The people downvoting you have never experienced perfectly regular trees (and don't understand CrossCode inside jokes).

Had to quadruple take this wasn't a Battle Network community, what a crazy thing to see on Lemmy.

We should bring back r/OkBuddyNetwork on Lemmy.

It should still work!

I only go back and make changes to LED if something breaks with a major Lemmy update, but Lemmy hasn't had a major update since January. Lemmy v0.19.4 isn't released yet, but when it is, I'll make sure the deployment is up to date.

Note that it does not have any advanced features that a major instance might want, such as storing images on S3, exporting data, or image moderation. If you intend for your instance to grow for 100+ users, this isn't for you. This is only intended for beginners who are overwhelmed by the other Lemmy hosting options, and want an easy way to host a small single-user or small-user instance.

Makes sense. The article calls it "unwarranted gatekeeping," but they wouldn't say that if they knew how Android internals work.

Looking at the video demo for Circle to Search, it's very likely they built this on top of ActionsServices, an Android component that enables extra interactions on top of the Recents switcher. This is already what's being used to do things like OCR in the Recents switcher.

Other non-Google ROMs use ActionsServices too, but their implementations vary, and they can't just "tack on" something as complicated as this onto any vender implementation of ActionServices and expect it to work. They might not even have a vendor rollout plan for this thing yet, for all we know it was rushed out the door.

Google has had a tight partnership with Samsung since the Pixel 6 came out, which is why it doesn't surprise me that Samsung will be getting this feature first. Google can essentially boss Samsung around for little system things like this.

The "for a long time" comment was probably due to Android 15 already being mostly final at this point. I wouldn't be surprised if there were core changes to Android to allow more pluggable customizations to the Recents switcher in Android 16. That might enable Google to offer this feature to other vendors more cleanly (assuming the feature survives that long, which is doubtful).

Hey, where's Perry?

No. It's very likely. Not every company is run like a FAANG company with everything under a microscope. At your average company, it's extremely common for individual teams to just have their own cloud service accounts for internal team use, not as tightly controlled as a company's production cloud services account. I'd argue most of them are very loosely managed by a single person, letting said person do pretty much whatever they want.

And if those accounts have thousands of dollars in AWS credit or something, this could run under the radar for up to 6 months uninterrupted, depending on when the credits expire. Most credits are handed out for free from the cloud service provider with no cost auditing or anything of the like.

I'm in a position where I could do this myself at work with very low risk of getting caught. I just have no interest in doing so, and I'd rather not be fired if I did get caught. But it's definitely possible.

Use pict-rs, it's what Lemmy uses for image storage, it supports MP4s and GIFs too:

https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs

Oh yeah it does, it's an MP4. Maybe you picked the wrong post type so there's no thumbnail?

Just to put this out there, I made a script that greatly simplifies getting started for new users:

https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy

I don't have a way to import existing data into this, but I'll add that feature soon™

If you wanted to run Lemmy on your own server, consider giving this a try!

It might be that your phone camera actually takes them like that, but shows them to you rightside up. When you upload an image, you're uploading the exact file of the photo. If that file is "sideways," it's going to be sideways on Lemmy.

I heard Facebook was going to make something "built on Mastodon," but I didn't think federation was on the table too. I would think a company wouldn't want open federation, that sounds like a content moderation nightmare.

Likewise, if I ran a Mastodon server, I'd block them immediately. I don't use Facebook for a reason, and anyone who would just blindly let Facebook scoop up their community data is part of the problem.

Thank you very much for the kind words!

Please be my guest! It would make me happy to know this was helping people join Lemmy!