MalReynolds

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's deeply disturbing, what else could be hiding next to it? I sort of hope it's somehow being installed by your phone company, as bad as that is, the alternative is worse!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Seems unlikely if you outright own it, this is for bought on a plan type stuff, no ?

Edit: On further reading, apparently not. WTAF?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cool!!!

Must say I hate the lack of a manual / help these days. "It's intuitive", no it's fucking not, you just don't want to write doco. (Not aimed at GrapheneOS specifically, just the state of things in general)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (6 children)

WTF is a glowie?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Swipe into notifications, swipe down on the quick access thingies (bluetooth, aeroplane mode etc), at the bottom is three circular buttons, leftmost brings up select user (swipe, swipe, tap, tap, sorry, missed one.)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (11 children)

So, the point here is to degoogle, yet you need certain apps that require google services.

What I and many others do is have a clean (i.e. no google services) main profile and a dirty (has google services) secondary profile. Put your needed apps in the secondary, live in main, and it's two swipes and a tap to get to your apps in secondary. Best of both worlds. Over time find replacements that work in your main, congratulations, you're now degoogled on your phone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Ye canna change the laws of physics! Acceleration is proportional to force exerted (F=ma) and has nothing to do with the amount of energy stored, which gives you range. You might get a few percent efficiency bonus from lesser acceleration due to losses (so 2-3 extra Km per 100), but you can't "trade acceleration for range"

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

Sure, but the point of an offline backup is to disconnect it when not in use, rendering it immune to ransomware, accidental deletions, lightning strikes etc. Plug in every week or whatever, do your backup, disconnect, sleep easy. I use an external usb hdd caddy (note that one needs a firmware update to work with bigger disks)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Try LanguageTool. Free, has browser plugins, actually made for checking grammar.

This speaks to the kneejerk "shove everything through an AI" instead of doing some proper research, which is probably worse than just grabbing the first search result due to hallucination. No offence intended to @EdibleFriend, just observing that humans do so love to abdicate responsibility when given a chance...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

One backup on site on a different medium

One offline backup.

Backup on a different medium is archaic advice unless you're willing to fork $$$ out for a tape drive system. DVDs don't cut it in the era of 20Tb HDDs. I'd argue that HDD is the only practical media currently for > 4Tb at less than enterprise scale. Backblaze might be considered a different medium I guess.

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