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Is Anything Still True? On the Internet, No One Knows Anymore in c/technology

[–] BrownianMotion 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Add "Bypass Paywalls" app to your browser.

Firefox:

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

All Chrome based (and explains howto for Android):

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

IOS:

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters

When it's cheaper to get 1TB of storage and 8GB of RAM in a phone in c/[email protected]

[–] BrownianMotion 3 points 1 year ago

"Looks in" homebuilt PC running Linux...

Is an unknown supervisor password for ThinkPad bios an issue if I've already installed linux? in c/[email protected]

[–] BrownianMotion 8 points 1 year ago

https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/ht036206-types-of-password-for-thinkpad

Reset forgotten supervisor password

If you forget your supervisor password, Lenovo cannot reset your password. You must take your computer to a Lenovo Service Provider to have the system board replaced.

Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage until Mexican government stepped in - YouTube in c/technology

[–] BrownianMotion 31 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Yes.

https://eightify.app/summary/technology-and-society/samsung-s-remote-phone-disablement-sparks-mexican-government-intervention

Battling Anti-Israel Hate with AI Bots - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in c/technology

Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline in c/technology

[–] BrownianMotion 8 points 1 year ago

You have a W10 license, so just run up a VM, and install your software in that. Whilst it will be marginally slower, it will be 100% compatible and run on your host OS (this is not good for gaming in general, but if the VM software you use supports passthrough, mainly for GPU, then its pretty negligible).

Keep the Win10 VM off the WAN, and who cares how out of date it is and lacking in security updates.

Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future in c/technology

[–] BrownianMotion 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because there is no other way for them to make money?

Introducing the Nextcloud AI Assistant - local, privacy-respecting, and fully open source 🎉 in c/technology

[–] BrownianMotion 2 points 1 year ago

I just asked it to write an assembly program for the Intel 8008 uprocessor, and it just knocked it out! That's not bad for a chip that was released in 1972 !