I’m born in that era, and where I live, I must authorize bank transactions via app, pay parking tickets through an app, use an app for public transport, and need to scan a QR code that’s changing every 90 seconds to access my gym.

There is no workaround for the parking app, other than inconveniencing myself and staying at malls exclusively. The gym doesn’t have an alternative either. I could surely switch, but that’s the only option.

For banking, sure, I could do stuff over the counter like some octogenarian, wasting time getting there and waiting in line. That changes a 20 second procedure into a minimum 1h long one, provided whatever I’m trying to pay happens during service hours of my bank. No thanks.

Public transport would be the easiest, though that only applies for subways and trains where counters and vending machines exist. At bus stops we don’t have those, and drivers aren’t selling tickets anymore. You must board with a valid ticket, which usually only works through an app, unless you have a monthly ticket that can still be bought as a paper pass.

Yeah that “AI” was probably quoting some edgelord from reddit.

In several countries it’s simply not possible, and the family bonds are strong as elsewhere, if not stronger. China for example, family is above everything there, and you can’t change names under any circumstances.

Hah, same on every single account.

Crap. I got OnePlus 7 pro and 10 pro in China and could still unlock them easily, haven’t checked since.

It’s the same crap as Twitter, I don’t get why people ever used it in the first place.

The OG Doom is fairly linear, unless you play on the lowest difficulty level where all doors are permanently open. Else you need to kill specific enemies that can only be found in certain rooms to get keys.

Plenty of foreigners live in China and sign up with smaller lemmy instances that aren’t blocked (yet). lemmy.world (and funny enough,.ml) are. I also chose mine because it wasn’t blocked, spent almost 7 years in China and only left in July.

That’s only on their local android varieties though. That looks like a Xiaomi/Redmi phone? In that case head over to xiaomi.eu, download the EU version of the ROM, and flash it following the instructions there, it’s very straightforward.

With Oppo and OnePlus phones it’s equally simple, there are a ton of how-to’s over on https://forum.xda-developers.com/ for all models. If you stay in China, best get their Indian ROMs, the EU ones have some mobile bands inactive that are not in use there, but are in Asia.

For other phone manufacturers, it’s anywhere between trivial and impossible (Huawei for example). Xda-dev is your best source of info usually.

Ah right, that’s different then. Still don’t think they could legally sell it, but would be fine to eat, most likely.

Hope he follows his own teachings and let biology sort this out.

You wouldn’t want to eat an animal that’s died of natural causes, it’s usually old and tough, or still died of an undiagnosed infection while old so not further investigated.

All meat sold for human consumption must be certified, not gonna happen with random dead zoo animals in any developed country.

If the zoo staff decide to go for it without, that’s probably on them, but they can’t sell or even legally give it away.

Ostrich is quite nice though, it’s a very lean, red meat. Like a gamey beef I’d say, but not as intense as deer.

I refuse to use that piece of crap. We have to use MS at work and they gave us free 10 TB with our volume license, and the only thing on it are documents saved by accident because it set itself up as default save as location on some clients without being asked for. Utter garbage.

Use the browser version in Edge. That and outlook are the only two things I’m using that browser for, and it works great. The standalone software is an utter disaster.

I wasn’t entirely sincere in my comment.

Someone’s gotta give that sheik’s new chick a nice pair of tiddies.

That was the first instance out there, so amany early adopter communities are hosted there. I’ve blocked a handful problematic users and all the communist stuff and other topics I don’t agree with or care about, but by and large it’s alright.

Hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml are instances I’ve blocked altogether.

You can add the function easily using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.llamalab.automate, no root needed.

I’ve added this function manually using Automate (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.llamalab.automate).

You can trigger it to reboot on inactivity using some advanced parameters, but I’ve simply set it up to reboot at 3.30 AM every day, that way it’s also clearing the cache.

This is how it looks like - the 5 min wait timer is to prevent a reboot loop if the phone is still booted up at 3.30 again.

Don’t they auto update the OS when connected to a charger? But even then, that would have triggered a reboot already.