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> I don't want social media platforms banning people just because some national government told them to. Luck for you it was not the national government who banned someone on a soc…

> I don’t want my mother or grandmother to be able to install apps from random sources ever. If your mother or grandmother is tech-savvy enough to navigate the hurdles of enabling …

> It seems somewhat questionable whether or not it is possible to sustain something as complex as Firefox based on users like us. I have this crazy theory that Firefox could be com…

> Or the third option: they feel the tradeoff of HN & co's criticism style is not a big deal in the end. Well, right now, with their dwindling market cap, I feel like their only us…

I’m not sure how is the reality in South Korea but, if my country is anything to go by, these 3 companies are probably a hidden cartel that monopolizes the price and offers while o…

> it comes with no performance penalty. I keep reading this on the internet and I’m fully convinced that this is written by people with powerful machines. Whenever I try to play a …

The same reason why we can't have: - TV's that only display images without syphoning user data; - One-time payment app purchase without subscription.

> Uninstall all social media (yes all). > - a carefully curated list of high-quality subreddits > - hackernews So you're not removing all social media from your phone?

I was a premium subscriber for 1 month and quickly cancelled my subscription, the reason is simple: I was still bombarded by ads, just not YouTube ads. If YouTube want my business …

> If that was true Europe would have the highest productivity of the world, but it doesn't. Maybe productivity should not be the metric we should strive for? I lived/worked in the …

At least no humans are harmed in the process.

Exactly this! I keep seeing this nonsense that a $70/99 store replacement battery is a great cheap deal. Yeap, only compared to a brand new phone. When you have a cheap iPhone from…

Yeap, everything can do nefarious things. But, somehow I trust a random dev that refuses to accept donations, even though my cheap ass would definitely donate to him, more than Mic…

You’re misunderstanding me. On android you can see if the app have network permission. On iOS privacy report you can see if the app accessed the network. There’s an important disti…

How do you attest this without simply trusting the dev or monitoring package data transferred by the app?[1] iOS, differently from Android, doesn’t have a explicit network permissi…

Galaxy S4 release date: 2013 iPhone 5s release date: 2013 Last official update from galaxy s4: Android 5.0.1 in 2015 [1] Last official update to iPhone 5s: iOS 12.5.7 in 2023 [2] I…

God and I thought I was going crazy. I have an iPhone XR bought on release day and my girlfriend just bought an iPhone 14. I can’t, for the life of me, see a difference on performa…

Have you tried to multimonitor different combinations of HiDPI + regular DPI on x11? Last time I tried to make different scaling displays work together on x11 the experience was so…

Please teach me how I can watch Linus Tech Tips on YouTube without ads with YouTube premium and without installing an extension. There are several levels of ads on YouTube and payi…

For all the people recommending keepassxc and are also iOS users, how do you deal with the lack of reproducibility of iOS apps? Even “opensource” apps such as strongbox and keepass…

Have you tried: settings > default apps > disable ask me each time?

I try not to tie my personality to a piece of software, so I would definitely not consider myself a fan of BitWarden, just a satisfied user. None of your issues I personally experi…

> it's still light years ahead of the Bitwarden clients and extensions I’m quite possible a simpleton but I can’t see how it’s light years ahead of Bitwarden. Can you provide an ex…

Ha, this remind me of a time when I did google(?) searches to find specialized sites of RPGs, Anime, etc. Every site was different and had a sense of wonder and discovery associate…