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- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 week ago:
There are two ways you can do this on Android currently, but they’re not as quick. You can try to unlock with the wrong finger 5 times and it will stop allowing fingerprint unlocks. Or, you can hold down the power button for 10 seconds and the phone will reboot and also disable fingerprint unlocking.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
It’s an American thing.
- Comment on Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing 1 month ago:
They’re doing this at the OS level, so Firefox can’t protect you from that, the issue is with Windows. They could do the same to Firefox, they just don’t bother.
- Comment on Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 1 month ago:
Not sure what you mean, they’ve always used Snapdragons? The S23 from 2023 uses one, and the S3 from 2012 uses them in some models, and most galaxies between those do as well.
- Comment on Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits 1 month ago:
Seems it’s exploiting vulnerabilities in some software called “Ivanti Connect Secure VPN”, so unless you’re running that, you’re safe I guess. Says in the past they used vulnerabilities in “Qlik Sense” and Adobe “Magento”. Never heard of any of those, but I guess maybe some businesses use them?
- Comment on How long until I can 3D print a 2D printer? 1 month ago:
You can start here: hackaday.io/project/…/details
- Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating 2 months ago:
It actually seems common for less developed countries to have better internet than the more developed ones. Germans always complain about their internet, for example. I believe reason is simply that your country laid down lines relatively recently, so they’re compatible with high speed internet, while Germany laid down their lines 30 years ago, so they’re fairly shitty in comparison. It tends to be a lot harder to convince governments or bosses to replace something that seems to work fine, and it can be costlier too.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 2 months ago:
You already have AI in Firefox - local translations for example. Developing local AI aligns perfectly well with Mozilla’s goals, but it seems people panic as soon as they see the two letters together.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 2 months ago:
Microsoft didn’t get nearly enough flack for the amount of environmental damage they will cause with that decision. A literal mountain of computers being unnecessarily replaced worldwide.
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 4 months ago:
Come on now, give him some credit. He waited whole few days before completely going back on his words.
- Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C 4 months ago:
I’m hoping the legislation doesn’t forbid dual charging ports, where the device has usb charging which works as well as it can, and then a proper charging port. My current laptop has that configuration.
Because there’s also the issue of durability. A barrel power connector can freely rotate which can absorb a lot of stress so I think a usb-c cable that’s used the same way would fail a lot sooner, especially with all the delicate wiring it has in comparison.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 4 months ago:
They’d tell you what the movie was, but they’d have to search for it and don’t want to waste an hour.
Jokes aside, I believe them, I spent close to an hour recently finding a YouTube I knew existed but I could only remember vague details. Ended up having crawl back months though my YouTube history in the end.
It used to be that you could just describe a movie to Google like "movie where " and it would be really good at finding that movie even if it was some obscure one. Now if you’re trying to find that one movie you saw years ago where you just remember one scene, be prepared to spend that hour.
- Comment on TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms 4 months ago:
I’m guessing this might be a pre-emptive response to all the Snapchat lawsuits. Basically, parents are suing Snapchat because their kids talked to drug dealers using it.