[-] irasponsible@beehaw.org 12 points 8 months ago

FYI, you can go directly to messenger.com and avoid seeing the rest of the site entirely. You can also deactivate your Facebook account and leave Messenger (mostly) functional.

[-] irasponsible@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"my law..." "my study..."

yeah, i think the author wants a law named after them. the first half of the article is also... junk?

[-] irasponsible@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

People on reddit are absolutely losing their minds over the lack of steam workshop support, but if Paradox wants stuff to be available to console users and all PC users, it's really the only option.

My concern is how it'll interact with Steam Proton on Linux, and just generally if their mods platform will be any good.

[-] irasponsible@beehaw.org 33 points 1 year ago

A good article, a lot of those advantages I wasn't aware of! I think DisplayPort unfairly got a bad rap as "oh, I have to buy another cable now" when it was new, but it's obviously the better choice now. Although I still hate DisplayPort's latching, makes it so hard to unplug cables in tight spaces. I'd rather old-style screws than the latch on all the DP cables I've used.

[-] irasponsible@beehaw.org 37 points 1 year ago

Is there any market research at all indicating that customers want 6"+ displays?

Unfortunately, yes. People who buy smaller phones are the people who buy a new phone less often, and small phones tend to sell worse than the big models (see S10e, iPhone 12(?) Mini) so don't get renewed. Would be nice if they did.

[-] irasponsible@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

These laws exist in Australia already, Facebook and Google claimed they'd pull out of the country and of course they just came to an agreement with almost all news companies and life moved on.

[-] irasponsible@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

If you know the team, then that's a pretty good reason to trust them. Only works if you know the team, though.

[-] irasponsible@beehaw.org 78 points 1 year ago

My worry would be who is funding it and how they plan to keep operating. Venture Capital startups will always betray their users.

[-] irasponsible@beehaw.org 32 points 1 year ago

Beeper is Matrix in a trenchcoat, judging by their Github page.

[-] irasponsible@beehaw.org 67 points 1 year ago

In the back of it, it seems to be a series of Matrix bridges https://github.com/beeper

[-] irasponsible@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

I've heard good things about Kagi, but I can't justify the cost (especially as its USD)

[-] irasponsible@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

Large tech companies only join protocols like this with the aim of killing them; any Mastodon instance worth its salt should defederate from Meta as soon as they go live with it.

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