FG_3479
@FG_3479@lemmy.world
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 19 hours 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago:
That’s a centralised platform. You should move to Stoat and Matrix instead.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 2 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 1 month ago:
120,000 x 4 = 480,000
This is easy to do with a calculator.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 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] 2 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 2 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 7 months ago:
Maybe try the Apple one when Android 16 comes out (in GrapheneOS form) which fixes the volume issues.
- 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 7 months ago:
Which brand of adpater did you get? If you got a generic one then a bad DAC and durability aren’t surprises.
- 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 7 months ago:
That’s why you don’t just buy the cheapest one you see on Amazon. Google/DDG around to know which ones are good.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 7 months ago:
Re-read the article. All this feature does is give you the ability to say ‘set a timer for 10 minutes’ or ‘start a phone call to John’.
If you have ‘Gemini apps activity’ off then they won’t use anything you say to train their models.
- 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 7 months ago:
You can get a USB-C splitter adapter.
- 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 7 months ago:
Because a weak CPU, weak water resistance, and weak glass don’t make for a long-lasting, sustainable phone.
I like the fact that the parts are easy to replace, but the big manufacturers beat them in other aspects of longevity.
- 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 7 months ago:
You can get good Bluetooth earbuds for under $50 and a USB-C to AUX dongle for under $15.
The average person is fine with Bluetooth earbuds or an adapter, and audiophiles would not find the inbuilt DAC/amp on a phone to be adequate.
- 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 7 months ago:
It’s 6.3" because of the lack of top/bottom bezels. The phone itself is not much bigger than a Galaxy S7.
- 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 7 months ago:
I love the idea but the price is too high for the chip given that this is designed to be a lengevity phone. A chip like the 7s Gen 3 would make the phone sluggish after a couple of years with how unoptimised todays apps are.
The Gorilla Glass 7i and IP55 water resistance are also concerning given that budget Samsung, Xiaomi, etc phones beat this.
However having components of the phone being easily replacable is a great thing.