lustrum

@lustrum@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I installed Linux mint on my Framework laptop because fuck windows.

  I had to move back to windows, it didn’t feel ready and couldn’t get it working easily how I like.

  Heres some of the issues(any pointers would be great)

  • 120hz just wouldn’t work on one monitor, it detects it but won’t apply. (Works fine in W10 and Ubuntu).
  • Scrolling on the touchpad is unbelievably fast and makes it unusable.
  • Fractional scaling is a joke, my laptop screen needs around 125% but everything becomes a blurred mess.
  • The mouse is a bit jittery and can’t explain why (usually using a Logitech gaming mouse when docked).
  • Governor cannot be different on battery and AC. Defaults to max turbo.
  • Fingerprint sensor doesn’t work (works fine on Ubuntu and w10).
  • Unsure how to get hardware accelerated disk encryption working?

  Some stuff is better but a combination of these just brings me back to windows. It just loads and works?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ziply Fiber launches 50-Gig residential service for $900 per month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You could probably sell a 1gig service to 200 users on a 50gbps line. That’s how GPON works and mostly people don’t have issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ziply Fiber launches 50-Gig residential service for $900 per month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that it’s feasible, but they themselves won’t have the bandwidth for a few 50gbps users 24/7.

  My 1gbps service is a 2.5gbps GPON split between 32 other users, i’ve always seen 1gbps. But theoretically it would only take 3 of us to max the connection out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is cracking down on consumers’ favorite loophole - Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Does some of the payouts need normalising? Some of the bigger content creators make absolutely bank for hardly doing anything with little overheads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube cracking on ad blockers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it? It’s a fantastic service that works really well, whether it’s worth the price or privacy is a slightly different conversation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we create a new Internet ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but that’s slower and not using the sites specific search

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we create a new Internet ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve started using Duckduckgo, less specifically for the search and more for the bangs. Fed up of search surfacing sites they care about. I can now quickly search wikipedia with !w etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Cloud storage solution do you swear to?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you selfhost, having a cloud provider can still be a good option to maintain 3-2-1 without hosting a second server offsite (at parents or friends etc).

  I backup to backblaze b2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People need to stop “pretending” they can afford all this shit, it’s not needed and noone cares, who are people showing off too?

  New iphone? Don’t need it

  Maybe if we stop buying shit these companies will actually try

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s insane. I bought a 1 year old Hyundai and knocked tons of depreciation off an already cheaper brand.

  At my work people be driving around in leased Range Rovers/AMG Mercs. Then they will take the piss out of my car.

  Seriously? I now have more disposable income because i’m not wasting it renting a car and also I own my car… It should be me bragging

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 May Require a Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Subscriptions need to fuck off. I made a stand a few months ago. I will not subscribe to anything at all unless i’m getting INSANE value.

  Cancelled streaming, random apps, patreon etc. I now have usenet and backblaze b2 for about £3 a month each. Saving me a fortune 🏴‍☠️🦜

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 May Require a Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have mint dual booted on my laptop with Win 11. I find myself using Win11 more.

  Idk why, linux mint doesn’t feel finished to me:

  • 120hz won’t work with my dock (works fine in ubuntu and w11)
  • Scrolling is insanely quick and almost unusable
  • My mouse jitters allover, accelleration or something seems wrong.
  • Can’t seem to set different governors depending on battery or power.
  • Fingerprint doesn’t have a driver (works in Ubuntu ok though).
  • Scaling 125% seems janky, everything is blurry as shit

  It does work mostly ok though and is quick, but it doesn’t feel polished. Ubuntu was great but fuck snap packages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily, most spend almost two hours on TikTok | Kids officially don't like Facebook⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see my phone getting that if I let every app just push whatever they want. I purposefully and carefully go through and ensure I’m only getting notifications for what I need them for.

  I average 250 a day. With 3/4 of those being messaging apps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Think you got the ads meant for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I ain’t reading this but I would like to. Anyone got a paywall free version? I tried 12ft.io to no avail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup same here. It’s also made me realise I don’t ever want to be tied into a platform anymore.

  I’ve been moving cloud, passwords, email, accounts, podcasts, notes, news etc all to platforms or services that are either selfhosted or are easily exportable and can be backed up for access into another platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure - Mullvad VPN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it’s going to stop any standard agencies with a warranty. Confiscating the machine for it to sit in a warehouse until some forensic techs get their hands on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They knew it wasn’t feasible but made it law anyways and passed it to ofcom to generate the guidelines for these companies to follow.

  Absolutely incredible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure - Mullvad VPN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What does “without any disks in use” mean?

  • If the computer is powered off, moved or confiscated, there is no data to retrieve.
  • We get the operational benefits of having fewer breakable parts. Disks are among the components that break often. Therefore, switching away from them makes our infrastructure more reliable.
  • The operational tasks of setting up and upgrading package versions on servers become faster and easier.
  • Running the system in RAM does not prevent the possibility of logging. It does however minimise the risk of accidentally storing something that can later be retrieved.
    mullvad.net/…/diskless-infrastructure-beta-system…
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's the highest increase in salary you've had or seen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They offer someone else the job

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also I bet he’s more mad it was video’d and publicised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but if I need to contact a friend or family. How am I supposed to do it without affecting privacy? If the other person doesn’t use Signal or else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to switch to Signal and I do have 1 contact there. Everyone else uses FB or whatsapp and just doesn’t care. What am I supposed to do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhone 15 Models Have 'Completely Standard' USB-C Port Without Restrictions on Accessories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They could use an external USB controller.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming 'slap in the face,' say disappointed fans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. The issue for these companies. If phones aren’t enticing enough and people start hanging onto devices for an extra year that effecticely cuts their revenue in 1/4.

  That’s why icloud got more expensive, it’s why google is trying to monetise your web history for ads. They’re looking for further revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s new USB-C iPhone cables and dongles are predictably expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell it’s talking about juice, a £5 amazon basic USB PD cable with 2.0 speeds will support up to 65w (25w on iphone due to their own limits)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I once wrote 500 lines of python to transpose some numbers into another format. It was glorious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France halts iPhone 12 sales over radiation levels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair play to France. It’s above legal levels, properly threatening tech giants is what they need to comply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhone 15's USB-C Port Remains Limited to Lightning Speeds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry I missed the “non” part. In that case either they’re using a different die which is definitely possible seeing as they’re clocked lower than the iphone counterparts or they’re utilising an external USB controller.