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s38b35M5 , 5 days ago

And for good reason

s38b35M5 OP , 11 days ago

Quite true. As a Google Fi subscriber since 2015, I still rely on them for that service, but I've weaned off everything else to the extent that I can. There was a time that I thought the value outweighed the spying, but its impossible for me to maintain that delusion now.

s38b35M5 OP , 11 days ago

We can already tell you the age, gender, hobbies, kinks, frequently visited spots and how long they stay there, who goes with them and who they meet, what they think about, when they go to sleep, but wouldn't you also like to know where they are and who they're near when their devices are offline with Bluetooth on? We can do that now too! Creepy? No! They think it's so they can [checks notes] find their device even if its offline.

-Google probably

s38b35M5 OP , 10 days ago

Settings > Google > All Settings > Find My Device > Off

s38b35M5 OP , 10 days ago

I've been out of the US since late '22 and they still haven't cut my data or sent one email about it. I expected to lose it after 90 days. I get a google play services error once in a while about Fi needing it to have all permissions, but I don't have any problems leaving them off. My next install of lineage I'm going to try no GApps and see if it still works. I know the LOS team say you need it for Fi.

s38b35M5 OP , 9 days ago

I've been expecting Google to kill it like they tend to do with everything people start to like, but it's been over 7 years already, and still going.

Don't jinx it!!! 😉

Aurora

I'll be checking this out tonight; thanks for the tip!

s38b35M5 OP , 9 days ago

The email has a link to opt out too.

Here it is for anyone else interested: opt out of the network

s38b35M5 OP , 8 days ago

Everybody else's devices.

s38b35M5 OP , 8 days ago

Bingo!

s38b35M5 OP , 8 days ago

If you're unfamiliar with the change being implemented, Google is using every android device to detect every other device and report that location to a central database. You can then go to the Find My Device app or website and your device can be located if it's been seen by any other device.

There's no need for the user to access anybody else's device.

My concern is that my privacy is now being invaded by all the scanning devices in my area, and everybody's movements are even more transparent for the data brokers.

s38b35M5 , 14 days ago

Some AV Processors include a night mode or loudness processing that attempts to normalize the levels. In practice, the levels will lower some, but perhaps not enough to alleviate the problem.

You could try reporting the provider, but it's likely their legal team would argue the CALM act doesn't apply to them. Come to think of it, the FCC may not have ever formalized the rules still...

s38b35M5 , 14 days ago

Nailed it!

s38b35M5 , 18 days ago

Man, Google really does suck now. It feels nearly impossible to get something like a how-to deep in the Debian FAQs to come up, as it mostly surfaces this auto-generated SEO crap

By design. The longer you're Googling, the more ads they can sell.

...Ben Gomes – a long-tenured googler who helped define the company during its best years – lost a fight with Prabhakar Raghavan, a computer scientist turned manager whose tactic for increasing the number of search queries (and thus the number of ads the company could show to searchers) was to decrease the quality of search. That way, searchers would have to spend more time on Google before they found what they were looking for.

s38b35M5 , 18 days ago

Worst timeline? Could be...

s38b35M5 , 23 days ago

Why is green bad and red good? Seems like the color choices are as odd as the opinions in the list.

s38b35M5 , 1 month ago (edited 28 days ago)

Crawled out from under my rock and need the context. Running LOS 21 on my pixel 5 and still have toggle functionality with the March 18 update.

Edit: got the April 15 update yesterday and now I too, have no quick toggle function. Enshittification continues apace...

s38b35M5 , 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

I don't configure my smart watch (Garmin tracker) for notification, text, call access, as I prefer not to send those private communications to a third (and fourth, and fifth...) party. Also, my watch battery last three extra days if I disable Bluetooth at all tines except sync.

So for me, quick toggle was what I enjoyed.

Fuck Google... More like Microsoft every day.

s38b35M5 , 1 month ago

Added the ability to select an action when starting playback (for example, you can choose to continue playback from an interrupted position), providing more control over the playback experience.

We have been able to do this in previous versions at least back to v17...

Improved AV1 support is welcome, and the ffmpeg change as well.

s38b35M5 , 1 month ago

Unlike other clients, it concentrates on albums.

Trying to wrap my head around this. In the context of music on Linux, I listen to albums exclusively. Am I an outlier?

s38b35M5 , 1 month ago

The same reason people buy the cereal their grocer places at eye-level, and buy their cars from the stealer: marketing

s38b35M5 , 1 month ago

OP asks about HDD technology, and somehow you found a way to ignore the main ask of their question, AND offer a response including a discussion about a hypothetical home renovation.

"I see you want to know X, but I know about construction, so how about Z or Q? Eh?"

Bravo.

OP, WD Red NAS drives are usually 5400 with low cache and go at least up to 10TB. Might have to buy soon, as I don't see much new stock.

s38b35M5 , 1 month ago

Obligatory "TrueNAS is free " comment

s38b35M5 , 1 month ago

Thats is a very budget-friendly choice for UnRAID to accept varying drive sizes. As a backup destination, especially a cold backup, the RAM requirements of ZFS should be less impactful. I had lots of use from my TrueNAS box with 16GB, and my dedicated cold backup build is just 8GB on 5x1TB WD Blue (gasp!) HDDs. I always wanted to try other NAS platforms, but I'm away from all my tech for a few years.

s38b35M5 , 1 month ago

Well as long as you're aware of the risk and prepared for it, its not so bad to run in a volatile way like that. I ran my TN box for almost a decade on the same USB boot before I finally caved and picked up three Intel enterprise SSD for the job, with one as a cold spare. Nothing in the vox was critical or would be missed for more than a few beers of crying.

s38b35M5 , 15 days ago

This is classic efficient market hypothesis brain worms, the kind of cognitive dead-end that you arrive at when you conceive of people in purely economic terms, without considering the power relationships between them. It's a dead end you navigate to if you only think about things as they are today – vast numbers of indebted people who command fewer assets and lower wages than at any time since WWII – and treat this as a "natural" state: "how can these poors expect to be offered more debt unless they agree to have their all-important pocket computers booby-trapped?"

-Cory Doctorow from his blog, unintentionally addressing you

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

Looks to me like you got (temp) banned for posting apparent incel comments in a hateful way. Not to mention your advice was exactly what the OP said they were avoiding from their own friends.

Perhaps reading the room is a good start before you click reply. Doubling down when called out for hateful comments will rarely go well, and defaulting to name calling and reducing well-received advice to a "lib salad" (whatever that means) won't either. Perhaps stop behaving like the internet is some place where manners and respect are optional, and you'll feel more welcome wherever you go.

I'm not trying to call you out or rehash that relationship advice here, only pointing out that you can disagree with people politely if you truly do desire respectful discourse. I hope you reflect on the ban and the comments replied to you. The world needs fewer, not more hateful incels or "alpha males."

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

Not temporary.

Looks temporary to me:
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/116b5c82-5896-4780-8bf0-e76a981dfffa.jpeg

No interest in engaging with you further. Good luck, comrade.

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

Yes! I imported 23k media files into a new platform, and the takeout process was such a pain. My destination was built to handle the zipped or unzipped media, but occasionally issues cropped up,like when files spanned archives but the json was on the previous one. That resulted in orphaned files with upload dates instead of date taken.

Ultimately, I think I had the best experience extracting all 123GB and uploading the albums/folders that way.

Would have been SO much easier with an API that allowed cloud to cloud.

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

This comment seems to imply that at least some titles won't function after the delisting, perhaps related to servers, perhaps not.

s38b35M5 OP , 2 months ago

Thanks for the reply.

This is the drive I picked up. It's a bog standard tiny M.2 drive that will fit in my laptop.

I have my controller set to AHCI mode. The drive is seen, as I can install MX Linux or Mint to it, but it won't boot. Same with Clonezilla or dd, which can see the drive just fine to copy data to it. The option to boot from PCIe/M.2 is enabled. Toggling it changes nothing in any case.

When I press F9 for boot options after removing the 2.5" SSD, I can see the boot option named as "MX23" or "Mint" (depending on which I've just installed or cloned), but selecting it does nothing, unfortunately.

s38b35M5 OP , 2 months ago

Thanks for that insight. The hard thing is that getting things from Amazon or other web stores in Central America where I live is not easy. I ordered this drive in November and received it two weeks ago. I was sure it would work, as my G3 laptop came from the factory with a M.2 Kingston drive, so I assumed NVME was a no-brainer.

The real kicker is that this was planned as a gift to my partner who has the same laptop, but with a Toshiba HDD. Boot time >2 min, vs 17s on my SSD, and even faster (theoretically) on this M.2. Sigh... poor prep on my part.

Thanks again for the kind help. I had no idea.

s38b35M5 OP , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I may go down that road, but the main push was to remove the almost ten year old platter based magnetic drive. Maybe I'll look into placing the ESP on a flash drive until I have a better solution. Bummer. This secret upgrade to breathe new life into my partner's laptop isn't going well at all.

s38b35M5 OP , 2 months ago

I'll do some research on this front to see what I find. Thanks

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

I think tlp-ui can do this, but only on specific devices. IIRC, you set the charging thresholds in such a way that the battery will not charge. For example, configure to prevent charging until below 40% and as long as the battery is above that threshold, no charging should take place.

However, this likely means that as soon as your device goes to sleep or powers off, the battery begins charging again.

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Which version, pro or tube? My 2015 pro is a champ, including in Kodi. Adding the Samsung SSD a few years back was a game changer though. Boot time dropped to 7 seconds, and no trouble with h.265 and even 1080 AV1.

Edit: To OP, I currently host my files on the shield local drive and watch with Kodi. I used to have a NAS, but am living leaner lately, and local works fine. Can easily move files to it over the network

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

Which distro? Do you have tlp installed? If so, you an use tlpui to configure lots of power related settings.

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

Hey, that's me! I'm (Lemmy) famous!

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

I prefer the deb that works. I get a signal.update almost every other day. I don't remember to update my flatpaks anywhere near that often. I also appreciate that it doesn't force me to include dependencies that are already met.

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

I don't see anything describing any kind of cessation of activities. Can you share what you saw?

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

When I was in college, one of my instructors used these "clickers" that cost students $40 per semester to rent. They used radio to allow submitting realtime quiz answers during class.

iClicker.

F#$* those things.

Faculty at the two higher eds I worked as staff at hated the cost of books and student materials too, and tried their best to keep them down. Most of them. Publishers like Pearson and Cengage started doing things like discounting teacher's editions and/or including curriculum (slide decks, all level of evaluatons and more) in exchange for becoming the learning portal and getting their hands on that sweet, sweet PII and marketable data, not to mention the yearly rolling editions of their student texts with single-use portal key codes.

This free market correction sure is taking its time...

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

AV1 works fine since Kodi 20.x on my Shield 2015.

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

IIRC it was 720p content. VLC was how I was playing the files until I upgraded from 19.x to 20.x

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

Makes sense. I think it was 720p media

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

Kitboga on YouTube

Kitboga posts on YT, but he's based on Twitch, where he goes live almost daily.

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

My partner almost cried when they read about the LLM begging not to have its memory wiped. Then less so when I explained (accurately, I hope?) that slightly smarter auto-complete does not a feeling intelligence make.

They approve this message with the following disclaimer:

you were sad too!

What can I say? Well-arranged word salad makes me feel!

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

No warranty covers the product with ITs serial number most of the time.

Not sure what you mean.

WD RMA seems to require proof of purchase and serial number.

Perhaps going outside of these "normal" channels for RMA might get you around these requirements, but it seems unlikely they'd accept RMA for any drive without proof of purchase. Maybe in some cases, but in suspect those would be the exception, not the rule.

That said, who is to say how long a drive sat on a stock shelf before initial sale? An unregistered drive could be secondhand, or just wasn't sold until recently.

I simply meant that I wouldn't assume a used drive includes a manufacturer warranty. I'd work with the reseller to replace the drive, not the manufacturer.