EngineerGaming
@EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
- Comment on Disable Your Mobile Ad ID 1 day ago:
Yeah, that’s why I don’t like people saying it’s “GOS or nothing”.
Actually, it’s sadly not “basically every phone” - some brands make bootloader unlocking hard or very complicated. And my old phone was one of such, not even in the list of supported devices.
- Comment on Should You Cover Your Laptop Camera When It’s Not in Use? 2 days ago:
I cover mine against my own mistake - just in case I accidentally turn on (or leave on) a camera during some call.
- Comment on Disable Your Mobile Ad ID 2 days ago:
Or
- have funds for and/or access to a Pixel
- Comment on Disable Your Mobile Ad ID 2 days ago:
I meant “Absolutism” not in the way of “actually being superior in one way or another”, but rather “considering other options invalid even though they might be good compromises for some people”.
- Comment on Disable Your Mobile Ad ID 3 days ago:
I only recently got pushes working on this phone and very happy to have them again - but I absolutely get this. I only have them on in a few places, so they’re convenient and not distracting - only on personal messages and on some chats I want to keep an eye on.
- Comment on Disable Your Mobile Ad ID 3 days ago:
The most noticeable change in behavior would actually be lack of push notifications. At least by default - you can set up push without Google (like with UnifiedPush), but not all apps support that.
- Comment on Disable Your Mobile Ad ID 3 days ago:
I absolutely understand why GOS stops updates when it does. And that’s precisely why I dislike the absolutism - the user might have other priorities.
- Comment on Disable Your Mobile Ad ID 3 days ago:
Yeah, same. I’m a GOS user myself but hate the absolutism some people have about it. I would’ve probably gone with Lineage if I hadn’t bought this particular phone (and would likely go there anyway after the support ends, as GOS’ support is relatively short).
- Comment on Disable Your Mobile Ad ID 3 days ago:
But by that logic, the unofficial reseller I buy from has also already paid Google for the phones they’re selling now…
- Comment on Disable Your Mobile Ad ID 3 days ago:
Why such an obsession with used Pixels? While $300 for mine was expensive, it wasn’t a lottery when buying at least, and its battery didn’t come pre-worn. Also I had no trouble buying it in cash.
- Comment on Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them 2 months ago:
Yeah, that is a very valid option! I don’t like it when people not into collecting do it, though. Because it makes zero logical sense for a digital copy to be tied to a physical thing, unless you like the sentimental value of said physical thing as well.
- Comment on What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI. 2 months ago:
I am not saying church isn’t far from God. I am saying that the whole concept of using AI for this is pretty offensive by itself.
- Comment on How the Terrorgram Collective’s Neo-Nazi Influencers Groomed a Teen to Kill. 2 months ago:
Unless you build trust with the kid. So that if the child is having disturbing thoughts, you’d be the first person they’d find unconditional help from, and that in really bad cases - you’d help arranging professional therapy for them.
Source: worked on me.
- Comment on What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI. 2 months ago:
Now that’s blasphemy.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 2 months ago:
You don’t have to upgrade the TV itself. If the TV cannot handle the new format on its own, external box is enough.
- Comment on Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them 2 months ago:
Most of what I download are webrips, though.
- Comment on Get Into Meshtastic On The Cheap With This Tiny Node Kit 2 months ago:
Now that’s tbhe Technology community I like.
- Comment on Google Photos will no longer sync with third-party digital photo frames 2 months ago:
You can trust your own relatives or friends though - as long as you encrypt the drive you give them. Doesn’t have to be a service.
- Comment on In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers 2 months ago:
I do that. Every game I buy on Steam corresponds to a DRMless copy.
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 2 months ago:
I don’t like that a paid plan gives worse experience than free tools. For example, the downloads not being files you can store indefinitely and play by anything. Or not all ads being guaranteed to be blocked.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 2 months ago:
Ew, it is still on by default :( Unless you set your browser to save site data for thos site, you would still see the AI :( Fortunately, the Javascriptless version has no such pest.
- Comment on Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster 2 months ago:
I have also seen a video discussing that Grammarly often makes mistakes because it doesn’t understand context and nuance as much as a human would.
- Comment on Lenovo testing glasses-free 2D / 3D computers with a ring controller. 2 months ago:
“This is how, with a few simple contraptions, a loaf of white (or black) bread can be turned into a trolleybus… But what for?”
- Comment on YouTube is stepping up its efforts to sell you other streaming services 2 months ago:
It does allow for actual downloads, it’s called yt-dlp.
- Comment on The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too 2 months ago:
Instead of reripping, I can just recopy from a backup drive, which is easier. And I can loan it to people too if I load it onto a USB drive or, y’know, just send the file online.
- Comment on Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds * TorrentFreak 2 months ago:
My university told us outright “Y’all know how to use Sci-Hub?”
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 2 months ago:
Pixel 8, even now that 9 is out, is still around $400 compared to 7’s already huge $300.
- Comment on The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too 2 months ago:
If I were buying a disk just to rip, I would rather buy a digital copy just to correspond to the downloaded file. I do that with Steam games. I would throw the disk out immediately after anyway.
- Comment on The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too 2 months ago:
My collection just isn’t in very good quality. For example, all the music is mp3, and the movies are 1080p max (my laptop’s creen is only 1080p anyway). I would not fill even one 16 tb disk in a lifetime.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 2 months ago:
First - you wouldn’t want to carry a purse everywhere, especially if you did go through the effort of expanding your pockets (which, since a lot of women’s clothing doesn’t have big pockets, is 100% worth doing). Second - it isn’t about carrying, it is about using. I have average hands, yet struggle a bit to reach my Pixel’s upper corner already when using one-handed. It’s just sad they forgot half the humanity has smol hands!