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I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression. @stinerman on Mastodon.

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Most people have already pointed it out, but I must say, I don't recall the last time I ordered pizza and didn't use a coupon.

Is the Proton (Mail, VPN, Password Manager) ecosystem any good?

Due to the recent announcement of Proton moving to a non-profit structure (although not becoming fully non-profit) I've decided to take another look at them and really, Proton Unlimited is an enticing offer. However, the fact of everything from mail, to accounts, to storage being in one place is somewhat disconcerting. Also I...

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The climate activist thing they did pursuant to a warrant, which every company will do, and the only thing of interest they turned over was the person's recovery email...which was personally identifiable. From there the authorities got everything else. IIRC, they got access to the person's iCloud. None of the person's emails or anything like that was given out. If you are strictly concerned about privacy you shouldn't use a recovery email so that your login can't be tied back to you.

As far as the service, I am using Mail and Pass daily and like both. I use the VPN and Drive sparingly, but I have enough space on it to stop using my Google Drive. Calendar is useless for me because of the lack of CalDAV support... and also because I can't have many calendars on the free plan.

It hits the sweet spot between privacy and ease of use for me. YMMV.

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It will come down to the laws in your country and how much money you plan to spend on lawyers if your employer wants to force the issue.

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Sent this to my wife and we talked a bit about how I don't like lights on.

I realized that even when I'm home alone at night (and not taking care so that she doesn't wake up), I will use the flashlight/torch on my cell phone rather than turn on lights in the house.

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He (Linus Torvalds) made Linux as a hobby during his time in college/university to teach him about operating system design. Because it was the part of the operating system called the kernel that the GNU project didn't have yet (more on this in a moment), it became very popular.
Richard Stallman created the GNU project because he believed that every person should have the right to study and share the software that runs on their computer.

There is nothing specifically anti-corporate in either of their motivations.

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Running an absolutely ancient kernel.

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....

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I've been using some Linux flavor for about 15 years. The biggest thing about switching (at least back then) was I knew how to configure Windows just to my liking. With Linux it was a lot more difficult because I had to google everything. Like "how do I change the wallpaper?" How do I get the login screen to appear on the correct monitor, etc. It was just frustrating because I knew how to do this in Windows, but I felt like a major noob again with Linux.

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the only viable alternative, for 99% of the population, is Apple

This is largely because Windows and MacOS come preinstalled and that's how the vast majority of people interact with operating systems. If you had to choose your OS, I'm sure there'd be more choice in the market. Not necessarily Linux, but just more choice in general.

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It all makes sense when you realize that a good number of them feel that Palestinians are not people.

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Yes.

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My understanding is that being nearsighted is a relatively new phenomenon that is largely due to being indoors a lot. Farsightedness in old age has been around since humans have been humans.

I took a quick look and Wikipedia partially bears this out re: nearsightedness.

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I felt this way at one time when I was younger. Now I don't give a shit what people want to do with their own bodies.

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On the internet, everyone is American.

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I'm O- so I give two units of red cells and get saline and the plasma/antibodies back. The guy at the donation site says "make sure you don't drink any alcoholic beverages for 24 hours...but you can have one if you want." He looks back to see if his manager is around and then whispers "you can have two but don't leave the house."

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You have to be A- or O- to do power red.

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I stand corrected.

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Yeah I'm wrong. Thanks for the correction.

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You can defeat Jesus on technicalities. This is why it's always important to have a lawyer write your holy books.

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Thanks for that link. I've never heard of that site and it's really informative.

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When I was truly destitute, I ran a computer without a case. It was literally in a cardboard box on the floor.

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Every year is an amazing year for rich people.

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    Looking at my work machine...Microsoft Teams is taking up over 100x as much memory as I had in my first PC.

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    The "undermine the security, safety, and privacy of Oregonians by forcing device manufacturers to allow the use of parts of unknown origin in consumer devices" line is the same reasoning used by AT&T back in the old days as to why you couldn't buy your own phone or use a dial-up modem.

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    How did you get on my lawn?

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    This is rookie stuff. You print it out in 5 point font and bring a magnifying glass.

    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?...

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    Apparently this is the app.
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.devicelock

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    Which was built because of the limitations of ALSA.

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    GNU/pedophilia

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    Taylor Lorenz did a very big disservice to herself by interviewing the LibsOfTikTok lady.

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    Somehow I fell into an MRA meeting.

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    I made about double that on betting that Donald Trump would lose the election after he had already lost the election. Now that was something I'm really proud of.

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    PredictIt.org

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    I would call anything running the Linux kernel "Linux". Granted my LineageOS phone isn't very much like my Debian PC, but they're both Linux.

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    DNS blocking at the router never fails.

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    Oh I suck, too.

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