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stinerman

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I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression. @stinerman on Mastodon.

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It does seem like the TL;DR of right wing Israelis is “Hitler was right, but his only problem was that he was killing us.”

Is the Proton (Mail, VPN, Password Manager) ecosystem any good?

Due to the recent announcement of Proton moving to a non-profit structure (although not becoming fully non-profit) I’ve decided to take another look at them and really, Proton Unlimited is an enticing offer. However, the fact of everything from mail, to accounts, to storage being in one place is somewhat disconcerting. Also I...

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The climate activist thing they did pursuant to a warrant, which every company will do, and the only thing of interest they turned over was the person’s recovery email…which was personally identifiable. From there the authorities got everything else. IIRC, they got access to the person’s iCloud. None of the person’s emails or anything like that was given out. If you are strictly concerned about privacy you shouldn’t use a recovery email so that your login can’t be tied back to you.

As far as the service, I am using Mail and Pass daily and like both. I use the VPN and Drive sparingly, but I have enough space on it to stop using my Google Drive. Calendar is useless for me because of the lack of CalDAV support… and also because I can’t have many calendars on the free plan.

It hits the sweet spot between privacy and ease of use for me. YMMV.

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I’m old enough to remember when Doom 64 for the N64 was $74.99. In today’s money that’s around $145.

I’m not saying that’s reasonable, I’m just saying it used to be a lot worse in the cartridge age.

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I just picked up Fallout 2 at GOG for $2.49. There are so many games you can get for less than the price of a coffee. The best way to fight against these prices is to simply not buy.

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Absolutely.

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The thing about transporters is that if we had them right now, people would use them for everything. Transport me to the toilet. Transport the TV remote into my hand. Transport a fork into my hand. People would never get out of bed.

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It seems like alternatively you could cross the border to some other country and not have to do this anymore. Slovakia gets all the breaks.

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This happens at my employer from time to time where the default action is for something to be off. So the option is “Turn off X” with a checked checkbox next to it.

This is negative logic and is stupid. Turning on an option should enable something. Turning it off should disable it. If the default is that it is off, then give it a positive description “Turn on X” and then default the value to off.

I get really angry about this if you couldn’t tell.

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If someone texted me, the reply was “these cost me $0.25, so i’ll talk to you on AIM when I get home”

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He’s one of the best villains in all of media.

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they’re on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can’t be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

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Apparently this is the app. play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.…

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Yeah I’m pretty angry and anxious too. Angry that a person like Donald Trump could outdraw Vermin Supreme.

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Great Snoring

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this is entirely because 100K voters in Michigan voted uncommitted

Objection. Assumes facts not in evidence.

To be clear, I have no problem with people in Michigan voting uncommitted, I just don’t think you can draw that line.

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It’s certainly possible. My opinion has long been that politicians are not really all that responsive to public opinion.

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IDK works for American cops.

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The question remains, why does there need to be two groups? Why can’t everything just be “en” or “ett”? What does having both get you in Swedish that having only one does not?

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Now if only I could get my employer to stop supporting obsolete platforms…

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Yeah I think Arch is fine, but I’d never recommend it to a new Linux user.

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