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- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 19 hours 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 2 days 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 2 days 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? 4 days ago:
Ask duckduckgo for “Monero”. You are welcome
- Comment on Cut Data Center Energy by 30% with This Simple Hack - IEEE Spectrum 4 days 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 6 days 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' 1 week ago:
Possibly. Briar is mobile only as far as i know
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week ago:
I do believe it does have a desktop client.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Nostr relays over tor with snowflake proxy
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week ago:
True. Matrix is more for that. Or possibly SimpleX.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week 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 1 week 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.
- Comment on TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days 1 week ago:
Thats true.
- Comment on YouTube Music wants me to verify my age. 1 week ago:
Are you sure you want to delete your account? This action cannot be undone.
Yes, no.
Yes.
- Comment on TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days 1 week ago:
I think there’s an argument to be made here of why are we trusting certificate providers anyway since that just adds another layer of centralization and a choke point for governments to attack. Why not use self-signed certificates and have each search engine indexer also index the certificate and point out how long it has been since it has changed so that you can trust whatever search engine you wish instead of these mega centralized providers of certificates. If kagi, google, ddg, and quant (for example) are all in agreement about the validity of a cert i feel its likely trustworthy. If they start disagreeing thats when it may be time to DYOR. Besides, TOFU is much easier to set up.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
But it’s a decentralized service! /s
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
The really nice thing is that the larger phone batteries get the more you get to use at 50% depth of discharge. My phone is 5,000 mAh and so I get to use 2,500 mAh of it. Once average phones start getting 5,500 mAh, that will mean I will be able to use 2,750 mAh. 250mAh may not sound like a lot, but it can go a decently long way.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
That’s honestly one thing I’m really glad about. I’m legally blind, so pictures don’t honestly matter that much to me, and so I could really give a fuck less what the camera looks like as long as it functions well enough to act as a magnifier for me to read small print on things occasionally.
Like if I go pick up one of those frozen pizzas from the store and I need to read the box to know what temperature to set the oven to and how long to put it in. I use the camera to just zoom in on the print and read it and then leave the camera.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
/e/OS doesnt interest me because its far to iphone(esk) in design. Though i might be able to flash LineageOS instead. I also want nothing to do with Google Play Services or even Micro-G. I even think Micro-G is too much of a compromise and won’t use it. If an app won’t run because Google Play Services doesn’t exist, then I don’t run that app. If I don’t get notifications because Google Play Services doesn’t exist, then I don’t get notifications. So be it.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
So my device settings have the functionality built in to stop charging automatically when the battery hits a certain percentage. And so I have set it to stop charging automatically at 81%. I also use BatteryBot Pro from F-Droid to alert me when the battery rises above 80% or drops below 30%
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
I really wish this was available in the US. I’ve found myself able to hang on to devices longer and longer. So this would be perfect. I’m only charging my battery to 80% and discharging it to 30% before charging it again just to prolong the life of the battery because that’s the first thing that dies on most devices. Having a user replaceable battery again would be an absolute godsend.
- Comment on The Unusual Nonprofit That Helps ICE Spy on Wire Transfers. 1 week ago:
Monero has entered the chat
- Comment on Webb telescope documents alien planet's death plunge into a star 1 week ago:
- Comment on Webb telescope documents alien planet's death plunge into a star 1 week ago:
I had never read that, so thank you. That was incredibly interesting. Isaac Arthur discusses black hole farming after the stars have all gone out, but as far as I can tell, eventually all the black holes would also evaporate and leave nothing but nothingness.
- Comment on Webb telescope documents alien planet's death plunge into a star 1 week ago:
I feel so much better knowing that our solar system is stable and that all we have to look forward to is the sun potentially swelling up like a giant balloon and swallowing us. That’s super comforting. /s.
Then again, by the time something like that occurs, I suspect if humanity is still around that we will have the ability to control the star itself by mining metals off of it and therefore reducing its mass and making it smaller or move the earth further out and then back in once it’s done expanding.
Humanity already has the science and knowledge to go about actually doing these things. We just don’t currently have the technology.
Take a look at the show, Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. One of his phrases is that if brute force isn’t working, you’re just not using enough of it.
- Comment on Florida’s New Social Media Bill Says the Quiet Part Out Loud and Demands an Encryption Backdoor 1 week ago:
Fair enough, there are just so many backdoor encryption bills that they all begin to look the same.
- Comment on Encryption Is Not a Crime 1 week ago:
When encryption is a crime, I just beg absolutely everybody to break the law.
- Comment on Florida’s New Social Media Bill Says the Quiet Part Out Loud and Demands an Encryption Backdoor 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, but if backdoor laws start getting passed, I’m going to just fucking break the law, and they can come and fucking arrest me if they want. But I’m not putting up with that shit.
- Comment on Attempt 2 at Lemmy 0.19.11 upgrade! (April 12, 13:00 BST) 2 weeks ago:
Followed your Mastodon account as I’m doing my best to get away from using matrix because of how bad it is about leaking metadata. Chats are definitely end-to-end encrypted, but if the metadata of who is talking to who and when and what reactions were posted to messages is available unencrypted, that’s not great. Also, Matrix Keys are kind of a pain in the ass to manage without screwing up and losing access to your chats. And I say this as somebody who deals with crypto. Managing Matrix Keys is just hard and unwieldy. I have shifted personally to SimpleX