Integrate777
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- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 10 hours ago:
Not at all. It’s really hard to live without the practical features of a smartphone, like web browsing and maps. What I need is privacy, not to throw it all away for a dumbphone.
I believe a lot of the benefits you claim dumbphones provide are all caused by social media. There’s nothing wrong with technology, it’s just social media. You don’t need to use a dumbphone just to escape social media.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 2 weeks ago:
According to Japanese sources Mainichi, it is indeed treated waste water one one side and desalination brine on the other. Both the waste water and brine are meant to be dumped anyway, and it’s also harmful to sea life to dump brine directly. Treated waste water isn’t saline, so is perfect for diluting the brine. Might as well get some free power out of it.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 2 weeks ago:
Can Nintendo request Google revoke authorization for emulator developers? Or publishers requesting revoking any of the hugely popular manga aggregator apps. Or maybe they’ll just outright refuse them from the start, like they will with revanced.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 month ago:
Arch linux. Hmm. Could it be because of the users? Lately arch linux has become the most popular distro for people trying linux for the first time. Are they all congregating on duckstation’s github to cry about it?
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 1 month ago:
Only one node can be transmitting at once, or signals can be lost, so nodes automatic hold back until the channel is clear. Meshtastic seems reliant on having as little traffic as possible, feels like it can easily be overwhelmed.
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 1 month ago:
Meshtastic can’t even keep more than a few hundred nodes in memory…
- Comment on Non-Japanese Native Speakers: How long were you watching anime before you are comfortable with watching your first episode without subtitles? 2 months ago:
I’ve watched anime for decades at this point, but nope. I can pick out words here and there, but it would severely limit my enjoyment of anime. Subtitles allow my brain to skip most of the hard work when it comes to learning a language, I don’t believe it will get better even if this goes on for another decade.
I also feel if I suffered through a couple of months of non-subtitled watching and put in the effort to process, understand and memorize what I’m hearing, it might eventually get better. But as long as I have access to subtitles, I don’t do any of that…
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 2 months ago:
I mean, come on. We shit on redditors, but even redditors won’t stand for getting their iris’s scanned just to use the site…
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 3 months ago:
In Singapore, lots of boomers are downloading scam apps from facebook lured by promises of discounts and free gifts, handing out accessibility privileges, and they’ll even argue vehemently against loved ones or bank staff when being confronted. When it all inevitably blows up, they blame absolutely everyone except themselves, including praising Apple for some reason.
Being the largest voting block, they managed to get banks responsible for reimbursing their losses and there was even an idea floated of getting everyone to contribute to a shitty scam insurance fund. Many major banking apps are paranoid af and block usage from simple things like usb debugging turned on.
Absolutely stupidity. And there’s nothing we can do about it when the politicians love them so much.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 4 months ago:
He has a degree in industrial engineering according to Wikipedia, logical thinking should come naturally to him. My high school decades ago teaches logic gates for it’s computer literacy curriculum. He might not be a programmer, but probably has exposure to these topics in general education.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 4 months ago:
At this point, I’m wondering if I should set up a shell company of some kind, just to buy commercial digital signage TVs.
- Comment on When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally 6 months ago:
I bet it’s not the internet, just the social media apps. Why not just uninstall the apps or tell the participants not to use them?
- Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market 6 months ago:
This is perhaps more useful, serving as both checksum and data correction.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
Not that it can fit in the blockchain though. At least from what little I know about blockchains, they can’t possibly store any substantial amount of data.