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- Comment on Clueless cops post seized crypto wallet password. $5M quickly stolen. 1 day ago:
Oh, that’s fucking funny as hell. They totally deserved that. FUCK THE STATISTS
- Comment on I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 1 day ago:
I am seriously considering going to a Linux phone at some point in the future because what’s to stop Google from deciding that we can’t install apps even on AOSP? Like sure, for now it’s only going to be devices with Google Play services that won’t allow you to install your own apps, but who’s to say Android 19 won’t be released and completely kill the ability to install apps outside of the Play Store?
- Comment on GrapheneOS Collaboration With Motorola Mobility 1 day ago:
Yeah, I was talking with somebody about it, and they think it will be a device that will cost something like 3.3 Monero. That’s a lot more than I want to spend considering I can get a pixel A series for something like 1.5 Monero, or if I don’t want to go with graphene, I can get the Motorola Moto G 2024 and put Lineage OS on it for like 0.4 Monero.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Collaboration With Motorola Mobility 1 day ago:
I very seriously doubt this happens, but it would be incredibly amazing if it was the Moto G line of devices. Absolute premium specs are not needed to get a great experience on operating systems that don’t have Google spy services.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 1 day ago:
What I do when I’m shopping for a new phone is go to the LineageOS download site and look at what the mid-range devices are available for each of the OEMs and then make my choice from that list. Otherwise, the Moto G 2024 probably wouldn’t have crossed my radar screen. A couple of years ago I had the Moto 1 5G Ace and thought it was a great device except that the charger port started to give out on it and so I couldn’t reliably charge it. That made me realize that at some point I would like a device with wireless charging even if I do primarily use the USB charger so that if the USB port ever breaks I can just charge it wirelessly and not have to give the phone up entirely.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 1 day ago:
You don’t need high specs these days. I was looking at the Moto G 2024, because it’s the latest version to support Lineage OS, and it has a Snapdragon 4 Gen 1, I think it is, which is actually just slightly better than my OnePlus Nord N200 on Geekbench, which is fine.
The main difference is that my OnePlus Nord N200 was released in 2021, and it has a lower geekbench score than the Moto G 2024, which was released in 2024, with a lower-end chip. But my OnePlus cost $300, where the G24 was released at $200, and is now available for $130.
So at its release, I would have gotten more storage and a better CPU for $100 less, and now it would be $170 less.
- Comment on Why you can't get a signal at festivals and sports matches 1 day ago:
Meshtastic ftw
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 5 days ago:
Yeah, that’s a fair point.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 6 days ago:
If you don’t hold it, you don’t own it. Unless you take the DVD from them, you can’t remove their access to the movie stored on that disc.
- Comment on archive.ph 6 days ago:
And every tool humanity creates can be used for both good and evil.
You can use a hammer to build a house or you can use a hammer to kill somebody by hitting them over the head.
A car can get you distances that would have taken a horse and buggy days, or it can be used to hurt people in crowds.
Nuclear energy can be used to destroy a city or light hundreds of millions of homes for decades or centuries.
There is no tool that is inherently good or inherently evil. The person wielding the tool is what determines how it is used.
- Comment on archive.ph 6 days ago:
Try this one.
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- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 1 week ago:
They have slightly lower density right now, but there is work to increase the density, and it could very well get up to about 210wh/kg which would put it directly on par with current lithium ion batteries. So it could replace the low end of the EV market without any significant change except for a reduction in price by a lot.
- Comment on An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution 1 week ago:
You can already kind of use them now, although they could still use some work from what I can tell.
- Comment on An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution 1 week ago:
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 1 week ago:
I’m going to have to read this, because my knee jerk reaction answer is that it depends on what type of wash you want to give the car. If you want to give the car an actual wash at the car wash, you’re going to have to drive it. But if you’re wanting to wash it at home, then it doesn’t matter how far the car wash is away. Because you can just walk out your front door and grab your water hose. and soap and shit.
- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, but I really don’t see what you’re trying to convey. The people I give my passwords to also don’t use cloud password managers.
- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 1 week ago:
PThe master copy stays on my device. If I need to give somebody access to a specific password, I just give them that password locally and they put it in their password manager for that account.
Same thing occurs if they need to give me a password. They give me the password. I put it in my password manager and then I’m the one who updates the flash drives on the rotating basis like I mentioned above.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 2 weeks ago:
Spontaneous human combustion only occurs if the human is also carrying a Galaxy Note 7 LOL
- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 2 weeks ago:
I store my keypass database on several flash drives in different physical locations and update them several times per year to make sure that even if I do lose the copy I have, the versions on the flash drives, not at my physical location, are decently up to date, and so if I do lose any of the password data, it will be only for a couple of months worth if that.
If I add things that are extremely important, such as a new mortgage provider, or some sort of financial data into my keypass database, then I do an unscheduled immediate update to all of my flash drives in different physical locations to make sure that they all have that, but if it’s just a social media account, and I was to lose access to it, and not have the password for it, then… I wouldn’t be too upset about it.
In the absolute worst possible case, I stand to lose 3 months worth of data. It’s not often that I have to tweak stuff in my password manager, so that would be very few changes.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 2 weeks ago:
I use Monero myself and I’m fully aware that NFTs are total scams. At least the way they were done several years ago. And probably still today. I stay away from all that mess
- Comment on You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised 2 weeks ago:
I got it from my system package manager. I didn’t download it from the web or anything. Sudo apt-get install keepassxc. I also use keepassDX on my phone, pulled from the fdroid repository.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 2 weeks ago:
It would help a lot if more creators used it.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 2 weeks ago:
I am fully aware of what odysee is. I still choose to use it because I’m a libertarian myself, and it’s still a competitor to Google.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 2 weeks ago:
Well hello there
- Comment on You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised 2 weeks ago:
I store my passwords on a flash drive with KeepassXC. How about you compromise that server… Oh wait a minute, no server?
- Comment on You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised 2 weeks ago:
Breaking news, rain is wet.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 2 weeks ago:
I find getting rid of YouTube to be incredibly difficult. I use both peer-tube and odysee as much as possible, but still find myself on YouTube more than I’d like. Of course, I’m only doing YouTube through a newpipe, but it’s still accessing YouTube.
- Comment on Soaring coffee prices rewrite some Americans' daily routines 2 weeks ago:
I use the 6 month simple moving average when calculating prices and that has been nowhere but up and since the price of coffee in fiat fed notes has been up as well. That means that it has been relatively flat by comparison.
- Comment on Soaring coffee prices rewrite some Americans' daily routines 2 weeks ago:
So coffee prices have remained entirely flat when priced in Monero. Got it. And yes, you can buy coffee with Monero.