WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 6 hours ago:
and that’s the better outcome
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 1 day ago:
well I assumed your devices have 4 and such GB of RAM, but yeah at 8 GB memory efficiency is not a pressing problem.
like I have a laptop with 2 GB that runs windows 10 acceptably, there was a time when that was my main on-the-go setup. that memory is almost completely used up by just logging in to kde plasma. memory compression is of course not a choice with the cpu it has though
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 days ago:
it is a big deal, because they are deceiving and taking advantage of so many people
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 days ago:
Fortunately, Pluton never caught on and that hasn’t happened so far.
I’m confused. don’t all recent AMD and intel CPUs have pluton included? I remember such an AMD announcement from ryzen 6000 and onwards, and for intel too
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 days ago:
I’m pretty sure that unless you use some unusual SBC, all your computer parts are proprietary hardware.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 days ago:
The entire world is slowly migrating to Mac and Linux.
have a look at the steam hardware survey results or basically any other statistics and see that it’s not the case.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 days ago:
what desktop environment do you run there? I guess that machine does not have much ram, so it must be something memory efficient
- Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 4 days ago:
it does. you need to choose the software. you need to install the software. you need to update the software, and be prepared to deal with a bad update. you need to keep backups so that you can restore your files when disaster happens, and you need to know how to make a proper backup (have all the data, also backup the permissions, databases need special care, …) and how to restore it.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 4 days ago:
well I don’t know how many uses it takes to wear out a decent guillotine, from my part it could be good if it can do 5 turns. no idea
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 4 days ago:
I thought they mean it for the equipment, that it does not fall apart so fast
- Comment on Immich finally goes stable, a talk with the team 5 days ago:
I wonder where will it store the images though
- Comment on Immich finally goes stable, a talk with the team 5 days ago:
surely. check the file named Dockerfile in their git repo, it basically holds the installation instructions.
- Comment on Immich finally goes stable, a talk with the team 5 days ago:
surely. check the file named Dockerfile in their git repo, it basically holds the installation instructions.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 5 days ago:
stop thinking about anything else but the children!!
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 5 days ago:
stop thinking about anything else but the children!!
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 5 days ago:
stop thinking about anything else but the children!!
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 5 days ago:
that’s a good quote, and a bad conclusion
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 5 days ago:
didn’t take too long either
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 5 days ago:
did you ever use jitsi? its not a chat platform, but one for video calls. it supports screen sharing and its very good.
matrix used to use jitsi for group calls. I don’t know what does it use now as a transition to an in house service has been in the works for a few years now, and element call just now starts to get mature enough, but I’m almost sure you can do screen sharing right now too. but try to check how usable it is before you try to get your friends to use it. if it doesn’t work well, they may not accept your advice (as easily) in the future to switch chat providers
- Comment on 5 days ago:
its for a different purpose. I wouldn’t use syncthing the way I use rsync
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 6 days ago:
is tilvids overloaded right now? I can barely watch the video. also I don’t see the peer traffic indicators, has p2p distribution been turned off?
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 6 days ago:
The only time something not controlled got popular was TikTok
I’m not sure what you mean by controlled, but how I got to know it was as the malware that’s recommended to everyone on the front page of the google play store, and then even factory preinstalled on a lot of them.
- Comment on How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything 1 week ago:
I just wanted to let you know in case you didn’t that your screenshot includes a profile picture
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
no worries. but that’s why I think android would be a much better base for a free software mobile operating system than a current linux distribution. lots of engineering work and experience went into making it, both on the technical sides and in the UX, with lots and lots of feedback. it has largely solved permissions, inter-app communication, power saving, things like these, and I mean all in the AOSP project, forgetting about the proprietary google mobile services.
not everything is perfect, lots could be improved, and there are things we don’t like, like how app background activity is handled is not too transparent and neither customizable, etc, but those would be much easier to fix and maintain then reimplementing everything. hardware drivers are a problem, but it is anyway, and with android we at least have a working system with which reverse engineers can analyze the drivers in operation. certainly android is not the cleanest codebase but its not so bad either to warrant throwing it away. in the parts of the code I looked over the years, it’s quite organized, but of course I have only seen very little. - Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
my point is that if the open source community cannot figure out just maintenance of an android system, there’s no chance of creating a real mobile linux distribution, as it would need the aforementioned maintenance and the development of additional features
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
doesn’t the same apply to any operating system, including the linux phone distributions? android has security measures that may be breached, but mobile linux has much fewer security measures at all
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
they can take down the code today and not much will happen, as the code is mirrored elsewhere.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 1 week ago:
ok, but where does it get the decryption key from. my real question is how did you implement automatic unlock securely
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
This is why I didn’t bother switching to GOS, Lineage, Calyx etc despite being sick of Apple’s anti-foss monopoly — marketed as Privacy™️ and Security™️ — for years.
I’m at the point where I won’t bother wasting energy on 99% of digital products unless they’re open source and I can run them indefinitely on my own Linux server.
but… this doesn’t make any sense. the roms you brought up can be still used indefinitely, they will still be able to install any apps. maybe except when they have installed the official google suite, but that’s always a user choice in the popular android rom world, none of these preinstall it, and microg users are not affected
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
theoretically installing through ADB will still work. but that’s very impractical, and f-droid cannot do that.