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lustrum,

Is one of the options “because I fucking told you to”

lustrum,

Not that it’s feasible, but they themselves won’t have the bandwidth for a few 50gbps users 24/7.

My 1gbps service is a 2.5gbps GPON split between 32 other users, i’ve always seen 1gbps. But theoretically it would only take 3 of us to max the connection out

lustrum,

You could probably sell a 1gig service to 200 users on a 50gbps line. That’s how GPON works and mostly people don’t have issues.

lustrum,

Didn’t it say “launched”? So you can continue to sell an older design. The same reason apple are selling the iPhone 14 still without issues.

lustrum,

No, I can’t use my yubikeys in fennec or Mull.

lustrum,

Embarrassing they launched it and released a statement before release date saying issues will be patched at a later date.

Was genuinely excited for this months ago…

lustrum,

Maybe start by not murdering babies or people at a festival?

lustrum,

I don’t have an opinion on the conflict and each sides claims. I just know one side murdered and beheaded some children, seems a bit more severe than dropping bombs with collateral damage.

lustrum,

I’ve started using Duckduckgo, less specifically for the search and more for the bangs. Fed up of search surfacing sites they care about. I can now quickly search wikipedia with !w etc.

lustrum,

Yeah but that’s slower and not using the sites specific search

lustrum,

Even if you selfhost, having a cloud provider can still be a good option to maintain 3-2-1 without hosting a second server offsite (at parents or friends etc).

I backup to backblaze b2

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

lustrum, (edited )

I switched my parents group chat to RCS from whatsapp after pestering them for ages.

Over the span of 2 months we had 4-5 inconsistencies where I would recieve a message from my mum or dad in the group that would be in another language or clearly not be written by them. It wouldn’t show up on her phone but my brother and dad would see it.

Here’s the proof of the last occassion it happened. They’re never going to switch now…

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/2c43d381-51a2-4c11-ba35-6206549db4c1.webp

lustrum,

It’s a jpeg

Then encoded in the metadata is a map of brightness.

If your website/app/phone doesn’t support it, the metadata just sits there with info about the lens, shutter speed etc.

If it does support it, the JPEG is automatically processed with the metadata to increase brightness in the original jpeg.

Are you going to need an unlimited data plan to use The 8 Pro's Video Boost feature?

From my understanding, the P8P’s video boost can’t be done in the phone itself, but it’s actually uploading the video to Google’s servers, processing it there, then downloading the finished product back again. In fact, it probably uploads two videos, one at high ISO and one at low ISO to get the full HDR range....

lustrum,

It probably does it after its backed up via Google photos which can be set to WiFi only.

lustrum,

Yeah it’s insane. I bought a 1 year old Hyundai and knocked tons of depreciation off an already cheaper brand.

At my work people be driving around in leased Range Rovers/AMG Mercs. Then they will take the piss out of my car.

Seriously? I now have more disposable income because i’m not wasting it renting a car and also I own my car… It should be me bragging

lustrum,

People need to stop “pretending” they can afford all this shit, it’s not needed and noone cares, who are people showing off too?

New iphone? Don’t need it

Maybe if we stop buying shit these companies will actually try

lustrum,

Why not just use the camera?

lustrum,

I like it, seems more refined with some nice QoL tweaks.

The haptics are broken though. Swiping between recent apps has gone and sometimes pressing back it doesn’t vibrate.

lustrum,

I’ve considered this swap. You got some experience with it, what do you miss?

lustrum,

🤑

lustrum,

I have mint dual booted on my laptop with Win 11. I find myself using Win11 more.

Idk why, linux mint doesn’t feel finished to me:

  • 120hz won’t work with my dock (works fine in ubuntu and w11)
  • Touchpad scrolling is insanely quick and almost unusable
  • My mouse jitters allover, accelleration or something seems wrong.
  • Can’t seem to set different governors depending on battery or power.
  • Fingerprint doesn’t have a driver (works in Ubuntu ok though).
  • Scaling 125% seems janky, everything is blurry as shit

It does work mostly ok though and is quick, but it doesn’t feel polished. Ubuntu was great but fuck snap packages.

lustrum,

Subscriptions need to fuck off. I made a stand a few months ago. I will not subscribe to anything at all unless i’m getting INSANE value.

Cancelled streaming, random apps, patreon etc. I now have usenet and backblaze b2 for about £3 a month each. Saving me a fortune 🏴‍☠️🦜

lustrum,

They once wanted twice as much as booking another ticket to change a name…

lustrum,

Genuine question what they reconning at that distance? Just comm interception?

lustrum,

I’ve seen you post this elsewhere so assume you aren’t just interested in gaming only:

Here’s some that I follow:

  • Anandtech^1: Great general tech website, has some deep dives. It did used to be a lot better
  • Chips and Cheese^2: Insane deep dives into architectures and chips.
  • More than Moore^3: Ex Anandtech editor in chief, does great breakdowns of new AI tech and silicon.
  • igor’s Lab^4: Does some great deep dives into various GPU and CPU issues.
  • KGOnTech^5: Only just followed this blog, seems to do a good teardown on the apple headset.
  • Krebs on Security^6: Blog by one of the best security researchers and breaks down vulnerabilities
  • EE Times^7: Good well written site with overviews on many areas in tech
  • Techspot Featured Articles^8: Mainly gaming and GPU/CPU, but does some good articles exploring games, tech etc
lustrum,

Depends what you want to do but Backblaze B2 is reasonably cheap. $6 per TB

lustrum,

Yeah that’s the best for me. I use about 600GB.

500GB plans aren’t enough and 1TB plans are too much. Paying what you use is so good.

lustrum, (edited )

They released the rewrite as a beta apk at the weekend for testers. So it’s definitely going somewhere.

It’s faster and has conversations on the app too.

proton.me/support/mail-android-beta

reddit.com/…/join_the_new_proton_mail_beta_on_and…

lustrum,

Many countries like the UK charge 35p for an MMS. So to send pictures to anyone you needed an internet connected messenger.

SMS/MMS effectively died here.

So if I want to communicate everyone uses WhatsApp or iMessage

lustrum,

Think you got the ads meant for me

lustrum,

If you’re in the UK Cinema Paridiso is a good service, similar to how lovefilm was back in the day.

Why Do Companies Not Use Existing 2FA Standards?

This is something I am seeing more and more of. As companies start to either offer or require 2FA for accounts, they don’t follow the common standards or even offer any sort of options. One thing that drives me nuts is when they don’t offer TOTP as an option. It seems like many companies either use text messages to send a...

lustrum,

Mobile apps can suck a fart. I hate installing apps when the browser works perfectly fine.

SMS is way less secure but it is convenient for the masses to get your grandma easily using 2FA without any apps or more complex setup. It also doesn’t require internet like an app would.

I personally use Fido2/uauth > TOTP > Email > SMS.

lustrum,

Kind of.

lustrum,

I ain’t reading this but I would like to. Anyone got a paywall free version? I tried 12ft.io to no avail.

lustrum,

Thank you

lustrum,

Cancelled all subscriptions apart from Usenet and VPN.

Now I just pirate it all and bang it on Plex. All in one place on all devices, easy peasy

lustrum,

I don’t disagree but it was hard enough getting my dad and grandma to work plex. I’m not changing now.

Plex is working really well for me at the moment.

lustrum,

Yeah I run Plex with the Arr dockers.

I use an app on my phone and it’s all just done for you.

Someone recommends a show or movie? Open app, search for show and add it.

In the background the setup will automatically search the download providers you’ve setup (Usenet or torrents), filter them for the quality profile, download the files and place them in the correct folder ready to stream on Plex.

It’s so seamless once working.

lustrum,

I built it up over months.

The simplest setup though I copied from Spaceinvador One on YouTube.

lustrum,

Gas ain’t cheap here. I bath once or twice a week, but i’ll have a quick shower once a day (unless I bathe)

lustrum,

Loake boots, goodyear welted and a great quality leather. They have some wrinkles but I look after them, on my second sole and when conditioned they look amazing.

Weber BBQ.

lustrum,

Yeah I have a weber BBQ from around 1980 that I bought used about 10 years ago. I abuse it and it has the odd rusing spot and some dents but it’s great!!

I bought a Weber MT charcoal BBQ recently and it’s just as nice. Hopefully have this one for years too.

lustrum,

Yup same here. It’s also made me realise I don’t ever want to be tied into a platform anymore.

I’ve been moving cloud, passwords, email, accounts, podcasts, notes, news etc all to platforms or services that are either selfhosted or are easily exportable and can be backed up for access into another platform.

lustrum,

The iPhone 15 is usb2. So surely can’t hit gigabit speeds also. The pro models should be absolutely fine though.

lustrum,

No. Pro is 3.2

lustrum,

In the UK last year P7 and P7P. Both either got the pixel watch or buds pro.

lustrum,

Can see it now.

30% under 25 turnout. 100% 60+…

Proton services discussion

I’ll start off by saying everyone’s economic situations are just as varied as their threat models and how people make decisions on which services can be specific to themself and not one that can apply to anyone else. The services one chooses to use for free or to pay for may be based more on what they can afford vs what’s...

lustrum,

Yeah bitwarden will create simple login aliases natively.

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