Lemmy User SLAMS Internet Journalist
Lemmy User SLAMS Internet Journalist
ChromeOS Flex is an interesting one; it’s definitely not as flexible as a proper Linux distro but if you need something simple and hard-to-break to run on an old machine (for instance for an elderly relative who’s still using Windows XP) then it could be worth a shot. That said, I’m now investigating whether Linux Mint is a better choice for my own elderly relatives!
Not an actual answer, but I think a Chromebook reaching EoL doesn’t mean it stops getting all updates. I think it’s something along the lines of it stops getting firmware updates but it still gets browser updates, though worth checking exactly what’s happening on your specific device. If you’re feeling crazy you can even try installing ChromeOS Flex on it and it should miraculously be “supported” again.
Aside from all the usual points that everyone else has already made: automation. Scripting stuff on Linux is relatively simple, trying to fuck about with powershell or work around a tool that’s GUI-only is infuriating.
Once installed, Temu can recompile itself and change properties, including overriding the data privacy settings users believe they have in place
If this is actually possible then isn’t that a huge security vulnerability in Android and/or iOS? I feel if this was the case we’d be hearing about it from security researchers rather than a lawyer.
Seems like we’re all in agreement that all information should be free, I look forward to them open-sourcing every proprietary bit of code they have
Mutation testing is a cool concept, but what’s it got to do with the fediverse?
You could try asking in !linuxphones@lemmy.ml, there’s usually some good PostmarketOS knowledge over there
Not just a death sentence for that Pokémon, approaching the PC was a potential game over!
No idea, I’d never even heard of one until your comment! Is it worth setting up? What else does it do?
“Just”, lol. I’m sure yours is a much more comprehensive and powerful solution, but it definitely looks more complex than just installing a plugin on your IDE!
Yeah I do. They still want to be able to sell their premium subscriptions and not every engineer working on the product is some soulless corpo. If they can break all adblockers without damaging their product they will, but if it fucks things up too much then they’ll go back to the drawing board and try something else.
Hopefully they’ll realise it’s a bigger breaking change than they wanted as part of this testing phase
If Google can do that then hopefully sponsor block can too!
TL;DW: the ads will be in the video stream itself which will mess up timestamps, sponsor block uses timestamps to know when the ads are.
Seems to me that this will also break every other use case of specific times like direct linking to a timestamp of a video, right?
A more optimistic way of looking at it is that this tool makes people more interested in alt-text in general, meaning more tools are developed to make use of it, meaning more web devs bother with it in the first place (either using this tool or manually)
What does the phone contract have to do with what you can do with the phone? Contracts are for the SIM card (and the network access that comes with it) which may include the cost of a subsidised phone, but you’re still paying that regardless of what you do with the phone, right? Or to put it another way I think they can network-restrict the phone but I don’t think they can stop you putting GrapheneOS on it.
Reads to me like “oh no, our automated verification is perfect, there was just one rogue human who has been punished/corrected/re-educated so there’s no way this could ever happen again, case closed”
I think it used to be called “cloudready” until Google bought it and made it official. It seems like it’s aimed more at businesses and schools that want a fleet of Chromebooks, but it seems alright for the casual tinkerer too.