WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Desktop Client Apps? 4 hours ago:
not apps, but in firefox you can log in with multiple accounts. if you install the multi account containers addon the menu will appear for creating containers for them. the feature is native to firefox, it’s just the buttons for it they left for an addon for some reason.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 1 day ago:
and yet you live in a society!
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 2 days ago:
well Instagram is serious about ratelimits
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 2 days ago:
thats possible apparently: lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/23840511
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 2 days ago:
I have never heard anyone refer to TV as social media, I have always heard it in context with facebook, twitter and co.
a better objection, which makes me uncertain whether lemmy is social media, is that this is a pseudonymous forum where its not common for users to become friends or know each other, and discussion is not around a specific news site or a specific person, but around specific topics
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 2 days ago:
their leaders need to be put into the trash compactor for once, where they belong.
- Comment on Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists 2 days ago:
a single connection with the outside world, probably with the capacity of a consumer connection, for the whole country? that’s too little even for just a single city. no one would be able to use it without some kind of time sharing or other access control
- Comment on Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists 3 days ago:
mesh networking devices won’t give you access to the internet, if other members of the network can’t access the internet either.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 3 days ago:
its not because they are adamant about OSS, but because the H.264 and H.265 codecs have software patents that require distributors paying a license fee. the situation is a bit unclear, that’s why some distros choose to distribute these drivers. Besides fedora, opensuse and others too do not distribute these drivers.
but flatpak versions of software will get downloaded along with these drivers, and that will work on any distro, because flathub decided they can distribute these drivers. bit of a courageous move, but I guess they know what they are doing.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 3 days ago:
and that’s why I’m holding my face when people say ublock lite on chrome is just as good… no, it fucking isn’t. not because of gimmicks like this but because it does many things to protect your privacy which you don’t see.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 3 days ago:
that’s a link for chrome
- Comment on 'Signal' President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare 6 days ago:
he stepped down a while ago
- Comment on Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025 6 days ago:
some users solve that with keyword filters, but be careful not to block too broadly
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 1 week ago:
except that the new subscription costs more, and has AI features. now the line did go up, and investors can be told that people want AI
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 1 week ago:
they aren’t. one of them is an AP from another phone, so I believe that one couldn’t even be configured as hidden by accident, because the phone does not offer it. another is one I sometimes use, and it’s not hidden either.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 1 week ago:
almost worthless. I just learned that the android 13 xiaomi phone of a family member broadcasts some of the wifi AP names it knows when scanning for available networks! constantly! why the fuck it does I don’t know because neither are hidden networks that would need this, and there’s no setting for it
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
well it seems they are not using Industry Standards
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Piefed.social is the flagship instance, comparable to lemmy.ml.
comparable in status, or in opinions?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" 1 week ago:
Full tjoughts on my TT
holy shit I did not expectit to go that low
- Comment on News: There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout 1 week ago:
I kind of understand what’s the use of BGP, but the article was lacking too many details even for me. cloudflare has a better article, their conclusion is that this was probably an accident and not an attack
- Comment on Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again 1 week ago:
4 GB is not enough for web browsing
- Comment on OpenWRT router 1 week ago:
Don’t expect good Wi-Fi if you went with devboards like OpenWrt One.
why is that?
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 2 weeks ago:
btw spectacle is the default in kde
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 2 weeks ago:
MaxFix
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 2 weeks ago:
that wouldn’t work without tinkering anyways with the latest windows 11 versions
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 2 weeks ago:
Does it suck if you own a Tivo? Yes. Don’t buy one.
as I see there are no TV and only one or two smartphone makers that are not tivo, so saying that is equal to “don’t buy home appliances, move into the woods”
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 3 weeks ago:
The devices are locked down, sure, but there are strong incentives to upstream code and fund further development upstream. Linux ”won” because of this. You can’t build and develop Linux for such a wide audience and hardware flora with a bunch of hobbyists.
if these companies were upstreaming code, it would not be a problem to replace the factory operating system on their products with something else. however just like phone makers, they don’t upstream the driver code needed for the onboard devices to work.
so far the only good I found to have come of it, is that after we find a vulnerability in their code, we can open a shell in the system and use ready made familiar tools to try to tame the devices from inside. until they force an update that patches the vuln because it got too popular, and you are locked out again.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 3 weeks ago:
read this thread again, please, because you completely missed the point. but you know what, I’ll help:
grue said:
We need more real Linux – GNU/Linux, with compliant copyleft licensing – not Tivoized crap like they put on TVs.
Roku OS, Amazon Fire OS, Tizen (Samsung TV OS), etc. – all technically Linux, but you wouldn’t know it because they’ve systematically butchered them to destroy everything that made Linux good (the users’ freedom).
Rothe said:
… Who cares which distro you use, as long as it is linux it is a step in the right direction, …
roku, amazon fire, tizen and co are all “linux based” operating systems. the topic was not about people recommending linux to each other, but about corporations misusing the foundations of it to further their greed. point being, something runs linux does not make it good. and that’s where grue’s call for real linux on these devices gets relevant.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 3 weeks ago:
you can preload them as I understand.
one of the major apps for doing that is openeuicc: gitea.angry.im/PeterCxy/OpenEUICC
if you look it won’t work on unrooted phones, but it’s easyeuicc variant can still be used in the stated ways.
f-droid also has the jmp sim manager: f-droid.org/packages/chat.jmp.simmanager its a fork of the former, but it works 100% in unrooted phones with the jmp esim adapter that you can order in the app
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 3 weeks ago:
you are supposed to be able to have multiple, 1 or 2 of which can be active, and switch between them whenever you want.
but afaik that’s only possible on rooted phones with openeuicc or another app like it, because by default only google’s own app is allowed to handle esim configuration, and that has limitations in what it allows.