Mondez
@Mondez@lemdro.id
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 41 minutes ago:
Only difference is lack of updates for security and latest android, turns phones into ewaste long before the end of the hardware useful life.
- Comment on Apple will let iPhone users in Brazil get apps and services outside of the App Store 3 days ago:
Still got the onerous signing procedure that still makes devs pay a tithe to Apple like in other markets I assume?
- Comment on Apple will let iPhone users in Brazil get apps and services outside of the App Store 3 days ago:
Installing?
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 4 days ago:
That in itself might act to make linux attractive as it can be a much lighter weight alternative to windows to stretch the useful life of hardware they own.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 4 days ago:
In my experience neither of those are true, on linux unless a dependency was dropped a 4 year old program will still probably work fine and a 20 year old program on windows will likely have some glitches which may or may not be problematic.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 5 days ago:
When I dual booted it was to try and get away from the win.
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day everyone 1 week ago:
Worse, unless you have the source code to that 70 year old software it’s probably even less useful.
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day everyone 1 week ago:
No, copyright applies specifically to the code, eulas and copyleft such as GPL rely on that fact. The logic itself can’t be, but the specific implementation can. It’s why clean room reverse engineering is fine, but a tainted decompilation direct from a binary may not be.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 1 week ago:
Except that isn’t what we have, we still have proprietary crap that is just open core now and that open core is dominated by a single corp that can dictate what standards it wants just like when IE was on top.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 1 week ago:
Less diversity isn’t good, the argument wasn’t in favour of proprietary software, it was against platform monoculture.
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 2 weeks ago:
It’s more complicated than that as control acts as a barrier to entry preventing competitive start ups entering the market and disrupting it so established players probably don’t care as they can bare the cost of compliance if they have to.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 2 weeks ago:
Worse is that it likely won’t be able to distinguish between intentionally titilating material and material intended to educate. Only over 18 are allowed to learn about human physiology after submitting identifying information.
- Comment on What DDNS providers you guys recommend? 2 weeks ago:
Can you do letsencrypt dns challenges against the free tier now? This was one reason I moved to duckdns. Plus I kept forgetting to login to keep the account alive so it would just stop working until I logged in and reactivated. Duckdns do emulate that experience with their random downtime though 😂
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Those are the the ones that somone has managed to find in closed source software…
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it is that is more polished, it’s just you pay for them to do the stuff you need to do yourself with reverse proxying, opening ports, securing stuff. This is only an issue if you are sharing outside your network of course.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Why bother self hosting at all then? Paying somone else to do it for you and the deal constantly getting altered is pretty what you signed up for.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
That’s because you had somone elses servers doing that part for you.
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 4 weeks ago:
Fully aware and autonomous? Sounds like AI talk to me…
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 4 weeks ago:
It’s a donation that is deceptively framed in my opinion, bit of a dark pattern, but the product is fully open source so most give it a pass.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 5 weeks ago:
You are forgetting the arcane patterns we have to engrave on them too.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 1 month ago:
They run their own full OS these days on under powered SoCs to cut costs. All so they can claim to be a “smart” TV until of course the flow of updates stops a year after manufacture and all the apps stop working. Then it’s back to being dumb as well as being a massive security hole on your network.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 1 month ago:
That was a long winded way of saying you don’t know what Jellyfin actually is or does. Mpv is a client, it only fills the role that the various Jellyfin clients perform and a better comparison would be against a heavier weight media player such as Kodi.
What you suggest works well enough if you have a reliable network link to share CIFS or NFS over, but what do you do when away from home on a rubbish link that doesn’t have bandwidth to stream all your high quality bluray rips? You want transcoding in that situation.
Also, I’m a seasoned Unix sysadmin who knows his way around the cli and I can say with certainty this isn’t for people who know the cli, it’s for people who just want to prove you can do anything from the cli even if suboptimal.
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 1 month ago:
If only that wasn’t true if the other big parties as well.
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 2 months ago:
Shall I assume you are still a big reiserfs user then?
- Comment on AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month 2 months ago:
Are you sure that’s many people? Outside of the few tech savvy people I know, most lay people have no clue what h.264/5 are either. They know mp3 and that just means digital music to them.
- Comment on Advice for git setup 2 months ago:
You can run a separate db server using local storage and use NFS only for the data volumes for the applications themselves.
- Comment on Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts 3 months ago:
IMO these kinds of poor man’s automation scripts are only useful to novice sysadmins but those are exactly the kind of people who shouldn’t be running scripts they piped from the internet for both the fact that it’s risky behaviour and the fact they don’t then get the experience doing this manually for themselves to move on from being novice.
That said, let’s not gate keep. If novices don’t want to gain experience actually doing sysadmin work and level up their abilities and just want stuff that will probably work but that they’ll not be able to fix easily if it doesn’t, at least it’s a starting point and when things break some of them will look deeper.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 3 months ago:
That isn’t true though, plenty of people engage in creative endevours just for the pleasure of it.
Maybe this channel wouldn’t but as soon as it started relying on other people and platforms there was always the risk those wouldn’t align with the creative message and something would have to give.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 4 months ago:
Either way the creative control is compromised, just in different ways.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 4 months ago:
If you are running a business then you should either toe the line with your platform provider or make sure you have alternatives in place to move away from them if you value full creative control.