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I_Miss_Daniel

@I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world

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I_Miss_Daniel ,

My wife's watch6 just falls off sometimes. The pins in the upper strap just let it go.

Google's "Manifest V2" Chrome extension phaseout next month is expected to impact the original uBlock Origin extension, which still uses the V2 framework and has 37 million users (www.theregister.com)

The new MV3 architecture reflects Google's avowed desire to make browser extensions more performant, private, and secure. But the internet giant's attempt to do so has been bitterly contested by makers of privacy-protecting and content-blocking extensions, who have argued that the Chocolate Factory's new software architecture...

I_Miss_Daniel ,

OK, so we just need to make a Firefox that runs inside Chrome :)

T-Mobile's Forced Arbitration

In an effort to increase my privacy, I decided to buy a Pixel phone second hand to use with GrapheneOS. Due to some miscommunications, the phone ended up being carrier locked with T-Mobile. GrapheneOS's own website advises against buying carrier locked phones in order to avoid the hassle of carrier unlocking it....

I_Miss_Daniel ,

I wonder if the concern is that unlocking the phone might allow you to run some form of data recovery on it and thus obtain access to some of the previous owner's info?

I_Miss_Daniel ,

My phone doesn't have this feature, so at bed time I just tap a button on a smart switch to give it roughly another 20-60% overnight.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1f40a692-f203-4618-a1d2-f1bb1f7fcd0a.png

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Happy with my g84. $350AU

Dual sim
Oled
Headphone socket
SD card option
Fast charging
Stereo speakers
Call recorder
5g

Only gripes
Camera not great
Volume jumps from moderate to loud
Leaving the camera app too soon after taking a picture in suboptimal lighting will lose the photo.

Edit: ok voyager, what did you do with my carriage returns?

I_Miss_Daniel ,

No it's just a typical smart socket and I've put my phone charger in it. (an old 1 amp charger so it is easier on the battery.) The 60% button turns the switch on for about three hours for example. (Phone has 5A battery.)

The charger is on from midday in case I forget to select a charging amount before sleeping.

You could do similar with an old fashioned rotary mechanical timer socket.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Yeah it's getting old.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Reminds me of when I tried to install Firefox on Ubuntu and it said it couldn't open the download as there was nothing associated with it. Ended up with another copy without an icon but it worked. Then I moved to Fedora which seemed to work as intended. Couldn't run Mint on this laptop as it boots to a black screen - presumably the wrong GPU. Daily Driver is Windows 10 by necessity.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

I think it's becasue I downloaded a deb file or something that Canonical had decided was not allowed any more. Recent conroversy

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Is there a red hat under that?

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Monthly active robots...

I_Miss_Daniel ,

It's a loose lose situation.

Just tried on SwiftKey. It also preferences loose.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Interesting.

It displays a preference for loose?

I_Miss_Daniel ,

It used to be in Cyprus that you paid less tax on an unfinished building. Lots of them had rebar sticking out.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

They replace the penguins with whales.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

I'm on Express VPN only because they apparently specialise in avoiding geoblocks and VPN detection for overseas TV sites etc. (Plus three months free for being a TWiT.) So far it's true for BBC iPlayer, RTe Player and UK Channel 4. For this purpose I'm not overly worried about how log-resistant they are, but interesting to keep up with the score here. The integrated 'ad blocking' is also useful, but slower than AdGuard as it seems pages have to wait for assets to fail to load before displaying rather than just being 404'd.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Possibly, or they have multiple entry points on residential ISP blocks and don't have too many people NAT'd per IP so it looks legit. That would explain the higher costs.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Crack out the 3d printer...

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Except for the task manager. Windows 8 to Windows 10 had a good one.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Swype is not listed in this document.

I didn't read far enough to see if it only affected pinyin (Chinese) cloud features or all languages.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

That's why you need your own server for email I guess.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Feed it Microsoft Merlin. What will happen?

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Does this have any implications for Rustdesk? I suspect not, but not 100% sure.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Express VPN for foreign free to air TV, ad blocking on multiple devices.
200gb Google Cloud storage.
Vultr VPN for Wireguard.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

I guess I'm the odd one out. I quite enjoy my Arlec / grid connect stuff for simple things that could be done with wires, timers and the like.

Tasks include:
Controlling the aircon and a basic heater with Universal IR.
Running ventilation fans to force air through the house when the missus opens a door for a smoke.
Letting the goats out on schedule when they were young.
Enabling different banks of batteries to run or charge for the inverter circuit by schedule or sunlight amount.
Monitor power usage on the chargers and output to the inverter circuit.
Charge the battery mower to 80% only, roughly.
Charge my phone to 80% only, roughly.
Power up the office lighting / TV / monitors / amp etc when I enter, off when I leave.
Keep my dog cool at night but not too cold. (fan control)

Granted I'm not looking forward to the day that grid connect dies, but I belive I can convert to Tuya locally hosted if that happens.

None of these need a subscription.

Likewise my outdoor Reolink camera has free cloud storage but only if you renew it every month, which is a pain.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0226077b-de44-4f77-9218-6c8ed0675302.png

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

I_Miss_Daniel ,

I'm still running an older version of NextPVR with three usb tuners and Comskip.exe - it gets most of the ads out of free to air automatically.

Ublock origin and / or expressvpn seem to block some ads on the catch up services, but not all.

YouTube with Ublock origin and Sponsorblock work well.

Newpipe Sponsorblock fork is good as well.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

The droid restraining bolt?

I_Miss_Daniel ,

I first saw it on YouTube when a local TV station posted the raw video.

I wasn't looking at any other media at the time.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

...
Hide all notifications from OneDrive.

That shut up the 'backup' prompt.

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Found it is present in my Moto g84, Android 14.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Winaero Tweaker makes it as simple as a checkbox.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Didn't their exhaust fans used to catch fire?

I_Miss_Daniel ,

I was partly wrong. It was a pedestal fan not an exhaust fan.

https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:%22media/pressrel/HPR02003464%22

I_Miss_Daniel ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0120a19f-e3a6-4003-bab3-28610382857c.jpeg

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Surrounded by fat controllers.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Get launched :)

I_Miss_Daniel ,

And HotBot.

AI cameras being set up on highways to catch drivers who throw trash out of their car windows (www.businessinsider.com)

AI cameras being set up on highways to catch drivers who throw trash out of their car windows::The decision to install cameras in UK lay-bys aims to prevent littering but one campaign group described the approach as "meaningless."

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Good. Now go get my wife who lobs lit ciggies.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

It's probably in task scheduler. Look for tasks that run when idle and disable them.

I_Miss_Daniel ,

Time to invent dd-lpt

I_Miss_Daniel ,

I turned my ten year old Toshiba i7 with a cracked LCD into a virtual fish tank after the last fish died.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c143e4a1-80a1-4953-9391-511b760db568.jpeg

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