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- Comment on Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software 10 months ago:
Reminds me of this: toastycode.com/besavers/buynow.html
- Comment on Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook 11 months ago:
Not per se, but Thunderbird is supposedly collaborating with the K-9 team to make K-9 the mobile version of Thunderbird.
- Comment on Has HP printers always been this bad? 1 year ago:
HP – Hell-Powered
HP printers are just bad. Their Linux drivers (HPLIP) are flimsy and sometimes break on updates. They come with GUI tools still stuck on Qt 4. Their hardware’s quality is also pitiful and the marketing approarch is outirght evil. I got an Envy printer recently (not my choice). It came with instructions to set it up via cloud with an HP account. Why shouldn’t I be able to use a damn printer without creating yet another useless account and giving out personal information is beyond me. At last I discovered the USB port (covered by a sticker which had the word USB crossed out) and managed to set up the printer after the fifth attempt or so, because CUPS didn’t recognize it and so didn’t the HPLIP setup tool. And then the next time I tried to use the printer it just refused… Then I gave it away because my patience had finally run out. Don’t mess with HP if you value your time and nerves.
- Comment on So long, small phones 1 year ago:
I hope more manufacturers would adopt the Blackberry style of phones. Titan Pocket has proved that you can have Android running decently on such a device. So why not bring back QWERTY keyboards?
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 1 year ago:
Thank you for answering. I can relate to manually updating my parents’ systems once in a while but at this point I’m seriously considering unattended upgrades (updating over SSH is also a good idea).
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 1 year ago:
Yes, probably because I stick with Arch and Slackware plus a lightweight environment. The only time I saw such a GUI was when I tried out Elementary just for fun.
What I consider a problem is that the user can simply dismiss or disregard the updates notification indefinitely. I know many non-tech-savvy people who do not understand the importance of updates, so they would be inclined to do exactly that. That is why unattended upgrades are probably a better option in such cases.
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 1 year ago:
What do you mean, automatically? Arch is a rolling release and I have to explicity run pacman with the correct flags to update. At the same time Debian, which is not a rollimg release, has the unattended upgrades feature which installs updates automatically.
But indeed, many things depend on the distro. For example, user-centric distros such as Elementary and others provide an easy to use GUI for updatomg the system.
And yes, Windows Updates was (is still? not a Win user) a nightmare.
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 1 year ago:
That would be true if:
- A GUI software center is used (or if the said dad is comfortable with an interactive console application)
- The said dad actually realizes the importance behind updates. From my experience, many people don’t.
So, unless both of above are true, the dad will never (want to) update his system because “it works as is”, sticking to old versions of software, never receiving bugfixes and neglecting security.
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 1 year ago:
I say we
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 1 year ago:
If I may ask, how do you deal with updates? Have you enabled unattended upgrades or do you update the machines yourself?
- Comment on The Windows 11 problem 1 year ago:
I say we boycott Windows
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
NewPipe is really good once you get the hang of it.
You have to keep in mind that its development has temporarily slowed down a bit, so you won’t have many new features, such as being able to view Shorts and Livestreams tabs in a profile (can be overcome by browsing the profile via Invidious and sharing the page to NewPipe) but bugfixes are usually quick. AFAIK the slowdown is due to a rewrite/refactoring which will make NewPipe easier to develop and maintain and improve its UI.
- Comment on Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled 1 year ago:
Have you tried Kodi?
- Comment on Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled 1 year ago:
I don’t know about apps like F1 and Chromecast, but I can see that it could be a problem. But YouTube has worked fine for me with the MPV player. Maybe you could try Android-x86? (is that thing still alive? 😅)
- Comment on Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled 1 year ago:
So my home media center is not real world enough? I only expressed an opinion; you are free to ignore it. Also, there is nothing that keeps you here. Please kindly keep in mind that most Lemmy users right now are interested in technology, you can’t take that away from them and there is nothing wrong with it. If you want to stay away from “shit like this”, then you probably should not be in a technology sub in the first place.
- Comment on Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled 1 year ago:
That’s why you should build your own media center from an old machine. Much safer and more private.
- Comment on Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users - gHacks Tech News 1 year ago:
Like it wouldn’t.
Please, it’s 2023. Corporarions have totally embraced the “you are the product” model. They offer you a service on their infrastructure (“the cloud”) on their terms, which they can modify and terminate on will. Then they make money by selling your data, showing you ads and using your data to personalize those ads so that you are more likely to click on them.
Shame or ethics? Please, it’s money that makes the world go round. Ads in every app! Ads on the web! Ads in every corner of the city! Ads on public transport! More ads! Even more ads! No square centimeter of physical and virtual space left unused!
It’s really pathetic.
- Comment on Pure Evil 1 year ago:
Wow, thank you, didn’t know of that.
- Comment on Pure Evil 1 year ago:
I don’t think any Greek layout uses a different Unicode codepoint for the question mark. In fact, the classic semicolon is used, so what the meme describes would not happen IRL.
Does all this make it any less funnier? No. It’s brilliant.
- Comment on ‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen 1 year ago:
Since when does Mozilla review cars?