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by drnick1 9mo ago
Alternative: Run your own server so that you can have as many mailboxes/aliases as you want. Give each webiste, company, or even person a different alias. The moment you receive spam, revoke the alias, and optionally name and shame spa
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by drnick1 9mo ago
If you want privacy, Google and Apple are not the answer. And Apple's claims about privacy are mostly unverifiable and should not be trusted.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
This. Reporters should NOT be using a phone that isn't running GrapheneOS. The duress password feature is also useful. Entering it will completely wipe the phone and reset it to factory.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
> automatically tracking FSD miles versus manual miles through direct Tesla integration. No thanks. I unplugged the cellular modem in my car precisely because I can't stand the idea that the manufacturer/dealer/insurance c
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by drnick1 9mo ago
That's optimistic, and most probably 1080p low or medium without RT and with upscaling. Not exactly a great gaming experience by 2026 standards.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
It's not hate, but we are now at a point where the vast majority of games just run, mostly thanks to Valve and the Wine/DVXK community's efforts. What Linux gamers fear now (with good reason) is that increased interest in the
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by drnick1 9mo ago
> Thing is, you don't need a GPU. You would struggle to play any graphically intensive game, old or new, without at least a modest GPU. It's not only AAA.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Yes if gamers truly cared about openness and absence of corporate control, they would move to self-hosted Matrix channels.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Illegal according to whom? The servers are usually located in places where things such as sharing music, copyrighted or not under U.S. law, is not illegal.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Yes and that reflects historical and cultural factors. Cities in Europe were largely built in the preindustrial era. In the U.S. there is just so much more space; it does not make sense to build small or dense. Transportation habits just re
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by drnick1 9mo ago
I don't think so, the busiest lines of the London subway ("tube") don't even have AC. I also rode the subway in Paris some years ago and it wasn't anything to write home about.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
I think the fundamental issue here is that many in America don't actually want dense cities, public transit, and more generally shared spaces. I, for one, would not want to live in condo when I can live in a house. When enough people w
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by drnick1 9mo ago
The issue is that we DO NOT want every device to have a publicly routable IP address. It does make sense for some machines, but you probably don't want your your Internet-of-Shit devices to have public IPs. Of course you can firewall t
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Where small VPS hosts can make a difference: require no KYC, accept crypto payments.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
GrapheneOS on a Pixel is that competitor. Open source, more secure than Apple, compatible with nearly all Android apps. It's all the positive aspects of Android without the downsides (Google).
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by drnick1 9mo ago
It's baffling that the E.U. and others (corporations anywhere really) keep using and paying for Zoom when Jitsi and Nextcloud Talk are free and work very well. This is not a political issue, but one of data sovereignty.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Small programming language with everything passed by value? You reinvented C?
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by drnick1 9mo ago
> What do OnePlus gain from this? Can someone explain me what are the advantages of OnePlus doing all this? They don't want the hardware to be under your control. In the mind of tech executives, selling hardware does not make enough
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by drnick1 9mo ago
That's where GrapheneOS comes in. You can go fully Google-free or use their "sandboxed Google libraries" to run the Google apps as a normal user.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
> Apple has higher consumer trust. That is quickly eroding and has never been justified other than by marketing. > Apple has better app selection (for most people). Android has always had a much better selection of open source softwar
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by drnick1 9mo ago
This 100%; if you need GPIO use a USB adapter.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Same thing here I don't see any cookie request thanks to uBlock with the most restrictive settings.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
Sounds like you could use uBlock and/or a DNS server with Hagezi Pro++.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
AFAIK it's Signal with proprietary extensions, so it's effectively closed.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
It would have been more effective to require Meta (and all other messaging companies) to implement an open protocol or open source theirs, so that people can freely write alternative clients free of malware.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
It's because the real solution here is to move away from this proprietary malware to protocols that are open, so that anyone can write or fork a client. (For instance, see Molly for a fully Ungoogled Signal.) It's difficult when i
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by drnick1 9mo ago
I would hesitate to even call that English: "Many of the features suggested to be characteristic of Euro-English could be identified as learners' mistakes." In short, it's just like Chinglish.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
> In low-level systems software, which is a primary use case for C++ I don't this this is true. There is A LOT of C++ for GUI applications, video games, all kind of utilities, scientific computing and others. In fact, I find that th
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by drnick1 9mo ago
> But also English fluency is widespread, so it’s not a bad starting point. Being able to string together a couple of sentences is not "being fluent." By that standard, all of America would be fluent in Spanish.
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by drnick1 9mo ago
This. Real "power users" (as opposed to people who aren't completely computer-illiterate) use the likes of Arch Linux and Gentoo and self-host whatever "cloud" services they need, they aren't running Windows an

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