Not sure about Android, but on iOS, when one scans a QR code it shows the web address on the screen that the user then taps on. For the average user, I doubt that they are going to question what the URL is before following through to the website.

Android does the same. The problem is most of those QR codes are encoded short links which tells you nothing about where they’re taking you.

https://short.link/au1034gha could take you to a PDF on the restaurant’s Wordpress site or it could take you to malware or somewhere else you really don’t want to go.

In that case, I blame the people generating the codes for using URL shorteners. My org uses them in flyers for the public, and I always have to chastise them and re-create the QR codes because they run the URL to our website through bit [dot] ly. 😡

Weird. Other than how it used to choke when there were conflicts (and all uploads stopped until that was fixed) I haven’t had any issues like that. Guess I’m just lucky.

I’ve had pretty good experience with Nextcloud’s instant upload. The only time I’ve had it shit the bed was ages ago when it would occasionally get stuck on a conflict, but that hasn’t happened in a long time. Pretty much all of my image folders (camera/DCIM, Screenshots, Downloads) get synced. The only annoying thing was when apps would suddenly change where they download to and I’d have to reconfigure yet another sync folder, but I can’t really fault NC for that.

Mine is set to upload and keep a local copy and only do a one way sync (phone to NC). Not sure if that causes less issues than a 2 way sync or deleting the local copy after upload?

I suspect zram’s swap device only consumes RAM when it actually contains swapped pages, but I don’t know for sure. Can anyone link an authoritative statement on this?

I’m wondering the same. I haven’t read anything authoritative, but it definitely seems like it only consumes the RAM it’s using. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be able to create block devices that exceed the physical memory. I started to wonder when I had it set to 50% (4 GB) and gave it a stress test. The 4 GB it allocated filled up but was compressed to just about 1 GB, so I thought “surely this isn’t wasting 3 GB of RAM to hold 1 GB of pages.”

The guidelines I’ve read seem like there’s some guesswork involved in the planning. Basically you can make the zram device as large as you want so long as the compressed data is less than the physical RAM (not all pages compress equally as you mentioned).

I’ve since bumped it to 200% of system ram (16 GB), and I think that’s probably good enough for my use cases. I’m seeing about a 4:1 average compress ratio, so I could go higher, but 8 GB has been plenty usable up until now. :shrug: I also left the original swap file in place with a lower priority as a spillover (I’m not really missing the 4 GB of disk space that uses, so might as well keep it).

[Turns on the oldies station] Next up, a stuffy old song about the buttocks.

Yeah, I’m still tweaking things and just kindof came to the same conclusion I need to bump it up.

I was assuming that it thick-allocated the RAM for the compressed swap block device, but it seems to be dynamic now that I’ve read deeper into it. I just bumped it from 50% to 350% (basically one extreme to another).

I haven’t really watched usage since I dug it out and wiped it, but it mostly depends how many tabs I have open at a given time. It’s mostly used for web browsing, web apps, and basic productivity software (Thunderbird, Matrix, LibreOffice, etc).

When I used it last in late 2022, it was typically using most of its memory (excluding filesystem cache) keeping a bunch of browser tabs open.

Jesus Christ!

Wow. Knowing those people think like this and seeing it in a picture are like…totally different things.

I tried a true dumb phone but was breaking out my laptop too much for everyday tasks (dumb phones these days can do hotspot).

The flip phone I have runs Android 11, so I have the bare minimum necessary chat apps, email, GPS maps, and such. The main draw is that those work well enough, but anything more than that is possible but very frustrating. That’s kind of what the Minimal is about: e.g. yeah, you can watch YouTube videos on it, but you won’t want to.

Then, when the detox period is up and you’re fully off the addiction, you can get the standard phone back.

That’s kinda what I did. I used my flip like a true dumb phone for 30 days as a challenge and then un-dumbed it a little bit back to where only my basic needs were met and nothing more. I assumed I’d have rushed back to my old smartphone, but after breaking a bunch of habits, I found I didn’t really want to. Plus, I really missed T9 texting as weird as that sounds lol.

Yeah the marketing for it was lost on me. I already digitally detoxed last year when I switched to the flip phone I’m currently using, so I ignored the sales pitch and just looked at it from the cool hardware perspective and mostly reasonable price.

Credit where it’s due, though: I tried unsuccessfully to just uninstall the time sink apps from my regular smartphone and always ended up just reinstalling them. It took using a device that couldn’t feasibly run those (plus a weaning-off period) for me to fully let go. Seems like that is what the marketing is trying to target.

I honestly don’t think they’d tell me, but I’d also be interested to know. Fingers crossed they have some stock on hand for the occasional replacement.

It does have a physical keyboard, too. Sadly can’t give it much of a review given the circumstances, but it does have a good feel and seems like it would be pleasant to type on.

Yeah, I have a ticket in with support but haven’t heard back yet. I did ask specifically about the turnaround time for a replacement. Hopefully that’s a reasonable amount of time. I definitely don’t want $400+ tied up until the next batch ships in September.

Mostly the e-ink display and the QWERTY keyboard.

By its nature, it’s not great for doom scrolling, TikTok, or videos (the major time sinks with most phones). Those aren’t my use-cases anyway; I’m more of a reader than a watcher so I figured this would be like a supercharged version of my Kobo (which I love) that has a physical keyboard (which I have missed terribly in smartphones).

Edit: Plus, its 4:3 e-ink display and keyboard just scream “install Termux on me!” Also planned to use it as a nice portable SSH terminal like I used to have back when smartphones had slide-out keyboards.

I’m rocking an aging Cat S22 Flip right now and have been trying to figure out what to replace it with. The Minimal Phone seemed like exactly what I wanted. Sad that it arrived DOA and am probably not going to bother replacing it; waiting weeks for something that arrives DOA is a hard thing to recover from.

Well, I don’t even know what to say to that. Except that in Puerto Rico, a McFlurry it’s called a Señor Flurry.

Just defederated from usagi [dot] reisen just in case federation starts working on that end.

Web app, specifically, or any apps?

I’m also familiar with these three (web) apps:

• Alexandrite: https://alexandrite.app/
• Mlmym (Old Reddit Lookalike): Not sure if there’s an “open” instance of it, but several instances offer it. See https://old.lemmy.world/ for an example (not sure if SJW offers Mlmym or not).
• Voyager: https://vger.app/

Might also also check out https://lemmyapps.com/ which has a good list that you can filter by platform/feature.

I dunno, and I’m not judging, but having had people close to me suffer from eating disorders, that arm upsets me lol.

Doesn’t matter what it is; it’s edible, and the owner of that arm desperately needs to eat it.