ReveredOxygen
@ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works
🏳️⚧️ she/her
- Comment on EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone 2 months ago:
Give them a phone with no play store or browser. If they get apks over mms or adb I think they’ve earned them
- Comment on Where can I access the Fediverse itself? 2 months ago:
No, you need an account on mastodon or another microblog platform
- Comment on Where can I access the Fediverse itself? 2 months ago:
You can’t easily run the normal version. You can install the android version fairly easily, but running the normal version requires you to enable a debian container from developer options
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
I would hope they’re protected by the router firewall
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
This doesn’t say they’re removing it, just deprecating it. I thought it had been deprecated for ages
- Comment on Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades 2 months ago:
Natively somehow, or via LFS? If you have LFS set up, explorer lets you use it to mount Linux disks
- Comment on Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel 2 months ago:
Did you get it through your carrier? They add extra bloat vs buying it unlocked
- Comment on Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67. 2 months ago:
That “to each according to his need” is the important part here. It’s not going to help anyone, it’s going to like pockets
- Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens 3 months ago:
You can fix most apps with the Play Integrity Fix module and denylist. You might have to hide the magisk app too. It doesn’t get 100% of them though, I still can’t figure out how my bank app is catching it. Plus I’ve had RCS stop working with that setup, so I have to keep it disabled to avoid missing messages
- Comment on Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal 3 months ago:
Usually when I try to get help with a “real” problem through discord, I get crickets
- Comment on LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells 3 months ago:
You do realize it stops wifi in general from working, not just the cameras
- Comment on Firefox CTO Responds On Collecting User Advertisement Data 3 months ago:
I’ve switched to librewolf. Continues to encourage an open web by taking away chromium market share, without having to deal with mozilla’s bs
- Comment on Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer 4 months ago:
funny
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI 4 months ago:
Crypto bros would definitely not be happy, because it would make mining less profitable
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI 4 months ago:
Google already has their own TPUs, under the name Coral
- Comment on Redbox’s owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll 4 months ago:
Buying is at least enough that we should still get bluray pirate releases
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 4 months ago:
That’s why they’re broke
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 4 months ago:
That’s… not what they were saying? They were responding to a comment saying it encourages consumerism by saying that they use it for better prices on things they need regardless
- Comment on A group of R1 jailbreakers found a massive security flaw in Rabbit’s code 4 months ago:
My understanding was that they leaked the key that the rabbit backend uses to make requests to elevenlabs, and were just too lazy to change it. I could easily be wrong though
- Comment on A group of R1 jailbreakers found a massive security flaw in Rabbit’s code 4 months ago:
I would imagine that the devices aren’t making elevenlabs requests directly, but just making requests to the rabbit backend, which forwards the responses. if I’m wrong, then that’s quite impressively bad security
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 4 months ago:
For mainstream distros it’s pretty easy
- Download an ISO
- Install Rufus or another media writer
- Write the ISO to a flash drive
- Boot the flash drive
- Click install
- Follow the prompts until it’s installed
- Comment on Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' 4 months ago:
It was written by copilot, thank you very much
- Comment on 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? 4 months ago:
The bots aren’t a problem if no humans have to listen to them
- Comment on Shoppers Drug Mart Recruiting Volunteers to Staff Stores 5 months ago:
Why does nobody want to work? I know, we can try paying them even less!
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 5 months ago:
What do you mean ruin? I see that as an absolute win
- Comment on Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads 5 months ago:
They’re talking about the fact that Netflix isn’t removing the feature from their Android/iOS apps
- Comment on New Teslas might lose Steam 5 months ago:
Buying a Tesla would be a huge mistake then
- Comment on Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves 5 months ago:
I don’t think he meant an AI from the book, I think he meant the actual Hitchhiker’s Guide. The one that says don’t panic on the cover
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 5 months ago:
Doesn’t matter if I have the right of way, I’m not walking into the other lane (going 35 mph) and hoping they don’t kill me
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 6 months ago:
In the case where you took everything out though, there’s no bags for it to get stuck on. There’s no need for it to slam itself