I left Reddit because Spez is an asshole and he killed third-party API access (which, btw, impacted more than just clients - many useful bots/scripts died too as a result of this change).
For many of us, Sync was Reddit, and killing Sync basically killed Reddit for us, but now that Sync is back (for Lemmy), many of us are more than happy to pay a subscription to support the dev, instead of supporting Reddit. ljdawson is an awesome developer who actually listens to his users and updates his apps regularly. If you don't want to support him and/or use a different app, that's your call of course, but for fans of Sync, it's like coming back home after a long time and getting that feeling of "there's no place like home".
Instead of warden, just use the tried and trusted KeePass, no need to run your own server. KeePassXC is a nice open-source alternative client, and KeePassDX is it's Android equivalent. You can keep your password file in sync with other devices by using your favorite cloud backup or sync tool. The best part is, KeePass supports auto-type, which warden and other cloud-based password managers don't. Auto-type is handy when you want to input your password into a program that's not a web page, or you're accessing something via remote desktop etc.
The thing is, Windows 11 doesn't even need TPM - it's just an arbitrary flag the installer looks for - which can easily be bypassed using a registry key - but MS have conveniently decided not to make a GUI for this, nor publicize that it can be bypassed by the end user.
All of this is just a conspiracy by Microsoft and it's OEM partners (mainly Intel) to generate more sales.
A big chunk of those would be bots/fake/spam accounts, ie not real users. Marketing companies have already started selling fake followers for Thread influencers.
Probably why Google went from SafetyNet to Play Integrity. Maybe we should also start distrusting "integrity" as well, given how they're trying to push the Web Integrity crap.
Yep. The number of times I've gone to the Play Store to discover new apps, in the past few years is exactly zero. Most of the new apps I've come across is via some news article or recommendations on Reddit (now Lemmy).
It's a radio show basically, so you've the hosts talking about stuff, maybe something about the track or the casual banter etc. Kinda like Twitch, but for music.
If that's not your thing though and you just want to listen to music only, then yeah there's no point using it over Spotify.
Microsoft are looking at putting datacenters under the ocean
Um, no they're not. That article you linked is from 2018, and the experiment concluded in 2020. They pulled the data center out, and concluded that whilst the experiment was successful, several challenges still remain (such as around repairs and maintenance, physical security and energy supply reliability), so they haven't toyed around with the idea since then.
Basically, Microsoft have no plans at all currently to put data centers under the ocean - unless you've got some insider knowledge.
This is classic Google/corporate strategy - make it "digestable" to the most vocal public and address the concerns on the surface, then slowly erode, lock in and enshittify. Look at what's happened to Gtalk/Hangouts for instance - everyone using other XMPP clients eventually switched to Gtalk since it was an open protocol and they could also continue using their existing clients, but after some time Google locked them in, then completely killed XMPP, then completely killed Hangouts.
It may subjectively look like Google is trying to address concerns around Web Integrity and sure, initial iterations may all be harmless and won't break anything, but I'm 100% willing to bet that as people put their pitchforks down and Web Integrity all but fades away from public memory, they'll start to lock you in with more and more DRM-like features, more and more websites will start to adopt it, until one day, you suddenly look back and realize you've been had, and how shitty the web has become - but by that point, it's too late to change anything.
We need to nip this in the bud, before it even takes off. It goes grossly against the open web envisioned by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, regardless of its "good" intentions.
Freenode used to be one of the biggest networks in the past decade or so, but a few years ago, after a hostile takeover it went to shite, so most people have moved on to Libera Chat. Unfortunately IRC in general is a lot less quieter and lot more fragmented these days - with the more privacy-oriented folks having moved on to Matrix, the more gaming-oriented folks moved on to Discord, and usually niche, or old school open-source stuff is now what remains (most of them on Libera).
I left Reddit because Spez is an asshole and he killed third-party API access (which, btw, impacted more than just clients - many useful bots/scripts died too as a result of this change).
For many of us, Sync was Reddit, and killing Sync basically killed Reddit for us, but now that Sync is back (for Lemmy), many of us are more than happy to pay a subscription to support the dev, instead of supporting Reddit. ljdawson is an awesome developer who actually listens to his users and updates his apps regularly. If you don't want to support him and/or use a different app, that's your call of course, but for fans of Sync, it's like coming back home after a long time and getting that feeling of "there's no place like home".