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I almost succeeded to set my Librem 5 phone to work as UVC camera for the computer. Things you can almost do yourself on Linux phone are so much fun then propriety app that do them on android. (todon.eu)
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I almost succeeded to set my Librem 5 phone to work as UVC camera for the computer. Things you can almost do yourself on Linux phone are so much fun then propriety app that do them on android.
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[–] squincybones@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is this spam?

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's just that Mastodon posts in Lemmy are weird.

Toots don't have titles so it just duplicates the content, and then you have a mess of @ and # tags that don't make sense in Lemmy.

Cross-ecosystem federation is cool but also leaves a lot to be desired.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Probably because there is no separation between title and content. If this had been

I almost succeeded to set my Librem 5 phone to work as UVC camera for the computer

Things you can almost do yourself on Linux phone are so much fun then propriety app that do them on android.

The first line would've been taken as the title, just like in a commit message.

[–] bhyoram@todon.eu 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@squincybones How is interesting experiment on free HW and free SW phone a "spam" ?

[–] squincybones@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Some others shared that this is likely a federated mastadon post and that the formatting doesn't get translated well. To me, this looks like a couple of short comments with links to 3 communities, but no specific content related to the comments. Here's a screenshot:

No offense intended.