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- Comment on Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy 6 days ago:
now what?
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
Cockpilot
- Comment on NVIDIA and AMD GPU Prices Projected to Surge in Q1 2026 1 week ago:
Just as I was planning to build a Linux Console PC, the RAM and GPU prices are going through the roof. What next will the world do to make me want to nuke it out of existence?
- Comment on Indian Government developed UPI app not allowing me to use the app w/o turning off Adguard. 1 week ago:
All the blocked requests are app analytics and trackers. Whitelisting them will defeat the purpose. I might just switch to Google Pay’s UPI rather than fighting the government app or just use cash.
Also using DNS filters in a whitelist mode is very inefficient and defeats the purpose of using the internet. I don’t want to make a fool of myself in front of my friends when I am unable to figure out which domains does the restaurant’s digital menu uses so I can go and whitelist them.
- Indian Government developed UPI app not allowing me to use the app w/o turning off Adguard.lemmy.world ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Steam Link for Non-Steam games on Wayland? (Linux) 2 weeks ago:
Apparently the dev got banned. The reason is unclear and I would love to understand the other side but this is on their Github.
I got kicked from Moonlight and Sunshine’s Discord server and banned from Sunshine’s GitHub repo literally for helping people out. This is what I got for finding a bug, opened an issue, getting no response, troubleshoot myself, fixed the issue myself, shared it by PR to the main repo hoping my efforts can help someone else during the maintenance gap.
- Comment on Steam Link for Non-Steam games on Wayland? (Linux) 2 weeks ago:
Thanks I will look into it. I didn’t know stuff like this even existed lol.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 4 weeks ago:
As long as it is open source, it doesn’t matter. Forks like Librewolf will disable it.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 1 month ago:
Blame folks like Jobs and Gates for this and all other tech giants who made technology extremely user friendly instead of educating the masses how to actually understand and use your computer safely. Now they are just sheeps.
- Submitted 1 month ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on SIM binding in India: What it means for WhatsApp, Telegram users and why the government wants it 1 month ago:
But I don’t think it would make any difference. What would actually secure the account is the internal account password which both Signal and Whatsapp already have.
- Comment on SIM binding in India: What it means for WhatsApp, Telegram users and why the government wants it 1 month ago:
If a phone gets stolen, you can easily file a complaint, get that sim deactivated and a replacement within an hour. Put it in another phone and logout of any accounts from the stolen phone. If the stolen phone has a lock, then it is pretty difficult for a random thief to extract the data from the phone.
Source: My phone was stolen in 2014 and had my brother’s phone number in it who was in another country. My parents lodged a complaint the next day, deactivated the sim and got a replacement in 3 hours. My phone didn’t have a lock but thankfully I did not have any sensitive data on it and I reset my google account password ASAP after I lost it and logged out of all devices. I still use all the important accounts that were on that phone till this date.
- Comment on SIM binding in India: What it means for WhatsApp, Telegram users and why the government wants it 1 month ago:
I doubt because to get a phone number in India you already need to provide and verify your government id and biometrics. Without it even the vendor can’t hit next button to allocate the phone number.
- SIM binding in India: What it means for WhatsApp, Telegram users and why the government wants itwww.moneycontrol.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- SIM binding in India: What it means for WhatsApp, Telegram users and why the government wants itwww.moneycontrol.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 month ago:
I can’t even have 5 tabs open even if I try. I always close a tab when I am done with it.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 month ago:
Huh, interesting. Because other than appearance and keyboard shortcuts, I haven’t configured anything to affect these behaviors.
I switched my laptop last year and installed Arch with Plasma 6 so it was working out of the box. My previous laptop had Arch with Plasma 5 and then updated to 6 and also had Gnome before that. So it could have been I might I have configured something over there to get those things working (I don’t remember doing that though) but the newer one had it by default.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 month ago:
You might have configured something that broke it because there ain’t no way what you are saying is not supported on Linux.
I know Arch is a rolling release so it doesn’t have that on purpose, but it’s not much better with Ubuntu - I was getting updates every couple of days, once a week at best.
You don’t have to update if you don’t want to and you can schedule your updates as well with a bash script (although I prefer to do it manually once a week). I have a Windows VM used for MS office and Adobe that hasn’t been updated for months.
Window tiling doesn’t exist “out of the box”, you need third party software
It is out of the box. Meta + Arrow Keys and/OR Meta + PgUp. I use it all the time lol since KDE Plasma 5 and Gnome whatever version it was 3 years ago.
Saving window positions (on Wayland) is the most confusing one
Confirmed works by FarrellPerks@feddit.uk in above comments. Although I never tested or cared for it.
SDDM displays the same interface on each monitor, and each is a separate instance of SDDM
I don’t know about desktop towers, for laptop it is always only one instance — my laptop display, monitor is dark before I hit enter. And for the normal KDE lockscreen, it does give 2 menus but I can enter my password in any one of them and logon.
if you disconnect an extra screen, all the content gets dropped on the main screen. Since Windows 11, if you then re-connect the screen, all windows will pop back into their places before the disconnect happened.
same happens on KDE Plasma.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 month ago:
Linux has all of this out of the box (don’t know about windows positions after reboot, I have never tried that even on Windows). What distro and DE are you using? I am using Arch with KDE Plasma and it has been pretty much flawless and stable for me.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 month ago:
Wait… Either I have bad grammar or you misinterpreted lol. I meant “Linux has more to offer than Windows”
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 month ago:
I really don’t see what more Windows has to offer than Linux other some shitty software that cannot be run on Linux (Looks at newer Office and Adobe). In that case I can just boot up a VM with black-flag Windows Pro on it.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
JF becomes better or Plex becomes worse
Both will happen.
Besides.
some subtitles work on one, but not the other and vise versa
For me it has worked everywhere. All of my media is in .mkv so it already contains the subtitles. It works in all browsers clients, Desktop clients, TV and Mobile clients. Works in VLC and MPV as well on desktop, TV and Mobile. Works with Kodi as well. Works on same network (via both host IP and reverse proxy) as well as remotely via Pangolin.
So you can try putting everything in one MKV Container or maybe change the subtitle formats (if that’s a thing).
- Comment on AI Youtube Videos are like going to the garbage and remixing everything so it's shiny and new. 1 month ago:
- Comment on AI Youtube Videos are like going to the garbage and remixing everything so it's shiny and new. 1 month ago:
There are uBlock/Adguard filters which you can use to block shit. My homepage is just a blank. On Android revanced has that option to hide shit as well. Or you can use Newpipe.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
*Suddenly starts to play porn.
- Comment on Soon Aadhaar could be needed to enter restaurants, housing societies as govt plans offline Aadhaar push 1 month ago:
ruled by gangs and crime syndicates with all the bullshit that comes with that….
It’s literally how India has been ruled for its independent history. Ruled by one family for almost 70 years. Pretty much half of our current parliament has some criminal history either in Murder and Rape, have given hateful and divisive speeches or in some way or the other related to their local gangsters.
- Comment on Soon Aadhaar could be needed to enter restaurants, housing societies as govt plans offline Aadhaar push 1 month ago:
This article is so bad, take it with a pinch of salt.
True for all Indian media.
There’s a very long history of bogus announcements around Aadhaar, governments (remember it was introduced by Congress in the name of anti-corruption)……
True
But in India maybe more than in most places, so many people seem to believe this is a good thing to comply….
EXTREMELY TRUE. Fuckers literally worship the government at this point.
- Comment on Soon Aadhaar could be needed to enter restaurants, housing societies as govt plans offline Aadhaar push 1 month ago:
Cherry on top, the country is extremely tech illiterate and any form of protest will directly land you in prison on the grounds of terrorism w/o a fair trial.
- Comment on Soon Aadhaar could be needed to enter restaurants, housing societies as govt plans offline Aadhaar push 1 month ago:
No No! He is a non-biological being who is destined to save the country sent by shri ram himself! /s
