This is a genuine question, so please don't do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...
PC vendors are still selling laptops with 4GB RAM. 16GB should absolutely be the minimum (and should have been since 2020), but it's very much not true that anything with less than 16GB is over 8 years old.
X has locked and suspended the accounts of journalists and researchers who shared the alleged identity of a neo-Nazi cartoonist known as Stonetoss after the cartoonist appealed to site owner Elon Musk....
The Mail app looked great, but I would hardly call it perfect. It constantly failed to notify me of new emails or calendar events, and I know I'm not alone in that.
This is a of a post made during a time where outgoing federation for lemmy.ml was broken. I hope lemmy.ml readers will forgive me for shoving my filthy little words under the shining gaze of their precious and observant eyes for a second time....
Project Treble and GSIs solve a lot of the intercompatibility issues. Of course, Treble doesn't help if your device wasn't originally Android, or came out before Treble existed.
I'm trying to find an android mastodon app that can handle links from outside the app and open them in the app. Tusky is not going to implement this feature request and I haven't seen anything from the official app nor Fedilab....
I need to release an update to refresh the supported domains soon, but I made an app that does the work of maintaining the giant list of possible domains and helps you set it as the default for all of them.
Not every client is supported, but there are a few options.
I paid for a lifetime purchase of Ultra back in April 2023 after Sync for Lemmy was released. Now suddenly Sync started showing me ads yesterday and asking if I want to buy Ultra. I have tried "Restore purchases" but it doesn't find anything. Has anyone else seen this or have any tricks to get it to remember I already paid?
Switched phones and upgraded Android OS. Same Google account, released purchase from old phone, uninstalled from old phone. Still no luck. It's been a couple of weeks. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!...
If you tap the subscription option you originally purchased, Google will show an "already purchased" error and then Sync should recognize your Ultra status.
Is there a way to set it up so user@example.com can be a lemmy account and also a mastadon account? I seen people using subdomains like user@lemmy.example.com and user@mastadon.example.com is this nessasary? Could u also set up a matrix account with the same user@example.com? If not what woukd be requured to change to make this...
Technically you sort of can do that with email. Most providers let you verify you own the other email and then use the other provider’s SMTP to send from a different address.
When I use the search bar it searches everything, across all instances, and there is no obvious way to narrow results. Apologies if I’m stupidly missing something!
News articles about Elon’s constant political clown shows aren’t technology-related just because he’s in charge of a few tech companies.
News articles about a CEO being fired from a tech company and then almost immediately rehired are tech-related, because they’re about the tech company itself and the relevant actions of the people involved.
If this were a story about the opinions of Sam Altman, who happens to be a CEO of a tech company, about world hunger or something, that would be comparable. But it’s an article about how a CEO, who happens to be Sam Altman, was fired and rehired from a tech company over the course of 3 days.
There are still obviously personalities and opinions involved, but they’re in the context of technology, rather than technology being tangentially related to the context of someone’s opinions.
Elon Musk’s social media company X filed a lawsuit against Media Matters for America on Monday, saying it manufactured a report to show advertisers’ posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist posts in order to drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp....
Resuming from S3 is still a lot faster than cold booting or resuming from hibernation, even with SSDs and Fast Boot. It’s also nice for keeping your session intact so you don’t have to reopen programs and reload tabs.
I really don’t like macOS “reopen” feature. It doesn’t seem to remember state for most apps, so if they were running at all before shutting down, they’re going to have a window opened on login. Unchecking the option doesn’t seem to work for every app, either. Whenever I reboot, I end up having to close 5 or more windows from apps I had running in the background without open windows.
Modern Standby includes a Disconnected Standby mode. It never actually enters S3 sleep, because Windows assumes S0 sleep support means no S3 sleep support. Disconnected Standby might use a little less power than Connected Standby, but the computer is still subject to the same wakeups and wakelocks.
Mastodon, the decentralized Twitter / X alternative, is adding lists to its Android app, according to a blog post from CEO and founder Eugen Rochko. Lists are available as part of the most recent Mastodon for Android update.
Y’all really need to actually click the article and read the first sentence. This has nothing to do with Windows 12, and even Neowin has clarified that right at the top in an update.
Microsoft is a bad company, but it’s a little worrying when someone can just say some random things in a title and have it be believed without question, just because it paints Microsoft in a negative light.
The utility was more in being able to buy a dirt cheap Windows 7 Pro key or copy one from some old computer or disc label to activate a new computer on 10 or 11, and have it be legal.
If you signed in with a Microsoft account, the key would also be synced to it and be able to activate a computer just by you signing in, which could be handy.
Yelp has started publicly naming and shaming businesses that pay for reviews. The review site's new index documents businesses offering everything from a crisp $100 bill for leaving the best review to a $400 Home Depot gift card for a five-star review. It also lists every business whose reviews have ever been suspected of...
No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple’s anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can’t even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don’t even own it.
On Intel Macs, Linux is pretty easy to install. A lot of people put a lot of work into having most Macs just work out of the box on Linux.
On Apple Silicon, most of that work is still unfinished. Asahi Linux is the main project to get Linux on M1/M2, and the goal is to upstream everything, but it’s a long road.
Either way, the sheer popularity of Macs basically guarantees a usable experience on Linux. It’s just going to take a bit for Apple Silicon to catch up.
Also, I think “last forever” with Macs is more about the hardware itself. It’s hard to deny the build quality is really good (except the keyboard from 2016-2020 on MBPs), and I’ve seen people using 2011 MBAs stuck on Catalina as their daily drivers because the hardware just keeps working.
The raw performance isn’t everything for me. I already have a gaming laptop that pumps out heat like a 1500W space heater even when it’s not doing anything. I really didn’t want that in a second laptop, especially with how bad my experience has been with Windows’ Connected Standby, where the laptop will just sometimes decide to fully wake up in a bag and overheat and drain the battery.
There were a lot of reasons I went with a Mac for this, but one of the biggest ones was how efficient Apple Silicon is. The M2 Max may take an extra minute or two to compile a large project vs an i9-13900HX, but it also manages to not give me first degree burns if I want to use it on my lap.
I have a lot of problems with Apple and their decisions around macOS and hardware pricing, but for me, that efficiency ratio was really important. I’m not trying to say everyone should buy a Mac, but if we’re “saying it like it is”, Apple Silicon is years ahead of Intel, AMD, and even Qualcomm for high performance portability. That trade-off might not be worth it to you, and that’s fine, but there’s literally no competition for what I needed.
The fact of the matter is that the M2 Max rarely goes above 70C under load, even with Apple’s ridiculously conservative fan curve, while pretty much every x86 laptop I’ve owned idles right around there.
Benefits of resolutions beyond 1080p
This is a genuine question, so please don't do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...
Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix ( www.pcworld.com )
Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements ( www.tomshardware.com )
Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU Family ( www.hackster.io )
AI Could Soon Replace Entry-Level Wall Street Analysts ( www.techtimes.com )
Alternative browsers report uplift after EU's DMA choice screen mandate | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
HMD launches Nokia 6310, Nokia 5310 and Nokia 230 featurephones ( www.gsmarena.com )
Sunbird beta to relaunch and rejuvenate iMessage for Android ( www.androidheadlines.com )
After appeal to Musk, X suspends accounts that outed neo-Nazi cartoonist ( arstechnica.com )
X has locked and suspended the accounts of journalists and researchers who shared the alleged identity of a neo-Nazi cartoonist known as Stonetoss after the cartoonist appealed to site owner Elon Musk....
Microsoft force-upgrades Mail app to Windows 11’s new Outlook web app ( www.windowslatest.com )
Flashing the Kindle Paperwhite with a custom ROM
This is a of a post made during a time where outgoing federation for lemmy.ml was broken. I hope lemmy.ml readers will forgive me for shoving my filthy little words under the shining gaze of their precious and observant eyes for a second time....
Sync for Lemmy Beta 106 release notes
Ultra...
Is there a Mastodon android app that has the option to open mastodon instances in the app
I'm trying to find an android mastodon app that can handle links from outside the app and open them in the app. Tusky is not going to implement this feature request and I haven't seen anything from the official app nor Fedilab....
Sync forgot about my Ultra purchase ( lemm.ee )
I paid for a lifetime purchase of Ultra back in April 2023 after Sync for Lemmy was released. Now suddenly Sync started showing me ads yesterday and asking if I want to buy Ultra. I have tried "Restore purchases" but it doesn't find anything. Has anyone else seen this or have any tricks to get it to remember I already paid?
iOS 17.4 is now out with support for third party app stores in the EU ( www.gsmarena.com )
Georgia AG claims not having a phone makes you a criminal - Georgia Recorder ( georgiarecorder.com )
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Anybody figure out restore purchases from Google Playstore?
Switched phones and upgraded Android OS. Same Google account, released purchase from old phone, uninstalled from old phone. Still no luck. It's been a couple of weeks. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!...
eBay pays $3m fine in blogger harassment case ( www.bbc.com )
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Percentage above title
Can someone tell me what does the percentage given above title account for?...
Can you use the same domain/username for different fediverse services?
Is there a way to set it up so user@example.com can be a lemmy account and also a mastadon account? I seen people using subdomains like user@lemmy.example.com and user@mastadon.example.com is this nessasary? Could u also set up a matrix account with the same user@example.com? If not what woukd be requured to change to make this...
How do i search within the current community?
When I use the search bar it searches everything, across all instances, and there is no obvious way to narrow results. Apologies if I’m stupidly missing something!
OpenAI co-founder makes spectacular return mere days after ousting, with the board that fired him mostly swept away ( www.pcgamer.com )
Elon Musk’s X sues watchdog Media Matters for its damning report ( www.cnn.com )
Elon Musk’s social media company X filed a lawsuit against Media Matters for America on Monday, saying it manufactured a report to show advertisers’ posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist posts in order to drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp....
Notion Battle: Microsoft released Loop and the next is the open source Notion alternative, AppFlowy ( techcrunch.com )
Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way ( www.spacebar.news )
Mastodon’s latest update makes it easier to follow the news ( www.theverge.com )
Mastodon, the decentralized Twitter / X alternative, is adding lists to its Android app, according to a blog post from CEO and founder Eugen Rochko. Lists are available as part of the most recent Mastodon for Android update.
Discard? Discard. Discard. ( lemmy.ml )
When backing out of the submit page you get this question where you have to guess which button does what.
Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak ( www.neowin.net )
You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys ( www.neowin.net )
Yelp names and shames businesses paying for 5-star reviews ( arstechnica.com )
Yelp has started publicly naming and shaming businesses that pay for reviews. The review site's new index documents businesses offering everything from a crisp $100 bill for leaving the best review to a $400 Home Depot gift card for a five-star review. It also lists every business whose reviews have ever been suspected of...
[bug(?)] glide fails to load image ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Does the image in this post load for anyone?...
I made a deep linking proxy for Mastodon and Lemmy on Android ( github.com )
cross-posted (ish) from: sh.itjust.works/post/2176471...
New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros - Teardown And Repair Assessment - Apple Silicon M1/M2 ( youtu.be )
No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple’s anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can’t even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don’t even own it.