Whooping_Seal

@Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t mind clarifying, what do you mean by DoD?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly the best solution i have seen is always a combination of things. At least in the city I live in, people can take bikes on buses and trains, many people walk, and for trips that require trunk space (e.g furniture, DIY supplies etc) there is a Car sharing service that is cheaper than owning a car, or using ride share / taxi.

  I don’t think waymo is a better option than a combination of what’s above, I think it can perhaps compliment it but it should not be the sole last-kilometre solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure they still are a defence contractor in the US, they also are generally the option for biking computers. There are competitors but Garmin has a chokehold on that sector, with other options just feeling worse.

  So while their smart watches are more niche than Apple, Samsung etc, they still have found a solid niche in the smart tracking sector.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would also like to chime in regarding how the community is quite small, there are two (large-ish) Canadian instances but despite this there isn’t really a large francophone population here from what I’ve seen.

  I think the western-anglo bias is in part because the community requires people to host the servers, for the community to even exist in the first place. Smaller regions (such as franco-canada, French speakers only making up ~24% of our population) will make up a smaller portion of the user base and likely found out about the App through other English-language resources.

  Mastodon has a bit of a larger more diverse community, but it also has had the benefit of many more years of larger (but still niche) usage and arguably more severe issues with X formerly known as Twitter becoming a hell-hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designing a replacement IO plate for my GameCube⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes a lot more sense! I’m sad now though I thought this was some cool homebrew-ery going on since the GameCube is just a power pc computer (I’ve seen people run Linux on the hardware before).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS2 Memory Cards⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For FreeMC Boot, would you put it on a secondary OEM Card? Or is it best to just use one card for everything.

  Sadly I don’t live in Europe, and the chain game stores here don’t sell them anymore. But there is lots of local places here that have good return policies / testing of everything before putting it on shelves.

  Thank you very much for your insight!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designing a replacement IO plate for my GameCube⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t mind me asking, what exactly is the use of a floppy drive on a game cube?

  3d printing an IO shield is a great idea! Retro console modding is a great use of a 3d printer.

• PS2 Memory Cards
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM blocks dealership from installing Apple CarPlay retrofit kits in EVs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly I would like to not use Apple CarPlay / Android Auto — however, the built in software needs to actually usable and continuously updated.

  I particularly want to see better non-touch input. Rotary dial + buttons à la Mazda, and much better voice input. I live in a multilingual region, and it consequently renders most in-built navigation voice commands useless, as it won’t understand language switching. Even Google assitant has issues with this despite supporting multiple input languages, usually resulting in me saying the entire command in the same language as the address. (Or just giving up if the name and street are in two languages).

  But with built in systems that only support one language at a time, I just can’t say some of the addresses since I don’t know how it wants me to mispronounce them in English.

  I also have found media playback frustrating in any modern vehicle. This is likely a lot harder to solve, but the inability to switch playlists or change playback settings without my phone connected to Android Auto is frustrating when in vehicles without it.

  I know this is very ranty and not that big of a deal, it’s just frustrating seeing so little progress in the past decade on this front — and in some aspects like human interface design of vehicles, they have frankly regressed. If I look at the voice input systems on cars from 15-20 years ago there has been huge improvement, but even 10 years ago to now it doesn’t feel that different. Maybe a few new commands, but the quality of recognition / utility of the system is lacking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton will no longer post on Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Passwords I would recommend Bitwarden or KeePass (both of which are in the PrivacyGuides wiki, particularly usefull for KeePass where there are different clients depending on OS)

  Email / contacts / calendar I am still struggling on to be quite honest. I am debating right now on Mailbox.org + EteSync OR just using Posteo.de (while it has some security regressions compared to Mailbox.org, it has encrypted contacts and calendar). To be quite honest though the options available in this space are quite frustrating, it is really hard to find a solution that allows for interoperability / data portability as well as E2EE / elevated security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Find Old Accounts for Deletion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say the only potential “benefit” is if the account contains non-public facing personal information - you are reducing the chance it gets leaked via data breach (assuming, of course, they actually erase your data properly)

  But I would say it is at least worth it to reduce that potential risk, but you should also go into it assuming that anything that was publicly accessible has been archived / saved by someone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Platforms and the Government Unite, Remember What’s Private and What Isn’t⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I for some reason recall at one point WhatsApp’s encryption was actually an audited implementation of Signal’s encryption. But that is so long ago that I doubt that holds much weight now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calendar Options *other* than Tuta / Proton⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it run ok on a SBC, such as a raspberry pi? I don’t mind self hosting, but I don’t have the space for a full blown server setup in my appartment sadly (as fun as it would be)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calendar Options *other* than Tuta / Proton⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I see in the FAQ they mention that “If you would like, you can encrypt your calendar and address book with your password. Therefore, only you have access to your data”

  Is there any “downsides” to this in terms of interoperability with other calendar / contact apps?

  Thank you so much for your suggestion, this seems like it fills the issues I had when researching mailbox.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calendar Options *other* than Tuta / Proton⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How reliable is the syncing? I currently sync a lot of things with Syncthing, and while it is great to not rely on a shady centralized cloud service, decentralized syncing also has its own problems (potential sync conflicts in my KeePass databases mostly)

  It definitely seems like an interesting option though! Thank you so much :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calendar Options *other* than Tuta / Proton⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is sadly what I was fearing running into, but I thought I would ask here nonetheless to see what other options people have even if they require some compromises on my goals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calendar Options *other* than Tuta / Proton⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you self-host or do you pay? Just curious what your experience has been with the two options :)

  Thank you for the suggestion!

• Calendar Options *other* than Tuta / Proton
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy’s essential 25 PS1 games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the major one for me (that hasn’t been listed) is Ape Escape. Growing up i played the (arguably worse) remaster of it for the PSP. Genuinely interesting to play a platformer so different yet so clearly reactionary to Mario 64. And it’s also just interesting how they handle the analog sticks in terms of controls

  Like many games of the era the controls are frankly janky, but they are just so much fun