WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on spicy one 3 hours ago:
maybe, but it seems it would lower the sea level
- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 1 week ago:
probably from “a tiktok”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
if you are not white, are you closer to being a rando, or to being (perceived as) an actual threat?
- Comment on Why do so many people delete their posts? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen people do this on Lemmy, one person even had a stalker that would go server to server to reply angrily to their posts because he felt “wronged” somehow.
those need to be reported and banned, their replies mass deleted.
Plus, nobody is reading this stuff after a month anyway,
Because we don’t have a proper (or any) system for subscribing to threads. but if I have saved a link for myself for future reference, it’ll be gone!
I’m just saying, don’t be surprised if people start running instances that disobey deletions
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 2 weeks ago:
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml @yogthos@lemmy.ml china is an authoritarian dictatorship, a surveillance state with no private life whatsoever. china is not communist, and attempts at free speech is punished
let the downvotes pour!
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 2 weeks ago:
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml @yogthos@lemmy.ml china is an authoritarian dictatorship, a surveillance state with no private life whatsoever. china is not communist, and attempts at free speech is punished
let the downvotes pour!
- Comment on Anon visits a guy's house 2 weeks ago:
socks? and where are the slippers? or do you keep your fridge in the living room?
- Comment on Congratulations, homosexual! 2 weeks ago:
I prefer the robotic announcer with the fake uplifting tone
- Comment on Congratulations, homosexual! 2 weeks ago:
in my head it was the other robotic voice. I think it was used in both portal 1 and 2
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What’s an “important app” to you here?
the app of my bank. it refuses to work if the operating system is not original. they charge you money for each login code and transaction approval code SMS they send, but if I had the app, scanning their QR code would impose no charge.
they also recently ended the support of the new web interface for mobile browsers, to “protect against hackers”. WTH! and this is the biggest bank in the country by far according to statistics. the old site shuts down soon.the new webapp can still be used in a mobile browser if you enable desktop mode. but for how long? and it’ll be fine for me, I would use that anyway because I don’t want to install their app for other reasons. but lots of people don’t want to deal with a website that’s been designed for desktop PCs, on a small touch screen,because it’s hard to use, it’s hard to read, and if your thumbs are big maybe it’s not even possible to use it.
for banking apps this is almost expected nowadays.
then another friend of mine has the worked related apl I said above. it does the same: refuses to let you use it because the opersting system is not the original one, unmodified. and mind you that does not only mean that you can’t root it or can’t replace the ROM, that also means you cannot even uninstall a bunch of apps that do whatever in the background!
I bet there is much more of these, but if I can I avoid installing anything new from the play store at all, so I don’t come across these apps. I live different technological lifestyle than most around me. most of my friends’ phones cannot be liberated or they are not interested in it because of the dangers, and honestly me neither in supporting an installation that may be unstable as is not rarely the case with lineage, so I rarely offer it. but sometimes I do and they like the idea, accepting that things like this may happen, and then it happens with yet another app I did not know about beforehand.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If Google want to continue to claim Android is open source,
do they want it? what’s the benefit for them?
they have to allow for devices that forego any of this crap and boot vanilla non-Google-Services Android.
Sorry but that has nothing to do with what restrictions an app imposes on the user. Currently they allow, and bunch of important apps still refuse to work.
And if you’re privacy oriented enough, you will give up on apps that are not.
as I said above, there are apps that you cannot refuse in this world in certain life situations. most of these apps are not about convenience.
And given enough time somebody is going to work out how you fool a modified system into booting.
as in: in half a decade somebody will reverse engineer the bootloader of a single phone model, so that other tech savvy people can have some privacy.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You can run whatever you like in your Android phones. Jailbreaking iPhones is also possible. All these devices are just computers that can run anything within their hardware specs. Hacking some of these things may be against the Ts and Cs or even illegal. But technically possible. The restrictions are mote political, not technical.
unless it verifies itself and refuses to boot a modified system. the logic for that can be in actual read only memory.
but wait a minute. something like that is already happening with google safetynet! baking apps and more are literally refusing to work on non-google approved systems, including any single rom that is even just a little bit privacy oriented
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 3 weeks ago:
I cant comment on dead platform, but did you register on instagram for this reason, or was that an old account? in the former case you don’t have one less accounts. but then one could also argue whether deleting one meta service account and registering another makes a difference
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 4 weeks ago:
that’s not progress, it is trend. in zero ways it is better.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 4 weeks ago:
executable files can just as well downloaded from google drive. and if you didn’t disable autorun on the system that’s on you.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 4 weeks ago:
google drive because of microsoft? what?
and how is the security of google drive better than a pendrive?
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 4 weeks ago:
google drive because of microsoft? what?
and how is the security of google drive better than a pendrive?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
if it is a stupid question, then obviously, it is. Otherwise, if it is not a stupid question, then in fact it is not.
- Comment on Who needs it? 4 weeks ago:
but those are only effective as long as Google is playing nice
you are assuming the use of a chromium based browser. and then avoiding youtube and gmaps is not as hard as switching to linuxon PC. ok maybe it’s easy for me, because I don’t use youtube for entertainment and so I’m not annoyed on that level if invidious breaks down, and openstreetmap is usable in the area, but you get the idea
Though I’d say running custom rom is an exception from the rule
that in itself is not enough though. even lineage still uses google services, without opengapps. calyx, iodé, graphene strips that out, but most custom roms are not interested in that
- Comment on Who needs it? 4 weeks ago:
I am worried with what they do with all the data they have, I just don’t think anyone is interested in me personally and if they were, I’d kinda take it as a compliment tbh.
nobody is interested personally. it is all computers, algorithms, advertisers, possibly hackers, and never to be deleted data troves. nobody is interested in you, but lots of companies are interested in who can they milk for a penny more in any way possible, even if through deception and harm
- Comment on Who needs it? 4 weeks ago:
it can be used to extend your profile based on exactly those. then that profile can be used to sell you sports equipment and drugs (in the pharmacy sense).
the information about when and where do you work out can also be used to learn other things, employment status and schedule, how often it varies, when you are on holiday or sick leave. who you may have met while exercising. if you pay for a gym and how expensive that place is that you were willing to pay. who knows what else.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 5 weeks ago:
But you are not forced to buy anything upon seeing a sticker.
of course, but this is like the cashier saying: nah we won’t accept your purchase, the security guard will escort you out of the shop
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 1 month ago:
Of course, that’s why I said…
the function is called Virtual Memory in Windows
then I misunderstood you. I thought you meant swap = virtual memory
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 1 month ago:
JXL for the win! when will we get support for it in firefox though…
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 1 month ago:
The swap file or pagefile is automatically set up in Windows 10/11. You have to do something manually to prevent it.
yes. but it still is different from virtual memory. that’s a broader thing.
By making the swap file larger, which may be an issue if the hard drive doesn’t have enough space left, and if not it will still increase the amount of time needed to recover data from the swap, because it’s larger.
then open the control panel and fix the swap setup. and then enjoy your more ram. the solution to this problem does not seem to be not upgrading to have more ram.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 1 month ago:
virtual memory is related, but that’s a broader system that also gets used when no swap file was set up.
I agree that adding more RAM won’t necessarily make the problem go away as windows might still swap the game out if it deems it more important to cache more files in RAM, but I don’t see why that would make it worse.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
what are these new Docker@someinstance accounts? I just blacklisted one yesterday because it was writing like a US republican themed account. it was just a single day old account and now here is this
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
and should 2 consenting adults adapt how they have sex so that others don’t feel like their “boundaries” have been disrespected?
well if they have made that person then the answer is definitely yes. It’s not like a quest who was accepted on a favor or something
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I am still going to continue having (probably still loud) sex in the house. Unless my kids fully paying a roommate’s share of the costs to run the home, they’re still kids, not roommates.
with your mentality, who cares about roommates even. they should join or find a quiet place right?
