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5h ago

What's the Point of an Android Desktop Mode? — ShaneCraig.Tech
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glitching @lemmy.ml 5h ago
it’s a $500 laptop
$600

2d ago

signal w

The issue is them having any info to give out in the first place, it is a horrendous transgression for a shop that touts privacy as their thing.

Signal demonstrated that you can decouple payment info from account info and thus they ain't got nothing to produce, MLAT or not. The least Proton coulda done is mimic that tech.

edit: are you shills illiterate, what's your deal? signal also accepts payments, the kind normal people use, like CC and stuff. and they decoupled payment info from account info, so nobody can link John Smith, Fuckville, AL to account protonshill4lyfe@proton.yo

5d ago

Another suggestion post (notes)

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glitching @lemmy.ml 5d ago

that's what syncthing is for. you can set it up to sync the Notes folder to your other devices in a read/write way or just one way, so you got your central repo.

also, qown has nextcloud notes sync built in.

5d ago

Advice on degoogling

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glitching @lemmy.ml 5d ago

Imma be the problemXY guy - how often do you need to interact with your bank that you need to carry that attack vector always on your person? you managed to live without that thing for a huge percentage of your life, maybe try limiting your exposure. if that works out, your options for a degoogled life rise dramatically.

get a used supported device that ain't a pixel, if you haven't already got one lying around and carry it in parallel - you still got all your shit on your main device and you have the luxury of offloading one by one use case onto the new device without downtime.

maybe you'll make do with just bare lineageOS. maybe you'll need the intermediate step - lineageOS with microG which implements a subset of play services.

hopefully, in the process you'll throw out a buncha consumerism shit you don't actually need. good luck.

5d ago

Another suggestion post (notes)

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glitching @lemmy.ml 5d ago

why would you host anything? that's just an app. QOwnNotes (stupidest name ever) stores .MD files that you can syncthing, rsync, copy, edit externally, whatever, allowing you never to be locked-in again. all the toolboxes can be turned off, netting you a UI that looks like apple's notes.

5d ago

"look! the #signalapp income and salaries report for 2024 dropped!" #startpocketwatching #opentechnologyfund #usgovernmentsponsored

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glitching @lemmy.ml 5d ago

not my circus, not my monkeys

but them positions... as mr. cici famously quipped, that's alot of buffers

you really need a VP of eng and then a director of eng and further liaisons until you reach an actual engineer for a shop that has one product?

again, what do I care, spend it in good health

5d ago

Be aware that ALL samsung phones can't be degoogled anymore. Do not ever buy samsung again if you hope to make calls.

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glitching @lemmy.ml 5d ago

unlock wall of shame

7d ago

ProtonMail provides information used to identify email owner...

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glitching @lemmy.ml 7d ago

what is this take based on? there's a direct line between "we want this shit done" and "judge rubberstamps order"? no process, no interview, no hearing, no nothings? medieval courts maybe worked that way, no system of government I know of nowadays does.

1w ago

ProtonMail provides information used to identify email owner...

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glitching @lemmy.ml 1w ago

I imagine they got courts and lawyers and motions and hearings and stuff over there, even if the fight is doomed you need to show your teeth once in a while. and what's with the proton employee reviewing whether there were "explosives" and "guns" involved, naturally based on super-reliable evidence, what the fuck is that?!

and alla that aside, why do they have payment and user info on file, for what fucking purpose? there's either user privacy or there ain't. and them folks are in the "ain't" camp.

1w ago

Apple: Enough Is Enough

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glitching @lemmy.ml 1w ago

I ran away from macOS seven years ago after spending one too many days fighting with the OS instead of using the thing. the fucking endless upgrade prompts, the security theater with the access-request prompts, the constant iClown shit - bye.

they successfully ruined the best OS for software development and made it into this iOS-isized gimmick that tries to stymie the thing that made it great - its UNIX heritage. super-happy with plasma, don't miss one thing from that era.

except maybe the snow leopard era UI, that was rad... maybe some day a libre OS X will appear.

1w ago

ProtonMail provides information used to identify email owner...

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glitching @lemmy.ml 1w ago

article in case you can't read it: ~~lemmy.ml/post/44086795~~ edit: better link in a reply.

proton coulda put up a fight, a loud one, for optics sake if nothing else. rolling over on any (and by implication, all) request should be the last straw in their long line of snafus; by way of "death by a thousand cuts", I would never entrust them with anything of importance.

signal demonstrated that you could decouple payment info from user data and a shop that touts the privacy part of their offerings coulda at least mimic such a thing.

edit 2: fuck any and all pay-with-crypto shills and the horse they rode in on.

1w ago

Need Help with Video Drivers on a Mid2012 Macbook Pro

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glitching @lemmy.ml 1w ago

yeah, you're safe. either boot to the installer, open terminal, enter command, reboot, or, hold down command-s before clicking on the usb icon. that will boot into single user mode, which is way faster.

1w ago

Need Help with Video Drivers on a Mid2012 Macbook Pro

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glitching @lemmy.ml 1w ago

you got two graphics chips in there - Intel HD4000 and Nvidia GT650M. the system is supposed to switch amongst them based on load, but that doesn't always work as expected and the Nvidia chip is always powered on, using battery, emitting heat, etc.

by entering this variable, you turn off the Nvidia chip entirely and the system runs off the reliable and super-supported Intel HD4000, which is hella plenty for the majority of use cases.

I got one of these and running on the Intel graphics it performs like it was built for linux; with Nvidia, total shitshow.

also make sure to implement the wake/sleep scripts to turn off/on CPU cores if it takes a long time to wake from sleep.

1w ago

Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK

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glitching @lemmy.ml 1w ago

not sure a law was needed, but the stepbrothers with the stepmothers and the stepladders is fucking nauseating

1w ago

Need Help with Video Drivers on a Mid2012 Macbook Pro

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glitching @lemmy.ml 1w ago

the GT650M/GT750M in 2012/2013 models are beyond useless nowadays, using either noveau or some ancient nvidia driver version. that's for wayland, it's somewhat better with X11 but you'll lose a buncha stuff regarding HiDPI and touchpad etc.

so what @waffle@sh.itjust.work said, only it's way simpler to do that - disable discrete graphics via an EFI variable. you'll lose video out but gain a way less power hungry machine, running way cooler.

1w ago

Lenovo's New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability

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glitching @lemmy.ml 1w ago

looking forward to getting one of these - in about a decade or so. T14 G1, perfectly serviceable, are around $150 nowadays, so this one should be attainable for me in 2036 or so. until then...

2w ago

Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones

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glitching @lemmy.ml 2w ago

because clueless influencers and their ilk are poisoning the media sphere and falsely claiming that grapheneos is the only thing possible and making uninformed people buy this crap, artificially inflating prices - a used pixel costs 4x more than a comparable handset.

if gOS went and published gOS-lite sans the hardware-backed TPM shit - and addressed the oceans of discarded tech we're drowning in - I'd shut the fuck up about it. if the only gOS users were people liberating their pixels, I'd shut the fuck up about it. if only jason bournes were using it, I'd shut the fuck up about it.

but this glorification is boosting google's sales. there are people discarding perfectly usable phones (as in lineageOS supported) and getting this fucking thing when the differences don't begin to touch their threat model in the slightest.

the "new OEM" with gOS was expected like the second coming. turns out, nothing changed. still gonna cost insane amounts of money. still the old, perfectly usable shit will be left behind.

2w ago

Plastic is made from milk and it vanishes in 13 weeks

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glitching @lemmy.ml 2w ago

oh what orphan eyes weren't available what the fuck

2w ago

Old laptop recommendations for Linux?

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glitching @lemmy.ml 2w ago

lenovo thinkpad T-series, hp elitebook, dell latitude. those are business laptops, premium build, durable, easily serviceable, upgradeable, cross-generation/model parts compatible and widely available because their owners (business entities) swap out their entire fleet every 3-5 years and flood the 2nd hand market.

2w ago

Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones

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glitching @lemmy.ml 2w ago

I've hated on grapheneos in every thread they reared their ugly head in on account of their elitist disposition, positing that the only way you can feel halfway safe and secure is by spending more money. that's not taking into account the repugnant toxicity demonstrated each and every time them fucks decide to let their feelings be known.

this motorola thing had the potential to end this. things looked good, finally we're done with giving money to google to escape its clutches! good lineup of somewhat old but competent snapdragon tech that has wide alt-OS support.

now that we're out of the "wishing" phase, this thing is a joke. a nothing-burger, aimed at clueless consumerism-addled folks who treat this as rooting for a sports team.

fuck poor people. fuck the truckloads of existing hardware that is more than up to task. only on premium headsets. wait a decade or so before we get around to it. and that's ignoring the idea that everything is gonna cost a multiple of what we're used to due to the global shortage and a coupla three wars out there.

nothing changed. fuck grapheneos.