JustARegularNerd

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah I think it was clear there was sarcasm when they concluded on newspaper being the best form to get tech news lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It's not about if a company is shafting you then don't use them. If a company is shafting it's userbase, it shouldn't fall squarely on the customers to make a company stop shafting them, it's legislators and governments with teeth who should do something about it.

Try telling this argument to the team behind Netscape Navigator. Microsoft's most attractive aspect was using their Windows market share to, in their case, take market share in other submarkets like browsers and word processors. If the customers don't want to be behind such a dick move, they shouldn't use it? The government shouldn't do anything about it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

In this case though, it's not a hallucination, there's nothing false in that response, it just completely misinterpreted what the user was asking.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I do this with Discord and Zoom as an alternative to installing their actual apps. 99% of the functionality is there anyway, and the 1% is stuff I don't want anyway

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I was thinking this, because that's what Facepunch did when they stopped Linux support. If you had played Rust at all on Linux, regardless of hours, you were eligible for a refund.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's ridiculous, its enabled by default on any new device you set up and sign in to. I could have missed turning off iCloud on my iMac, but I didn't have any problems before updating it, and then after I updated it I had iCloud full notifications, so I'm pretty sure it was off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna be honest, for Vaultwarden I don't. However, a local cached copy of the vault exists on all my devices that are signed in via the official Bitwarden client, and I have recovered using this method before, so that's my backup strategy.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I was feeling smug that being on LineageOS and now GrapheneOS for almost a decade I've never seen this.

..then I remembered my fucking iMac seemed to turn on iCloud photo backup last week after updating and next thing I know all the obsolete iPads I get from work are telling me how my iCloud storage is full

Seriously this iCloud shit is on by default, predatory ass tech companies. I'm pretty sure I disabled it on that iMac but it's so possible that my own device can gaslight me that I'm left unsure. It's off now and I spent an afternoon removing all those photos.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just double checked and I have TOTP enabled for my PayPal account so it should be an option.

I just found this support article of theirs and it says it can only be enabled through their website and not through the app (why?!) so you might be running into that?

https://www.paypal.com/uk/cshelp/article/what-is-2-step-verification-and-how-do-i-turn-it-on-or-off-help167

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, I probably would have gone with that solution if I knew about it at the time, but now that I have Vaultwarden I'm pretty happy with it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I ran into the same issue, I didn't want to use a cloud password manager because entrusting literally every password I have to a third party and on the internet sounds absurd to me. KeePass seemed like a good idea for me, but at the time I fell back to syncing the vault by sending it to myself in Telegram any time I made a change. Certainly not ideal

I now just have an RPi self hosting Vaultwarden with Tailscale, and for me that's been the best solution that keeps me happy; it's more secure as someone needs to compromise my Tailnet first, it's not public facing, I'm not trusting a third party to not lose my vault (a la LastPass), but its still convenient.

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