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- Comment on Canada Drops Digital Tax That Infuriated Trump to Restart Trade Talks 2 weeks ago:
It’s a hockey term that Canadians have adopted to mean to stand up to American influence / Trump.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
You’re vastly overestimating the space required for a 3.5mm jack, and the reasons for its removal.
The jack takes up some internal space, but not much at all. The components required internally like the DAC chip are insignificant. It is a potential source of water ingress, but that can be mitigated and has been done many times before.
The reason for removal is two fold, first you simply don’t have to deal with any of the above, so from an engineering perspective it’s always easier to not do something. The second, and most important, **is to sell wireless headphones. **
You’ll notice that Fairphone came out with their own earbuds at the same time they removed the headphone jack. You could of course use Bluetooth headphones with the Fairphone 1, 2, and 3, but you weren’t forced to think about it and could just use your existing headphones. Removing the jack ads inconvenience and breaks user habit, causing people to re-evaluate their headphones and consider a new purchase, which the manufacturer just happens to have and likely in a bundle deal.
Apple, Google, and Samsung have seen huge uplift in earbud sales with the removal of the jack. So the anger of some power users is of no consequence to them. Seeing Fairphone follow in this behaviour what’s disappointing.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
Big? The headphone jack is not large enough to protrude from a cell phone chassis. Any company telling you they can’t fit it is just lying to sell you BT headphones.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been using Signal for years and my database was getting really bloated with media, attachments, etc but I didn’t want to delete it all. I used this and it’s incredible:
github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools
Just make a backup from within signal, copy that backup file to your PC, then run this tool. The commands I used make an HTML webpage that looks just like the signal messenger, along with a way of searching your messages. You can choose different commands to export however you like.
I used:
signalbackup-tools [input] [passphrase] --exporthtml [directory] --split --searchpage --originalfilenames
So while this doesn’t help you move off your current messenger, you don’t have to worry that your data/messages will be lost in Signal.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 4 weeks ago:
It’s a test flight. Going higher was likely not the goal.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 4 weeks ago:
Let my try and distill that. SpaceX is capable of doing some good work, when Elon leaves them alone.
Remember, Starship is Elon’s napkin drawing idea of making a big cheap steel tube. Bigger and bader than everyone else! For a mission that doesn’t exist, which it’s not even designed properly for. Starship is 100% Elon’s blunder and he’s made so many insane promises for it that it’s dragging SpaceX down.
Starship is SpaceX’s Cybertruck.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 4 weeks ago:
That’s basically what I do right now except I do have a domain and my ISP doesn’t restrict inbound ports like 443 so it works fine.
Just trying to sort out if I want the headache of a VPS if I don’t need it (costs, maintenance, point of failure, etc).
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 4 weeks ago:
What added security do you get by using a VPS besides obscuring your home IP? I can definitely see benifits to not leaking your home address, but otherwise the reverse proxy and wireguard tunnels don’t actually add any increased security for the extra steps. You could just host a reverse proxy at home, and any flaws Jellyfin could have in their app would still be exposed.
I’m not knocking your solution, I’m just in a similar place and considering if I want to go through the extra hurdle for a VPS if I don’t need one.
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 5 weeks ago:
Bring a pair of foam earplug as well. They weigh and cost nothing, and could be useful of they try to use sonic deterents against you.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 5 weeks ago:
This would likely be done through cell phone tracking devices like a stingray, not plates. I don’t know how many people are in their cars at a protest.
- Comment on How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state 1 month ago:
I’m not the OP, or an American, but yes I think a lot of the world is looking at them and feeling that they’re getting their comeuppance.
The problem is that America is truly too big to fail. Not that they can’t fail, but they will drag the world down with them if they do. Global trade and global security is anchored to them, so while I want to see them slapped back to reality, I don’t think we can afford for them to devolve into civil war.
- Comment on How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state 1 month ago:
I don’t want to downplay sexual misconduct, but the issues we are facing right now are orders of magnitude higher.
You will never find a perfect point it time where life is good for and harmonious everyone. The 90s had their problems, for sure, but the USA wasn’t tearing itself apart, or bringing in and welcoming in a new wave of fascism.
- Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes 3 months ago:
There are a few, the sofabaton is probably the closest to the cheaper harmony remotes, but it’s configured via an app that requires login so not sure how long that will last.
There are other companoes that are targeting the high end remotes too ($300+) but they all appear to be based on android and get very poor battery life.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 3 months ago:
I think P2P is still the way to go. Sure it’s not perfect, but it’s simpler and by it’s very nature doesn’t require the infrastructure we know will be a problem.
Plus, don’t forget screen sharing in discord isn’t very good as is (720p30) if you’re not a paid user.
- Comment on 8BitDo Has Announced The Successor To Its Ultimate Wireless Controller | Time Extension 4 months ago:
Trash then. Thank you for confirming!
Direct input reeeeealy needs to get with the times.
- Comment on Gibberlink 4 months ago:
I stand corrected. It seems odd to me that you would relegate all data transfer to the inaudible range, as you’ll have a lot less bandwidth to work with and will likely hit issues with compression technologies that are designed to filter those frequencies out.
I guess the designers didn’t want it to sound so offputting like dial-up did. Still seems odd to me and I’m not surprised it failed my initial sniff test.
- Comment on Gibberlink 4 months ago:
I assume people are shitting on it because it’s fake? At least it looks fake to me as the sounds they’re making seem the same each time.
I imagine it would sound a lot more like a dialup modem if it were real as we got pretty good at sending data over audio channels back then. Likely that standard that already exists could be used.
- Comment on Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet 4 months ago:
Current platforms like Lemmy are NOT ready for massive amounts of users. They have very poor moderation controls, no effective strategy to combat bots, and no money to pay people for it.
The only reason Lemmy is usable right now is because it has nerdy people using it in good faith. If it were to gain critical mass it would collapse under the deluge of trolls and bots.
It’s a quaint little place, and I like it for being that.
- Comment on Trump prepares to change US CHIPS Act conditions, sources say 5 months ago:
He can if the GOP decides to do nothing, and it seems that the game plan. They’re all in on downplaying his actions and not ruffling any feathers because to speak out is to be cast out. If they play along, they might just get to keep some power when this is all over.
They’ve always been scum, but this is a new low. Dried scum crusted onto the bottom of wherever scum normally resides.
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 5 months ago:
In Canada we see both. It says “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”.
- Comment on Jeep's annoying pop-up nags you to buy an extended warranty at every stop sign 5 months ago:
That future is now. Most modern cars have the dashboard computer completely integrated and you can’t remove it without crippling the vehicle.
- Comment on Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI, CEO refuses and offers to "buy Twitter for $9.74 billion" 5 months ago:
This again? It’s not going to happen.
- Comment on AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them 5 months ago:
That was because OKC had long form quizzes and in depth bios. It has been Tinderized and is no longer recognizable.
- Comment on New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony 5 months ago:
The problem with cable was it was not on demand and contained ads.
I would never, ever pay for cable even in today’s world if it was $10 a month because of the overwhelming amount of ads.
- Comment on What is your self-hosting setup for home thermostat? 5 months ago:
I haven’t tried, but I wouldn’t recommend it. It was years ago that I set it up, but I belive it wanted an app. I would stick with one designed for local only.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 5 months ago:
Instead they did the opposite and gave him the biggest bonus in world history.
- Comment on What is your self-hosting setup for home thermostat? 5 months ago:
I have an EcoBee thermostat which is typically web managed, however it also supports HomeKit. Using the homekit plugin for HomeAssistant I now get best of both worlds.
If I were to do it again I might consider a Z-Wave or ZigBee thermostat, but living in a cold climate I really appreciate knowing that if for some reason my home auto fails there is a backup service to alert me, or vice versa.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 8 months ago:
It would win the “will it fit nicely on a keychain” by a landsline.
However I doubt it would suit OP’s needs as the contacts are exposed so durability may be suspect, and seeing as it is generic I doubt the performance is up to his standards.