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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Because not everyone has the skills, the know how and the time to learn a new operating system.

  Most people if they were to try to install Linux would probably endup breaking their systems somehow, most don’t wanna risk it.

  It may seem simple to us, but think of it from the perspective of someone who is afraid to install a program because thinks it’s going to make their computer explode, have no idea what a bootable USB is, and have never used a command line their whole lives.

  With modern computers with UEFI and secure boot installing Linux is even harder, no average user is going to mess with any of that.

  For the average person, the computer is just a very secondary thing in their lives that doesn’t get any attention besides the average “my phone is full, I need to copy my photos to the computer”. Tech companies know this so they exploit the user’s ignorance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately $300 is still the double if what I’m willing to pay for a phone, I paid 150 for my spyware phone, and while I hate the lack of privacy and freedom such device provides, it does everything I need it to do with the apps from f-droid. I just don’t use it for anything that requires secrecy.

  I guess I will just stop updating when the new “feature” rolls out and see what happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I did my research before buying my current phone, but turned out all phones that could run lineage OS were too expensive, not a single affordable phone was supported. (With the exception of really super old discontinued models that are too slow to even open a webpage and battery past it’s useful life)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Tried, but at least in Europe the only cheap pixels I could find were old unsupported ones where the batteries where probably either dead or dying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For real, when this thing rolls out, I’m going to stop updating and try to still use my foss apps for as long as they still work, once my phone eventually becomes useless I’m not going to spend 400 on an expensive phone just so I can run custom roms. I will have to just get used to not having a computer in my pocket all the time again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Graphene OS only runs on Google Pixel devices.

  Even ROMs with wider hardware support like Lineage OS only run on expensive devices too (Or very old discontinued ones that you can’t find anywhere and have no firmware or kernel updates).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You know that not everyone can shell out 400 Euros on a phone, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This energy would then be transmitted to one or more stations on Earth.

  And how do you suppose to do that?

  Beam the power from space like they do in Mirai Shounen Conan? Or space shuttles with batteries? Or a giant cable that somehow doesn’t break?

  It’s not possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure THIS will protect the children!

  /s

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

  I’m not defending satellites, I’m saying fiber is much superior at all the things I mentioned above.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ofc they can, but they don’t need to, they just seize the server and jail the operator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Until the go government starts blocking entry nodes, then there will be a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.

  Also, this doesn’t affect only people under 18, any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.

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

  Unreliable, high latency, slow bandwidth and data caps?

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

  Don’t worry, the way things are going the star link satellites are going to shoot themselves. Unfortunately together with everything else in the low orbit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Best way to detect that?

  For airtags there’s airguard and similar apps, but more advanced locators? Maybe a SDR to analyse traffic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate Wireless devices.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What I hate the most is android fading the volume of the music before sending the notification sound.

  I don’t mind a notification ping mixed with the track, it’s just a few milliseconds, what I hate is this stupid little fade that AFAIK there’s no way to disable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good "frugal" movie viewing setups? (Recommendations)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are speaking about soundproofing I’m assuming you live in an apartment and have neighbours, I will be making my recommendations based in that assumption.

  Also, note that I value audio quality more than video, so if I have a limited budget to setup a home cinema most of it will go to the audio.

  For home cinema surround systems are usually the standard, however in my personal and subjective opinion surround adds much to the cost without really proving much value to the experience.

  Cheap surround systems like those trendy soundbars will sound like shit comparable to a stereo system for the same price. Yes, they come with a subwoofer so they have bass and provide that wow factor, but you may notice it to be unbalanced the middle or upper frequencies to lack clarity.

  If you have a small room and plan on watching films just yourself (and maybe an occasional friend)I recommend a setup similar to mine, a small LCD TV (32" or a bit bigger) and a pair of 8" studio monitors.

  From my understanding cheap projectors have quite a substandard image quality and brightness, I understand that you prefer a projector for easier transport, but a small TV is also easy to carry it, you can literally carry it in the backsit of a small car. And will look much better than a cheap projector.

  So with your given budget you can get a quality TV for about 500 dollars and a quality pair of near field speakers for another 500 dollars.

  This is the perfect setup for a single person intimate setup, however fails short when you put multiple people in the room.

  However if you have a big room with many people on it then you will need to compromise on quality, a bigger screen, maybe a projector and maybe a pair of loud used pair of HiFi speakers, since studio monitors aren’t really meant to fill the room and 32" TV will look tiny from a sofa.

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

  As much as I like Librewolf as concept and ideology, I can’t keep thinking that if there’s a Firefox 0day, Firefox gets patched first, Librewolf later, and I’m potentially exposed for longer. That’s why I prefer to stick with upstream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue with hard drives is that they tend to fail even on ideal conditions and even when powered down. Yes I’ve lost very important data to a powered down hard drive.

  While it’s possible to recover information on a hard drive as long as the plates themselves aren’t damaged, that requires very expensive specialised tools and skills. Which probably wouldn’t be available in a scenario where the information on the drive would be of any value.

  DVD-R (and probably consequentially Blu-Rays) aren’t any better in my experience, I’ve lost more data to DVD-R than to hard drives actually. Even when stored in low light conditions they tend to just stop reading.

  However optical media has one big advantage here, is that the discs themselves are cheap, so instead of having all your digital eggs in the same basket, you spread them over several discs and while some information may be lost, others may survive.

  Now, here’s an interesting thought, with digital data, the data either reads or doesn’t read, the so called digital cliff, may become partially corrupted and other parts still read, but after the corruption gets past a certain threshold all information is lost.

  With analogue equipment even after severe signal degradation the contents while very deteriorated may still be perceptible, forwardermore an analogue signal is much easier to decode in the event that you need to restart civilisation building tech from scratch and don’t have access to the very very specific specifications of something like the audio codec or the filesystem.

  You can probably hack a rudimentary cassette player together from very simple components, all you need is a tape head (a coil), a motor (a coil and a magnet), and an amplifier (a transistor or vaccum tube). (I’m probably oversimplifying here).

  Overall I think the most important thing is having redundancy, or if redundancy isn’t possible at least don’t have all eggs in the same basket, instead of having everything in a single 8TB HDD, to try spread them into smaller 512GB ones, or DVDs or flash drives or all of the above. And don’t store them all in the same location, if an area gets flooded or someone builds a building on top, you’re only losing a small part of the information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thus sayeth the ~~gods~~ wormhole aliens.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That reminds me of the baseball game episode, the worse and the single bad episode of the series, good thing I skipped through all of it. I rate it 0/10

  I can’t imagine people watching it on TV back in the days without being able to skip watching the entire thing waiting for something good or plot relevant to happen just to waste an hour of what seems 5 hours of nothing.

  Apart from that I loved DS9.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh well. I’m just glad I can access all my files on NTFS

  Shhh! Don’t give them ideas…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re responsible for the technology you create. So if I create a knife I’m responsible if someone uses it for murder? Maybe I should implement a camera on the knife that records your kitchen 24/7 to make sure the knife wont be used for murder, is that OK with you? Unionize workers in Microsoft. If you “unionize” microsoft and keep windows non-free software, the employees get better wages, apart from that the users still get spied upon, and the means of production (windows source code) still under ownership of a small group of people, (and just like any other operating system or knife, can) still used for nefarious purposes. Even if the workers at the microsoft commune decide to made windows non-spyware anymore, there is still no way to actually be sure since there’s no way to verify it. Also, proprietary software isn’t only a prime example of private ownership of the means of production, but also a prime example of artificial scarcity. As long as it’s “Free Software” instead of “Free people” you’re playing on the side of the tech oligarchy. Free software is a requirement for free people, if you don’t understand that, then you really have no understanding of how technology works, of how people work and how freedom works. I recommend reading the following article: gnu.org/…/free-software-even-more-important.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a shocker!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Use Krita

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your OS doesn’t, put the messaging apps that your friends/family/coworkers use do.

  And no, you can’t convince them to switch messager, I tried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my opinion, IRC is much easier to join than any meta slop, generally speaking you can just /connect check the /list and /join a popular room.

  Meanwhile to join meta you need to first make an email, then create an account, fill a bunch of forms (and then I always get automatically banned after acc creation without posting anything lol)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had 1 dollar and 24 hours what would you do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t think of many things you can buy for a dollar, maybe a bottle of water and 2 pieces of bread.

  Chewing gum maybe, back in the days those were cheap, doubt that’s still the case.

  Photocopies, those are cheap, you can get like 7 copies with 1 dollar.

  Can’t think of anything else, really.

  Also earning more? That’s not possible, unless you’re willing to beg, but then that’s completely unrelated to your initial dollar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OMG! I’ve been looking for something like this for quite some time!

  I will try this as soon as I have time. Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age verification and the enshitification of streaming will help reduce the decline in computer literacy in under 18s⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they are as stupid as you think them.

  I mean, back when I was younger I learned pretty much all I know about IT by admining my own computer, and I pretty much did it by trial and error yes. However nowadays kids talk to each other over popular chat applications, eventually one tells another “hey just install this browser/vpn” the same way they install mods for their videogames.

  Tho in the end I don’t think they will become techy savy tho, I guess just that tor and VPNs will become commonplace in UK.

  Meanwhile the old boomers are the ones who are going to forced to shrug “just how it is”.