ColeSloth

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Getting access to the massive backlog of user data over the last 15 years for a mere 60 million. I'm glad reddit shot themselves in the foot, I'd go delete my user data from reddit, but im sure they'll be crawling the backups as well.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Not yet you can't. Legitimate verification sites automatically scan the uploaded picture for authenticity and I haven't seen any ai yet that would manage to circumvent it.

Now if websites are all left to their own about age verification, they'll be able to toe the line and just have shit verification. If the government gets involved and sets up something that must be used it would be different. Either way it presents huge security risks and problems.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago

No. I can. Reddit was bought out, uses volunteers to control all the subs but forcefully removes you from the sub you created and were supposed to have control over if you didn't play by their ever-changing rules, ruined/eliminates third party apks by demanding WAY over ad revenue profits to have access to api with a very short notice, and shadow banned anyone and everyone in a position to do anything about any of it. It's a corporation that gutted an entire platform in order to push agendas they want and milk as much money out of it as possible. Hell, it's the entire reason all of lemmy gets more than 30 posts a day. So many people switched to lemmy over the past year. They ruined a website I enjoyed and I'd rather them not make more money from the thousands of posts I made from over a decade of being there.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But almost every answer is the same. "You need to speak to an attorney".

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago

This is flat out not true for most phones. Most phones will charge to 100% and continously charge/discharge if still plugged in. Over the last couple years there's been some phones that will allow pass through/bypass charging. Iphones don't do it at all. Only some android phones.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My samsung n20 ultra has the 85% charge option built in and I've always used it to keep my battery good. Back when it was easier to use custom roms in the 2010-2014 Era there was a lost of them that had custom "stop charging options" like it.

I also have fast/ultra fast charging disabled. If you don't need to quickly charge your phone, it's something else you should avoid.

For steam deck owners it gets a bit more complicated. SD has pass through charging, so once the battery is fully charged and also while it is plugged in, you aren't powering it through the battery like cell phones and most laptops do. It's just running off the USB c power, so if you usually play while plugged in, you aren't cycling the battery, but you are having to allow it to fully charge.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No they don't. You're also an idiot, and Apple actually got in a huge amount of trouble for doing it.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I like being able to hold my phone however I want without losing a connection and not having updates pushed to me that degrade my performance to hide battery and power design flaws, myself ;-)

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Almost all I play on now.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Only pita setback is things like fortnite and other multi-player games insisting on only using anticheat software that isn't Linux compatible.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago

Go after netflix too.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 9 months ago

I'm car guy, IT guy, home maintenance guy, and electronics repair guy.

I learned how to do everything because I'm a cheap ass that won't replace what can be fixed and won't pay to have something be fixed when I can manage it myself.

I got 240,000 miles on a car right now and it's never seen the inside of a shop. Last big screen TV was free because it was broken and then I soldered new LEDS on to fix it. Paid $25 for an $800 dishwasher that just needed disassembling and cleaning. Also $25 for a front load whirlpool washing machine with a broken internal lock mechanism that I repaired. Same for a dryer with bad rollers inside.

People blow way too much money on buying new stuff instead of just learning how to fix and maintain things now. /old man rant

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