pasdechance
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- Comment on 📚 Ruminating on eReaders: Rambling thoughts and memories of my first two eReaders, the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle Voyage 2 weeks ago:
I felt the same way, then I was asked to set one up for someone because we bought it as a group gift. It was so comfortable to use and not at all what I expected. It wasn’t even a great one, just a basic Kobo model. I ended up buying the same model and used it for years. My partner got me a new one and she has my original that still works like day one 14 years ago.
- Comment on Larry Ellison’s quest to run the world 3 weeks ago:
Beautiful!
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 3 weeks ago:
Most any criticism of the show is true. I will day that it is a good series to watch with people who haven’t watched Star Trek before because it is a little un-Trek-ish and there is less to stop and explain. Also, since the mission is top secret it has little overlap with anything except SNW.
As a Star Trek fan, I was happy to get more Trek, the same as I was happy to get more Picard (that S2 was a pain though!), Lower Decks, Prodigy, and even the Short Treks.
My wife was pulled into the world of Star Trek by Discovery (a full 36 years after I’d started watching the franchise) and now she loves it and wants to watch all of the other series. So, Discovery gets a point for that.
(I haven’t seen Section 31 yet. It is supposed to be very bad.)
- Comment on Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes 3 weeks ago:
True. I guess the tone wilm depend on my mood that day haha.
- Comment on Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes 3 weeks ago:
The featured image/title card is just wonderful. I’m a professor, and I don’t know how I’ll react if these ever enter my classroom.
- Comment on The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ 3 weeks ago:
I really liked the Pi400. Used it as my main device for at least a year. If I had an extra monitor I’d consider getting this as it seems to deal with my gripes about the previous version.
- Comment on Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man 4 weeks ago:
Multiple people within the company allowed that to happen. The brightest minds money can buy. Cumulative experience that can be measured in decades either did not forsee this or shrugged it off as “not their problem.”
Nasty.
- Comment on best comment under a video about the new iphone 17 1 month ago:
I’m hoping to get at least 5 years out of my current phone. Got it December 2022. The manufacturer has a 5-year warranty and Android updates and promises availability of replacement parts for 10 years. So far, there is no reason to update.
- Comment on Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine 1 month ago:
Excellent read. I don’t pay for Kagi but they’ve been on my radar for awhile (my password thingy says I’ve had an account on the site since 2019? That can’t be right).
Anyway, confirmation bias in play here, but I am not a fan.
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 1 month ago:
Not a true paywall:
- Comment on SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog 2 months ago:
sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250425/ also has a good list of grievances
- Comment on Fairphone 6 Teardown: Proof Phones Don’t Have to Be Disposable 3 months ago:
I don’t have any of these devices, but Android devices do have lockdown and stolen phone protection if you use a Google account. Same, there is anti-phishing FIDO, etc…
The alternative ROMs for Android devices are based on Android, but there are users that do no want any Google in their phone and that takes away a few functions (like find my phone stuff [correct me if I’m wrong here]).
GrapheneOS is the strict option and locks the bootloader. e/OS can relock the bootloader on official builds. An unlocked bootloader is a security risk.
Different ROMs have different issues when it comes to banking apps or biometrics.
I don’t use an alternative ROM, but I use an Android phone without a Google account. The most concerning missing function is find my phone, but there is an app for that.
If someone has your phone and it isn’t locked, they can potentially connect it to a computer and extract info. A locked Android device, like a locked iPhone, increases friction for whoever is trying to access the device. Relying solely on what I’ve read, iPhones are far more annoying to gain access to.
- Comment on Dark web’s longest-standing drug market seized in multinational effort 3 months ago:
News company. They’re talking about Joe Ricketts.
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 4 months ago:
You could use something like ublacklist to filter them from your search results
