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- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 10 comments
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- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
I think the article mentions it. AOL tried to block it and this to and fro went 21 times before finally coming to a stop. MSN and Yahoo later signed a deal, I think, so that the former will work with latter’s contacts properly.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 119 comments
- Comment on Nokia: The Story of the Once-Legendary Phone Maker 4 weeks ago:
My first smartphone was their cheap Lumia 520. Yes, it had its limitations (it couldn’t natively playback mkv files and no VLC support was there yet; only one paid app offered this basic thing) but the polycarbonate back was good, the battery lived decent enough despite being small and the OS was very smooth.
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- Comment on Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing 2 months ago:
I see you are also a victim of trying to use Bluetooth on Linux. My condolences.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Does anyone know how to customize Apple Glance wallpapers? 2 months ago:
There is the unwanted Glance software on Android, usually preloaded on budget models that displays random wallpapers (read:ads) on Lock screen but nothing equivalent on Apple.
- Comment on Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October | Initial Recall preview was lambasted for obvious privacy and security failures 2 months ago:
Microsoft should permanently recall the Recall feature.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
Worse, if you go to their articles via their newsletter, it redirects to aws.me domain in the middle which uBlock Origin blocks. You need to manually allow that subdomain to let it run. Plus, they now and then nudge you to create a free account to read more articles.
Oh, did I mention there is a Premium tier of their site as well? Ironical that as the site’s editorial quality is coming down, the shittiness is increasing. I think originally one guy used to run it and write articles there. It was relatively frugal (compared to the churn of articles that they process today) and higher quality.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
Which distro are you on? Plasma has reached it’s 6.0 version I think now. I used it back in the day and KDE apps are really more powerful than their GNOME counterparts any day.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
Talking about consistency, technically Windows still has UI elements from 3.1 era at Atleast couple of obscure places.
- Comment on Google denies reports that it’s discontinuing Fitbit products 2 months ago:
It’s a shame. This was the case with both their previous watches as well.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
I use NewPipe only despite having a current YouTube Premium subscription because the official app is bonkers. It’s hilariously stuffed with useless features that can’t be toggled off(games, shorts), half baked stuff like specific video quality can’t be chosen for all videos by default( has to be on a per video basis). Oh, and every other time I visit some channel, asking me to join the YouTube’s channel for additional perks. You just took money from the user to give them a sub par experience.
- Comment on X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders 2 months ago:
Musk has called the Moraes’ decisions regarding X “unconstitutional.”
Who would know more about Brazil’s constitution? One of its Supreme Court Judge or Elon Musk?
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
management getting a notification
Isn’t that a giant privacy violation? Why does anyone need to know when you come or go?
- Comment on California launches electric trains as US lags behind world in rail electrification 3 months ago:
That shouldn’t prevent electrified trains. By that logic, my village daily saw power cuts yet an electrified rail track runs cleanly next to it. The power cut happens in the towns but unless the national grid fails, trains should keep working.
- Comment on California launches electric trains as US lags behind world in rail electrification 3 months ago:
Blackout as in the city lights going out or the whole state grid failing?
- Comment on Google’s Pixel 9 lineup is a Pro show 3 months ago:
I have a noob question, is backporting any of these camera features possible for Google to older Pixel phones or is there a technical limitation?
I do agree about diminishing returns on high refresh rates. I have my current phone turned to 120 Hz and it gobbles up battery quite much.
- Comment on California launches electric trains as US lags behind world in rail electrification 3 months ago:
Till 2019, <1 % of total rail in US was electrified according to Wikipedia? Is this true; considering that US was a world leader in terms of rail transport upto WW II, why the abysmally low numbers? I know that privatisation of rail networks and car centred cities makes life tough for rails, but 1 % is abysmally low for a developed nation.
In contrast, China is at 75% and India is at 93% respectively and both of them also have giant railway networks.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
uBlock Origin Lite is a Manifest v3 compatible extension and was intended to be the successor of uBlock Origin on Chromium based browsers.
However, it is not at feature parity(and will likely never be due to restrictions in Manifest v3). One restriction is no element picking on websites and then adding them to custom filters.
- Comment on Google’s Pixel 9 lineup is a Pro show 3 months ago:
I just meant, that having a higher powered refresh rate screen that can easily be toggled on/off is more refreshing than more on device AI, IMO.
- Comment on Google’s Pixel 9 lineup is a Pro show 3 months ago:
They missed out on many things too. While the Pixel Pro has an LTPO display, the base model doesn’t. They only ship with UFS 3.1 storage despite UFS 4.0 being available. Charger is still not bundled.
Heck, give anything except for AI.(144Hz screen anyone? Motorola has them). I never used Assistant and after trying Gemini out for some time, disabled it as well.
- Comment on Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store 3 months ago:
Dunno about Apple but Google does a very bad job of monitoring the Play Store. Outright malicious apps are one thing and deceiving apps are other. Latter is a very big problem. Low quality apps minced with in app purchases/subscriptions that are carbon copies of each other.
Google arguably does a worse job of curating the Play Store (sponsored results) and has a non existent support.
- Comment on Patreon will have to use Apple's in-app purchase system or be removed from the App Store 3 months ago:
Does this mean Patreon too will have two tiers of billing system: standard billing via the Web and slightly higher prices if done in app. I think if one purchases a YouTube Premium membership in app on iOS, it costs more than when done via the site.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 6 months ago:
Same here. I have Prime but only for their Amazon Prime delivery services, not for their video or audio thing(Amazon refuses to unbundle their stuff in my country). To make it worse, Amazon Prime Video, Atleast last I tried didn’t go to full HD(or even 720p) on Firefox on Linux, so there is no point to it.
And there is hardly an ethical concern to it. I am paying for a service but getting my hands on the material; just via a different supply chain because Amazon sucks.