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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  recently I saw someone spell “extreme” as “extream” which is just kind of baffling, I actually can’t even imagine how one would make such a mistake?

  There is a mountain of anecdotal evidence, and a small mound of scientific research, suggesting that psychedelics can improve creativity even in the long term. Ask your doctor if LSD or psilocybin might help with your imagination deficit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ebooks.com has a ton of DRM-free ebooks. They have a whole DRM-free section, plus a search filter, and they clearly display all available formats before purchase. That’s my first stop for ebooks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CryptPad.org, the end to end encrypted collaboration suite⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using cryptpad.fr (the “flagship instance” of CryptPad) for years. It’s…fine. Really, it’s fine. I’m not thrilled with the experience, but it is functional and I’m not aware of any viable alternatives that are end-to-end encrypted.

  It’s based on OnlyOffice, which is basically a heavyweight web-first Microsoft Office clone. Set your expectations accordingly.

  No mobile apps, and the web UI is not optimized for mobile. I mean, it works, but does using the desktop MS Office UI on a smartphone sound like fun to you?

  Performance is tolerable but if you’re used to Google Sheets, it’s a big downgrade. Some of this is just the necessary overhead involved in an end-to-end encrypted cloud service. Some of it is because, again, this is a heavyweight desktop UI running in a web browser. It’s functional, but it’s not fast and it’s not pretty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I try an alternate android version without nuking my phone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish it were that simple!

  There is no good way to back up an Android phone, unfortunately.

  By “good” I mean in such a way that you can restore it and be back to a 100% identical state with no additional steps. And that you can validate that backup before erasing the source, and without needing an additional identical test device.

  ADB backups will not contain your app data. Not much of a “backup” at all really.

  Google cloud backups only work for supported apps (good luck finding out which ones support it!), and restoration is only available during initial OS setup. Validation is impossible. The whole process is highly error prone. In all my years using Android, I don’t though I’ve ever seen this work perfectly. It’s an absolute mess.

  Third-party apps either require root or will not back up app data. At least on any recent version of Android. (9+, was it? I forget exactly but it’s been many years now.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The far right are well-practiced at co-opting and twisting concepts. It’s classic doublespeak.

  It’s why you have “Christians” who are staunchly opposed to feeding the hungry, or treating the sick. (See: school lunches.)

  It’s why “capitalism” now represents the complete lack of meaningful competition, when that competition is the only thing that ever made capitalism worthwhile in the first place. (See: Microsoft getting away scot-free after being found guilty of illegal, anticompetitive business practices all throughout the 90s.)

  It’s why “free speech” proponents are laser-focused on creating new and terrifying mechanisms for censorship. (See: *gestures widely*)

  I could go on.

  It’s sad how little resistance has been made against this corruption. How easily our natural allies have been turned into our greatest enemies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The biggest breach of US government data is under way⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only possible silver lining to all this is that perhaps “normal” people will finally start to care about the problems techies have been screaming about for 20+ years now.

  It was inevitable that a bad actor would gain access eventually, because there is no such a thing as an organization that you can trust in perpetuity. That obviously doesn’t excuse the actual bad actors that now have access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full Android image backup in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Backups: No. Google does not grant you access to the full disk to make backups anymore (for many years now).

  Factory reset: Yes. This will NOT restore your personal data. See developers.google.com/android/images for Google’s OS image downloads, and grapheneos.org/install/cli#replacing-grapheneos-w… for how to revert from Graphene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alex Kurtzman Gives Live-Action Comedy Update, Says Star Trek Can “Broaden”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Spot on.

  SNW is good but I don’t think we’ll ever see a return to the old TV format of 20+ episode seasons. You can’t do random episodic stories all that well in 6-12 episodes. Short seasons have no room to breathe.

  Even Futurama has this problem with the two new Hulu seasons, and that’s without the burden of an overarching plot to keep moving forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally agree.

  I’ll watch whatever Tawny Newsome does next. Lower Decks earned a ton of goodwill. It was a breath of fresh air.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL Connor Trinneer & Dominic Keating have a podcast called "The D-Con Chamber". Here they are interviewing Nana Visitor on her new book!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never thought about it that way, but yeah. Spot-on.

  I don’t hate it in Enterprise to be honest, because there is the context of “humanity not yet at its best”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨c/TanEggs - For animals that fit the 'tan egg' description - Looking for moderators & contributors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Better links to the community:

  !taneggs@lemmy.ca

  /c/taneggs@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I claim ownership of the microorganisms in and on my body. I am not merely human; I am a glorious amalgamation of trillions of distinct beings, working in harmony to bring you shitposts!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a begrudging Comcast customer myself, allow me to explain. They are the least shitty option because the only alternatives in my area are 5G and Verizon DSL. Verizon DSL has a max download speed less than 1mbps.

  So yeah, I use Comcast. And I hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any privacy-friendly way to use Facebook on iOS?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also sometimes use the mbasic.facebook.com site from a private Firefox tab on my iPhone, but FB has just started telling me I need to use Chrome

  WTF.

  But really, using a Chromium-based or Safari-based browser in private/incognito mode will not be much different as far as tracking goes.

  You might also be able to install a user-agent switcher extension in Firefox. I thiiiiiink Firefox supports extensions on iOS now, right? If not, you can try an alternative browser like Duckduckgo or Orion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your feeling is incorrect. Post history is public if you care to confirm. ¯\(ツ)/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mozilla is rapidly becoming an ad company, so I’m not really confident in it long-term. See: blog.mozilla.org/…/improving-online-advertising/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another problem with DRM’d platforms is that you don’t really know how long this will be easy or even viable. I recall these tools breaking in the past as Amazon changed their encryption, and it took time for them to be updated.

  For anyone with a large library on Kindle, Audible, or any other DRM-infested platform, I recommend stripping that DRM sooner rather than later. You might think “I can always do it later” but there’s no guarantee that will be true.

  Also, shoutout to ebooks.com for having a dedicated DRM-free section and a simple checkbox to filter search results to only show DRM-free items. Not sure where to go for DRM-free audiobooks though. Anyone got suggestions? Personally I will simply not buy books with DRM, regardless of how easy it might be to crack it. If I’m going to have to break the law anyway (thanks, DMCA!), I might as well pirate it and find some other way to toss the author a few bucks.