Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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  • Glances at the child gambling enabled by the steam marketplace, an issue being blatantly ignored by Valve leadership.

    Buddy, I don’t know how to tell you this. I love Valve for all the good they do, but they got some serious skeletons, too.

    Valve representatives were asked point blank if the third party gambling sites have a positive influence on their bottom line, and the dude replying sweated bullets for several seconds before nervously going “we… don’t have any data on that” while the rest stared daggers at him.

    Coffeezilla has a recent video on the situation.





  • 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.




  • 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.



  • The experimental Element X client implements it only for mobile, and on desktop you must use the separate Element-call client.

    Everything else still uses jitsi.

    Like I said, it’s in development. Yes, you can jump some hoops to use it, but jitsi in element (and other matrix clients) is sticking around for a while yet.