Wild ass comment.

Unless you really really need portability between devices

Who doesn't??? What do you do, copy 20-char randomly generated passwords manually all the time? That's the whole point of password managers...

I use firefox's local, inbuilt manager

Browsers are NOT a secure storage for sensitive data, if you want a local password manager at least please use KeePassXC.

They're insufferable commies who keep attacking other parts of the Fediverse by... uh... commenting on posts and... ehm... responding aggressively to bigoted content. They've got all these sick ass stickers that we don't and they keep flexing them in our replies which drives me crazy.

Their instance is an authoritarian distopia where queer people feel safe and they don't waste time debating the same wrong liberal talking points every time. Also you can just call someone a dumbass if you disagree with them: a totalitarian nightmare.

Worst of all they go around straight up bullying other Fediverse users: right now I'm locked in a bathroom stall that a Hexbear user shoved me into. I've been here for an hour missing my maths class, and I've had to drink the toilet water. My tummy is starting to hurt. Stay away from Hexbear users...

In the EU companies can't scrape personally identifiable information without consent, even if it's already publicly available. IANAL, and there's probably ways they can sneak around the GDPR, but at least it's not a free for all. It's unclear though how it works for federation. It's definitely not the same legally though.

The reason for not directly federating content to Threads isn't so nobody there can ever see my amazing posts, it's so Meta can't easily profile me. Scraping public posts on a different platform would probably be illegal, at least in the EU, and reposts don't give them a lot of data about me. Federating content, however, would give them most of the same data that Mastodon has on me without even having to ask.

I don't have the same phone and it's in general pretty difficult to fix a brick without being able to tinker with it. I can give you some pointers though...

First off, this guide is for a model A525F, but your title says your phone is an A526B. If that's correct there's a chance the files you tried to flash were for a different model number and that's what went wrong. Make sure you download the right files for your exact model number rather than trusting the ones your guide provides.

Secondly, to be honest, this guide does not seem very trustworthy. When doing this kind of thing every little step matters, a single misplaced reboot might screw up the whole process. Also, you're downloading and installing on your phone some files from some random website, that's a big risk. The thing is: you don't need a shitty guide for your exact model. For future reference, you're better off with a good, detailed guide for your general vendor (Samsung). XDA forums are usually the place to look. Always find the files you need by yourself, don't just flash whatever some random website makes you download. Go to the official download pages for Samsung stock OS or TWRP and get the files from there, making sure they match your exact model number.

If you're 100% sure that the firmware you're trying to flash is the correct one for your model, you can try avoiding Odin and use adb flash directly. There's plenty of guides on how to do that going around. You might not need TWRP either at that point. Getting familiar with adb is always useful.

Oh sure, didn't mean to imply that Chinese people weren't smart enough to think for themselves. I was just making the point that neither western media nor Chinese media is helping at all to create space or goodwill for critical exchange and debate across boundaries and firewalls (which, to be fair, is not surprising).

Glad to see there are actually Chinese netizens on Lemmy, by the way.

This is just straight up true. Besides the belligerence and racism it pushes, it also makes it near impossible to have an actual, reasonable and critical comparative discussion of Chinese and Western societies. It closes any space that might exist for Chinese people to take part in any discussion of international affairs, since the attitude is so strongly against them. This pushes any open minded Chinese netizen back into the arms of their own government's propaganda, rather than inviting them into an open discussion of the good and bad sides of their and other societies.

Me when I start seeing sickoposting in my default Lemmy comms

Interesting demo! Does this use the user agent string for identifying clients?

Can countermeasures be implemented in the clients to mitigate privacy risks, while not having to proxy images?

Ma perché la gente è così affezionata aIla vecchia UI di Reddit? Va bene che è meglio della nuova, non ci vuole molto, ma amarla al punto di ricostruirla per una piattaforma diversa non lo capisco...