astro_ray 2 weeks ago • 66%
I feel like they added a lot of technological jargon to the the simple thing that is,
"Every time you click on an ad, we will track it and sell the data to advertisers. But do not worry, the informationis encrypted and only we can decrypt it. Trust me bro."
astro_ray 3 weeks ago • 100%
Edit: that was wrong, 31 is convertible
I might be wrong, but I think I understand why it's happening. Running
$ cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/chassis_type
I am getting the value 31 (detachable), when I think it should be reporting 32 (convertible)
astro_ray 3 weeks ago • 100%
Dell Inspiron 14 2-in-1 7415
astro_ray 3 weeks ago • 100%
What happens if you press the power button when the device is awake and in tablet mode?
It does nothing.
astro_ray 3 weeks ago • 100%
If anyone could help, that would be great. I am struggling to find an answer after searching for some time.
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/206134 > Recently I switched to Fedora 40 from Ununtu. Now, I am facing this weird problem, whenever my laptop suspends I cannot use the power button to wake my laptop if it's in tablet mode. It works fine in normal case. Also, this wasn't an issue in Ubuntu. Anyone knows how I can change it? > > I am using a 2in1 laptop (Dell) if it's relevant
astro_ray 3 weeks ago • 100%
Technically, in a later PR they merged a more gender neutral language, but I don't think there was any official apology to the community.
I don't comment anything negative, so far as I remember, against Ladybird and decided not to look at the general direction of that project.
astro_ray 3 weeks ago • 100%
Maybe Domino's headquarters in our country decided it was cheaper to keep using they linux port instead of paying for windows license. I make this assumption because this particular outlet was openedafter the covid lockdown. Though, I have no idea of their rationale behind using Ubuntu.
It hasn't been long since I completely switched to linux. I have been using Ubuntu for 1 year. Just switched to fedora (after some distro hopping). Honestly, just so glad to be free from snaps and those awful modifications that they make. Maybe fedora has its own flaws, but for now, I love it.
astro_ray 3 weeks ago • 83%
I saw GrapheneOS is saying that it is not quite the threat as they this article suggests.
astro_ray 4 weeks ago • 100%
I recently saw Domino's Pizza uses this touch device to take customer order that uses some very old version of Ubuntu (with unity DE)
astro_ray 4 weeks ago • 100%
- uBlock
- Privacy Badger
- Language tools (spell checker)
- Mal-Sync (automatically updates Anime & Manga progress with MAL, AniList, Kitsu etc. Supports Netflix, Prime and some high seas website)
astro_ray 4 weeks ago • 100%
If you are in academia and have a lot of pdf of papers, a good way to organize them is just renaming it in the following format
[AUTHORS LIST]_[DATE]_[TITLE OF THE PAPER].pdf
This will help you group papers by same team and sort by as they were published.
astro_ray 4 weeks ago • 100%
Completely off-topic from the original post, but is updoot like the common alternative term for upvote in Lemmy like toot for Mastodon v. tweet for Twitter?
astro_ray 4 weeks ago • 100%
I think LF Energy published a report on how open source is more sustainable. Although, I don't quite remember the details of the report, it was more focused on sustainable projects not linux and such. If you are interested you can find more studies that explore the idea more quantitatively.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
The experience varies depending what you are browsing, but for me, it is plenty good. I can use my misskey account, github/gitlab account, can watch YouTube and few other streaming services as well (although how well or if they run at all depends on what streamingservice you use). Webkit GTK has few issues with touch screen devices, like backspace key of on-screen keyboard not working properly or stylus not working properly etc. Also, the PDF view feels a bit janky.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
I don't think KDE supports styling libadwaita yet
Technically, even Gnome doesn't officially support theaming libadwaita apps. The unofficial ways all amout to hacky methods at best (applying an user made css on top of the default style).
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
Lol, sorry, didn't realize that. Thanks for telling me.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 50%
Personally, I don't have a problem with ads. And if those ads can support further development on an open source product I get to use for free then that's even better. What I have problem with is privacy intrusive targeted ads. Even before the internet, newspaper, radio had ads. They sure were annoying, but not as bad of a situation as it is now.
> Mozilla’s system only measures the success rate of ads—it doesn’t help companies target those ads—and it’s less susceptible to abuse, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @FastCompany@flipboard.com. “It’s much more privacy-preserving than Google’s version of the same feature.” https://mastodon.social/@eff/112922761259324925 > Privacy experts say the new toggle is mostly harmless, but Firefox users saw it as a betrayal. > “They made this technology for advertisers, specifically,” says Jonah Aragon, founder of the Privacy Guides website. “There’s no direct benefit to the user in creating this. It’s software that only serves a party other than the user.”
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
Exactly what I wanted to say. Anything on public domain; movies, books, pictures and paintings should be fair game. Including any databases that allows the uses of it in the given context.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 93%
I feel like one of thr problem is LLMs hijacked the definition of AI. Like another comment said, the way they trained on copyrighted material, it's probably not possible. But imagine there was another model (not necessarily LLM) and it was trained with completely public domain material. For example maybe something trained to find genetic diseases from genetic samples of a person, or detecting asteroids from telescope images. Those could become open source. Now, I am not an expert, but do we consider those AI?
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
They ship flatpak with their own repo for 5+ years.
The apparmour thing can get pretty annoying if an app you like breaks because of it.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 75%
No, webkit is for all those anarchist, anti-establishment people. On a serious note, Gnome Web (Epiphany) is pretty amazing. Other than a few stuff like, Netflix not working (thanks W3C for giving us DRM /s. Also, google and widevine are the worst thing in tech) I have not yet found any particular issue. A very limited number of firefox extensions also work on it.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
Which webkit based browser are you talking about?
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
Isn't the only reason firefox gets google ad money is because google is afraid they would slapped with an anti-trust lawsuit? Firefox getting money from google doesn't seem like a valid criticism.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
I couldn't help, so let me ask What about firefox stops you from using it for online shopping?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20260243 > Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled > > > Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
I don't think it's embedded focused but have you checked out Vanilla OS?
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
My supervisor was an FOSS guy. He used Linux, Libreoffice everything but he still insisted on whatsapp for informal communication. I guess network effects is hard to avoid.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
So... Arch makes sad people happy...?
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
Same. I call bullshit. First of all, for me Lunduke = Bullshit. Second, the moment it said people voluntarily participated in this survey, you just know that the demography of the survey takers will be extremely biased.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
For anyone looking for a replacement, I suggest checking out Ente Auth
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
I beluga there is an about:config
setting to disable it. You can find more details somewhere in the comments of this post or the original post that I quoted.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
Huh, that is a surprising new revelation.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 85%
On Android I am using Waterfox. Still looking for alternatives on desktop.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
Seriously, DRM is the problem. There's no one benefitting from it except for large corporations who have a stranglehold on content.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 86%
If someone wanted it, they could've installed the Firefox extension, but now for users who doesn't want this, they have an intrusive feature that is just a bloat. Also, even if I wanted it, it's fairly useless unless you live in western countries.
> PSA (?): just got this popup in Firefox when i was on an amazon product page. looked into it a bit because it seemed weird and it turns out if you click the big "yes, try it" button, you agree to mandatory binding arbitration with Fakespot and you waive your right to bring a class action lawsuit against them. this is awesome thank you so much mozilla very cool https://queer.party/@m04/112872517189786676 So, Mozilla adds an AI review features for products you view using Firefox. Other than being very useless, it's T&C are as anti-consumer as it possibly can be. It's like mozilla saying directly "we don't care about your privacy".
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
Personally what I have seen so far, Netflix and Disney+Hotstar (here a popular OTT platform Hotstar and Disney merged and this is the result) works pretty well and I can watch it HD (never tried 4K because I don'thave any 4K device). It's just Amazon Prime that doesn't just HD playback among all the OTT services I have used so far.
astro_ray 1 month ago • 100%
So, basically centrist anti-establishment?
astro_ray 2 months ago • 100%
The firefox users who dumped Firefox because of all this fiasco, how many of you are using safari?
astro_ray 2 months ago • 80%
Pass keys has so many issues that they still haven't figured out. Unless it attains a bit of maturity I will not use it.
astro_ray 2 months ago • 93%
I was also looking into alternatives after all the fiasco and wanted to go with Floorp, but turns out floorp is also doing some shady stuff. Recently they made all their fork only part of the code source available from open source. I don't know about you, but that feels pretty shady to me.
astro_ray 2 months ago • 100%
Never heard of Assy Mcgee before. Those people must know how to have fun.
I am very new to linux and all the open source stuff (my first post on lemmy actually) so I don't get how this stuff works but flathub is saying that floorp is proprietary. But after a quick google search it says that floorp is open source licensed under MPL 2.0