Petition to bring back full qwerty portrait oriented keyboard sliders like this. I miss this hardware style.

If you have a Switch and a TV, I’d recommend trying out Ring Fit!

That game has been my primary fitness source since 2020. It makes the exercises very approachable, and also engaging. You really don’t need any prior exercise experience to hop in and play it, and it’ll help ensure you get a well rounded workout in.

A few options that range from slightly spooky to pretty scary: Alan Wake, Oxenfree, Dead Space, Five Nights at Freddy’s Security Breach, Night in the Woods, Inside, Limbo

It’s pretty uneventful. I had surgery earlier this year and was put under. I recall them hooking up the IV, waiting 5-10 minutes, then coming back to wheel me into the OR. They had me transfer into the operating table, and I remember looking up at the bright lights and the surprising amount of people in the room for my basic surgery, and then the next thing I know, I’m waking up in my bed a couple hours later. I didn’t feel groggy, it just felt like waking up from a deep sleep where you don’t dream at all. Time passes in an instant.

I’ve been using a Z Fold 4 for about a year, since launch. This is my first foldable, and it’d honestly be difficult for me to go back to a standard slab phone.

I love how multitasking is actually an enjoyable, functional experience on a foldable. I love having a large display for consuming content. The larger internal display really ups the threshold for “Okay, I need a computer for this”, since I can load desktop sites and it be usable.

Granted, it isn’t perfect. I do still have concerns about durability, despite the fact thaty Fold has taken a few nasty falls and come out unscathed, it is of course still possible to break. For the first time, I have insurance on a phone due to durability.

The outer display is functional, but it’s quite narrow. This leads to some apps not loading properly on the outer display, and a bit of a cramped keyboard. You do get used to it, but I’d prefer a larger external display like the wider display of the Pixel Fold.

The biggest short coming for foldables is apps. While most apps function just fine, some really don’t. Instagram is a great example of one that performs poorly on both the external and internal displays. Some apps have tablet interfaces that launch on the inner display, but most don’t. Most apps are just a blown up version of the standard phone interface. There are other weird app quirks like how my bank app will only let me use fingerprint to sign in when it’s launched on the external display, not the internal. The app situation I think will get better with time as foldables become more widespread, but it is a frustration for now.

The final shortcoming is the size and weight of these phones. With a case on, the Fold 4 is a pretty substantial phone on your pocket. It’s heavy, thick, and the first few weeks with it you’ll really notice the size and weight. Foldables are trending thinner and lighter, but more progress needs to be made here.

Anyways, all this to say - I ultimately love my foldable phone and have been very satisfied. It’s expensive, but if you have the means and the interest in one, I doubt you’d be disappointed. Just keep the shortcomings in mind.

That’s unfortunate. I hate seeing this news because it means that all the other streaming platforms are going to follow suit soon, which brings us right back to cable, essentially. Must subscribe to 5 different streaming services each in order to have access to all the programming you want, no more splitting up accounts with friends.

Glad that I just setup a Plex server, looks like I’m gonna need it.

No Man’s Sky is quite complex with a lot of systems to manage, resources to collect, etc. I think it’d be a bit overwhelming if you haven’t been playing many games in recent years.

That’s interesting. I’ve had a few communities show as “pending”, but they still appear under my subscriptions view on my home page.

It’s just a UI bug. You’re subscribed. Probably doesn’t help lemmy has been overwhelmed by new users and activity.

I’ve been using a Z Fold 4 since launch and I love it.

You really don’t notice the crease unless the light is shining/reflecting off it.

I love the extra screen real estate and multi tasking that I can accomplish with the Fold. They’re expensive phones, but if you’re interested in a foldable, odds are you’ll get good use out of it.

Rumor is that the Fold 5, which should be announced in July, will use a new teardrop hinge which will significantly reduce the prevalence of the crease and allow for it to fold flat.

You also have the Pixel Fold, but I’d be hesitant since Google has a bad track record with buggy software.

Is it built on chromium?

I currently use Firefox simply because it’s the one privacy focused browser not built on chromium. I don’t want to contribute to Google’s monopoly over browser traffic.

Mr. Mobile: https://youtu.be/QKje_cSknNQ

Yeah there are still options out there that offer an IR blaster, but I’d really like to see it return as a mainstream feature. Now it’s more of a niche thing you don’t see often.

I’m on a Fold 4 now and I do love the novelty/oddity aspect of having a folding tablet.

But I would love to see the return of IR blasters on most phones and sliding phones for physical keyboards.

I just open pdf’s or docs in Google Docs and modify/sign from there.

“Arguably worse for privacy than Reddit”

This poster clearly has some sort of vendetta against Lemmy and/or its creators with the comments on politics, etc.

Reddit takes your activity and packages/sells your data to advertisers. Lemmy does not. To say Lemmy is worse than Reddit for privacy is just not true.

I’d take that post with a hefty grain of salt.

Unfortunately most of the “privacy phones” really aren’t that great of a smartphone experience due to them running Linux which isn’t nearly as developed for smartphone use as Android or iOS.

I personally use a Samsung Fold 4, and run Firefox w/ add ons, DDG for search and app tracking protection.

Apple likes to boast about how iOS is more privacy focused than Android, though. Grain of salt.

I would use Firefox Mobile over the Samsung browser. Samsung is still chromium based and Firefox puts more priority on user privacy.

If you can switch messaging and group chats to Signal or Telegram, that’d be a good move as well.

Otherwise App Tracking Protection is probably the best thing you can do for privacy.

Sable and Tchia are both fantastic third person open world games.