There's some weird fucking people in this world

My wife changed her Windows work laptop last week. Her Desktop is synced to OneDrive so really she just needs to login. Despite that she was panicking that her PDF's were gone. They weren't, it's just that the new laptop has a newer version of Adobe Reader which uses an updated icon.

Some people are just tech illiterate and the slightest difference can be upsetting. My mum's the same with her phone. Using Google Maps to navigate is an achievement for her and I've been telling her to use it for years. The first time she did she reached her destination literally shaking. She was also amazed with herself that she had done it.

That's always been my argument. Updates for the OS or even apps in Google Play should be presented immediately if the user is doing a manual check for updates. Sure, continue the staged rollouts, but only for those who are updating automatically.

The check for updates button has been working fine for a few years now but as of this month my Pixel 8 is still on the November patch. My wife's Pixel 6 is on the December patch after I did a manual check on her phone. Frustrating.

Is that Ricky Gervais with a Hitler mustache?

I have no doubts it will be implemented in a way that still benefits Apple and its ecosystem. Also to help their cause to keep iMessage locked into Apple devices with that EU ruling. Still, this is great news.

What do you need, our permission or something?

There isn't a problem. It just consumed more memory than I'd have liked.

I've just powered on the container and the system went from 1.75G to 2.47G consumed. This is when it's idle.

I've just stopped the Plex container and memory usage is now 2.40G. Plex is definitely more lightweight in comparison.

I've been running Plex on a Pi 3 and now Pi 4 along with multiple other containers with no real problems. I don't transcode obviously but have no issues with performance.

I also installed Jellyfin last week to run side by side but ended up uninstalling as even when idle the memory usage went through the roof.

I was talking about this...

https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace/issues/6

No support for this yet in VSCode it seems.

Previously, I'd be forever using incognito to perform searches. Just to try and avoid seeing constant ads based on my searches. Since switching I no longer have to do this.

I'm far from being privacy conscious as some in this community but just switching to Firefox and Duckduckgo from Chrome and Google has yielded amazing results for me. I no longer feel like everything I do online is being tracked.

Being at the bottom makes more sense on today's larger phones. I'm just so used to it being at the top it's hard to get used to it being at the bottom of the screen.

The internet never used to be like this. It used to be full of shitty GIFs and under construction signs. Also don't forget to sign the guest book and be impressed with the high hit counter.

Yahoo! Also ruled as a search engine.

What's the difference? I've not used iOS for over 10 years now.

I was getting the banner and eventually it just stopped me watching. Clearing the filter cache and then updating them again worked for me. It took a browser restart though.

Them bezels 😍

I've been eyeing up the iPhone 15 Pro but the Pixel 8 might be enough to keep me on a Pixel.

I've not used the Pixel 7 fingerprint scanner but the 6 is absolutely trash. It's easily a weak feature of the phone which I have no idea why they aren't working to fix.

I look forward to seeing more tomorrow.

Fuck Unity. Yet another 2023 company shitting on its users.

WhatsApp certainly dominates Europe but I'd love to see a universal standard to replace SMS. The less messaging apps the better. WhatsApp is owned by Meta after all...

I've used Chrome since the beginning and moved from Firefox. I've been happy. I'd still be happy but now I'm back on Firefox because of Google's intentions. It's led me to start to move away from Google as a whole. Moved my emails and search to DuckDuckGo.

It's going to be hard to move away from other services. Maps and YouTube for example.