Toes

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[–] Toes@ani.social 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's been awhile since I used an Apple device. Do they still forbid people from using bluetooth to send stuff to android phones?

[–] Toes@ani.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought this was a sea of thieves ad at first glance. Looks really cool

[–] Toes@ani.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was using http://VoIP.ms worked fairly well as a sip service, and I believe it works the way you're hoping for. I'm unfamiliar with the provider you mentioned.

I struggled with getting a reliable sip service on my cellphone because of unreliable network conditions. What did help was connecting to a TCP VPN.

In the enterprise I found zoiper worked fairly well.

Linphone worked fine as well for my hobby projects but my roommate at the time didn't like the interface.

Some phones have their own sip client deep in the settings too, that is the ideal method.

Edit: a potential solution if you're looking to just use it for international calls. You could configure the sip service to take calls from your number exclusively and call the number you're wishing to dial. And have inbound calls to that number connect to you.

[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure, let me know if I'm following this train of thought by drawing a parallel.

If we swapped out rendering engine with game engines. It would be best if we kept to a few game engines and focused on the game mechanics and story?

In that spirit, I would agree with you. Much like the examples you provided, its more about who or what controls the full stack of experience. It's just, quickly thinking about this I'm struggling to find a compelling reason to use a browser beyond the basics. Since the core features I seem to require are satisfied in any browser that isn't provided by an entity that puts capital interests before the user too harshly. Plus the addition of an adblocker and custom theming.

Ultimately, it just needs to show the webpage safely and precisely how it was intended to be seen, without ads. Through the support of extensions, I suspect that would satisfy any additional requirement someone could desire or imagine without the need to delve much deeper into custom browsers. At least, a browser for general use without a specific purpose. But perhaps I'm misjudging the capacity of those potential extensions in the face of a customized browser?

I suspect, how opera paints a bunch of features down the left side may be hard to replicate on another?

[–] Toes@ani.social 4 points 2 years ago

Personally, I use the ESR version of Firefox so I don't regularly get unneeded updates.

[–] Toes@ani.social 41 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Fun fact, there's only 3 real choices.

There's Firefox, Chromium and Safari.

Every other browser is essentially a skin of one of those.

I would suggest using Firefox or one of its spin off versions.

[–] Toes@ani.social 104 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm surprised that the service works at all in Russia. Isn't there some sort of sanction that disallows that? I think it's time for someone to look into that.

[–] Toes@ani.social 6 points 2 years ago

Now we just need a version that comes without bloatware and the windows 2000 theme

[–] Toes@ani.social 5 points 2 years ago
[–] Toes@ani.social 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

they never finished it lol

[–] Toes@ani.social 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The illusion of progress is the next best thing

[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I get this opinion quite well.

The problem I've observed are devices that foolishly switch to 2.4ghz in a crowded space, such as the Nintendo switch. There really needs to be an extra check for devices sensitive to latency to never connect to a 2.4ghz network on a crowded channel unless it's the only option.

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