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mrnobody

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  • Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL

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  • I'm not meaning nobody owns them, just a lot of the people I knew back in the day who were die-hard Sony fans, have moved on due to price or quality or both. My dad was one of them with a full high end Sony TV (36" CRT Trinitron series) and receiver, dual cassette deck, CD player, etc lol. Yes, this was the 90s, but still.

  • Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL

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  • Makes sense, bc idk anybody with a Sony TV anymore. Even loyalist fans friends of mine from the CRT days switched.

  • Reports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft's lack of imagination

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  • Look, I know people hate and protest Proton for their own reasons, and "a lot" of data is relative, but proton offers their bundles of 500GB for $120/yr or 2TB for $180/yr. Personally, this would be about the most private I could imagine you getting for the price. Others can probably do it far cheaper, however, at what cost?

    https://proton.me/drive/pricing

    However, I didn't realize Nord also had offerings now, so this seems like it'd be the best value by far. $84/yr for 2TB!

    https://nordlocker.com/plans/

    Edit: sorry, that's for the first 12 months, after that it's back to $180 like Proton.

  • Reports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft's lack of imagination

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  • That's understandable. Microsoft, without much information or training unless you're familiar enough with it, gave everyone "cloud storage", but only enough for absolute basics (initially 15GB then only 7GB iirc)

    Anyway, it redirects libraries to C:\Users\username\OneDrive\ so those files typically do reside locally but also instruct OneDrive to back those up. The downside is, unless you have the paid version of M365 personal or family, it fills up fast. I think there's a lower tier now with maybe 100GB for $20/year, but still.

    The issue is moving large amounts of data with all the power saving shit they also started doing to hibernate and save power overall, but why a data transfer doesn't keep it awake is beyond me. They probably hope everyone just is either too dumb or computer illiterate to try anymore.

  • Reports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft's lack of imagination

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  • Welp, Xbox is the last thing in the Microsoft ecosystem to go, personally. I've got rid of everything else, backed up everywhere else, and slowly switched OSes even. Just can't deal with the shit anymore. And no, PS/Sony isn't any better.

  • Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

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  • "America!... FUCK YEAH!"

    Inserts Team America theme song

  • Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

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  • This is a court case in the US though, but Anna's isn't US based, so it's kind of overstepping boundaries, no? That's like a McDonald's manager telling a Starbucks employee not to do something. Also, whether it's scraped or not, who tf has heard of WorldCat? It's not like Anna's profiting off of this like AI companies would.

  • A maga person has just threatened my family, what's to do next?

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  • Maybe some video doorbell or ext cameras? I know how living in a rural area makes it all feel a bit overkill, but might be worth it for situations like this. I buy off brand cameras where I can pop an SD card in it and it's free. I installed systems for all family when 2020 got with COVID and the riots over George Floyd and whatnot. We're in Illinois, rural outside Chicago but still affected. We have a lot of crime come out from Chicago too which sucks as people go around through vehicles all over. I'm also a big tech guy so this was simple enough.

    People are too trusting to leave cars unlocked, or too stupid saying locking their door adds a broken window to the lost of things to fix when broken into. However, I reiterate insurance claims and police reports don't look good when stuff is unsecured.

  • Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

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  • How could a judge demand this? Is there some sort of lawsuit against them currently where a judge could have the power to request this?

  • A maga person has just threatened my family, what's to do next?

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  • I don't have a Facebook, so I can't look at his account, but the *69 (or *67?) features still work to make anonymous calls, and he probably googled your wife's name which may have had a public post or mentioning a daughter's name, or through friends. It doesn't take long but going down those rabbit holes is ready, and finding info is easy.

    Plenty of free sites or apps let you dig up more on people by name, too. That'll be a good start... However, since they're already a problem and have a head start, I suggest you just let it go, keep the police report (did you mention the threat to kill?) and maybe follow up. Document all calls even though anonymous, and maybe check if your carrier can block all unknown calls incoming. Don't get them more riled up than they already are, and hopefully you have sensible home protection (minimum a gun-that you're familiar with how to use)

  • SK hynix to spend $13 billion on the world's largest HBM memory assembly plant amid the worst shortage on record — South Korea facility to handle packaging and testing for AI memory campus

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  • They can afford it after all the price gouging

  • EU Set to Halt US Trade Deal Over Trump’s New Tariff Threat

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  • Honestly, go after any bit of the economy. A "bad economy" is only bad for the wealthy who profit off the system. Wipe out their wealth and they'll be brought to their knees 🥹

  • EU Set to Halt US Trade Deal Over Trump’s New Tariff Threat

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  • Honestly, as an American, I'd love for Canada to really team up with China and both start to ban use of American products and imports.

    Fuck this broken ass system that essentially makes it impossible to work together. Even if we could work together, there's too much distance/separation to really unite enough. Combine that with all the ability to spread misinformation and don't and people will just prefer to be sheep and go about their business.

    They know this because the elitists keep pushing the boundaries and learn how docile we truly are. Half the country has the ability to unite in force and the other thinks all guns are bad and think quiet protests would get us anywhere. We're past the occasional protest.

    For the sake of not getting a ban, (like reddit would happily have done) This isn't a call to action or violence. Just pointing out.

  • What's a pirate's favourite letter?

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  • Aharr, ye be right!

  • It's probably too late to change, lol

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  • Well crap my username announces my age, lol.

    There, fixed it for you, lol

  • Some tech apps/services I personally use instead of their American/Big Tech counterparts [Updated]

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  • Thank you, that was a long-but good-read!

    I agree on the hoard -bash or bandwagoning where, already, too often on lemmy someone shits on proton because they saw others who pointed out "why it's bad", and then they feel the need to also say it's bad without informed decision making or further explaining (because they can't).

    Like you, and hopefully others, I read through this privacy policy enough to where I felt I could trust the company and it's services. Unless there is hard evidence to the contrary, I won't be abandoning the platform.

    For anyone else who'll comment on this, you're entitled to your opinions, but I won't be listening to any arguments as to why I'm wrong for liking or supporting Proton.

  • Some tech apps/services I personally use instead of their American/Big Tech counterparts [Updated]

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  • I guess I don't care enough or pay enough attention to what CEOs say, nor know the context in which it was said... (Maybe brown nosing to play nice, idk) but I switched to Proton away from Google and Microsoft because it seemed like a good, complete, little ecosystem of apps. The company themselves based out of Switzerland has some of the best privacy laws to back their claims of remaining privacy-first and not sharing or selling user data.

    Does it cost? Sure, probably a lot of that has to do with hosting the infrastructure, but I'm willing to pay for, and recommend to regular friends and family who aren't as paranoid about using "no name" FOSS apps people haven't heard of. I get the incentive of foss, but others won't care to understand its benefits no matter how much you tell them, so Proton is a great "big" name company they can trust.

  • Some tech apps/services I personally use instead of their American/Big Tech counterparts [Updated]

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  • I second Mint.

    I used some EoL laptops around our warehouse with Mint installed so people could search stuff they needed, that was mostly web-based, and nobody really complained about anything not working. A few figured it out pretty well, a few said "it looks different" without really understanding what they're using.

  • Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

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  • Absolutely.