Piece_Maker

Piece_Maker , 1 day ago

ARM boards are just a pain to use right now. There's always some stupid quirk or driver problem and that's if you even manage to find an up to date image for your chosen OS that works (because I can just about guarantee the 'generic ARM' one won't). Feels like every few months someone announces something that'll make all these problems go away yet here we are.

Piece_Maker , 12 days ago

Peertube is a crazy impressive piece of tech. Just like Lemmy and Mastodon, it needs something to happen to push users over to it (or something like it). YouTube keeps doing stupid things like this, so one day users will be pushed away from it and the creators will have to follow or die.

Piece_Maker , 16 days ago

Android 15 beta... so it'll be available on phones, out of the box, without anyone having to build/install a custom, on phones actual normal humans buy in about 2030 then.

Piece_Maker , 23 days ago

Wake up the day after to find they've got half a T-1000 arm that's fallen over, with a huge mess of spaghetti sprouting from the top

Piece_Maker , 2 months ago

Heroic is amazing. Rather than running the crappy Epic client via Wine, you just install this native piece of software that then launches each game via Wine/Proton/whatever else and pretty much just works every time, complete with things like EAC

Piece_Maker , 2 months ago

Curious how they expect this to work for people who aren't even "paying" [with money or data] Meta users. Those people who never signed up for any of their services yet are still being tracked across websites via those social sharing buttons and the like. Are they supposed to pay Meta to not hoard their data from all the other websites, despite never setting foot on a Meta site?

Piece_Maker , 2 months ago

Is "Hey Siri, skip this track" really any better than just, reaching up and tapping your earphone?

Piece_Maker , 2 months ago

Cheap chinese All android phone

Piece_Maker , 2 months ago

Well, that's fair. You're an absolutely miniscule minority of Android users though

Piece_Maker , 2 months ago

Their mission is amazing but I'm not going to sit here and pretend any Google-laden Android isn't also ad-laden.

Piece_Maker , 2 months ago

Murena Fairphone

That's awesome, never heard of this! I was referring to the stock Fairphones, which are absolutely Google-filled. But if someone is reselling them with all that crap stripped then that project is for sure worthy of recognition.

Piece_Maker , 3 months ago

And that’s what I’m questioning. Would you? Would you think others here would? I wouldn’t. I’d rather go to whatever fork Fediverse devs favor instead. If anything, all the fear being expressed every time Threads integration is brought up only emphasizes that this is not how it would play out

The network effect can be strong. Say you're now able to contact all your friends via your favourite Activitypub instance, you had to previously use Facebook.com or Threads or whatever but now they're all here. You delete your Facebook and keep your Activitypub account to speak to all your friends who are on Threads.

Now Meta pulls the federation plug, or adds some feature that makes your Activitypub server not able to fully cooperate (Maybe you can talk, but you can't video call anymore, or you can't post GIF/images, whatever). Now what? All your friends are over there and getting annoyed with you. So... you eventually succumb and fire up a Threads account.

Piece_Maker , 3 months ago

Why would you say everyone's a Christian? Might as well have some fun. Change all the ones marking themselves as Christians to say that they're gay liberal polygamists or something.

Piece_Maker , 3 months ago

Always with those weird red laser eyes in the thumbnail.

Piece_Maker , 3 months ago

So I [in theory, I don't know how to start with this on a technical level] could make a third-party Signal-compatible app, but allow it to connect to Whatsapp instead of Signal? Even if I can't use my Signal account to contact Whatsapp people, that's still potentially useful. Although I imagine the terms I'd have to agree to to do so would be full of nonsense that stops this being remotely feasible.

Piece_Maker , 3 months ago

I guess I'm misunderstanding here - I thought Whatsapp would be the "service" in my case, I'm just making a client to hook into their, presumably open [to people who agree to whatever their terms are] API. So it's more of a federation thing between services?

Piece_Maker , 3 months ago

Sorry I know this is a serious subject and not a laughing matter but that's a funny situation. I guess I was a MILF hunter at that age because even then I was perfectly happy to knock one out watching adult porn instead!

Piece_Maker , 4 months ago

Its why lemmy lets users block a server now even though mastodon doesnt.

As someone who had to switch away from mastodon.art because my pool of federated instances was getting so small it felt pointless to be on a federated platform... I'm SO glad Lemmy takes this approach. I don't mind my instance having some control over who they federate with (I have zero interest in seeing actual nazi comment or CP for example) but if my instance blocked lemmy.world or another similarly large one I'd definitely be a bit screwed (mastodon.art defederated mastodon.social for a time!)