bitwolf
@bitwolf@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 16 hours ago:
I feel the same about phone numbers. Almost everything blocks VoIP numbers and only offers SMS MFA
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 day ago:
That is not at all what I am saying.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 days ago:
Yes but the phone physically cannot be smaller than the screen.
So if the screen itself is too large to be comfortable, it is physically impossible to make it comfortable to use without making the screen smaller.
I measured the radius my thumb can reach, I know exactly the limits of my reach, and thus exactly the largest screen I can use without causing discomfort in my wrist.
The point I am trying to make is that the ideal phone size is personal to the individual. There is no one size fits all. Screen to body ratio cannot change that.
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 5 days ago:
Is putting it behind an Oauth2 proxy and running the server in a rootless container enough?
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 days ago:
Yes but that’s still 2.1" too large to be comfortable to use for many people.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 days ago:
Yeesh! Thanks for the heads up.
It may be simpler to just figure out how to import it from FairPhone at that point.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 days ago:
Bezels or not phones are still too large to be comfortable to use for many people.
5.8" with no bezel would be a great size. Something comparable to an old 4-4.2" phone.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 days ago:
Thank you, this is huge!
I was very, sad to miss out on the entire Fairphone 5 generation, but I gave up and bought a Pixel 8 when they announced the 5 wont be coming any time soon.
Finally I can get a phone that’s worth buying
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 days ago:
There are those waterproof bag things. I wouldn’t trust the IP rating on a phone.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 6 days ago:
You wild have to test how strict your bank app is.
GrapheneOS, /e/ os, and LineageOS
Would be the first ones I’d reach for.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 6 days ago:
I wish it had been. Circles were so much better than FB groups etc
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 6 days ago:
Personally I prefer to explicitly wrap the text in backticks.
Three ` symbols will
Have the same effect `` But the behavior is more clear to the author
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 week ago:
I believe Austin was chosen because they’re fairly lax about the regulations and safety requirements.
Waymo already got the deal in Cali. And Cali seems much more strict. Austin is offering them faster time to market as the cost of civilian safety.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 week ago:
I always have the same thought when I see self driving taxi news.
“Americans will go bankrupt trying to prop up the auto/gas industries rather than simply building a train”.
And it’s true. So much money is being burned on a subpar and dangerous product. Yet we’ve just cut and cancelled extremely beneficial high speed rail projects that were overwhelmingly voted for by the people.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 week ago:
Nothing that a train + scooter / bicycle cannot solve imo
- Comment on We solved the Smartphone Keyboard problem back in 2013… It’s time to bring this concept back 1 week ago:
Just make phone with a removable back that can have a slide out keyboard attached.
It kills two birds with one stone.
Removable / expandable battery, and keyboards for those that want them.
- Comment on Let delivery drivers keep their 1 week ago:
I was going to say. I see so many touting this. Does OF tell everyone they’re top 1.9%?
- Comment on Most of the audience of Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards have no idea why slime is a thing. 1 week ago:
I often think about what happened to slime time live.
I’ve always dreamed of being in the game.
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 1 week ago:
What I am hoping is that I can generate an access key auth in Authelia. Synfonium supports accessKey as an alternative to basic auth for subsonic.
Maybe you could try that with caddy-security?
Synfonium is closed source, but you can use the free trial to test, and buy it outside of Google Play (which is the only reason I haven’t dropped it earlier on my quest to de-Google)
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 1 week ago:
Plex + Synfonium
Also
Navidrome + Synfonium / Tempo
I’m trying out different things in prep to switch to navidrome. I’m impressed how lightweight it is and it hasn’t been too much for fixing the library tags.
One I figure out a secure way to expose it behind auth I’ll be able to switch over.
Its been a heck of a time trying to get forwardAuth working with Zitadel so I’m trying out Authelia
- Comment on The Arc Browser Is Dead 3 weeks ago:
It probably has something to do with being only available on Macs for so long.
- Comment on TIL my decision to drive a 22' full cab pickup truck and vehemently oppose urban zoning reform makes me a defender of social justice, a warrior for the downtrodden, and more progressive than 99% [cont 3 weeks ago:
Idk I see a lot of ubereats on bicycles already
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 3 weeks ago:
Does it actually break down? Or does it just melt into a cloud of microplastics?
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 3 weeks ago:
I liked 1 and 2. Got bored for the prequel and 3 early on.
Tiny Tinas I did play and really enjoyed that game. It felt like a reasonable advancement over BL 1 and 2. It felt like they stagnated for a bit and raised the bar slightly with Tinas.
I really wanted an MMO style Borderlands with 4, and I wouldn’t value 4 any higher than Tinas launch price. But I am interested in what the game has to offer.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 3 weeks ago:
Guess they’re going to double down on the donation campaign considering the cost involved with ai
- Comment on Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass. 4 weeks ago:
Wasn’t this on Pixels already?
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 5 weeks ago:
Done.
I feel that it may be helpful to try to capture the motivation for each type of service.
For example. The reasons I host a media server are different than the reasons I host a photo backup solution.
- Comment on ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows 5 weeks ago:
If America is so scared of China, why are we hell bent in becoming China?
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 5 weeks ago:
Killing Biden’s CHIPs act certainly didn’t help that cause.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
What is a ban going to do.
It just changes the language of the acceptance bill