Rolling Resistance

@Rolling Resistance@lemmy.world
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Joined 8 months ago

I'm kinda tired of hearing bs like “if only linux was good enough”.

It is. You just have to install and use it.

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I was under impression that the big issue would be adoption. Like my bank supports only Google Pay and Samsung Pay, but definitely not a “FOSS Pay”.

Cara has no passwords: you log in via Google or Apple

uhuh, no thanks

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If my phone rings, and I see an unknown number, I just decline. I'm at this level of trust.

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Does it have a Linux app? no

Does it have a duo plan? no

Does it have a good rating on Google Play? no

Does it have a decent Windows app? last time i checked, itunes looked like an app from 2005

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AgGuard was (is?) big on Android and DNS. Helped to get rid of ads in many apps.

Just like in the password manager, they ignored HOTP. Oh well.

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This would be strange if Netflix didn't have enough of easily accessible good content.

When after finishing work we want to watch “a movie”, it's much easier to choose a Netflix recommendation than to do a half an hour reasearch online and then wait for the movie to be downloaded.

Now add to this time, energy, and expertise needed for looking up and trying pirating options, figuring out technical aspects, paying for a VPN, doing maintenance… Very few can and are willing to do all that.

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It's a separate app with no sync to Bitwarden accounts.

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It's more about supporting a new standard. Plenty of folks are using same credentials everywhere, and passkeys could potentionally change that. Also, entering 1 thing is easier than entering 2.

I was in a supermarket recently, and looked at the tea selection (I usually buy it at a more specialized place). There were almost no options without bags; quite disappointing.

Why do I need to know that “Torrent was downloaded from TheSiteINeverVisited.nfo”? It's just extra noise I don't need.

It's just a quote from the article, but good to know.

I wonder if it applies to routers made by a company who likes collecting user data. Because this is a situation many people are in.

They're proobably working on how to track messages on the way, like “hey, wanna use RCS? here's our com.google.rcs library”, which by coincidence sends every message to Google.

Some developers prefer using half-baked regexes from stackoverflow, rather than reputable libraries for email address validation.

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If it wasn't for all these articles, I wouldn't even know that something changed. Firefox + uBlock works the way it used to.

It wasn't “built on Activitiy Pub”, and I don't believe they will ever implement the protocol.

I've had a great experience with Dropbox (for about 10 years!), but I also used their Linux client which is old and very straightforward. Now I'm a Nextcloud user, and I wish it worked as well as Dropbox did. But with this AI thing I'm not switching back.

Not really. The largest English-speaking country is in top-50 articles by views on English Wikipedia.

I don't think they use handle as a profile identifier.

Wait until your workplace requires you to only use MS Authenticator push notifications 😭 and HOTP occasionally…

Have you ever used HOTP before? Convenience-wise, it's much worse than TOTP. It's not supported by popular apps, you can't use it on several devices unless there's synchronization, you never know if the code you're looking at was used already.

Because someone built an easy-to-use solution for organisations to charge money for. The same thing with Cisco VPN that every other software company seems to use.

Screw this guy, but what's baffling is that Meta didn't do the same to Netanyahu. I guess genocide doesn't violate their policies.

Which is 1.5 times bigger than a common Smart, and is discontinued. Instead, GM is actually focusing on making electric… trucks 🥲

2 factor came into our life because people were using same passwords everywhere. With unique passwords, which are easy with password managers, it's rarely needed.

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What's so annoying about this? For me it would be moving a few extensions that I use, and logging into a few sites. The whole process is 15 minutes tops, and an occasional tweaking afterwards.

Adnauseam is great, but it also leaves some ads on pages.

Doesn't work for me with or without VPN, Canada or not. Weird.

I'm curious to hear more about this. What's the app?

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Directly via exhaust? It's a significant number, but maybe not the biggest one. But add manufacturing, oil (or battery materials) extraction and refining, road infra construction and maintenance, emissions connected to suburbanization, microplastic pollution from tires, health and safety impact, and you'll get a much grimmer picture. LEDs won't cut it, and cars do not scale to 8B people.

That's fair, if this was your case. No point in paying for something you don't like.

As much as I hate old titles disappearing, I also enjoy the new content Netflix offers. To each their own, I guess.

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It's not hard. Mullvad is €5/month. In torrent client, set up Mullvad proxy. Go to thepiratebay or any other tracker to download. Watch.

You can also do it on your old laptop and use it as a home media server. Android TV can access network shares, I'm sure some of the others can too.

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Could you please elaborate what you mean by saying “hardware security updates”?

Right, I use Plex now too. However, it only has things that I already downloaded. So if we don't plan, we end up watching something on Netflix instead of spending extra time on looking+downloading+going back and forth between rooms.

Now imagine you have a family that likes to watch TV in the living room and not in your room.

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“environmentally friendly car”

Removing tailpipe exhaust doesn't automatically make cars environmentally-friendly.

edit: https://mander.xyz/post/6008655

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Obsession with one of the least energy efficient and one of the most harmful ways of transportation has to end.

Build a fucking train.