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  • I genuinely didn't know this, holy fuck lol

  • Leading smartphone vendor in each country
  • Tecno phones suck ass, I used to have one in nigeria

  • What are your three must-have software?
    • librewolf
    • alacritty
    • thunar
  • Mr.Beast Hires Elon Musk's Favorite Attorney to Fight Sociopath Claims
  • Watch DogPack404's 3 videos on him on YouTube. Essentially, Jimmy is a massive loser who has rigged and faked challenges, caused sleep deprivation, knowingly hired and protected multiple sex offenders, commited illegal lotteries, having a degrading work culture: (from one of his documents)

    No doesn't mean no

    And has attempted to silence anyone who speaks out about him with cease and desists, attempting to find any ways to discredit them using his employee's own Xitter accounts, accusing them of being mentally ill or distrustworthy. He is a complete sociopath and nobody should watch him

  • Why Is Apple Working On A Cheaper Apple Vision Pro?
  • I sell my oranges for $15

    Nobody buys them

    I sell my oranges for $5

    People buy them

  • Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10
  • Earlier this year, Microsoft introduced a so-called "Account Manager" for Windows 11 that appears on the screen when you click your profile picture on the Start menu. Instead of just showing you buttons for logging out, locking your device or switching profiles, it displays Microsoft 365 ads. All the actually useful buttons are now hidden behind a three-dot submenu.

    How the fuck are people OK with this?!

  • A symbol for the fediverse ⁂
  • This looks like shit, is used for something else already, we already have an icon for the fediverse and this has 0 reason to exist

  • YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers
  • Jesus christ i didnt think it was THIS bad. Google really needs that ad revenue lol

  • Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser
  • Does it matter? It's the same outcome either way

  • Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser
  • 'It' is gender neutral so it was resolved

  • Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser
  • This was resolved and the PR was merged

  • Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser
  • That's literally it. People are getting angry over unsubstantiated information for 0 reason

  • Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser
  • So do you have any evidence for this instead of just dropping it with no source?

  • Donald Trump's chat with Elon Musk on X fact-checked
  • POLITICIAN TRY NOT TO LIE CHALLENGE (GONE WRONG) (LAWYERS CALLED) (MUST WATCH)

  • Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities
  • Your instance is defederated from them

  • Firefox allows Google to use cross-site cookies by default despite claiming to block all of them OOTB
    wetdry.world HyperSoop :spinny_cat_aroace: :spinny_fox_agender: (@soop@wetdry.world)

    Attached: 2 images Did you know? Despite claiming to block *all* cross-site cookies out of the box, Firefox automatically allows Google to use them in your browser should you log in to one of their services (I only use YouTube, but I'd assume it's the same with anything that needs a Google account)...

    HyperSoop :spinny_cat_aroace: :spinny_fox_agender: (@soop@wetdry.world)

    > Did you know? Despite claiming to block all cross-site cookies out of the box, Firefox automatically allows Google to use them in your browser should you log in to one of their services.

    > The browser only lets you know about this once it happens, and it's on you to notice the permissions icon appearing in the URL bar. There is a link to a paragraph on a help page explaining this behaviour, but it seemingly goes unmentioned pretty much everywhere else on the internet.

    This surprised me, especially considering Firefox's stance on privacy. I was even more surprised that this is done without consent. If this is for usability, Firefox should at least warn the user before this happens.

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    "The Iron Giant" was released 25 years ago on this day.
  • the crazy thing is that when you watch it, it doesn't even feel like it's that old

  • Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back

    I guess this is a cautionary tale.

    I was recently having issues with my Gmail account that's tied to my Epik ( a domain registrar ) account, so when I was supposed to renew my domain, I didn't receive any e-mails about it. When I decided to randomly check on my website, it seemed to be down. So I checked Epik and a domain that usually cost £15 a year to renew now cost £400 to renew as it was expired.

    As a teenager who does not have £400 to spend on a domain, I decided to just wait until the domain fully expired and buy it for a cheaper price.

    After some time, the domain fully expired and GoDaddy decided to buy it as soon as it did, and charged me £2,225 to renew the domain. I don't understand how a price that large is justified, considering that my website gets barely any visitors and I basically only use the domain for hosting stuff. No idea how hiking prices this much is legal

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    i tried using this stick as sycthe but I accidentally let go and thing got launched and broke in two, here's the final image before death

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    The Internet is becoming genuinely unusable without an ad blocker

    I don't know if it's just me, but browsing virtually any mainstream website without an ad blocker or with alternative frontends is becoming harder and harder to justify. It's getting to the point where adblocking isn't an optional luxury - it's a requirement to effectively get basic information about things.

    Yesterday, I was trying to search some information about Ghouls from Fallout. This lead me to this Fandom wiki page which had ads on almost every corner of the website, autoplaying video in the corner, asking for my age as soon as I clicked on the site, injecting polls and random unrelated videos into the communty wiki content and being incredibly slow to browse. A query that in the past that took 5 seconds now takes 50, for what? Money?

    I get that online services cost a shitton amount of money to operate, but the sheer level of degrading quality is not OK. This is just one example of how services are completely barreling towards the shitter at 100+ MPH with no brakes or airbags. I feel some guilt for using content blockers, but that guilt is being wittled away every single day because of websites like this.

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    Free and open-source YouTube clients w/ no ads

    LibreTube - uses Piped as video source by default. Subscriptions and playlists can be created, all without actually interacting with YouTube.

    Clipious - uses Invidious as the video source. Also allows for subscribing and accounts. Lesser known client

    NewPipe - Gets the source directly from YT. Allows for subscribing and creating playlists

    Additionally, there's also ReVanced that lets you patch the regular YT app to include useful features.

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    Is there something like the AUR for debian-based distros?

    I've been using a lot of Debian based distributions recently after half a year on Arch. The main thing I miss a lot is the AUR. The convenience of having all my packaged in one format is a huge reason why I use Arch. Is there anything like it for the AUR?

    I also think that things like Flatpaks and Snaps could be useful, as I don't really want to have tons of repositories for tons of programs I install.

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    I would say I'm surprised, but honestly I'm not

    The amount of data this app collects actually makes my stomach churn. Jesus christ.

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    Open-source apps are consistently better than the average closed source app on the playstore (opinion)

    Has anyone noticed that apps on F-Droid or that you just get from GitHub are just better than the ultra-popular apps on the play store? Most of them are open source and have no ads or trackers. But this isn't true on the Play Store at all.

    I see myself always getting apps from F-Droid now because there is always an alternative to the ad-infested bloated privacy infesting BS that I find on the play store. It's unfortunate that it's gotten this bad, where the only reason I even use the play store is to install updates or games.

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    Should I delete the Google app from my phone?

    I have had Google as an app disabled for the past 2 months. I don't use google assistant or anything like that and I have had no issues. I'm not going to uninstall the play store, google play services or carrier services since I know those are pretty much integral to my phone.

    I've used ADB to uninstall the vast majority of the bloatware or other software on my Samsung phone, but I'm not sure if uninstalling Google will actually cause my device to become inoperable.

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    sunglocto sunglocto @lemmy.zip

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