Not when you use your own modem

I’m not going to rent Comcast’s modem/access point combo. It sucks.

I’m confused. Wouldn’t he have access to his email and maybe phone number that is attached to his Microsoft account to prove who he is?

They get the traffic data from some third party, not by following their users like gmaps.

https://www.magicearth.com/faq-en/

Do you share data with third parties?

We send position data to our traffic provider to generate real-time traffic information. The data is anonymized on the phone, using a changing key (so it’s not linked to you), and it is deleted after 5 minutes.

They have a good privacy policy though. I haven’t really had many issues with their app.

It’s a paid service, so it’d be a bad default for a web browser. Not saying it’s a bad search engine; saying that it’s a bad search engine default for the every day folk who just installed a web browser.

I don’t think California would be able to handle the influx of people moving to California if they do pass universal healthcare. As a State, they don’t have as much funding as a Federal program would have.

There’s no AI on DDG

Uh… The settings for AI Chat and DuckAssist are both on by default when you use DuckDuckGo. You can see them in Settings -> AI Features

If Microsoft announces that this is going to be forcibly installed on all versions of Windows, then we can grab our pitchforks. Ideally this would end up being an opt-in feature. If it’s an opt-out when they release, again, pitchforks.

Well, per Microsoft’s website:

On devices that are not powered by a Snapdragon® X Series processor, installation of a Windows update will be required to run Recall.

So it sounds like everyone on Windows 11 will get it via Windows Update eventually

Isn’t Jerboa an Android native app? I don’t think they have a web app like how Alexandrite or Photon are.

Just looked into these. It doesn’t look like any of these have official Linux apps :(

I live near multiple regional hubs. I have no subscription myself. It takes them 4-7 days to get my package to me.

My friends who live on the same block as me gets them in 1-2 days with their prime memberships

This includes if we both order the same exact things.

So yeah, YMMV

Wait… I already now get annoying ads in the middle of watching a show. Now they want to add more ads to Prime Video? That’s absolutely ridiculous.

I personally like AirVPN. Pretty good speeds depending on the server. You can port forward and have up to 5 devices connected simultaneously. Make sure you’re using the Wireguard protocol.

Only issue is that Eddie (their GUI) kinda sucks. Works okay on Linux, and probably same on Windows. The Android one just really sucks.

I personally just download the wireguard configs to use.

You can search through here and make something that looks interesting to you

https://www.thingiverse.com/

I find it interesting that it didn’t get review bombed on Apple.

On the Google Play Store, it’s pretty bad

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bashsoftware.boycott

Ever since the Reddit exodus, so many people joined Lemmy who just assumes everyone lives in the US.

“My rent is only $----/mo”. In what currency? A lot of countries use $.

I noticed that sometimes comments asking “What currency?” or “What country?” gets downvoted even though the original post / comment isn’t obvious that they are talking specifically about US :(

I’m all for smart appliances, but a smart washing machine is a solution in search of a problem.

I personally love smart washers, they are a solution to the problem that we used to have at home.

We have 5 adults at home. The app lets us know if it’s being used or not, and lets us know how much longer left.

Also let’s us remind the other person to move their stuff in the washer to the dryer.

I personally do not want to walk over to our laundry room in the garage not connected to our house to check each time to see if it’s available, then walk back to my room to grab my laundry, then bring it to the laundry room

I would prefer if everything was able to be used on a local network instead though. Like a Samsung machine that hosts a local server where data never leaves the home and still works.

Huh, that’s strange. On my 3 Android devices, I downloaded the APK from the website, and it always auto-updates.

It existed ever since they added the APK to their website as a compromise for people who don’t want to get Signal from the Play Store.

Why would you need to use obtanium to get the Signal apk file from that link?

You can just download the apk from that website and install it. The app can update itself.

You might like this website! It’s quite an interesting website to go through :)

https://www.cvedetails.com/

Though to be fair, majority of every day people probably aren’t getting their phones hacked. And not every hardware has known vulnerabilities, at least from what I’ve seen on the website. Also, I don’t know if it’s true, but I heard that for a lot of exploits, the person needs the phone physically.

Not really my field of expertise though

Being able to use Android Auto on GrapheneOS now was a huge change!