kamen

@kamen@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick! Break something!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it’s hard when they’ve probably factored in ad revenue in the pricing. It’s not a new practice - it’s been done with cheap Chinese smartphones that were sometimes sold below the cost for the hardware and production.

  It’s terrible, I agree. Brands like this go into a list of offenders that I’ll make sure to avoid in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember that some people voluntarily pay for TV and streaming with ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  TestDisk has saved my ass before. It’s great at recovering broken partitions. If it’s just a quick format done with no encryption involved, you have a very high chance of having your stuff back. That’s of course if you catch yourself after doing just the format.

  Other than that, yeah, I’ve also had my moments. Back in high school not only did I not have money for an external drive - I didn’t even have enough space on my primary one. One time a friend lent me an external drive to do a backup and do a clean reinstall - and I can’t remember the details, but something happened such that the external drive got borked - and said friend had important stuff that was only on that hard drive. Ironically enough it wasn’t even something taking much space - it was text documents that could’ve lived in an email attachment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s a great example where a GUI could be way better at showing you what’s what and preventing such errors.

  If you’re automating stuff, sure, scripting is the way to go, but for one-off stuff like this seeing more than text and maybe throwing in a confirmation dialogue can’t hurt - and the tool might still be using dd underneath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You either have a backup or will have a backup next time.

  Something that is always online and can be wiped while you’re working on it (by yourself or with AI, doesn’t matter) shouldn’t count as backup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forget cereal bars, what's your flavor of drug in the morning?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t smoke, but would still sometimes go out with my colleagues who do smoke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨commitment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that they now give out loans for people to buy pizza, that’s a solid achievement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, depends on what your use case is. Even if you find a stripped down OS that’s less resource heavy, you’ll probably still be using the same other software (i.e. same browser on the same modern web, and you’ll be out of RAM once you open 10-20 tabs). If a manufacturer has meant this as base specs for a thin client, you’re not tricking anyone (but yourself) by trying to use it as a full featured computer, and you’re still driving sales (at least on the hardware part) on a deliberately crippled product.

  If you want to vote with your wallet (as IMO everyone should), you don’t buy this and repurpose it; you simply don’t buy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what you do and depends on how it’s set up.

  At a previous job we had thin clients set up to connect to some remote desktops, and indeed they were running an OS locally, but had barely enough resources to run the OS and the client app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings, please give us your info dump.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow I missed the “up by” the first time around, and was confused about who would be so bored to hang themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes even just one phone is too much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This has to be rage bait. I feel like the less time I’m on there, the happier I am. Even the 30 minutes daily limit that I usually set for apps like that is time I’m never getting back.

  The only reason I have an account to begin with is because I’m a photographer (even if just a hobbyist) and I like to have some presence in the circles I’m in. If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t be there at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bought a bunch of 20s a while back. My only concern now is if (when) one of them dies, I might not be able to get the same one (or any at all).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, maybe you’re right. Seems like a better idea would be to just talk to the kids and get them convinced that it’s trash and/or find them something more productive to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’d need to come up with something new. MySpace was sold some years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I ever have children, TikTok will be one of the first things I’ll have blocked for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m all for hardware remappable keyboards in laptops too - just like with an external one. I do realise though that this is a niche within a niche. From what I know only Framework is doing something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new quest appears...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A matter of time before someone invents a clapper allowing you to doomscroll from across the room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For things that you’re using by yourself, sure, it’s doable. However, for content creation, it’s pretty hard. Some of those alternatives just don’t have the critical mass yet. Maybe it would be an option to do both in parallel for some time before switching completely, but might not work for everybody.

  Practical example: I’m a hobbyist photographer. Small timer, less than 1000 followers. My livelihood doesn’t depend on this, but I’m still serious about it. I mainly do concerts and sport events (so a lot of things involving other people) and my main outlets are Facebook and Instagram. Switching to something else would mean either 1) that no one will see my work or 2) that people will see my photos on the alternative place, they’ll copy them over and they’ll still end up on Facebook and Instagram, but this time without my creative control (thus badly cropped and recompressed several times - so even if I pay special attention to those things when publishing by myself, the effort goes down the drain when someone else does it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Off the top of my head:

  • complex gestures (tap + swipe, two finger swipe/rotate)
  • frequent/recent/new apps in app search
  • app drawer tabs
  • icon customisation for folders
  • creating home screen shortcuts for activities (or if that’s possible, I couldn’t find it).

  Of course this shouldn’t sound as a blame - I know Lawnchair is relatively young - those are a bit more advanced features that I grew used to over more than 10 years with Nova. When I manage to get a development environment running and some knowledge about Android, those are some of the first things I’d try to implement in Lawnchair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried it, but it’s missing some things I’m used to - both functionally and visually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang… I saw this a while ago, but thanks to this post I looked again and it turned out that mine had automatically updated to the new version on Play Store. Went ahead and uninstalled it and then installed the latest Beta from before, and I was lucky that my email license still worked - don’t know for how long though (not sure if the check is hardcoded in some way or if it makes an API call).

  It’s had a great run, but it’s just sad that it has to end like this. Would’ve been spectacular if it was open-sourced as promised.

  I started looking into alternatives and it seems like no other launcher is quite there yet, but Lawnchair looks promising for my use. The whole situation started looking like the appropriate time to learn some Android development; a while ago I was thinking of forking the AOSP launcher and trying to implement some stuff by myself, but now it seems like contributing to Lawnchair would be a better idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bit late to the party…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s very much in the spirit of “Stop being poor”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Opera had this 20+ years ago. Once you get used to it, there’s no going back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad I bought a bunch of 20 TB ones some months back. I’m good for a few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huh?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Speakeasies were still a thing last time I checked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Given how greedy he is, you’ll have quite a lot of contributing to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… it depends on the language too. I’m not a native English speaker, but I would use 12-hour in spoken English too - often without even appending “AM” or “PM” because it would be obvious from the context.