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New comment by tassadarforaiur in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

tassadarforaiur — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:12:17 +0000

I don't care about any of reddits social features anymore, I logged out a long time ago, but where do we go now for the knowledge base of old reddit how to questions / recommendations / guides? Good forums with trustworthy guides are hard to find for niches you're newly learning about. Discord is it's own problem. I haven't explored mastodon / blue sky / etc. in a while. Do we have to find an old dump of reddit html, and self host a snapshot of days before the front page of the Internet went behind a login page?

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers"

tassadarforaiur — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:36:29 +0000

One of the biggest banks in the US forces staff and contractors alike to install a proprietary 2fa app on their personal devices. if you can get a company phone, you can't finish activating the MDM, to install the company 2fa app, without first using that 2fa app on your personal device. Even a company yubikey can't be activated without the 2fa appp, which again, you can't get on a company device without first installing it on your personal device.

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "EFF Logs Out of X"

tassadarforaiur — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:00:24 +0000

I'm not logging into twitter, to read the rest of the thread of why the EFF is leaving twitter.

Here's their full statement. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "Apple's MacBook Pro 14 cannot handle the M5 Max"

tassadarforaiur — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:55:50 +0000

This does beg the question. For the 14" mbp, can those stands that heatsink the chasis give enough thermal headroom to compensate for the size difference, without relying on internally thermal padding the heatpipes to the chasis, and making it uncomfortable to use on a lap?

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "Asus Ascent GX10"

tassadarforaiur — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:17:37 +0000

On the networking side. M4 max does have thunderbolt 5, 80gbps advertised. Would ip over TB not allow for significantly faster interconnects when clustering Macs?

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum"

tassadarforaiur — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:15:39 +0000

I'm curious how quickly that trend will reverse when Google fulfills their promise to lock down sideloading on android.

Samsung makes nice hardware, but their bloatware is infuriating. I spend a lot of time on every new device, using ADB to purge as many samsung apps as I can. I'm getting tired of doing it.

Once I can't sideload anymore on android, my next phone will be an iphone.

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "Firefox Adds Microsoft Copilot AI to Its Sidebar – But Will Users Accept It?"

tassadarforaiur — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:10:50 +0000

Absolutely not, and thanks for the warning. Sidebar was already set to off, couldn't find any options for making sure that copilot was more off.

Not having ai bs baked in is a vanishingly rare feature in consumer software.

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "Nvidia announces DGX desktop "personal AI supercomputers""

tassadarforaiur — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 04:01:16 +0000

The dgx spark definitely makes sense for some people, but $3k for an upgraded Jetson, with less tops than a last gen consumer 4090, does beg the question. Unless you're getting them to practice specifically on nvidia hardware before scaling up, why not get an m4 max Mac w/ 128GB+ ram instead?

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "End of Life: Gemini will replace Google Assistant later this year"

tassadarforaiur — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 18:04:50 +0000

Are there any 3rd party, privacy respecting, voice assistants that integrate with android? Gemini is staying uninstalled, and I'm not in a hurry to switch to iPhone. If I can pay once for an on-device voice assistant to set gps destinations, alarms, timers, and tell me the weather, I'm set.

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "Bosch's brake-by-wire system may be the next big leap in automotive tech"

tassadarforaiur — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:51:22 +0000

I've had hydraulic brakes fail on me before when a line broke in the winter, this doesn't sound significantly worse.

That said, I was able to control my car with a steel cable e-brake handle when it happened, and whatever fancy bs automakers decide to use on the brake pedal, I'm not buying a car without a handbrake for the foreseeable future.

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "LPCAMM2 Will Bring Faster, Upgradable RAM Memory to Some Laptops (2024)"

tassadarforaiur — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 04:33:05 +0000

Lpcamm2 rollout has been disappointing. Especially given it's potential. Maybe it's good for repairability in ultralights, but where's the 96GB module? Upgradability isn't really a factor when the upgrade path is only 32 or 64gb modules.

A Ryzen ai max 395 laptop with dual lpcamm2 boards, maxing out at 192gb of ddr5 7500, could have been a dream machine for a developer.

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs"

tassadarforaiur — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:38:13 +0000

Valve expanding steamos compatibility might be the closest we're getting.Hopefully their flavour is viable for a variety of computers by windows 10 sunset date.

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "We're bringing Pebble back"

tassadarforaiur — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 06:25:11 +0000

I don't use it anymore, but I still have my og pebble, and miss how well it did what I care about.

Here's hoping we can get a color screen pebble time successor, maybe with one of the buttons upgraded to a dial + button.

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "Buying a TV in 2025? Expect lower prices, more ads, and an OS war"

tassadarforaiur — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:42:02 +0000

As long as it's possible, never connecting the TV to the home network, setting it to auto start to last HDMI used, and using a technician remote or HDMI arc control and mainly interacting with my apple tv / gaming console / audio receiver remote, has been able to suppress most of the TV OS garbage. Hopefully that continues to be an option.

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "Spotify has shut down several API endpoints"

tassadarforaiur — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:16:33 +0000

Drm free digital video purchase doesn't seem to be a thing, but buying DVDs / blu rays and ripping them to a Plex / jellyfin server has gotten pretty approachable.

New comment by tassadarforaiur in "Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet"

tassadarforaiur — Fri, 24 May 2024 04:10:05 +0000

Being able to use my ipad as an extra monitor is one of the main reasons I always carry it around.

It might be too late for this model, but enabling the tablet to be used as a USB monitor, with all tablet functionality / storage hidden from the PC OS, or as a wi-di monitor, would easily justify a large chunk of the cost for some of us, and provide the tablet a useful life long past its last android os update.