WhyJiffie @ WhyJiffie @sh.itjust.works

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The advantage here is that the underlying browser engine is ran and updated on the server. This helps avoid the KaiOS situation: KaiOS v2 (the last version in Europe) uses Firefox 48 (current version is 137).

there is no advantage there, only disadvantages. a dumb phone is not supposed to have internet features. but this is wholly running in the cloud? that's a horrible privacy nightmare, and it must also be very inefficient as it places a relatively large load on the network and the company has to run powerful servers that use unnecessarily large amounts power, more than normal dumb phones of the same quantity would

There are some rumors on /r/dumbphones about a WhatsApp CloudFone app which would be big.

yeah it would be so big if I bought a dumb phone because I'm fed up with tech and then I'm forced into facebook services in yet another "innovative" way. pretty sure they would even market it with "end to end encryption" and "security" even though the server sees everything

I get that this approach is not acceptable to the freedom-oriented, tech-savvy demographic on Lemmy, but it looks like this is where the mainstreaim is heading right now.

I really dont get why if so. why does anyone want tiktok and such on a dumbphone? then buy the cheapest smartphone from alibaba or your local telecom company. the entire purpose of dumbphones is to be able to call and SMS, keep a simplistic contact book and that's it

also, how does it even run a web browser when the whole device has just 128 MB RAM. will the device crash if I load up facebook. com?

The left isn't speaking to these boys so the right wins by default.

probably it does, but the algorithms don't pick it up because it's not controversial

while I agree, I think there are people who ended up choosing (1) because of pathologization, because they were ridiculed and the increased stress made them decide it's easier to hate women

do you perhaps know a recipe for pancakes?

the post is about wireless networks, not online services

deportation in a black bag

not 180, just ~120 or possibly less

I have used all windows versions since xp, and I have used windows systems for 15-20 years, starting from when I was a little kid that couldn't even read. I am relatively very familiar with the system.

I've been using linuxes mostly just for the past 7 years, only 3 of which was on graphical environments, and I think understand linux a lot more. here it's not the location of the menu that I remember (sure, there's often not a menu for it) but what do I want to achieve, and which component deals with that. all the while windows is still just a thing to me that I know on the surface, but under that it is all held together by black magic.

someone said that a major reason it's very hard to understand windows like you do with linux is that it's intentionally obfuscated. there's also strange decisions and very strange components, and strange things we just got used to, like why does a troubleshooter or the windows update search take ages to complete while not using the cpu, the disk and not even the network.

I AM THE ADMINISTATOR!

well, yeah, maybe it should have gone to the parent comment

mythical simple past but they wouldn't put down the fucking phone. anything but the phone!!

(regardless of gender)

to be honest if that happens its better to understand why that happens, instead of just pulling the plug. maybe a larger program (like firefox) is still exiting and in the middle of saving the session and closing databases. if you pull the plug, it'll corrupt its data, it'll forget your opened tabs and whatnot and you'll be angry

browsers are not protocols but applications. how do you make an open standard for an application? was that done before?

turns out as a user I don't get notified if a mod deletes my comment

you shouldn't allow a web browser and an operating system be in one company

because they are worried about sneaky invisible attacks through wireless connections, and not about being detained. we don't really have borders in the direction of other EU members

yeah, i too have set up a redirect for port 53 to my DNS server on the main router, for a long time didn't do that though. but then, even this doesn't matter if they just hardcode a list of IPs

that was a good one :) fixed the typo

that may not be enough. while I don't know how common it is, it is not unknown that they use DoH, DoT, direct connections to hardcoded IP without DNS to evade such blocking measures. chinese IP cams often do the latter