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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
> I have to repeatedly tell Discord that I’m not a student and not interested in their scholastic channels I am a student but I don't want to link my personal Discord account with school things, which they keep recommending, FFS.
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
According to some simple Googling [0] seems to be the oldest occurrence of this. [0] http://athena.ecs.csus.edu/~brodyr/jokes/engr/sign-engr.html
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
Yay Zorin is awesome
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
tbh not even using but just donating could help
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
> The biggest constraint is often push notifications not working. A massive problem, but the UnifiedPush project is trying to change that with an open spec for push notifications. Apps that support it: https://unifiedpush.org&
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
The vendor has custom modules for auto-updating. afaik F-Droid also auto-updates on freer distributions of Android but not on most manufacturer ones.
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
don't know but I hope it does
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
Foxydroid is a really nice and imo much faster F-Droid frontend https://f-droid.org/en/packages/nya.kitsunyan.foxydroid/ (not affiliated just a big fan)
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
The group is probably small, but Zorin OS is also a distro aimed at non-power users, and I installed it for my grandparents' slow computer.
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
90% of the voters are too stupid or probably don't even know what encryption is. Many are also going to stick to party lines. It just matters whether the 10% swing voters will care about this issue *more than* the other awful things th
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
https://www.navidrome.org/ might help (I'm unaffiliated, just sharing)
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
As someone who immigrated to the US from India, and was a 'stereotypical nerd' (being on HN duh) nosy neighbors seem nice on the outside but it can get old really quick. (Unless you're perfectly average for the community yo
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
> hardware that's vendor-locked to a cloud service is a risky move. AFAIK from an above comment by @rozzie the protocol is open and the domain can be changed. So it should be possible for someone to write a self hostable server htt
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
dang! this was exactly something like I have been looking for. I have an app idea in mind that could use abstracting away the financial logic.
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
> Good thing everyone is already trained to click through certificate warnings. With a proper UI there would be different messages when a cert mismatches compared to when a new cert is seen or the previous cert was about to expire. (Quit
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by altantiprocrast 5y ago
TOFU like SSH or Gemini?