Wispy2891

@Wispy2891@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I installed windows 11 a dozen time at work (never at home) and I just click on “domain login”, it just creates a local account and then after the install I have to manually join the domain. No Microsoft account enforcement at all.

  It’s regular Windows 11, not Enterprise, we are a small company.

  But I’m wondering, this bypass is too easy, is it because it sees that the DNS server is also an active directory server, so it allows that, or the trick is that you tell him you want to join a domain?

  Or maybe it’s a domain enrollment bug because we’re using samba 4 under Debian as active directory server and not Windows server/entra id/whatever they call it this month?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  How they can say it’s DRM free ink if they use non refillable HP cartridges? Ok, the built-in DRM isn’t enforced, but HP has the worldwide exclusive in producing the cartridges, and its integrated printhead is literally the shittiest one you can find in the market. Yes, you can drill the tank and add ink, but that shitty printhead is not designed to last more than 1.5x the original life. And 100% of the “compatible” cartridges are refilled old ones, coming from ewaste, so they will break/clog even sooner.

  If anyway they had to reverse engineer proprietary protocols to talk with the proprietary printhead, couldn’t they use the printhead of a $50 Epson? Way more reliable and at least it has 4 colors instead of tricolor for black.

  Ps: if I remember right on the box of HP cartridges there’s some legal language like “licensed to be used only with approved HP® products”, so can they sell a product that uses such cartridge?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If I connect to the same server via my own VPN I don’t have the disconnections, so I’m thinking it’s tailscale cutting connections after too much traffic. But connecting via tailscale is so much more convenient 😢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to use it via tailscale but it disconnects very easily - is to be expected?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And the huge drawback that if the kid finds some “easy trick to win matches” on YouTube and gets vac banned, the parent also gets vac banned

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For PC games that’s impossible, at most you can find a disc-shaped steam redeem code

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s 100% what happened

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 0% discount⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i was ok doing the discount but i had no idea of which margins there are on the cashier because usually i’m on the back doing IT, not the cashier - so the call

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodwill Isn’t a Platform (thoughts on the Digg beta)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll comment on that story on the screenshot

  Printer with DRM-free ink

  Uses HP cartridges

  Those two sentences are mutually exclusive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s like the play store verification, it’s quite simple. The main problem is that once “verified”, Google publicly doxxes individual devs by publishing their residential address + private phone number + private Gmail on their dev page, and this is unacceptable for anyone except who used stolen identities

• The 0% discount
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What pisses me off it that they say they do this for security. It changes absolutely anything.

  They really think that malware developers will say “oh no! I need to submit a picture of an id card to sign my malware! It’s literally impossible to submit a jpg of a stolen id card, I’m ruined and out of a job!”

  What does it change? Waste 20 minutes of some malware developer while they register under a stolen id? They already have a system that scans for known malware and automatically remove it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we were *just a lil evil*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, it costs them a lot of money, my pihole is blocking 2000 requests per day from my nest thermostat. Multiply that for the millions of units they sold and you have a small scale “Perpetual DDoS Attack” to their servers. I don’t know why a thermostat needs to call home that often, if it’s to checking the outside temperature it could do it just twice a day, or just avoid it altogether when it’s off (8 months per year in my case)

  But yes, I will never buy this shit again from them, and the next must have the option to be controlled without internet. It doesn’t make sense to send a message to a server in another continent to activate a device that’s located in the same room I’m sitting in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions to have a home server VPN and and Mullvad at the same time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t need to self host headscale, the mullvad addon has the exact same price of mullvad standalone, so just stop paying mullvad and pay It via tailscale, choosing the servers via exit nodes. This is the solution you want. Access to your local network + choosing any mullvad server as exit node

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions to have a home server VPN and and Mullvad at the same time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if using their servers, it still can’t access apps inside a work profile

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will start using AI to guess your age.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m betting that it’s so “intelligent” that will guess underage even if the Google account was opened in 2004

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be the asshole: why the fake money wasn’t immediately converted to real money giving directly the exchange address instead of a locally hosted wallet? Except bitcoin all the shitcoins are devaluating in real time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s trivial to detect running in a vm and behave differently

  It’s more like “why the industry standard to allow games installers to run as admin is widely accepted?”

  Or “why a crypto wallet needs to have unencrypted files in the user home, ready for exfiltration?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can totally imagine the avengers debating for years “well no we still don’t have enough proof of genocide, the best action is inaction” while immediately go to raze an Iranian city after an unfounded rumor of a WMD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shouldn’t the voice control specifically target the user voice just to prevent other people interfacing with your device? Otherwise ads can say “hey meta order a crate of coke” or someone on the street might shout “hey meta send a WhatsApp to all my contacts that proves I’m an idiot”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they fire the whole arc GPU department, stop any development and exclusively sell graphics made with Nvidia chiplets, that statement “Intel will continue to have GPU product offerings” is still true

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, sure, it’s the same Intel that is prioritizing immediate money returns over long term gains, right?

  Nvidia definitely didn’t do this investment to kill a new competitor. They just happen to find too many billion dollars in their bank account and didn’t know what to do with that and thought “you know what? Let’s invest them in a competitor to spice up the market”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Enhance the product by making it shittier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s windows 10, but worse

  • If you have 8gb or less of RAM, it’s constantly swapping and trash your SSD

  • It always needs to automatically install the fucking updates in the background hogging the CPU and SSD time when you actually need to work/play

  • When they introduce bugs, they take years to fix them. The taskbar took 3 years to be restored to features that were present since windows 95. One year ago they introduced a new bug that with some display port monitors, when it goes in standby, the resolution switches for a second to 640*480, trashing all windows and desktop layout, super infuriating. Probably this will be fixed in windows 12

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vimeo is getting acquired by Bending Spoons, the parent company of Evernote⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP Vimeo 2004-2025

  Bending Spoons works like this:

  1. They immediately stop any development
  2. They fire all the engineers because now the app is in maintenance mode
  3. They quadruple the subscription prices while nerfing all the free plans
  4. They change the license of the user generated content, so they sell it to ai bros

  You got data in our servers? Pay the ransom or lose it!

  Their CEO is a ruthless version of Elon musk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The other one is "who deserves food" and you fail if you dont click all the boxes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From “be evil” Google we might expect some variant of recaptcha where you need to click on the squares where some kid is hiding behind some rubbles, to train their genocide ai for a better genocidal job

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love when they shit post⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t something like:

  You are absolutely right, and I apologize for that error. Thank you for the correction, it helps me learn and improve. Let’s try this again with the right information…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow when it’s called a “monitor” it quadruples the price.

  I can’t really accept that a basic 4k 27" monitor without even speakers costs the same of a 4k 65" TV with HDR, deeper blacks, WiFi and a whole spyware operating system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d buy a 8k TV, provided that it has no smarts, no WiFi, no TV tuner and its price isn’t over 5% than a 4k TV

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little bit more⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of tragic stories of people that had the idea “I’ll slash the tires to this trucker to teach him a lesson” but instead they got a physics lesson