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[–] bear@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm gonna keep it real with you, I'll take "weirdo CEO and optional AI tools" over "corporate entity so powerful that society has literally warped around it, whose primary business model is psychological manipulation" any day of the week. The other search engines are so poor at what they do that they're not viable options.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)

I've switched to Kagi recently and honestly it's better than Google ever was. You can assign weights to sites to see more or less of them in your results, it automatically cuts the listicle crap out, it has various built in filters for specific things like forums or scientific studies.

Downside: it's $10/mo. But I'm at the "I'd rather pay with money than data" stage of my life. Especially if it actually makes the experience fucking usable again.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Have it just be form-fitted outside contacts, with magnetic adhesion to hold the plug in place.

I actually really like this idea. If we're breaking backwards compatibility anyways, let's do something useful with it. This form factor was invented in the 1950s. I'm sure we can do something better now.

We need to move away from everything having a battery anyways. Wireless headphones were a mistake. Now people are walking around with 4-6 batteries on them at all times. Phone, laptop, earbuds, earbud case, battery backup, smart watch. Batteries aren't great for the environment, not to mention they typically condemn something to being tech waste in a few short years. We need to significantly rethink this model.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 49 points 6 months ago (5 children)

When people recognize they were wrong about something, as smugly satisfying as it may be it's not actually helpful to tell them that they should have been correct sooner.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

I think they're just making fun of the bad font kerning in the app which causes a gap in the word Unmanaged

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 8 points 6 months ago

RETURN OF THE KING

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Your response is "why are you doing X, you should do Y"

Because they're right, you shouldn't do X. I know that's not a satisfying answer for most people to hear, but it's often one people need to hear.

If the process must run as root, then giving a user direct and unauthenticated control over it is a security vulnerability. You've created a quick workaround for your issue, and to be clear it is unlikely to realistically cause you problems individually, but on a larger scale that becomes a massive issue. A better solution is required rather than recommend everybody create a hole in their security like yours in order to do this thing.

If this is something that unprivileged users reasonably want to control, then this control should be possible unprivileged, or at least with limited privilege, not by simply granting permanent total control of a root service.

This is ultimately an upstream issue more than anything else.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 23 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Refurbished drives get their SMART data reset during the process, they absolutely had more than that originally.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Recent NixOS convert, where has this work of art been all my life

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 31 points 7 months ago

There's 102 people mentioned in that commit and two of them happen to meet in the comments of a meme thread on Lemmy of all places. I love the Internet.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Motorola has always had some custom additions, it's not running raw AOSP. Unless it's changed in the last year, not even the Pixel can do it. Good to know Moto has apparently had this feature for a while though, wish Google would get it into Android itself so everyone can benefit.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 19 points 7 months ago (9 children)

This feature unironically turned me from a decade long Samsung hater into a Samsung shill. The fact that it's still not in base Android is just embarrassing.

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