Paper_Phrog

joined 2 years ago
[–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Hard to find something truly credible bit here is what I found: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/may/26/disposable-wipes-sewer-toilet-cities-flushable

So our government/water agencies are actually suffering from big problems, even with modern sewer systems. They actively warn not to flush any wipes.

Take it as you will, but biodegradable does not mean it degdrades fast, or even in time.

Having a bin next to your toilet is the answer.

[–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Still clog the sewers just as much though.

[–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Not where I live buddy. It was 50 USD or 100 USD discount voucher for another pixel phone upgrade. Not happy as you can understand.

[–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yes, we have the "fly" one exactly.

[–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

My GF had one. Battery was bad, normal consumer use OFC. Somewhere last year the play services security check changed. It was just invalidated by Google like 2 years after she bought it or something? Crazy.

But the thing that killed it was Google purposefully downgrading the battery so it was almost literally unusable. Would just die at 50%. She got 50 USD back. Not worth it at all.

I will take my bloated Samsung eith amazing hardware over Google's piece of shit policy any day now. My phone is almost 5 years old and works without any issues. OS updates stopped but we have intermittent security updates this year.

EDIT: I forgot to mention I spent literal over a hundred hours trying to fix a charging issue on the 4a that came with it which was a software bug. Worst I have ever experienced in tech actually.

[–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"In addition to social media histories, Customs and Border Protection would add other new data collection fields, including email addresses and telephone numbers used in the last five years, as well as the addresses and names of family members, the notice reads."

Wtf I was planning to visit NYC but this is crazy man.

[–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So I have Whatsapp for regular people (most). My family switched to Telegram years ago. My GFs family uses only Signal. My brother refuses such things and made us download SimpleX.

Meanwhile I don't even want to receive messages.