gnuplusmatt
@gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 6 days ago:
All I really need is calls, sms, a solid browser and some more robost messaging apps like signal and matrix/element - I’m a prime candidate for PostmarketOS if we ever get a stable piece of hardware. I have an old oneplus 6 that I’ve played with it on, its so close.
I do use tap to pay, but meh I dont think I would miss it
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure why google is over engineering this, proper mainline distros have this solved since forever. Let the community setup trusted repos with gpg keys, then let me trust the repos. If Fdroid trusts the package and I trust Fdroid, who should care?
- Comment on Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn 2 weeks ago:
don’t stream, download your porn from usenet like a civilised person
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 weeks ago:
Here in Australia, they are almost gone. Disney doesn’t release anymore and other studios only release the biggest of titles, smaller movies get less and less releases. Some TV shows only get DVD. Its got me importing discs for things I really want and importing a lot of stuff from the high seas
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 4 weeks ago:
I clock off in half an hour
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 4 weeks ago:
I never got to vote for Cheryl Kernot
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 4 weeks ago:
If Joe Rogan was researched and prepared instead of what he says off the cuff with his room temperature IQ, old mate can’t even read a graph, maybe he’d have some credibility.
Oliver’s team have given him the references to support what he’s saying, you not liking him doesn’t change the contents of the report you referenced
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 4 weeks ago:
Yet here you are, caring.
I’m waiting for code to compile if I’m being honest
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 4 weeks ago:
that is a pathetic way to try and kill a discussion, especially when your source was repeating conservative echo chamber nonsense and the section of the video I linked was literally talking about your stats, in a clear concise manner, something your article never took the time to do
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 4 weeks ago:
do you remember the part where I said I’m not an expert, not invested or care about sport?
Who has the energy to care? assuming you’re a seppo, your country has a shit tonne more to worry about than how good someone’s chromosomes make them at putting a hockey stick in a basket from the other end of the pool
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 4 weeks ago:
IIRC this is the study that counted medals multiple times
But I’m glad you have your culture wars to fill in your day
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 4 weeks ago:
Weight and height classes exist
The near absence of trans people in sport, tends to indicate this really isn’t much a of a thing to begin with
hyperbole much?
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 4 weeks ago:
Not an expert, but have read news long enough to notice a few things get overlooked
there are cases where it would be a disadvantage. If the athlete went through full male puberty their skeleton is going to be larger and heavier than someone who went through female puberty, after enough time at typical female hormone levels muscle mass generally decrease to be inline with cis women. On the otherside of the coin, more recent transwomen may not have gone through male puberty due to the use of blockers.
People also tend to focus on transwomen, but conceivably there are sports where transmen might be at an advantage, where a typically lighter smaller frame may be a win. There are also so few trans people competing at a competitive level that as someone who lives outside the american culture wars and tends not to give a shit about sport, it always seems like an such a waste of effort to make a drama out of it
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 5 weeks ago:
no one wants to sit in their office talking to their computer verbally, its fucking awkward. Its cool on star trek as a means of exposition and plot, but not in real life.
Start fixing the actual architecture issue of Windows. An immutable base system and modular containerised app workflow might be a start, but we already have that in every other operating system
- Comment on Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion 5 weeks ago:
I wasn’t trying to make them feel bad, I thought the absurdity was clear. I will mark it the an /s next time
- Comment on Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion 5 weeks ago:
I was being facetious
- Comment on Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion 5 weeks ago:
they know they can fork it and compile their own build for free right?
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 1 month ago:
are you archiving it until the patents expire? I use AV1 because of the license
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 month ago:
Firefox
- Comment on `continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`? 1 month ago:
what’s wrong with conduit proper?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
in the case of Android, it comes down to the proprietary driver modules that are compiled for certain kernel versions. As newer versions of android are released with newer kernels, the closed source modules fall out of step. If the drivers for these components were open source anyone could recompile them for any Linux kernel. It’s usually up to the device manufacturer working with the likes of the chip makers to release newer module versions for their hardware. OEMs dont want to support their hardware beyond few years, so you’ll hopefully buy a new phone.
The postmarketOS community (and some of the android community) works pretty hard trying to bring mainline kernel support to devices, which enables them to run generic Linux kernels, or conceivably newer versions of android than the OEM has released. But this involves reverse engineering support for this hardware.
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 2 months ago:
the whole spec list and image was probably an ai prompt output
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 3 months ago:
good to know next time I am waiting at my local bus stop
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 3 months ago:
Free WiFi only if you are a Telstra customer for your home broadband
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 3 months ago:
Last I checked it didnt play very nicely in real hardware, and required running it in a VM
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 3 months ago:
what a bizare take to suggest hoping for ReactOS to mature before using Linux as daily driver. A lot of the current reactOS app compatibility depends on WINE implementation anyway.
- Comment on Video apps like Hulu “cannot be used on Nintendo Switch 2,” says support page 3 months ago:
perhaps the kernel is not widevine certified
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 4 months ago:
they should also blank the screen if the user has recall enabled
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 4 months ago:
Organise Settings better, put common features front and centre?
Why is finding my IP address so hard on a Windows machine? Its either open settings app and click down 3 layers deep or open a pwsh prompt and either ipconfig or Get-NetIPAddress.
Linux click network applet in most desktop environments. Even MacOS option + click network icon
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 months ago:
If you run it in a rootless container, expose it through a reverse proxy and keep it updated there’s very little risk