ExtremeDullard
@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
- Comment on Historian Answers Native American Questions 1 day ago:
Native American casinos exist to prove that casinos can be profitable when it’s not Trump running em.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You might be right there. Oh well. if it’s a bot, it trolled me out of a full minute of my life…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
But here? We deal in maximum chaos per Euro spent!
Then you have wasted your money. The Flipper can do any chaos whatsoever.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
[…] Turns out it’s the keys to the entire electrical grid!
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I am now fully ready to hack my neighbor’s TV to only show Motorhead concerts.Sigh
This is nonsense like this that gets a useful tool like the Flipper banned in countries with even dumber politicians.
You want to be part of the electrical grid? Stick your fingers in the mains outlet.
- Comment on necessary read 2 weeks ago:
It means let the fuckers know they can retreat from their extreme or misguided political stance and come back to a more reasonable point of view without consequences. It’s a variation of Sun Tzu’s “Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.” : if you don’t, they’ll fight you to the death because they have no other option.
My problem is, however reasonably the idea, that’s a bit too rich for me to apply to imbeciles who turn their country into a fascist hellhole.
- Comment on necessary read 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I keep saying: Trump isn’t the problem, he’s a symptom.
And the disease is that a majority of voting Americans are either morally bankrupt and gullible enough to overlook all that Trump did and said and elect him, or actively fascist.
And that’s why, when people tell me I need to “make space” for those people and give them an exit ramp, so that when Trump finally turns on them too, and they realize what they done did, the nation can heal and come back together, I say: fuck this shit.
I don’t want to make space for immoral morons and fascists. These people deserve what they’re about to get, and what they’ve inflicted on the rest of us who didn’t sell out, and they’ll never come back from the moral quagmire that made them think it’s a-okay elect a fascist POTUS.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Because you think this is new?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That’s what happens when Big Tech trap people in information silos and the media manufactures different fake realities depending on the bias of the particular billionaires who happens to own the outlets: people don’t share a common experience anymore and don’t have common facts to agree on. As a result, everybody has their own truths from their own information bubbles and nobody know the actual facts anymore.
- Comment on Apple and Google won’t like this... [Free Software Foundation just gave humanity a final shot at salvation by announcing the Librephone] | Fireship [4:10] 3 weeks ago:
That’s the same reason why I gave Ubuntu Touch a go: CalyxOS going stale on my FP4. But I decided to buy an FP5 to give it a whirl and leave the FP4 alone, because I can’t really do without a reliable phone while I make sure the kinks are worked out.
- Comment on Apple and Google won’t like this... [Free Software Foundation just gave humanity a final shot at salvation by announcing the Librephone] | Fireship [4:10] 3 weeks ago:
Sure why not:
- The UI is really quite polished. Honestly, it’s slicker than you imagine.
There are weird quirk that you simply don’t encounter in Android, like the UI not really tailored for displays with rounded corners or with a camera in the top-middle blocking icons, or the side drag areas being too small for my taste. Or the keyboard’s haptic feedback seemingly not going away when you disable it, because there’s also a general touch haptic feedback that’s well-hidden in the settings menus, that you didn’t know about.
All this is fixable with enough time and minor hackery, but it still requires time and hackery you don’t need in Android.
I haven’t tried an external display. I have a computer for that.
Waydroid - the Android emulation - is very slick and quite stable. Integration is quite good: when you install an Android app, it shows up in the UT menu immediately. Sometimes they show up twice: just refresh the menu by pulling down and the extra instance disappears. At least in my extremely well-supported Fairphone 5, there’s no issues with access to camera, networking, NFC… But the camera has a quirk: you have to open the native UT camera first, otherwise Android apps won’t be able to use the camera for some reason.
Sharing files between UT and Android apps isn’t a thing natively, but you can download Waydroid helper apps to do that in the Openstore.
If you want long-winded Android apps, you have to leave the window open. If you close it, the app stops if it was the only one running in Waydroid.
There’s a thing called Libertine to run native desktop Linux apps in UT: I find it crashy at best. But it’s there.
Most important apps like calls, SMS, browsing, emails are handled quite well by native UT apps. Other things like maps are handled by web apps, and while I intensely dislike web apps, I must say they work really well.
All of this is easy to live with if you’re willing and persistent enough. But if you want a phone that Just Works™ like most people do, This won’t cut it. That’s why I’m saying, Apple and Google have absolutely nothing to fear from Linux phones: most people aren’t willing to spend a tenth of the time I’m willing to spend on a quirky phone for the sake of principles.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 3 weeks ago:
More proof that AI ruins everything - if it was needed.
- Comment on Apple and Google won’t like this... [Free Software Foundation just gave humanity a final shot at salvation by announcing the Librephone] | Fireship [4:10] 3 weeks ago:
As an actual person who owns and operates an actual Linux phone that actually works as one of the best Linux phones you can get (Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch), I can guarantee you that neither Apple nor Google are losing a single second of sleep over this - much as I’d love that they quaked in their monopolistic corporate boots…
- Comment on FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project 3 weeks ago:
That’s nice but…
Here’s my experience with my Linux phone (Ubuntu Touch on Fairphone 5): it’s fully functional and mostly usable as a full Android replacement. But the keyword here is “mostly": The Openstore has native Linux replacement for half of the stuff I need (calls, SMS, emails, browser…) and for the rest, Waydroid picks up the slack (my Android-only banking app, Yubikey app…).
And then there’s stuff that’s neither available (or rather, working) in native Linux nor in Waydroid. And the killer app I desperately need, Signal, is in that group.
And that turns my promising Ubuntu Touch phone into a very fancy paperweight I mostly leave at home.
Here’s my prediction: the LibrePhone will be another paperweight for the same reason. And the sad thing is, it’s not for lack of trying on the parts of the alternative OS and app makers, or lack of good will: they really do try their best. But it’s a chicken-and-egg problem: people don’t want to code for niche mobile OSes and stick to Android, and the niche mobile OSes remain niche as a result.
Unless the LibrePhone comes onto the market with a certain number of key apps that a vast majority of people will need, it’s doomed.
- Comment on OLAY! 4 weeks ago:
That’s not Stephen Miller: this guy is flamboyant and he has balls - not to mention, hair.
- Comment on Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos 4 weeks ago:
That’s because Shitler is obsessed with her, and you hear a lot more about him that you want to also.
- Comment on Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos 4 weeks ago:
Just a reminder: Taylor Swift is a billionaire. Maybe she’s just as principled as all the other billionaires.
- Comment on Tell me why! 4 weeks ago:
Just as long as there’s never any MAGB bus…
- Comment on Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease 5 weeks ago:
The dementia is really starting to show…
What next? It’s available at your local Sharper Image?
- Comment on Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease 5 weeks ago:
What better accessory for your Trump Med Bed than a MyPillow.
All you need for a restful thought-free MAGA night. - Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 month ago:
I agree. A much better test is whether you wear a red MAGA cap.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 month ago:
I hate you so much right now 🙂
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 month ago:
Feathered dinosaurs are a thing.
Well, in fairness, kind of.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 month ago:
You have to be shitting me… Pluto is a fucking Care bear planet:
Nobody told me that in the seventies…
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 month ago:
Well there are deepening levels of understanding depending on the learner’s pre-existing (e.g. matter > atoms > protons/neutrons/electrons > fermions), and there are things that are just plain incorrect, that were assumed to be correct, because science advances (e.g. Pluto is a grey ball of boring nothingness very similar to Mercury).
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 month ago:
The very architecture of the Internet (it was a written with a capital I back then) made it impossible to take over, and traffic would naturally route around any damaged links or nodes.
Google and CloudFlare have since proven that sonsabitches with enough money can subvert it completely, and it only takes a few dudes dragging an anchor from a boat to disconnect entire countries for weeks and months.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
He’s a centrist the same way the center of gravity of a hula hoop is at the center of the hoop.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That there is either a very confused short bus rider or someone cleverly hedging his bets.
I’m gonna guess the former.
- Comment on Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg unveils new smart glasses powered by AI 1 month ago:
If you come to me with this always-on Facebook spycam pointing at me on your gormless face, you’d better take it off pronto, because I didn’t consent to be filmed. And if you don’t comply pronto, I’ll make you.
- Comment on Chatbot site depicting child sexual abuse images raises fears over misuse of AI 1 month ago:
The Internet Watch Foundation said it had been alerted to a chatbot site that offered a number of scenarios including “child prostitute in a hotel”, “sex with your child while your wife is on holiday” and “child and teacher alone after class”.
Does it have to be this explicit? I’m sure asking for a Trump Enigma would yield plenty of pedo material.
