Bitrot

Bitrot, 9 hours ago

Galaxy Watch, the original Pixel Watch and the Apple Watch have no charging contacts. It’s really the way to go.

The contacts have been an issue forever, like I remember it messing up a Fitbit a decade ago. Really crazy that it’s still a problem.

Bitrot, 4 days ago

While not run by the government, the Al Jazeera Media Network is partially funded by the government of Qatar. I don’t think this is a negative, but something people should be aware of.

Bitrot, 4 days ago

Wow there’s some memories I didn’t know I still had.

Bitrot, 4 days ago

But can it create that old GSM speaker buzz like my Blackberry did?

Bitrot, 4 days ago (edited 12 hours ago)

It does work, but doesn’t always work as well as some third party clients. That’s also assumes everyone is using gnome.

Bitrot, 5 days ago

And then Apple ships with Shortcuts, which can do a ton of stuff with pretty basic building blocks. It’s very un-Apple really.

Bitrot, 6 days ago

Before his Twitter addiction it was much easier to think of him as a rich genius like you see in comic books, mostly since nobody knew what he was thinking. He’s also managed a celebrity-like persona that someone like robot Mark Zuckerberg could never pull off. That and money will always get hangers on.

Bitrot, 6 days ago

With that kind of leadership we should be thankful he can’t run for president, or he’d end up voted in.

Bitrot, 6 days ago

I expect the chatbot version is much worse than the real one, who is only playing a character (see also her testimony against the troubled teen industry).

Bitrot, 7 days ago

Only if it is information that would be available to many people.

And for every bit of information shared, you have to think of the number of people who have access to the information you are sharing and all of the previous information you shared.

If someone is aware there is a leak they might generate different versions of the same information to narrow it down.

If you’re a whistleblower, it also assumes you didn’t make a big stink about the topic.

Bitrot, 7 days ago

That’s when Nintendo reaches out to CloudFlare instead.

Bitrot, 7 days ago

First attempt at the Server iso it wouldn’t boot, stuck in an endless wait for some snap services to start. I don’t use Ubuntu anyway and wouldn’t use Server before a .1, but it was not the best out of box experience.

Bitrot, 10 days ago

Built a system with a speedy Pentium 100 (later upgraded to a K6). Late 90s. Windows 98SE.

First phone was a Motorola RAZR.

Bitrot, 10 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

It is no longer true, but it was at one time (the key thing, it was never illegal to reinstall). It also wasn’t too uncommon for systems to have a sticker with the OEM key listed on it (then verified during activation), because without it you were SOL. Manufacturer recovery discs had their own way around it.

Nowadays the key is embedded in the firmware and applied automagically, even if you use a normal iso.

Bitrot, 11 days ago

No, but only because Pompeii has that too.

Bitrot, 12 days ago

Mint is built on Ubuntu LTS but removes some of the problematic bits, it has a recent Firefox and Chrome is of course available, Fletpak support is also integrated.

I’ve run Alma and RHEL as a desktop and it was fine, my main use case was “like Fedora but stable” (more than a year of support). However the repositories are very limited, even with EPEL and third parties, so it eventually irked me enough to switch away. Also no btrfs support without replacing the kernel and adding support from third party places.

Bitrot, 12 days ago

They should still be possible. It’s not clearing the BIOS though, it is clearing variables loaded into the BIOS. The OS needs to be able to write to them. A good one limits what an OS can write or rebuilds them, a bad one bricks.

Bitrot, 12 days ago

Nah, I’d say at least six days of work there.

Bitrot, 13 days ago

What makes no sense to you, exactly?

Users not having to remember a bunch of passwords makes a huge amount of sense to them. The support is already built into the devices they are using and it’s somehow, they don’t know or really care, more secure.

Bitrot, 13 days ago

Much of the complexity described here comes from the question “which password manager?”

Bitrot, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

People on TikTok are also very naive, the amount of doubt or double-checking facts is very low. Someone can upload a video of “real audio from Titan submersible implosion” and people eat it up.

Then they’ll make fun of boomers posting “Amen” on Facebook’s relentless AI-generated soldier/Jesus pictures without realizing.

Bitrot, 13 days ago

Hannah Montana Linux is no longer maintained unfortunately, so they wouldn’t put it on there anyway. You can upgrade it to the latest Ubuntu with some work, but you lose a lot of the theming in the process.

Someone should make a new one as a “snap-free Ubuntu alternative”.

Bitrot, 13 days ago

Back in the days of the Linux counter that’s essentially how it worked.

Bitrot, 14 days ago

They don’t, but they still maintain their software. Latest update was on March 5. Still fits the point of the article.

Bitrot, 15 days ago

Believe it or not, if you build something you can license it however you want. Canonical has long required outside contributors to sign agreements too, to allow just this sort of thing.