jrheronn

joined 1 year ago
[–] jrheronn@programming.dev 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please hand over even more of your personal data so you can receive an ever decreasing amount of money.

[–] jrheronn@programming.dev 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

TV's have become privacy nightmares in recent days.

One option would be any TV that works then simply keep it offline and stream from a device that allows you to have more control over your privacy.

If you're wanting to actually use a smart TV's functions, I think NextDNS can be set up to block most of the telemetry on whichever smart TV you have.

[–] jrheronn@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

How about no ads? Once you force ads into something I use or make it impossible for me to block them, it is time to find an alternative.

[–] jrheronn@programming.dev 41 points 1 year ago (16 children)

They usually smoke nicotine-free herbal cigarettes. I don't know the long term affects but definitely better than regular cigarettes.

I think it could be considered dedication to their work, especially when you consider they usually have to film a scene several times. Cillian Murphy probably went through thousands of them when filming Peaky Blinders. Lol

[–] jrheronn@programming.dev 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Before Reddit killed Apollo, Lemmy was really lacking in daily content. Now we've reached a point where I can open the app multiple times a day and see new content.

[–] jrheronn@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago

I don't know if anything will actually come of this but its nice to see the DOJ actually acknowledge this.

[–] jrheronn@programming.dev 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Signal is by far much easier to get family/friends to use than Matrix or Session. Downloaded it to my parents' phones and told them this is how you contact me.

[–] jrheronn@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's a few third-party apps, with Pixeldroid being the most popular, and their official app is in beta.

[–] jrheronn@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Either way. This would be a win-win for the Fediverse. Allows new people to hear about it and validates Mastadon as an alternative to Twitter and Threads.