viking

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[–] viking -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pointless, unless you leave the roomba running outdoors. Indoors you don't have GPS coverage, and your phone is logged onto the same cell tower anyway. Might just leave it stationary at home, same outcome.

[–] viking 7 points 3 months ago

That's Chinese.

[–] viking 5 points 3 months ago

Same. I've come to terms using it in browser mode on Edge, same for Outlook. The desktop applications are so horrific, I uninstalled both. Half the time they wouldn't work or force log me out.

Now I literally have a standalone screen that's showing nothing but Edge with those two tabs on, and all my productive environment is on a nice large screen where I don't have to see the crap.

[–] viking 4 points 3 months ago

I second Babylon Berlin, it's amazing.

Other than than that I've recently enjoyed Vortex (French) and Public Enemy (Belgian), both on Netflix.

[–] viking 2 points 3 months ago

It's ok, I'm using the free tier and regularly delete and set up new addresses. Works for the really spammy stuff.

I also good a paid account with addy.io where I added one of my domains, that's something I use for more legit services where I want more control about the username, so I can always use something like their.domain.tld@my.domain.tld and never have to worry about finding obscure usernames. And if I stop using a certain service, I can just switch off the alias and never bother about retention crap.

[–] viking 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gab es in den letzten 25 Jahren mal gute Nachrichten von der Deutschen Bank?

[–] viking 12 points 3 months ago

Wär hätte das bloß gedacht.

[–] viking 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

So let me get this straight: Google killed the amazing feature of google translate that allowed it to translate stuff in other apps for being "intrusive" since it requires the "draw over other apps" permission, but now having some fucking AI rummage throughout the device is fine and dandy?

[–] viking 4 points 3 months ago

For life is tricky considering "end of life" products will typically still work reasonably well for decades after being obsolete, but might be susceptible to future exploits that end up unpatched, and you really don't want to become part of a botnet.

With that said, I've had an Asus RT-AX88U for over 6 years now, it's receiving regular updates, and there's a third party firmware (Merlin) that adds some features and keeps being upgraded as well.

My house is 20m square, but I have a shed outside with some gardening automation going on, so overall it stretches 34m from router to last device. I have two Asus Zenwifi AX mini mesh-nodes, one upstairs and one in the rear end of the house (about 18m from the router and 14m from the last device), and I don't have any connectivity issues.

Overall there are 22 devices permanently connected, plus another 4-6 randomly (two laptops, 2 phones, plus visitors).

Never had an unscheduled reboot, though I do install new firmware every 2 months which takes the network down for about 5 min.

[–] viking 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As much as I'd like to see a viable alternative to Android phones that isn't Apple, until we see a significant adoption rate of Linux phones, we'd need to have an OS capable of running Android apps natively. Else it's just a linux desktop station in pocket format.

[–] viking 1 points 3 months ago

Liberals are genocide apologists?!

[–] viking 2 points 3 months ago

Same here, in my productive browser (Fennc on mobile, stock Firefox on desktop) WebRTC is blocked. I keep a chrome variant around in case anything truly doesn't work (Cromite on mobile, Edge on Windows, since I have to use some MS applications for work that I don't care to install on my system).

I rotate VPN servers, not services though.

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