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- Comment on The worst tech event ever: looking back at Google I/O 2024 3 days ago:
I started my de-googling journey and mostly completed it in 2019 and then ended up fully deleting my Google account in 2023. I still watched IO for the newest Android updates because of Lineage OS but other than that I wasn’t interested and last year’s IO was just total shit. If you are running base AOSP Android, it has not changed very much in several years.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’ve never used Gopher, but what do you think of Gemini?
- Comment on 13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You 1 week ago:
Don’t use a major bank then. Use a smaller bank.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 1 week ago:
I honestly couldn’t agree more. From 2011 to about 2017, I was always distro hopping, trying out different things. And then for the longest time, I just stayed with Ubuntu. And now I’m like, you know what? I’m just gonna fucking use Linux Mint, because it just fucking works.
- Comment on Nowhere to Go When The Sky is the Limit 1 week ago:
It is really good to find that point where you’re just like, alright, that is good enough. I have done what I set out to do.
- Comment on 13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You 1 week ago:
Access your bank through your web browser. And if your bank does not allow you access through your web browser, get a new bank. That’s what I did.
- Comment on 13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You 1 week ago:
Using open source software on lineage OS or graphene OS with no Google Play services solves the vast majority of the problems brought up in this article. It doesn’t solve all of them, but it solves most of them.
- Comment on The Machine Fired - No human could do a thing about it! 2 weeks ago:
No idea. I know individual creators can mirror their own videos from YouTube over to AP or tube instance, but I don’t know of anything on mass.
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 2 weeks ago:
Have a look at Gemini and the Gemini capsules. Seems more like what a browser should be, in my opinion.
- Comment on "You Wouldn’t Steal a Car”... But Would You Pirate a Font? 2 weeks ago:
Why exactly would I pirate a font? Sans Serif is like the only font that you need.
- Comment on The Machine Fired - No human could do a thing about it! 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been making an effort recently to replace all the YouTube channels I watch with peer tube channels. I haven’t been totally successful yet, but I’m getting there.
- Comment on Starbucks' new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant's first 3D printed store in the US 2 weeks ago:
Well, that’s unfortunate because they had the old building to get rid of. It would be cool to find out just how quickly it was able to be printed and everything so that we could figure out whether it would be shorter to print buildings that way. I would think it should be, but there’s an awfully large difference between should and reality.
- Comment on Starbucks' new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant's first 3D printed store in the US 2 weeks ago:
They didn’t say in the article just how long it took to build. If you are in the area, did you notice about how long it took to actually put the thing together and get it open?
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo in like 2019 and used that for a long time until Kagi came out and now I use that and I’m quite happy with it.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 2 weeks ago:
That’s 22 minutes of my life. I’ll never get back. But at least it’s interesting that somebody that popular has decided to go to Linux. On second thought, it wasn’t 22 minutes. It was probably more like 10 because I always use 1.5 or 1.75x speed.
- Comment on Cut Data Center Energy by 30% with This Simple Hack - IEEE Spectrum 2 weeks ago:
That’s the one. It just would not come to me in the moment. I don’t have GAPPS or MicroG installed on my device at all. My view is that if an app won’t run without it, then I didn’t need that app to start with.
- Comment on Cut Data Center Energy by 30% with This Simple Hack - IEEE Spectrum 2 weeks ago:
GAPPS have Google Play services and the other one that I can’t think of the name of right offhand mimics play services. I don’t need play services for anything since I run open source software on my device and have not had a Google account in over two years now.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 3 weeks ago:
Please keep in mind that this is after tax incentives. So let’s just assume the tax incentives are zero and call it 27,000 just to be on the safe side.
- Comment on How Tariffs Will Skyrocket Electronics Prices - IEEE Spectrum 3 weeks ago:
Oh, your computer is just a baby. I’m running a third generation Intel Core i7 in my laptop running Linux Mint. LOL.
- Comment on A new, open source text-to-speech model called Dia has arrived to challenge ElevenLabs, OpenAI and more 3 weeks ago:
As a screen reader user, I welcome new open source text to speech models.
- Comment on What's one real-world problem you wish crypto could solve? 3 weeks ago:
Ask duckduckgo for “Monero”. You are welcome
- Comment on Cut Data Center Energy by 30% with This Simple Hack - IEEE Spectrum 3 weeks ago:
This was an interesting read. Also, if you’re willing to put up with some sacrifices, disabling Google Play services on your Android phone, or installing Lineage OS without Google services at all, will make your phone both run faster and have way better battery life. As an example, I own the Oneplus Nord N20 5G, and when I pulled it out of the box, it was super laggy and awful. And by installing Lineage OS on it with no Google Play services, it works fabulous.
- Comment on Strange sell-off in the dollar raises the specter of investors losing trust in the US under Trump 3 weeks ago:
Sure, blame it all on Trump. Because this hasn’t already been happening for the past. Like, 20 years. More slowly.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 4 weeks ago:
Possibly. Briar is mobile only as far as i know
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 4 weeks ago:
I do believe it does have a desktop client.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 4 weeks ago:
Oh, i ditch family and friends who dont respect my personal data. Though its signal primary for me
- Comment on Bluesky, censorship and country-based moderation 4 weeks ago:
Nostr relays over tor with snowflake proxy
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 4 weeks ago:
True. Matrix is more for that. Or possibly SimpleX.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 4 weeks ago:
Use Mastodon. You can use a server outside of your country. And even if your country attempts to find the operator, 10% of their global turnover of zero is still zero.
- Comment on Fossify File Manager: Open Source Replacement to Files by Google on Android 4 weeks ago:
Been using it since it came out and it works great. It can’t handle USB devices though, so the AOSP file manager has to be used for those.