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- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 days ago:
I’ve noticed this on political posts too, among others and I’ve wondered the same thing.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 1 week ago:
Kier Starmer voice: “We are an island of wankers”
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 week ago:
It is. But in some cases there’ll be a game or something that has requirements that are hard to wrestle with. For me it was a video game that needed specific libraries to run (possibly directX or whatever is current these days). After hours of attempts I downloaded Crossover and it worked instantly.
Desktop applications like the Office suites typically ran well for me in WINE. although my experience with those is dated by now.
I’m speaking from a macOS perspective but I’ve used WINE on Linux too.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 week ago:
I consider myself a trans ally, but I’m struggling to keep up with the latest pronouns. Congrats!
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 week ago:
Crossover isn’t cheap, but it can save so much time compared to WINE that I think it does pay for itself.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 week ago:
2 C, 2 USB
- Comment on Germans must be pretty happy. 1 week ago:
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted.
- Comment on How do you safely film a group of masked armed men while they are in the process of committing a crime, without them knowing that you are recording? [USA] 2 weeks ago:
I would have a shirt with a hole cut in the breast pocket. Then point a phone camera out of it while it records.
A few details: you’ll want a busy pattern on the shirt to make the hole less noticeable. You’ll also want an app that can record without easily being stopped (the default camera on my phone can be interfered with just by moving around inside a pocket).
- Comment on I've written a series of blog posts about a "hands-off" self-hosting setup intended for relative beginners. 3 weeks ago:
In case it’s of help, a common problem I find with guides in general is that they assume I don’t already use Apache (or some other service), and describe as though I’m starting with a clean system. As a newbie, it’s hard to know what damage the instructions will do to existing services, or how to adapt the instructions.
Since docker came along it’s gotten easier, and I’ve learned enough about ports etc to be able to avoid collisions. But it would be great if guides and tutorials in general covered that situation.
- Comment on Reprieve, a com for men to take a break from the world 3 weeks ago:
I hesitated to click on this but your description looks great. Best of luck.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 4 weeks ago:
The best time to start boycotting was when they started platforming a conspiracy theorising, testicle headed manosphere peddler. The next best time is not I suppose.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 1 month ago:
I know one study found that 51% of summaries that AI produced for them contained significant errors. So AI-summaries are bad news for anyone who hopes to be well informed. source www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0m17d8827ko
- Comment on European-Americans need better leadership role models to show them that education and hard work — not violence, promiscuity, and criminality — are the right ways to get ahead. 2 months ago:
Yes, the likes of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk have identified those characteristics as interfering with their dark ambitions. They seem to be behind the campaign to change hearts and minds for the worse.
- Comment on European-Americans need better leadership role models to show them that education and hard work — not violence, promiscuity, and criminality — are the right ways to get ahead. 2 months ago:
There is definitely a serious societal problem. There is a parenting crisis leading to a peer-attachment crisis. And our unities reflect it. As another commenter mentioned, we need to return to have some empathy in our consciousness so we can provide healthy psychological attachments.
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 months ago:
I agree. I’m not thinking about USA at all.
As for the EU, we should fund a federated or decentralised system. I think it works well on Lemmy. For example I know not to trust feddit.org for anything related to Palestine. Content on other servers shows their pro-Israel bias.
I think a system like that could benefit the US to a point, at least until the government block all external news and commentary.
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 months ago:
I had no idea. You’re right. It was a $15B business in 2019. theverge.com/…/youtube-google-alphabet-earnings-r…
Makes the ads seem even more obscene now that I know that.
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 months ago:
I think it’s running it at a loss too. But there’s no reason these platforms couldn’t be publicly owned.
- Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback 3 months ago:
That would be so good if they had a competent author.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 3 months ago:
USA are searching people’s phones for signs of criticism of government policy. They are detaining and deporting people (even citizens). China is not the sole bogeyman you think it is.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 3 months ago:
I never knew what it was because I’m a bit desensitised to knew apps / app names.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 3 months ago:
Thanks. That’s kind of you and I appreciate it. I was being humorous but I did start to wonder if would make a comically gruesome feature for a funeral.
We decided not to get a pet taxidermied in the past for the same reason you mentioned.
Thanks again for being so decent.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 3 months ago:
I like that one, thanks. I could probably enlist an apprentice serial killer to help with that. Although I’m not sure how I’ll issue him with his certificate.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 3 months ago:
I could die with those glasses that have the nose and moustache attached. Nobody world recognise me.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 3 months ago:
I do have a Roomba.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 3 months ago:
Never thought of that. We segregate our waste here so there is a bin for compostables.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 3 months ago:
Are your thinking in the bath tub or more like a human sized glass jar?
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 3 months ago:
I’m doing my post-life worrying in advance.
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- Comment on How do you like to transfer large files between friends across the internet? 4 months ago:
I use www.sendbig.com I haven’t read their privacy policy, though.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Because it isn’t perfect, but it’s good enough and my favourite now. And they are the only consumer tech company I know of having such a positive impact on the environment worldwide.