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Earlier today, Samsung announced that three new apps are coming to its Wear OS-based smartwatches. One of those apps, Thermo Check, is coming to the Galaxy Watch 6 and the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic first and then to the Galaxy Watch 5 series.

Winter sunset in Sydney, Thursday 20 July 2023

The competition between Lemmy apps is really hotting up.

As more and more apps get all the features we want, it gets harder to pick one.

I've found myself still favouring Connect and I realised it's because it looks nicer to me when reading through comments.

Something about the font and spacing makes it look nicer than the competition.

Second best for me is Liftoff. The features are now there, but at a side-by-side comparison, this app looks easier to read.

Good job on the design side!

Out of interest what font does Connect use?

Last year I got an iPad pro as a gift. I've been meaning to do more with it especially photo editing and I finally got around to looking into it.

But....every damn photo app seems to be a subscription. The ones that aren't are very basic.

Until I found Affinity Photo 2.

Holy hell, an extremely full featured photo app with no sub?! It's like Lightroom and Photoshop rolled into one for a one-time payment of $A30.

I took a few days to learn it and once you do it's very good.

For the cost of buying Affinity forever I could get Adobe's photo plan for just 2 months!

For someone like me who will use this stuff lightly, going some months without using it at all, subscription software sucks.

Well done to Affinity for providing a high quality alternative. Give them a look - they also have Windows and Mac versions.

This sounds like an ad but it's not, I'm just so tired of having subs pushed in my face - especially on the app store - that when I find a good alternative I feel like shouting about it!

__ New age technology has enabled consumers to pay for groceries with one wave of their hand, a development that has been deemed “kind of scary”.

The technology was highlighted in a video of a woman checking out of US retailer Whole Foods with Amazon One – a system allowing shoppers to pay with a mere flash of their palm. __

Hmm, interesting. Not sure what I think about this. Anyone in the US using it already?

I mean it's convenient. You can't forget your palm at home. Your palm can't run out of battery. It's pretty hard to replicate based on the article which suggests it is "impossible for a person’s palm to be replicated because its scan captured the hand’s 'underlying vein structure to create a unique numerical, vector representation'”.

I'm guessing this is for small transactions, not buying a car, so I doubt people are going to be chopping off people's hands and using them to buy groceries (hopefully!).

Could be a useful tech?

Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?

Even allowing people to follow that account?

Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.

I've found that the text markup toolbar (is that what it's called?) does not function in Connect when replying to an existing post. Tapping on any icon has no impact.

However if I'm creating a post, like this one, then it works fine.

Is this by design or is it some sort of bug or limitation?

I may be asking a stupid question, but can you change the text sizing in Liftoff?

Would seem like a fairly basic appearance setting, but I can't find it anywhere. Am I missing it or is it not there?

If it's not there, would be great to add this option. Ideally individually for Title, Headers and Post.

That said, the app is starting to look quite nice.

It's looking like it's going to be a really competitive field for new Lemmy apps on Android! We're the winners I guess. I'm likely to get/buy a number of them :)

I'm stuck with my phone only for a couple of weeks. No controller. I have Gamepass Ultimate.

Can anyone recommend a good cloud gaming game that is good on a small screen using touch only?

I've got an S23 Ultra, so it's a big phone but still pretty small for gaming. So nothing with a tiny interface!

Thanks

This pic just after sunset was through a pretty dirty window, but I really liked how the clouds looked in the last light of the day.

Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.

Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.