lustrum @ lustrum @sh.itjust.works

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I switched my parents group chat to RCS from whatsapp after pestering them for ages.

Over the span of 2 months we had 4-5 inconsistencies where I would recieve a message from my mum or dad in the group that would be in another language or clearly not be written by them. It wouldn't show up on her phone but my brother and dad would see it.

Here's the proof of the last occassion it happened. They're never going to switch now...

It saved less than 0% because it wrote the comment twice...

Even if you selfhost, having a cloud provider can still be a good option to maintain 3-2-1 without hosting a second server offsite (at parents or friends etc).

I backup to backblaze b2

It's a jpeg

Then encoded in the metadata is a map of brightness.

If your website/app/phone doesn't support it, the metadata just sits there with info about the lens, shutter speed etc.

If it does support it, the JPEG is automatically processed with the metadata to increase brightness in the original jpeg.

People need to stop "pretending" they can afford all this shit, it's not needed and noone cares, who are people showing off too?

New iphone? Don't need it

Maybe if we stop buying shit these companies will actually try

Yeah it's insane. I bought a 1 year old Hyundai and knocked tons of depreciation off an already cheaper brand.

At my work people be driving around in leased Range Rovers/AMG Mercs. Then they will take the piss out of my car.

Seriously? I now have more disposable income because i'm not wasting it renting a car and also I own my car... It should be me bragging

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Subscriptions need to fuck off. I made a stand a few months ago. I will not subscribe to anything at all unless i'm getting INSANE value.

Cancelled streaming, random apps, patreon etc. I now have usenet and backblaze b2 for about £3 a month each. Saving me a fortune 🏴‍☠️🦜

I have mint dual booted on my laptop with Win 11. I find myself using Win11 more.

Idk why, linux mint doesn't feel finished to me:

• 120hz won't work with my dock (works fine in ubuntu and w11)
• Touchpad scrolling is insanely quick and almost unusable
• My mouse jitters allover, accelleration or something seems wrong.
• Can't seem to set different governors depending on battery or power.
• Fingerprint doesn't have a driver (works in Ubuntu ok though).
• Scaling 125% seems janky, everything is blurry as shit

It does work mostly ok though and is quick, but it doesn't feel polished. Ubuntu was great but fuck snap packages.

They once wanted twice as much as booking another ticket to change a name...

I've seen you post this elsewhere so assume you aren't just interested in gaming only:

Here's some that I follow:

• Anandtech^1: Great general tech website, has some deep dives. It did used to be a lot better
• Chips and Cheese^2: Insane deep dives into architectures and chips.
• More than Moore^3: Ex Anandtech editor in chief, does great breakdowns of new AI tech and silicon.
• igor's Lab^4: Does some great deep dives into various GPU and CPU issues.
• KGOnTech^5: Only just followed this blog, seems to do a good teardown on the apple headset.
• Krebs on Security^6: Blog by one of the best security researchers and breaks down vulnerabilities
• EE Times^7: Good well written site with overviews on many areas in tech
• Techspot Featured Articles^8: Mainly gaming and GPU/CPU, but does some good articles exploring games, tech etc

Yeah that's the best for me. I use about 600GB.

500GB plans aren't enough and 1TB plans are too much. Paying what you use is so good.

Depends what you want to do but Backblaze B2 is reasonably cheap. $6 per TB

They released the rewrite as a beta apk at the weekend for testers. So it's definitely going somewhere.

It's faster and has conversations on the app too.

https://proton.me/support/mail-android-beta

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/16veha9/join_the_new_proton_mail_beta_on_android/

No.

I meant the article and writing the article as if apple are considering when it's not even true.

"May" = some possible outcome written as the company are considering it.

Many countries like the UK charge 35p for an MMS. So to send pictures to anyone you needed an internet connected messenger.

SMS/MMS effectively died here.

So if I want to communicate everyone uses WhatsApp or iMessage

I can see my phone getting that if I let every app just push whatever they want. I purposefully and carefully go through and ensure I'm only getting notifications for what I need them for.

I average 250 a day. With 3/4 of those being messaging apps.

Think you got the ads meant for me

Kind of.