mrmanager

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[โ€“] mrmanager 4 points 10 months ago

I mean yeah, all these big tech companies are trying to make their products feel faster, because that's the only space they can compete. When it comes to privacy, they all lose.

[โ€“] mrmanager 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I noticed that too, being a Firefox Linux user. I guess the developer either doesn't care or doesn't know. You can try to open an issue on his github page and see what he says.

It worked fine to mention me the way you did. :)

[โ€“] mrmanager 11 points 10 months ago

Well, Google has been caught trying to make their sites slower / malfunctioning on Firefox. Usually they get away with it by saying it's a mistake.

[โ€“] mrmanager 46 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Still the best browser, even though the majority left it for the speed they think chrome has.

[โ€“] mrmanager 10 points 10 months ago

Yes. Many people are not trans.

[โ€“] mrmanager 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Apple likes to control the entire ecosystem, and wanted to make their own processors to make them more efficient and produce less heat. They succeeded too, the M2 and M3 chips are incredible.

So I think they would have ditched anyone, but Intel probably also made it easier by being so bad. :)

[โ€“] mrmanager 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The point is to see the value of the stock go up, so when you sell, you make a profit. Some people buy and sell daily, some do it yearly or only when they need the money.

Money needs to be working for you somewhere to make up for inflation, at the very least.

[โ€“] mrmanager 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

How can they know if an email is disposable or aliased? I use those all the time with fastmail. Works fine with github.

But fastmail is not exactly private since it's hosted in Australia, part of the five eyes pact. Maybe that's why they are ok with it.

[โ€“] mrmanager 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm sure conservatives have the same views on the other side, something negative, based in fear. If you think about it, all of politics is fear of change in a direction we don't want, but others do.

In a family when this happens, family members talk about it and try to understand eachother. At least in a good family. In a dysfunctional one, family members go to war with eachother. And that's what I see in politics. There is no feeling of being humans on a ball together at all.

[โ€“] mrmanager -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

But why would you even think that people on the left are different from people on the right? This is why I'm not into politics myself. Because it all builds on some fake idea that one side is right about everything, even good people, while the other is wrong about everything, and probably are bad people as well.

In reality, both sides are very similar and have much more incommon with eachother than they have with the politicians they are trying to support.

[โ€“] mrmanager 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't know about Linux being a pain in the ass. My kid was using first Linux on a laptop and then mac, and he wanted to go back to Linux where things make sense. He felt the mac was really confusing in where the files were. He also loved the integrated Software app where he can point and click install everything.

Now he is learning the terminal... :)

I think there is plenty of people who think macs are a pain in the ass too. Depends on what you are used to.

[โ€“] mrmanager 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Excellent choice of pic! :)

Let me counter with someone who enjoys the sun. :)

 

I think they are leaving out something quite important in this blog post - nobody is using their real names here.

It's very different from Meta or Google or whatever big tech company people have accounts on, where they know your real name and many more details, such as phone number and address.

I don't see the privacy danger in someone sweeping up what we are talking about here, since we are pseudo anonymous. Am I missing something?

Whats the value of random aliases discussing something and why is that a privacy issue?

 

I haven't used threads and I never will, but it's nice to see that it's not a great user experience even for people who are used to meta.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mrmanager to c/general
 

I updated the instance to Lemmy version 0.18.1 that was released just an hour ago.

Major changes from patch notes:

  • Major improvements to performance, specifically optimizations of database queries.
  • Fix for another cross-site scripting vulnerability.
  • Captchas are supported again.
 

I've tried them all and they are all quite good. I think currently Liftoff is the best, followed closely by Jerboa and Connect.

You may have to use f-droid to install them if you can't find them in Play Store. :)

 

I really love seeing this search engine grow and grow. It's just a fantastic search experience, much like Google in the early days before it became shit.

Everyone should at least try to set Kagi as default search for a while, to get back your private web searches and not help Google grow by selling your data to advertisers.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mrmanager to c/chat@beehaw.org
 

Here I was in my own little bubble appearently, thinking people were using https://kagi.com to search now that it exists, but a comment I got made me realize that's probably not the case...

You really should try this search engine. I switched to it 6 months ago and before that I was using duckduckgo, and often had to throw a !g in there to get proper results.

I remember setting it as default as a test and then I just forgot about Google. :)

It's not free however, you will have to pay a few bucks for it. But to me it's about supporting alternatives to Google which I very happily do. It's only a few bucks.

Have you tried it and what was your experience?

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Introductions (self.general)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mrmanager to c/general
 

There are a few users joining now every day, and I was thinking it would be nice with some short introductions, if you want to. :)

I for one has grown really tired of what social media is today, and I wanted to try out alternatives where people can actually relax and communicate without being tracked and subjected to horrible ads. Since im a technical guy who currently works in devops, I figured I would start https://lemmy.today, and try to be of service to the community in that way.

Im so tired of internet ads, and I have installed https://pi-hole.net as a network ad blocker at home. So this means my entire family benefits also (everyone on the wifi). Its super interesting to watch how windows and mac machines are constantly calling home, reporting activity, even when the devices are idle. I recommend you guys to do the same if you have the know-how.

Im a long time linux user, and even though it has its frustrations sometimes, specially with screen sharing, its worth it for me to just feel like I own my computer and whats running on it.

So I guess thats a little bit about me. I would love to hear from you guys if you feel confident making a post and share who you are and why you got interested in Lemmy. And also why you are looking for alternatives to reddit. :)

Thank you!

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mrmanager to c/general
 

Due to current migration from reddit and lots of signups on Lemmy instances, you may get temporary errors when trying to subscribe to their communities.

Lemmy.ml also currently have their homepage down and you get this message trying to visit it:

404: FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site? reason: Unexpected token 'T', "Timeout oc"... is not valid JSON

So try to subscribe to communities from other instances if you get errors trying to subscribe to theirs, and then try again later.

Just wanted to write this so new users dont get confused by the errors. They are not related to this instance.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mrmanager to c/general
 

You may have noticed we dont have many local communities here. Its partly because we are quite new, and partly because there are so many good communities on other instances.

You are free to create communities on this instance, but since we are small right now, they wont have a lot of discussions in the beginning.

The best part about Lemmy being federated is that you can subscribe to any community on any other instance and take part in discussions right from this instance, without actually having an account on that instance.

How to subscribe to communities on other instances

Easiest way right now is to open a new tab in your browser, go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities and do this:

  • Click on the link under each community you want to join (like !technology@beehaw.org) to copy it into your clipboard.

  • Click the search button in the upper right area here on https://lemmy.today

  • Paste the link into the search box and click Search.

It may say "No results" but wait for like at least 5 seconds. It sometimes takes time for it to show up.

Sometimes you get a lot of results because its mentioned in discussions that will also generate search hits. The link you are looking for looks like this, as an example:

Technology@lemmy.ml - 1 subscriber

  • Click on the link and in the Sidebar to the right, there is a Subscribe button. Hit that and now you are subscribed. Now you will start seeing new content filling your feed here on https://lemmy.today.

If you have any questions, just ask!

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mrmanager to c/general
 

If you decided to join this instance, I just wanted to say welcome and hope you have a good time!

There are some basic rules in place but it basically boils down to being a nice person. This instance is located in the US because I figured it would be a fast location for most people.

We dont have many local communities but feel free to create new ones if you want. Otherwise you can just subscribe to any community from any instance from here as well. There is another post here how to do that.

Enjoy and have a good time!

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Jerboa and Newpipe (self.jerboa)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mrmanager to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
 

The perfect social media android experience, using Jerboa for ad free, federated, social media and Newpipe for ad free YouTube with a beautiful userface.

Install newpipe with f-droid.

Remember to go into Apps and click on Newpipe and change default urls so Android opens all the YouTube urls with Newpipe.

After that, it's heaven on mobile.

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