bl4kers

joined 2 years ago
[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

No resume feature kind of ruins it for me

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

You joke but for the visually impaired that is absolutely a service in demand. Check out Be My Eyes if you want to volunteer

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If files were easily accessible between profiles, wouldn't that harm the privacy of having multiple profiles?

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Same. Physical media will degrade and fail. If you want reliable access to the VHS collection then you need to digitize and create backups. About 10% of my collection wasn't able to be digitized due to degradation

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn't say how much migrants would get or when the offer would take effect, but The Associated Press obtained an email to migrant shelters saying children 14 years of age and older would get $2,500 each. Children were given 24 hours to respond.

Gotcha. So this is a pressure campaign, not a real offer

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

A la carte pricing has gone out the window in favor of bundles. This enables the same subsidization model of business used by Apple, Google, etc. Even when you pay, they display ads and reminders to get you to upgrade to higher tiers. Drive launched in beta only for paid users. Drive now encourages the use of their proprietary document format. They hand out storage bonuses for each year of membership. That's not a sustainable long-term practice and purposefully creates stickiness. Generally speaking, they don't have easy export tools, so they're not very interoperable. Forwarding emails sent to @proton.me or @protonmail.com addresses to a new inbox is not possible unless you're a paying customer, which makes switching more difficult.

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Moved from Proton to Mullvad to Windscribe

Proton kept getting worse and is moving towards a walled garden.

Mullvad seemed great on the private payment front. Their apps are pretty solid. The device limit was too low for me. For 6-10 devices the price doubles.

Windscribe won me over with their build a plan option. Their apps aren't the most visually appealing but get the job done.

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I recommend not supporting that company. The old Ticket to Ride app was delisted and servers shuttered. It probably had ~$100 worth of IAP for different maps which couldn't be transferred to the new app

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, but not in a way you might think.

When it comes to the death penalty, I've always been on the "against" side of the fence. But for very heinous crimes, I believed I understood why families of victims would want to pursue that.

On an online forum, I encountered such a family member. They shared the crime in great detail, and how they felt about the assailant. The way they discussed it was very ugly, selfish, and overly punitive. It was clear they no longer viewed the person as a human being. They weren't able to process the trauma. This changed my belief that there are rational arguments for the death penalty from family members.

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Didn't they go hard promoting Web3?

 

Both auto-forwarding and auto-reply are paid features, which makes cancelling & switching much more difficult. Gmail is a breeze comparatively. I highly recommend against using their addresses (e.g. protonmail.com, proton.me, pm.me)

Email forwarding is available for everyone with a paid Proton Mail plan.

(source)

 

I've been using Before Launcher and requested the feature a few years back. They said they wanted to support it eventually.

I've tried a handful of alternatives and they all seem to lack this capability.

 

A few months ago I installed Proton Drive on my new PC. It started having issues so I sent it back in for repair. I uninstalled Proton Drive then deleted my files for privacy.

Last week I installed Proton Drive again. To my surprise, it scrambled all of my files locally and remote. All my root folders were deleted and my root is now filled with "Delete conflict" files and folders.

I reported this to Proton immediately. After giving them my logs and details support told me...

  • This is expected: "Proton Drive is designed to synchronize ALL changes, even after long periods of not syncing"
  • No rollback is possible: "Please note that we are unable to revert this behavior. You will have to restore the files manually"
  • They plan to address this: "Regardless, we will absolutely be making improvements to avoid such problems in the future."

For me I have about 100 files to address, which is manageable, but for others I'm sure this would be a showstopper. The delete conflicts don't have version history either, so I have to figure out how to weave everything back together.

 

Another game that will be lost to time :/

 

Hi, I'm wanting to set up app locking on my Pixel 4a with only a physical device to unlock them. Preferably something keychain-able.

Here are some options I've looked into and considering:

  • Bluetooth device with...
    • separate Android profile + Smart Lock
    • AppLock - Fingerprint app
      • this is the only app of this type I found that supports Bluetooth
  • NFC tag with...
    • some app locker app, though I haven't been able to find one that supports NFC
    • Tasker (related how-to)

Here are some options I've looked into and not considering:

  • USB-C security key
    • would prefer a wireless option to not wear out the phone's port
  • Unpluq
    • I don't like subscriptions
  • Smart Lock doesn't support NFC anymore (request to bring it back)

Notes:

  • I actually have an old Google Bluetooth Titan Security Key, but it doesn't seem to work with Smart Lock. It doesn't let me add it as a trusted device despite being successfully paired. I think it might operate on Bluetooth Low Energy.
  • Seems like NFC might be better than Bluetooth for my purposes since I wouldn't have to worry about battery life.
  • I don't know what Bluetooth device might work best for this purpose. I believe products like Tile also work on Bluetooth Low Energy.
  • Any recommendations on NFC tags? Seems like Etsy might be good to get something somewhat customizable and better looking than the blank chips I've seen listed online.

Happy to hear anything you have to share on this topic!

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