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smileyhead , 6 months ago to technology in Authy is shutting down its desktop app - The Verge

Good! One proprietary Electron app less on this world.

Seriously, for generating one-time codes do we really need whole web engine underneath, a network connection and whole company based on it? Those things should not weight more than a couple of kilobytes plus a vector icon.

smileyhead , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to technology in The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI

Ah yes, let’s welcome one device - one operating system myth to the desktops, with people choosing hardware because of software feauture that could be installable. Welcome the expiration date on computers called “years of software support” and welcome overall unfriendlyness for alternative systems.

Performance and efficency is one side of the coin. But let me remind you that Qualcomm (among with Google) is the reason we cannot have lifetime updates for our phones, ROMs build needs to be specific for each model and making a phone with anything but Android is nearly impossible.

I’ll take ARM over x86, but I’ll take AMD/Intel over Qualcomm thousand times more.

smileyhead , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Joplin alternative needed

Notesnook is great. Not yet self-hostable (server is open source), but they are working on it.

smileyhead , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages

Something like Wallabag, but modern and not only for article content? 😁

Honestly it looks cool. Also I so much love to see an open source app with fully managed straightforward paid hosting option! Myself I am going to self-host it anyway as I have time to learn and manage my servers, but it is great when trying to recommend app for others or have an option if I get lazy.

smileyhead , 6 months ago to technology in European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying

Yup. What most people do not get. Wikipedia, Lemmy and others only need consent when they start processing personal data, like in the registration form.

Clicking “agree” on a banner on first visit is like creating an account with IP address acting like a login.

smileyhead , 6 months ago to technology in European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying

If a service wants to proccess your personal data they must get a consent. What’s useless about that?

smileyhead , 6 months ago to technology in European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying

This is what the regulation was all about. The law did not said anything about cookies, they are the core web technology, just that you must be asked for personal data processing.

smileyhead , 6 months ago to technology in It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.

I have had multiple websites just don’t work with Firefox regardless of whatever add-ons I put.

The exact reason why we encurage to ditch Chrome.

smileyhead , 6 months ago to technology in It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.

This is the reason why we encurage more people to ditch Chrome, because sites starts to only support this one browser?

We don’t force anyone to everything, we just want more usage so we cannot be forced.

smileyhead , 6 months ago to technology in It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.

Just another reason to avoid it as much as possible.

smileyhead , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to linux in I'm Done With Windows, Are you?

Switching to Linux: “I don’t know how to do something”

Years after, being forced to use Windows: “I cannot do something”

(Then someone join the conversation with Adobe or MS Office argument, but I am talking about OS vs OS)

smileyhead , 6 months ago to linux in I'm Done With Windows, Are you?

I’ll just comment this with some cherrypicked screenshots of the year 2024 showcasting user friendlyness:

create-partition-install-windows-1050GB-of-disk-space-required-for-installation

SengRUvAhfVtzNb9zm9GRcCustom-application-selection-in-welcome-screen

Windows-11-setup-oobe-accountKDE-Plasma-5.27-LTS-21-768x538

Microsoft-Start-Microsoft-Edge-New-Tab-Page-Customization-Tabloids-Spam-and-Propaganda-MSN-jpgth_1

smileyhead , 6 months ago to linux in I'm Done With Windows, Are you?

I have learned much how the networking works, how programs are made and how computers do stuff. And not because I had to with Linux, but it was actually fun to learn without the roadblocks.

smileyhead , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to linux in I'm Done With Windows, Are you?

Ugh, I hate all those people making some compromises to live a healthier lifestyle and are talking about their changes so maybe someone can do it too making the group larger and easier to live for everyone. The worst ones.

smileyhead , 6 months ago to linux in Linux reaches new high 3.82%

If so, then why we cannot boot other Linux distributions on Chromebook devices and cannot run standard Linux apps/programs without using Crostini virtual machine?

Android just use Linux kernel, that was trawled by Google, then SoC manufacturer, then device maker.

ChromeOS is better, as it is based on Gentoo, but is incompatible with the rest of ecosystem and most devices do not have drivers for mainline Linux kernel.

If you don’t believe me, look at the community effort to reverse-engineer some Chromebook laptops to run normal Linux distro on them: wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

Thus I think we should not mix them in statistics. It would be like mixing MacOS with FreeBSD…