DJDarren

@DJDarren@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing that really gets to me is how we’ve gone from “Here, let us sell you a computer that you can push to its limits however you see fit” to “We will sell you a device and ensure you use that device within a given sphere of acceptability”.

  I own this phone/computer/tablet/console/whatever, so why the fuck do I have to adhere to their rules? Rules they’ve changed since I bought the device, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  God, I wish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They have stated that they’re more than willing to work with any manufacturer who is prepared to make a device that meets their security standards. But as it stands, Pixels are the only unlockable devices that meet that standard.

  Someone like Fairphone could do pretty well from a tie-in with Graphene. But it’s up to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I went from 15 years of iPhones directly to Graphene, without really messing with Android in between, so my experience has been a STEEP learning curve, followed by a fairly hum-drum experience. But honestly, that’s fine. I want my phone to take more of a back seat and not be something I keep needing to worry about.

  My banking app doesn’t work in Graphene, but the website does, so I don’t really mind.

  It could that there’s a whole bunch of shit I’m missing, but mostly it’s… fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heartwarming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The children, they yearn for the factories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My kid went through the same phase all kids do of refusing to go to bed.

  So one night he’s grabbing on to the baby gate at the top of the stairs like a con in a prison movie, screaming and yelling. I’m at the bottom of the stairs trying to ignore him.

  He fixed a stare directly at me, stopped screaming, and shit in his pants.

  So yeah, 100% of parents have arsehole kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s even the appeal of Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  installing anything

  I’ve been using Mint and KDE Neon on two of my machines for the past year, and I still have to search for how to install an app image properly.

  Its one of those things that isn’t the end of the world, and I guess there are increasing numbers of Snap/Flatpak packages. And, of course apt. And whatever application manager your distro comes with.

  But some software is available either to be compiled by the user, or as an app image. And I don’t understand why that image can’t just be dropped in an application folder and run, the same way it works in macOS.

  But I’m a relative noob. I assume there’s a historical reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shook⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely not Elton?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It pains me to say, but the stock Google camera app is by far and away the best option I’ve yet found on Graphene. Which has to pair with the Photos app, or you can’t actually do anything with the photos it takes.

  However, you don’t have to sync either with Google (though you do have to sign in), you can set Graphene to only allow them access to the folder they need (while they think they have wider access), and you can turn off network permission.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked into Ubuntu Touch last week as a potential alternative to Graphene on my Pixel 9.

  The most recent Pixel it supports is the 3.

  So Graphene it is then…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My bank app doesn’t work with Graphene, which is a pain in the arse, but not the end of the world. I mean, they still have a website I can log into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be keeping the fuck away from books then!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe macOS 26 will be the last that’ll run on Intel hardware. So functionally, a year from now, Hackintosh is dead. Well, Hackintosh running the current macOS, of course. I imagine there’ll be a thriving community working to keep existing hardware chugging along.

  It’ll be interesting to see the momentum of Linux on Macs though. If Asahi manages to crack those last few hurdles with the M1/2 hardware, it’ll be a rock solid OS, particularly as ARM64 software becomes more common. Suddenly you’ll have a bunch of incredibly capable Macs going cheap because they can’t run the largest macOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you post all three of these via Starlink?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100% vegetarian⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I adore Viz.

  They once printed the finest letter ever penned.

  Also, this advert for flat roof pubs will never not make me hoot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White Maleman, cooking YouTuber, loves to tell you what to do⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is Patrick

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I had an iPhone, Vinegar was the best few quid I ever spent. Between that and the adblocker I used, I got ad free YouTube with the default iOS video player. Glorious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda Zonda⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it belong to Bridget Fonda?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they were invented by chickens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Word is proof that there is no God and that we’re all alone in the cold vacuum of space. Word is every traffic light being red. Word is getting an itchy arsehole because you couldn’t quite wipe yourself properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a fan plugged into a smart switch that I’ve set to turn off when I fade up my mic while doing my radio show. It’s the most glorious use of throwing the internet at a home appliance I’ve yet come up with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, I dunno. The vast majority have no idea what a VPN is. If a VPN ban benefits Rupert fucking Murdoch then the tabloids will wang on about how they’re used by paedophiles and people smugglers and that’ll be that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The stairway to nope⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a Thomasson!

  There’s a great 99% Invisible episode about them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨linus tech tip⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Delivering wholesome content, yet still somehow managing to fuck it up in some greedy way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Must be lvl 11 genius⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ceci n’est pas un hippo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  English chap here: this looks like a fine idea. Nothing could go wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was complaining to my wife yesterday that it’s not easy to find torrents for the Aus version of Taskmaster.

  She told me to be patient, their internet is shit so it’ll take a while to get it off their servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate coldplay?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  God, I hate Kasabian. Shit thick music for drunks to yell along to after the football.

  I saw them back before their first album came out, supporting the Von Bondies. They were fucking dreadful. A bunch of tracksuit wearing Ian Brown wannabies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate coldplay?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a space in my heart for their first four albums. They’re perfectly enjoyable slices of indie that somewhat stood above the landfill shit that was otherwise getting airplay (fuck you Razorlight. Fuck you Kasabian).

  Its fair to say that they and I grew apart from then on, as Chris Martin became more about the celebrity than the honest music, but even then, I never had any real problem with them.

  They headlined Glastonbury last year and were excellent. Made me go back and listen to some of the records I’d ignored, and found that they were still a perfectly fine band. Considerably more poppy than they were, but not cynically so, I didn’t think.

  But I guess Martin comes across as a little too earnest, and his marriage to Paltrow a little too right-on, so the press kept digging in to them, as is their wont. That made people think it was popular to shit on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password manager by Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My Mum died recently and my step dad is shit with tech, so their password book was invaluable in helping us gain access to her Apple account and her phone. It meant we were able to get to her iCloud passwords, so now we have access to everything.

  So yeah, password books are actually pretty handy.