spaghettiwestern
@spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 1 day ago:
Bought a Pixel 10. I’d give a B review, primarily because Google uses their customers as beta testers. The hardware is nice overall, but Android 16 needs work. As is typical for Google they knowingly released a product with lots of bugs for their customers to find.
What Google does do right is carrier compatibility. Just like the Iphone, Pixels can be used at any U.S. carrier and everything works
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 2 days ago:
I bought a OP 9Pro just before Oppo decimated the company. They moved from Oxygen OS to a poorly camouflaged version of Oppo Color OS and stripped out some of the features that made Oneplus what it was. Even more of an issue: Oppo almost completely stopped fixing bugs, even some really serious ones that had been long documented.
It seems to me that the only reason Oppo would do is to preserve the revenue they get from selling customer data that should remain private. Otherwise what would Oppo care what OS people run on their hardware?
- Comment on Help getting started with self hosting Jellyfin via NAS? 1 week ago:
I’m no security expert and my biggest concern with self-hosting is making a configuration error in the OS or some app, or missing a critical update that allows someone access to my personal data. In order to reduce the attack surface and management requirements my network can only be accessed through Wireguard. The random open WG ports do not respond to unauthenticated packets, so someone would have to have access to my configurations to be able to get past my firewall, at least in the absence of some yet unknown vulnerability. Of course that won’t prevent mistakes being made on PCs (especially Windows) but it’s one less thing to worry about.
Wireguard clients on our PCs and phones make connecting and accessing media and files a breeze. There are no third parties involved so enshittification by some company’s security breach or sudden monthly fee isn’t going to happen.
I have a Bosgame mini-PC that is completely inaudible unless you get close to it. Power draw is <15 watts under light load meaning that even with the high electricity rates where I live it costs less than $3.50 a month to operate. I’ve avoided hard drives because I don’t want to listen to them whine, so no comment there. Two simultaneous 1080p Jellyfin streams increase CPU utilization by less than a percent and it still is under 5% with a couple of other Docker containers running.
Good luck setting everything up to your liking.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 1 week ago:
Let’s give credit were credit is due - ICE is only a tool. The GOP has complete ownership of ICE’s terrorist actions and applauds what is being done.
Republicans could reign in ICE in a couple of days if they didn’t approve of their tactics.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud - hopes that
you’ll give upyou won’t be able to afford a PC and will be forced to rent one from the cloud - Comment on Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button. 3 weeks ago:
That’s bad case of main character syndrome you got there.
- Comment on Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button. 3 weeks ago:
Keep trying. Two others have here that they are seeing the hijack.
- Comment on Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button. 3 weeks ago:
It’s has now been replicated. It seems it is you who “doesn’t understand any of this”.
- Comment on Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button. 3 weeks ago:
Did you follow a link from another site?
- Comment on Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button. 3 weeks ago:
They do it intermittently and always after following a link from another site.
- Comment on Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button. 3 weeks ago:
I see your part of the Post Prevention Brigade. Carry on.
- Comment on Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button. 3 weeks ago:
It happens after following a link from another sit, usually Lemmy.
- Comment on Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button. 3 weeks ago:
Im basing it on months of irritation with their BS. Shows up consistently on Firefox with Ublock. Glad you’re not seeing it on your browser.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 31 comments
- Comment on Where are you running your wireguard endpoint? 4 weeks ago:
Started with it on a server but moved it to my Openwrt router. If the router’s up the tunnel’s up.
- Comment on Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks 5 weeks ago:
Amazon has been slowly killing ePubs from public libraries so this is odd. Libby (previously Overdrive) lists “Kindle” and “Web” for reading, but has hidden ePub until “Other Options” is selected. It is the only thing there. (Do they think library users can handle 2 options but will be totally confused by 3?) Librarians have also repeatedly told me that ePub is no longer available and I suspect it’s only a matter of time until that’s true.
Maybe this is to increase book sales to those who refuse to use Kindle for anything, although many of those people (including me) won’t buy from Amazon anyway. Or perhaps there’s a longer term plan to completely squash ePub?
- Comment on hosting a VPN with a different ISP 1 month ago:
TMO has IPV6 implemented for mobile devices and has for years. There’s no way they only implemented IPV4 on a home/business service that uses the same network and the same towers.
- Comment on hosting a VPN with a different ISP 1 month ago:
Does their current equipment (and yours) support IPV6? If so CGNAT won’t be involved.
- Comment on Can't access Paperless-ngx via VPN 1 month ago:
Your WG network is a separate subnet. Add it to PAPERLESS_ALLOWED_HOSTS to allow access.
- Comment on What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting? 1 month ago:
not that any of this is doable in the near future, since i’m behind cgnat and won’t get my colocated bounce server up until spring.
Doesn’t IPV6 allow direct external access even when cgnat is in use for IPV4?
- Comment on PSA: Don't use nextcloud's auto upload on the android app as a backup 1 month ago:
When I was running a mesh topology I often had the same issue. Switching to a star topology fixed pretty much everything.
- Comment on PSA: Don't use nextcloud's auto upload on the android app as a backup 1 month ago:
I’ve been using Syncthing and it’s been almost flawless but was going to switch to Nextcloud for everything. Looks like I’ll be sticking with Syncthing for the foreseeable future.
Thanks for posting this.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 1 month ago:
Since I haven’t pulled it apart or tried to decrypt the ssl traffic so I have no idea whether it has “a microphone or something.” That’s the point.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 1 month ago:
Ours has needed very little maintenance and has quickly become a necessity because it gets the floors much cleaner that we ever did. An unexpected consequence is that the whole house stays cleaner because we still spend some of the time and energy we were spending on sweeping on other cleaning tasks.
As much as the thing irritates me you’d have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 1 month ago:
My robot vac will not operate when not connected to the Internet so it’s only allowed to communicate when actually in use. As soon as it returns to the charger the vacuum is immediately blocked via firewall.
Unfortunately the manufacturer has deliberately made this as inconvenient as possible. If communication is blocked for more than a few hours the vacuum loses all maps and will no longer load saved maps from the Tuya app. To use it the vac must be powered down and the app killed. Only then can a saved map be restored.
It’s too bad it’s so useful .
- Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offlinewww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 75 comments
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 months ago:
The “Repair application?” was far more alarming to my visiting friend than an “No Internet connection.” would have been. It is astounding that any company would put out such complete shit.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 months ago:
What kind of idiots create a program error saying “Outlook failed to load repair Application?” when the only problem is the wifi is disconnected?
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 2 months ago:
Don’tBe Evil. - Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 2 months ago:
Google: “Based on this feedback and our ongoing conversations with the community, we are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn’t verified.
I’ve been side loading apks since I bought my first Android phones and am much more concerned about malware included in the “safe” apps from Google’s Play store. Google’s quality control is shit.
