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sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksto
degoogle@europe.pub•Google pushing Gmail users to transition to passkeys using biometric dataEnglish
4·8 months agoI use passkeys for my Google account managed by BitWarden.
Just use another PassKey provider besides Google.
Unless they plan to force you to use Google’s implementation.
The cremlings emerge.
sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksto
Android@lemmy.world•Google Play Protect cannot be disabled during phone and video callsEnglish
5·1 year agoAs a final thought, why is protection from malicious apps from the play store being performed on the phone instead of in the store?
In addition, why is known spyware on the top of the recommended list if I were to open the play store: temu, snapchat.
Or getting pissy if I use an ad blocker when their platform has served malicious ads.
I ended up just building a box after looking for the perfect NAS and finding it didn’t exist. The software is usually just crap or the hardware is underwhelming. Got a Node 804 case to slap in plenty of HDD space. Running NixOS so I’m in control of the software. In retrospect I wish I had gotten a rackmount type case. Tossed in an Arc GPU for better transcoding shortly after the initial setup.
If half your employees aren’t acting the way they do in private, they’re putting on a mask and not being their true selves
But you’re making this point in defense of someone aligning themselves with a group who targets trans, women, and whoever else they can bully not like them for being their true selves… Do you not see the hypocrisy of such a point given the context of the quote?
sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksto
Linux@lemmy.world•switching from windows to linux, can you give some advice?English
7·1 year agoMajor desktop environments are KDE as you mentioned and Gnome.
Arch wiki is a good resource even if not running arch. You may want to look into their dotfiles page to back up your settings: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dotfiles.
NixOS ended up being my distro of choice for reproducible installs but it has a high learning curve and poor documentation so I wouldn’t recommend to start with. That said you can still use Nix on other distros with home manager to manage dotfiles and install non-system apps.
Distros just pick the default things to install. You can always use the package manager to install something else like a better file manager.
A lot of choices are simply subjective so its hard to recommend any one distro. Mint is close to windows, based on Ubuntu and uses Gnome. Ubuntu based on Debian I find to be user friendly. Not used a Fedora based distro in ages but there is also Silverblue I’ve heard mentioned positively.
Distros like Arch and NixOS are more design your own system setups. Pick what you want. I used arch for a bit, but got annoyed at keeping all my systems in sync. Had a huge wiki of all the tweaks I made. Then scripts to automate some of it. I started looking at automation tooling like ansible when I found nix.
Not tried it myself: https://disroot.org/en
sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksto
Android@lemmy.ml•Help! Pixel 5a5g with GrapheneOS—screen just went blank
2·1 year agoI’m still wired headphones. I use FiiO JadeAudio KA3 DAC and Letshuoer S12 wired earbuds. Not as impressive as I hoped for the price. Mostly wish it went a touch louder.
sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksto
Android@lemmy.ml•Help! Pixel 5a5g with GrapheneOS—screen just went blank
2·1 year agoCould be the battery. My 5a5g died after 3 years and it was the battery. I couldn’t get it to boot that I could tell even while charging. Didn’t try calling it though to see if it rings.
Sounds odd, but have had similar issues with a Nest cam. Main powered doorbell camera resets when someone rings it until I replaced the battery.
Can’t remember if the 5a5g had a headphone jack (using 7 pro now), but you can kiss that goodbye. Fingerprint reader is in the screen now instead of the rear, but otherwise its been functionally similar.
The 8 line has extended support. If you care about security updates I’d check https://endoflife.date/pixel and pick what’s affordable. (a) models are at the lowest end, followed by the regular 8/9, then pro models for the best hardware.
Graphene also recently added some options like:
- Cap charging to 80% to extend battery life.
- Fingerprint reader + 4-6 digit pin. My normal pin is long so I’m happy with this change as forcing my biometrics won’t unlock it alone. Capped at 5 attempts.
- Kill switch pin. If forced to give up a pin it will factory wipe the phone.
sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksto
[Migrated, see pinned post] Casual Conversation @lemm.ee•Is it just me, or when you become "the tech guy", family and friends become extremely entitled to your help?English
51·1 year agoThat and old ass infected computers. I’ve used Linux almost exclusively for more than a decade. Fuck if I know how to fix your 10 year old windows desktop.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What does your OS do that I should steal?English
2·1 year agoPretty snappy. All the gnome APIs are written in C. It doesn’t run on node, it runs on gnome-javascript (gjs) which exposes all the C APIs through JavaScript. If you use the Astal wrappers its pretty painless but using the gnome APIs directly in gjs is a little weird since you have to consider things like memory management.
sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksto
The Signal messenger and protocol.@lemmy.ml•Ideas for Signal Android Automatic Cloud Backups?English
1·1 year agoNever tested with gdrive but in Graphene I use storage scopes instead of full drive access.
sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What does your OS do that I should steal?English
21·1 year agoI have it activate a layer when held where all the other keys are remapped.
I also use a 45% keyboard (https://wilba.tech/jd45) and its done in the keyboard’s firmware (https://qmk.fm/), so I need the extra keys.
I have an older model of the JD45 with a full bottom row.
sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What does your OS do that I should steal?English
7·1 year agoIt is gnome, but https://aylur.github.io/astal/showcases/ is pretty awesome if you’ve done any React development. Pretty much coded up my own desktop environment with typescript and tsx for layout stuff. Lot’s of fun widgets.
Note that I use nixos so pretty much everything is hand picked instead of a prebuilt ready to go environment. Hyprland for the basic desktop, Astal for my desktop shell with widgets, toolbars, etc.
sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksto
Privacy@lemmy.world•I finally moved off of MullEnglish
13·1 year agoIt will no longer receive updates.
Another poster shared the blog post: https://divestos.org/pages/news#end.
Dev is no longer maintaining along with DivestOS.
sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Experian requiring access to my phone carrier account in order to provide my annual free credit reportEnglish
111·1 year agoCan confirm, it is information they already have. Below is likely the API the telco exposes to the bureau. Each data point queried returns true, false, or a confidence score.
It is intended as an anti-fraud tool. Not saying I agree with it. Something like PGP is sufficient for building out a web-of-trust without needing to share my personal information.







So, I don’t use OpenWRT (for main router), but generally in each vlan you will need: