oscardejarjayes

joined 2 years ago
[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

Exciting! Sort of interestingly, I never dual booted or anything, I just jumped straight to Linux.

Honestly, it's really not that bad. Linux has come a long way since I started out, and while I usually make it harder for myself than it needs to be, I've seen young middle schoolers installing and using Linux, I've seen retired professional musicians with no technical background install and use Linux. Especially with all these new fancy atomic desktops, like Silverblue, Bazzite, and Kinoite. Admittedly, I have managed to break a Kinoite installation (doing stuff I probably shouldn't have been doing), but fixing it felt magical. Just roll back to when it wasn't borked, then update it.

I did a lot of not so nice things to that installation (it was a bit of a test, to see how fragile it was), and it's still running now!

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

imo you should, before nuking your account, make a backup of everything you said, and maybe some of the surrounding context, and then host it on a website. Just make sure your website is all properly indexed, and shows up when you use the right search terms. I have no idea what the legality of such an undertaking would be, but it would be cool. Or, if you don't want to bother with that, you could try writing some blog posts based off of the correct answers you gave to obscure questions.

But really, it all depends on what you did with you Reddit account. If you answered people's obscure questions, you should keep that information. Would someone look up a question you answered? Did you talk a lot in more technical subreddits? Did those arguments you have result in any positive change? But if you spent all your time on big threads with thousands of other people replying, or did a bunch of lurking, maybe your account isn't worth keeping.

If you account is only of value to you, maybe just downoad a copy of everyhting you've said on there, then nuke your account with some tool.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

significant other, probably

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I almost thought you were that bot that changes youtube links to invidious ones, lol.

Yeah, those tend to be good (well, tux.pizza is a bit of an exception, it shows the error that the others fixed). It's a little annoying that a lot of the invidious instances that work won't show up when you do the "switch instance" thing on an instance that doesn't work, but it makes a bit of sense, not wanting to get overwhelmed, or trying to not get too noticed.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, youtube breaks things all too frequently, and a lot of the time these projects can't push out updates fast enough. A lot of invidious instances sadly don't work (as of the last time I checked them, a few days ago), but a few usually work because they merge patches before upstream does. inv[dot]nadeko[dot]net comes to mind.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

Some banking apps won't run without SafetyNet (technically now Play Integrity). Pure AOSP doesn't have it, and AOSP distributions with sandboxed play services or whatever usually fail the hardware attestation requirements. There are some other reasons banking apps won't work, but a lot of it is similar stuff.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

Are her screeds deranged? Yeah. Are they interesting to read? Also yeah.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"We regret to inform you that, as of July 26, 2024, all Homeworkify services are permanently unavailable."

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

Usually not worth it, the website usually has everything.

I've been surprised by how many banking apps I've seen that don't require safteynet or google services (I thought basically all of them would require it). Some banks websites don't work very well on mobile, so that's some peoples reasoning.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

'GamingTrend had an issue with the humour in Chapter 4, stating "this series of levels has what I would call three distinct right wing dog whistles, with jokes that feel mean spirited involving drag, homophobia, and fat-phobia".'

I enjoyed the first one, hopefully this one is decent. I might wait until I can get more details on the above, though.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Working there is apparently pretty nice. Microsoft on the inside is not Microsoft on the outside.

But regardless, terrible company with terrible products. Even if they didn't do anything shady, they still aren't great.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

irssi. the plugin stuff is nice, terminal is better than GUI, and when themed it doesn't look terrible

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