AlexJD

joined 1 year ago
[–] AlexJD@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

It's the one time where I am glad to have a slightly unusual name.

[–] AlexJD@feddit.uk 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Honestly it's so nice. I ended up buying lastname.tld so now I will always have firstname@lastname.tld even if I change provider because I can just point the domain to whatever provider I like.

[–] AlexJD@feddit.uk 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ops coworker completed a side quest

[–] AlexJD@feddit.uk 24 points 9 months ago

[Insert Tom Scott Video Here]

[–] AlexJD@feddit.uk 9 points 9 months ago

Leah has said some dumb stuff but I think this particular separation from the GNU project was the correct decision. The dogmatic no blobs approach wasn't working, it is better to reduce/minimise the binary blobs and support more devices imo. Don't agree with their previous actions though.

[–] AlexJD@feddit.uk 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not entirely the case anymore. Libreboot switched to a blob reduction policy in order to support more hardware. Hopefully this will bring things forward quite a bit over the next year.

[–] AlexJD@feddit.uk 14 points 10 months ago

Same. I just didn't have any use for signal after SMS removal. Yes I know SMS is insecure but I was stuck. Either you use a separate secure app and magically convince everyone else to use it whilst falling back onto a separate SMS app anyway (for those who don't use the encrypted app). Or alternatively you just have to use a mainstream app like Google Messenger with SMS plus RCS.

At least when signal supported it I could migrate family to signal and then our communication would be encrypted and they could still message everyone else over SMS. It meant a large portion of my messages were encrypted. After SMS removal everyone I had on signal just quit so there was no one to communicate with. Trying to get people to use multiple apps was like herding cats.

[–] AlexJD@feddit.uk 65 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure the haunted Victorian pencil that is Jacob Rees-Mogg said that the UK not having universal USB-C was a "Brexit benefit". God help us all.

[–] AlexJD@feddit.uk 17 points 11 months ago (6 children)

AMD has been putting a lot of L3 cache on their consumer CPUs. The 5800X3D has 96mb of L3 cache.

[–] AlexJD@feddit.uk 37 points 11 months ago

I think you just discovered the cure for inceldom, congratulations.

[–] AlexJD@feddit.uk 29 points 1 year ago

Somehow it's up

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