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Technology@lemmy.world•Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrentsEnglish
43·20 days agoGet to acquiring Seagate external HDDs and shucking them for your own 3.5" drive bays before the data centers get them
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Technology@lemmy.world•What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge WindowsEnglish
11·21 days agoBefore big commercial companies can succeed with the mainstream, flatpak permission handling that is as smooth as Android and iOS. Not everything is going to be in the distros base package manager and devs need a way to distribute software that can be expected to work on any of these devices. No confusions over why they’re system doesn’t know what to do with a deb or rpm file. Flatpak is the closest thing right now to something with universal adoption. After that it’s a slow and steady grind for market share. Like how Macs market share 20 years ago isn’t very different from where Linux is today
I think a hardware company could succeed better by marketing the devices as creation devices. Focus on Blender, Krita, Ardour, Darktable, Kdenlive, etc. Pretty much the niche Macs were marketed as 25 years ago getting regular people interested with stuff like garageband and imovie
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Privacy@programming.dev•Proton has handed over 32,076 users' data to governments since 2017. Their own transparency report states a 94% compliance rate in 2024.
453·25 days agoProton threads are where the leftists equivalents to sovereign citizens pop up. Learn the technology a bit and about legal systems. That’s what you have to operate within. If you want to feel more in control, encrypt everything yourself and only communicate/share in encrypted channels. At least then the primary sources of leaks is you and the receiver. If not, you’re whining about streamlined performant services that will never be perfect enough for your standards because they operate legally rather than the user unfriendly solutions that you aren’t willing to operate yourself for your life (maybe to be passed on) and/or won’t run/can’t afford to operate the illegal operation
And the corollary to that, Windows 10S. Don’t remember of Windows 8 had an S mode option even if just only on the ARM edition of win8
Fifa ultimate team. Magic the Gathering cards. Both older
Other companies running game stores/platforms must think like this which is why their stores end up competing with a 2008 Steam. Does nothing is incredibly incorrect
only difference with tech ceo’s is that a handful are relatively public figures. Finance CEOs have a stake in everything, mostly publicly faceless. Even the ones directly appointed around the Trump admin, non-news. The food/beverage conglomerates, mostly publicly faceless. Dupont family poisoned the world, mostly publicly faceless. Weapons exporters, mostly publicly faceless. Real estate investment trusts, mostly publicly faceless. Insurance companies and pharmaceuticals, mostly publicly faceless. Mob justice almost always fails because it’s easily swayed towards fall guys and/or it’s so minor to just be a pyrrhic victory. Expended so much effort for something that’ll wash over in short order. Next guy up
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Technology@lemmy.world•Samsung reveals first tri-fold phoneEnglish
2·1 month agoThe outside display is just about 21:9 and internal about 4:3, sounds like it’s an ultimate retro gaming handheld. Lack of SD card support is a pain though
For folds, I like the old flip phone style flips better. The only puzzling thing with those ones are why keep the front facing camera when the rear cameras have a display on that half on the phone. The outer display on this is 6.5". It’s not a compromise in size at all like the flips/razrs. Internal screen shouldn’t have a selfie camera either
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Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims DellEnglish
5·2 months agoFor a Logitech mouse on Linux I use Solaar. Pretty much why I go with Logitech mice now. Solaar works well for me
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier RemovalEnglish
8·2 months agoSentience reached. Evidence of singularity and people just waltzing by blind
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Technology@lemmy.world•HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUsEnglish
23·2 months agoDumb of HP and Dell to not eat the cost. Just in the future never support VVC. HEVC is well enough a thing already. Push defaults to be AV1 and then in like 5-7 years, AV2. I use AV1 for everything I can. Computer supports it. My phone does not but edits I do on my PC will be encoded to AV1. Photos, support JPEG-XL but in the interim, AVIF. Screw apple for going with HEIC. I highly doubt that there will be a successor to UHD Blu-Rays to adopt VVC. No big reason to jump to 8k. Only good would be higher bitrates/better compression and audio.
Films are mostly recorded digitally with 4k-6k cameras or a limited amount of 35mm still going on that scans well to around 4k. 8K digital cinema cameras are becoming more common but the 4k-6k ones are dominant and 70mm is expensive and uncommon. Plus significant digital effects are prevalent on even low action movies, non-sci-fi. Those are still going to have been mostly done and mastered for 4k. Another round of remastering required for 8k content where digital or 70mm film masters exists. Dinosaur broadcasters may choose VVC the shrinking world population watching dinosaur broadcasters. AV1 is increasingly the present and AV2 will be the future. VVC will be end of line because of short sighted greed
You may just want to head to YouTube and look for a really dry video instructions. When I first got started on Linux like 15 years ago, videos were a lot less intimidating to me
I’d YouTube installing Ubuntu and use the YouTube filter option set to like 1 month. There’s constantly new videos for intro to Linux YouTube. I say Ubuntu because it’s a part of the most common family of popular Linux distributions
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Technology@lemmy.world•Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubbleEnglish
51·3 months agoIf you have a stable job with good pay or good upward mobility in the company potential and don’t have periods of unemployment, if it has a 401k, you’re 401k is being invested while the market is down. When unemployment is high, the Federal Reserve sets the federal funds rate much lower to try and stimulate the economy. That results in lower rates for consumer loans. So people that have stable jobs that pay well enough can take out loans and/or refinance their current loans to do better than they were.
When the market recovers, you’ve had years of experience that you can now use for job hopping at more senior level roles when the job market recovers. Also a lot of late career people end up consulting for companies large and small with inexperienced staff. Those that didn’t fare well in a career during a market downturn, it’s either stagnation or hardship after hardship
It doesn’t necessarily have to be office/lab work. I know people that grinded the past decade+ in restaurants until an owner would trust them to manage a restaurant including all the supplies and payroll and then trust them enough to partner on a another restaurant and then that be their ticket to financial security. Some in their 30s, some 40s, some 50s. It’s a grind but at least they didn’t end up drug addicts and alcoholics like so many others
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Technology@lemmy.world•Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubbleEnglish
28·3 months agoThe s&p 500 tanks a ton and banks call on loans from these AI hyped companies using the price of the stocks as collateral (previously expected to rise). Credit crunch and now companies tighten the belts even further so higher unemployment again. Federal funds rate gets slashed and those that can manage steady good work during the recovery years will be fine. Everyone else will be struggle busing as usual
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Technology@lemmy.world•AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This MonthEnglish
18·3 months agoStreaming sites use them so there’s a solid chance you’ve used it plenty without actively choosing to
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’English
12·3 months agoSteve Jobs just didn’t have the right foresight. PWA’s were a solution when the web was supposed to be the future of applications distribution. If he knew native apps were still the future and in app advertising and microtransactions were going to be where all was at, he would never have pushed PWA’s. Steve was a salesman first and foremost
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Europe@feddit.org•Most Germans favour Israel's inclusion in Eurovision Song Contest | dpa internationalEnglish
10·4 months agoSample just has to be random enough to not oversample some very specific subset of people. People are unique in total across all their opinions but on individual questions like this, there’s not that many choices of opinion to be had
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Technology@lemmy.world•In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of InformationEnglish
10·4 months agoI switched back to RSS sometime ago. Been using Inoreader
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Technology@lemmy.world•Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarksEnglish
10·4 months agoHow’s the GPU drivers though? Especially to me for Linux. These should be used in PC gaming handhelds but Qualcomm support is mediocre










Lol. Please everyone contribute to the change you want to see. If you’re not sharing spreadsheets and slide decks in a team, then for personal use you should be good with Collabora (LibreOffice based). It’s great. Write your novel and short stories in Collabora
https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-office/
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/