PrettyFlyForAFatGuy
@PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 day ago:
There was a big exodus to signal for a while a couple years ago when meta were fucking with their whatsapp privacy policy, similar to the exodus from reddit to lemmy.
Having your infrastructure on a cloud provider allows you to keep your costs in line with your current amount of users, if you have a big influx you can immediately scale up to accommodate them, and then when that spike in users dies off as they invariably do you can scale back down instead of being left with a load of hardware you’ve just bought for your new users and now aren’t using>
- Comment on CNC 2 days ago:
strap a dremel to your printer.
You now have a CNC machine
- Comment on CNC 2 days ago:
I prefer “struggle fucking”…
consensual of course
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 5 days ago:
I’m 32, I wear an analog clock on my arm every day
- Comment on Moon talk 1 week ago:
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s what @ArmchairAce1944 was getting at
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 2 weeks ago:
You have to obey the law of whatever country you are currently occupying.
They’re not “occupying” or even operating here. all the servers have been in Texas since 2008. The British gov are attempting to order non british companies (not operating in britain) to implement features.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 2 weeks ago:
British company fines an American company, based in America, for serving data from American servers that was compliant with American law.
This whole law is complete overreach
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 2 weeks ago:
I decided recently that the horizon series has overtaken Fallout in my estimations
- Comment on Lasagnaius 2 weeks ago:
Burgerandchipsius
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure there will be some sort of compatibility layer available. Android Linux based after all.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 weeks ago:
tbh part of the rough experience for me may be down to the hardware. the ubports version of the pinephone i have is quite low power. 2GB memory and a little ARM Cortex-A53
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 weeks ago:
dug my pinephone out of a drawer yesterday and gave it a whirl. still pretty rough unfortunately even after updating postmarket os.
Cool being able to SSH into my phone though
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 4 weeks ago:
I’m not afraid of death. I’m afraid of dying
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 4 weeks ago:
Sausage sandwich with cheese and hp sauce… ius
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 5 weeks ago:
Oil is solar power with extra steps.
Just cut out the middle man
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 5 weeks ago:
i probs would have voted for them in the next election, but then they called me a Jimmy Saville supporter…
so fuck em…
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 1 month ago:
If you can be in three meetings at once with AI then every single one of those meetings could have been an email
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 month ago:
I have the ubuntu 25 concept installed on my snapdragon HP Omnibook 14
Other than a few software hiccups you would expect of a “concept build” it works almost perfectly and is now my daily driver. Actually getting the OS on the machine was pretty easy too, it has something akin to a bios. the process isn’t all that different
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 2 months ago:
You dont get charged a “callout fee” when you call a tradesman? thats basically what that is
- Comment on bmw 2 months ago:
Owned a BMW 320i for 8 years.
I had no idea it could do that…
- Comment on Shook 2 months ago:
My mum said there were a lot of disappointed women in the UK when Freddie Mercury turned out to be gay.
I guess she was one of them
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
Despite its drawbacks electron is probs a great thing for linux uptake. it makes cross platform development very easy
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
does turbotax support linux?
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
the deck is a gateway drug for linux
- Comment on 2 months ago:
No one is saying that kids should be able to access pornography. People are saying that it shouldn’t be the states job to raise your children for you.
Effectively blocking pornography for everyone in the country unless you dox yourself to shady websites is not the answer. The answer is developing the tools and simplifying processes required to stop children accessing these things on the device and local network level and putting those tools in the hands of parents.
The Great Firewall of Britain is a frankly stupid concept.
- Comment on I love bpd girls 2 months ago:
Pretty much. I had a partner with BPD for almost four years. It was extremely intense.
The sex was fantastic but fucking hell was it tough walking on eggshells constantly
- Comment on I love bpd girls 2 months ago:
As a leg man, i approve
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 2 months ago:
at the moment no one is going into that level of granularity. I do own some monero, if i feel the need in the future i may switch over to that completely or at least start purchasing bitcoin anonymously which is something else a VPN can help with.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 2 months ago:
at some point i may do