ALostInquirer

@ALostInquirer@lemm.ee

I like to ask a variety of questions, sometimes silly, serious, and/or strange. Never asking in an attempt to pester or “just asking questions” stuff.

I’m generally curious and/or trying to get a sense of people’s views.

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KDE Connect should only enable downloading files from allowed directories, right? [issue report found, may be very old notifications]

I was working on some stuff on my PC and stepped away for a bit, and on returning noticed notifications on it that some files had been downloaded via KDE Connect from my phone. I was using my phone at the time, and didn’t send the files....

ALostInquirer,

Fairly certain, as I hadn’t downloaded anything on my phone when away from my PC that would have produced a notification to mirror. Also, sorry, I should have mentioned from the start that I typically run my phone in Do Not Disturb and Silent to minimize any notifications whatsoever.

On further digging I did notice that it looks as though the files mentioned in the notifications may have been downloads, but from literally years ago in, I think, every case (e.g. from 2018!). I don’t think I even had Connect installed back then to have caught those notifications. 🤨

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Sorry, question’s long, but the tl;dr of it was do you take more time on: name or appearance?

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if you primarily watch videos with your smartphone, couldn’t you call it a pocket tv?

https://media1.tenor.com/m/QLbV11ltA8cAAAAC/smart-thinking.gif

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Would this require feeding it batteries like a triggerhappy machine gunner?

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Is this ever noted in any of the documentation, outside of some fine print, with the printer to let someone know that it’s being done? If your product is secretly leaving indicators for anyone aware of the indicators to track your actions in some way, that’s problematic in my opinion.

Given a printer is arguably a lesser issue anymore, but the same idea applies with other tech.

My Grandfathers pre-war Signal Electric MFG Co. Morse Key (lemmy.world)

I’ve inherited all my grandfathers radio and telegraph equipment. I have lots of memories of sitting on his lap in his radio room while he talked to people on the other side of the world before the internet was really a thing. He passed away in the mid 90’s and I think he would have loved this modern world and all its tools...

ALostInquirer,

I have lots of memories of sitting on his lap in his radio room while he talked to people on the other side of the world before the internet was really a thing.

So your grandfather was part of the ol’ “analogue” internet, huh? That’s cool!

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That’s impressive! It looks like many of them are “reconditioned” so not completely new, but interesting to see people maintaining them.

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Oh cool! Thanks for the heads up!

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What’s a CLA?

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Thanks!

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I just hope this pointless move won’t bring down the wayback machine.

What was the pointless move you’re referring to?

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Isn’t this simply a contrivance to uphold a questionable system?

ALostInquirer,

Your last sentence gets at part of what I was thinking in writing this question. I see where others are coming from when talking among friends or not awkwardly dropping in products/titles, but it’s that limbo space when either talking among acquaintances or online with strangers where it gets murkier to me.

I think some of this also comes from the posting culture you see if you browse microblogging platforms, even apart from influencer-types, which I think comes from the constraints of a lower character count to some degree.

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But the fact that you feel like you’re an ad suggests that maybe you’re doing it too often.

It’s not that I feel like that, as I don’t talk much about these things, and I don’t because even the little I might sometimes feels that way. It’s more of a conflicted feeling than feeling outright like an ad, as in that it can come across as promotional even if it may simply be talking about a good experience.

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I feel less conflicted about talking up community-built things than business-built things, since the former can use the attention and typically lacks any sort of marketing or other means of promoting themselves. Businesses don’t need any more of either given they often literally have marketing divisions or can afford to hire marketing firms.

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They appear to be back, at least on my end, so thanks admins!

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What sets IceShrimp apart from the other Misskey forks in your opinion?

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