Someone’s concern for privacy can change throughout the day or at different locations. To keep the metaphor going, they might be fine with the top being open while they’re driving, but want it closed when the car is parked.
Techie, software developer, hobbyist photographer, sci-fi/fantasy & comics fan in the Los Angeles area. He/him.
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KelsonV@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•In what ways has your use of technology/internet changed in 2023?English15·1 year ago- Dropped Reddit and Twitter completely. Actually deleted my Reddit account and deleted most of my Twitter history.
- Stopped using Gmail as my primary email.
- Went back to DVD and Blu-Ray for shows and movies I think I might want to rewatch.
- Slowly importing stuff I’ve posted on various social media to my website.
- Slowly moving stuff off of Google Drive and Dropbox to my local PC and/or Nextcloud.
- Finally set up my Nextcloud server to use object storage so I can use it for auto-uploads without worrying about space.
- Tried out a bunch of different Fediverse platforms.
- Made more of an effort to report bugs instead of just living with them or using something else.
- Deleted Chrome as my secondary browser and installed Vivaldi. (I’ve been using Firefox as my primary for a while.)
Moving stuff is slow because I don’t want to just copy it all over, I want to decide what to keep in the process.
KelsonV@lemmy.worldto Google Pixel@lemmy.world•Is there a way to cover the cameras when not in use?English5·2 years agoPockets?
KelsonV@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•As 2024 Looms, Democrats’ Campaign Tech Crumbles Under Private Equity SqueezeEnglish13·2 years ago^&@% Private equity again…
Political organizing is a great example of something that shouldn’t be owned by this kind of firm.
(Followed by every other kind of organization. The concept of treating “business” as a set of interchangeable parts that move money in and out of opaque boxes and not actually focusing on what they do and why is massively broken IMO)
KelsonV@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Google Pixel 8 is official with 7 years of updatesEnglish9·2 years agoOK, I like the comment here wondering about the thermometer’s range: “things with an interesting temperature are generally uncomfortable to hold your hand next to. I’m sure there will be at least one support call because someone tries to measure fire from 1 inch away.”
When someone named Kafka says it’s the “weirdest”…that says something!
I learned the term “glass cliff” when she was hired.
KelsonV@lemmy.worldOPto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•If Programming Languages Were Games (Comic)English141·2 years agoThe rest of the page? Probably. I stopped reading after the comic.
I have a single Raspberry Pi 3b as a local file/media server running Jellyfin. I’m also running BOINC and seeding torrents of various Linux distributions. External HDD for storage, plus a thumb drive for the local media and another for the torrents so it only has to spin up when someone’s actually using it.
It’s not super-fast by any means, but it’s fast enough to listen to music over my LAN, which is the main thing I need it to do quickly. Though eventually I plan on setting up a better NAS on something with faster I/O.
KelsonV@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge themEnglish391·2 years agoSo the $140/year subscription they’re already collecting isn’t enough for them?
I guess this is as good a reminder as any to look at what I’m actually using Prime for these days.
KelsonV@lemmy.worldOPto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Is there an alternative "lite" web front-end for Nextcloud?English1·2 years agoIf I was only using it for file sync, maybe. Though as it happens, the Linux desktop file sync client works fine on here, and I can work on files locally.
But that doesn’t help for things like, say, account settings, or tasks, or getting the right caldav URL to be able to plug it into a local client.
KelsonV@lemmy.worldOPto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Is there an alternative "lite" web front-end for Nextcloud?English31·2 years agoI’m using it for multiple services, not just one, and while some have apps available, not all do, and some features aren’t supported in the corresponding app.
KelsonV@lemmy.worldOPto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Is there an alternative "lite" web front-end for Nextcloud?English7·2 years agoI’m using Nextcloud for a lot more than just file sharing. Calendar, contacts, tasks, RSS reader sync, etc.
KelsonV@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.ml•Amazon tests new star ratings that are even harder to readEnglish2·2 years agoEven better: the one-star review on the pre-order page complaining that it’s not out yet!
KDE Plasma handles the touch screen fine on my PineTab2.
It works in LxQt too, but only in portrait mode (which is the default for this device). I keep meaning to look up how to tell it to rotate the touch coordinates along with the display, and I keep not getting around to it.
But the main issue I’ve run into is that most GUI apps for Linux are…let’s just say they’re not designed with touch input in mind.
KelsonV@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Bookwyrm - Decentralized network to discover and track your book readEnglish1·2 years agoI’ve been using it for a while now. Currently on the “main” instance, cross-posting reviews to my website.
KelsonV@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills (Edit: US-specific)English3·2 years agoDone. Sorry I missed it at first!
I used names of fictional robots, androids and self-aware computers (though I avoided HAL for obvious reasons) for a long time. These days my wife and I usually go with an indirect reference to the function or hardware - Ex. a device named Anathema, or a Raspberry Pi server named Marie (as in Marie Callendar, a former local pie/restaurant chain). I had an expendable frankenputer for tinkering that I called RedShirt.
Currently trying to come up with a name other than Chris for the PineTab 2.
Edit to add: Places I’ve worked have used Roman emperors, drink brands, Simpsons characters, and of course basics like “IIS1” “MAIL4” “QA-3” and so on. Some would add numbers to the names sequentially, others would use the last octet of the IP address.
KelsonV@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•ELI5: Why are SBCs nowhere to be found?English7·2 years agoAt least until the NUCs run out, now that Intel’s discontinuing them
If I’m reading this correctly, the headline is…very inaccurate.
It looks like a dispute between two developers in Organic Maps, who both started out at Maps.me, specifically over whether their CDN redirector should be public or private.