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bh64 ,

It was a stupid decision to attend a party created by the creators of a stupidly overpriced asset.

bh64 ,

what do you mean? I haven’t seen one myself yet. It’s just a common expression.

I don’t think that comment is trolling, just a bit low effort post. But that’s nothing rare in Lemmy/Reddit.

bh64 ,

It sounds like a weirdly specific thing for a bot to do.

It could be a case of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon:

Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias, is a cognitive bias referring to the tendency to notice something more often after noticing it for the first time, leading to the belief that it has an increased frequency of occurrence.The illusion is a result of increased awareness of a phrase, idea, or object – for example, hearing a song more often or seeing red cars everywhere.

bh64 ,

Oh that’s bad. Good luck getting rid of them.

I personally find downvotes useful because there are a lot of low quality comments and content. Downvotes help me (and others) to avoid seeing them. Thus not wasting time with uninteresting posts or comments. But you aren’t supposed to downvote everything that someone says.

bh64 ,

audio driver support in Linux is good enough these days.

and if it doesn’t work in your specific hardware, that’s your hardware’s fault and not Linux’s.

It’s like buying a Raspberry Pi and saying “windows doesn’t work”. You’ve acquired the wrong hardware.

bh64 ,

but you’re stupid enough that you can’t tell that religion is nothing more than masquerading power over the masses with the promise of a paradise.

Religion is just politics but in the name of a not existent god so the ones in power need no justification of their actions other than “it’s God’s will”.

bh64 ,

what a surprise, yet another search engine related post where there’s someone making promotion for Kagi in the comments.

bh64 ,

yet another Kagi shiller.

they are still pulling results from Bing. they are partially powered by their own engine, but it has a minor database of sites when compared to Bing.

And needing to have an account is just horrible for privacy.

bh64 ,

it is a fact. you have to be logged in to do a search or use an API key which directly associates your search query with your account.

Let’s say you don’t give them a real email, that’s good. Maybe you’re using Tor or a VPN and they don’t get your IP. And somehow you manage to make your payment anonymously. That’s great.

Well, Kagi is still getting all your search queries which are directly associated with one account. We don’t have their server’s code. We don’t know how or what are they logging. They can claim whatever in their privacy policy, I don’t care. A single entity is receiving all your search queries directly linked to your pseudonymous account. This gives them a vast amount of data about the person using it, even if they do not know who you are, probably very sensitive information too.

Let’s make a huge assumption and assume they are not correlating your search queries and they do not use this information for anything. Well, a third party actor with access to their servers could very well make use of this vast amount of personal data, whether it is a government, their hosting provider, a malicious actor, a security breach, etc.

And that’s considering the best case in which you were covering your tracks hiding your IP all the time and making anonymous payments, which, being honests, most Kagi users don’t do. So yeah, Kagi is a privacy nightmare.

bh64 ,

security through obscurity is a bad practice.

it’s better to be transparent and let everyone analyze your design. the more eyes on it, the better. even the proprietary and obscured Intel CPUs have had security vulnerabilities in the past.

bh64 ,

immutable OSs are killing the desktop OS, keeping the user restricted.

bh64 ,

you got the reparability totally wrong. if the motherboard fries, you have to replace basically the whole device. In a desktop you just replace the motherboard and keep the CPU, GPU and RAM.

you can obviously plug an external HDD, but can you upgrade RAM? can you upgrade to a better CPU or replace your current CPU without replacing half of the phone components? No, you can’t.

and yes, Android uses the Linux kernel. But very few manufacturers release the kernel’s code. No upstream kernel support makes it quite hard to keep updating after the manufacturer stops, even for custom ROMs that have to keep using the kernel as a blob, which eventually becomes inviable.

And if you’re already limiting yourself to devices supported by LineageOS, you’re discarding 90% of all phones, which let’s be honest, if the primary reason to use a flawed OS to self-host was to recycle hardware, you’re discarding most phones anyway so not a great reason.

Tested: Windows 11 Pro's On-By-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45% (www.tomshardware.com)

Tested: Windows 11 Pro’s On-By-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45%::Windows 11 Pro defaults to BitLocker being turned on, using software encryption. We’ve tested the Samsung 990 Pro with hardware encryption to show how the various modes impact performance, and how muc

bh64 , (edited )

they’re downvoting you because your logic was “apple does hardware so they must know better” and trusting a big corp to do your encryption better is kind of innocent.

anyway, seeing that they do hardware encryption, they are right to downvote you. I’m not with Microsoft either, bitlocker is probably backdoored, but hey, at least you’re not trusting your hardware manufacturer to actually maintain an up-to-date secure firmware.

Why do you hate Microsoft?

I’m helping a friend of mine writing a long essay exposing the abusive, monopolistic and anti-consumer practices of Microsoft. First, we’ve created some sort of table of contents with the different topics we want to cover and now we’re gathering sources for each of these topics....

bh64 ,

just created an account on Lemmy and this is the first thing that catches my eyes lol. great stuff. I would love to read it when it is done.

bh64 ,

I don’t perceive that as offensive

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