FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 4 days ago:
Technically impossible? Not at all. VPN companies have exit nodes with IP addresses. Those IP addresses are regularly banned by services like Netflix already.
- Comment on iPhone case with e-ink display lets users read books and comics without screen glare 4 days ago:
Why do you think nobody does it anymore? Because no one cared about it or used it.
- Comment on Digital ID debate: Privacy group warns of 'unprecedented tracking' and 'surveillance' 4 days ago:
The government: “That’s the point”
- Comment on Time to stop tiptoeing around and step on the gas to ease inflation 4 days ago:
That’s driven up the price of gas and, by extension, sent electricity prices into orbit.
Oh no, they’re not really going to try to ….
Some of that has been caused by the extra costs associated with rolling out transmission lines for new renewable power plants.
….oh they did lol.
“Renewables” are the cause for the power bill increases, not gas.
- Comment on What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting? 4 days ago:
That’s not a serious question, is it?
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 4 days ago:
Did you not look at the results when the user has a Nvidia GPU? Or when ray tracing is enabled? if you can even enable it on the Linux version, of course. Or when res goes above 1080p up to 4K?
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 4 days ago:
free and superior OS
Windows is essentially free too btw. 99% of people don’t need to buy a license, an unactivated copy will do just fine.
Superior? I guess that’s debatable, definitely not an objective fact.
What most people will overlook just to go “yeah suck that windows!” is the GPU market share - Nvidia has 95%! That means that Linux will be significantly worse than Windows for 95% of people.
- Comment on Opinion: Anika Wells’ expenses are within the rules but many politicians know these perks should be wound back 4 days ago:
Her blatant “abuse” of the system has shone a light on the terrible ripe for abuse, waste of taxpayer money system. It’s about time people started getting angry about politicians basically never having to spend a cent of their own money under any circumstances, while we pay for their entire families lavish lifestyles on top of paying them a salary to fuck us over.
- Comment on What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting? 4 days ago:
How do you know no one is being “hurt”?
- Comment on What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting? 4 days ago:
Hackers don’t report every time they hack someone, nor how they did it.
- Comment on What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting? 4 days ago:
It’s not just opening stuff to the internet, it’s opening stuff to the internet without any authentication in this case. If you don’t know how that’s bad…….
- Comment on Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts 5 days ago:
Just hire the best person for the job, no matter what colour skin they have or what sex they are. Anything other than that will always be racist and/or sexist.
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 5 days ago:
RIP Windows? Lol no, the tests all showed that at best Linux might get a few percent better performance if you have an AMD GPU, which virtually no one does, and at worst your games run significantly worse than on Windows, and you can’t play most of the big online MP games.
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 5 days ago:
Which other self hosted communities are there on the fediverse with any real number of users? None. Lemmy being decentralized doesn’t solve the problem of dictators mods, just like saying “just make a new sub and move there” on reddit doesn’t work.
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 1 week ago:
You’re not going to be able to do much self hosting with 1GB of ram.
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 1 week ago:
Lemmy apps already have karma systems.
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 1 week ago:
Lemmy started off over moderated and has only gotten worse. Moderation here is honestly worse than Reddit already, since we can see the ridiculous comment removals and bans and their reasons.
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 1 week ago:
Why? Why would you remove a post that some people deem “low effort”? People can just ignore the posts if they think it’s low effort.
More censorship and gate keeping has never been an good option.
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 1 week ago:
So it’s exactly the same moderation as Reddit and Lemmy then, complete with all the power hungry mod bullshit.
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 1 week ago:
Ok so your original statement that I quoted is just 100% a lie lol. Off to a great start.
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 1 week ago:
I see someone doesn’t understand what GitHub is lol
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 1 week ago:
Instances cannot block a user
You’ll find very little support here then haha.
- Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 1 week ago:
Did you check the server logs? Should be able to see pretty quickly what it was doing.
- Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 1 week ago:
Plexamp also lets you stream it outside your network and share it with friends, no vpn etc needed.
- Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 1 week ago:
I don’t know why so many people think you have to do one or the other, that you can’t host your own and use spotify.
No matter how much you might hate Spotify from an ideological point of view, you cannot deny its amazing music discovery ability.
I use Spotify as a way to find what to add to my collection, which I then stream using Plexamp when it makes more sense than just using Spotify - which isn’t very often tbh, only really when license issues prevent an album being in my country on Spotify. I can share my plex music library with friends and family though.
- Comment on Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time 2 weeks ago:
Ahhhhhhhhahahahaha you’re the type of person I wrote that bio for 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Amazing.
- Comment on Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats 2 weeks ago:
You did nothing of the sort. Your entire comment was basically “CEO dumb, want replace people with machine” lol.
- Comment on Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day 2 weeks ago:
Anyone buying those 40-50kwh batteries for $5k and expecting them to actually get installed and not be absolutely crap fakes, well I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Both those deals are dodgy as fuck mate lol.
Prices haven’t come down for batteries or solar, not the actual price to consumers. A Tesla solar wall costs more today than they did when they first came out. Cost to produce is not the same as price to customers.
You’re kidding if you think battery prices are going to hit dirt cheap when the entire country literally depends on them because our stupid government are corrupt and incompetent.
- Comment on Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day 2 weeks ago:
Cool, so you’re not off grid. That last 10% is the hardest part, the most expensive part. The part that stops people from ever being able to be off grid.
The price of solar panels and batteries will only go up as we stupidly base our entire grid, life, and economy around them, especially since we aren’t manufacturing them here.
The government will absolutely make it mandatory to be connected to the grid because that’s the only way their desired grid will function.
- Comment on Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats 2 weeks ago:
Be specific. What did I say that’s wrong?