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[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 year ago

Thats's a shame, I always considered brother one of the better makers of paper manglers.

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Best answer.

Extra tip: You can combine the two last commands with: systemctl enable --now <unit name>.service

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More information: It's been rolling out to Android 9+ users since November 2024 as a high priority update. Some users are reporting it installs when on battery and off wifi, unlike most apps.

App description on Play store: SafetyCore is a Google system service for Android 9+ devices. It provides the underlying technology for features like the upcoming Sensitive Content Warnings feature in Google Messages that helps users protect themselves when receiving potentially unwanted content. While SafetyCore started rolling out last year, the Sensitive Content Warnings feature in Google Messages is a separate, optional feature and will begin its gradual rollout in 2025. The processing for the Sensitive Content Warnings feature is done on-device and all of the images or specific results and warnings are private to the user.

Description by google Sensitive Content Warnings is an optional feature that blurs images that may contain nudity before viewing, and then prompts with a “speed bump” that contains help-finding resources and options, including to view the content. When the feature is enabled, and an image that may contain nudity is about to be sent or forwarded, it also provides a speed bump to remind users of the risks of sending nude imagery and preventing accidental shares. - https://9to5google.com/android-safetycore-app-what-is-it/

So looks like something that sends pictures from your messages (at least initially) to Google for an AI to check whether they're "sensitive". The app is 44mb, so too small to contain a useful ai and I don't think this could happen on-phone, so it must require sending your on-phone data to Google?

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best is Framework in every regard. Works 100%, great Linux support, specify exactly what you want and it's fully repairable. (They're also by far the most satisfying machine to unbox, given you have to plug it all together yourself)

Lenovo and Dell are okay, in my experience. The odd thing but generally fair quality hardware and reasonably compatible. (Thinkpad quality isn't what it used to be, so don't pay a premium thinking it'll last, Lenovo are trading on its past glories)

Avoid HP - shoddy flimsy things now, and with a lot of bespoke drivers (graphics and audio, plus function buttons in particular)

There's quite a lot of random-branded Chinese laptops around now. I've no direct experience of them, but I imagine they're exactly how you'd expect them to be. Cheap, tailored for the OS they ship with, but will probably work to some degree. Linux is past its initial hardware problems (and to be fair, hardware is problematic now)

There's another thread that's a few years old, but still contains some useful info - such as "Check the Arch Wiki"

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Love what these guys are doing.

There's also a mainboard case, so you don't need the whole laptoppy thing at all if you don't want to

https://frame.work/gb/en/products/cooler-master-mainboard-case

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Surely it's up to the advertisers to choose where who they pay money to use?

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

s/reminder/warning/

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 61 points 1 year ago

It's not that we "hate them" - it's that they can entirely overwhelm a low volume site and cause a DDOS.

I ran a few very low visit websites for local interests on a rural. residential line. It wasn't fast but was cheap and as these sites made no money it was good enough Before AI they'd get the odd badly behaved scraper that ignored robots.txt and specifically the rate limits.

But since? I've had to spend a lot of time trying to filter them out upstream. Like, hours and hours. Claudebot was the first - coming from hundreds of AWS IPs and dozens of countries, thousands of times an hour, repeatedly trying to download the same urls - some that didn't exist. Since then it's happened a lot. Some of these tools are just so ridiculously stupid, far more so than a dumb script that cycles through a list. But because it's AI and they're desperate to satisfy the "need for it", they're quite happy to spend millions on AWS costs for negligable gain and screw up other people.

Eventually I gave up and redesigned the sites to be static and they're now on cloudflare pages. Arguably better, but a chunk of my life I'd rather not have lost.

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, absolutely.

Although when doing so, that would make your regular PC a server. Doesn't stop it continuing to be a regular PC as well.

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You need a way to connect to your home server from the internet, yes. You can do it easily using cloudflare tunnels or using one of the many vpn systems for your phone.

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Look into Syncthing if you have a home server - very easy phone backups that cost nothing.

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of people have made it their main income. Whether you or I think that's good or not is irrelevent, but it does mean hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Americans will lose their jobs as a result of this.

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