WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Fucking Google, websites and permissions shit... 6 days ago:
recommend trying Jitsi to your therapist. the main advantage of it to me is that it’s not made by big tech, who may be snooping in on the session. I love it, it has all the features and more
oh and also firefox. jitsi and firefox.
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 1 week ago:
it was a real hero
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 1 week ago:
at least? wouldn’t it be cheaper to replace the motherboard nowadays?
- Comment on People like this 1 week ago:
this is given votes, not received
- Comment on Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine? 2 weeks ago:
an automatic ATM machine, no less!
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 2 weeks ago:
Pokemon Birth and every time you take a photo of a new newborn baby with the app, and send your genetic samples for verification, you have a chance to collect a rare pokemon
- Comment on Is this message supported by World admins? Is there any chance at all this slipped past their control? 3 weeks ago:
At that point, Lemmy instance owners should just convert to a Piefed or Mbin instance if they were to feel that strongly.
some are trying to do that, but afaik it’s complicated to do that without data loss.
- Comment on Is this message supported by World admins? Is there any chance at all this slipped past their control? 3 weeks ago:
and you’re mad at them because you’re still using the thing you don’t want to use.
is that genuinely what you think?
most people who disagree with that banner do so because it makes unknowing people to give money to the main devs, who hold a hostile and deceptive agenda.
the banner can be easily disabled with a short custom stylesheet. Implementing that shouldn’t be a big burden for small instances, even less so for lemmy.world
- Comment on What is the difference between a managed switch and an unmanaged switch? 1 month ago:
Your basic home or business user only needs an unmanaged switch, good enough.
I always say vlans are useful in any environments
- Comment on Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25. 1 month ago:
what’s RoW?
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 1 month ago:
I think there’s some linux command to query the installed keys, but here I have only found the command for listing all the installed mok keys: wiki.archlinux.org/title/…/Secure_Boot
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 1 month ago:
I can boot into Windows through the BIOS using only the MS-signed bootloader instead of GRUB or any chain loader, and Windows itself considers Secure Boot to be enabled successfully.
I assume that’s because your motherboard still has the microsoft keys installed besides the MOK keys, and it verified the bootloader with that. thats why it accepts the ms signed bootloader. as I know not all motherboards allow removing it, and there are a few buggy ones that get hard bricked if you do that.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 1 month ago:
Microsoft provides SB shims for some linux distributions, so it wouldn’t mean locking out all linux players.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 1 month ago:
right, you can look at it that way too. but what the consumers see (and feel) is that the game tells what kind of software you can have, even when that is not related to the game. and that’s what’s not usual.
this is less obvious on windows, because it’s not that common to be modified by users in a way that matters here, as the checks are kind of loose, but on android it’s quite different, and windows is likely to get the same treatment, which is the reason why valve is pouring so much money into linux
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 1 month ago:
these games only accept the secure boot setup where the root key is that of microsoft’s. that means that you either need windows with a pre-approved configuration in some regards (notable difference: any foss kernel drivers are nono because they won’t ever be signed) or a linux system for which microsoft gives a secureboot shim with whatever further restrictions.
the consequences are more obvious if you look at android as an example. It’s not called secure boot there, but android verified boot, and the turning off of it is called “bootloader unlocking”. very few phones support installing your own signing keys so you can’t take advantage of it with a bloatless android distribution. but even on phones that do, there are many apps that require a locked bootloader with the factory keys, including banking apps, nfc payment apps, government apps (including those that are required to access the online government account), entertainment apps with strict DRM, …
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 1 month ago:
its like you are intentionally trying to misunderstand what they are saying, good work at it. Obviously, they didn’t deem SB and TPM unusual, but the types of software (entertainment industry products) demanding it while the software of the security industry does not.
but it’s not a pointless requirement or some grand conspiracy to make people buy new hardware.
consumers won’t benefit from this functionality, but many industries will in the foreseeable future
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 1 month ago:
start going down the technical path with Linux to extend the life further.
linux won’t fix this kind of shit, because this is about an arbitrary limitation of wanting to lock the owner out of the system. these malware companies won’t ever recognize a free linux setup as “verified”
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 1 month ago:
TPM is enterprise functionality, useless for most consumers.
Secure Boot is not enough for these malware. They want SB rooted in MS keys. You using a Machine Owner Key? Too bad, go away! they say
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 1 month ago:
who said they do?
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 1 month ago:
the tpm does not add any security whatsoever for windows 11, and secure boot is being used to lock your control out of your own system. secure boot enabled with machine owner keys wouldn’t be enough either for these games
- Comment on Homebrew, de facto standard package manager for macOS, now forces Apple's $99/yr notarization bullshit for all casks. 1 month ago:
bad librewolf, shame on them for not paying the tax
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 2 months ago:
it sounds fun but
And since this is being done to one business at a time,
how can people coordinate that?
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 2 months ago:
valetudo
- Comment on Is re-visiting a place of trauma a good idea? Have anyone done it? 2 months ago:
I think it wouldn’t be a good idea to go back to china
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 2 months ago:
I rarely use onedrive and I’m not logged in in any client normally. a few years ago I checked some files through firefox and learned that search also searches in image content, even though I stopped using the service before AI tech became available.
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 2 months ago:
encrypted onedrive? what? press X to doubt. how do they do image recognition on uploaded images, then?
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 2 months ago:
encrypted onedrive? what? press X to doubt. how do they do image recognition on uploaded images, then?
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 2 months ago:
all banks I know have a problem with it in my country. one of the didn’t, but recently decided to end their good tradition referring to some unclear legal obligations
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 2 months ago:
root permissions, which will disqualify it from being able to run the banking app, the mandatory age verification app, and others.
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 2 months ago:
no, it means they are halfway through the verification and for most countries they already have counted enough valid votes.