Illecors

@Illecors@lemmy.cafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll give Magic Earth a go, but osmand is just missing a bunch of stuff I got used to having I guess. The actual map part is fine.

  I use DAVx⁵ myself. It’s not ideal aesthetically, but honestly not a thing I worry about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been hoping for one for some time, but it wouldn’t be a smooth sailing even if everything was perfect. Get a pixel, install grapheneos and see if you can cope with it. I’ve been running it for a year now - lack of decent map app is my biggest issue that’s left. Waze is great for driving, but useless for everything else; it’s also owned by google. Most other apps are just reskinned google maps and don’t even load without gapps.

  And I’m a sysadmin. My degoogling journey began in 2018-2019 with running my own nextcloud for files, photo backup, contact and calendar sync, as well as my own email server. All that to say that I’ve had it fairly easy to ditch play store on a phone, but that’s not what most will experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Banana Split⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you’re shopping at tesco as well!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full Circle⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Point taken :D Coffee must kick in at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full Circle⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I, personally, like a language being rich. Nothing wrong with not knowing all the ins and outs, but calling for simplification on what is already an very simple language is odd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for mouse only games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mini Metro was the first thing that came to mind. Fun little time waster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Shameless plug for !mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe - duration is in the post title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It does sound a bit like creating plausible deniability for some sketchy transactions later on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I be unreasonable? I’m gonna be unreasonable.

  Gentoo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the point of all mighty gods if they can’t be bothered to stop misery. If they do exist - they’re assholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which one?

  My current top two are:

  • the one killed said boys in Ukraine
  • the other one killing said boys in Gaza
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes! Thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just wrong. I’ve learnt many things! Such as

  • I don’t like it
  • Regulars smell
  • Everyone’s constantly guilt-tripped into giving money
  • The harmonics of that fancy version of piano (it’s not called that, slipped my mind atm) are actually awesome

  And many more!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m trying to use simplex, mainly for the instance’s chat. 2 things to say:

  • notifications work perfectly even without play store
  • every device has a separate account - I can’t reuse the same one. Not the end of the world, but it’s really annoying
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia-linked hackers exploited Firefox and Windows bugs in 'widespread' hacking campaign⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if this was the reason for f-droid suggesting removing firefox variants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP. I guess it depends on the frame of reference. Comparing to other inefficient methods it might seem OK :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come to the Deep Sea!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come to the Deep Sea!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What game is that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  time is silent here. See you next time tomorrow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have 8 seconds.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for making me laugh!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should have elections with no candidates.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That won’t really work. Had an exact thing in an unofficial capacity - more along the lines of “answer the questions to see what party you align with most”. The result - the biggest lying traitor shitbags were the match.

  Declared views != actual views.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is created by the samw dev as pixelfed - wouldn’t be surprised if parts were reused to bootstrap quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated social media from before it was cool⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Irc is not federated, though. Servers don’t talk to each other

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Takes half a minute to start playing, which gets annoying real quick when a toddler gets involved with all the short videos.

  Random buffering every 10-15 minutes on most 1080p as well as 4k videos.

  Random buffering every couple of minutes on certain videos - the whole of the office us is the last one I remember.

  Crappy multi audio track support - some of them play, but most don’t. What was most infuriating at first was jellyfin happily selecting the track I want in UI and then just playing the default one anyway.

  The UI is kinda crap - I understand moving on a tv screen is more difficult, but god damn - what jellyfin is doing with arrow navigation is plain masochistic.

  When it works - it’s beautiful. But it rarely does so for long enough.

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  I really want to like it, but it’s doing its best to push me away.

  And before you suggest anything - I’ve already tried everything there is to try that’s available on the open internet. Happy to hear something that’s never been posted anywhere, though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only vouch for my setup; many variations are available.

  • Nextcloud - files, photo autoupload, contacts, calendar
  • Postfix and dovecot (and a bunch of friends) - email
  • Pixelfed - private instagram. Can federate, but I’ve never enabled that.
  • Opnsense - firewall, vpn, adblocking via unbound. Wireguard is my choice, but any would do. I get all my lan stuff available everywhere.
  • Jellyfin - media library. It’s kinda sucky, though, thinking of going back to plex, unfortunately.
  • Lemmy - well. You know what it is :)
  • Graphene on a pixel

  Hit me up if you ever decide to go self hosting route and need a hand with a thing or two!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For those already owning one - try setting up pihole or an equivalent. Sony could be serving ads from a domain used by something like a cdn, but I bet they don’t.