Mihies
@Mihies@programming.dev
- Comment on Australia will ‘examine all options’ to avoid new 15% tariffs announced by Donald Trump 5 days ago:
A piece prize award might come handy.
- Comment on Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives 1 week ago:
Your eyesight is 20/20
- Comment on Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives 1 week ago:
Not even sure there is that much will on politicians side. I hope there is, but they are mostly ignorant (judging from politicians in my country) and wouldn’t distinguish between Word and Windows. They might be interested if there are elections and public pushes for it. But once elected then it’s another song based on US stick and carrot. Mostly sticks from this administration. But I really do hope we start to move and now is the best time possible. Also recently there was data that German Federal Administration is paying Microsoft something like: 2023: 274.091.361,75 Euro 2024: 347.665.579,71 Euro 2025: 481.369.660,77 Euro The trend is not encouraging, isn’t it, and those are insane numbers - imagine what could we have for that amount with OSS. There is another neglected area - computer education in elementary school is practically non-existent and tiny-existent in middle school in my country while MS is subsidizing software for government and specially education sector. And so the circle of is closed.
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 2 weeks ago:
Indeed, this is really infuriating. They are forcing use to throw away perfectly working hardware in name of profits.
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 2 weeks ago:
That said, I like FP very much, but it’ll eventually hit the software block.
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 2 weeks ago:
It all boils down to drivers, if those are not open source (and they usually are not), then phone upgradability depends on them
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
Is there a significant benefit over matrix?
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 2 weeks ago:
I find Lemmy’s not much different if not more aggressive 🤷♂️
- Comment on I ❤️ selfhosting 2 weeks ago:
Until an ingredient goes bad. And with more hosting you have to cook more and more.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 2 weeks ago:
No such tariffs in the EU 🥹
- Comment on what is good remote desktop software? 3 weeks ago:
Got it for login, makes sense, but not sure whether multimon really works. I mean when the server doesn’t have physical monitors attached. I know I could do the install-try, but if anybody has experience it’s even easier. So experience is appreciated.
- Comment on what is good remote desktop software? 3 weeks ago:
But does it allow login on machine and multi monitors like RDP does? These are two features I can’t live without (at least the former).
- Comment on Venezuela Approves Pro-Business Oil Reform as Trump Issues New Sanctions Waiver - Venezuelanalysis 3 weeks ago:
Basically giving the oil away once more, eh.
- Comment on Five ways the EU has already appeased Trump 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure we’ll find new ways of appeasing him.
- Comment on Musk's Starlink to allow consumer data to train AI 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, typical shitty opt out where 99% won’t even know about it. It should be mandatory opt in, but who am I kidding, right.
- Comment on Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor 3 weeks ago:
I’m confused whether to like or not this post.
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 4 weeks ago:
They didn’t work that well either.
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 4 weeks ago:
People in robot suits you mean
- Comment on US | Ecuador says ICE agent tried to enter consulate in Minneapolis 4 weeks ago:
How the table turns, not so long ago, Ecuador welcomed American spying into their UK consulate.
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 5 weeks ago:
AFAIK the app is the same in both free and paid case. Which doesn’t necessarily mean paid version gets the adds as well, but it’s more likely the case. 🤷♂️
- Comment on The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones—and It’s So Much Worse Than We Thought 1 month ago:
Classic TACO, eh
- Comment on 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far 1 month ago:
It’ll be fun finding all those “antiporn”, “antidei”, “antilgbtq+” fine people watching exactly that. Bonus points for .va domains.
- Comment on China's first real gaming GPU is here, and the benchmarks are brutal 1 month ago:
I suppose Chinese might quickly catch on. They certainly don’t lack resources.
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 1 month ago:
China, whatever it is, doesn’t wage direct wars abroad and kidnap random presidents. Well, for now, at least. But seeing there is no accountability, they will certainly consider it much more seriously.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag 1 month ago:
But what if Grok is telling the truth?
- Comment on The Trump phone just missed another release date 1 month ago:
It says later this year, so there is still time :)
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 1 month ago:
I’d say educational system, or better, it’s downfall through decades, plays a significant role in making population dumb enough to not see through these constant lies.
- Comment on Trump Blockade of Venezuela, Murders on High Seas Violate International Law: UN Experts 2 months ago:
And yet, everybody will merely turn the other cheek.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 2 months ago:
So, there is value in labels after all?
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 2 months ago:
So, you do get benefits from Spotify, don’t you? Besides, there are other streaming services around that supposedly pay better - as you said. Anyway, all good to you, hope you succeed and Spotify dies one day.