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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory yes. But remember that Chrome is based on Chromium which is open source. But nobody has stepped up to do a viable hard fork to take power away from Google.

  Maintaining a modern browser is a huge undertaking which is why almost nobody except Google, Mozilla, and Apple are really even trying. Even Microsoft threw in the towel.

  The more bad stuff is added to Firefox the harder it will be for any forks to keep up removing it while also keeping it up to date. Will anyone step up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Every one of them can, AFAIK. I have a second cheap used phone I picked up to play with Ubuntu Touch and it has a system called Waydroid for this. Not quite seamless and you’ll want to use native when possible but it does work.

  SailfishOS, PostmarketOS, Mobian, etc all also can use Waydroid or a similar thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨which softwares can I self host without public IP?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just have a script that checks my IP every few minutes and changes the DNS record as necessary

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good for them honestly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich: opinion revised⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not looking to become a sysadmin

  And that’s fine and understandable. But I don’t think that Immich is for you. It’s not consumer-grade software. It’s a piece of Linux server software that requires occasional maintenance and administration. We haven’t seen a breaking update in a while but Immich does occasionally release updates where things will break if you don’t dig in to the config files and reconfigure it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich: opinion revised⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re self hosting then you could just copy all the files from your server onto an external drive. I have to say that’s not a great backup solution though, and you should learn more about administration of Linux servers so that when things break you can fix them. I wouldn’t rely on it as a safe solution to your photos otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich: opinion revised⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you paying for Immich somewhere? Then you’d have to trust the administrator to back your data up. I had assumed you were self hosting and by managed services I meant like Google Photos, or indeed someone else’s Immich setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich: opinion revised⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You should have a backup solution for your server that should cover this, without that you should probably stick with managed photo backup services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich: opinion revised⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah you could go on the site and select whatever photos and hit download I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich: opinion revised⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If anyone’s interested, here’s my Immich backup script. You setup rclone to use an S3 storage service like BackBlaze which is quite cheap. I also use a crypt which means RClone will encrypt and decrypt all files to/from the server. S3 configuration and crypt setup.

  Then set this up as a cron job. With the “BACKUP_DIR” option when you delete a photo it will get moved to the “deleted” folder. You can go into your S3 provider’s lifecycle settings and have these get deleted after a number of days. I do 10 days. Or you can skip that and they’ll be gone forever.

  #!/bin/bash
  SRC_PATH="/path/to/immich/library"
  DEST_REMOTE="b2crypt:immich-photos/backup"
  BACKUP_DIR="b2crypt:immich-photos/deleted"
  RCLONE_OPTIONS="--copy-links --update --delete-during --backup-dir=$BACKUP_DIR --suffix `TZ='America/New_York' date +%Y-%m-%d`.bak --verbose"
  rclone sync $SRC_PATH $DEST_REMOTE $RCLONE_OPTIONS
  
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to connect it to a server to even use it

  That’s also true of the versions of Android that 99.99% of people use

  cannot have any third-party apps without an online account.

  Most people don’t care. They’ll use the suggested app store and have an account already.

  Right or not, it is what it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re developed separately. It’s a hard fork to I consider them different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the past 10 years it’s pretty much just been Firefox, Safari, Explorer/Edge, and Chrome. 99% of browsers are just skinned Chrome. Even Edge now. Opera’s engine died in 2013.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s probably why I saw it I’m my steam recs the other day then. So the publicity is working!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be the change you want to see in Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah new users are like, semi-shadow banned for a while

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Motorola makes a much better flip phone in terms of experience overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of the best ones to come out recently, but it’s still significantly taller than the pre-iPhone 6 models

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They gave out Wipeout and infamous for free out of that, I got a lot of play time out of those two games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To you maybe not. It bothers some people and especially in cases when the stream isn’t optimal and the scene is dark it can be pretty bad.

  Another difference is multichannel audio. It’s much less compressed on 4k Bluray, so if you have a surround setup most people report easily being able to tell a difference.

  Also older movies with film grain is something streaming struggles with. (Check out this video about how confetti wrecks YouTube quality for an idea why) 4KBD has a much higher bitrate and will handle this noticably better. A proper scan of old film movies can still yield nearly 8k resolution footage! This also applies to any scene even in modern movies with a ton of stuff moving at once especially if the camera is moving around. The bigger and/or closer your screen is the more noticable this is.

  If you care enough to have a decent home media setup, surround sound with a large 4K HDR screen it’s worth it.

  But yeah for most people streaming is perfectly fine on the quality front.

  But also you have the other benefit - you own the damn thing. It can’t be taken away. They sometimes have extra content with the discs. It doesn’t cost you a monthly fee.

  I stream many things. But if I really like something I’ll grab the Bluray.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain will not recognise Trump’s new name for Gulf of Mexico⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least the parts that used to be Mexican Territory, if nothing else.

  Or all of it I’m good with that too

  Although the fact that Mexico’s official name is “Estados Unidos Mexicanos”/“Mexican United States” does muddy things a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find the easiest way to spot the quality difference is a dark scene. On streaming look at the dark areas. You’ll likely see bands and patches of different levels of black if you pay attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even regular Blu-Rays are better quality than streaming.

  4K-blurays are the definitive way to see movies at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy New Year! Thought I'd share my new year's resolution to the people here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or finding content in 8k

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy New Year! Thought I'd share my new year's resolution to the people here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  8k has no place in the home. Anywhere, really.

  When a single movie is hundreds of gigabytes it doesn’t fit on existing home media standards and the marked for physical media is dying too much for anyone to make a new one. Plus, streaming services are definitely not gonna jump on that kind of bandwidth usage. Unless they compress the shit out of it and lower the bitrate at which point while technically 8k you would probably see a decent 4k Bluray exceed the quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yule Tidings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  🎵_there goes my hero_🎶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tis the season⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1K a month is a good deal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely, unless you have medical issues it cannot be worth $1300/mo + deductible. You could save that yourself and probably get through most emergencies.

  (This is statistically speaking, of course in an unlikely serious emergency you might sack up some insane costs.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would somehow make negative money I think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even better than a cart of apples⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Joke”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are anyone else's texts getting delayed after the RCS switch?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m in a 5 person group chat, 2 Pixels, a OnePlus, and 2 iPhones. RCS works great for us so far