viking
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- Comment on How to delete your Twitter (or X) account 1 day ago:
Send a GDPR deletion request in accordance to article 18 to whoever they mention in the imprint as data security officer.
All it takes is claiming to have moved to the EU.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 1 week ago:
I switched to outlook in browser only because their native windows software is so terrible. Wish I could leave that shit OS entirely.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 1 week ago:
As good as it gets, if you can’t get around using Windows.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 1 week ago:
Unfortunately that requires a full reinstall, I wish there was a way to upgrade from 10 pro to 10 enterprise.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
Yep, agree. Heat Signature was also fun, but getting rather repetitive.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
Tactical Breach Wizards
- Comment on Is there any lemmy instance that's truly liberal enough to tolerate a completely divergent point of view ? The EU norms are not for me, and I'm also far far away from the MAGA politics of USA !!! 2 weeks ago:
Yes. And what exactly does that have to do with my question?
- Comment on Is there any lemmy instance that's truly liberal enough to tolerate a completely divergent point of view ? The EU norms are not for me, and I'm also far far away from the MAGA politics of USA !!! 2 weeks ago:
Which flavor of liberal are we talking? We’ve come a really long way since the mere word had any decisive meaning.
- Comment on Shein Hikes Prices by Up to 377% Thanks to Trump’s Tariffs War 2 weeks ago:
Good time to leave this shit die in a corner. Not advocating for Trump in any way, mind you, but this utter garbage pollutes the environment more than anything. Quality is usually abysmal so the crap ends up in a landfill sooner rather than later, and additionally all that crap needs to be shipped across the globe.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 2 weeks ago:
And people wonder why I keep rooting my Android phones.
Without advanced permission denial and file access restrictions, phones will spy on anything and anyone.
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s a reason the orange overlord is targeting universities now. He knows that election wins come from the uneducated and poor. They either truly don’t know, or don’t care enough since they have no investments worth mentioning.
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 2 weeks ago:
What’s OAN? Never heard of that.
- Comment on German teens traveling to US jailed and deported after loosely planned vacation deemed ‘suspicious’ 3 weeks ago:
Some do, some don’t. The US however requires no such thing from EU citizens.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You could use LibreWolf on Linux, it’s a Firefox fork that removes all DRM, telemetry and other privacy-disrespecting crap from the og Firefox. All native addons/plugins are fully supported.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately they use some random font to display the temperature in the toolbar that is not the system font and can’t be changed. Whatever they are using is larger than the clock font and distorts the appearance.
Here it’s side by side with Today Weather.
The original app (geometric weather) as much better, but they stopped updating it, hence the breezy fork came to be. If only they didn’t mess with the fonts, I would have loved to use it.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
It’s also quite awkward requiring others to spell the country with letters that don’t exist in most alphabets, and therefore not on commonly used keyboards.
Sure you can make use of ü and others with some international layouts, but for laypeople it’s rather cumbersome.
Imagine China would suddenly require everyone spelling it as 中国， nobody would even be able pronounce it, let alone write.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 4 weeks ago:
Post it on reddit, and that will end up as a google AI recommendation next week.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 5 weeks ago:
I’d consider myself liberal, but I embrace some traits considered leftist in some areas (universal healthcare, free education) and right in others (restrict immigration based on key economic and educational indicators, deport criminals).
- Comment on Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? - Hackaday 5 weeks ago:
Fennec, you can log in with your Mozilla sync account and access them from any other sync-enabled browser in their ecosystem.
- Comment on Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? - Hackaday 5 weeks ago:
Yeah old Firefox was the best. With a bookmark menu on the left where I could scroll forever and see it at a glance.
Those top bars are awful shit, and I cannot fathom how anybody uses them.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 weeks ago:
I can’t switch to Linux due to software requirements for work. On my personal computer I’m using Xubuntu for well over a decade, I didn’t like the unity window manager of Ubuntu. I heard they changed to something else by now, but I can’t be bothered to switch.
- Comment on It was nicer when Duke Nukem Forever was famous for never coming out 1 month ago:
Those were awesome!
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 month ago:
Chameleon add-on for Firefox, randomly rotates your browser, OS, screen size, timezone, device type, language, and other customizable parameters every x minutes.
I’ve set it to do so every 5 minutes, and to omit desktop & tablet as device types (else some websites display the respective page) and timezones (messed up 2FA).
I also disabled blackberry and windows phone from the manufacturer ID, that would have the opposite effect from obscuring me.
For the rest of it, it’s working great.
- Comment on Sketchy social media post gives BlackBerry fans hope for the return of the smartphone brand 1 month ago:
Swype enabled keyboards are awesome though. I loved my BB, but the screen real estate that a digital keyboard clears up is quite significant.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 month ago:
Oh we did use third party tools, and there were 5-8 moderators depending on which sub. I just loved the mod queue on reddit sync to just approve/delete reports on the go. Since I’m in Asia I often got them before my US counterparts, so could clean up the queue early on.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 1 month ago:
As long as they are still publishing the apk to f-droid, as a user I hardly care where it’s hosted.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 1 month ago:
Wrong thread?
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 month ago:
I left with my 14 year old account after they banned third party apps. Moderating large communities (1M+) with the official app was impossible, and I was moderating 3 of those, plus a bunch of smaller ones. I did Secret Santa 4 or 5 times (move countries frequently for my job, so it wasn’t always feasible), and still have the Guinness World records certificate somewhere, plus a lot of free merch from the mod appreciation giveaways back when they weren’t a shitcorp. Leaves quite the bad aftertaste.
Pretty sure that by now I’d have been banned as well, I never held back with dark humor and speaking out against evil corpos. In a way I’m glad I left on my own terms before it all went fully to hell.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 1 month ago:
Weird, youtube with ublock origin is all I need to enjoy no ads. Are you using some additional scripts that modify youtube in some way?
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 1 month ago:
What about infosec.pub? Been my home instance ever since .world blocked piracy discussions, and I never had any issues there.
