CrypticCoffee

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CrypticCoffee,

Some phones including Samsung are encrypted by default.

Don’t keep data on your device you don’t need and use the encryption.

CrypticCoffee,

You can name your open source software anything and people are fine with it.

GIMP has been setting that path for years.

CrypticCoffee,

without mentioning that one has to buy an iphone price tagged pixel to install it

That bit is misleading. I bought the 6A for £299 when the 7 came out. You cannot buy a new iPhone for £299.

But yeah, not watched the video as it probably is as bad as you describe.

CrypticCoffee,

MineClone2 is addictive. All that Minecraft style fun, but free and open source. It’s pretty comprehensive and solid for the most part.

CrypticCoffee, (edited )

Minetest is the engine, MineClone2 is the game. Minetest has a default game (Minetest game), which has no mobs or anything. It’s dull without mods. MineClone2 is recreation of Minecraft on Minetest, but with some differences. For example, you can use a burger to lure villagers. It’s great fun and worth a try.

CrypticCoffee,

Oh gosh, that’s a blast from the past. I forgot that existed.

CrypticCoffee,

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

CrypticCoffee,

A dumb question, but why are game launchers needed. Do they not start on their own?

CrypticCoffee,

I doubt they will spend that much time. Just state you owe us x. If you appeal, you have to proove sales from your different channels.

CrypticCoffee,

They have telemetry. They probably know when a game is downloaded. They probably don’t know if it’s legitimate. They just auto bill based on telemetry and leave devs to dispute or suck the big one. Only effort needs to go into disputes. Big clients will obviously get quicker resolution.

No company would trust devs to be honest about downloads and it would be too expensive to verify.

They don’t need to audit much, just need a steam, epic, and itch total downloads figures.

CrypticCoffee,

It has everything to do with it. If you had money and needed to, would you buy a Porsche from a dodgy backstreet garage that had so many red flags on the way in?

Trust is everything. If I don’t trust you, why would I believe your marketing bumpf?

Why are you shilling for google in a privacy community, anyway?

CrypticCoffee,

You not considered Proton for cloud storage?

Google faces a £7 billion lawsuit for blocking search engine competition at the expense of consumers (consumervoice.uk)

The lawsuit argues that Google has effectively ‘bought’ the UK mobile phone search engine market. Google forced mobile phone handset manufacturers to pre-install the Google Search and Google Chrome browser apps on devices that use Google’s Android operating system in order to obtain a licence to use Google Play....

CrypticCoffee,

I’m not so sure, if it is quite expensive and carries on being quite expensive, they may need to make changes to default search or default browsers. If this can help people get Firefox easier, this could start to chip away at the viability of WEI (web DRM).

CrypticCoffee,

I wouldn’t get excited until it’s successful. They got expensive lawyers.

CrypticCoffee,

Because they gain more from it. They pay Firefox for default search. There is a return on investment. $7bn is a larger cost and would need greater revenue from those activities to justify it. Whether they do or not, from the UK market, we’ll have to wait and see, but it is a reasonable dint.

CrypticCoffee,

I have been using OpenSuse for over a year now, and it’s solid. Had 1 minor issue with audio crackling where i needed to restart Pulseaudio, but that’s long gone now. Highly recommend. Had regular breakages with Manjaro, so wouldn’t touch it.

CrypticCoffee,

As an environmentalist this really bothers me. I want a new electric car which is better for the planet. I no longer think I can. I would probably have to pick up an older model. What a joke. I’m too angry about the way the world is progressing, our privacy is eroded faster that we can take steps to mitigate.

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    CrypticCoffee,

    They were, but I don’t think they used it for that reason. They were awkward, and pathetic and inept. The language fits in with that.

    I don’t think sexist is the first, second or third word folk would use to describe the Ferenghi.

    CrypticCoffee,

    Agreed. It looks more awkward than intentional. You don’t teach people by making assertions of their character or banning then from places. You highlight the mistake and what it is the problem.

    CrypticCoffee,

    That is informative and unfortunate.

    In reality, leave it, if they don’t want to deal with toxicity, they want a toxic project.

    Arch users are often quite proud of what their distro says about them. A spin off will likely have people who’s ego is a little too invested in this. Many great distros exist that don’t encourage toxicity. You can follow this project without being in messaging. Many messaging groups can be toxic.

    CrypticCoffee,

    It still is more browser share for Chromium. Business owners will see that share and use it as part of the business case in implementing WEI. If you want it stopped, you gotta use a real alternative such as Firefox.

    CrypticCoffee, (edited )

    If Google pay the best search price that funds browser development, why not? Firefox aren’t in the search market. They could easily go bing or yahoo like they used previously, but more income means more money away for building modern web browsers which are millions of lines of code.

    Brave don’t need to do that because Google codes their browser for them.

    CrypticCoffee,

    Because it is still Chromium… With crypto BS

    CrypticCoffee,

    I’m not sure of any. What’s wrong with Firefox etc.?

    CrypticCoffee,

    No protection from fire though. Just because you aren’t fussed about privacy, doesn’t mean others aren’t. Some folk like nudist beaches, others do not.

    CrypticCoffee,

    Maybe this is intentional, and they will hit them there. I cannot imagine Ukraine will tell the Russians their strategy.

    CrypticCoffee,

    I don’t agree, it is perfectly normal to spy on people and make sure they’re not committing a crime. I’m sure execs of these companies and those politicians would be fine with that if we were watching from their windows just to make sure they aren’t using illegal content… /s

    CrypticCoffee,

    I couldn’t get OBS working. X11 works for it, so I keep using it. Hopefully eventually, I won’t need to, but I don’t have the time to spend hours researching and troubleshooting. I tried, failed, but x11 Just Works TM. I’m part of the problem, I guess.

    CrypticCoffee,

    I’ve saved your comment and will give it another try when I get chance. Thanks.

    CrypticCoffee,

    More functional at the expense of privacy or security is probably not an argument that will do well here. Most are here to get away from google and privacy/security are big aspects of those.

    I’ll go without, for both.

    CrypticCoffee,

    “and privacy/security are big aspects of those”. Telegram wrapped their own encryption that isn’t e2e by default and iirc had holes in it from a security audit. Many people like shouting across the fence to their neighbours, it has features that many want (seemless voice conferencing). It just isn’t secure. You cannot be private without being secure.

    CrypticCoffee,

    Congratulations. A starter list is here: lemmy.ml/post/2262098

    Hope it helps.

    CrypticCoffee,

    Yes. Jitsi was one of the best for a while. Secure and just works. I think Element wasn’t e2e encrypted while debugging but I’m guessing is close to usable. I mentioned it more as a FOSS alternative.

    CrypticCoffee,

    So they abandoned what built them up. They sold out?

    CrypticCoffee,

    They’re quick when it comes to defederating lefties. Not so much with toxic right wingers.

    In all seriousness though, some apps copy subbed communities. Having a backup lemmy is useful.

    CrypticCoffee,

    Exploding heads was slow. Hexbear was instantaneous.

    Read the Hexbear defederation post if you want to see how subjective it actually was.

    Don’t get me wrong, commies are badly misguided, but they can hold a good faith rational debate.

    CrypticCoffee,

    Or… he’s just a dick. I don’t hate him. Hate is an unnecessary negative emotion.

    However, his track record is pretty damning, and if you think people dislike him only because the media tell them, then I’m afraid your ability to see and appraise information is pretty compromised.

    CrypticCoffee,

    Yes, but Ubuntu has snaps. Cinnamon is preferred by many to Gnome. It has clear differences.

    CrypticCoffee,

    Only Manjaro. Every distro has something different. Unfortunately, regular breakages isn’t a differentiation people are after.

    CrypticCoffee,

    I use Plasma and like it. I wouldn’t have stuck around or really got started if it wasn’t for Mint.

    CrypticCoffee,

    Maybe. Mint came first, and I wonder what purposes those other ones were trying to serve. I don’t know or care enough about the others. Do they differentiate enough to bother with?

    CrypticCoffee,

    The most literal shitpost.

    CrypticCoffee,

    Right now, there isn’t a lot. It’s just if something off topic or blatant advertising goes in. Users so far are pretty decent but with more mods, we can respond quicker. This request was more preemptive to remove the bus factor or holiday lag.

    Check mod log to see actions so far (not a lot).

    CrypticCoffee,

    Yeah, definitely would avoid. I’ve had to reinstall twice on desktop, twice on mobile due to update breakage. Mint is a great starting point. Kubuntu if you don’t mind snaps and like KDE.

    CrypticCoffee, (edited )

    Just turn off studies, pocket and change default search.

    Not using Chromium is about preventing the WEI rollout.

    CrypticCoffee,

    Compared to windows, not LFS or Arch. Considering it works well on 10 year old devices, either people concerned are using 20 year old hardware, or are a little too paranoid of “bloatware”.

    CrypticCoffee,

    Brave shill/chrome shill or both?

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