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pHr34kY, to technology in Today 10 years ago I got a Firefox OS phone

Aurora still works, but the anonymous accounts are all broken. They get throttled because of too many requests on the accounts which need to be manually generated.

I believe it works fine if you log in.

pHr34kY, to asklemmy in What social taboos that exist today do you think will not be around in 100 years?

That’s how I see it now.

pHr34kY, to selfhosted in What types of services are you not willing to self-host?

I gave my wife a laminated card with explicit instructions on how to access my keepass DB and encrypted backups. The rest can die when I do.

pHr34kY, to selfhosted in What types of services are you not willing to self-host?

I self-host all those things.

I just have two portable drives, and I bring one home from work at a time to run an rsync backup job.

pHr34kY, to adhd in ProTip: If you're cooking something, set a timer.

My house has a solid ban on any product with “maker” in its name.

pHr34kY, to adhd in ProTip: If you're cooking something, set a timer.

I have a gas cooker that will continue to cook long after your house has burned down around it.

pHr34kY, to selfhosted in Are there any downsides / risks of selfhosting a tor snowflake instance?

I did… Until the police knocked on my door. They said I was lucky because they decided to ask questions first, but they technically could have siezed every computer in my house without warning. I don’t think you’d ever get convicted for something obviously done over tor, but having your stuff taken while they investigate is really inconvenient.

pHr34kY, to games in Microsoft’s repairability push now extends to Xbox controllers, too

Standard xbox controllers have sticks that are soldered on in about 10 places each side. They are a total pain to replace, and the PCB will fail after 2 or 3 replacements.

At least the switch uses ZIF connectors. They tiny and fiddly, but it’s way better than an hour wielding a soldering iron.

pHr34kY, to asklemmy in Do you ever despair at the apparent lack of regard for the "social contract" by so many?

I just went to two amusement parks in Japan this week (Universal and Disney). It’s a different world here. People form orderly queues. They wait their turn. They don’t make noise. We all say thank you at the end of an interaction.

I see 20 metre single-file queues for escalators. Back home it’s a chaotic meat funnel.

pHr34kY, to til in TIL that In 2005, Sony BMG installed DRM software without knowledge or consent of the user, that included a rootkit which created a security vulerability

I too have held a decades-long boycott over this. I had one of those CDs and it would cause a kernel panic if you inserted it. No other user interaction required.

pHr34kY, to nottheonion in Aussie Bus Driver Fed Up with 'Misbehavior' Dumps 18 Kids on Side of the Road

Queenslander childen are next-level.

pHr34kY, to fediverse in Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?

30s software engineer / linux user here.

We are exactly who you want as the “primer” user group. We will collectively make sure the whole thing works before the load really rams up.

pHr34kY, to piracy in Is music piracy dying?

I’m seeing a lot of this. I wonder if the server is overloaded and failing to send the ack response for a successful post.

pHr34kY, to selfhosted in Welcome to [email protected] - What do you selfhost?

OK, here’s how it happened.

I was hungry, and I wanted to see the menu for my local pizza joint. I couldn’t find it anywhere.

I discovered that all their socials linked to a website that wouldn’t load. When I checked, the domain had lapsed.

Out of frustration, I purchased the domain and pulled the last snapshot of their website off archive.org. It had their full menu as a PDF.

6 months later and it’s still getting visitors from their facebook page, who are viewing the menu. They haven’t even realised.

pHr34kY, to selfhosted in Zoneminder is awesome if you want to keep your security footage to yourself.

Zoneminder is best for a low-power system. In the last year or so, it got proper passthrough support so it can record video straight off the camera with zero processing. You don’t get alarms or motion detection or live view, but you can record 24x7 using 2% of your CPU.

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