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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry if I misunderstood your comment, it seemed like a metaphor for social media but perhaps I assumed too much. My bad!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know you don’t have to doomscroll social media right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maemo and later Meego yes… I had a Nokia N900 and it was an awesome phone. Basically Debian in your pocket, easily accessible terminal with root etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t all Hue bulbs Zigbee? They have some WiFi or bluetooth models now I believe but afaik all of them support Zigbee with a bridge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single-use e-cigarettes contain batteries that last hundreds of cycles despite being discarded⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely the way to go, and the maintenance is easy. You do need to replace the coil every now and then though FYI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enceladus has all the raw materials for life, researchers say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps a repurposed garden hose on a spool could work. I recently saw a pretty long one on sale on amazon and they sell extensions. As long as we’re making stuff up I feel like this should work nicely ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp head Will Cathcart says the chat app could introduce ads in Status⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are definitely all valid points, though I feel a bit of UI work making it abundantly clear that it’s not encrypted in case of SMS and an option perhaps to fully disable SMS in settings if you really don’t want it would have helped further adoption. I feel like they are optimizing for a rather small subset of users and thereby hurting the rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp head Will Cathcart says the chat app could introduce ads in Status⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While I still use and sort of like Signal, I feel that dropping SMS support was the wrong choice and I don’t like the direction they are going. They are also against federation which I also don’t like. I’ve stopped recommending Signal to people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux vs Windows tested in 10 games - Linux 17% faster on Average⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I definitely agree. But still; when I’m running Windows the filesystem is very low on my list of annoyances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux vs Windows tested in 10 games - Linux 17% faster on Average⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d still be running Windows though so why bother

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As it’s kind of implied at this point I thought I’d leave it out for once ;-)

  But yes I do use Arch, btw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Might want to look into Linux :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They specifically mention it’s on the protocol level which would imply it’s doing more than just blocking some ports. Not sure why you’d think China could pull that off but it would be infeasible for Russia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is programming.dev federated with exploding heads?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is an option in Sync for Lemmy at least.