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- Comment on For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit 2 weeks ago:
I agree, unless it’s straight up paid software which I usually don’t mind paying for if it’s good and I need it. Although arguably uBlock Origin is so close to perfection that I can’t imagine how a paid ad blocker would hold up.
- Comment on Palworld Lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
So…Red Dead Redemption infringes two of these three patents?
- Throwing an object (lasso) to capture a target
- Player character being able to ride on another character (horse)
Is Nintendo afraid because Rockstar can actually afford the lawsuit?
- Comment on The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor 1 month ago:
I’m not sure how sustainable this model is. Especially when a reader browses via a link aggregator and therefore reads news articles on many different websites. I doubt most people want/can afford a subscription on dozens of different news outlets, as that’ll quickly add up to a triple-digit monthly bill.
Something like Flattr, but maybe non-optional, would be better. Pay a fixed monthly fee and split the payment between all sites you read articles on (maybe based on how many, or reading time or whatever).
- Comment on Are anyone else's texts getting delayed after the RCS switch? 1 month ago:
SMS, iMessage and now RCS have been working well for me and I’ve been (primarily) using iPhones for the past 8 years now.
The Messages app shows what type of message (iMessage/SMS/RCS) you’re about to send in the text field and displays which (sent or received) messages are what as well.
One thing I could see going wrong is that a given phone number is registered with iMessage and it hasn’t been disabled after switching to an Android phone for example.
Another thing is that if it’s using RCS, some carriers don’t seem to work too well with it as of now. iOS seems to have implemented the base standard, while Google added proprietary extensions to said “standard” in Android, like end-to-end encryption. I never had issues sending or receiving RCS messages from/to Android devices, but there might be some hiccups for some people as RCS - even though it’s called a “standard” - isn’t really standardized.
Not sure what’s so insane from Apple’s side about any of that.
- Comment on Any tips for setting up a Mac? A 15+ years Linux user needs help 1 month ago:
Your company should provide you with an Apple ID (or “Apple Account” as it’s apparently called now), no…? If they didn’t but one is required, ask them.
- Comment on Citron is yet one more Switch emulator appearing online 2 months ago:
Yuzu is also a citrus fruit, so it at least makes sense.
- Comment on Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux 2 months ago:
Let me guess without reading: kernel-level anti-cheat?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
Sounds about right. There are some valid and good use cases for “AI”, but the majority is just buzzword marketing.
- Comment on Healthiest way to charge Lithium Ion 2 months ago:
Technically, wired charging degrades the battery less than wireless charging, mainly because of the excessive heat generated by the latter. The same way slower wired charging generates less heat. Lower and upper charging limits also help (the tighter the better).
But I personally don’t bother with it. In my experience, battery degradation and longevity mostly comes down to the “battery lottery”, comparable to the “silicon lottery” where some CPUs overclock/undervolt better than others. I’ve had phone batteries mostly charged with a slow wired charger degrade earlier and more compared to almost exclusively wireless charging others. No battery is an exact verbatim copy of another one. Heck, I had a 2 month old battery die on me after just ~20 cycles once. It happens.
Sure, on average you might get a bit more life out of your batteries, but in my opinion it’s not worth it.
The way I see it with charging limits is that sure, your battery might degrade 5% more over the span of 2 years when always charging it to 100% (all numbers here are just wild estimates and, again, depend on your individual battery). But when you limit charging to 80% for example, you get 20% less capacity from the get go. Unless of course you know exactly on what days you need 100% charge and plan your charging ahead of time that way.
Something I personally could never be bothered with. I want to use my device without having to think about it. If that means having to swap out the battery one year earlier, then so be it.
- Comment on YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns" 2 months ago:
The list of “Healthy Games” is a great resource to have!
- Comment on AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test 2 months ago:
The article links an article from March '24 talking about the introduction of these devices that contains this part:
The scanner that Adams and police officials introduced during Thursday’s news conference in a lower Manhattan station came from Evolv, a publicly traded company that has been accused of doctoring the results of software testing to make its scanners appear more effective than they are.
So they could never be trusted but were still allowed to proceed.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 2 months ago:
Bitwarden keeps working just fine.
- Comment on Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images) 2 months ago:
Can’t you store them in a cache that keeps images that have been accessed in the last 48 hours (or whatever) and deletes others? Should someone request these images after that, cache them again for 48 hours.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 3 months ago:
If the apps wouldn’t be slow React Native or whatever “multiplatform framework” crapware, then I’d actually say that well designed, native Swift UI (iOS) or Material (Android) apps can enhance the user experience for a lot of services that are otherwise offered via website. Native integrations with shortcuts, widgets, fully supporting accessibility features of the OS etc.
The problem is most apps are just low-effort web app conversions.
- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 3 months ago:
AI assisted Notepad is a thing?
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 3 months ago:
Oh I’m not trying to imply otherwise.
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 3 months ago:
Suspicious!
You can use most VPN services via the Wireguard or OpenVPN apps though, or even via some of the protocols natively supported by iOS not requiring any third-party app.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 3 months ago:
Kind of relatable. I go with the smaller sizes (regular Pro) as the Max is too large for my relatively small hands to use one-handed but at the same time it’s not large enough to enhance what I can do with the device.
So what I do is I always have my phone with me and optionally I take my 11" iPad Pro with me, although I’m hoping they’ll release a new iPad mini in October as I’d like something a bit more portable (and I also want the variant with mobile data, while my 11" Pro is Wi-Fi only).
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 3 months ago:
You mean as a phone? Its modem only does data, yeah.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 3 months ago:
Which isn’t even close to an iPad in size, not even the iPad mini in terms of actual screen real estate.
- Comment on AMD's High-End X670E Motherboards Limiting Gen5 SSDs To Gen1 Speeds, Users Unable To Boot Into Windows After Restart 3 months ago:
- ASUS’ and MSI’s motherboards, not AMD’s.
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 3 months ago:
iOS/iPadOS: Safari + AdGuard (+ Vinegar (optional)) macOS: Safari + AdGuard or Firefox + uBO or FreeTube
- Comment on The definitive roadmap for your self-hosting journey 3 months ago:
There is no definitive roadmap.
- Comment on Who is your favorite video game developer? 3 months ago:
Great games as well, but I was mostly playing on PC during the PS2 era. Loved their original Crash Bandicoot games as well. But Uncharted and also The Last of Us was pretty special to me.
- Comment on Who is your favorite video game developer? 3 months ago:
Larian Studios
And Naughty Dog during the PS3 era.
- Comment on The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive 4 months ago:
Replace the 3060 with an equally-priced AMD card and you’ll actually get something decent for your money. Nvidia is horrible at these “lower” price points.
- Comment on Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” 4 months ago:
It is, but then again many (most) are hosted on GitHub.
- Comment on GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project 4 months ago:
I still think if I was strictly anti Google that would imply giving them not a single dime.
- Comment on GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project 4 months ago:
It is quite ironic. “I don’t like Google, let me free myself from all of Google. But to do that first let me buy that $500-$1,000 phone made by Google to then get rid of all the Google software on it”.
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 4 months ago:
Article from JUNE 14, 2022