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- Comment on Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users 5 days ago:
The privacy conscious choice is to not use Plex at this point. It is only a matter of time before they start directly screwing with private library’s.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 5 days ago:
I just like being able to walk by the nightstand and have the phone “lock” to the charging pad when I lay it down.
In my car it is a lot more convenient than a charging cradle for being able to use turn by turn while driving.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 week ago:
Once a company becomes publicly traded it always gets worse. Once the shareholders are closer to the executive compensation packages than the customers/users it is all downhill. It is like clockwork.
- Comment on Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's why 1 week ago:
Did you read the article?
- Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's whywww.androidauthority.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on At the request of the Turkish government, X blocks access to student and opposition accounts amid nationwide protests. 1 week ago:
To be fair the only reason he actually went through with buying Twitter was because he was forced to.
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 1 week ago:
It would be better to not allow Google to have a major stack in the control of the Chromium project itself. Same for Android, force them to spin AOSP off into a nonprofit or sell it to EFF or something and forbid them from having a huge stake in it.
Let them use it for their own products, but remove their financial influence over the underlying software.
- Comment on Sergey Brin: We need you working 60 hours a week so we can replace you as soon as possible 1 week ago:
He might need everyone working 60 hour work weeks. But that doesn’t mean anyone should do it.
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- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 4 weeks ago:
I week long boycott will do nothing. If that is the most you are prepared to inconvenience yourself to send a message, then just give up now.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 4 weeks ago:
While this is nice, I would really like to see more fully independent options that are not just a proxy for Google/Bing. I realize that is a lot easier said than done, but this kind of solution is not providing a real alternative in anything but name only. Google/Microsoft fully control the APIs being used. so things this only exists so long as those they are trying to provide an alternative for allow them to exist. Which will not scale if they are anything but a blip on the radar.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 month ago:
Oh I don’t disagree, it is worth it. I ended up paying for it myself before I switched to Joplin. I just went down a rabbit hole of realizing I technically could self host the backend, stubbornly trying to make it work well well beyond what was good sense. 😅
- Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. 1 month ago:
Sounds to me like Amazon is reducing the value proposition of their product. For me, additional roadblocks to being able to enjoy something they way I want when I have paid for it reduces the value of the product itself.
For example, if a DRM free book in an standards compatible format costs $20, then the DRM version I can still download for offline viewing is worth $10. The DRM version I can’t download is now worth more like $1-$5 depending on how badly I would want to read it while still supporting the author.
And yes, ebooks from the major sellers aren’t worth much to me and I rarely rent (because you’re not really buying) them.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 month ago:
It is a really good app. But was a pain in the ass to keep the archive in sync using multiple different platforms without paying for their sync addon in my experience. You can roll your own sync with stuff like Syncthing, cloud storage, etc. But the archive had a bad habit of seemingly finding ways to get out of sync.
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 1 month ago:
Because X is owned by a pro-hitler probably Holocaust-denying shit heal.
- Comment on Apple is once again advertising on X after more than a year 1 month ago:
How quickly most companies have walked back all of the “moral” stances they have taken over the last few years, all within just a few weeks of the political winds changing, should be a lesson to everyone that there is no such thing as an ethical publicly traded company.
They will do what they think will make the most money from the shareholders, no matter what. If you want them too “pay”, the only choice is to stop giving them money.
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 1 month ago:
There is a better chance that user reporting for this will be disabled more so than it is that this would make a difference. You know that right?
If this latest drama with Apple Maps (and Google Maps) is what pushes someone over the edge to looking for more user respecting options then the people further gone than I would really be comfortable getting used to. Both companies regularly do much more than should do more to turn you off.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 month ago:
There might be things that are better these days in the technical sense. But there is always value in having something “good enough” that is freely available to use to keep those technically better yet more expensive options in check.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 1 month ago:
Not sure if this is still the case, but with Steam if you didn’t put the client into “offline mode” ahead of time the client wouldn’t open, let alone launch a game once the connection was lost.
- Comment on What do you use for notes? 1 month ago:
I use Joplin. They have a sync server you can host for yourself.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 2 months ago:
I couldn’t care less about 8k since I can’t even see streaming 4k content without using a platform infested with DRM.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 5 months ago:
But once its on why would you ever turn it off? /s
- Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. 5 months ago:
I am less surprised that the information is out there than I am that the bodyguards of such people are allowed to either bring along their personal devices or install random crap from the public app stores on their work devices.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 5 months ago:
I never understand how people are surprised with this sort of thing happens.
They did something on company property that the company probably would not approve of and got let go for it. And it sounds like they seem to think they company should be providing space to do it.
People really should learn to keep their political opinions out of the office where your opinions might run counter to the person that controls your ability to pay your bills.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 5 months ago:
Phones are becoming less and less interesting by the day.
Once they get to the point were all of the options that don’t require incredibly inconvenient sacrifices in functionality to maintain the interesting stuff like a video game console then that will kill interest in the market for me.
If I can’t do anything besides basic smart phone crap I might as well just buy whatever has a good camera once every half decade or so and be done with it. So whatever top end thing Samsung or Apple are putting out.
I’m not sure Google has fully thought through what it means to just be a worse version of what Apple puts out, but with more ads.
- Comment on [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse 5 months ago:
Interoperability is how we “seize the means of computation.”
Good luck with that. If the success of the iPhone has taught me anything it is that the average person loves them some incompatible with anything but itself vertical integration.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 5 months ago:
Anything related to healthcare has no business being any closer to the whims of “the market” than the public roads.
It would be unheard of for a government to stop maintaining a public road because whomever was supplying some ingredient of the asphalt said that particular mix is “to old and the new mix is not compatible with the roads created using the old mix”.
They don’t want to do it anymore, fine, then provide whatever is needed for someone else to maintain it for the cost of the materials to print/email/upload to GitHub the technical documents. It should not be legal to get someone hooked on your life altering medical device then rug pull them like this.
- Submitted 5 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 5 months ago:
Once ads are allowed into a platform they will ultimately be what destroys it eventually.
Might take a week or a decade. But the lust of that easy ad money will ruin the thing they were put there to fund in the end.
- Comment on Tony Hawk teases a new game: “there will be a future.” – WGB 5 months ago:
Tony Hawk pro wheelchairs