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smileyhead , to technology in Windows 12 May Require a Subscription

Windows would always give you a homeopathic dose of value to being kept from switching out.

I have friends that no longer use Facebook to chat, but still doomscroll their timeline anyway, because once per twenty ads there is one post that barely interest them. They won’t switch, they won’t even try other media, they just keep telling themselfs about those two times per year they got something useful out of it.

smileyhead , to technology in Windows 12 May Require a Subscription

Article: “We don’t know how, but Windows is taking away a pint of blood from the user every time the OS is booted up”.

Some guy at the edge of fainting: “I swear, I am this close to switching away”.

smileyhead , to linux in Do you need to have a firewall on a linux desktop?

Yes, because you can forget what services are running and maybe they can be explited.

An example can be Syncthing which setting are done via web browser at port 8384. If you do not have a firewall, everyone on the same network would be able to change Syncthing settings and then sync your directories to their devices.

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

Yes, it is text to speech engine that works completely on the device. Actually, I use it right now to write this.

smileyhead , to selfhosted in Need help understanding a back-up script

Backups are created to /backup directory and are ended with .dump file extention.

ls -1 is listing all those files chronologically, -1 is to keep one file per one line.

head -n -2 is getting lines from the top to the last two at bottom.

xargs rm -f is calling rm -f on every line of the input.

| is pipe symbol, that gets output from command before and gives it to command after

So TLDR it’s removing all backups except the last 2 ones.

smileyhead , to mildlyinfuriating in Shitsoft Teams doesn't work on firefox

Firefox even is hardcoded to present itself as “Chrome on Windows” when visiting Teams.

smileyhead , to technology in Apple is locking down the iPhone App Store to comply with a new law in China

If you have universal devices Web cannot be blocked at all, you can install different browser or share websites via physical media, you can fit whole Wikipedia on SD Card. Same with overall computer networks, you can run a cable to your neighbor, unless you want to do it on a mass scale.

But I think you mean the Internet (please, don’t confuse Web and Internet), which is in fact very limited on ISPs side.

This is the difference. While with computers you can only censor what is done by them on public network (cables on the street, radio, etc.), with jail like iPhone you can also censor what is happening on the device itself. Those devices are dangerous and Apple made a big mistreatment for the world by creating iPhone like that.

smileyhead , to technology in Apple is locking down the iPhone App Store to comply with a new law in China

Nothing. The point is first, they shouldn’t be able to do it for devices already sold.

Second, Apple is the one developing technologies to make phones jails even without goverment looking. If Apple hadn’t done it for past years and China would force them now, then still next couple of generations of devices would be trivial to jailbrake, beacuse those locks won’t be as mature.

smileyhead , to technology in Apple is locking down the iPhone App Store to comply with a new law in China

You need to somehow download a VPN first and then somehow punchhole ISP’s restrict firewalls.

smileyhead , to technology in Apple is locking down the iPhone App Store to comply with a new law in China

Apple is to blame too. They created a device that gives them so much power to make such lockdowns possible in the first place. The only proper response from Apple should be “we would really like to do it, but we can’t be sure users won’t install those apps outside of our store”.

Something like that should not be possible with universal computing devices. This is why freedom to install any OS you want on mobile devices is more important than ever.

smileyhead , (edited ) to technology in Ad-free Facebook, Instagram access planned for $14 per month in Europe

For that price you could have your own ad-free Mastodon instance for whole family from masto.host for 9$/month, 1TB of Nextcloud cloud storage with up to 100 accounts from Hetzner for 4$/month and one premium Bitwarden account for 1$/month.

smileyhead , to technology in Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine

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smileyhead , to technology in Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as a Trojan and Removes it from the System - Deform

If we define malware as something having functions to harm the user and not only things build soley for this purpose, then of course Windows is malware.

www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html

smileyhead , to linux in This is why people use Windows

Maybe it is problem with NTFS, a filesystem outdated by 20 years that is still the only option on Windows.

Maybe it is problem with permissions.

Maybe it is something else.

But I won’t help you, because od your language.

smileyhead , to fediverse in would it be simpler for people if we said "server" instead of "instance"?

Ah, I think I get it now.

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