FG_3479
@FG_3479@lemmy.world
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 6 days ago:
MakeMKV is the easiest way. The license key is always in the forum.
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 1 week ago:
OpenOffice is not the same as OnlyOffice. The latter is modern software with a decent UI and MS Office file support; the former has had almost no changes since 2014.
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 1 week ago:
Why did FSFE delete this?
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 2 weeks ago:
The issue is with your ad blocker, not YouTube, though YouTube has no incentive to tell you what is going on as it would help out bots trying the same thing.
I don’t like Brave but they seem to have gone to the effort of whitelisting the heartbeats, so use that for YouTube comments.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 2 weeks ago:
YouTube has been shadowbanning ad blocker users, where you comments appear to post but actually haven’t, for a while now.
I think the issue is with the EasyPrivacy list blocking the heartbeat signals that tell YouTube you are actually someone interacting with the page and not a bot.
Brave doesn’t seem to have this issue as they whitelist those scripts but it has other issues so I recommend keeping it as a YouTube only browser.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You could try Brave as their ad blocker whitelists things that cause breakage if blocked.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Try turning off your ad blocker for it. I recommend using a separate profile in Google Chrome (not Chromium) for tricky sites.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Just use the web version I’m a Chromium based browser.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 weeks ago:
You don’t have to. You can use someone elses instance, just as you are on Lemmy. If the instance you pick goes to shit then you can move to another one.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 3 weeks ago:
That is what I mean. If an open source project enshittifies, it can be forked.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 3 weeks ago:
Stoat is self hostable like Lemmy so it is enshittification proof.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 3 weeks ago:
That’s a centralised platform. You should move to Stoat and Matrix instead.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 4 weeks ago:
I think the answer is AV1. You can get good quality video into 500 NB per hour which is easily affordable with unobtrusive ads like a banner at the bottom of the app and a video ad that can be swapped away every 10 videos.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 month ago:
They do have unshittified versions of their LLMs on aistudio.google.com where they are not bound by an ultra long system prompt.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 2 months ago:
120,000 x 4 = 480,000
This is easy to do with a calculator.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 2 months ago:
A bot could put 100 AI generated tracks on Spotify per hour. 50 bots doing the same is 120,000 tracks per day.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 2 months ago:
AI slop can be made and distributed in ginourmous numbers. I wouldn’t be suprised if at least 3/4 of uploads from the past 2 years are AI.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 2 months ago:
We have been voting for greedy shits larping as conservative (Conservatives) and greedy shits larping as liberal (Labour).
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 2 months ago:
There is this blocklist:
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 2 months ago:
I haven’t found any issues with it. The problem with making their own is that the MS Office file formats are purposefully poorly documented with the spec being over 6000 pages long and MS Office itself not adhering to it. It would be best to start with something where most of the work is done for them.
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 2 months ago:
Is Onlyoffice enough for you?
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 2 months ago:
Onlyoffice uses a different engine. It has much better MS office file support but worse ODF support.
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 2 months ago:
They should have forked Onlyoffice, however I appreciate the effort to make their own from scratch.
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 2 months ago:
Why don’t they fork Onlyoffice for this?
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 2 months ago:
I hate them both. Librewolf and Ungoogled Chromium are the true private and non-profit browsers. Firefox and Brave are full of bloat like Firefox’s ads and tracking and Brave’s Wallet, News, Talk, VPN etc
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 3 months ago:
They are just different layouts for Gnome, but it’s annoying that they call what is essentially a donation to them a Pro edition. A donate button would likely make more as it feels philanphropic.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 3 months ago:
Make sure to use “disable phase inversion” for Opus if you want good quality in mono. I’m suprised this isn’t set by default.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Thinkpads are what you want to look for. You can get a refurbished one from eBay or Amazon Renewed for $300 and they almost all have upgradable storage and RAM, as well as having the rest of the parts being easier to replace than a consumer laptop.
The T14 series is the one to look at.
- Comment on Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick 3 months ago:
Onn/Thompson sticks. They also use the stick form factor but they run Google TV so they shouldn’t be affected.
- 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 8 months ago:
Maybe try the Apple one when Android 16 comes out (in GrapheneOS form) which fixes the volume issues.