encom

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by encom 5d ago
There are just two makers of devices, Google and Apple, both proprietary and user hostile and they'll do anything the government tells them. Remember how quickly they implemented that covid tracking bullshit? Yeah.
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by encom 6d ago
What a shitty hill to die on. I don't know if this is a genetic thing, but as a scandinavian who wears shorts down to like 12C, I am unable to function in >30C humid weather. Anything more labour intensive than drinking sangria on i
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by encom 10d ago
>OS excitement Debian+KDE here. It's what I use to get away from OS excitement. I miss the 90's when nobody ever updated anything, and if they did it was on purpose and not something that happened behind your back. For example,
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by encom 11d ago
It streams videos. It works. I'd rather they don't mess with it. However, the guy who decided to put a useless button on the side of the remote that interrupts whatever you're watching, should get fired immediately. It's
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by encom 12d ago
As long as the Signal desktop app is a 420 MB[1] pile of Electron, I refuse to install it. I may be a dinosaur, but a good desktop app is a requirement. I hate typing on a touch screen. [1] $ curl -s https://updates.signal.org
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by encom 20d ago
Quoting a dead comment: >I wish we didn't have to use email at all. Email has big problems, but contemplate the kind of lovecraftian horror the great minds of silicon valley would replace it with today. Imagine the worst parts of Fa
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by encom 21d ago
Elon Derangement Syndrome is real, like the Trump equivalent.
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by encom 21d ago
All of the WWW was better in 2008. Unironically. We've all been frog-boiled into this current hellscape.
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by encom 22d ago
I know for sure NT4 didn't have defragging built in, because I was a Windows server admin back in the primordial soup that was sysadmin'ing in the 90's. >OCD soothing experience I've always felt it was a certain kind
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by encom 22d ago
That's 5 years longer than Apple.
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by encom 22d ago
>defragmentation Windows has had built in defrag since at least WinXP. I can't remember if Win2000 had it - I think it did. It runs in the background and you don't have to worry about it. 3rd party defrag tools are snake oil, l
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by encom 22d ago
This truly is the clowniest timeline.
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by encom 1mo ago
For that argument to hold, they'd also have to blacklist any phone not running the newest, most up to date Android version, because all older versions presumably have known exploits. So that basically leaves Pixel phones.
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by encom 1mo ago
How does a rooted phone enable bank fraud? This smells like pointless policy checkboxing.
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by encom 1mo ago
>Not what he did. Maybe "antagonise" isn't the right word (ESL). By tricking the border agent into wiping the device, you have made him annoyed / angry / look foolish etc. No matter how much you are in the right
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by encom 1mo ago
>arbitrary Border searches aren't arbitrary. Sure, in the sense you may or may not get searched, but not in the sense that cops come and turn over your house for no reason. Crossing the border, you know some fraction of travellers w
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by encom 1mo ago
“Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?” -- Galatians 4:16
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by encom 1mo ago
Things that are unneeded, ie. unmaintained, eventually get purged. It happens quite regularly. For nearly every kconfig option, someone needs it enough to maintain it. But I agree, `make menuconfig' is overwhelming.
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by encom 1mo ago
>popover Why are we cool with popups again? Anything that interrupts and blocks content is annoying, and is nearly guaranteed to make me leave immediately. It can be used responsibly, but it almost never is.
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by encom 1mo ago
>deposit a cheque That would be inconvenient if this was 1985.
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by encom 1mo ago
I'm not saying it isn't, but I don't have a shred of sympathy for the developers manning the ovens. Pick a job that isn't actively harmful to society. If you're responsible for the system at Facebook that serves end
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by encom 1mo ago
I don't want to Godwin this thread so early, but you know what analogy I'm thinking of. If you work as a developer for Google, Microsoft, Flock, CloudFlare, Facebook etc. etc. you are complicit in making the world a crappier place
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by encom 1mo ago
This. Debian+KDE. No AI and nothing happens on my computer that I don't know about.
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by encom 1mo ago
A developer made whatever tech is currently pissing me off. I don't care about the supply chain.
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by encom 1mo ago
Never has anything been blown out of proportion more than this Hot Coffee nothingburger. It astounds me that anyone took this seriously at the time.
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by encom 1mo ago
>warnings in cigarettes packages Oh how I miss those warnings. Nowadays the packages are covered in graphic body horror pictures. And there's no branding on them any more, just white text on a black background, so I have to carefull
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by encom 1mo ago
But if you go too far in that direction, you end up at the Mozilla school of design. Alienating your core users, and designing a product for users that aren't there. Look at them now.
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by encom 1mo ago
>My favorite watch (excuse me, "chronograph") EXCUSE me... It's a time-piece !
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by encom 2mo ago
>The charging port doesn't work half the time Give it a blast with an air compressor.
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by encom 2mo ago
This, but set it to disable all animations. It makes using the phone so much quicker, not having to pause for pointless animations.

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