dmtalon
@dmtalon@infosec.pub
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 4 weeks ago:
Ya, for my father (in his 70s) I was proud he gave it a real effort, but there were just too many changes and things that broke his workflow causing him to bail on it
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 4 weeks ago:
Ya, it’s annoying for sure… As I said, chicken and egg type thing. The market share has to be there before these companies will invest anything in linux. You’d think macos would be a gateway to them providing linux support but that doesn’t seem to translate well.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 4 weeks ago:
I wish it were that easy. I’m pretty tech literate and I’ve had Linux installed on and off since the late 1990’s. I’m running fedora desktop on a dual boot machine that also has windows 10. The PC will run windows 11 but just like everyone else I’m not excited to upgrade.
But I still have to hop over to windows to do things. I know it’s a chicken and egg thing, but Linux just needs to get over the hump if ease of use and app availability.
Having to switch from. App1 to app1 that boat do say, CAD, is hard. It’s a learning curve. And add that learning curve into also switching to Linux and it’s overwhelming.
I actually got my dad on fedora, and he went all in and set it up, and worked quite diligently to get everything working for how he used his computer. He did this because his PC was fine but not windows 11 compatible. End the end there were just too many things that he struggled with and he broke down and bought a new PC that came with 11. One of the big issues he had was with documents. Syncing documents that he was editing.
He was OK relearning a new Libre Office but it was syncing it back to a Google drive or something that ultimately did not work for him. (I can’t remember exactly what he was doing).
He ran with Fedora for a couple months before giving up
- Comment on Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers 4 weeks ago:
I use wireguard to VPN back into my network so I’m back on pihole !
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 2 months ago:
Still think building their own site with apps I can throw on my devices is pretty involved.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 2 months ago:
And how do they get big? How do they get discovered? SEO ?
They’re getting huge because of the platform.
I’m not saying google is not evil but it literally gives them their audience.
I watch YT more than anything else by a mile, and if my top subscription moved to their website, and I had to jump through hoops to watch them on my TV device, by installing a browser or something I probably would stop watching them. Another TV friendly app sure that wouldn’t be a problem, but I don’t see many doing that.
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 2 months ago:
I don’t remember that, however it doesn’t surprise me at least for a radius around your area. I’d be surprised if they had all of them from all the states
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 2 months ago:
no doubt, lucky us, we get neither…
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 2 months ago:
Right, but when everyone got phone books, those were only shared locally in the town. It would be pretty hard to figure out someones phone number from across the state/country without the internet unless you knew someone in the town.
You could also pay to be unlisted, which is a luxury long since gone. How cool would it be to make your data ‘unlisted’ by paying a small monthly fee.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 2 months ago:
Yep, exactly, when they screw me I’ll leave
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 2 months ago:
“still even mentions plex”
I’ve been using plex for a LONG time, and bought a lifetime plexpass 12 years ago. I’m pretty sure I haven’t started a thread on Lemmy regarding Plex, but I’m sure I’m not alone as a LONG TIME user. Plex just works for me and cost me $75 in 2013. Right now I’ve got no pressing reason to switch.
If they remove my plexpass features, or start showing me ads / making my user experience worse, then I’ll probably look to change, and won’t participate in these awful ‘plex’ posts.
- Comment on Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud 3 months ago:
Ya it seems google fixed it today. I’m guessing that is why nextcloud went public so google would magically fix it .
- Comment on Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android 3 months ago:
Sure, I’ve been self-hosting Nextcloud for years. I run it as a docker within unRAID NAS. I use it as a “dropbox” replacement for our family to share files. I also use it to move photos off my phone using the auto-upload feature
- Comment on Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud 3 months ago:
So, I totally remember this pop-up and luckily until now it has not directly impacted me. I auto-backup my photos/videos off my phone and do move non photos/videos on/off nextcloud on occasion but haven’t noticed I could no longer upload regular files.
Luckily…
I self-host Nextcloud I already use F-Droid
So, it wasn’t much work to uninstall the play version and instlall the f-droid version. I should probably go through all my apps and see what’s available on f-droid and swap. But 1) that’s a lot of work and 2) there are some features that break when you do that. I know some mapping software won’t work on Android Auto if not from the play store.
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 3 months ago:
If I were the defense and scummy, I’d reply with an equally disturbing AI avatar of the victim saying that he actually killed himself and that the road rage guy was innocent.
I mean, seems fair.
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 3 months ago:
Actual budget, nextcloud
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 5 months ago:
If 100k people do, it will but ya low expectations for sure
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 5 months ago:
Well, that truly sucks and could lead to me swapping to another brand if it adds ads to upgrade to my connect app.
I paid a lit IF freaking money for my watch and included services.
INFACT I am going to email them my opinion on this and warn them I will absolutely leave in a heartbeat
- Comment on X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. 5 months ago:
I wouldn’t notice
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 5 months ago:
I actually don’t mind paying for stuff I use or get value from.
I do have smartyoutubetv Installed on both an Nvidia Shield and a Google TV, I originally did it when my kid was on a child account but couldn’t sign into the Google yt app. I kinda wish Futo would make a TV version of Grayjay I’d probably use it.
I use premium for both YouTube and yt music and it’s our primary music streaming service too. I even have 11 CCA (Chromcast audios) powering rooms all over the house where we listen to ytm from.
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 5 months ago:
There are a few apps you can get for like Google TV (nvidia shield etc…) Like smartyoutubetv. But they’ve gotta be side loaded. So you need to install some way to get the APK on the device. It’s all diable, but it’s a pain.
I’d prefer just paying and losing the ads. Since I’m dreaming, I’d also like a check box to remove shorts all together from my experience.
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 5 months ago:
The only problem I have with the premium subscription is the lack of ad control from the content creator. They should have to put them into some kind of wrapper that I, as a premium member can decide to enable or not. As a paying subscriber I should be able to watch it 100% ad free without going through sponsorblock, which is a big pita to do on set-top boxes.
- Comment on Jeep's annoying pop-up nags you to buy an extended warranty at every stop sign 6 months ago:
I’m banking on my 2008 Toyota Tundra will just keep on being a Toyota and not need to be replaced for a LONG LONG time.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 6 months ago:
Yep, all connected /same garbage IMHO I was a big DSM (Diamond Star Motors) fan back in the mid/late 90’s had a couple AWD Talons.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 6 months ago:
There’s exactly zero chance I’d buy a car that showed me ads.
There was already zero chance I’d buy a Stellantis vehicle anyway after buying a brand new 1999 Dodge Durango that started rusting out sitting on our garage.
And while they did the bare minimum to remove the rust, but they didnt stand behind it. There was no way we were keeping it or buying anything else from them.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 6 months ago:
And why the old “ice boxes” are top load only. And why most boat fridges/freezers are top-load, because energy is scares/finite when disconnected from power.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I’m the same but clearly got lazy and either ok’d it or It still snuck past since it was installed on my phone.
- Comment on Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware 6 months ago:
And here I am with windows 11 compatible hardware refusing that upgrade. I’m primarily in Linux on my desktop these days, but it dual boots into windows 10.
- Comment on Web Personal Finance App 6 months ago:
I moved to actual about 3 months ago from YNAB4. I’d moved to nYNAB then back to YNAB4 after a second price hike and then to actual.
No regrets. I run it as a docker on unraid and reverse proxy so I can access it remotely.
Feels a ton like YNAB.
- Comment on Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps 9 months ago:
I left Strava when they adjusted their ‘freemium’ model and hid a number of things behind a paywall. Now I just use Garmin Connect, for tracking my stuff and an ‘athletic’ social circle of friends via connections/news feed.