🎵The house is still a mess, and I’m going bald from stress, but we’re happy just the way we are🎵

I had no idea she was in ST: SA! I just watched Orphan Black not too long ago, and she was great in that.

Running Testlog

Tests are performed against voyager [dot] lemmy [dot] ml and are limited to regular user and community mod actions only. Testing is also limited to the functionality exposed by that instance’s config (e.g. no signup app, captcha, email verify, etc).

Works

• Basic signup (no application, captcha, or email verification)
• Logging in
• Creating a community
• Subscribing / unsubscribing to a community
• Infinite scroll in main post feed
• Browsing a community (e.g. /c/test)
• Creating a post with text only
• Commenting on a post
• Viewing votes on a post/comment as a moderator
• Upvoting a post/comment

Doesn’t Work

• Detecting whether to enable downvotes; defaults to downvotes disabled. Seems to be related to the more granular voting restrictions, and Tess looks at the old downvotes disabled key in the site response.
• Browsing communities (The moron devs changed the sort types and broke compatibility)
• Editing a community’s settings
• Viewing user profiles (moron devs broke v3 API)
• Modlog? Can’t tell b/c voyager is running on a potato and the request times out.

Can’t Test Currently

• Any admin functionality
• Image uploads (avatars, community icons/banners, etc)
• Downvoting a post/comment (Tess limitation due to change in getSite response and missing “downvotes enabled” key.

Untested

• Signup with Captcha enabled
• Signup with application
• Signup with email verification
• Email verification
• Login with TOTP
• Image uploads
• Anything else not explicitly listed as broken/working

Thanks. Makes sense. I’ll give that a shot next time I give it a thorough cleaning. I don’t have it in me to disassemble that again for at least another month.

Look at RCS

I’d rather not lol. Google basically forces you to use your phone in a Google-approved configuration or RCS silently fails. So if you’re rooted, no RCS for you. You can spoof SafetyNet attestation all you want, but they constantly blacklist fingerprints (even legit ones) and RCS stops working (but still says “connected”). After 3 months of fighting it, missing messages, or having to wait 90+ seconds for outgoing messages to fallback to SMS, I just disabled RCS and went back to SMS/MMS. Since that was the last Google service I was trying to use, I just disabled Play Services and completed the de-googling of my devices.

If RCS is to ever succeed, , it needs to be a carrier service and not a Google service. As it is now, it is impossible to use RCS on Android without Google Play Services (e.g. De-Googled device). That’s absolutely unacceptable.

Honestly, I dread the e-SIM only future. They’re okay as something that complements a physical SIM, but I much prefer swapping the physical one than going through the carrier to transfer it.

I tend to use devices and mobile OS’s that aren’t carrier-blessed (but are otherwise compatible with the network); it’s often necessary to first activate the service in a “supported” device and then move the SIM to the device I actually want to use.

I also change devices often, kind of like choosing the right footwear for the event. I’ve got a general purpose “daily driver” mostly dumb phone, but I also swap my SIM to a few other devices depending on need. e.g. occasionally, I’ll need my actual smartphone and move my SIM into that for the day or I’m going backpacking and move my SIM into my rugged smartphone which is otherwise a beast to carry but nice in the wilderness, etc.

Plus, I’ve had phones just up and die. With my cell as my only phone (and sometimes only internet connection), it’s a little difficult to reach the carrier to move service to my backup device. Much easier to just pull my SIM and move it.

If I were doing all this with eSIMs, I’d probably be setting off all kinds of false alarm bells swapping around so much; all false alarms that, to date, haven’t been an issue with a physical SIM. That’s not even getting into the artificial restrictions that will eventually come. Wouldn’t put it past some shitty carriers (cough Verizon cough) to limit the number of times you can swap in a month and/or to charge a BS “activation” fee for it.

Or it was all according to the artist’s plan anyhow.

IMO, that’s still something a psychopath / Batman villain would do.

Thanks.

That’s cool. I’ve never messed with Nix, and I’m so out of my wheelhouse even looking at that, but it’s still cool.

looks like 1.4.31 hasn’t been merged into main yet?

Yup. I knew I forgot something. Was just trying to get this bugfix release out and off my plate and forgot to merge. Will try to address that tomorrow if time allows.

The whole concept of eating contests has always appalled me.

Like most kids of my era, mom would always guilt me into finishing my dinner because “there are starving kids in Africa that would would love to have that plate of Brussels sprouts.” So even back then, my mind couldn’t reconcile the fact that we all know there are starving kids in the world but also we have competitive eating contests.

Yeah, that tracks with the other horror stories I’ve heard about Samsung appliances.

I’m in the same boat: only have them because they came with the house. I’d never have bought them of my own volition, and I’m both dreading and looking forward to the day they fail. Looking forward to is only so that I can replace them and stop worrying about when they fail.

Cleaning vinegar is always something I forget to pick up at the grocery store.

I’ve seen that recommended a few times when I was looking for cleaning tips. How do you run it through the line? AFAIK, it just uses water pressure from the line and doesn’t pump / “pull” the water into the fridge lines.

“Stolen”. That’s not how you pronounce “rescued from a psychopath”.

Uh…yeah. It was a really weird time knowing there was a very attractive redhead under all that old lady getup and support stockings. Very confusing feelings for sure.

Tsunkatse: Which is an anagram of “Stunkt Ase” and is one of my least favorite episodes despite Jeffrey Combs and JG Hertzler trying their best to prop it up.

I’m not against it, but you’d have to put up with me posting random Mama’s Family clips 😆

Thelma doesn’t get nearly enough respect in the Fediverse.

Probably from US east coast to Oklahoma (not my choice of destination lol). Missouri seemed like it would never end and was the absolute worst leg of the whole trip. There’s a huge sense of progress when you cross state lines, and Missouri is just so wide, so flat, so…nothing that it made the whole trip stagnate.

I completely understand the appeal of it, and on paper, I’d be right there with you. But, in practice, I personally hate the whole experience; it’s just not for me. I’m more of a road trip guy which kind of limits me to North and South American continents, lol, since I also hate cruises. If I can’t open the window, I’m not going 😆

Traditional Andorian summerwear.

Hidden memory unlocked.