scytale

joined 1 year ago
[–] scytale@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Tilda because you can roll it down from the top of your screen with one key press.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 35 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Cyberpunk level - industrial metal

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! I'll check it out.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Glad I held back from suggesting Firefish for my wife. I've been slowly trying to convince her to jump to the fediverse for microblogging and figured to have her try Firefish simply because it's prettier than Mastodon. Guess it's back to ol' Mastodon.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 199 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Plan? Just do it.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

The only barrier to entry is creating a usb installer. Once you’re past that, there’s nothing more than basic computer knowledge to do what you need to do. By basic, I mean knowing how to use a computer, so you should be good. Just choose a user friendly distro like Mint and you won’t need to open the terminal at all unless something really bad happens.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My condolences to the people who have to install it to write an article about it.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

FWIW, this was debunked when CMG originally made the claim. It was a marketing guy overselling their product and they had to correct their statement. They use the same info data brokers collect, and phones actively listening to you is not true.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

Not directed at you specifically, but it’s the same with IT and dev people but with security/privacy.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Both links are paywalled, but if I’m remembering correctly, that company (CMG) eventually had to correct their claim that phones were actively listening to everything you say. It was an overzealous marketing guy trying to oversell. They admitted in the end that they use the same info that data brokers have on you based on data gathered from your browsing and other activity, not from actively listening to you.

Siri for example is designed in a way where it “listens” for your voice to call it, but that mechanism is completely separate from the actual Siri that connects to the internet to understand you.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Me with an arsenal of ant baits and mound killer granules

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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Lol calm down, no one's trying to fight you over Signal being the best private messaging platform. I was just sharing that it was weird to me how stories was one of the most sought out features from users.

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