FierySpectre

joined 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I've got a USB-c cable that can charge and transfer data at high speeds... But ask it to transfer display data to a screen and it won't do a thing.

The USB-c standard is a nightmare... While having the same port for everything sounds like a decent idea to reduce waste, not every product requires the full spec. Maybe mandatory labeling (like some companies are doing already) would be a solution, but it's rather late to start with that now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Works just fine for me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

That's gonna depend on your launcher, for me it's just long press an icon + tap edit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I barely see them pop up, if they do it's for a fraction of a second before a browser extension nukes them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

You can set any icon to anything you want so doesn't even need to be fake.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Big fuck you to the Belgian govt who detected my developer settings being on and blocked their app from working...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Didn't find anything from me... Then again I'm using a private tracker, which should insulate me from that. (Random people knowing, the ISP probs does know... But I don't think they care)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

There's a way to remove ads from the music streaming app (on Android or any platform that can emulate it) using Xmanager

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Problem with that is that you need advertisers to buy into that idea too... And I don't think anyone's gonna say "ah yeah for sure they'll listen to my ad" if it's in a 30 min block.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Btrfs works with different hard drive sizes, with 1 disk failure with no data loss.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Developers deserve to be paid for their time though...

Sure for many it's nothing but a hobby and they're happy to create something for free. But that doesn't mean every developer needs to do the same.

And yes ads are a privacy nightmare and putting them into your app is bad. So either you only use apps from hobbyists or you pay for access (whether that be a set price for a finished product or a subscription for a service).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's always been a thing that the only way to completely be safe after malware is yeeting the old system and getting a new one...

And even then there have been actively exploited issues where the system gets re-infected when reloading the data from a backup. (My memory is a bit rusty on that one, but it was just data being restored, nothing that should install anything)

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