Peffse @ Peffse @lemmy.world

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I'm sorry I can't speak for Apple TV, but I do know Roku. I captured about a month of DNS with a Roku device on the network. It phones home about everything. Even better, they hardcoded the DNS server on the device to prevent tampering with ads in their menus. I had to set up a redirect to quarantine it before eventually taking it off the network completely.

Last I recall, the most private method for general streaming was a cheap Android device from Walmart with a custom OS installed on it.

I can skip over any business that only has a Facebook page. Plenty of choices out there...

What I can't skip is when a political candidate is only on Facebook. I can't count the number of times I was trying to research candidates for local election and found they only had their policies on a locked Facebook page. Infuriating doesn't describe it.

Oh sorry, yeah that was directed towards the comment that the desktop market is getting smaller. I've heard that "the desktop computer is dead" for over two decades now, so that wiki page is quite interesting.

I'd love to see the 2024 number once it gets published, because the 2020/1 numbers are such an anomalies from COVID that it's hard to tell if the market's actually shrinking or just stabilizing.

I've personally seen on at least 5 different Intel models on store shelves. The A380, A580 and the A750. Now the B580 and B570. The A380 stuck around but the others sold out fast from what I saw.

And though they aren't nearly as large as the two giants, they seem to be aiming for and pleasing the under-served sub-$250 market. Though I wish they'd publish more official numbers. A 6 day slice from a retailer isn't a great view on trends.

I will forever hate 2007's ribbon with a passion.

Any source you can cite?

sometimes you think you are old, and then you find out you are oldold and things are a little harder than you realized.

It's funny seeing interviews with the devs and they basically go "We had no idea what we were doing with the N64. How did this succeed?"

Then you find out about stuff like the fully functional ZX Spectrum Emulator in the game and begin wondering too.

4x4Gen4

Just you wait for the mid-cycle "Xbox X", making it's debut in 2030!

daaang, I completely forgot about when the Novell NetWare administrator forgot to purge the account management tool in the temp folder. I found it and was able to give myself network admin priv.

I wouldn't put it past them to just name it "Xbox" and try to play it off like a movie reboot.

I didn't think Debian had support for RISC-V until 13.0 Trixie comes out later this year.

At that age I figured out that I could bypass the policy restrictions on my computer by unplugging the Ethernet cable right after login. Gave me full local admin.

A year or so prior to that I figured out that if you viewed IE's temporary internet files and just backspaced your way up, you can access the otherwise restricted C: where I found other kids had already installed games onto.

No way this works for a full school year.

Did I hear a rock and stone?!

Yeah! My job is to triage, diagnose and remedy. Don't confuse the two!

I still miss my Xperia Play. It's been over 10 years... Still my favorite phone.

IIRC I downloaded Firefox 1.0.4 way back in the day, and kept using it until somewhere around version 6 or 7. Moved away when they started copying Chrome on everything. Rapid-release inflation was the last straw.

*yawn*

That looks like it would give me at least 25 hp when I pick it up.