I vaguely recall a recent-ish article that an average web page is 30mb. That’s right, thirty megabytes.
It’s amazing how much faster web browsing becomes when I run PiHole and block most of it.
Suddenly the TV is pretty snappy, and all browsers feel so much smoother.
You’re advising a technical solution to a technical person.
OP’s not looking for a solution to his specific problem, he’s showing that as a technical person he’s faced with an issue he’s unsure how to resolve - now imagine the average person facing this problem.
OP’s right - the sign-up process is clumsy and problematic on any instance for the average user.
Hahahahaha, I actually laughed out loud
Hahahaha that’s awesome
Anuto is fun, I really like the back-to-gradeschool graphics
Ok, now this looks impressive, since they publish the API and CAD files for you to build your own add ons.
I can’t think of add-ons I’d want - I’m more for smaller phones today, so the bulk doesn’t really appeal to me. But I’m eager to see what people create (may already be some stuff posted on 3D printing sites, I haven’t looked). Maybe an add-on battery that’s the size of the back but really thin?
Edit: LOVE that it’s a plastic phone. Please, more plastic phones, they’re lighter and tougher.
Lol, nice.
Not that it matters, really, as it’s all about battery chemistry, and there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
Apple may do something differently than Android manufacturers, but they all have the same choices - tweak the voltage/current profile, manage temp, limit recharge bounce when a phone sits on the charger.
Actual answer: fast charging will always do more damage than slower charging. It’s all tradeoffs, and I will trade my battery longevity for fast charging when I need it. When I have time, slower charging is fine.
I’m tech savvy, been in IT for nearly 40 years. Wrote my first program in Fortran on punched cards.
Linux is no easy switchover. It’s problematic, regardless of the distro (I’ve tried many over the years).
My latest difficulty - went to install Debian and it hung multiple times trying to install wifi drivers.
Mint can’t use my Logitech mouse until I researched it and discovered someone wrote an app to enable it. The most popular mouse on the planet doesn’t work out of the box.
Typical user would be stumped by these problems.
I can go on for days about “Year of the Linux Desktop” (which I first heard in 2000). Can Linux work as a desktop? Definitely. And it can be pretty damn good, too, if your use-case aligns with it’s capabilities. But if you’re an end-user type, what do you do a year in and realize you need a specific app that just doesn’t exist in Linux?
Is it a direct replacement for Windows? No. Because Windows has always been about general use - it trades performance for the ability to do a lot of varied things, it includes capabilities that not everyone needs.
Linux is the opposite, it’s about performance for specific things. If you want a specific capability, it has to be added. This is the challenge these different distros attempt to meet: the question for all of them is which capabilities to include “out of the box” (see my mouse example - Debian handles it just fine).
This is also the power of Linux, and why it’s so great for specific use-cases. Things like Proxmox, TrueNAS, etc, really benefit from this minimalism. No wasted cycles on a BITS service or all the other components Windows runs “just in case”.
I think SMS Backup Restore can export to HTML.
Hahaha, but they never had a concern before??
Funny how Europe is finally starting to notice this issue.
Us “tinfoil hatters” (as we’ve been called) have been decrying the privacy issues since the 90’s, but everyone just dismissed us as crackpots.
My reaction was “what the fark?”
I mean the layers of crap on crap. Just wow.
The effort they put in to do all that was surely more than it would’ve taken to just ship, oh, any version of Linux? Or even the open-sourced version of dos? (I kid, I kid!)
Very, very interesting reading. I’m kind of shocked.
Well, virtualizatiin systems tend to run at root level, since they need to emulate things like processors (yea, that’s not the only way, but business-class virtualizatiin is done at the OS level).
The violation they target users for is sharing a video, and that’s usually through a file sharing service like torrenting.
Think of it this way - whatever you watch online via a browser you’re already downloading. Or via an app.
You know, it really tweaks me that torrenting is associates with piracy, when it could’ve become the defacto way to share files between users, if OS devs had just included the protocol in the OS (looking at you Android, but Windows and Apple too).
I’ve often questioned why it wasn’t…
So promote violence?
Seems like that just provides justification for the powers-that-be to respond with violence… And they have the backing of institutional power.
That’s an everyone-loses paradigm.
Yea, meaningless (not to criticism Signal, good for them for saying so). Just meaningless from Sweden government perspective - it’s not like they can simply block Signal. They could, but it would take a lot of effort, and it would be a continually losing game. As I mentioned, I can run a Wireguard/Tailscale network at home, or on a VPS not in Sweden. Good luck figuring out what traffic is in my stream.
It’s feasible, but the effort on their part increases non-linearly with every person that does this.
Well, yea, we know that.
But saying they’ll block anything without a back door is meaningless, as anyone can run their own VPN these days, and a government attempting to block it is not very smart, as it’ll take a lot more effort for them to constantly try to track down the connections.
China can do it because they control all exits from the country network, and will take aggressive pysical action against someone bypassing their controls. And yet people still maintain connections that The Great Firewall can’t block.
I just say “post grezz sequel”. Sorry if it pisses people off, but it’s a stupid name, so I’m gonna say it the way I want.
Check out the apps Hermit and Native Alpha. They make web pages run like an app. I’ve only run into a couple sites where they don’t work right.