nottheengineer
@nottheengineer@feddit.de
- Comment on Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste 11 months ago:
Unfortunately you need something with long firmware and software support. Qualcomm is your enemy, they stop updating the firmware of their chips after about two years and that’s why android phones often stop getting updates less than 2 years after you buy them.
- Comment on Are there any notable content creators that focus on content other than niche tech and US political on Mastodon? 11 months ago:
That’s mostly politics as well.
- Comment on What are some good computer literacy resources I can point someone to? 11 months ago:
Excel is a problem since it changes constantly and relies so much on the mouse. I’m a developer and struggle every time I’m forced to use it.
Search engines have also gotten terrible over the last few years so it’s a pretty bad time to learn how to use a computer. Old videos from the 90s and 2000s are great to learn the basics, but unfortunately you can’t really follow along.
Paid courses for the basics of MS office exist, maybe you’ll be able to find one that starts from zero and teaches the basics of using a computer at all.
- Comment on This Engineer Created The Best Version of the Apple Magic Mouse 11 months ago:
Yeah we need to stop giving corporations rights that only humans deserve.
- Comment on me_irl 1 year ago:
If you wrote good code, even a caveman would understand it.
- Comment on Amazon will allow auto dealers to sell cars on its site, starting with Hyundai 1 year ago:
Do you think the cars on amazon will be cheaper than sticker price and save you the negotiation?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It’s already back to working for me (frankfurt data center) and I was able to order my new deck.
- Comment on People who downvote memes on Risa 1 year ago:
You don’t need an exhaust manifold, you need an intimidator!
- Comment on Why Git is hard 1 year ago:
I’d expect a developer to understand that. A stack trace works the exact same way.
- Comment on Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub 1 year ago:
But what browser do we use then?
- Comment on Why are used Samgung A71 so cheap? 1 year ago:
Because it’s at the end of the update lifecycle. Android 13 is the last feature update so it’ll maybe get a year of security updates. No one should ever use a phone that no longer gets those so they become cheap.
- Comment on Semantics: What's the greater security threat to the Federation? 1 year ago:
I agree that it goes against their core values, but they have shitloads of internal sensors that could be used very unethically.
- Comment on Best of both worlds 1 year ago:
I still have a Wii with a custom launcher and a hard drive full of games lying around. I should use it again, there isn’t another game quite like excite truck.
- Comment on Best iPhone alternative Android phone 1 year ago:
A pixel with grapheneOS is always a solid choice.
- Comment on Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry 1 year ago:
I agree, removing them automatically even makes moderation harder if they do it when federating because then the mods can’t see what they’re moderating.
- Comment on Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry 1 year ago:
Opening the post in the browser does show the word, so it’s lemmy.world that censors it for you.
It’s the N word.
- Comment on Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry 1 year ago:
They are already censoring the word nigger out of 20 year old rap songs retroactively. I have a couple songs saved that used to not be censored, but are censored now. Nate Dogg’s “Get up” comes to mind.
That combined with the fact that their app straight up doesn’t work when offline anymore has me looking for alternatives.
Any suggestions? Youtube music is out of the question, I ain’t giving money to google.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake 1 year ago:
It’s a good thing they stopped.
Right now any phone’s UI is about 10 times faster than windows 11 is on a modern computer. Just imagine a phone that’s this slow.
- Comment on Elite Dangerous studio Frontier Developments announce layoffs and "organisational review" 1 year ago:
It’s an MMO, you can’t just go out and mod that. You could mod it visually, but that would eat into their profits from the store so it makes sense to not allow that as long as the game gets updates.
- Comment on well duh. 1 year ago:
It doesn’t get too much better if you just add more parties. What you need is a robust protection against corruption.
- Comment on Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11 1 year ago:
For linux clients maybe, but definitely not for windows clients. Microsoft practically killed Virtualbox, so we have to use Hyper-V at work now. And unlike virtualbox, it doesn’t let me install my keyboard layout in the VM via MSKLC, which is literally made by microsoft. I had to convert my virtualbox VM where it was installed already and guess what, it works perfectly now.
I also have to disable the keyboard manager in powertoys, another microsoft product, whenever I use the VM because capslock gets stuck on inside the VM if I don’t. That also happens on VMs without my keyboard layout, so it’s a separate issue.
The VM also feels much slower and glitchier than the virtualbox one I used on an older computer.
- Comment on Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11 1 year ago:
You literally need a third party application to install an APK. At that point you might as well get an android emulator instead of using this spyware.
- Comment on Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11 1 year ago:
There is nothing about windows 11 that’s better than on windows 10. Why would anyone switch voluntarily?
Windows 10 at least had better automatic driver installation, touchscreen and multi-monitor support compared to 7, but came with a shitload of ads built right into it. Windows 11 has even more ads, but what does it give you?
- Comment on In an alternate universe 1 year ago:
This sounds like a perfect use case for AI generation. Give it a few more years and pulp trek might become a thing.
- Comment on Elite Dangerous studio Frontier Developments announce layoffs and "organisational review" 1 year ago:
What a shame, I wish they had some spare money to pour into elite. It’s a great game that deserves some love.
- Comment on Colorado court upholds Google keyword search warrant which led to arrests in fatal arson 1 year ago:
given that the lawmakers who enact crap like that are usually tech-illiterate, we at least have high chances of loopholes.
At this point, I instinctively disagree with anyone who tries to “protect the children” or “fight terrorism”. I tried challenging that prejudice many times, but never had any success.
- Comment on Colorado court upholds Google keyword search warrant which led to arrests in fatal arson 1 year ago:
I don’t have any hope for any of this improving.
The EU is currently working on legislation to search through all chat messages sent by everyone ever, so the only way to keep any privacy is to take it into your own hands.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
But that’s how politics work nowadays. You need to assume that every group is homogenous and when someone from that group points out that it isn’t, you call them a hypocrite.
- Comment on Why You Can't Currently Download Ubuntu 23.10 - OMG! Ubuntu 1 year ago:
How is pulling the entire image because of this acceptable in any way? Slap a fat warning on the site if you want, but don’t throw off people’s schedule by doing this.
- Comment on Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. 1 year ago:
So if I understand correctly, you define the border of piracy as the technicality of websites where the HTML and JS are accessible as opposed to a binary that comes with built-in DRM.
How do you think about DRM-free games?