[-] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

"Desktop OS" also counts laptops. Unless people are working from their smartphones, I don't think desktop is collapsing at all.

[-] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

thankfully it's usually the other way around: the glass is opaque and only transparent with power. So you don't need to worry about an ill-timed power outage.

[-] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

wait, there's a way out? I bought another pc for nothing

[-] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

I had premium up until a year ago, but I can't recommend it anymore after their purchase.

Choose open source, people.

[-] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

KISS. At first I didn't like the lack of multiple home screens, in a way these are replaced by swipe gestures in KISS, but after getting used to them they're much quicker to trigger actions than pressing buttons. It turns out I don't miss multiple home screens that much either.

I tried using Lawnchair, but I missed the "search-first" property of KISS that makes opening apps really quick.

[-] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

sidebery + custom userChrome.css to make it collapse when the mouse leaves the area.

[-] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 year ago

Cookie Clicker

like drugs... just say no

[-] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

The only time I saw a data breach changing user behavior was with LastPass scandal last year. Unless it's literally the people's bank account passwords that's at stake, I don't think most would care at all.

I agree, regulation - either enforced by the platform or authorities - may as well be the only way.

[-] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

it's a social network. Some people do post things related to health and fitness, and it's another gold mine of private data for ad targeting, so from a business perspective it makes sense to have features that integrate Instagram with these health and fitness gadgets.

This list is a summary of the data they may collect. Using these apps don't mean you're handing all this info automatically. Most of these are actually voluntarily shared e.g. when the user connects a fitness app to it; or actively requested e.g. when they make use of location sharing in the in-app chat.

The more in-app functionality a user makes use of, the more data they'll hoard about that user.

[-] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

They're not permissions, they're the types of data that may be collected. Every popular closed source app has a similar obscene list of private data they may collect, but in most cases it's the user that chooses to provide that kind of information voluntarily anyways.

[-] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think these are permissions, just a list of collected data categories. Google Play's equivalent is the "Data Safety" section and lists the data collected, shared with third parties, and security practices in use. Basically just a more readable privacy policy, but agreeing to that by installing the app does not grant the app with the equivalent permissions automatically.

[-] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 76 points 1 year ago

possibly never going to happen

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by manned_meatball@lemmy.ml to c/reddit@lemmy.ml

Just sharing here how I deleted all content from my 30k+ karma account. It's an easy to use, open source, and private way to do it, check out PowerDeleteSuite.

No need to install anything, just bookmark the JS script and run it. This tool was posted here almost 3 weeks ago, but I thought of enforcing it, with the great blackout approaching. The best thing about PDS is that it should remain working since it doesn't use the API.

PDS is able to export your comments, but to export saved items you might want to check Rexport - this one uses the API however, so maybe run it in within the next hours.

I hate having to do this, but Reddit doesn't deserve the community it has.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by manned_meatball@lemmy.ml to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

I've been using Portainer to manage my homelab stacks from a single dashboard, which is more convenient than the CLI, but I'm not very satisfied with it so I've been looking for alternatives.

Portainer often fails to deploy them and is either silent about it, or doesn't give me much information to work with. The main convenience is that (when it works) it automatically pulls the updated docker compose files from my repo and deploys it without any action on my part.

Docker Swarm and Kubernetes seem to be the next ones in line. I have some experience with K8s so I know it can be complex, but I hope it's a complexity most paid upfront when setting everything up rather than being complicated to maintain.

Do you have any experience with either one of these, or perhaps another way to orchestrate these services?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by manned_meatball@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

I don't know if this is a Firefox or Google issue tbh, but I'm getting signed out of Google more than once a day lately for no reason and this is getting really annoying. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Edit: I was able to narrow down to Nodium. As I visit a medium website with the extension enabled, I need to sign in again to Google. It seems they're a bit sloppy when deleting medium cookies.

Yesterday I checked if there were unknown devices in the security dashboard, but everything seemed alright. The supposedly signed out devices still show up as active sessions, which leads me to believe something's up between Firefox and Google.

And it's only happening with Google, for both accounts that I use. I disabled some extensions that could be getting in the way, but that didn't help. There's also no "you were signed out message", yesterday I was even using Google Meet when it happened and I just got kicked out of the meeting.

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submitted 1 year ago by manned_meatball@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

So I'm shopping for a fingerprint reader to use on Linux desktop and found this list of fprint supported devices. The problem is that USB ID is not exactly the kind of information they advertise in marketplaces or product information pages, so I can never know whether the product I'm looking at is going to be detected at all.

I looked for reviews on Amazon of many candidates, but almost every review that mentions Linux support is a negative, so I feel that my odds here are not great.

Have you tried any device that worked with any distro, preferably out of the box?

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Lemming greetings,

I like to mainly scroll rather than click on posts to read them. Is there an equivalent to Reddit's card view that features images and text in the main feed so we don't (necessarily) have to open all posts we want to read?

Jerboa has a card view for mobile, but do we have something like this for desktop?

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