Fleppensteijn

Fleppensteijn , 4 days ago

I didn’t downvote but probably people won’t sit through a long video when the points he’s making could be a short list. At least give a summary.

Fleppensteijn , 16 days ago

More streamlined menus that reduce visual clutter and prioritize top user actions so you can get to the important things quicker.

So make things even harder to find? A classic menu bar is not clutter!

Fleppensteijn , 17 days ago

In my company at least, Aegis works for the first few logins, but it will keep nagging you have to switch to Microsoft’s authenticator and you’re locked out after a while.

Fleppensteijn , 17 days ago

Apparently MS uses a “proprietary PhoneFactor 2FA solution” that Aegis doesn’t support.

Fleppensteijn , 16 days ago

200 MB of wasted personal disk space just so you can log in to a work account

Fleppensteijn , 15 days ago

Yeah but you install that stuff on your work computer. If my job requires me to use an authenticator on a non-work phone, then at least let me use the one I’m already using.

Fleppensteijn , 17 days ago

OS/2 Warp

Fleppensteijn , 18 days ago

Asahi means “rising sun” in Japanese, and it is also the name of an apple cultivar. 旭りんご (asahi ringo) is what we know as the McIntosh Apple, the apple variety that gave the Mac its name.

If you’re thinking what I’m thinking, it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with beer.

Fleppensteijn , 19 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

Reminds me of when I joined some classmates to the supermarket. We got kicked out while waiting in line because they didn’t want middleschoolers there because we’re all thieves anyways. So most of the group walked out without paying.

Fleppensteijn , 20 days ago

There are no pronouns in symbols ♂, ♀

Fleppensteijn , 22 days ago

It was interesting how random people came to talk to you and were really trying to get to know you. I don’t think that would work in modern day internet.

I knew they were around because at times I randomly remembered my ICQ number and I tried logging in, but they won’t let you if you forgot your password.

Fleppensteijn , 22 days ago

I had to read 3 books to write a small report on it. It’s just to show comprehension skills, I guess. I don’t see an issue with that.

Fleppensteijn , 24 days ago

I noticed it getting worse over the years. I switched to SearXNG last year when I felt Google was getting really ridiculous.

They started censoring a lot at some point, maybe because they had to, but that’s not the only reason.

Fleppensteijn , 23 days ago

Yes. That way you can create a blocklist, which is what makes it so good for me.

Fleppensteijn , 23 days ago

I’ve tried some instances and I don’t see a delay. My hosted version is a bit slower than public ones but that depends on your system, I guess.

Fleppensteijn , 29 days ago

I don’t include the rider. More confusing are stairs and crosswalks: where do they start and end? Often, there is no crosswalk on the picture but you have to select other road markings to continue. So it doesn’t really matter.

Fleppensteijn , 29 days ago

Everyone just copied everything from each other. Floppy, then Twilight CDs. Then came the internet and exploring music there was better than sitting around waiting for a song to come on the radio to quickly press record. It was normal when I was young to share, not really an active choice.

Fleppensteijn , 30 days ago

Well, they’re not wrong. If I had known I’d be in the same place after 10 years, I would’ve made myself more comfortable.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

The article discusses scam calls, not spam calls.

I got that fake Microsoft support scam call only once, back in early 2000s, on my parent’s land line.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

Only a few years ago, I found fireflies living near me. I never knew they existed in Europe.

Government decided to level their habitat though. They’re building a wildlife rescue center, ironically.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

You never tried installing Wine?

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

Depends on the country. I once got some people in trouble when I passed through Germany because I didn’t know internet is heavily censored/surveilled there. Haven’t had trouble anywhere else though. Do some research on your country.

The biggest threats come from the movie industry. Just use streaming sites for movies and series, torrent the other stuff.

Look into Tribler, I2P and Utopia.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

Out of the ones I’ve tried (Jerboa, Connect, Thunder), I think Thunder is best (after a little config) : github.com/thunder-app/thunder/releases

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

I accidentally watched a YouTube video on a browser without blocking. It started with an ad. I thought I’d just endure it this time. Then another ad. OK, just this time then. Suddenly, another ad in the middle of the video. I gave up. Who’d have the patience to sit through this?

Then there’s Google’s habit of completely ignoring the browser’s language settings so I have to sit though ads I don’t even understand.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

Tbf the only reason I know that YouTube has paid subscriptions is because of threads like this one, so it doesn’t seem like they’re really pushing their paid service.

Maybe they’re only targeting people who, for some reason, don’t block ads, and that’s why I’m unaware, but they should offer a little more than the things you can get for free already (no ads, downloading) if they want to draw in the adblocker crowd too.

Now people will start to google what’s up with all those ads and end up installing uBlock.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

I must be out of touch.

I didn’t think I’d need an app to visit YouTube.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

On streaming sites (Fmoviesz), some mirrors have a download button. You can also use the Video Downloadhelper plugin for Firefox.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

Maybe Here comes the rain again?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rToaLF6Fqg

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

You don’t have permission to access “www.9news.com/…/273-d919511f-199e-43fe-8e10-db900…” on this server.

🤷‍♂️

I have breakfast while I work in bed. It’s so much better. Then I switch between my chair and my bed throughout the day. Office chairs fuck up my back and I’m constantly tired at my age (since covid)

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

Yeah I only got some cheap chair, but honestly the problem is less with the chair, more with how I sit.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

Where would this be unconventional?

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

God is unreasonable and scary when you are a Christian, at least for me when I grew up. You’re basically told he can read your mind so you pretend he’s a great guy, but to me an evil God is just Christianity.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

You have to learn to fool yourself and to not ask such questions

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

All phones I’ve had, had the jack on the bottom where it’s in the way of me holding the phone or placing the phone on something. I always wondered why it’s not just at the top.

BTW just got a new phone (Oneplus) and I’m glad to have found one that has a jack at all

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

I’m missing the ashtrays in the 90s photo

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

It’s strange how I’ve seen this exact claim before. How many expats do you know? I know a bunch of expats and there are quite a few Asian people in the expat community.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

People coming over for work/business: expats.

Unemployed people migrating to look for a better life or job: (im)migrants.

That’s how I understood it.

I’m kind of in between. I’m not an expat, but immigrant doesn’t sound right neither. I just call myself a foreigner.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

At least it takes away one reason for undercover German police to annoy foreigners with their “random” drug tests

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

They make you empty your pockets and pat you down.

They look like gangsters claiming to be police, don’t even show a badge until you ask for it, they want all your stuff, like your wallet, to search through it.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

It would at least help if they stop assuming the only reason a foreigner from the free west would come through Germany is to sell weed.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

Yes, I didn’t spend a lot of time in Germany but it happened several times. I traveled by train and they claim the train stations are where people do their business

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

Not at all :) But I suppose it was obvious I was a tourist

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

I never see kids playing outside. There are parks, fields, forests around where I live.

Over time I learned there are actually kids living in my apartment building but I have no clue what they do all day. It’s kind of depressing.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

Playgrounds are fenced off and parents constantly stay within 2 steps of their helmet wearing kids here in Czech Republic. When those kids are older than toddler age, they disappear from public life.

It’s not like that in my home country where maybe they just sit around playing with their phones, but at least they’re outside with friends.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

Yes, for some reason shrubs and plants are ripped out more and more. Lots of nice areas are now just empty patches of grass. Not sure about the homeless but it is much harder now to find a place to pee in private if you’re outside a lot

Fleppensteijn , 3 months ago

It happened before: computers, internet, smartphones, other machines were invented, productivity has only give up. And yet, we’re still working 8 hours per day (and earning less than before).

AI will get people fired. More people need work = lower salaries, more profit.

It would be great if we could all just work less, but they won’t let that happen.

Fleppensteijn , 3 months ago

I’d say site blocking is SearXNG’s main selling point. (I switched when it got recommended to me on Lemmy :-).) Blocking just a few annoyances (Amazon, Pinterest, etc) make the search results so much better and relevant.

Also, Google is plagued by censorship.

Fleppensteijn , 3 months ago

It’s a reoccurring internet discussion you can google. The rest of the world thinks Americans wear shoes inside, even on their beds, because that’s what we see in US movies/series, and Americans always deny they’d ever do such a thing.