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atrielienz

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  • Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S.

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  • RCS won't allow users to turn off certain things like read receipts. That's problematic for some. I personally like them but I know people who don't who I have unfortunately had to inform that they have to turn off RCS altogether to get rid of them even though there's a setting to turn off read receipts.

  • Google wants to make stolen Android phones basically unsellable

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  • That assumes it's attached to a carrier. I had a phone stolen out of the mail.

  • Google wants to make stolen Android phones basically unsellable

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  • On the other hand I like that my phone does those things and don't want it to be sellable in the event that someone decides to steal it.

  • The SteamOS era is imminent: Valve adds a new compatibility rating for games that’ll run on ‘any device that’s not a Steam Deck’

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  • I opted for the ROG Ally X. A couple of things swayed me. My ability to hold it in store and the tech specs for future proofing were both reasons. But I never planned for this device to be a Windows only handheld. I specifically bought it for the few games I own that can't run Linux and I run everything else in Bazzite. If it had come with Steam OS I likely still would have bought it and done a dual boot. I don't think it's fair to assume that people are buying non-steam handhelds just because they don't want to deal with Linux. They likely have no idea what Linux has to offer and are going with what they can buy in store.

  • Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants

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  • Good.

  • End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending

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  • I have a couple of reasons. The first and foremost is that I use windows for two things. Gaming (I dual boot windows and Bazzite for that to cover the few games I haven't gotten to work), and work. My work laptop has windows 10 because the IT department can't get some of the legacy software we rely on to do our jobs to work in 11. The compatibility layer originally wasn't there and now it only works some of the time and every time there's an update it breaks something. As a result we will likely be paying to continue to receive important security updates after 10 sunsets in October.

    Additionally, some windows computers lose certain functionality when you install Linux (touchscreen compatibility, pen input compatibility etc. Can I update my personal surface pro to Linux? Yes. Will I? Unlikely. It's way more likely that I'll jailbreak it to force free security updates for the duration. I've run into way too much stuff I've had to have to IT department just straight up turn off in both 11 and 10. 11 is much worse for this though and subsequent updates have a habit of turning that stuff back on because MS wants that data.

    So much new telemetry. So many new ads. So much random tracking. Swapping browsers to Edge. Copilot. Etc.

    My fedora rig has secure-boot/tpm enabled. But getting that to work isn't something the average windows user is going to do. The average windows user doesn't ever open the command line in windows. And that's the thing I think people in the Linux community need to understand. I grew up with DOS. I spent 30+ years using the command line. I have used windows since 3.0. I have a general understanding of how to get what I want out of windows. I'm learning to do that with Linux but I have been on Linux for like a year and a half. The learning curve when you are already very familiar with something else and have muscle memory for something else is staggering. And I can fully understand why it might be exceptionally confusing and unintuitive for someone who's never had to use a terminal ever.

    The fact is, most computer devices are phones. They use apps. There is some overlap in that with windows, but the plug and play nature of how these people are used to doing things is just as important to this conversation as just about ever other point.

    Windows even pops up "helpful" tips and tricks because they know that people aren't windows savvy. I personally hate them but I'm not the average windows user.

    I'd also like to point out that windows had the audacity to change the design language and somehow make a usable tablet environment worse in windows 11 in a bit to be more macOS-like and I personally really really hate that as well. I have my desktop and start menu set up in a way I like it and windows 11 completely ruins that and in my case makes things harder for me because I am fighting muscle memory. It's egregious to have to pay for the privilege of changing my start menu or task bar. I shouldn't have to go in and doctor what apps are allow during start up. I shouldn't have to turn off OneDrive or office 365. I shouldn't have to turn off telemetry or ads. This is a device I purchased and the OS is not supposed to spy on me.

  • What are your Favorite ADHD related Life Hacks?

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  • Lists. My notes app puts in work. I make lists for everything. I set alarms for everything. I write things down while I'm thinking about them because I will forget. I ask for things in writing because I will misremember what was said. I have a white board stuck to my fridge so that I can write down when we're out of something or running low. Oh. And basketball nets over the hamper.

  • The Privacy Iceberg

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  • I think someone is stealing some of my 6 billion for themselves. Just some. Not all. Just. Some.

  • Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots

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  • I would like to remind you of two things. The first is that reddit used to have a mod tool called "BotDefense". Its shutdown in July of 2023 directly lead to a major uptick in Spam Bots.

    The second is that part of the ad revenue is "impressions". Impressions are just an account (bot or human) "viewing" the ad and they do not require a click-through. The platform hosting the ad still gets paid for those.

  • The Privacy Iceberg

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  • This is Lemmy. You're the 30billionth to tell me.

  • The Privacy Iceberg

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  • Is there any community for Linux for noobs ?

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  • Thank you for this post. I have been talking the ear off my one Linux friend since I installed Bazzite and I'm sure he's got better things to do with his time than help me every time I text him with a problem or a question. A lot of online forums on the subject talk over my head so I need clarification even when I can find the solution to my problem.

  • Judge Rules Apple Top Executive Alex Roman Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral

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  • It seems that he made claims in court that Apple the company did not knowingly engage in practices that would be considered anti-competitive under the law.

    "For a year and a half, Apple has engaged in bad faith, levying a variety of different and new fees to app developers to get around the spirit of the judicial order. It put up scare screens, engaged in sleazy privilege claims, and lied under oath to the judge about its decision-making. Normally these kinds of tactics happen without consequence for important business executives. But this time, the judge accused Apple Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, of having “outright lied under oath,” and referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney for a criminal contempt investigation. She also went out of her way to blame Apple CEO Tim Cook directly." - From the article.

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    PSA: lemmy.dbzer0.com labels anyone who shows any dislike for AI as a "right-wing neoliberal"

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  • So checks notes people who are against capitalist corporate Generative AI LLM's because they're just thieving all and sundry and ignoring any laws that might stop them are checks notes pro-capitalism Alt-Right supporters who... Checks notes a third time support Trump and all the capitalist companies bolstering his presidency in order to prevent regulations of Generative AI LLM's.

    Did I get that right?

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    This Lemmy user's threats are mildly infuriating

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  • No. They can't sue you for asserting that you libel'd them because you are not causing harm to their reputation. You can make assertions about anybody on the internet, but they have to prove they were harmed reputation ally by what you said and they would lose because they don't have a reputation attached to who they actually are in real life associated with their Lemmy account. They're full of shit and this is an attempt to strong arm you.

    Report them and block them and be prepared to block and report any new account a harassing you until they get themselves an IP ban.

  • Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates

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  • I sometimes wonder if I'm the only person who remembers top sites. Like sites where you went to get straight up pirated material for the purposes of making bootlegs etc.

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  • People are lonely. They lack the kinds of interactions in their lives that make them feel comfortable and more importantly allow them to feel seen or understood. The mindless scrolling temporarily fills the void they have in human interaction while allowing them to interact themselves if/when they want to.

    Humans are "addicted" to human interaction and the algorithms take advantage of that fact to make a product out of them.

    Additionally, human brains seek out novelty. A lot of our day to day lives are filled with work and duties (chores, bills, children) etc. People in the 1920's weren't addicted to the news paper. They needed something to do with their free time that didn't break the bank. Increasingly there's just not that many things that you can put down to switch gears that fit that bill.

  • Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it

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  • Yeah. My entire windows machine is locked down specifically to combat the copilot ms365 plague. I'm also using Bazzite and generally loving it. But I have a work machine for work things and some of my programs require windows to work.

  • Toy Murderer!

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  • It's only playing dead. Its eyes are open.