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God, I wish. Every Android update seems to undo all of the app run configuration I do on bloatware: disabling background network access, disabling background running, etc. If I can’t uninstall it, I limit the fuck out of it and hope. I wish Android would aggressively kill these things.
However, I get that your issue is that it’s killing stuff you don’t want it to. Are you allowing notifications for background apps? I think that, even in Lineage, to stay active and prevent sleeping an app has to show a persistent notification. I hate the things, since they only clutter the notification lists, but when I disable them the apps don’t stay running.
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I wish there was an alternative to Amazon. If there were only 3 or 6 stores where I could get everything I get from Amazon, I’d go through the trouble of multiple orders. But the alternatives to Amazon is usually a bunch of individual items ordered from a bunch of unknown sites, all of which give my angst about giving me credit card to, and which usually adds up to significant shipping costs. Or, driving into the city and spending an entire day driving from shop to shop, and being limited in my options and often never finding everything.
I so badly want an alternative to Amazon. Shopping was objectively worse before it. We’ve tried Walmart, but it’s worse and I’m not sure it’s an ethical improvement.
I still drive to the mall for clothes, but even the mall is limited for non-clothes - and often hella expensive.
The Streisand Effect doesn’t apply here. They’re not making news about it, they’re silencing content posts on their platform. If Google went out and started using takedowns on other platforms, that’s when you start to get a compound media effect because site owners tend to broadcast to their readership; in this case, the only people who notice both the takedown and the cause is the author. And us, because OP told us, but we’re tiny.
After so many people stayed on Twitter, and after companies like Apple reversed their policy and went back to advertising there, I’ve lost faith in any mass internet movement. Most users don’t care, as long as they’re getting free stuff, and most content providers insist on using it because of monetization. If that’s where the content is, that’s where the users will go.
While I love the thought, what makes Portal the best game is GLaDOS, and the story. Solving the problems quickly took back seat to the GLaDOS interactions and story; I don’t think I’d enjoy a dungeon crawler version of Portal nearly as much without her, and the story.
It’s a big part of why I don’t like MMORGS and combat royals, where it just feels like random characters sprinting everywhere in their own little worlds and no cohesive story. I get why many people do like it, and it’s obvious why studios love the format - they’re just low cost money printers. To each their own!
where I don’t feel like I have some big commitment if I go in.
This is so important for me, these days. I used to be able to drop an entire weekend in Destiny, to the dismay of my wife; now I’m more selective about how many of the hours of my life I spend unproductively moving pixels around on a screen.
Factorio is my current weakness. So easy to get into; so easy to lose entire days to. I’m really happy with the Space Age upgrade, because it’s self-limiting. EE except for Vulcanis, the other planets are a lot harder to make progress on, and without that constant dopamine fix I only go in one a week for a couple of hours now.
You mean, they’re mounting something that isn’t an SD card to the /sdcard directory? Like something truly evil, such as mount -t btrfs -o subvol=@home / /sdcard? Or do you think there’s not anything mounted there; it’s just a directory in the root partition? None of that would make any sense.
If they’re letting whatever automount tool (eg udevil) do its thing, this is practically impossible. And if they know enough to do it by hand, I think they’d have answered the direct question of “which filesystem” with a filesystem rather than a mount point. Don’t you think? We still don’t know what filesystem they’re working with, since they haven’t answered the question.
It doesn’t matter. FAT filesystems - which are usually the default on SD cards, simply do not support ownership or file permissions. Linux emulates these attributes at mount time, but they apply to the entire SD card. You can mount an SD card and tell Linux to act as if root owns everything on the card; you that you own everything on the card; and it will be so until you unmount it and remount it with a different ownership.
These are filesystem level attributes, not device attributes. If you have a modern internal nvme drive and you format it with vfat, you will not be able to set permissions or ownership at the file level, but only at mount time, for the entire drive.
OK, so, you’re right. Let’s be fair, though: this is capitalism. There are companies that make quality mice, and they are more expensive and don’t compete at the same scale Logitech does. If Logitech made quality mice, they’d be more expensive, and even more consumers would look at and choose cheaper mice from their competitors.
Part of this is absolutely “margins & profit.” Part is the veiled curse of online shopping: when you can’t feel and handle the product, much more of shopper decision comes down to simply price: this is the T-Shirt Effect: if two online products look identical, but one is less expensive, most people are going to opt for the less expensive one. It’s put established companies known for quality out of business, or driven their product quality down to compete. Part of it is that there are few reliable, authoritative review sources; many are barely disguised paid ads, or star-manipulation. The end sum is consumers voting with their dollars, and companies responding accordingly. Sales are down, your competitors’ are up, people are choosing products you know are cheaper crap, and so it’s obvious people prefer cheaper crap, so you make it.
It’s a lose-lose for everyone except those companies able to quickly clone reputable products, but with lower-quality components, and flood the online market with them.
Low-quality, low-cost mass manufacturing has put products in the hands of people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford them. But it’s also driven down quality, and driven waste up; the same decision process being used by low-income folks is also used by middle-class, and with nearly all shopping being online, consumers have few options for a better process.
The equation changes when you get to the wealthy, who can shop with companies who aren’t competing on volume, but reputation and margins: the Bang & Olufsens; the Breguets, and the Urban Jurgensens. People who can afford to shop with artisans shop differently, but all t-shirts look the same online.
Beautifully summarized.
I think another factor will emerge: people are starting to realize that they’re paying $60 to rent a game. They don’t own it, and the game developer can shut it down at any time, and even if they don’t, it probably requires some online access for something, and the game stops working once the developer turns off those servers.
I don’t think we’ll see a revolt, but companies will be forced through competition to allow rental models with less or no up-front cost. I think people will simply become less willing to pay $60 for a rental. At this point, I don’t know what happens to development studios, because they need seed funding to get to market. I think it’s already happening; as a very casual gamer, most of what I hear from the industry is pure-play game studios shutting down, or being acquired by corporations like Sony or Microsoft, who have other revenue streams they can redirect into speculative game development.
Personally, I care about these factors for my desktops as well. CPU, GPU, memory, and (and this surprised me) SSD temps - how many fans do I need? At least three in a proper tower-style desktop. I feel like the Grinch: “all the noise, noise, noise, noise, noise!” And fans take power. Everything takes power.
So I’ve been running a micro-PC for a while: a Ryzen 7, integrated GPU, little 6x6x2 enclosure. It still has a fan in it, and I’ve got it in a space in my desk made for hiding computer devices and wires - I had to build a fan into that because it was getting warm in there and raising average temps on the computer.
My point is that these battery-optimized architectures are also pretty important for the desktop market, too. Gaming rigs with GPUs bigger than the entire rest of the motherboard notwithstanding, average desktop user would be fine with one of these micro computers. As long as you stay away from the hog software like Electron and Java applications, they’re perfectly capable; heck, even rustc burns through compilations pretty fast, and that’s not exactly an efficient compiler. And Go programs compile in no time on a Ryzen 7, or even 5. I suspect it’d even handle my mom and her Firefox with 200 tabs.
“AI”?
Deep learning engines are enabling some interesting things, with the potential to usher in the first significant change in how we interact with our computers since the GUI. Being able to localize processing, rather than feeding more information about yourself to profiling algorithms, is a good thing.
I do wish they’d never started calling it “AI,” but that ship has sailed.
I wish crypto would move away from POW; every new coin still uses it, and it’s the biggest reason for all of the hate crypto currency gets. But, most coins are people with scarce programming skills, just copying Satoshi’s work, hoping that their shitcoin will get some traction and they’ll be able to cash in before it collapses.
Hah. I stored mine in a password less local wallet; I honestly can’t remember if encrypted wallets were available when I got mine - at the time, Satoshi was still giving out coins for free if you emailed them. Really, really lucky choice, because I then completely forgot I had any for 10 years until they popped up in the public news. I’d been copying ~ from computer to new computer reflexively for that entire time… it was utter luck that, when I went to check, sure enough ~/.bitcoin was there, with a positive wallet balance. Not enough to retire, but enough to be able to retire a couple of years early.
It’s encrypted now, and I unlock it every once in a while to ensure I can, but I’m otherwise still ignoring it. As an investment, it’s done far better than any other of my $ invested in the stock market, bond, IRA, or 401k… but I think as a get-rich-quick scheme, it’s been over-rated.
I dunno. I finished Borderlands 3 years ago, and I still pick it up and play regularly. I’ve played the campaign through four times - once for each character.
Heck, I’d still be playing Destiny if it hadn’t gone to total shit with the focus on coop.
Long before that, I played the original God of War trilogy through multiple times, and it didn’t even have different character classes.
It’s not my bag, but there are people out there playing Skyrim for years. Hell, I fire up No Man’s Sky every so often, and I bought it on release when it was really rough.
It’s common for people to replay good games. I’m not even sure what the point of Starfield is - are they trying to be an MMORPG? If so, that huge of a player loss is a massive failure. If it’s not - why is it even online? Isn’t it supposed to be some massive, explorable universe with endless gaming possibilities?
You don’t get logged in to other accounts. Just follow people at their address, like you’d send an email. The server does the rest.
If your question is about finding people to follow, that’s another matter. Folks on other instances won’t show up in your searches unless someone on your instance already follows them. For popular people, that’s usually no problem. For others, you might get their address from their web page. In any case, once you have their address, you just… follow them. No matter where they are, follow them from your instance and it just works. You don’t have to “log in” anywhere else; that’s the “federated” part of the fediverse.
What’s most fantastic about it is that you can often follow accounts on entirely different platforms. How well this works depends on how well the platform supports the AP protocol, and fundamental models of data. But you can easily follow PixelFed accounts from a Mastodon account, and it works pretty well. It’s as if you could follow Instagram accounts from your Twitter account; that’s the killer feature of the Fediverse, IMO. Discovery is still clunky, and how these things interoperate in “World” can be kludgy. But the possibilities are really very revolutionary.
Really? I just spun up a gotosocial instance on a VPS and was up and running in a dozen minutes. Failing that, I’d have just joined mastodon.social. Why was it a hard decision for you? As a tech person, what about “federated” was confusing? I have a second account on a spoken language-specific server, for kicks; I set both of these up within an hour of each other. I donft understand how it could be considered a hard choice.
Now, the finding people, I could understand, but since I was not on Twitter to begin with, I had nobody I cared about following. I can understand how that would be challenging, although it has nothing to do with your home server selection.
Yeah, if anything, I see it going in the other direction. Steam is huge, and if you experiencd a time when literally every game was exclusive, today’s trends look like a convergence on ubiquitous, cross-platform gaming.
Sega, Atari, Apple ][, Nintendos, Amiga – those were the days of exclusives. Heck, even later, it was called a “Halo Box” for a reason.
Did you learn anything you could pass on? Every “tutorial” I read or watch just keeps talking about zones, but nothing explains why trains can’t find a path to the destination when some signals are omitted.
I suspect there’s something involving signals going in the opposite direction that influence the internal logic, but that’s not explained anywhere I have found yet. I spend so much frustrating and un-fun time dicking around with the stupid trains.
Factorio.
Utterly, unhealthily obsessed, and no end in sight.
It’s good for me because the focus is building, with some defensive combat on the side; I’ve tried Mindustry to try to get the same time sink on my phone, and I’ve learned that I don’t like tower-defense style games; but civilization building (-like) is addictive.
Excellent game, runs like a dream on Linix. Lots of fun.
Is there anyone who’s tried Factorio who doesn’t like it? I haven’t come across a Factorio rant yet.
It’s really, really hard for me to see any Google efforts as anything other than mechanisms to convert more people into products and harvest their data. They do support good stuff - I’m heavily invested in Go, and except for the fact thay it’s mainly used to drive web applications and, therefore, the Google ecosystem, I haven’t found any way thay my use of it can directly harvest me. But in general, Google has earned a position of “guilty, until proven innocent,” and I’m skeptical of any OS they promote.
It feels like they’re jumping on the Rust bandwagon in hopes that fans will blindly use their OS because “Rust,” only to find out a core component phones all activity to Google for “quality control.”
I may be wrong, it may be innocent. I have not yet been wrong when I’ve been suspicious* of Google.
- I picked up Go back before I realized just how far from “do no evil” Google had shifted.
Hmmm. The last time I had stock was several versions ago. I made a bad choice and have a Samsung now, and it’s always required the persistent notification, or it kills the apps.
That’s not worth much, though. Samsung’s Android is probably the shittiest I’ve used. I’ll be damned if I’m going to replace a perfectly good phone, though; the hardware is good.