EngineerGaming
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- 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 3 hours 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 3 hours 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? 8 hours 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 9 hours 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 9 hours 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? 11 hours 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!
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 11 hours ago:
NICE
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 11 hours ago:
Seems to not be supported by Lineage… I wonder if a more privacy-preserving OS can be installed at all? I don’t teust stock ones.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 11 hours ago:
To put that into another perspective: it is around twice my country’s monthly median salary. This is still very wild.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 11 hours ago:
That is insane as well. $300 for my Pixel was already painful enough. 870€ is a whole decent computer :/
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 12 hours ago:
I would rather spend this time on a device with a 15’ screen and a comfortable keyboard. A phone is just that - a secondary device. That needs to be comfortable to hold and type on with one hand while the other holds onto the subway railing.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 12 hours ago:
Yeah, fair. I picked this as an example, but overall I’d consider a phone unusable if you can be denied apps. Especially when it comes to important things like censorship evasion tools, which are very likely to be deleted from App Store on request.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 21 hours ago:
I can’t imagine using a phone that I can’t even use adless Youtube on :/
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 21 hours ago:
I am a very average-sized woman with average-sized hands, and big phones would have been unusable for me. Seems like they’re all for big men’s palms.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 21 hours ago:
I picked the Pixel A because:
- It runs GrapheneOS
- It’s slightly smaller and slightly cheaper than the normal version
- The back is plastic and not glass
Glad I can use it and type on it one-handed, can’t imagine using a bigger phone.
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Zen Browser 1 day ago:
Yes, true.
- Comment on College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time 1 day ago:
a) The makeup is attracting human attention and b) AFAIK it has to be tailored to a specific algorithm, which vary from sysyem to system and evolve so seems pointless.
- Comment on Nokia to deploy the first cellular network on the Moon 1 day ago:
Oh thank god. Was getting sick of only having hella overpriced and slow satellite internet there.
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Zen Browser 1 day ago:
Not even that. In addition to being proprietary, it requires an account to use.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 2 days ago:
I’m pretty sure my Debian doesn’t collect personal data either
- Comment on Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May 2 days ago:
Me who dreads having to give her husband sex when she becomes a wife and hopes he’d pity her enough to not do it to her when she’s clearly miserable and hates every second of it:
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 2 days ago:
But no one can take a file from my hard drives either. No need for it to be on a low-capacity disk when a thing half the size of a DVD box can fit orders of magnitude more.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 3 days ago:
If the disk is going to be unused/thrown out anyway - why not buy a digital copy? Its only job would be corresponding to a usable file you download anyway… I do that with Steam games.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 4 days ago:
This is yet another way tying accounts to phone numbers can come back to bite you! I guess pulling out means denying registration from the country’s numbers as well? So that would mean either a constant additional expense (which might be significant for poor people), or constantly risk getting the account deleted if you tied it to one-time rental.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
Where I am, the median salary is around $400-$600. I know how you feel.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
Well-to-do? That is weird, because here not having a washing machine in the apartment would be weird even for a poor person.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
I don’t see a “justification” in my reply. I cannot change or influence the system, I need the discounts - so I do that.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
No I have not, heard it is offensive and unfunny.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
Especially given that some of the common budget devices, like Huawei, lacks Google services. It is the reason why all the major banks here except one don’t require Google services.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
The more insane thing here for me is the fact that there isn’t a washing machine inside your apartment.
(btw lived in such once, apparently the owner wasn’t very wealthy. We washed everything by hand)