h3ndrik

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h3ndrik, (edited )

I think I’ve been using K-9 Mail for 10+ years or something. The settings were kind of all over the place but it has always been one of the email clients with the most features.

h3ndrik,

Interesting. For me it has been working fine the last months. Loads and plays now, tested 30 seconds ago.

h3ndrik, (edited )

Mmh. They do so much silly stuff nowadays with the ad-blocker detection, handling browsers differently and people from different countries and all the magic that chooses your data rate and quality… I’m not surprised that it’s a different experience for everyone. Hope they don’t take third party frontends away from us for good. (I’d be also happy if every creator switches to a better alternative. But I don’t see that happen any time soon.)

h3ndrik,

What’s the pun?

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    h3ndrik,

    Could just be the natural course of things.

    I mean, that article is way ahead. I think it wasn’t for another 15 years or so until companies started to figure out collecting and selling data about people and using it for targeted advertising was THE best business model for the internet and network-connected devices in general.

    And here we are. The internet is now dominated by a handful of big tech companies who do exactly that. And they provide us with nice and free services in exchange. I guess that’s been going on long enough and aligns well with how humans work, so that nowadays nobody questions this anymore. Obviously you would, if that’d be a daunting, new thing with unknown consequences.

    But ‘they’ got to us.

    Maybe we can compare that to the recent discussions regarding AI? Everyone is speaking of it, how it will steal their job or herald the end / doom. I guess in 10 years nobody questions ChatGPT choosing what recipe they cook for dinner, because it knows exactly what’s in the fridge and knows what you like better than yourself.

    I suppose it’s kind of the government’s job to regulate things like privacy and taking advantage of normal people? The EU sometimes does that. But they also randomly mix in ‘we need total surveillance to fight child abuse’, as they tried recently.

    h3ndrik,

    Wow. 1983 was the year they launched Bildschirmtext here. I remember my dad doing banking stuff with that in the 90s. What kind of services were available in Ottawa at that time? Telidon? Wikipedia says it closed in 1985.

    It’s a bit like the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which some people mistake for an instruction book 🤔

    I mean it’s biased when we pick prophecies in hindsight. But she was definitely point on 40 years ago.

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    I don’t think so. I can’t find any good information about those new ‘open-source’ kernel modules in any of the Linux wikis. Just news articles from 2022. Something isn’t right there. It’s either a marketing stunt and nothing changed or something else. I would dig deeper if I were you.

    Concerning NVidia’s history: Don’t rely on them making user-friendly decisions. Especially when it comes to Linux. The usual drivers work. They have some hiccups and you’re going to have some annoying issues with things like Wayland, if something major changes in the kernel you have to wait for NVidia but they’ll eventually fix it. It’s not open source and you have to live with what they give to you. It mostly works though and performance is great. I’d say this is the same with the newer ‘open-source’ drivers that just shift things into (proprietary) userspace and firmware.

    The true open-source alternative is the ‘Nouveau’ drivers. For newer graphics cards, expect them to get only a fraction of the performance out of your GPU and having half the features not yet implemented, including power management. So your game will have 10fps and fans on max while it empties your battery in 20 minutes.

    On my laptop Nouveau started to be an alternative after several years when development kept up and it got comparable performance and battery life to the proprietary drivers. But you might replace the laptop at that point. Waiting for NVidia or the open source drivers to keep up hasn’t been worth it for me in the past. I did that two times and everytime I had to live with the proprietary drivers instead.

    So my advice is: Be comfortable using the proprietary drivers if you want to buy NVidia.

    Intel Arc got really bad performance reviews. It’s not worth spending lots of money on them. But fortunately they’re cheap because the gamers don’t buy them (for that reason). I live with the iGPU that’s part of my CPU. It’s alright since I don’t play modern games anyways.

    But you missed AMD. There are some laptops available with the Ryzen 7040 series and it seems to be a fast CPU. They also made the integrated graphics way faster than before, albeit probably still not on the level for proper gaming. But I bet there are desktop replacements out there that combine it with an AMD GPU.

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    I’ve debunked that article before. Nearly every statement in it is wrong.

    lemmy.world/post/7068568

    It’s written by someone who expected it to work 100% like the Windows on his PC he is accustomed to. But it doesn’t work that way.

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    You need to try it. Don’t just roll it out in your business. Try it yourself before. Get an old/secondary computer and install it, try your templates and workflows. See which version (distribution) you like. Get your E-Mail connected and so on.

    I can tell you Linux isn’t Windows or MacOS. For me, it works very well. I can do lots of things Windows users can not do or that are very cumbersome there, and I don’t have any advertisements or privacy issues. It respects my rights and freedoms as a user. And I’ve had way less issues with my printers and stuff than my windows-friends. I’ve never had a virus on my machine. I can’t tell you if it works for you.

    I also don’t like selling it. It’s (arguably) better, faster and more user-friendly than Windows in many ways. But you need to find out if you can make use of it. One big factor against it would be familiarization with a different product. Except for that, I invite you to try it.

    h3ndrik,

    A Live boot USB Stick

    h3ndrik,

    Let me scroll through your phone, see if there are some nice pictures or chats, the google search history, browser history… Uuh what’s that Lovense Buttplug App for? Do you have any medical conditions or mental health struggles? How do you approach people on Tinder? What’s your salary?

    h3ndrik,

    Isn’t there quite some information missing? Which scheduler is affected? What are the are the exact consequences since we’re talking about latency in the first part of the article. Did it affect the AMD Epyc processors that run all the VPS?

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    Ah, okay. Different continent, ~500k people here. More if you count the neighboring cities. I’ve programmed in a few house numbers like 10 years ago. But generally speaking, OSM knows most hiking routes and illegal mountainbike trails in the woods. And it rarely does silly mistakes while routing me in the car. Something it used to do regularly when I started using it. Guess the experience heavily depends on where you live, then.

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    Open street map data is created by volunteers. Where I live, you can practically put in any address into OsmAnd and it’ll know it. Maybe you live too far out. Or there aren’t enough people contributing in your area. Putting in the house numbers is a tedious task.

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    You’re well above average. I’d say pretty good. One thing you didn’t say: Are you often logged in into the services like Google, Facebook, YouTube, Discord, … Because if you are, they can tie everything together with your account. And did you sign up for those services with your phone number? That’d be bad because it’s a unique identifier. Regarding the phone it depends on which apps exactly you installed from the Play store. Most have trackers and there are shady apps out there. I also mainly rely on F-Droid and that’s the way to do it. Another thing is email. If you use gmail, all your correspondence gets scanned, regardless of what you do at home. And you shouldn’t use membership programs for discounts in real life.

    Other than that. I think I do more or less the same things you mentioned. Plus I replaced the Android my phone came with.

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    I think you need to use Markdown and not bracketed tags.

    Try the spoiler format:

    join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html

    You can also have a look at how other people did it. There should be a button somewhere to view the source text of any post or comment. In the Lemmy web-interface this button is hidden behind the three dots icon.

    Is an unknown supervisor password for ThinkPad bios an issue if I've already installed linux?

    I purchased a second hand ThinkPad from an ebay outlet. When it arrived I wiped windows 10 from it and installed ubuntu with no issues. It runs perfect without any weird fixes needed. However, after just checking the bios to see if I could change some settings, I realised it has a supervisor password....

    h3ndrik,

    If it’s not an issue, it’s not an issue. If you need to change the settings at some point, you could look up if there is a way to reset the password. Or sometimes there are tools that let you change the EEPROM settings from linux, without needing to open the BIOS. Depends on the hardware.

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    Maybe you want one of the turnkey solutions. There are several solutions that offer you a NAS box with everything pre-configured and a management web-interface. Assembling a RAID and creating a network share is just a few clicks with those. And they should come with documentation.

    I don’t really know which one is best. There is openmediavault, unraid, EasyNAS, TrueNAS, …

    I agree. Configuring everything yourself, Learning about RAID, filesystems, networking and file servers on an operating system you’re not familiar with is some work. And although Linux has adapted quite some Windows-workflows, setting up Samba isn’t necessarily the right-click - properties - share you learned from using windows.

    For security cameras there are solutions like Frigate which can be installed in a container.

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    100% agree. Software RAID is the thing you want as a consumer. Doesn’t need to be ZFS. mdraid is another good and well tested option for the traditional way of using RAID.

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    Yeah. I think they partnered with the makers of Signal and took the encryption from Signal back in 2014 or 2015. I still remember the first of my friends adopting WA and it had zero encryption or protection against impersonating people. I used XMPP (Jabber) back then and just shook my head.

    But it’s different now.

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    I don’t want to sound overly negative here. But that idea is more a hypothetical proposal “we should do something about it” at this point. There is a working group mimi. But not even a draft or technical proposal, yet. And interoperability is hard, and they also want to come up with a solution that makes it secure, the messages confidential and maybe grant anonymous access. These problems aren’t solved at all as of today. On top you have to deal with spam, malicious servers, users, lawful interception and all kinds of things in a distributed platform. Then they need to come up with a text for the regulation. Write it, discuss and do several revisions, debate it. And there will be lobbyism against it and court cases because it cuts into the business model of large companies. Then it has to be adopted into national legislation and it will get a grace period.

    So if you want to wait 'til 2029 (or so) to reply to your mom, go ahead and wait for the EU. I don’t have a crystal ball to be sure, but I highly doubt that this will happen in the next few years.

    And on top, there is no guarantee that it turns out good or usable in the first place. There is a lot of lobbyism happening in the EU. Especially by big tech. They’ll find a way to make it a thing that just connects Apple, Meta and Google and exclude independant or secure services.

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    Thx for the additional links!

    I’m curious what Meta is going to unveil. Usually big tech companies get ahead of legislation, in order to set a standard they like, or to prevent possible more strict regulation from happening. We see the same thing with AI and practically everything the big tech companies lobby for. I’m a bit wary.

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    That’s not correct. WA claims to use end-to-end encryption. I have no reason to doubt that. It probably arrives encrypted at the servers, not as clear-text.

    That’d also align with the business-model of big tech. They do lots of things with meta-data. And algorithms can infer lots of important things just by looking at that. I wouldn’t be surprised if they really don’t care about the exact content of WA messages.

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    I case they’re set on WhatsApp:

    You could use something like:

    github.com/mautrix/whatsapp

    and bridge WA to a secure Matrix server of your choice. That way you can have a secure environment and they can use whatever they like.

    Here is an overview table about messengers, in case you want to compare them and have more arguments in the discussion:

    www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

    I wouldn’t consider WA secure. They do tracking, they have your phone numbers and those of all of your friends and know exactly who you talk to, when, and how often. Even if they don’t know the content of the message because it’s encrypted, that’s a lot of information for the algorithm to feed on. Apart from that, I’m not sure if they have access to the encryption keys. They might be able to decrypt everything if they want.

    I’m sure someone wrote a lengthy blog article about WA. But unless someone does a proper security audit including where the encryption keys are stored and the implications of that and how extra features like breaking encryption in case someone flags an inappropriate post turns out… The ‘it’s safe’ is just a claim by your brother or Meta. You’re free to believe in anything you want. But it’s not necessarily true.

    h3ndrik,

    I think you can mount network shares with the Kerberos token you got from AD. Sometimes just the user credentials suffice. At least that’s how it used to be when I last tried something like that years ago.

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