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Also let us not forget the rootkit malware Sony BMG distributed on their audio CDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

Why not disconnect your smart TV from the internet and use [insert favorite streaming box]? I use Apple TVs on all my smart TVs and none of them have ever been connected to the int…

Standard Notes is in the same position as Simplenote was 10 years ago. Automattic acquired Simplenote but never really did anything with it. Standard Notes was acquired by Proton l…

The clients are open source but the server is not.

Do you have MacOS by any chance? MacOS does not support S.M.A.R.T over USB.

I got 28 online right now according to my Eero. 3 people, with smartphones and laptops. Several game consoles, a few Apple TVs and music streaming devices, Ring camera, Zwave Hub, …

You can turn them off. I used to live in NJ and they sent these types of alerts all the time. AMBER alerts in the middle of the night, "Flash Flood" alerts after two drops of rain.…

How do you mean? Here in Illinois they are free. It was also free in New Jersey.

I had a robin nest in my backyard close to my French doors. Every day one of them would pass by the doors, see their reflection and then attack it. Apparently they like to keep out…

Power consumption is a consideration though depending on your use case and setup. A Pi 4 draws about 3W on light load and these G3 Minis take 10-12W. Of course if you deck out a Pi…

Yea or Google's prompt to choose a web browser on their IOS apps when I click a link in their Gmail app for instance.

3 devices? I usually have 4 devices. I bring my Iphone 13 Mini, iPad Mini, Macbook 12-inch and Steamdeck (and before the Switch). The iPad is for content consumption. I can watch 8…

Here in the US Mid West suburbia it is a problem as well. Same applies to insane subwoofers. What's up with that? I always say to my wife that I can't wait until all cars and bikes…

I am using a Surface Go 2 with Arch / Wayland / Gnome. I use the Linux surface kernel and all of the hardware works except the IR camera and webcam. Overall, it is a good experienc…

Based on my own old Twitter circle, I see that: A. Attention-seekers have gone to Threads or stayed on Twitter B. People who are into niche interests and not part of group A are ve…

Yea it's pretty awful. They also by default select a faster shipping method which costs $6.99 (most of the time per item, sometimes multiple shipping charges for the same order). E…

You mean this? https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sor...

Any chance you have a docker-compose.yml you can add to your repository? ;-) Great concept! Congrats on your launch!

Good actually. It still has 2 days life time but I tend to charge it daily for 15m to keep it running forever. When I am wearing my Pebble Time Steel, I make sure that it has 50% c…

I use my Pebble Time Round or Pebble Time Steel daily on IOS using the official Pebble app. Every major IOS release I think this is the time my Pebble app stops working but it is s…

An Apple TV 4K with Infuse app does all of this without problems and supports many kinds of storage backends.

I just gone through this process myself. You can add another 2FA method later and THEN delete your phone number. That's what I did.

Huh? Crypto is great as a transfer of value network and store of value among other things. You can still use a bankequivalent like Coinbase.