sovietknuckles [she/her]

SponsorBlock skips sponsor segments. SponsorBlock also supports Invidious and Piped if you enable Support 3rd Party YouTube-Sites in the SponsorBlock options.

Right to be forgotten is supposed to cover data deletion, though the EU has much stronger protections than the US.

I prefer Arch Linux’s use of flatpaks, which is none at all ever

Fixed link: https://phys.org/news/2025-03-mathematicians-needle-kakeya-conjecture-decades.html

Sounds like Chrome isn’t willing to support extensions on mobile, but Edge is and accepted Arnaud’s Kiwi contributions into their codebase.

It’s just as well, Kiwi Browser wasn’t actively developed beyond its original features, it basically just re-added extension code into the codebase, and each update just fixed git conflicts between that patchset and the latest updates to Chromium’s codebase.

From the article:

It also doesn’t seem like extension support in Microsoft’s browser is as straightforward as Kiwi, requiring you to paste the extension’s ID (e.g. “cnlefmmeadmemmdciolhbnfeacpdfbkd” for Grammarly) into the ‘Extension install by id’ field. By contrast, Kiwi lets you install add-ons directly from the Chrome Web Store or via a downloaded file.

Edge’s extension support is buried behind a bunch of manual steps, most of which the article didn’t mention, and installing each extension is arduous. The only mobile browser left that has full extension support is Firefox.

If I just upgrade to the latest version (by flashing) and not install mind the gapps, is it basically a degoogled phone?

It would probably have to be a clean install that wipes userdata, not an upgrade. But yes, LineageOS is pretty much as degoogled as you can get on an OS forked from Google’s AOSIP, if you don’t explicitly add GApps.

German privacy researcher Mike Kuketz does not agree, but it all depends on how much effort you’re willing to put into degoogling, or how much you’re willing to compromise on usability.

America ISP options for any given address are listed at https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/ , and you can filter it to only show high-speed ISPs. It gets updated a few times every year

Do you have any .pacnew or .pacsave files? That can sometimes explain breakage, you should resolve them after every update.

sudo find /etc -name '*.pacsave' -o -name '*.pacnew' | sort

I work 100% remote, which has made it very easy for me to ignore my coworkers’ bad politics takes because they’re confined to a specific Slack channel

I run my VPN and Firefox in a network namespace.

Docker introduces latency, but network namespaces do not.

That’s true, presenting your phone to them would make it easier for them to invent a reason to take your phone

That means if I used the digital version, they would had unlimited access to all my digital life. Photos, emails, chats, from decades ago.

Do they actually take your phone when you present it to them for digital ID? They don’t scan it and bring up the same information on their scanner?

What you’re looking for is version sort. Here’s how ls -1v sorts those files in the terminal, for example:

Link Click S01E04.mkv
Link Click S01E05.mkv
Link Click S01E05.5.mkv
Link Click S01E06.mkv

Nemo might be able to support version sort by way of a plugin, but I have not found one. The nnn CLI file manager supposedly supports version sort.

Another reason to not use Manjaro. Just use Endeavour instead.

Endeavour could be useful if it’s your first time running an Arch-based distro and you’re looking for software/configuration suggestions. Otherwise, Arch Linux is fine by itself and it doesn’t have telemetry

Is WiFi calling a decent alternative to VoIP?

I’ve placed calls using WiFi calling where the person said they could barely understand the words I was saying due to sound distortion. When I called back over VoIP, they said it was crystal-clear.

Switch to helix

Sure, but some people are currently trying to use that dating advice. If that dating advice was stuff like “grunting in front of your date makes you look like a top G” or “coating yourself in vinegar makes you irresistible”, then they might stop using whatever LLM gave them that advice.

Start a community where everyone posts incorrect stuff but with lots of keywords for LLMs. Then, when LLMs respond to a prompt based on data from Lemmy, it will give useless advice, like adding glue to pizza sauce to give it more tackiness