There is an explore button down the bottom of the app, you can search in there. To be fair I mostly just browse top.posts at the moment and haven’t really started to compile a list of sub subscriptions
I get your point, and I’m not saying that boost is the panacea of client possibilities, but here are my experiences with other clients (I’m also happy to be corrected if these gripes are resolved):
The web interface. No ability to customise default views, when i go to all, it keeps loading shit as in trying to read it as new posts are added. Frustrating and I did not engage in the platform
Jerboa, buggy as hell. Constantly crashing. Unusable.
Connect. Good browser, but every time you comment you get punished by losing your place. No read tracking.
Sync. Does almost everything I want. Some ads, wish it would hide read posts when I come back later.
I’m a much more valuable member of the Lemmy community because I use sync.
If there is another client that’s more betterer let me know and I will check it out.
Brave, Vivaldi, Edge and other chromium browsers are forks of the main chromium project. They can decide whether to include or exclude features from mainstream chromium.
As far as I know, Brave and Vivaldi will keep Manifest V2 extension support and said that they will not ship WEI (Web Environment Integrity).
Discord uses a modified version of electron, and it’s also probably an outdated fork as well, although I am not sure about that.
Steam, in the other hand, uses CEF, which they use as a way to render it’s interface and as a replacement of VGUI (a good example of this is the steam game overlay), I don’t know if they will ship WEI if it ever releases in chromium as there isn’t a statement from Valve yet.
Discord’s electron still hasn’t received the patch for spectre/meltdown mitigation in the browser, I doubt they will ever have to deal with manifest V3 or WEI.
You probably missed a part where Chrome, Chromium, and CEF are practically the same thing when it comes to resource consumption. Man, I can’t even make Steam consume less than 1 gb ram at any time anymore, even when minimized. CPU consumption, the amount of processes, loading times are also problematic. I wish companies would rely on a labor of programmers, not just web programmers.
I don’t think that Steam would consume less resources if it wasn’t a web app. Most of the resources usage there comes from crap loads of high quality images. You can’t have hundreds of images in a single window without eating loads of RAM.
Sorry what? I literally said that it consumes this amount of memory while there is no active windows. You can close them all and it won’t change much.
Also years ago the website was still filled with images and it didn’t consume that much.
Also, do you really think high quality images consume more resources? High resolution I can understand, but quality is irrelevant when it comes to ram.
What do you mean there are no active windows? You can only have no active windows if the app is closed. If you don’t see it on the screen, it doesn’t mean there are no windows or related services running in the background. If you want to free up memory, shut the app down.
Also part of image quality is its resolution. And image resolution has grown a lot ib the last 10-15 years. Rendered images also went from 8 bit and 256 colours byte arrays to 32 bit byte arrays (already 4x bigger) plus colour correction and all kinds of other meta data stored in memory.
And then you should keep in mind that Steam main storefront page has hundreds if not thousands images in one place. And they are pre-rendered and cached in memory so that you have nice and smooth experience. People seriously underestimate how many resources are consumed by media. As a software developer I can tell you that you can easily have a few megabytes of code and then hundreds of megabytes of COMPRESSED images, fonts and sounds for a small app. Unpack everything into memory and no wonder modern mobile phones need 16+ gigs of RAM.
You seem to not understand what you are talking about.
First, it’s possible to have an app active without spending resources on background windows. This process is called “close a window”. If an app has the tray icon available it should be perfectly viable option and, guess what, it works like that with many apps. But no, even the tray menu for Steam is now a damn web-rendered element. Also even in Chromium based browsers, you can have 2 or more windows opened, and when you close one of them you can expect less ram usage than before you closed it. I’ve seen at least one VScodium derived app that completely unloads browser based code when no active windows are visible. You don’t need to be a huge corporation to know how to do it.
Second, it’s insane to propose that thousands of images from some site (or even from disk cache) are going to be cached into memory immediately upon app launch. You could at least do some research or try Steam app yourself. Want to also tell me how I need thousands of images in my ram even when using Steam small mode?
Third, you mustn’t tell me what I need to sacrifice to have “nice and smooth experience”. I know enough about code and have seen enough apps to know that you don’t need to require GBs of ram from every user to provide good experience. There are literally web based alternatives to CEF that consume 5x-10x less. And then there are many other options for native code.
You mention few megabytes of code. Yeah. Problem is, Chromium code is tons more than that. Those are not “small” apps.
Brave has an entire contingent of the FOSS community up in arms. They claim that it is doing more data harvesting than Alphabet, and the EULA prevents anyone from finding out what they are doing with all that data scraping.
I don’t have a dog in the fight, other than as a windows user I would like to see FOSS adopted as quickly as possible since they have predicted all this shit for the last 30 years at least.
ETA: I know basically nothing about Vivaldi, though having used it, it seems to function as lightweight as chromium did back in the day. I have no comments on Edge.
Only if you want it (yes you still need to download a larger package).
Vivaldi is created by the former creator of Opera, with sort of the same goals it used to have: care for the power user. They are up for adding any customization and power user tool if people want it. It has never tried to be as lightweight as possible. Instead, it should be one of the most customizable and feature rich browsers out there.
It’s great, as I can add and remove features so it’s tailored to me.
Just to add the missing comment about Edge - MS is turning into the Microsoft version of Chrome. They removed Google’s ad bs and replaced it with their own ad and monetization bs.
@DogMuffins@amycatgirl, it is not so simple, there are a huge number of third-party pages that also depend on certain Google services, directly or indirectly. This is what happens when you depend on sponsors, because with this you lose your freedom of decision, especially if you make a pact with the devil, sorry, Google.
Mozilla has already suffered this in its own flesh, becoming a Google mascot from an independent platform, even with Google devs working on Firefox.
Being a US citizen, it is interesting to observe my social circles reactions to both President Biden and President Trump.
Most of the men I know trend towards being pro Trump and I don’t think this will sit well with them. The reason being that I think it is less about what Trump actually does to them, but rather what he represents. Last I checked via wikipedia, Trump has anti trans campaign points for 2024.The trend I notice is that men I knew who grew up going to church feel displaced by their traditional view being eroded by things like LGBT, gender identity questions, and changing of the times in general. While the women I know who even often date these men the opposite; they feel more comfortable being accepting of everyone by default.
Should Trump be convicted, I think it will alienate a group of voters into full disbelief of the existing system. The question is does that matter at all in the grand scheme of things or should these voters feel slighted - will that matter since they have no real recourse or will they simply forget Trump given time.
In preparation for comments on this - please don’t try to assign me politically. I’m simply remarking on what I’ve observed as a citizen when speaking with other adults in my life.
So your saying that he shouldn’t be charged because it would make his fans sad? So general murders should remain free because incarceration would make their moms sad?
Their second to last paragraph reads like we should lament the fact that all the sweet MAGAs will lose faith in the system… Implying that it would be better if they didn’t lose faith in the system by letting their dear leader walk free.
Also, the irony is their leader is a guy who basically wants to destroy the system and install himself as dictator. If nothing else, he’s pledged to remove huge amounts of government workers on ideological grounds. Also his advisor and strategist, Bannon, openly says he wants to disrupt and destroy the American system of government. So, either we reject that and deal with them feeling let down, or what, just let them literally wreck the government?
I really can’t understand how you could read it that way, when the last phrase is “or will they simply forget Trump given time”. The poster sure seemed to go out of their way to not describe a preferred outcome but just to wonder how this turns out, how his supporters will respond, and how much their response even matters. If they’re questioning whether those people’s reaction even matters, does that sound like advocating on their behalf?
I understand interpretation of written text is always a little ambiguous, but jumping to “you’re saying Trump should go free so his supporters aren’t sad?!” - nearly your direct words - just feels like either a very intentional misreading or just the briefest possible look at what the poster wrote. It just isn’t there at all and you came across weird and hostile.
Just wanted to point out that it’s never a good thing for any society for a statistically significant percentage of the population to lose faith in the systems underpinning said society and it’s social compacts. That’s what the CIA did/does to countries to destabilize them, and those never end well.
I’m not claiming there is necessarily a better option in this case, because all authority needs to be kept to a higher standard and punished when they fail, from the town treasurer up to the President. Trippley so for the police, but I won’t be holding my breath there either
The question is does that matter at all in the grand scheme of things or should these voters feel slighted
Whether these voters feel slighted or not is immaterial. These indictments and trials are absolutely necessary, if we want to show that there are consequences for attempting to subvert the peaceful transition of power. The voters already feel slighted. They may never have faith in our political system again—and that is a them problem rather than an indictment of the system. There can be no in between in this case.
Yep the trump cult can all go piss up a rope, fuck their feelings. They fucked my feelings up the ass with all their goddamn stupid-ass bullshit for the last 6 years or so and I’m going to laugh in their fucking faces when that bastard goes to prison.
I hope the orange bastard gets 100 years and literally dies in prison. I would have never dreamed that a pathetic sore loser could convince so many people to brainwash themselves against reality, to the point that they attacked our Capitol. An example needs to be made of him to remind any imitators that you can’t fucking do that.
On the other side, there is a group of people who will lose faith in the system if he faces no consequences for his actions. Either way the outcome will be a defining moment for the US.
If democratic voters flooded the White House like that, the republicans and MAGAs would be sitting in the exact same position demanding the same thing if not more. I agree with you.
I actually spent some time thinking about how I wanted to describe this and arrived at “men I know” because that left it as broad as coworkers, friends of family or people I do not spend gracious amounts of time with. Reddit is on the door to your left. Have a free block.
If Trump and those voters were not promoting violence, the case would be much stronger to consider them. Once you start openly calling for others to be harmed, you tread into requiring reform before consideration.
I have a conservative leaning (they mostly call themselves libertarian) who aren’t exactly pro Trump, but anti liberal.
I find it extremely weird how anti Trans they are, considering they’re accepting of homosexuals in a “sure, whatever, doesnt bother me” and “might have an acquaintance or two that are gay” kind of way. But the idea of Trans people existing somehow threatens their children really is prevalent in that group.
They grew up in an environment where gay acceptance was pushed hard in school and society, and they seem to be on board because of it. But changing ones own genitalia somehow bypasses all of those lessons.
It’s maddening how they fall for this rage bait bullshit that their media pushes.
Definitely. I think the libertarian branding is more just an excuse to not be blamed for the actions of the republican party. “I didn’t vote for them, I voted independent”.
But yes, their brand of libertarian is “I should have the freedom to enroll Mt kids in a school that represents my morality, even if that morality is stripping away rights of someone else”
It’s become so bad that my local/state Libertarian candidates last election were further right than many of the Republicans with almost the same talking points. Who can we protest vote for now that supports gun rights, freedom of/from religion, abortion rights, gay marriage, and targeted/effective limited government that only provides for national defense, interstate commerce, and the common good through a UBI and national healthcare funded with a fair proportional tax? The party has left the actual libertarians behind.
When I hear Libertarian I immediately think of liberals. Which is funny because I’m old enough to remember when the republicans would call people who liked freedom, smoking weed and voting for Bernie a liberal as an insult. You hear “libtard” a whole lot less nowadays because there really wouldn’t be much room to distinguish between the two.
They did their absolute best to turn “liberal” into a slur. Definitely on purpose - one of the ways Fox anchors manipulate people, for instance, is to make exaggerated displeased faces and sneering or disdainful tones of voice when they say certain words or discuss certain ideas or people.
Anyway, I think that’s why some people chose to start using the term Progressive.
I’m convinced they are terrified of finding a trans woman attractive. From time to time the ones “Ok with Gays” are only ok with the flamboyant stereotype. Find a Traditionally Masculine presenting gay man and they get weird around them too.
men I knew who grew up going to church feel displaced by their traditional view being eroded by things like LGBT, gender identity questions, and changing of the times in general. While the women I know who even often date these men the opposite; they feel more comfortable being accepting of everyone by default.
this makes sense - these men were at the top of the food chain and hearing about equality and seeing change threatens their identity because who are they if they’re not at the top? the women on the other hand know what it’s like to be marginalized and so are more empathetic and open about other marginalized groups.
i expect the vast majority of those men will not give up/question their identity. they will kick and scream as the world continues to change. tbh, i’m glad i’m not in their shoes. they feel a total loss of control, and there’s not a damn thing they can do. emotionally it’s a really difficult place to be in.
Should Trump be convicted, I think it will alienate a group of voters into full disbelief of the existing system.
Good? Our existing systems across the board are entirely fucked. Straight white men generally benefit the most from these systems and have generally continued to turn a blind eye to these problems, as it’s easy when you’re in the “winning” position. If this somehow wakes them up, maybe we can actually fix something.
The problem is that they are still winning and somehow think they are losing. They will not be able to fix anything because their concept of “fixed” is wrong.
Unfortunately the odds of self reflection and cooperative action to fix the system is probably lower than disenfranchised radicalization leading to further divides and violence. Really hope to be wrong about that, but if 20-30% of the country stop believing in the system altogether, we could be a repeat of Iran in the 70’s.
As a cis male, I swear that I took a totally different perspective from watching media like Boosom Buddies and Mrs. Doubtfire in my youth. I am sure their perspective is not at all totally reinforced by the propaganda apparatus of the right wing media gaslighing for decades about the “culture war”. They already felt alienated because they took the lie that Biden stole the election hook, line, and sinker, despite countless court cases being thrown out and FOX News settling to cough up $800m over their lies. They can’t come to reality. Justice is independent of their delusions, and should be a nonfactor if Trump is found guilty in a court of law.
I can confirm most people like the idea of trump. They loke hearing teriffs, border security, the wall, bla bla bla. But explain how regular people pay teriffs and dont listen.
men I knew who grew up going to church feel displaced by their traditional view being eroded by things like LGBT, gender identity questions, and changing of the times in general.
Sounds like they have shitty takes and I’m real tired of having to cater to them lest they shoot up another school.
I think it will alienate a group of voters into full disbelief of the existing system.
I’d be even more interested to see how this affects whether or not they vote. A huge problem with the left is that the vast majority of liberals are so heavily disenfranchised (either through design, or simply because of the “my vote doesn’t matter” mentality) that they don’t vote. If the right suddenly feels the same “My vote doesn’t matter” pressure, then it could actually lead to democrats claiming seats that were formerly considered safe for republicans. It could go either way though, where the right suddenly feels more inclined to vote, simply to dig their heels in and prevent things from getting worse for conservatives.
Something else is going on with your setup, I block graph.facebook.com via DNS too and Ally works fine, both app and browser.
Your screenshot looks like you’re also blocking ntp.org which could definitely screw with a banking app, and launchdarkly.com may also be the problem if they’re loading assets from that service.
LaunchDarkly essentially just serves up true/false values for services to grab. It can be useful to update code functionality without having to rebuild / recompile. However, any service that uses the launch darkly API should have a default state for their values to fall back on, so it shouldn’t cause any major issues if LaunchDarkly can’t be reached.
I hate that. One of the reasons I dislike Samsung phones. Last phone from them was a Note 8 and unless they go back to a pure Android experience, I won’t get another. We know that isn’t happening any time soon.
Honestly I’m super over all our current choices. Im on an iPhone and while I like their privacy stuff slightly better than android, there are lots of things I don’t like.
I also hate how much metadata the big G snorts up. Even just the location data they retain is out of this world.
There just aren’t any options if you want something that doesn’t keep you boxed into a closed ecosystem or track every love you make.
You can get a Google pixel and sideload an operating system such as Grapheneos, and you won’t have to deal with any of Google’s bs spying. Highly recommend looking into it.
At that point why not just using Samsung phone and sideload the OS? Seems weird to do that on Pixel which has inferior hardware and good software (like its camera apps), and then remove the software
Simple reason being that there’s no notoriously good OS for Samsung phones.
Graphene is highly focused on not being annoying while keeping privacy intact. You can, for example, have Google Play Services, within a sandbox. Everything can be denied network access, or any access really, on a per app basis.
It also relies on Google’s security chip to keep the chain of trust intact. The boot sequence and your private keys are kept intact that way. Not everyone documents and opens their hardware as well as Google. Samsung is notoriously terrible and full of it when it comes to allowing you to do your own thing.
You can run Google Play services on GrapheneOS it’s called Sanboxed Google Play. It allows you to run Play services as a normal app without any special privileges so you can install it without sacrificing all of your phones data to google. Should allow you to use pretty much all Google apps.
This isn’t enough for work apps that require Android Device Policy unfortunately. When I researched it in November I found that it would require too many permissions so GrapheneOS isn’t planning on supporting it.
What about the fairphones? I was reading up on them and might get one. I like that they come with an android fork and open-source apps so you don’t have to deal with Google. Plus being fully repairable and sustainably-made. Does anyone have any experience with them?
wtf do you go with for a quality hardware android reasonably priced? LG got out of the phone game which sucks ass. Pixel can be great but they are all flagship prices. Samsung, while having horrible shit like this, is quality hardware and has lots of models under $200.
I would actually be surprised if he releases anything of value. Trump refused to release his taxes, and emulating Trump’s destruction of democratic norms is a base-ante show of fealty right now.
Damn Snopes could’ve just said it was False, but they went above and beyond by linking all the spiciest memes. Including this one: x.com/MeachamDr/status/1815389845897789815
I’ve noticed that sometimes my cat will meow from the other room so I’ll answer asking what’s up, making sure to say his name, and he’s usually content with that unless he approaches me. 🤷♂️
Yeah object permanence is not strong with mine either. She’ll go into another room, forget I exist, scream, I respond, she’s like, “Oh hey, you’re right where I left you!”
my cat loses it if she wakes up and can’t see me. I live in a studio. there aren’t a lot of “out of sight” options. at one point, there was just a screen between me, in my computer chair, and her, on the bed. we still did the whole call and response.
she doesn’t look for me, she just starts yelling until I respond.
They’re saying that if you time it right, they won’t get/hear the notification that you’ve checked in and you can slide into the right spot. Wait awhile and then you’ll get refunded because you were “waiting so long”
Which it can work TBH, it just won’t be a reliable method by any means
This is why there are spaces clearly marked for curbside pickup. If you’re not in one of the designated spaces and try to pull this you will not get free food.
The apostrophe actually makes it a contraction, not possessive. So they’re really saying “the underpaid teacher who bought it with it is own money”. I know not everyone cares, but that’s how our weird language works…
Laser tanks are impractical. What if the enemy wears mirrored shades? That laser goes right back and kills you instead. You don’t want your 100 million dollar tank to be taken out by a pair of Ray-Bans.
The Army has officially deployed a pair of high-energy lasers overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out of the sky, the service recently confirmed, marking a major milestone for the U.S. military’s ongoing development of futuristic directed-energy weapons.
The 20-kilowatt Palletized High Energy Laser, or P-HEL, “is currently deployed to support the Army’s mission” in an undisclosed location abroad, a spokesman for the service’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office, which manages its directed-energy portfolio, told Military.com.
I think the bigger concern is enemy UAVs wearing shades.
The moment those mirrors stop being perfectly shiny they begin thermal collapse. Which is the real reason mirrors exposed to the atmosphere can’t be used as targeting optics.
If Goebbels Junior here got the punishment he deserves, he’d probably become a conservative martyr and rallying point. Which I think would be useful for identifying others in need of re-education.
There was a piece on a fairly recent Smashing Security podcast that said that some car manufacturers are sending data to the insurance companies anyway.
Automotive groups, forums, clubs that focus on your individual brand of vehicle, or better your specific vehicle.
Brands generally keep the same style or type of system across their range, so if it works for one car in the brand it is much more likely to work on another.
My Chevy volt, for example, has a separate controller from the engine controller, and I could just airgap(unplug) it.
Others you may have to remove the antenna, replacing with a dummy load to not permanently damage the circuits.
I always thought it was a huge concern to let the insurance company have gps access to my phone because it gives them exact times when I am away from my home.
Insurance companies’ more nefarious employees or employee’s friends have an exact playbook for when it’s safe to break into your home, how much money you have(based on how many and the types of cars you have policies on), how many people could be at home (insured on policy), credit rating… etc. It’s not data that you couldn’t get with a bit of research and time, but having a searchable database full of customer info makes it easy to list out hundreds of targets with little effort.
Insurance companies give people discounts based on driving habits good driving habits, like the lack of speeding and hard braking… which can be determined by gps. They also charge more for people that drive more miles per year because it exposes the vehicle to more possibilities of being involved in accidents.
It’s not unreasonable for them to ask for access to your gps data… it is definitely unreasonable for you to give them access to your gps data.
and we know for a fact that most of these companies have dogshit IT security, doubtless at most of them the janitor can sign in with his corporate ID and access customer data without anyone noticing.
UK you have the concept of black box car insurance that offered a substantial discount for having either a dedicated device installed into the car or an app on your phone that tracks a bunch of stats as you drive. It’s as shit as it sounds as it marks you down for every little infringement such as driving at peak times because that’s more dangerous. Get enough points and you can have your policy cancelled. In the UK there are knock on effects for ever having an insurance policy cancelled and you have to legally declare you did when asked.
While you can uninstall the app good luck making a claim if you don’t have it installed with data for that journey. They’d also be pretty suss with no data over an extended period of a few months.
Worst part of these is that it’s expensive to switch to a non black box policy when you can afford to as you get older and more experienced.
I played Pokemon Red on an emulator on a night shift at work and it was a pretty awesome experience. I can’t imagine the idea of live service games existing. I think there’s something to be said about connectivity and discoverability but yeah man. Yeah.
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