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- Comment on We don't perceive prices logarithmically when selling things. 1 week ago:
I’ve never seen anyone write it like that in English. It is understandable when you explain it, but it would normally be written simply as 1.25
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 1 week ago:
I tried a lot of things to keep my phone/screen usage down.l, including a dump phone. One day I got this brilliant idea to shut my phone off. That was way more efficient than any of the tricks I tried. When I need it for something I turn it on. I’ve since removed most fun apps from the thing.
I still have one game that I play, Lemmy, RSS and web browsers. Apart from those it’s mostly a bureaucracy machine with messaging, email, banking, MFA, work stuff, maps, lots of apps for managing tickets (it’s actually ridiculous), life trackers for some board games. Music, audiobooks and podcasts.
The smart phone is a convenient device that makes my life easier. I don’t whis to handicap myself when I can just turn the phone off instead. I also like to leave the phone at home if for instance I’m going to a party at a well known location.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 1 week ago:
I can’t say, as you say, we only see this from the outside. I obviously have no idea what they can and can’t tell. This seems to be on the nation state level and there’s so much bullshit burecracy to deal with at that level. If this continues to happen that is obviously bad, but it seems like an honest mistake to me. It’s the main reason that got me started in leaving Gmail many years ago.
Anyway, I have of course set up my own domain for email and can redirect it to another provider if need be, but I don’t think it makes sense to run away at the first sign of a company doing a fuckup either. All companies will fuck up eventually and that’s how they learn. It’s when they continue to fuck up, or deliberately does evil that I will leave.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 1 week ago:
Eh, seems like a nothing burger to me honestly. It’s just normal procedure to lock it down first, then investigate and reopen when you get a request like this.
Whenever we get warnings about our customers accounts sending spam/phising we do a small investigateion, then they are locked before we contact the right manager and eventually someone contact the end user in question and we fix the problem or suspend the user.
It sucks for the user to be out of the loop for a few hours, and sometimes innocents get caught up in it, but it’s really the only way to deal with it.
Are anyone surprised criminals would use Proton? I bet they get a lot of take downs all the time and ignore most of them.
- Comment on "THE CRIME OF PUTTING DHIT IN MY PANTS WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED AND AS SOON AS WE FIND THE PERPETRATORS THEY WILL BE APPREHENDED AND PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW!!!" 1 week ago:
Looks like he’s either terrified or on coke/amf, probably a little bit of both tbh. Can’t blame him, anyone so wildly under qualified for his position should be terrified. And in his position he must have access to the white house medical cabinet.
- Comment on Big Tech: Convenience is a Trap 2 weeks ago:
I use the “News” app from Nextcloud (horrible name). I doubt it’s the best, but it’s convenient for syncing
- Comment on Big Tech: Convenience is a Trap 2 weeks ago:
It’s really convenient for finding events in my city. I wish the places I frequent would use RSS, that would be even more convenient for me, but alas.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 weeks ago:
Totally agree! On the other hand I have this whole universe of albums to learn to appreciate now! I’m also getting away from traditional social media, the 24-hour news cycle, porn etc and I find that just sitting down and listen to music and let my mind wander to be an amazing experience. Would recommend to literally anyone
- Comment on Atlassian goes cloud-only, customers face integration issues 2 weeks ago:
I work in the hosting business. We have servers and create VMs and have backups. The customer can have as much control of the VM as they chose including locking us out. (They take on the risk as well if course.) We have pretty decent margins on hosting and offer to help out with configuration and such for billable hours and I often feel like what we charge are ridiculous. Yet we have potential customers demanding to see our hidden fees (we have none) and some explanation of how we can be so cheap. Some simply refuse to believe our prices when compared to the giant clouds.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but some private equity schmuks will get a pay day so it’s fine.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 weeks ago:
I’ve found a lot of the same as you, listening to albums changed me for the better.
Just recently I bought the Horizon Forbidden West sound track on Qobuz at a sale, paid less than 10 Euro per hour. Its weird, I don’t pay attention to the music while playing the game, but listening to the soundtrack almost take me into that world.
- Comment on The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 2 weeks ago:
This is why connections still are everything in the job market. That was true before as well of course, for the same basic reason, it allows employers and would be employees to just skip all this BS.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 3 weeks ago:
It’s awesome that you don’t have to remember what software you’re using underneath. I looked into it before I installed it, but I’d have to check which one I went with. I also have no idea what graphics card I’m using, which headset I’m using, what brand of eyeglass cleaner I’m using etc. I looked into it at the time, made a choice and promptly forgot about why and filled my brain with other things.
If I remembered which database I was running it means that I’d have enough problems with it that I’d look at it a lot.
- Comment on Time to send a message 3 weeks ago:
Not a bad idea actually, thank you
- Comment on Time to send a message 3 weeks ago:
Most of my friends don’t check Facebook, they just use Messenger, but I’ll do that too
- Comment on Time to send a message 3 weeks ago:
I just this month realized that I really really really miss the ability to set a status like "On vacation, will reply on [date]. On Facebook Messenger I can set a status for at most 24 hours, anything beyond that is obviously not necessary… I wanted to put a message telling people I don’t use it anymore and yo contact me on [phone number]
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 weeks ago:
I thought so too, but over the years I have migrated so much of my life away from apps in order to see if it’s possible and apart from games I find that with a browser and an email client I don’t really need apps. Still use apps though, they are way more convenient.
Banking is tedious without apps, but works with browser and an MFA-dongle in my country.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 weeks ago:
I have the PinePhone Pro in a drawer somewhere. It’s just a fun toy, not even remotely usable as a daily driver. But I might have a look at it again and see how many tasks still remains before I could theoretically use Mobian as a daily driver.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 weeks ago:
Compling the message*
- Comment on Been there 3 weeks ago:
I worked at IKEA as a teenager and some summers ad a student. We spend most of the down time and breaks discussing where we would like to study and which jobs we had applied to. My manager was very encouraging and helpful at suggesting fields to study/work at.
The wasn’t hell or anything, just super uninspired and boring.
- Comment on A lesson for you 4 weeks ago:
No, quick is snabb, so its a snabbslut
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 month ago:
I buy my music on Bandcamp and Qobuz and put it on my Jellyfin server. It’s great! Also I don’t need 10.000 songs at once so it’s not really that expensive, I end up paying a little more a month now than for streaming, but I build up a library of music I actually like and don’t have to think about losing it when yhe service get shit.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 month ago:
You can also buy music on Qobuz, I use it together with Bandcamp to get more coverage.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 month ago:
Had the same issue, but between Bandcamp and Qobuz I find I’m not lacking much. Since I’m buying the songs anyway I don’t care too much about having multiple apps for my music.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 month ago:
I find that it’s really easy to find new artists and albums I like on Bandcamp. I just started by following a few genres and listen to a some music at random. If I like it I add it to my whislist and carry on. And I just listen to the “new and hot” section. Gives way better results and more variety than Spotify ever did for me.
From time to time I go to my whislist and listen to some of it again and usually decide to either buy the album or delete it from my whislist.
I also use Qobuz for more mainstream artists that’s not on Bandcamp.
Recently started to put all my purchases into Jellyfin for easier management between the services.
I also have a few pirated playlists of my favorite songs from years ago. I go through them when I have time and money and see if I like the songs enough to buy some albums or songs from the artists.
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 2 months ago:
I hear so many people praise paying with their phones, and there I am, so happy that I can leave my phone at home when shopping. Each to their own I guess.
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 2 months ago:
In Norway we use Facebook Messenger, which is worse. Wattsapp’s at least usable as a messaging platform for more than 1-to-1 communication
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 2 months ago:
Yes, I used web sockets for Signal for a while. It drained 30% of my battery when the phone sat idle for a day. Absolutely bonkers. Made the phone almost unusable so had to revert to FCM or disable notifications.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 months ago:
I think thats exactly it. A lot of the people begrudgingly have a PC. I bet most of those just use whatever the PC came with. Linux and Mac users are more likely to enjoy using a PC.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 months ago:
Apparently Linux have 20% market share in Norway. That is… I don’t really believe it, but really cool if true.