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- Comment on Samsung Embeds Israeli Surveillance App on Phones Across MENA 4 days ago:
I believe GrapheneOS is not available for the 10 series yet. I’ve been keeping on top of that since I want to change my phone in December, but so far, the last version of Pixel that is known to work with GrapheneOS is the 9 series.
- Comment on Samsung Embeds Israeli Surveillance App on Phones Across MENA 4 days ago:
Those are 2 entirely different things. There are phones that are carrier locked that can have the bootloader unlocked, also the other way around.
I would look at the model number, and then search if it’s bootloader unlock able in XDA developers or something like that.
- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 4 days ago:
This is an accurate assessment. Companies will do what they can to make more money, it’s that simple. The fact that the clients choose to use it for evil doesn’t make a difference.
Granted, if their product wasn’t available, then governments would buy it, but still, it’s just another company taking advantage of what their clients want and profiting from it.
Samsung makes shit devices that steal all your data and sell that data for more profit. The same devices are made with planned obsolescence in mind. If you buy Samsung devices that’s on tour, not them.
- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 4 days ago:
Every time I see any reference to the UK I’m expecting to see more bullshit surveillance and censorship. And so, here we are.
- Comment on A robot programmed to act like a 7-year-old girl works to combat fear and loneliness in hospitals 4 days ago:
That’s and AI pedophile magnet 🤣
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 1 week ago:
Even better, click on the first cell (A1) if your headers are at the top, and then click on the filter button. Done.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 1 week ago:
I can picture the MS execs going “Shit, we still have 1,000,000 Windows users that are not feeding us their data every second, we’re not enshitifying fast enough. Step on it”.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Spotify being nice? Absolutely not. There certainly is a hidden agenda behind this.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 1 week ago:
I could have sworn this was already the case.
- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 1 week ago:
This is the right statement, in my opinion.
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 1 week ago:
Ok, so I should start celebrating every time a faggot gets killed. Got it. Thanks for the insight.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
You make a good point (looking at my bank account and seeing that I still can only afford tissues and hand lotion from Dollar Tree).
- Comment on One Year Selfhosting My Own Podcast 1 week ago:
Just subscribed. I’ll listen to a few of your episodes. I’m always looking for good content on privacy, data sovereignty and Linux everything. Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 1 week ago:
They honestly come back from school frustrated from being forced to use it, and always tell me that they get stuff done fast so they can move on to something else and drop that 🤣. I’m so proud of my kids, lol.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 1 week ago:
The installation options for software (not OS), in the vast majority of cases (apps) we are given the option of FlatPak, appimage or packages (and fucking Snaps), and choosing a GUI ‘app store’ or CLI. Yes there are cases in which you only have 1 option, but those are not the rule, but the exception. How exactly is this worse than in Windows having to download a .exe file and go through a whole lot of ‘accept’ dialogs, or Windows store? Isn’t this more accessible and friendlier to any taste? One of the reasons my wife is so sold on Fedora Workstation on her PC (while having to use Windows on her laptop because of some backwards bullshit system she needs to maintain our company taxes) is because, believe it or not, stuff just works, anything she wants to do has an option in the ‘Software’ app for her to just install, and move on (mostly FlatPaks). Windows is constantly giving her issues, pushing crap she’s not interested in, suddenly breaking for no apparent reason, wifi randomly disconnecting, or the amazingly insightful ‘an error has occurred’ or something like that which only serves to state the obvious with absolutely no way to figure out what the fuck went wrong and try to fix it to avoid it happening again.
You actually think Windows provides a better user experience than the shittiest Linux distro with the most horrible DE or WM? You’re out of your mind man.
No Linux distro is perfect, but Windows is objectively the biggest pain in the ass to install, maintain, use and even shut down.
I’ll challenge you, or anyone, to purposely break your windows system, to the point that reinstalling is the only option to get that computer back up and running, and do the same with any Linux distro (short of fucking Arch). See what provides you with more frustration and longer down time. This is the one thing in which Windows wins every time, fucking down time and frustration. No other OS comes even close.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 1 week ago:
Webarchive to avoid the paywall that they say is not a paywall.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
Isn’t that what masturbation is for?
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 1 week ago:
Because Windows is so polished, flawless and frictionless, right? I don’t believe it will EVER be the “year of the Linux desktop” because that’s not even a thing, so I agree with you there. However, the one thing none of you Windows-defenders can’t argue with is the fact that an extremely large percentage of people that try Linux, after a while, end up forgetting all about windows and never come back.
You can argue all you want in terms of marketshare, but that’s all Windows has working for it. It’s not because it’s stable, or because it’s ‘user friendly’ and certainly not because it’s beautiful.
And it’s been years since using CLI is entirely optional, unless you break something catastrophically (short of a hardware failure, guess what, you’d need CLI to make this happen). You can do everything over GUI. In Windows, anything that is even remotely damaged turns into a fucking reinstall that usually takes hours, vs just reinstalling ANY Linux distro, while keeping your home partition intact, only because you’re bored and want to try something else, which takes around 15 minutes.
See how all your rant makes no sense at all? Once you’ve driven a Bentley, you’d be hard pressed to return to a Honda Civic.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 1 week ago:
RHEL, SUSE (SLES), Ubuntu, Alma, Rocky, CENTOS Stream, I could go on for hours with enterprise distros that blow Windows out of the water without flinching. And if we go to specific use-case distros, that’s a list for anyone to go over for days, while Windows is aiming to be THE OS, and failing miserably at this. This has been the case for at least a decade now.
Mac? I can see how some people could be geared towards it, not because it’s any better than the worst Linux distro, but because it’s made for lazy people that have no idea how anything works.
“In my 30 years of experience”, with what? With windows trying to run some other OS inside it like an app? Don’t 30 years of experience allow you to understand the amount of resources overhead that requires and how it’s just a VM or LXC, not bare metal that you’re running? And even then, it still worked.
All the stuff in your comment screams 'I want to scream that I know about something I know nothing about". Go back to your mom’s basement to doomscroll 4chan.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 1 week ago:
RHEL, SUSE (SLES), Ubuntu, Alma, Rocky, CENTOS Stream, I could go on for hours with enterprise distros that blow Windows out of the water without flinching. And if we go to specific use-case distros, that’s a list for anyone to go over for days, while Windows is aiming to be THE OS, and failing miserably at this. This has been the case for at least a decade now.
Mac? I can see how some people could be geared towards it, not because it’s any better than the worst Linux distro, but because it’s made for lazy people that have no idea how anything works.
“In my 30 years of experience”, with what? With windows trying to run some other OS inside it like an app? Don’t 30 years of experience allow you to understand the amount of resources overhead that requires and how it’s just a VM or LXC, not bare metal that you’re running? And even then, it still worked.
All the stuff in your comment screams 'I want to scream that I know about something I know nothing about". Go back to your mom’s basement to doomscroll 4chan.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 1 week ago:
This is so funny. My wife purchased a Yealink headset for work, and her laptop runs W11. When we got the headset I tried it on my Fedora 42 laptop and had a meeting for about 30 minutes, only because I wanted to see if it would run on Linux. Of course, nor only did it work, it was plug & play, and was spectacular in sound quality and mic noise cancelation.
So I set it up on her W laptop, and here comes the “download this”, “install drivers” and “install apps” bullshit that I had all but forgotten about since I made the leap to Linux over 8 years ago. All this only to have it regularly disconnect mid-meetings (spoiler, she ended up using the integrated speakers and mic the rest of the week).
Windows is made to spy, intrude and annoy users. Even the devices ‘made for Windows’ work way better and easier on Linux, and with way less friction.
My kids are now 12 and 10 and have always used Linux exclusively. Only now they are being exposed to Windows at school, and they both hate it so much that they get home and have chosen to do some distro hopping over the weekends 🤣🤣
- Comment on From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban 2 weeks ago:
“the distribution of 350,000 internet-enabled Chromebooks, part of the city’s effort to replace aging devices obtained during the pandemic, and ensure that all students have access to technology in schools even as their personal devices are banned.”
Yeah, force kids to give all their data to the one company that is doing such a great job at securing it.
WTF?
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 2 weeks ago:
So you believe that people should get murdered for expressing their opinions, got it.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 2 weeks ago:
Soooo, we’re like neighbors then? Lol
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 2 weeks ago:
Pffft. I would argue that the EU is about to get way worse then the US for privacy. Additionally, the UK is basically a branch of North Korea now, and Australia is basically China with less yellow people (and not even by much).
But in my Banana Republic, we have about 2,000 cameras, only around 30 work, and most of those are covered by branches because the cities don’t give a flying fuck about landscaping.
This world just keep getting funnier by the minute.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 2 weeks ago:
They don’t “think” that. That’s just the excuse to a totalitarian regime within a police state.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 2 weeks ago:
I wonder what took them so long to figure it out. After all, they are the ones that broke it.
- Comment on GN's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to try to make up for the lost traction! 2 weeks ago:
It was up in Odysee all this time.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 2 weeks ago:
Seriously? WTF? We’re talking current reality here, we can’t do anything to start or stop war, so just keep moving and living.
