manned_meatball

@manned_meatball@lemmy.ml
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Joined 1 years ago

I had premium up until a year ago, but I can't recommend it anymore after their purchase.

Choose open source, people.

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I don't think these are permissions, just a list of collected data categories. Google Play's equivalent is the "Data Safety" section and lists the data collected, shared with third parties, and security practices in use. Basically just a more readable privacy policy, but agreeing to that by installing the app does not grant the app with the equivalent permissions automatically.

"Desktop OS" also counts laptops. Unless people are working from their smartphones, I don't think desktop is collapsing at all.

Cookie Clicker

like drugs... just say no

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They're not permissions, they're the types of data that may be collected. Every popular closed source app has a similar obscene list of private data they may collect, but in most cases it's the user that chooses to provide that kind of information voluntarily anyways.

wait, there's a way out? I bought another pc for nothing

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sidebery + custom userChrome.css to make it collapse when the mouse leaves the area.

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KISS. At first I didn't like the lack of multiple home screens, in a way these are replaced by swipe gestures in KISS, but after getting used to them they're much quicker to trigger actions than pressing buttons. It turns out I don't miss multiple home screens that much either.

I tried using Lawnchair, but I missed the "search-first" property of KISS that makes opening apps really quick.

- the victim was having a fever, your honor!

Is there a web archive equivalent to github repos? At least for the most popular ones.

I know there are hard copies in Svalbard's seed vault, but they're more for a one-in-thousands-of-years post-apocalyptic scenarios than this.

I've eaten pizza with corn my whole life, never considered it weird lol

as one of their customers, I second this

I got the HL-L2325DW last year. Connecting it to the WiFi using WPS was really easy. Making the desktop see it was a bit of trial and error, but it was partially thanks to the PDF viewer I was using, so I'd recommend printing from a well established viewer like Okular or the web browser, at least for the first use.

I don't remember having to download any drivers manually from their website btw, I just chose it from the list when setting up a new printer. This process might change with the distro and desktop environment though, I'm using Kubuntu.

In fact, if you're a bit lucky, the printer might even show up as a "discovered device" after you connect it to your network, even with a suggested driver and connection so you just need to press next.

Firefox with uBlock Origin makes mobile usable, but I don't know how people use other browsers that don't allow extensions.

we don't need money, just credit. It's not like we'll need to pay it off.

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if you need less than 4TB just get a solid state

lol I literally did this yesterday for my job, using dashboard 1860 too.

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I'll stick to a FOSS option without ads

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typical Stephen

Markdown for myself, Google Docs when I'm collaborating with others, and OnlyOffice after puking a little in my mouth for having received a docx or pptx by email.

I've never seen a single porn post here and I have NSFW enabled. Maybe because of the instance, but still, I occasionally check "All" sources and haven't seen a single one.

it's based on this gist - follow the instructions at the top: you'll need to set the right Sidebery preface to make it work, it'll let you toggle it on and off easily.

Same, a really great launcher ruined by corpo. I'm only choosing FOSS after that.

cool, I've been using curl -s ifconfig.me after dig +short myip.opendns.com stopped working

butt*

there are dozens of us, dozens!

"their" vs "they're" is worse imo - I still don't understand how one can mix up a contraction

cause it looks cooler

Without knowing the "higher" reality, I'd still call it a simulation. An emulator is capable of replacing the "real" system it's emulating. Maybe that's your view on the topic, but I find it more likely the higher reality is more complex than ours because it contains ours. Therefore our reality could not be an emulation. Lots of speculation though.

the other day I spent probably 30 minutes comparing solutions to share files between two machines over the network. I ended up just running this Python line...

python3 -m http.server 8080

the body is round

My own intricate system of 4 git repos to manage dotfiles, bash initialization, cli tools/scripts, and system state.

The last one keeps track of installed packages and "dotfiles" out of the home directory (system config files like /etc/hosts).

I too genuinely wonder how I managed without carrying my fleshlight with me.

https://lemmy.ml/robots.txt , https://lemmy.world/robots.txt , etc don't seem to disallow posts, so the text-based content should be easy to index, at least for these instances.

related news: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts.

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oh boy, I wish youtube kills itself like reddit is doing right now so decentralized alternatives can become widely adopted

idk, I notice the opposite to happen more often: e.g. "me and John went to the bar last weekend"

at least Reddit showed the upvote - downvote balance, YouTube only shows upvotes, which is a completely useless number.

They're not permissions, it's a privacy policy. I don't know why OP called them permissions.

right, though the SEO game is changing drastically with AI. People are using GPT-like models often in place of searches and likewise, expecting search results to hit their answers rather than being vague pointers. Following this reasoning, the search engines will need direct users to where the valuable information is, not always, but often enough to not lose users to competitors.

So the thing about SEO is that it's often an attention game that advertisers and smaller websites compete with each other. The information in public forums and threads is invaluable for the success of the search engine itself, so they're the ones that will eventually have to adapt to the new federated reality, should it become mainstream - and I do hope so.