technology

Deleting your Threads profile will also kill your Instagram account (www.androidauthority.com)

Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)

A Move to a More Ethical Phone (Later)

So my roommate has informed me that Android and Motorola donate to Republicans more than Democrats whereas Apple does not, claiming this as a reason that the iPhone is better than an Android phone. While I could find statistics confirming the fact about Motorola, I don’t even know what they were referring to when they...

Mastodon and Lemmy

It’s my understanding that Mastodon and Lemmy work together well in the Fediverse. I CAN see my Beehaw account from Mastodon, as well as other user accounts, but have difficulty understanding how I can specially find and follow Beehaw and/or other Lemmy instance content via Mastodon....

No Instagram Threads app in the EU (for now) (www.independent.ie)

Irish DPC says Meta’s new Twitter rival won’t be launched here – But that’s just because it hasn’t been approved for GDPR. It’ll come here of course, just not now.

Twitter refuses to pay for arbitration for ex-employees (arstechnica.com)

Lemmy doesn't need much in the way of scripting (lemmy.nz)

It is really nice to see that there are not a massive amount of ad-servers and google / meta / twitter crap in my script blocker....

Instagram’s Twitter competitor, Threads, briefly went live on the web - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Meta briefly made Threads available on the web before pulling profiles offline a few hours later. The Verge was able to access Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s first thread (is that what we call them?!) using the web app, and many other brands and creators including Netflix, Gary Vee, and Instagram....

A buggy Windows 11 update keeps slowing down SSDs (www.techspot.com)

Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars (www.theguardian.com)

Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes

USPS ad scam captures banking credentials (www.malwarebytes.com)

We all think we’re too savvy to fall for stuff like this, and maybe that’s true, but I know some technophobes who’d be prime victims for this. I’m interested in discussion about how to prevent this sort of thing from happening beyond just telling Grandpa to never click on ads.

Introducing the Orange Pi 5B: A Powerful and Affordable Single-Board Computer (www.orangepi.org)

The Orange Pi 5B is a versatile single-board computer that offers impressive performance at an affordable price. With its Rockchip RK3588S 8-core 64-bit processor, it delivers a powerful computing experience, making it an excellent alternative to the Raspberry Pi 4^2^....

Wunderkind builds 'fully compliant RISC-V computer' entirely inside Terraria, then plays Pong on it (www.pcgamer.com)

A Scientific Breakthrough in Noise Reduction (nautil.us)

Schneier: Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels (www.schneier.com)

Police are already using self-driving car footage as video evidence:...

Ingenuity helicopter phones home from Mars after 63-day silence | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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World's first flying car turns sideways to enter 'airplane mode' (youtu.be)

100K Users - Revolt (revolt.chat)

Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories (www.nature.com)

Would you buy a new battery for a very old laptop?

I just got a pretty good deal on an old ThinkPad (think 10 years old now) to use as a beater for screwing with ArchLinux and hopefully to find a real use for. It’s in great shape like it was never really used, but big shock, the battery is at 50% effective capacity and what’s there disappears in less than an hour....

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