DahGangalang

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[–] DahGangalang 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

On the one hand, it sucks that sometimes really bad people who've done really bad things go free because of a seemingly minor technicality.

On the other, there's a set process to help keep the law fair. Miranda rights and the need to voice them to suspects when they're arrested exist because police will totally take advantage of arrestees, and because police have acted unethically towards ignorant people who don't know what rights they retain when arrested.

I'm confident Luigi didn't need a reminder of his rights when arrested, but if the cops really thought they were arresting the killer of that United Health CEO, then there's no excuse for them not bringing their A-game with how high profile it was all bound to be. It'd be really embarrassing for them if they missed that tiny detail.

Edit: spelling/grammar

[–] DahGangalang 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Not the exact development route I wanted them to take, but def pleased they're doing something to improve existing services.

Definitely better than the whole (ongoing?) Proton Wallet ordeal.

With Proton Sheets, Proton Drive now becomes a true alternative to Google Drive.

Lol, okay Buddy, y'all still have a long way to go on that point.

[–] DahGangalang 16 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Don't let me ruin your good time, but my experience with Surf shark:

Used surf shark for about 3 years around pandemic timeframe. Had no complaints (other than it drained my phone battery super fast - didn't test empirically, but seemed somewhat worse than other VPN providers). I was unemployed for a while, so took the opportunity to cut expenses; tried to drop my surf shark subscription. It was a HUGE pain in the butt. I forget the process, but iirc, you had to use their help chat to get the number for cancellations, they kept me on hold for ~10 min, then had a long winded questionnaire ("were required to ask you these questions before proceeding") asking why I was quitting, then made an offer for discounted months before letting me unsubscribe.

Its my understanding regulations have changed such that that's not allowed anymore and also that most VPN can elations are about that bad anyway, but still, wanted to share my experience. Lol, suppose so long as you never quit, you won't have to deal with all that.

[–] DahGangalang 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lol, suppose not.

But I'm glad at least I'm not crazy while living in this reality (though I suppose it my be less painful that way).

[–] DahGangalang 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Oh, I was wondering why RAM prices seemed so much higher. Its been ~4 years since I looked and gaslit myself into thinking my brain was just going bad.

Glad to see I wasn't just imagining it.

[–] DahGangalang 5 points 4 months ago

Did a pinch of digging and this Stack Overflow Question seems to be the best "all in one" answer to your question.

To try to explain from what I'm seeing:

  • Disable stops any "autostart" services/processes from starting. It also tries to gracefully stop any background processes and services.
  • Force Stop kills those processes forcefully (but doesn't necessarily stop them from auto starting again).
  • Its possible (though unlikely) for you to Disable an app and there to be a delay for all processes and services to die.
  • Thus it can be useful to Disable, then Force Stop if you really want something dead.

That said, in most cases it looks like its more likely to be a "UI Bug". Theoretically, if no processes are running for an app, the Force Stop button is supposed to be deactivated (greyed out), but this check is apparently not very authoritatively checked, and defaults to Active if the OS isn't sure.

Hopefully any wrong info I've stated will summon a true expert to explain better.

[–] DahGangalang 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia claimed on Tuesday that the Sanchar Saathi app, a fraud reporting app the government wants pre-installed on all devices, will be optional and can be deleted by users.

“... If you don't want Sanchar Saathi, you can delete it. It is optional... It is our duty to introduce this app to everyone. Keeping it in their devices or not is up to the user,” he said to reporters.

So it sounds like it can be removed, though I can't help but feel like it might leave malicious artifacts (this is based on absolutely no evidence and is purely speculation on my part)

[–] DahGangalang 7 points 4 months ago

HUGE FAN

I don't have beta features enabled, so haven't tried it myself, but LOVE the idea of it. Its not too often, but maybe 1 in 100 times when I swipe back to leave a post, it'll take me back to the home menu (not sure if that's the right name for it).

I think on by default is the play. Not sure how hard this would be to implement, but maybe the first 3-5 times, include a "don't show again" button on the bottom of the popup (with another popup on how to re-enable in settings if a user hits "don't show again")

[–] DahGangalang 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Saw it was a woman who broke the record and was hoping she broke the all time record. Turns out its just the record for women.

Still cool stuff - I can barely finish a mile without the suit as fast as she did.

Edit: spelling

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