ReversalHatchery @ ReversalHatchery @beehaw.org

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using? having! better uninstall them all, confine them into firefox if you still need them.

don't forget to get rid of the 3 iconless meta apps either that are installed to lots of phones from the factory:

• Meta App Installer
• Meta App Manager
• Meta Services

you can only see these in the settings, installed apps list, after finding the hidden option to also show system apps.
App Manager or similar tools will also show them.

a loaded gun, sure. is that what you also think about the billions of windows users?

I mean with something easier than OBS, but which works on KDE or any other desktop. something like OnTopReplica on windows

sure! I use the libredirect addon: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension/ works in firefox on desktop and mobile

it redirects various privacy invading services to privacy preserving alternative frontends that are ran by volunteers. by default it only redirects youtube, so you would need to toggle on reddit too. Currently it only uses 1 redlib instance by default, you may select more to be used in the addon's settings.

redlib and other frontends are distinct projects. their project page often has a list of public instances. here is redlib's page: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
but you normally don't have to look at it because libredirect updates its instance list automatically

sometimes an instance is temporarily blocked by reddit, if that happens you can quickly switch to a different instance in the addon's menu.

redlib and other frontends usually have some cpnvenience settings, be sure to check them out. but they need cookies allowed, and they are not synced across instances.

Probably. I think they may fine homeserver operators in the EU, maybe even raid their homes or jail them. But to me its unclear whether hosting it, or also using it will be a criminal offence.

Hopefully neither, and we can jail the real terrorists, those who want to get this implemented.

isn't it possible with some external utility? OBS can capture individual windows with pipewire, and it can render that to a new window, so it must be possible with something easier too

are you sure that it has that access?

on my phone the "select file to open" button just opens the system built in file browser, which is used to grant apps access to individual files or directories.

I think internal storage access was behind a permission too for very long, if not always. and I mean a toggleable permission that is default off.

I don't think re-registration is a problem for most of us. we just don't want to go there on a daily basis anymore. especially since all apps have been kicked out other than that garbage, data mining official app.

nowadays if I go there, I only do because I'm following a link, and then I always use a redlib instance to view the content

but surely microsoft keeps multiple copies! they are infallible!!

“The key is to retain water where it falls,” wrote Polish Waters.

Problem is, it does not fall.

more feature rich? According to the store description and screenshots, it has less features.

I have heard less about phone chargers failing catastrophically. They also handle much less power (except the fancy ones), and I haven't seen a hot phone charger adapter yet, but plenty laptop chargers of which some were just very warm, and some so hot just on its outsides that it was uncomfortable to hold it in hand.

this is why I'm more worried about laptop chargers

I would assume that landfill laptop manufacturers are trying to minimize costs even harder on the charger.

but what timeframe do you mean with "anymore"? laptops made in this decade, or the last 10 years, or something else? there's plenty of old laptops that fitinto OPs category.

you can get somewhat of an impression of it if after a reboot you get a logcat dump. for that, you need to enable ADB, and install the ADB tools on a computer. but disable ADB if you don't use it

I think 5W probably can't be achieved, maybe with chromebook-like hardware, but I guess GPIO could be solved with a USB accessory

in my opinion the bigger problem is the fire hazard of an unsupervised charger. I have seen enough that runs super hot, and even if it doesn't, I just can't trust them.

but what will fix the fire hazard of the charger? how will you be able to keep it plugged in 24/7?

we could call that wealth tax. we are taxing their lives

fdisk cannot convert the partition structure, but gdisk can, though you better have a full backup bedore attempting to do it

MBR can be converted to GPT. gdisk can do it, in fact if you run it for an MBR structured disk it will automatically do the conversion in memory, and you can check the results before writing it out. windows also has a tool for that.