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- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 day ago:
The grand majority of all laptops and desktop devices are using motherboards manufactured specifically for those devices (or device series). It’s not much of a stretch to imagine them adding restrictions to their already mature supply chain.
- Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court 2 days ago:
Yes there is. Invasive species that have no natural checks are most definitely weeds.
Consider Scottish thistle in Oregon. It literally locks off grazing and food for wild animals, and our climate and ecology does not provide any natural checks against it’s growth unlike it’s natural habitat.
It’s a horrible, 6ft tall, 4-6ft wide sprout if hate that is wrecking wild lands and cultivated land alike.
- Comment on Does anybody else feel like Linkwarden is very resource intensive. 2 days ago:
There’s a big difference between desktop environment needs and headless server needs.
Anything with user interaction will require an enormous number of additional services, which consumes resources.
I expect to run simple headless software on 256-512 MB of RAM. For example.
- Comment on Malicious compliance 3 days ago:
Welcome to corpo controlled internet, where you write within their guidelines, not where you freely communicate like actual people.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 4 days ago:
Not much different than Google. Keeping their mobile device storage low and then officially advising people to just store stuff on Google drive instead.
Thus driving people to pay for Google One.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 4 days ago:
Are you really so naive that you believe that a VPN subscription is more difficult or a higher bar than actually getting up and moving?
Potentially meaning you need to find new jobs, new friends, new support structures…etc
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 1 week ago:
Essentially every browser that’s not Firefox or Safari is reskinned Google chrome for a reason. Because it’s insanely expensive to build and maintain browsers. Mobile operating systems aren’t much different in this regard.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 1 week ago:
Doing God’s work
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 1 week ago:
Food is fucking expensive man
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 1 week ago:
TBF most of these are failures and exploits on older devices.
Which are a dime a dozen across the entire industry. Security is rather difficult, especially when considering exploits and bugs.
Ofc many of these ARE the results of cut corners, though many are just a lack of security awareness or old devices with known exploits discovered long after manufacturing.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 1 week ago:
A flight to Europe’s worth of energy is a pretty asinine way to measure this. Is it not?
It’s also not that small the number, being ~600 Megawatts of energy
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 1 week ago:
That’s not small…
100’s of Gigawatts is how much energy that is. Fuel is pretty damn energy dense.
A Boeing 777 might burn 45k Kg of fuel, at a density of 47Mj/kg. Which comes out to…
600 Gigawatts
Or about 60 houses energy usage for a year in the U.S.
It’s an asinine way to measure it to be fair, not only is it incredibly ambiguous, but almost no one has any reference as to how much energy that actually is.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 2 weeks ago:
Every thread has one Linux bro, stumbling around dazed and confused, still searching to understand why people use a different OS. Always asking “Why do people even use that?” Ignorant of the litany of reasons the real world behaves the way it does.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 2 weeks ago:
I mean they are required to be paid minimum at the end of the day anyways
If they don’t make tips at all, they get paid minimum wage. If they do they can be pets less as long as tips make up the difference.
- Comment on What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops? 4 weeks ago:
I think you missed the point.
“No wipe poops” doesn’t mean you never wipe again. It means poop that leaves behind insignificant residue.
I periodicity have these, and it’s a joy. There’s definitely a dietary aspect to it, and moving that direction seems to be the point here.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 4 weeks ago:
Dude just stated how much of his free time he is willing to provide to others for free and put a line on what he is willing to commit.
And somehow this thread thinks that’s harsh or unprofessional?
Is literally any person complaining about this guy setting reasonable boundaries paying him money to do this work?
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 4 weeks ago:
Seriously, this thread is honestly vile and these people are a perfect example as to why this is happening.
How they are this blind to their own toxicity is beyond me
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 5 weeks ago:
That’s a great idea. The area I live in is pretty mountainous so putting nodes on ridges provide pretty good coverage
- Comment on Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears 5 weeks ago:
I mean… Why not?
I want Gmail without Google. Protonmail sells that to me, seems like a win/win.
Same for other services.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 5 weeks ago:
FR. It’s just projection.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 5 weeks ago:
Of course they would. It’s only allowed as long as the genders aren’t flipped.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 5 weeks ago:
Everything is incremental progress in some way.
I remember years back someone doing experiments with Wi-Fi to see if a room was occupied based on signal attenuation.
This just looks like an extension of that.
Not everything is a giant leap
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 5 weeks ago:
Given your in-depth knowledge of Wi-Fi to consider it blocked by cardboard, I somehow doubt the rest of this comment is credible…
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 5 weeks ago:
You’re kind of putting words in my mouth here.
I didn’t say that I’m afraid of him dying every time they leave the house, you said that.
I’m afraid of them dying when they’re traveling 20 hours. Or over a mountain pass. Or various other reasons. They travel a lot and I get worried that’s just how it is.
When calculating travel costs, I also dug up some statistics and figured what the chance of crashing, injury and death were based on how much driving we do on an annual basis based on national averages.
I actually thought knowing that would make me less stressed about all the travel but it didn’t help because the numbers are kind of depressing.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 5 weeks ago:
For real and there’s so many people in this thread who have only had toxic relationships or are in toxic relationships, projecting insecurities and lack of trust onto others who may not have these problems.
I don’t think this is a good idea for most people, but for some it makes sense and we need to remember that everyone is in different situations.
When you have a spouse that travels a lot, anxiety can get pretty high.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 5 weeks ago:
A lot of those people are projecting their insecurities onto others relationships.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 5 weeks ago:
if I take a coworker home, go out to lunch, etc w/o telling my SO, and they see that deviation in my routine, they could start doubting that trust
This means there are still insecurities in the relationship that can bubble up.
You do not trust your spouse to trust you and not misinterpret your intentions.
Paradoxally You can defeat some of this insecurity by being transparent and welcoming misinterpretation if you believe you both have full trust in each other.
As a high anxiety person myself, this works to defeat the anxiety which is often feared of the unknown. By proving that deviations to your routine are not something they should feel anxious about, then that anxiety can melt away.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 5 weeks ago:
It’s only vile when you project insecurities or bad intent…
We both know each other’s passwords for everything. We use a shared database for it. We both know each other’s phone, unlock codes and often through laziness will just use each other’s phones for shit. We shared the same bank accounts, we don’t have separate money. We shared the same vehicles…etc
We also both have each other’s location. What do we use this for? Essentially nothing except when one of us is traveling, or someone is feeling neurotic/worried. The peace of mind knowing that your significant other didn’t just die in a car crash part way to their destination and are still making progress is significant.
We don’t hide things from each other. We are completely transparent, and you know what this has helped build? Trust. Know what it has torn down? Insecurities.
Would recommend.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 5 weeks ago:
This is how it works with us too.
I’m kind of neurotic and get worried that something may have happened to her while she’s traveling, which she does a lot. If she’s supposed to arrive somewhere and hasn’t I start pacing and biting my nails thinking of all the bad things that could have happened.
We shared each other’s location and the peace of mind has helped a lot.
We don’t keep secrets from each other. Some folks in this thread see location sharing as a threat, I assume because they are uncomfortable or have existing trust issues with their relationship that are yet to be resolved?
- Comment on Americans could see their credit scores fall through floor soon 1 month ago:
Unsure if you read my comment?
And… Medical debt… Is somehow not worse than student debt?