smileyhead

smileyhead , 9 months ago to technology in Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple

Phone carriers should be deprecated.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to technology in Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple

Signal protocol is mainly an encryption protocol, not messaging.

Even if Apple adopt it, you won’t be able to talk with Apple users from Signal.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to technology in Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish

SafetyNet is now a thing. I bet Google won’t turn it on for YouTube, but there are possibilities to at least make usage of this type of apps limited to only most stubborn of people.

smileyhead , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to technology in Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish

As long as Google won’t block them too. I encurage you all to leave a message for you favourite creators that you are going to watch them even on different platform.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to technology in Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone

Don’t like it.

I use VPNs, Tor and nonpopular browsers and I need to have a way to proof I am not a robot other than staying in the crowd.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to android in Drake's new song mentions Android phones and green text bubbles - PhoneArena

Yeah, they should just adopt so called “standard” protocol implemented in 1 app available from 1 app repository for 1 operating system, with no open server implementation available, that even being internet based is totally tied to phone carrier and supports just bare minimum of features expected in modern chat app.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to linux in What do you all think of Mental Outlaw

I really liked watching him at my beginnings with privacy and Linux, but now all things he talk about I already know earlier from Lemmy and Mastodon.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to technology in USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible

I wish too, mainly because HDMI cables are much less flexible and twisting them 180° can create tension.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to linux in Microsoft published a guide on how to install Linux.

Can’t wait for this page to become a Rickroll for Linux community giving technical advice.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to technology in Intel might have slipped that Windows 12 is indeed coming next year | Company CFO sees benefits of a coming "Windows Refresh"

So with zero first hand experience then You’re refusing to upgrade based on memes and conjecture alone.

Sure, you’re well within your right to do so, but it’s not a great system to live life by. People are far more vocal about bad experiences than good ones. RedStar OS has been awesome for me, and as a developer and gamer, I’m on my PC and Mac far longer than the average user. I’ve not had any issues with RedStar OS since it came out; the issues with the start menu and whatnot. It feels like it’s cool nowadays to moan about North Korea products when the reality just doesn’t reflect those complaints.

Try it out for yourself. It’s actually a really good OS: I prefer it over Windows anyday. My dad, who is ‘afraid’ to touch computers in fear of breaking them, told me just last night how much easier RedStar 11 is to use than RedStar 10.

If after all that you still hate it, well, at least then you’ve made an informed decision!

Thank you, ChatGPT.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to linux in Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode

Electron is for desktops OSes, so I think SE are talking about different things.

And it’s not only about performance, even when that programs are running on best machines it still looks like alien and not fit.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to technology in Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

Because something is not popular and not available in typical electronic store doesn’t mean it’s not real.

I know having a private life may seem unreal in recent ~10 years, but it surely can be done without giving up modern life. All it takes is a little time for research and saying “no” sometimes. The hardest part are always areas where more people like that are needed to say “no”.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to linux in Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode

VSCode is the only Electron program I know of that does not feel like using McDonald’s kiosk on virtual machine over remote desktop.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to android in This gives Google LESS access to your data! - YouTube

Unfortunetly they go with their own custom licence and AFAIK it’s not open source as it does not allow commercial use.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to technology in Windows 12 May Require a Subscription

Good there can life outside of work.