reallyzen

reallyzen, 13 days ago

DDG has it’s non-track version online since a bit now. Use the !ai bang to get to it

Also you have the choice of Claude insted of ChatGPT, and your queries aren’t harvested for further ai training

In any case, it’s a completely different tab, it’s not mingled in general search results

reallyzen, 19 days ago

Ah again. One more moving target to chase for the nice AsahiLinux project.

reallyzen, 20 days ago

I guess the 1st highest-voted feature request is a Linux client for Proton Drive?

reallyzen, 1 month ago

“Merde”. As in, the french word for “shit” - or, should we say, “horseshit”. Why? Well because at the time of horse-drawn carriages, a successful play at the theatre would leave a lot of horseshit in front if the theatre from the many, many coaches awaiting their fares.

reallyzen, 1 month ago

12 angry men is like a Life Pro Trick sitting unused since 1957

reallyzen, 1 month ago

Disclaimer: Linux user through-and-through ; I have a modern “m” mac for some work specific applications.

Setting up a macbook today doesn’t require an apple id or even an email address. My warranty is with the non-apple authorized retailer I bought the computer from, I don’t use the software store (but I think it would work) nor do I use any apple services like itunes, or, without the apple id, I don’t have icloud backups. And I don’t/can’t buy anything from the store, of course.

I am able to update the os, I have just one notification in the settings about setting up the account but no showstopper at all.

So what does apple get from me? I’d guess crude location (from my vpn), hardware/OS version and maybe installed software? That’s not much, and since it’s a work machine it’s offline all the time, I can’t see that device doing much behind my back.

If apple is indeed looking deep into that laptop, then I guess they’ll see I also have Asahi on it. And maybe they are really really intrusive and notice I’m using that Asahi partition 80% of the time (;

Joking aside, if you need macos, it is possible to use macos. With some limitations: handle your own backups, get your software from the vendors and… And that’s it.

reallyzen, 1 month ago

No yt ads, no tracking, no algorithmic shit suggestion feed pushed down your throat (NewPipe)

reallyzen, 2 months ago

DRM-free ebooks. I make a point of buying them, of thanking the publisher… And not sharing it on the usual piracy channels.

reallyzen, 2 months ago

jockstraps

unparallel support, minimal heat buildup, max freedom

reallyzen, 2 months ago

For Women’s Right Day, the android app store featured the lead of Security and Privacy of this very app. A lady BTW. Fuck me sideways how that was a ton of crap, retrospectively. She said in so many words the usual “privacy foremost” and other such obvious shit, then she also said “no selling ever”.

I despair of humanity.

reallyzen, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

PSA: it stands for Read The FINE Manual

Now canonically switched to “read the friendly manual” which I find more patronizing

reallyzen, 3 months ago

You don’t need that: Proton will only surrender accounts/information to local authorities with the appropriate paperwork - and that’s their selling point on privacy, swiss law being pretty protective of privacy ; in this case, a corpus of evidence has been submitted by a recognized foreign entity & considered valid for action in regard to swiss law.

That’s what makes proton secure for journalists, political opponents and such: no swiss judge will enable any random dictator to get a dissident’s info, it won’t fly with swiss law. And if that escalates to bogus criminal charges, it is still up to a swiss judge to decide how and if to proceed.

You put your trust in Switzerland here, not in a nerdy business with an atom-smashing background.

reallyzen, 4 months ago

Duh, we have high-speed rail in Morocco. It’s called Al Boraq and is the best way to blast from Casablanca to Tangier.

And it is not overpriced like in France, where the tgv is more expensive than a taxi to the airport, your plane ticket, and then another taxi.

reallyzen, 6 months ago

There are different ways, and the personal preference of the bassist / of their sound person matters. If they like their current amp (for their sound qualities), a lot of sound engineers will just put a microphone in front of it to pickup “their” acoustic sound ; if the amp itself is decent, it’s going to feature a line output on the amp itself, that they can use to plug into the sound system and get the amp feed up to it. And, lastly, inserting a DI box between the instrument and the amp allows for a split output of one line towards the sound system and another towards the amp, so they can still hear “their” sound while the sound engineer has full control of how it will sound on the system (DI’s are usually provided by the stage, rarely by the musician, and using them is a lot of time the choice of the engineer).

In a cool setup, sound engineers like to have both a microphone in front of the cabinet and from the amp output or a DI, allowing them to mix between both.

In a modern (bigger) system, the amp is entirely removed, replaced by a DI, or the cabinet is out backstage to avoid noise pollution on stage, and the musicians only hear themselves through the monitors.

Am I answering your question? No I’m not!

Talk to your friend. They may like their current amp to the death, they may very well know what they would like to buy next, or not.

Why not finding a pretext to go to a music shop and try several “just to have fun / just to have a look”? If an obvious preference arises, you just pop your credit card and Bob’s their uncle!

reallyzen, 10 months ago

Wrong. Drive a Miata and you get to fuck girls and boys, clearly a far superior car here.

According to their metrics anyway.