WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Which is more likely in the future: Smartphones eventually becoming more "open" OR Computers eventually becoming more "locked-down"? 2 days 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 Which is more likely in the future: Smartphones eventually becoming more "open" OR Computers eventually becoming more "locked-down"? 2 days 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 Which is more likely in the future: Smartphones eventually becoming more "open" OR Computers eventually becoming more "locked-down"? 3 days 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 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
google drive because of microsoft? what?
and how is the security of google drive better than a pendrive?
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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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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. 2 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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] 5 weeks 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] 5 weeks 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] 5 weeks 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?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s not babysitting when it’s family.
oh it is, don’t worry. I didn’t choose caring for a baby or small children as time goes, and for a fact I never wanted one. it was them who decided to maje another one, so they really should be putting in the work to care for them on the regular.
Fortunately I don’t have a sibling, I much prefer it that way.
- Comment on Is there still an effort to move technical help threads from Redshit to here? 1 month ago:
that’s true, but op wanted to move threads, not communities, for the purpose of better search. for that it’s fine
- Comment on Is there still an effort to move technical help threads from Redshit to here? 1 month ago:
you can. by having a lemmy instance that hosts synchronized content from select subs
- Comment on Is there still an effort to move technical help threads from Redshit to here? 1 month ago:
other than redlib as the other commenter said, you could also just write a userscript for violentmonkey. easier to maintain
- Comment on Is there still an effort to move technical help threads from Redshit to here? 1 month ago:
especially with their anti-vpn bullshit they’re on now.
I’ve been a happy libreddit/redlib user for a few years now. sometimes an instance has a temporary block but then I click redirect in libredirect and the next instance works
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 1 month ago:
entirely free markets result in facebook, google, amazon, but worse, where they have absolutely no restrictions. a. iddle ground is needed, that we don’t have currently
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 month ago:
jokes on you, they still wont respond them, or even mark which one they responded to. you have to send 3 different messages even if emails
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
I’m not talking about credit card information. I’m talking about all the kinds of commercial data mining that is happening basically all over the internet. Personally, I’m sick of it. and while firefox has problems, anything chromium based won’t even try to project your privacy, to the contrary, especially edge. if you like having all your digital and a lot of irl activities collected in data broker databases for profiling, targeted ads, personalized costs and whatnot, then edge is the ideal browser for you.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
“super secret server” what, we are talking in discord servers now?
privacy is not for “super secret” people. it is for everyone who does not mindlessly throw it away.
