dan
@dan@upvote.au
Aussie living in the USA. https://d.sb/
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
Sure, but there’s Linux features that use TPM too, although you probably don’t need them in a home environment.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
Depends on if you use any security features that require a TPM. If not, the older chips are fine. For example, my employer requires TPM 2.0 for both Windows and Linux systems, since they store all encryption keys and certificates on it (including WPA2-Enterprise key for wifi, 802.1x key for Ethernet auth, Bitlocker key on Windows, etc)
For home use, if you don’t use any of those features, the main thing you’ll miss out on is support for Windows 11, which is fine if you’re using Linux.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
it lacks the magical TPM chip that Win11 demands.
How old is it? TPM has been standard equipment for a long time now.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
I haven’t seen any bloat on it, no ads in winkey menu
If you’re in the EU, that’s probably why. I think the bloat is only for non-EU users.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 week ago:
I can’t even get push notifications working.
Which browser? Safari is notorious for having a lot of bugs around push notifications, but Chrome and Firefox should both work.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 week ago:
As someone that has worked at (and current works at) big tech companies, you’re missing the most likely reason:
- Everyone who worked on it was reorged to higher priority teams, and nobody is left to maintain the apps
A lot of teams are only 3-6 developers, an engineering manager, a project manager, and a designer. Other roles like content design and QA are often shared across lots of teams.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 week ago:
And they harm platform consistency, etc.
Unfortunately, a lot of major apps aren’t consistent any more. Each app uses its own design language and its own UI widgets, rather than using proper native ones. Often they’re no better than web apps. I hate it and would rather just use a web app instead.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 week ago:
IIRC the WhatsApp app is a native app using XAML while the Messenger app is a React Native app.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 week ago:
You can still use the web version.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 week ago:
WhatsApp and Messenger are the #1 and #3 most popular messaging apps in the world. (#2 is WeChat)
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 week ago:
You can still use the website. This is just talking about the native apps.
- Comment on This Early SSD Was WILD 1 week ago:
A lot of Linux distros do this by default. Alternatively you can use /dev/shm which is guaranteed to always be a RAM disk.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Here’s a funk theme by the two brothers from Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade’s Revenge
Wow I love this. I hadn’t heard this one.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I like this one too! I had never heard it before. I grew up with a Sega Master System and Mega Drive so there’s a of NES/SNES games I’ve never played.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Nothing beats Tim Follin though.
- Comment on 2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions 4 weeks ago:
Definitely going to fill this out once I get some free time. What will the data be used for?
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 5 weeks ago:
A lot of people either don’t want to pay, or can’t pay (eg people in developing nations with very low income). I agree that UBI would help, but we’re a long way off from that being a standard thing in one country, let alone worldwide.
- Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene] 5 weeks ago:
Not sure about this community, but many Lemmy communities have a rule that if you post a link to a news article or video, you need to keep the post title the same as the source.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 5 weeks ago:
The only real alternatives to ads are either paying for the content, or having someone else pay for you (which is the case with something like PeerTube - someone else is covering the cost of the server and bandwidth without asking you for payment).
- Comment on xkcd #3143: Question Mark 1 month ago:
Wow I had never heard of this!
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Buying albums is great because you can host them on your own Plex server and use Plexamp.
(or something like Jellyfin, but IMO Plexamp is still the best app available for streaming your own music collection)
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
It’s probably the most popular music streaming service at the moment.
- Comment on YSK Coal plants hurt kids' brains, especially poor kids who are forced to live nearby 1 month ago:
This is also something I mentioned to them, but some people just don’t like facts and logic.
- Comment on YSK Coal plants hurt kids' brains, especially poor kids who are forced to live nearby 1 month ago:
I was arguing with someone on another social media site because they were posting this nonsense about EVs being horrible for the environment because all the power comes from coal.
Turns out they live in Houston, where 92% of power generation is renewable. lol.
Even across the whole USA, coal is only 16% of power production. www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
- Comment on The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian 1 month ago:
I’m just using regular Firefox at the moment. I briefly tried Floorp but it felt a bit slow.
Well, except at work where we’re forced to use Chrome for security reasons. They rely on Chrome Enterprise as part of their endpoint security solution, which has features like preventing copying from a sensitive/confidential work webapp then pasting onto a non-work site.
- Comment on The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian 1 month ago:
I completely forgot that Zen is Firefox-based. I’ve been avoiding some of these newer browsers because they’re based on Chromium. I’ll have to try it out!
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 1 month ago:
I’d say 9/10 aren’t doing proper backups given most people don’t actually do DR runs and verify whether they can fully recover from their backups. If you don’t test your backups, you don’t have backups!
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 1 month ago:
Which containers do automatic backups?
- Comment on The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian 1 month ago:
Unfortunately that’s the goal of a lot of startups. A startup is considered “successful” if they get acquired by a large company and employees of the startup make a lot of money.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 1 month ago:
Where’s the MySQL option? Some of my servers are running MySQL instead of MariaDB because it allowed binding to multiple IP addresses (although I think Maria has implemented this now), and some query plan optimizations were implemented in MySQL but not MariaDB.