chaosCruiser

joined 6 months ago

If you merely abandon your account, the change can be seen in the MAU statistics. If you delete it instead, you’ll make sure you won’t slip in the future. Either way, investors care about the active users, because the total number of accounts isn’t a very useful number to them.

Power demand would have to drop significantly for that idea to work. I don’t think semiconductors are even capable of delivering enough computation with only 2 mW. Maybe a completely different sort of technology could pull it off, but currently there’s nothing like that in the horizon, so who knows if we’ll ever get human powered devices. Maybe some tiny computers with hardly any processing power could be a realistic application.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 85 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Opt-out? Seriously? What are the Manjaro devs smoking?

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

What if you have appliances such as a scale, lights, watch or something? Pretty much guaranteed that those won’t work unless you use their app. If you want to go FOSS, you may need to sell all of your smart stuff and replace them with similar devices that work in a privacy respecting strictly FOSS environment.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My bank warned that they are planning to phase out the code booklet and replace it with a mobile app. Sure, you can continue to use a web browser, but how do you verify anything without a mobile app?

Also, some apps are very picky and refuse to work properly unless your android has GAPPS and is in the in an unmodified state just like the OEM intended. That’s bad news for privacy oriented Android users, let alone anyone who wants to run something even more FOSS.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (16 children)

“For instance, I often had to rely on the web browser to access services like Reddit, Telegram, and Discord since native apps weren't available. Web apps work for primary use but can't always replace dedicated apps, especially for banking or fitness tracking.”

That’s the core of the problem these days. Nowadays, there’s so much that requires an app to work.

Avoiding mobile apps was entirely realistic in the 2010s, but it’s too late for that now. The world has changed, that ship has sailed etc.

If you can isolate yourself from certain realities of the outside worlds, using a fully FOSS system can be done. The technology is there. It’s just that most people can’t isolate themselves to that degree.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 100 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Elon is so good with these predictions and promises, that there’s website for tracking them.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 21 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, let’s add some financial motivation to hanging out in social media all day long. What could go wrong. Literally nothing. It’s just physically impossible.

It must have been a slow day at the news office. Literally nothing special to write about, so this article was slapped together.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 79 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So, basically the whole article is just a complete nothing-burger.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ok, but can you still transfer your own books through MTP?

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you seriously suggesting that Trump might not always speak the truth?

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