooses to be. We are not. Your god will judge me based on a set of a couple reasonable, and great very many arbitrary standards, obviously set for the convenience of those in power when they were written/last updated.

I hope you have your paradigm shift. Religions are born from human lies, and sometimes truths worshipped beyond reason. As such I will never see where people subscribing to them are “coming from”. I can understand, but never agree.

The very definition of faith is belief without evidence, and I have never met a religious person who claims to have evidence, who isn’t just interpreting circumstances, or mistaking their inner monologue for the voice of god.

As long as you’re equally prepared to be deconverted.

I have argued theists into corners, and at that point they disengage, or begin to pick and choose what parts of what I’m saying they will acknowledge.

The problem for me, is that for me to let you be, I just need to be ok with you believeing in some things that aren’t real. As long as your conduct is acceptable and fair, I have no reason to intervene aside from a respect for truth.

Still, all religion is harmful, because belief in the unreal distorts reality, and impacts how you vote and make consequential decisions, affecting humanity as a whole. Individual behaviour is mostly benign, but as institutions religions are wrecking balls rolling through civilisation and history.

Even here you talk about how you wish to convince me by “living by example” as if religion provides something I would want, that I can’t have any other way. All it has to offer are lies, and I have refused to believe them. Nothing you can say or do is more convincing to me than whatever a Muslim, Hindu, or the ancient greeks, might say.

But still, to placate your own sense of guilt, you might pray for me. But then, you’re not letting me be. You’re not accepting the way I’ve chosen to live life. If you want god to intervene, you’ve rejected me, and my choice.

This is what “there is no hate like christian love” refers to. You will openly express love, while completely failing to understand that your beliefs reject parts of who some people are. You do not love us. You do not accept us. You feel like you do and you say that you do.

But all thats felt at the other end, is the rejection. The knowledge that someone who is supposed to care about you, deep in their heart, with the fiery passion of religious conviction, believes that something about the way you are, is so deeply wrong, that you deserve literal eternal punishment.

Do you have any idea how deeply that wounds?

This simple reality turns the love you feel and attempt to express for someone, into the most vile, abhorrent, twisted feeling of rejection it is possible to inflict on another. And the more you express it, the more it hurts. Some people kill themselves because of it.

Those of us who maintain friendships with you, simply ignore that part of how you feel. I can’t do it. I can’t be friends with someone who thinks I’ll go to hell for being me. They’ll never convert me, and if they are ok with that, I can barely stand being in the same room. And if they do try to convert me, refer back to my second paragraph.

How are you able to love me, and also let me be, even as you genuinely believe that “my journey” ends in eternal suffering? Or how can you expect me, to accept someone who can do that, as a genuinely good person?

“There’s no hate like christian love.”

How do you reconcile being a good person, with respecting other people’s beliefs, and not trying to convert people?

By your own system of belief, your inaction allows evil to reign.

I absolutely do blame religion for some the worst behaviours exhibited by believers, as it puts them in an impossible position.

If a genuine believer loves a non-believer, how can they be a good person within their own world view, if they do not try to save them?

But if they do try to save them, they will fail to be good person in the world view of the person they are trying to save.

You can’t do both, and as far as I can tell, most religions work this way.

To treat people with real respect believers universally have to engage in some of the most precarious double-think I can imagine.

It isn’t fair to anyone that you have to “suspend your disbelief” for reality the way we do for fiction, just to come across as a reasonable person.

I would thank Jesus for bread, but didn’t we have the stuff figured out quite a while before he showed up?