MusketeerX

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MusketeerX,

An interesting read. Yeah, it’s complicated.

I think sound has been a bit under-appreciated compared to visual effects/quality in recent years.

MusketeerX,

Yes, I remember that! I recall thinking, imagine how good this will get in the future. Sadly it didn’t.

MusketeerX,

Exactly the same in Australia.

Pro-Russia hackers target inboxes with 0-day in webmail app used by millions (arstechnica.com)

“In summary, by sending a specially crafted email message, attackers are able to load arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the Roundcube user’s browser window,” ESET researcher Matthieu Faou wrote. “No manual interaction other than viewing the message in a web browser is required.”...

MusketeerX,

It’s things like this that make me glad that my email service defaults to not loading any images/links/html. There’s a small button at the top to load them if I want.

MusketeerX,

Yeah, I really liked the movie and it’s hard to describe exactly why.

It’s not an amazing story, or amazing characters, it’s not exciting…but it has a certain vibe/mood to it that I liked.

I was also a bit fascinated by Japan, so that’s part of it. Got to visit a couple of times in the years after seeing the movie and whenever I’ve been in a Tokyo hotel room it’s reminded me of the film!

MusketeerX,

I watched Amsterdam, a 2022 comedy/mystery set in the 1930s, starring Margot Robbie and Christian Bale and a big cast of others including Mike Myers, Rami Malek, Robert De Niro and Chris Rock.

It is loosely based on The Business Plot, an actual political conspiracy in the US in the 1930s. I’d never heard of this before.

It was an interesting and ‘different than the usual’ type of movie. A lot of the focus was on the witty dialogue between characters. Pretty nice movie visually too. Overall I enjoyed it and would give it about 7/10.

MusketeerX,

Yeah, that’s on my to watch list.

Are Internet boards and Forums dead

i started using the internet in the late 2000’s and still remember when you search for something most of the times it would return with a forum post … now its just random websites … if you ever need real and concise answer you have to add site:reddit.com at every search and since discord or twitter are not crawlable by...

MusketeerX,

Yes, they are less prevalent due to Reddit and other social media sucking up a lot of the users.

They are still around though. One Australian forum that I’ve been on for years which is still very active is Whirlpool. Started as a tech forum and expanded. It’s very useful as source of info as it’s been around over 20 years and a lot of questions have been asked and answered there.

MusketeerX,

Nice. Thanks for the tip.

MusketeerX,

I thought Mass Effect had a great soundtrack that really fit the game perfectly. Moody in parts and rousing in others.

Mass Effect 1 Soundtrack

MusketeerX,

I wondered the same thing.

It’s definitely the best one after Sync.

Making the iPad part of my interOS lifestyle

Hi all - the last Apple product I purchased was the gen2 iPod. I have a decade old iPad that I inherited from work and never really used - right now it’s an always-on authenticator app screen at my desk. I have used MacBooks of all flavors for work for the last 12 yrs and have inherited both Air and Pro for personal use. My...

MusketeerX,

Most things I do on it can be done as well or better elsewhere.

However, I really like Photo editing on my iPad Pro using the Apple pencil.

It’s now my preferred platform for that.

MusketeerX,

I got sick of subscriptions, so I got Affinity Photo 2 for iPad as it was a reasonably priced one time purchase.

I cannot recommend it highly enough. I made a post about it here:

lemmy.world/post/1402700

MusketeerX,

I’m spending way more time!

I didn’t really like the community in Reddit that much. I used it more like a news feed. So I never read ‘all’, I just read my subs for a few minutes here and there, but I didn’t post and comment much.

Since coming here I post and comment a lot more. There seems to be more proper discussion here, despite being much smaller and quieter.

MusketeerX,

Nice. I’ll participate whenever I have some time.

MusketeerX,

I have been with idrive since 2009. At the time they were the only ones that allowed backups of network attached storage on their cheaper personal plans. Everyone else saw that as an “enterprise” feature which required a business plan. Which was bullsh*t, because lots of home NAS devices were being sold.

Anyway, I haven’t done a recent comparison of services, but I remain happy with idrive.

Thesedays I no longer backup on a computer with a mapped drive, but directly from my NAS which runs the idrive software.

I had a catastrophic dual drive failure a few years ago, one failed and another failed during the raid rebuild! I was able to restore about 1tb of data and didn’t lose anything important.

They also offer backup and restore by shipping a drive to you if you want to avoid the huge initial backup or a total restore, but I haven’t used that feature.

They do also have a mobile app, but last time I tried it, it wasn’t great.

MusketeerX,

Yeah, I want they opposite of that, all meat no shell!

MusketeerX,

On desktop it’s mainly Firefox, on mobile it’s mainly the stock Samsung browser.

But I’ve started using Edge a bit more on mobile lately since I discovered its reading mode, which makes for a very clean readable format to read articles.

MusketeerX,

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

In terms of blocking ads, I run Adguard (lifetime sub), which blocks ads system wide - even in apps.

Synced bookmarks could be good though.

MusketeerX,

Yeah, I’m only keeping it because of the grandfathered deal. If they scrap that I’ll just cancel and save the money. Better in my pocket than Google’s!

MusketeerX,

Yes, Connect For Lemmy had this.

MusketeerX,

Using Authy. Pretty happy with it. It’s key feature for me has been the ability to easily restore if you lose, reset or upgrade your device, without having to mess around with your own backup and syncing.

Would suck to reset your phone and discover the sync had failed and the backup was not up to date.

I would like to have it on Wear OS though…

MusketeerX,

Yeah. If it gets enshittified or sold to a dodgy company, I’d not hesitate to migrate.

Might bookmark this thread for if (when?) that time comes.

MusketeerX,

Every few months I keep re-trying SwiftKey and the Samsung Keyboard, but I keep going back to GBoard because when I swipe it gets it right a lot more of the time than the other two.

MusketeerX,

Once I got used to gestures, I couldn’t go back.

I honestly find it very fast and intuitive.

MusketeerX,

I’m relying on some of you folks to do a “trial” for me and let me know. Your efforts are appreciated 😛

MusketeerX,

How are you doing that?

Do you mean just manually copying a link, switching into the Mastodon app and pasting it in, or is there a better method?

MusketeerX,

How do you filter for English?

I sometimes get a bunch of Dutch and German posts. They seem to come in waves. My high school German from years ago is not up to the task so I’d rather filter them out!

MusketeerX,

Thanks, that’s great 🙂

MusketeerX,

Nah, 3-6 days max.

MusketeerX,

Anna’s Archive?

annas-archive.org

I only found out about it on here recently and I’ve been able to find a couple of quite obscure titles on there.

Including one that had never been released as an ebook Seems someone has scanned it.

MusketeerX,

OK, so I’ve known a number of Scottish people and I’ve been there a couple of times and generally had no issue understanding them.

However, when working in London years ago, I had to talk to someone based in Scotland on the phone and her accent was just insane.

Honestly it was exactly like this post, she’d say something, I’d say sorry what and this repeated 3 times then…we both burst out laughing. The most insane Scottish accent ever!

MusketeerX,

Hey, don’t give them any ideas!

I’ve never had a Facebook or Instagram account in my life. But I do use WhatsApp because it’s the main way most friends and family communicate (Australia).

I would not be happy if I found out I suddenly had a Threads account that my friends could follow without me even signing up, just because I use WhatsApp!

MusketeerX,

Yes, but in this instance, they are allowing people to pre-follow that shadow account and then apparently you get a notification to say they have followed you promoting you to join and follow them back.

That’s a very cunning way to boost their new service quickly!

I’m relieved they’re not doing that with WhatsApp.

MusketeerX,

5 billion downloads on the Play store. Apparently about 1-2 billion of those are not very active. Still huge numbers though.

MusketeerX,

Very clever!

MusketeerX,

I think it would then delete any account in both Instagram and Threads.

But there’s no need to do that. If you already have Instagram and your happy with it, there’s nothing extra you need to worry about just because there’s a shadow account pre set up for you in Threads.

It’s a shady way for them to push their new service, but it’s not like they suddenly have any more info on you than they already had.

MusketeerX,

Yeah, that’s not likely sadly.

MusketeerX,

It’s weird these numbers are so small, it should feel dead. But there are a lot of great discussions and a lot of good laughs to be had here.

The level of engagement for the very small numbers here must be quite impressive.

I guess it’s the old quality vs quantity.

MusketeerX,

It’s not a full replacement of Photoshop, but Photo Studio Pro is the best one I’ve found. It has a pretty good background replacement function that blends two photos.

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kvadgro…

MusketeerX,

Agreed. I recently discovered Affinity Photo 2 on my iPad and love it.

Would be great if a smaller mobile version were released for my Android phone.

MusketeerX,

Yeah I’ve been taking a similar approach, to social media. I’ve avoided the algorithm.

I mean, I don’t really do social media in the usual sense, never had Facebook, nor Instagram. I did have a Twitter account but I used it to follow certain accounts and didn’t tweet, so it was basically an RSS feed. I used a 3rd party app and only saw my subs, no ads, no suggested/promoted posts.

Same for Reddit, used a 3rd party app, no ads, no suggested/promoted posts, I only ever read a feed of my subs.

My Reddit and Twitter subs/follows have been mostly hobbies, niche areas of interest, products I own, sports etc. no politics or news discussions. So I’ve really avoided being exposed to most of that toxicity I keep reading about.

This is why losing 3rd party apps was a big deal for me. I don’t want to read sponsored/promoted/suggested posts or ads. I’d rather not use the service at all if I have to.

That’s why I’ve fully moved to Lemmy and Mastodon.

(Controversial) Should lemmy.world close registrations at a certain user count?

To support decentralization and spread, should lemmy.world close registration at some point to prevent a performance overload due to too many users? Of course, if registration is disabled, there could be a hint placed somewhere near that from other instances you can interact with content on lemmy.world just like you had...

MusketeerX, (edited )

I’m not sure. But maybe it makes sense to sign up to more than one instance.

My main account is on lemmy.world, but now I’ve signed up to another one on aussie.zone. I can see all the content from there and it’s nice and fast unlike world at the moment.

It feels kind of like I’m experiencing a benefit of federation, when I can simply switch accounts and keep browsing when things slow down on one instance.

MusketeerX,

Connect for Lemmy.

It's being updated to add features and fix bugs pretty much daily. Which means it is improving at a crazy speed.

It's come a long way since I first started using it - about 3 days ago!

MusketeerX,

Not one I recognise.

MusketeerX,

Yes because:

  1. I want to see it take off and want to do my bit
  2. It feels like a more chilled environment in which to participate
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