sarcastictoast / is on Nostr

Privacy advocate ironically trusting big tech and gov snoops. Metal head, especially the black stuff. Conspiracy theories and flat earth debates are my entertainment. FLOSS enthusiast because freedom > user-friendly. Sarcasm is my OS. Can't handle snark? We might not click. Enjoying Japan's 'thriving democracy' where one party's ruled longer than I've been alive. At least I don't have to pretend my non-existent vote matters.

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Ohashi: jōzu
納豆: うまい

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2024-09-04 09:09:09

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sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root
Why? Because you want to remove the bad rootkits.

2024-09-04 00:23:53

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It all comes down to this: https://www.f-ism.net/report/anime_mkt_2020.html. The source is cited in the picture. However, without paying for the PDF, the data could be accurate - or not. It’s possible that 70% or even 90% of the population is "watching anime" simply by glimpsing a 2-second clip, for instance. Numbers are magical; one can be very creative with them.

2024-08-30 11:09:27

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BTW!

2024-08-19 07:54:07

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So, by advising me/us not to take life advice from you, you're actually giving me life advice… which you just told me not to do. It's like a recursive function that never ends! Should I just throw a return false; into this loop and hope for the best? 🤔 Circular dependency?

2024-08-15 05:46:44

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Well, well, well. Apple's graciously "allowing" other wallets into their walled garden. How terribly generous. Oh, but there's a catch, you say? Colour me shocked! It's almost as if there's always a ruddy great "BUT" with this lot. Who'd have thought?

2024-08-13 10:57:40

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I definitely taught them a lesson. They're gonna have a hard time sleeping. Stocks dropping...

2024-08-13 06:08:53

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I like to do stuff. Various kinds of stuff. But you know what the best part is? Even when an update comes, my machine doesn't reboot itself, the app doesn't crash. It just works. Just restart when I want to.
I don't have to deal with bollocks, I don't have to search for obscure trouble codes on microsoft forums where they only have manual for two things anyway.

2024-08-03 10:07:24

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As long as people don't mind and don't care about their privacy and don't have a need to change that, then I don't see a problem. Wanna use Windows 11 and give away own data or participate in some sort of experiment? Your own poison.

2024-07-31 11:14:01

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I believe someone may agree with her. And also agree with the subscription. OK, under certain conditions, I'll accept that argument.
But, conditional on it being a software update? Plural, as in updateS? The mouse needs no software and no update. And if there is a marginal situation where it does, then that still doesn't explain the plural used. This is just another HP ink cartridge bullshitery

2024-07-30 22:18:42

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"Exec says mouse that requires a regular fee for software updates is possible.".
Software updateS. Plural. For a mouse.
E-waste and overengineering

2024-06-04 11:39:12

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I double booted for years. Then I got tired of playing detective after every Windows Update and ditched dual booting. Not once did I look back. Windows was the OS until Windows 7. Since Windows 10, it's been a stellar ad platform with app running as a bonus. Windows 11? Pure adware, but now it graces even fewer PCs, and running apps is practically an afterthought. Either you spend your time turning off telemetry or just don't care about privacy at all.

2024-05-21 23:53:24

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Nothing new is going on here. Remember the days of the xp-AntiSpy tool? Although XP had no AI, it still collected a significant amount of data that was not relevant to the OS functionality. If Windows comes bundled with almost every machine available in major brick-and-mortar or online stores, and if Microsoft integrates AI into it, people will just keep using it.
Needs 16 gigs of RAM just for the OS? That's fine, RAM is cheap and you can download RAM boosters or cleaners...

2024-05-14 08:20:00

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don't do it if you're happy with your current OS (non Linux). Do it if you're unhappy with it, or do it while thinking of the issues you've had with it. Maybe start slow, dual boot at first. But it's 2024 now, not 2004, so you'll be fine even with Wine

2024-05-01 10:22:41

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You do realise that this is not a Mastodon problem per se, but rather an [@itsfoss](https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss) problem? The problem is the handling on the server side. The fact that Mastodon does a preview and queries the server is one thing, but the answer is the server's business.
Today it's Mastodon and if [@itsfoss](https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss) can't handle the query/response then the ball is in your court. Balancing and such.
Surely you are not saying that it only takes like maybe ten users (at a time) to share a link and you're DDOSed??