Manalith
@Manalith@midwest.social
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 week ago:
Holy fuck, I never registered that that was the acronym for it.
- Comment on Five flavors 🤤 4 weeks ago:
I like their first couple albums and they write extremely catchy songs, but their lyrics feel just a little too douchey for my taste. They’re a fantastic cover band though.
- Comment on The mark 2 months ago:
You can’t fool me, that’s a right arm!
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
The category was “harmful or dangerous content” and reason was “violates ToS”
- Comment on Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong 2 months ago:
I’d be more interested in allowing more than one Android device at a time like MySudo. They let you link Windows with a phone so I wouldn’t think it would be too hard to implement.
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
I hate the settings app so much that I’ve just learned the powershell commands for setting up printers and changing NIC settings. Honestly it wouldn’t be as bad if a. It didn’t take forever to load on occasion and b. I could have two settings windows open at once.
It’s so hard to find settings there that jumping between network center and add device is not intuitive. If they remove control panel from servers too I might quite my msp job and go work at a grocery store.
- Comment on Patreon will have to use Apple's in-app purchase system or be removed from the App Store 3 months ago:
Seems like it’s a backend change and they’re removing per creation entirely. Got an email from one of the creators I follow about getting suggestions on how to restructure their tiers for the new system. My guess is it would be tricky to setup a way to have creators do android/web tiers and apple tiers, not to mention confusing. And of course they can’t just pull a Spotify and have a pop-up that says ‘sorry you must use the web to subscribe’ on iPhones.
- Comment on Does everyone hate Google now? | Google's story over the last two decades has been a tale as old as time: enshittification for growth 3 months ago:
I’m not sure if it would work with how they do user updates, but I’m waiting for someone to make a version of Waze that runs on openstreetmaps. I.E. temporary updates like ‘car stopped here’ ‘cop parked there’ ‘lane closed ahead’
It seems like the functionality is already there for it, but they’d have to distinguish them from the long term updates like ’ this is a business at this address with these hours’ that presumably won’t change by the next day.
- Comment on Proton releases a self-custody bitcoin wallet | Proton Wallet is open source and has been audited by a third-party firm, the company said 3 months ago:
I would prefer a privacy conscious alternative to Google Wallet first, then add the crypto stuff, but that’s just me
- Comment on Dog-like robot jams home networks and disables devices during police raids — DHS develops NEO robot for walking denial of service attacks 3 months ago:
So this is the ‘mechanical hound’ that RayBradbury was referring to in Farenheit 451.
- Comment on Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons 4 months ago:
Should’ve done A New Hope and just gotten Steve Downes voicing him.
- Comment on Mildred 4 months ago:
And I bet Eula never even read any EULAs
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor 4 months ago:
My only gripe with Proton Pass so far is that I’m used to Bitwarden’s right-click autofill menu and some sites’ 2FA codes don’t automatically pop up for some reason.
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 4 months ago:
Included with this, promoting one of your shows before the one your watching starts should be considered an ad and not happen on ad free tiers, looking at you HBO and Paramount.
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 4 months ago:
Nissan! Shoot, I did it wrong…
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 4 months ago:
If that’s all you need, I’d probably just start using Tubi, Pluto, and Plex. Pluto and Plex have some good live channels (Tubi might also, haven’t checked). Tubi and Plex have a decent catalogue of on demand shows and movies. Of course if you already have Netflix, it might be hard if there’s a specific show they’re used to.
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 4 months ago:
For a long time my pihole was able to do it with some regex entries, but Google was pretty persistent about not letting that work, so for Android I just started doing Revanced.
Like you said, the web browser still blocks fine.
- Comment on Cloudflare is bad. Youre right. 4 months ago:
Since we’re all throwing out DNS options, I’ll toss in NextDNS
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 4 months ago:
Presumably the ones that know how much MS gets for selling data.
- Comment on What web services do you subscribe to? 7 months ago:
The phone app has it’s problems at times, things like resetting to the main page, and other little nuisances, but I really like Nebula, went so far as to pay for their lifetime deal.
- Comment on Texas AG Ken Paxton Sues Chaturbate, xHamster Over Controversial Age Verification Law 8 months ago:
Companies should just publish the list as a form of malicious compliance as “proof” that the system works.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
It takes like 2 minutes to make it so you don’t need to use a microsoft account to log in to Windows. It’s annoying that it has to be done but it can be done.
- Comment on Ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick looks to buy TikTok amid shutdown fears - Dexerto 8 months ago:
It’s like the Robot Chicken Star Wars skit “This deal is getting worse all the time”
Yes I know he does actually use that line in Empire but still