HexadecimalSky
@HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 week ago:
Each person has thier own opinion. I have used IE, edge, before it went chromium and have used chrome. They work, and if you get into the ecosystem they work really well, but if you don’t want to be in the ecosystem or try to stop some it, I ran into problems.
When I just accepted all google ecosystem products, chrome worked great, when I needed to use alternate google accounts for school I ran into issues. So I moved to edge and it worked fine, except for with google I ran into issues, then it became chromium.
Then ads, and popups being an ad company, google doesn’t like supporting ad or content blockers, which makes sense but ublock has been so great at blocking unwanted popups and ads and as far as I am aware it doesn’t wirk as well on chromium based browsers, or at all.
So agian Chromium is a solid system and if you don’t care to change it it can work grest for you, but I found trying to change it to suit my needs as been problematic, in ways firefox or some fork of it hasn’t been.
If you are happy with Chrome or Edge or whatnot, great, there isn’t a problem but I want other options, I want more options about how it works, how it runs on my system and what data it collects or shows, things chromium doesn’t support.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 week ago:
I see it said agian and agian. because its true. Firefox is one of, if not the best of the mainstream browsers. (Not included its many forks) but Mozilla is a horrible caretaker of it. Mozilla does not focus on firefox and they dont care/believe in it nearly as much as its users or devs who fork it.
The motivations of a company are extremely important, and has Mozilla does not care for a lightweight, good, privacy centric browser, the enshitification will and has corrupt firefox.
It’s only a matter of time until it is as bad as chromium or flat out joins it.
- Comment on Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’ 1 week ago:
It’s not something often, i’ve only received 3, usually around holidays.
- Comment on Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’ 1 week ago:
Hypocrisy. Bought some lube on amazon, and they sent a print pamphlet ad for vibrators to my parents adress addressed to me but now they want to talk about embarrassing?
- Comment on Why don't Taco Trucks have a recognizable theme song and menu like Ice Cream Trucks? 2 weeks ago:
Business idea, solve the moving hot food issue and find a way to cook and sling tacos on the move. I don’t go out for ice cream trucks but I would for tacos.
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 3 weeks ago:
a surprising ammount data can be gotten off surprisingly damaged drives, there is always the possibility, thats why it took a delte/write/delete/write process, a rare earth magnet, 3 guys, a sledge hammer, and a industrial shredder to throw away a hard drive in the army.
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 4 weeks ago:
As someone who loved the random article feature and will sometimes peruse Wikipedia at random, this is extremely fascinating to me.
- Comment on If you can’t discriminate based on age, how are there 55+ neighborhoods? 1 month ago:
That is for employment/workers, not housing. Under equal opertunity employment you cannot discriminate agianst someone 40 or over.
For fair housing, you must not discriminate, such as refuse familys with minor children, except in a number of cases,
one being if 80% of the dwellings units must have at least one occupant who is 55 years of age or older and the community is made and operates as a 55+ place.
- Comment on Sleep is important 2 months ago:
Gotta leave for work soon, but I am in bed, scrolling here at 7am. I feel this in my sould.
- Comment on flouride 3 months ago:
I am still concerned about fluoride, but for different reasons. The federal government says there is too much natural fluoride in our water so we must import water to dilute it. The federal government doesn’t trust us with police officers, or politicians, but surely the public water company isn’t corrupt or incompetent…surely.
But hey, our teeth are really white and no ones died from flouride, far more likely to die from sudden lead.
- Comment on Platypuses 5 months ago:
If I remember correctly, they don’t have mammalian glands and instead “sweat” thier milk for thier young.
- Comment on I'll sleep when I'm dead 5 months ago:
Exactly, I’ll sleep, early. 6am is early, right? I am sleeping, early.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 6 months ago:
See, that may be the case. Or it might not be. It’s a risk vz reward right now. I am not good with computers and have had my PC, laptop, phone and smart watch, inexplicably break, get stuck on boot and had to have them repaired. I just know my mistakes are easier to screw up my computer and data on linux. So the worse MS gets, the more I am willing to risk it.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 6 months ago:
Yes. I have win 10 and 11 devices. They both lack certain options and I’ve had to go around them, like using control panel. In this case only the win 11 device is at risk of getting much worse.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 6 months ago:
Right, I forgot, MS doesn’t want you to have control what programs are doing or how your computer works. Corporate way or…linux.
I may be technologically challenged but Microsoft has been steadily selling me on linux ever since windows 10.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 6 months ago:
In favor of what? I still have to use control panel because some things are seemingly unreachable by the “settings” menus.
- Comment on Fast-food chains battle for low-income diners with summer value meals 7 months ago:
It’s been good, pushed me to shop more local.
used to be national chain fast food was cheap, buy a meal for ~$3-6, and local chains / restaurants where more expensive, $7-15.
Now I can go to a sit down local chain for $7-20 or get a fast food for 15-20
- Comment on “Don’t let them drop us!” Landline users protest AT&T copper retirement plan | California hears protests as AT&T seeks end to Carrier of Last Resort obligation. 1 year ago:
I have family that lives outside of LA, that are still on copper lines for phone and internet. How, idk.
Also, our neighborhood just got fiber access a couple months ago, and we live in a decently large city.
Copper landline for many, is the only option available that isn’t satellite.