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- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 1 month ago:
I lock my computer whenever I leave my desk.
- Comment on America Is Sick of Swiping 2 months ago:
The initial use case of Facebook was great. It let me keep in touch with old friends. But as soon as they diverged from just showing my friends posts in chronological order, I removed my account.
- Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs 2 months ago:
Never thought of that. Scary though.
- Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs 2 months ago:
Unless you live and travel within the EU. Then you can use your phone as much as you want and know that you won’t get a higher bill than usual.
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 2 months ago:
Exactly, it’s just an estimate.
- Comment on Meet Palmsy, the fake social network where your posts stay on your device forever 2 months ago:
I wonder if I can trick my father into replacing Facebook with this.
- Comment on Linux Mint is Building a New Desktop Chat App 3 months ago:
It’s a chat app dedicated to the Linux Mint irc channels.
It’s for users and developers to discuss all things Mint in a pre-installed and configured application.
- Comment on Britain’s Social Security has banned its staff from using ChatGPT—but it’s okay with Microsoft Copilot 4 months ago:
A lot of companies have existing contracts with Microsoft regarding data management, but those contracts are probably not relevant to an “almost branch of Microsoft”.
- Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says 4 months ago:
“While indiscriminate backdoors might be cheaper for the State than alternative investigative measures, they were expensive for society at large on account of the security risks they produced,” EISI told the ECHR.
It’s great when someone with some sway actually gets it.
- Comment on Smart TVs must showcase Australian free-to-air channels alongside streaming services under proposed legislation 4 months ago:
What in the actual fuck
- Comment on Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US 4 months ago:
The STARS section has some good things.
- Comment on There’s a 5% chance of AI causing humans to go extinct, say scientists 5 months ago:
Very probable since 73% of all statistics are just made up.
- Comment on ‘This Has Been Going on for Years.’ Inside Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess. 5 months ago:
That is a ridiculous statement, it’s probably also true 🙄.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals 5 months ago:
Yes it could and that is what Lexus is doing.
youtu.be/agMrewRJTow?si=_M55DbNd3I4uUvMu
But Tesla is not doing that, so there you still have to turn hand over hand even though you don’t have a round wheel.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals 5 months ago:
Those are way more sensitive so there is no need to turn hand over hand. The downside is that that sensitivity can be really hard to handle at high speeds.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals 5 months ago:
Don’t give them any ideas!
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 5 months ago:
Also - hard drives, floppy disks, etc have always referred to their size in base 1000 numbers
That is not true. For a long time everything (computer related) was in the base 2 variants. Then the HD manufacturers changed so their drives would appear larger than they actually were (according to everyone’s notions of what kn/mb/gb meant). It was a marketing shrinkflation stunt.
- Comment on Poor video playback quality on Kodi 6 months ago:
How does switching the codec help with downloading subtitles from the web?
- Comment on Poor video playback quality on Kodi 6 months ago:
Is using the Android TV app considered “using it wrong”? Because that doesn’t support downloading subtitles.
- Comment on Poor video playback quality on Kodi 6 months ago:
But not on the Android TV app.
But thanks anyway, I actually didn’t know that downloading subtitles was supported on other platforms. This should att least alla me to download subtitles via the phone. A bit more cumbersome than having it directly in the app as for Kodi.
- Comment on Poor video playback quality on Kodi 6 months ago:
I’m also tired of Kodi but I constantly come back to it. The one thing that Kodi does better than all the rest is the handling of subtitles. I try to use Jellyfin instead but I constantly have to switch back to Kodi because there are no ways (from within the app) to find and download new subtitles.
- Comment on Threads is making moves for Mastodon integration 6 months ago:
Do we really want Facebook users just for the growth? Quality beats quantity.
- Comment on Homes need to be built for better internet 6 months ago:
If there are Ethernet ports in every room (as the article describes) then the back haul happens over wire. No unusual packet loss or latency with a few plug and play pucks throughout the house.
- Comment on hippopocranuse!! 7 months ago:
hiphopapotamus and the rhymenoceros
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Why would the workday start drift?
- Comment on How would I start as a database consultant for a niche software? 8 months ago:
You could contact a larger contractor. Going as a subcontractor to a larger contractor means that you get access to their sales department and you can utilize them to build a name for yourself. The downside is, of course, that they take some of the earnings.
- Comment on What is your favorite software stack for full-stack web development? 8 months ago:
I hate when I have to work with non SQL based persistence.
To each their own I guess. 😇
- Comment on Uber was supposed to help traffic. It didn’t. Robotaxis will be even worse 9 months ago:
I’m melting!
- Comment on [VERGE] Spotify appears to be planning free audiobook trials for subscribers 9 months ago:
20 hours is 2 books? I’m what world?
- Comment on Bored of using Lorem Ipsum for your mockups? Check out Hipster Ipsum! 10 months ago:
I always use Bacon ipsum