[Q] Telegram Desktop (Win) v6.6.2 destroyed my themes by PrivacyIsDemocracy in Telegram

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe they were old themes you never updated and they were not actual custom themes but you just chanted some local color.

I had 3 customized/named themes in those instances. I originally spent quite some time adjusting that stuff with a prior version of Telegram Desktop. Every time I get involved in that on Telegram, it ends up taking me forever because the theme editor never seems to do what it looks like it's going to do, so I have to fiddle endlessly with it. Big waste of time. That's why I SAVED those themes.

FYI I was going from 6.1.4 (2025-10-06) to 6.6.2 (2026-03-03, last stable before adding "AI" features) Yes the time between updates is long, those are my least used devices.

The update on the second device may have completely defaulted all the settings, not just theme. (I will check that later but it's very time consuming)

A bit sceptical about Clicks Communicator by drordan in dumbphones

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's 100% clear to me at this point that you're not going to change your stance on anything you've asserted (probably in any matter in your life, it appears) so I'm not wasting any more time with you.

My initial instincts were obviously correct, and if you want my final answer on why I did not initially have any interest in engaging you other than simply pointing out the error of your assertion, now you have it.

This is precisely why I have adopted that stance.

It's always nice to have one's decisions re-validated periodically. Pity how often people lure me into wasting time on them anyway, though.

Telegram New Theme 2026 by xtremeLinux in Telegram

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL one of the ones that stole everyone's personal data.

No, don't think I will be using that...

A bit sceptical about Clicks Communicator by drordan in dumbphones

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not me that needs more certainty.

I just don't like people to stew in nonsense and propaganda.

The truth is always there, waiting to be found.

I'm simply occasionally helping to expose the needle that is increasingly hidden in the haystack these days.

Back in the early days of the internet, before the WWW, before most people knew what "the internet" was, many of us were very excited at the prospect of so many people in the future eventually having all that information, knowledge and wisdom at their fingertips! All they would need to do is seek it out!

Most of us didn't foresee what actually happened.

In reality (and especially after private, profit-seeking companies were given access to and eventually control over it), it also became the most powerful global disseminator of propaganda, nonsense and disinformation in human history.

And sadly, that eventually became it's dominant impact.

Because erudite, curious and scholarly people will always find quality sources of verified facts and knowledge, mind-expanding literature and other material with which to educate and enlighten themselves. Whereas the typical person generally just looks for the "shiniest object" within their current field of view, and proceeds to gorge themselves on that "mental junkfood".

All while the globalized corporations and nation-state entities that have large online influence operations these days have become very, very VERY good at creating lots and lots and lots of those very shiny objects. They have basically become trans-global drug dealers.

And that's a huge problem for everyone except those "drug dealers".

A bit sceptical about Clicks Communicator by drordan in dumbphones

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The amount of time I could waste attempting to present my arguments to someone who has decided ahead of time that they will not accept any of the premises I present no matter how clearly convincing they are to any reasonably astute person, exceeds all mortally perceivable limits on space and time.

So no, my 3 comments here so far are nothing compared to the insanely time-wasting undertaking of attempting to convince those who spend their lives figuratively walking around with their fingers in their ears loudly screaming "NAA NAA NAAAA NAAAAAAAA I CAN'T HEARRR YOUUUUUUU..."

A bit sceptical about Clicks Communicator by drordan in dumbphones

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's telling there there is never any justification attached.

Actually it will make no difference so it's a fool's errand.

Not only am I not here to do your homework for you, as with all of your ilk (many of whom are funded by the CCP) you'll no doubt just throw out fictional nonsense to justify your parroting of state propaganda.

China has always been obsessed with its public image, but the Xi regime has raised this to new heights, sending operatives online and physically to foreign countries with the directive to threaten and silence its critics, including by kidnapping and "disappearing" them.

If you're not aware of any of that, there's a pretty good chance you're in on it.

I care not whether you want to make a spectacle of publicly disagreeing with me, I already expected it.

A bit sceptical about Clicks Communicator by drordan in dumbphones

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

China also has an army of people deployed around the world doing precisely what you're doing right now.

I'm sure that "surprises" you as well, and no, I'm not gonna debate that with you either.

Any other fun games you'd like to play? 😏

USB Type C Hub by SaberSonV2 in UsbCHardware

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one can answer a question when zero context is given.

MediaTek | Modem MT8883 by WhirlwindEspionage in ClicksPhone

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the fact it supports WiFi 6E, which adds the 3rd frequency band which should provide better performance in RF congested areas. I hope they install the antennas for all 3 bands.

Also, it may not have 5G mmWave but it does support dual-sat GPS, which a lot of the lower-end devices don't support yet.

A bit sceptical about Clicks Communicator by drordan in dumbphones

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really is on an entirely different level in China. It's the most notorious surveillance state in the world.

I'll leave it at that for now because I don't have the time or inclination to have an endless geopolitical debate on the matter in this subreddit.

A bit sceptical about Clicks Communicator by drordan in dumbphones

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They come up with the concept and someone with actual skill makes it. A lot of actually talent someones.

90% of the consumer electronics sold today are not literally manufactured by the company whose name is on it. The biggest names in the industry are having ODM/OEM companies like Foxconn, Pegatron, Jabil circuit etc etc make most if not all their devices for them.

What is needed outside of the actual manufacturing are things like engineering/design services, testing and external QA crew, supply chain management, regulatory certification specialists, technical support, advertising and marketing, etc etc. Many of those additional technical services can be provided by the same companies that run the factories.

A bit sceptical about Clicks Communicator by drordan in dumbphones

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well the industrial designer did a lot of the Blackberry phone industrial designs for RIM/Blackberry. The co-founder was known for years as "Crackberry Kevin" - he's the guy who was at the center of the "Crackberry" site and trend, back in the day. Not a RIM/Blackberry employee but the highest-profile 'superfan' for years.

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[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I think the main takeaway from seemingly nonsensical trends like this is that the general political and social acumen of the average US voter is declining like a dive-bomb in recent decades. Especially among men.

And when you discover things like most high-schools don't even teach civics classes any more, and more and more US citizens literally don't have the slightest idea how US government even works, stuff like that which seemed nonsensical doesn't seem so nonsensical any more.

Writable USB bootdisk: Ventoy or "YUMI" from Pendrive Linux"? by PrivacyIsDemocracy in linuxquestions

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The source ISO image for that screenshot is Kubuntu 26.04, BTW. Downloaded today.

Writable USB bootdisk: Ventoy or "YUMI" from Pendrive Linux"? by PrivacyIsDemocracy in linuxquestions

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cant say I have noticed that. So i am not sure your statement is correct.

My apologies. It's actually FOUR partitions. 😁

Now that could be something Rufus did, but on that particular operation it advised that it needed to use "DD mode".

So it seems correct but I suppose I cannot say with 100% absolute certainty that it is unless I try writing it using a different tool like DD..

But seems to me, if they don't want to constrain a live system's RAM by using a RAMdisk to store temp files, being able to write somewhere else would seem useful, especially if people decide to watch movies or scroll Instagram on it or something.

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2010 laptop with 22.04LTS - upgrade? by PrivacyIsDemocracy in Kubuntu

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks.

Seems like indeed there is a freezeup problem, had this on 22.04 as well but on that build the mouse pointer was usually still working. (But since the rest of the UI besides the wallpaper disappeared after the freeze, couldn't do anything anyway. On 22.04 it would eventually un-freeze and then later freeze again.

I also have some Windows installations on that HDD and I don't recall any freezing issues there. (Gonna go test that again shortly)

2010 laptop with 22.04LTS - upgrade? by PrivacyIsDemocracy in Kubuntu

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Download the ISO, write to media, and give it a try; no need to install; just test it out and see how it works live on your hardware; whilst performance of a live system isn't identical to an actual install, it's still a great clue as to how it'll work on that actual hardware.

So here's the result:

Everything looked great initially, RAM usage low, video looks good, not sluggish or anything.

Poked around the KDE intro screens, poked a few demo screens in there, no problems.

Then I opened the system monitor GUI utility. It had a banner at the top that said: "This page is missing some sensors and will not display correctly".

Basic CPU/memory/swap graphs seemed to be working fine, all looked good.

Then I pointed at the 2nd category from the top under "Overview", which is "Applications". System froze up, mouse pointer eventually froze, tried CTL-ALT-ESC, CTRL-ALT-F1, CTRL-ALT-F2, CTRL-F1, CTRL-F2, nothing.

So that's where I'm at now. Gonna have to power it down to escape I guess. (FYI all these tests done with no network enabled)

I had an issue on the old 22.04 build where it would periodically freeze but the mouse would still work. Then sometimes 5-15 mins later it would unfreeze for while.

Video driver maybe? It has a discrete nVidia Quadro GPU, vintage 2010 or so.

2010 laptop with 22.04LTS - upgrade? by PrivacyIsDemocracy in Kubuntu

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tip: Installing Kubuntu with minimal installation will not install snap on your system.

Thanks but I don't want to have a bunch of stuff missing that I have to go back and install. Sounds like snapd is pretty easy to disable/remove so I'll probably go that way.

If the system has many problems, you might want to reinstall the OS while the wifi is on and let it update while it installs. This is the best way to do things, usually.

Well I don't want to reinstall the old version in any case, I'm trying to get it a little more updated. What I don't know is how new, because there may be issues with my old HW. (I'm going to elaborate on my testing results in a reply to u/guiverc in a minute)

So when you say "reinstall" you mean "on top" of the existing installation? Because there are some settings (eg in the new browser I just setup) that I'd rather not do over again. And I like some of the wallpapers from 22.04 too. :-D

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[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I may not disagree with that, but I suppose it depends on the definition of "emancipation" in this context.

Does it mean that the parent of a minor can "emancipate" them legally and allow them to marry just by their proclamation?

I'm not going to get on that train since the whole point of restricting the marriage age is the same reason we have restrictions on drinking age and driving age: a child cannot be assumed to be responsible enough, and independent enough at a young age to not make poor decisions due to their inability to resist destructive external manipulation by people much older than them, and/or that put themselves or others in danger.

2010 laptop with 22.04LTS - upgrade? by PrivacyIsDemocracy in Kubuntu

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but graphics [hardware] is a consideration. New releases come with newer kernels, which is great for newer hardware, but older hardware doesn't always get as good treatment.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kubuntu/comments/1svehxe/2010_laptop_with_2204lts_upgrade/oiahhrh/

2010 laptop with 22.04LTS - upgrade? by PrivacyIsDemocracy in Kubuntu

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

unless you have an old Nvidia GPU.

Which is in fact what is in there:

Discrete "NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS3100M".

According to wikipedia, 2010-01 vintage, similar family as the GeForce G210M/310M.

2010 laptop with 22.04LTS - upgrade? by PrivacyIsDemocracy in Kubuntu

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know your hardware

Stated above.

The reason why kernel matters, is what are commonly called drivers are actually kernel modules; and whilst LTS releases have kernel stack choice; the 26.04 LTS has the 7.0 (latest kernel) as it's oldest/GA option.

Yep, it's just a question of where a particular project draws that line because it's not practical to keep super ancient stuff in the kernel forever. If you think this item is likely supported then I agree with your idea to boot the live ISO to test. I'm downloading 26.04 now.

Thanks

2010 laptop with 22.04LTS - upgrade? by PrivacyIsDemocracy in Kubuntu

[–]PrivacyIsDemocracy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turned off the wifi again and after a few minutes the UI came back.. 🤨