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by jabbany 4y ago
Ah, I also use hass to automate my home heating but for a much dumber reason... I live in a really old house where the furnace is on a two-wire control system (open=off, closed=on) so no possibility of working in good smart thermostat solut
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by jabbany 4y ago
To be fair, housing and rental markets in some places are kind of pre-ruined. There have been plenty of (and doubtless will be plenty more) scammy landlords for short-term rentals. AirBnB really just provided a modern online interface with
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by jabbany 4y ago
I think the problem is the contract behind what you're getting for the software. For me personally, I'm more than happy to pay for software if it's clear the developer has _my_ interests in mind when building it (think IDEs,
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by jabbany 4y ago
Probably different use cases but I've never found tools that show the window contents to be useful over the window title. I almost always have many windows that would have thumbnails essentially indistinguishable from each other (think
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by jabbany 4y ago
I mean if I'm at the point of having to monkeypatch the explorer executable, I might as well not use Windows...
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by jabbany 4y ago
That's the whole argument. This should not need to be "fixed" by a third party tool, it should just be part of the system that was already paid for! (It was even included all the way up to 10 so clearly there was no technical
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by jabbany 4y ago
This! So much this! What's the point of having a taskbar that only groups by app...This has been one of the major pain points of me using Mac OS and it is immensely sad that Windows 11 has also taken this approach. At least some Linux
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by jabbany 4y ago
Umm, you do realize that the first author's surname is also Abe? And that in general it's a common-ish surname...
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by jabbany 4y ago
Hmm, I remember still having to install individual drivers for USB thumb drives/sticks on our stock 98SE install. It was only until we "upgraded" to WinME that USB mass storage largely became plug-and-play. (Though, I think y
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by jabbany 4y ago
Pretty sure there's a carve ot specifically for those. Ref: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#in-...
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by jabbany 4y ago
Yeah. Microsoft has been more effective at getting users off Windows than Linux ever has. Since Win 11 I've had multiple inquiries from friends/family about how to switch to a different OS... (or get them back to at least Win 10.
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by jabbany 4y ago
As a Fedora user I can see one almost-reason. IIRC Fedora by default only ships with the FOSS repos enabled. Most average users probably want to enable the rpmfusion repos to get things like media codecs, drivers, and various other nonfree
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by jabbany 4y ago
I recall doing such an offline dump with Wikitaxi ( https://www.yunqa.de/delphi/apps/wikitaxi/index ) back when WP was getting banned in China a decade or so ago. IIRC the articles were rather easy to download
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by jabbany 4y ago
Huh.. that must explain why I've been seeing a lot of brands switching to the term "frozen yogurt" for what is essentially cheap "ice cream" (=> tastes nothing like actual frozen yogurt...). > Unlike yogurt, f
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by jabbany 4y ago
Ok.. the larger point about "inflation beyond just prices" is well understood but... why do people keep coining more and more new terms for this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation https:/&#x2F
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by jabbany 4y ago
No. In this example your IP is shared with a third party "Facebook" simply because of the embedded QR code to a social page hosted by them. This is something very different from, say, the website of the restaurant you downloaded t
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by jabbany 4y ago
That still implies that you are actively "using" the messaging application. Just because it is listening to messages in this case doesn't mean it's inactive, you still expect it to push stuff to you. However in the case
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by jabbany 4y ago
> that data is being exfiltrated Multiple bits of information are exfiltrated actually, and to a 3rd party (if it turns out the behavior is as described). The obvious one is your IP, which allows for some coarse geolocation. Also implici
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by jabbany 4y ago
Similar privacy issues of URL prefetching aside, this is actually not exactly the same. URL prefetching is usually only expected to happen "on demand" while you're using stuff (e.g. generating link previews when they appear).
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by jabbany 4y ago
I keep imagining the fantasy scenario where some day I stumble on a software download or repo or something. Nothing special, no fanfare, just a random piece of code to do some random task. Inside the repo or zip, is a simple text manifest f
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by jabbany 4y ago
> was it any worse than the stream of MCU junk? Not really. Exactly. Hence the "mediocre". It's a familiar storytelling format with a different set of ideological undertones. Nothing special but also not like it's bad
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by jabbany 4y ago
There kind of is already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth The premise is that humans turned the Earth into a planet-scale space vessel to escape the sun's expansion and rehome into a different so
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by jabbany 4y ago
> Also who wants to live in a planet in perpetual darkness? I'd guess in that case people would be living underground in artificially lit environments... This idea has already been explored by sci-fi. One instance that comes to mind
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by jabbany 4y ago
Heh, it reminds me of this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0 which does something similar... using a modern device to give old devices essentially capabilities beyond what they should be able to do.
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by jabbany 4y ago
I think the parent means you "solve" it by just avoiding it altogether :)
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by jabbany 4y ago
Does it really "milk" developers though... The "customers" of Steam are the developers not the people buying games. They make money not by selling games (well okay, Valve does sell first party games via Steam too) but by
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by jabbany 4y ago
Right! That's the problem with streaming services today: it's not a better experience for many people/use cases when it comes to consuming games. It only really works for someone who (1) plays mostly popular AAA titles as soo
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by jabbany 4y ago
I think the article summarizes things up pretty well. Steam is popular because it won a brutal evolutionary battle in the realm of PC distribution. PC games have never had any barriers to distribution, and old distribution methods (physical
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by jabbany 4y ago
Password reuse is a very different issue. You should not be reusing passwords on accounts you care about period. 2FA isn't meant to protect against reuse (though it does help). If a password is reused your 2FA becomes just 1 factor. Th
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by jabbany 4y ago
It's not really my idea (has been proposed multiple times long ago to the point it has even been implemented in many places). As for identity theft, it's actually not that common/easy except in the US (which has no centralize

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