My work PC has Windows 11 and it does get in the way of my work. This bullshit is using 12GB of RAM to run a web browser, Teams, and Powershell. Before “upgrading” to 11 from 10, it used about 3GB less RAM for the same stuff. Nothing has improved from 10 to 11, just made it slower.

Maybe they think they’re requiring verification, but they underestimate the Internet

Had to “upgrade” my work laptop to 11 for security support. Nothing about it is better. Almost everything is slower, and many common operations take more steps to complete on 11 vs 10.

Absolute fuckin’ garbage.

Trusting any of that shit is the problem.

I think it’s “huge” for Linux gaming in general and for the general health of the gaming industry. It’s a Linux PC in disguise as a cool form-factor Steam console. I hope it drives more developers of all types to build Linux support instead of just Windows.

The timing of this is also great, with people getting forcibly dunked into the bullshit that is Windows 11 after the end of Windows 10 support. If all my games worked on Linux, I’d have no use for Windows at all.

Just a little too unlikely to worry about. I’d rather defend my own words in court if it came to that. “Yeah I said that shit, and it was fucking true and you know it.” for example

There is no guarantee unless you could personally audit their facilities and inspect what they did with your account etc. But I would still choose one that states they have a good policy versus one that says nothing on the subject.

What about logging policies? Seems like that would be an important category to visit - which providers store logs or don’t etc. I’ve heard of some that use RAM-only logging that allegedly never gets stored on disk.

Same here, as I only use open-source clients on the phone. It’s been obvious for many years that the apps made by the social media companies are spyware, so I’ve stayed away from them.

But also I use the web mostly, and “switching” on the web just means closing one tab and opening another to visit a different URL. It’s sad that many folks who use the Internet don’t understand how or try to avoid the hellscape of app lock-in. The web is here for our open usage just as it has been for decades.

Flock “Safety” read Orwell’s 1984 and decided to be the infrastructure supplier for Big Brother

Self-hosters are probably the type of people who are interested in getting away from “big tech” corporate solutions for everything, so it makes sense that they would prefer Fediverse versions

You don’t have to host your whole family’s library though. You can start with whatever you want and be on the road to improving your setup.

That is correct

Those owners can tell them to fuck off too, since they’re not in US jurisdiction.

Wow great video, that’s some legit investigative journalism with some Mythbusters level experimental research added in. I hope that guy releases the patterns for noise that he came up with.

I thought it was just upside down M making a W in the name, upside-down (Bizzarro) Mario

Or charging an EV with a level 2 charger. That’s going to be numerous kWh each charging cycle

Even though most of the comments here point out the obvious that phones are a risk, this kind of journalism is still important for spreading awareness and documentation of illegal surveillance for the record

Cameras in the house is still creepy. Even baby monitors have been getting hacked for many years already.

Here’s a good example why not to do that: friend was in the process of divorce from a douche spouse, who was technically skilled and had installed security cameras inside and outside the house. They all left them in place knowingly, and the douche spouse who had to move out kept watching the family inside the house and bringing up things that happened in private. I was like “WTF unplug that shit”

Yep the difference for our setup was going from 12-18 hour full charge times (Level 1) to about 6 hours on Level 2. L1 charger could only put out 12 amps at 120v, and while the L2 charger can do up to 50A of 240v power, our vehicle can only use about a third of that capacity at max draw.

So as the video’s topic covers, we didn’t need a 50A circuit for Level 2 charging on our limited vehicle. But I put in a full 50A circuit anyway so now I can eventually upgrade our other car to electric or PHEV and be ready for whatever those need.