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  • If your TV is Android based then there's the SmartTube app. YouTube without the ads and tracking.

  • That's why Silence was forked from Signal.

    You don't get people's problems because I'm going to hazard a guess that it's not a problem for you and therefore you don't actually have any lived experience with the issue. Or not currently anyway. But given you don't seem to be too interested in peoples actual experiences and seem more interested in talking over people and insisting that your eristic arguments are the only right answer, I'm going to leave this conversation here and continue to have a hard time converting family and friends to Signal because they still use SMS and Signal doesn't give a shit about people in countries where SMS dominates.

  • You do realise that mobile data is non-existent or limited in some counties right? Even here in New Zealand mobile data is still limited or expensive and the main communication, especially between people who don't know each other, is SMS. Some encryption is still better than nothing.

  • Please remember to make a donation to the Internet Archive for the invaluable work they do!

  • Once upon a time, I totally would have agreed with you. But I have increasingly severe Memory and Cognitive Impairment that now makes comprehending text based instructive really difficult. I can however pick up demonstrated instructions very easily which means I'm now mostly reliant on these sorts of videos.
    So while it may be annoying or not useful to you, it's essential to folks like me.

  • There's a big difference between a publicly published newspaper and shdy companies opaquely data mining people's internet browser activity either completely secretly, burying it in a eula/tos or using shdy language to manipulate people into giving up their data.

  • Nissan Leafs are plenty DIY repairable. It was part of our decision making process when considering buying an EV. There's also electric conversions if that's your jam.

  • My spouse was just telling me about someone who got stuck waiting for an hour because their car decided to unexpectedly do an update

  • Can't tell if this is serious or if sarcastic.

  • I'm so sad about Fisher & Paykel. It was a local (New Zealand) manufacturer that prided itself on quality. It had such a great reputation for quality it eventually took that great quality internationally. And then capitalism and enshittification got its grubby hands on it and turned it into another trash brand. Yet another quality local company disappearing off overseas, screwing over local workers and trashing the quality in favour of profit.

  • Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time...

  • I've have never once had my credit card details stolen or lost money because I hd an account 'hacked' or whatever. And yet, my family and in laws regularly have the card details stolen. They're completely oblivious to the link between their lack of privacy considerations and getting their data stolen. So even significant real world impact still doesn't change some people's behaviour 🤦🏻‍♀️

  • It might also be lasered on.

  • Aside: You don't ever need to apologise for your native language 😊

  • Assuming you mean teach you how this is done? If so, it would appear that hooking into pacman is no longer the best way to do this (TBF, my Arch installs run for many years without reinstall so I'm not always up to date on best practices lol). Seems that setting up reflector as a systemd timer is now the preferred method.

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Reflector#pacmanhook

  • There's also Betterbird, a fork of Thunderbird which retains some user-liked features that Mozilla removed as well as some bug fixes.

  • This didn't age well. Not that Microsoft were above board back then either.