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panicnow

@ panicnow @lemmy.world

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  • Operating sysrule

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  • If you are saying the “iWaste” comment is about repairability not reliability, I get that. My take is maybe that if something has a long lifespan despite not being repairable, it might be have a longer life before becoming waste or recyclables.

    I do like that the EU is mandating user replaceable batteries and other changes and support most right-to-repair legislation.

  • Met up with some old friends, Yesterday.

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  • My wife and I both had the G2. I loved it so much! I feel like the foldable phones coming out may someday give me the same feeling.

  • Operating sysrule

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  • I tried to find a good study of laptop lifespan by brand. The best thing I could find was a consumer reports survey from 2023.

    https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/laptops-chromebooks/laptopreliability-a7029273631/

    They rated Apple as the #1 laptop for reliability. I don’t think that is “iWaste.”

    This lines up with what I’ve seen, but even as a career IT person my personal sample size ain’t that great.

    I dislike that current Apple products aren’t very repairable, but appreciate that they are very recyclable and durable.

  • digKam, KDE's image organiser for amateur and pro photographers, releases version 8.5.0.

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  • I used DigiKam to face tag all my photos as I wanted a solution that wasn’t reliant on Google/Apple and kept the face data in the photo’s file. I thought it worked very well. I do wonder about whether I should just give up though and use a service.

  • How much of a game changer was USB-C for you, compared to other cables?

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  • Hi! You seem knowledgeable about this stuff, so if you can answer a question. I have an older Jackery power station that has a single USB-C PD port. I need more when camping and I have been plugging a AC USB-C charger into one of the AC ports on the power station. From what you wrote that make me think that is not an efficient way due to the conversion from DC to AC to DC. Would I be better off using the DC “Car Charger” port or maybe a USB-C hub of some sort?

  • Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch

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  • I get not wanting to use a google, microsoft or crypto laden browser, but I would be willing to use a well supported browser that used chromium as the page rendering engine. It seems to be extremely difficult to get another engine to be competitive in the marketplace. Maybe the resources would be better spent putting the chromium engine inside a different container. I’m sure there would be drawbacks, but I think there would be compatibility benefits too.

  • New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers

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  • Article says you cannot side load books on Apple Books. That is incorrect. You just send an epub to books via the share menu on Mac or iOS and it loads it. Also syncs it via iCloud if you want it to.

    Perhaps the author meant you cannot download purchased books off of Apple Books.

  • No country still uses an electoral college − except the US

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  • The article points out France, Finland, Argentina.

  • Craaaawling in my skiiin

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  • I didn’t love them forever ago, but I rather like their new single “The Emptiness Machine”. I don’t follow music so I didn’t know they had lost their lead singer until yesterday. I heard the song and thought, “Linkin Park doesn’t have a woman for a lead singer….”

  • Bread

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  • The amount of bread we wasted before moving our bread to the freezer was crazy. Most of our bread gets toasted anyway, but the microwave handles the rest.

  • Removed

    How TeX.web is versioned since the early 90's (literal text inside)

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  • That’s why you can’t just use the version as a string. You need to use the API which correctly uses string length as a tie breaker.

  • Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

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  • You can get a pass till July 2025 by creating/setting a registry key that they made for businesses.

    Paste this in a .reg file and double click it.

     
        
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome]
"ExtensionManifestV2Availability"=dword:00000002

  • SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand

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  • I’m surprised and happy that SUSE is still doing well. I have fond memories of using SUSE in the enterprise especially around their “perfect guest” campaign for using it in virtualized environments. I thought they had very well-baked integration with large Windows networks—things just worked out of the box that didn’t with RHEL. I’m sure a lot has changed in the last decade but I appreciated their cooperative stance in the enterprise.

  • Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

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  • I would feel that it would be a reasonable if it was my local paper running the story. Arstechnica IS a primarily technical news site—I believe they should have a higher bar—otherwise they are just parroting a report and not providing useful (to me) news.

  • Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

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  • I generally think arstechnica.com does a decent job of being a non-garbage news site. I pay a couple bucks a month for the ad-free RSS feed. This story feels terrible to me. I don’t doubt a law suit has been filed, but I would expect some investigation by the reporter of the extra-ordinary claims of privilege escape the application is claimed to be capable of.

  • Why don’t you like Apple?

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  • I use Adguard, vinegar and baking soda, but wasn’t aware of Wipr. I might give it a try as a replacement for Adguard. Glad you mentioned it.

  • Why don’t you like Apple?

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  • I’m not an Apple apologist, but I feel there are some things Apple does that are privacy focused.

    • The ability to E2EE encrypt iCloud is a very simple privacy feature that is accessible to the technical and non-technical alike.
    • Private relay provides a double VPN architecture that doesn’t cause constant captcha hell and again just works for non-technical people.
    • Hide my email, while not being perfect, is a pretty straightforward method to make throwaway email addresses.

    The things I hate about Apple are generally not privacy related.

    • They are a mega-corporation that stifles innovation
    • They don’t allow other browsers
    • They are puritanical about what is allowed in the App store

  • Why don’t you like Apple?

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  • I really enjoy Apple products, but this is my biggest peeve. It’s not like I cannot manage without a different browser—certainly about half of americans primarily use Safari—but the flexibility and customization of Firefox or chromium would be very welcome.

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  • I love that you got it brown and crisp as I abhor soft/chewy quesadillas.

    I like adding cilantro somewhere (either in fillings or in salsa). Sometimes I throw a little cheese in the pan and let it melt and cook onto the outside of the quesadilla which gives it a little different character. I also love getting chipotle flavor somewhere and usually use Cholula Chipotle sauce which I buy in 64oz bottles instead of the little 5oz bottles they sell in stores.

    I make a lot of quesadillas!