smay

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[–] smay@lemmy.smay.dev 1 points 9 months ago

my point is that you might as well just have the phone be separate at that point. instead of having to frankenstein them together just have two devices. also, last i checked the linux experience on a small handheld device is not something you’d want to subject yourself to daily. android is much more what you’d want.

[–] smay@lemmy.smay.dev 15 points 9 months ago (5 children)

i feel like this would just be better served by having a phone and a camera. a good large camera will continue to be a good camera for years and years past the time the phone is too old to be useful for modern needs. my almost 20 year old DSLR still outperforms my phone camera, and my phone is quite recent.

[–] smay@lemmy.smay.dev 2 points 9 months ago

It’s actually a 20D too! The new battery really brought it back to its prime, not having to constantly stress about it dying on me has been great

[–] smay@lemmy.smay.dev 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I still use a nearly 20 year old DSLR as my primary photography camera. It’s all personal stuff so the lower resolution and overall lower quality compared to modern cameras doesn’t bother me much. The battery isn’t doing so well after 20 years though, so I’m getting a couple new ones and a larger memory card for it. Hoping to buy a new camera soon and get at least 20 years out of that too, but I still plan to use my current one alongside any other camera as I really like the look of the images it produces.

[–] smay@lemmy.smay.dev 3 points 1 year ago

another more explicit way to do that:

[–] smay@lemmy.smay.dev 7 points 1 year ago

From hearing the developer of Overcast talk about this issue, it seems that hiding your IP is really all you can or need to do, as that’s what the dynamic ad services use to track you

[–] smay@lemmy.smay.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Overcast itself is fine to my knowledge but it doesn’t do anything on its own to protect your IP from getting to the podcast hosting servers, which do all sorts of creepy shit. The only real solution would be to tunnel your downloads through some kind of VPN or centralized download service, and those aren’t services Overcast provides so you’d have to do it yourself.