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lemmy_user_838586,

This… Might not be as helpful as you think it is… My dad died 6 months ago, and If someone asked me what his name was and then said ‘that’s a nice name’ I’d feel like it was a superficial and bad reaction. My father was a lot of things, and for someone to sum it up in ‘that’s a nice name’ as a form of sympathy would make me pause and struggle to find a response to such a… Simple and child-like reaction. I feel like that’s a response you could maybe get away with people’s pets, but not a human loved one.

Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)

Microsoft’s announcement: “We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11...

lemmy_user_838586,

This is what finally got me to switch to Linux years ago. Back when Virtual machines were relatively new I was messing around with them and hated having to scrounge for windows licenses to use in the VM’s. (Back then you had to enter the CD Key to begin installing the OS, they didn’t have trial periods, or ‘activate later’ options) started using Linux in VM’s to try it out, and boom 15 years later, I’m never going back.

lemmy_user_838586, (edited )

Yeaaah… This has to have some catch because if not, this might finally be the phone I’ve been waiting for.

“Unfortunately, WiFi isn’t yet functional due to a firmware issue.”

Well, there’s one right there I guess, hopefully they can figure out the firmware.

With 12GB of ram, that’s absolutely more than enough to have waydroid running in the background with all the android apps I would need until the Linux app ecosystem catches up, and with mainline support, hopefully the battery life and hardware support won’t be absolutely abysmal.

I’ve never heard of this company or their previous phone, so I’m a little suspicious that their “13 exchangeable modules for the phone” are gonna have some showstopper catch in there. What are the modules for? Are we talking internal modules like soc and WiFi? Or external modules like what Motorola tried to do with an external camera modules and such?

lemmy_user_838586, (edited )

I’ve experiences this on Lemmy and have blocked some instance, but probably just gonna give up on Lemmy too. I think I’m over talking to people (or bots? Who knows…) on the internet. It’s all bullshit anyway, politics, memes, advertising, blah, blah that doesn’t actually provide any meaning or positive things to my life. I was a passive observer of the internet for a long time before getting more active on reddit, and then Lemmy. I’m so tired of having to defend my opinions and people trying to start arguments out of nothing, and I don’t care enough to research political shit to provide a truly airtight argument before someone tears it apart, or whatever else other fight someone is trying to start on any given day. At one point I was arguing about something with someone, and we both had the same position: “Trump is bad”, but for some reason they were really going after me, even though we’re on the same side, because i was consuming “too much conspiracy news” thinking that the 2024 election was gonna get violent from Trump’s supporters. Really just over the social aspect of the internet in general, to be honest.

lemmy_user_838586, (edited )

Yup, yup. Really sick of having to defend a fact that a color is red, because someone else calls it magenta and now I have to go back and explain color theory and try to have an airtight persuasive argument to ‘win’ for something as obvious as a color… Or Trump…

lemmy_user_838586, (edited )

Ahh , case in point, downvoters to the rescue.

lemmy_user_838586,

Stop, (there are) killing games (ahead)!

Stop killing (the) games!

Stop (the development of) games (that involve) killing!

lemmy_user_838586,

You just reminded me of an awesome short story I read a long time ago

I don’t know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility

lemmy_user_838586,

Is the increased battery life coming from the OLED screen, or did they improve the motherboard/CPU efficiency as well?

lemmy_user_838586,

Still. I wouldn’t put it past the owners of an openly christian corporation. They’re as christian as you get, even down to the ‘hating the gays’ part. So yeah, I would completely believe the corporation owners would be in this headline as well.

lemmy_user_838586, (edited )

I definitely realize it increases the complexity of the codebase, but I would think a solution would be to add a toggle for underpowered devices to use the cached approach, and if unchecked display all info available.

lemmy_user_838586, (edited )

Lol $4.99? With all of that hype I thought they were selling it for a lot. Also why was someone selling that, its weird, right? I get wanting to preserve old footage of a gone-by era, its really interesting when people post home movies shot in like 60’s/70’s and you get to see what life was like back then but to sell a VHS tape of a child’s birthday party is just weird… Especially since the sellers description seems to indicate they didn’t realize it was a famous person when posting it for sale.

lemmy_user_838586,

Huh, always thought it was the other way around that Yuzu was fully open sourced. TIL

lemmy_user_838586, (edited )

So its not just me? My deck hard resets trying to stream to my HTPC, and has been for a while now, can’t tell if its their software causing the crash, or I have a hardware issue and need to RMA

lemmy_user_838586,

Awesome work! If you don’t mind me asking, what help/sources did you use to get this far in porting efforts? I have some free time on my hands and would like to try porting a newer phone such a pixel 4a or similar

lemmy_user_838586,

Huh, TIL about PackageKit.

lemmy_user_838586,

Someone who wants to buy google stock on the cheap?

lemmy_user_838586,

That’s really weird the CLIMATE is acting like this. I wonder if it’s CHANGING…

Piracy as a quality of service issue

I am one of those suckers (:sigh) who paid for Youtube since it bundled Youtube Music with it. However, today I used the latter’s Revanced version and it was so much customizable. Right from removing menu items to the stupid cast button Google has forced on us; it seems a billion dollar company can’t compete with these folks...

lemmy_user_838586,

I’ve been paying for Prime Video and Netflix and watch them through a HTPC hooked up to my TV with a user agent switcher extension in Firefox to trick the sites into thinking I’m on ChromeOS, so I can get somewhat near 720 or 1080p… Just started sailing the seas, and seeing content in 4K, was jaw dropping. I’ve known the difference, but I just forgot because I will never be served 4K, much less 1080p as long as I’m on Linux.

Also I could see what the fuck was happening in dark scenes like horror movies because it didn’t have Netflix’s shitty data compression showing me large moving grey blocks as the background of a horror movie.

rebuilt pc parts en route after 9 years

I’ve delayed making the transition to a fully “secure” set up until upgrading my PC and moving to a Linux distro from windows. now that that is happening and my parts are in the mail, what does the Lemmy community recommend for my personal network data to remain as eyes free as possible from potential hostile gov & non gov...

lemmy_user_838586, (edited )

Oh boy. First off, unless you’re a high profile activist, a high profile government agent, or a high profile hacker, your threat model isn’t really targeted to you specifically. For a regular person, you usually just want to try to keep some amount of privacy on the internet and not be the lowest hanging fruit for bots and scripts.

Any of the big name Linux distros will all be fine, Ubuntu, Debian, fedora, Linux mint, etc, etc. With exception of arch, its fine, but make sure you’re in a position to update regularly, and possibly deal with some breakage and fixing after an update with arch. (don’t use it for server)

Anyway, these are the things I do, if you’d like to take inspiration:

I use LUKS for full disk encryption on my laptop. Not because of paranoia about the government, but because its nice to know if you’re in a cafe working and someone steals your laptop while you get up to go to the restroom or something, your data is safe from prying eyes.

I use an opnsense firewall for my network, for flexibility and control over my devices and connections.

I use an openWRT WiFi router,again for flexibility and control over my WiFi connections.

I use a Firefox based browser, (firefox, fennec, ice raven, etc) its hardened enough I’m sure there’s some crazy hardened version of chrome or whatever, but for the safety of the web, I like supporting a browser that’s not chrome, there’s really only 3 big players and one of them is Google, they alllmost have a monopoly on the web. All the other browsers are using Chrome’s rendering engine except Firefox and I think safari.

Use Ublock Origin firefox or chrome extension for ad blocking

For a phone, I’d probably use a pixel device that supports grapheneOS, but right now i’m just using LineageOS, again in use Firefox for android with ublock origin extension.

For passwords, I use keepassxc, and sync it across my devices with syncthing

Oh, and don’t use google for your search engine.

lemmy_user_838586, (edited )

I haven’t, I use my phone as a medical device, so I haven’t taken the grapheneOS plunge yet as I’m not sure if the medical app would work. Yes, you’d have to wipe your phone to install GrapheneOS. For authenticator, if the app you used doesn’t allow exporting them, you have to disable 2 factor on all services and websites that use the authenticator 2 factor codes, switch to the new phone and new app, and re-enable on all services to get the new authenticate code. Pretty shitty, that some authenticator apps don’t give you a way to export (I don’t think the google app allows you to, correct?)

lemmy_user_838586, (edited )

Unexpected (…but Expected) rage

lemmy_user_838586,

I guess I should have capitalized the R.

lemmy_user_838586,

Didn’t Mozilla have some solution for this? Or am I misremembering?

lemmy_user_838586,

Hook us up with the recipe!

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