ReversalHatchery @ ReversalHatchery @beehaw.org

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where I live they never really taught conputer literacy. some places teach ms office and that's it

they're not doing this for your security. They want to know that your computer is a "trusted platform".

security in terms of Trusted Computing is never about your security, and neither about your trust

EDIT: Further lunatic conspiracy theories: BitLocker is/will be backdoored so Microsoft forcing you into that ecosystem further guarantees they have access to your system. This all stinks to me, like your landlord telling you how you can arrange the furniture in your own apartment.

a backup of your bitlocker key is in your Microsoft account, and normally nowhere else. It's pretty easy for Microsoft to lock you out of your ow computer and data completely, if they wanted. Because you supposedly violated a license, or the terms of use or anything. just sayin', Microsoft already has (and had for a few years now) a scandal about extorting for your personal phone number by locking down your account a few days after registration, until you hand it over. and even there they justify it with a ToS violation, which is just a lie

did you try calculator++? on fdroid. it has a lots of operations, a function plotter and a floating window mode

I have been using IPS displays for many years, and I had to look up what is IPS glow. now I see it, but it doesn't bother me. what bothers me is that my dell monitor is absolutely garbage on reproducing dark colors, while my much older cheap LG is very good in that. like, the black background of the terminal shows a very visible difference

I was fine with the previous material design, TBH.

and to be fair, it looked way better than any implementation of material design 3 so far in any app

... common theme here is the math/programming joke, but many of them also capture elements of anarchism

first I didn't understand, but this way "unhandled exceptions" sounds very cool. maybe a bit long though

oh, now I see. that's right

Unfortunately that's true for most of them. I believe that monero is the difference though, it is actually used as a currency, not as an investment vehicle

you just reposted the quote. saying in case it was a mistake

even more so if you think about the newer ones recording their environment, the whole neighborhood etc, with cameras and/or radar/lidar

considering region locks and region based licenses are still a thing, you're probably more of a criminal in their eye than openai will ever be

well, for one firefox is not a stripped down browser but one with conveniences like push notifications, safebrowsing and other things, while ungoogled chromium is a specialized browser built for those who don't need all that. don't forget also that chrome can't be patched up on many fronts, ublock's dev gorhill has written about them here

that being said, mozilla could make a first time setup page with an option for convenience and another with a menu for selecting which services do you want. but I wouldn't hold my breath

It's informative in terms of which parties are basically notified that you started using it. why the fuck does zen load discord, x, bunnyfonts, and whatnot?

I can only hope floorp and zen devs are ashamed of what have they done. all of those third party domains like discord, x and those mundane ones are totally unnecessary

that depends on the driver that directly talks to the gpu. these cards are still cryptographically locked down to stay on low clocks when it is not driven by the official driver

well that I can agree on. still, personally I would choose neither, and I hope the EU won't take them as examples

lots of people already fail to verify what they read online. that's modern society I'm afraid. but I guess it's not something new, probably you have also heard of the misconception "they said it on TV so it must be true!"

this comment might come off as me thinking they are stupid, but I think for the most part they are just endlessly ignorant

you would be surprised how many believe most things an AI says. I would think its rougly the same userbase that can't tell the differences between firefox and chrome even in generalities, other than its looks. "the consumerbase"

I'm pretty sure they are doing this to try win over chrome users