ferralcat

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[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Plumbers. He's talking about people who've done plumbing appreticeships. It seems pretty obvious.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's nuts to me that teens use iMessage and not something secure they can hide from their parents.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 0 points 2 years ago

I assume they're being quadruply careful with trump. The last thing they want is to take him to court and lose.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean, every OS out there beyond (maybe?) some hardcore Linux distros preinstalls this stuff though. Some (but not all) will let you remove it. None really make it "easy" or give you choices during install.

I think it's just easier to treat all apps the same than special casing some and then having to install other hacks to get around the first ones for managed systems. It's cheaper to treat them all the same.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 19 points 2 years ago

As an American who left, it looks batshit insane to me. Everything is crazy expensive and they're passing restrictive laws that, if passed anywhere in Asia or Africa, would be run as "look at these backwards shitty country" news stories.

I've got a trans kid. We're not returning any time soon. It seems unsafe for them to exist in the us for the foreseeable future.

But I've got us friends who feel the opposite. We visited a friend in Bainbridge a few years ago who really couldn't comprehend why everyone wouldn't want to live on their island.

Asia (here) isn't really any more unsafe. I visited India recently and it felt less safe, but everyone I know there also said it wasn't really. It depends on areas as well, and much of it (everywhere) is just media depictions and racism telling your brain to panic.

The real advantage of the us is just cash. You can make a lot more money there. They're rich. Money is good. It makes life easier. Its also expensive there. To save at any income level, you have to be thrifty.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 10 points 2 years ago

The same people will have chrome eat ram or crash and just shrug and restart. It's not about the browser. It's the same "I use chrome because everyone else is insecure" "a zero day was reported for chrome last week" "yeah, everyone has bugs sometimes". They have a narrative they want to believe and they self select to support it.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 3 points 2 years ago

It's the classic tech argument

"I use this because I care about y" "but it's worse at y?" "Y isnt really that important to me"

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've always found the Tpm complaints a little suspicious. The same people who go on and on about how much they worry about security and privacy and how MS doesn't care, suddenly just don't give a shit in these cases. I assume they mostly just want to shit on stuff.

It's a good to push to make it standard and hardware manufacturers wont without a good old shove.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

64gb of ram? What's the use case for that?

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 4 points 2 years ago

I think Moz helped write and supports this. I even think it's (partially enabled in nightly?)

Not sure if these built in decoders are supported though. Seems a bit dangerous to expose native codecs directly from the web to be honest, since you'll end up with wildly varying support across browsers.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hotstar disney+ is still $20 a year here in se Asia. Netflix starts at $5/month ($3 for mobile only). Im super curious if these prices ever hit us. I have a feeling they'd just kill the services if they did.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can't download and run code on iOS, which is pretty much the definition of an extension. You could ship some extensions "with" your browser, but at that point they're just a feature. iOS has adblocking addons at the system level though, doesn't it?

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