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I live in a country that doesn’t care about piracy and has super strong protections for people who pirate, but i’d imagine i would be in deep trouble if i lived in a different country. I don’t download that much, but i do seed my entire jellyfin library with no speedcaps. Here’s this month’s upload stats for my network

The new ones were garbage anyways. Mine is stuck at a polling rate of 10hz, and the acceleration is god awful

Oh onlyoffice works great! It’s spreadsheet function is far less buggy than excel and it’s smooth and snappy.

I don’t remember the full story, but it seems like the dev got fed up with feature requests/bug rapports so they decided to delete the source code and their online accounts.

Damn. This article is so well crafted that I legitimately thought Google was being Google

What. The. Actual. Fuck. Google.

I made it with JSplacement before that project disappeared off the internet. The background is pretty boring because i wanted some color, but knew that i would rarely see it (I always have multiple layers of programs opened at all times)

I’d honestly love a wall of shame for websites and “tech products” that showcases their hostility to users trying to circumvent their tracking

https://www.onlyoffice.com/
Or
https://www.libreoffice.org/

It’s because the apps work as black boxes stopping the end user from blocking their telemetry, advertising and tracking.

What I hate more is how companies deliberately add blocks to their websites if you’re on mobile so as to force the user to download the app.

Two of the most egregious samples I’ve seen so far is Microsoft teams that shows a banner saying “this browser is not supported”, but switching your user agent or enabling desktop mode from within your phone’s browser makes it work perfectly fine.

Another is Facebook (yuck) which displays a fake loading bar that never finishes unless you trick it the same way as with teams. Their mobile site prevents you from posting anything, commenting, viewing random posts, uploading files, or seeing notifications. If you don’t have the app installed, you’re essentially locked out of messenger because it is reluctant at opening any shared files or posts as that has to be opened through the facebook app (obviously). What’s worse is I’m prompted to log in to Facebook every time I open any link Facebook or not from within messenger.

I’d love to fully uninstall meta’s apps but I have family members that only use their apps (fuck the networking effect)

Ye the explanation I presented is something I say to simple minded people as a way for me to tell them that the act of wanting privacy isn’t criminal, and that it is wayyy creepier when some stranger is trying to actively breach said privacy.

I want to belive that this entire breach of privacy thing will form a sort of bubble that’ll burst and people will wake up and realize that “hey this is kinda creepy”, but this does seem to trend towards a dystopian cyberpunk future

I usually shut those “I have nothing to hide” arguments by asking the person what’s more creepy: you closing your curtains trying to get privacy, or your neighbor trying to peek in, asking you “why do you need curtains? You’ve got nothing to hide right?”

That usually gets the point across…

I use soulseek too.

I have probably 2 or 3 stuck for movies, and thousands stuck for music. Radarr and lidarr adds them automatically, and after many months, they do actually finish downloading

Oh I remember that old Samsung design on that 3rd phone of yours

Elmer’s glue mixed with red food coloring as a replacement to the tomato sauce

I think they’re playing onto the joke of “I’d like you to do x by yesterday”

Guess which option will be set to off by users, which youtube will make the default to “on”, and then entirely remove the button when users adapt to turning it off.

Thank fuck. I hate the thing where the sunrise is at 10am, and sunset is at 2pm.