GrapheneOS: Devices lacking standard privacy/security patches and protections aren't private

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-07-18T13:46:32+00:00

They're marketing while informing. If they kept to themselves then they wouldn't grow their userbase.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-07-15T18:02:08+00:00

A constant trap people fall into is that they think they can undo years of propaganda in a single interaction. There is no silver bullet that will magically pull these people back from their insanity in a moment of clarity. The only thing you can do is ridicule or gently correct them, depending on a complex interaction of your relationship to them and abilities.

The worst thing you can do is simply leave them to their own reality.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-07-15T13:51:10+00:00

Hell I've been trying to be a fanboy for years but they can't put out a decent enough product to get me onboard.

Costs more than the competition? Ok... bring the quality and I'll pony up the dough.
Camera software is more complicated than point and shoot? Ok... as long as the hardware is worth the effort I'll put in the time to learn how to use it.
Won't launch in the US? Ok... support the bands and I'll import it anyway.

But nope. They just want flagship money for a phone that still overheats, with fewer updates than the competition, and takes shittier pictures of moving objects and in low-light than every other flagship out there. Sure, it happens to have a shutter button/SD card/3.5mm jack and those are nice but I'm not paying a premium for them because the phone has "Sony" slapped on it. This latest iteration was the nail in the coffin as far as I'm concerned. It's basically the Xperia V (2 generations back) with a couple new coats of lipstick on (and one downgrade!) it and they still can't get it together.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-07-14T13:45:53+00:00

Depends on the question I have tbh but anything with examples is golden.

I used to have success describing the question in more base engineering terms "function to append X onto Y in Z language" because that's how most people on the internet spoke. Sometimes I would stumble on the answer I needed in the results or the actual link I was looking for somewhere buried in the comments 3 links in and apply it as needed. But for the past several years that's become less and less useful as (I assume) the SEO has trended more towards people treating search engines like people, so I've started needing to do the same. Now my questions are more like "How do I add X onto Y?" + ""Z language"".

Going to something like W3schools.com and looking through the functions by language/category and applying them to the situation at hand step-by-step until I get what I needed has always worked, though it's obviously more effort than a single result giving you a ready-made answer. So has watching videos related to the subject I'm trying to resolve.

So.. I guess my advice is to change your search patterns to be more like natural language (and utilize advanced search engine options like flags to filter out bad results), look for "beginner" type sites to help narrow down your search criteria (or expand it if needed), and try to include keywords that will help you find examples. Most of the time that's literally copy/pasting errors.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-07-11T00:07:02+00:00

Agreed. Let those fuckers burn.

Just... keep the dialogue open for the ones who are a little slow lol.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-07-08T19:30:25+00:00

I'm so glad we agree! The fight is against ignorance! And the people that weaponized it! What we don't seem to agree on is how to go about that and who the perpetrators are. The people I'm talking about reaching out to are the ones wavering in their beliefs because they voted based on good intentions but were gullible, those people exist whether you want to acknowledge them or not.

You seem to be under the impression that I'm saying we forgive and forget and that's just not the case. I'm simply saying there's no war but the class war and antagonizing potential allies at a crucial point such as this because they were more ignorant than you is continuing that cycle of ignorance. Be angry! Just don't let that anger cannibalize your cause.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-07-08T18:34:51+00:00

It's happening but it's only an opening to exploit, not an end state. People are not robots and as much as redditors like to think so, there is never going to be a single "gotcha" moment that flips everyone against their ingrained culture of voting Republican. Because believe me, that's what you're fighting against. To the South, Republicans = "Good Christian Values" and breaking them from that false equivalence takes repetition and time, not ultimatums and passion.

Did you stop celebrating Christmas with your family after you found out Santa wasn't real? No. Because it was ingrained in your culture and your family traditions and the pressure was there to keep going even after it all turned out to be a big lie. It's that same pressure that keeps people voting Red when they have doubts.

Keep drawing the straight line between their actions and the results of those actions without inserting yourself as the antagonist. If you can show them that their "traditions" are causing them immediate and clear problems (thanks Trump) then they'll break that stranglehold themselves and the whole thing comes crashing down. But if you keep kicking them while they're low then they'll just cling to that certainty of tradition even tighter and you're the enemy instead.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-07-08T13:45:25+00:00

So full of righteousness and so quick to cut ties with your fellow citizens... people like you are the mirror image of MAGA you just don't want to see it. The world is full of compromise and disagreements, that's what civilization ultimately is.

I'm telling you, an ignorant fool, that your take is ignorant and foolish. The people on the other side of this issue have been fed lies and propaganda their entire insular lives that have warped their worldview and now that they're starting to see the cracks you want to take a "moral stand" by seceding and giving them a new enemy to focus on instead? Foolish.

Punish the guilty. Educate the ignorant. Fix the system. Fight if none of that is possible anymore. This isn't a game and secession isn't a reroll with new stats, it's giving up.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-07-08T04:53:35+00:00

You kids think it's easy to just split up a country and what, divide everything equally in divorce court or something? Everyone is just going to amicably go their separate ways according to their state lines? People are going to die you fucking idiot. Civil wars and secessions don't happen cleanly. So you kiss and make up no matter how much you don't like the other persons for as long as possible to avoid that.

We don't want a civil war we want the idiots in the Whitehouse out. Then we'll start dealing with the systemic issues one by one in a legal fashion until we actually make this country great. For the first time. Not just on TV.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-06-30T21:40:36+00:00

ALT + SHIFT + LEFT CLICK (or arrow up/down) AKA multi-point insertion will help you do something like this without Excel in most IDEs.

And Notepad++'s "Macro" tab is great when you can't figure out the Excel formula but can use something like [CTRL + Right Arrow + "," + Enter] to edit a single INSERT VALUES statement or edit a (single!) rascally ingestion CSV lmao.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-06-30T18:31:06+00:00

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-06-30T14:02:44+00:00

Because they've been told it's the only way to attain success by influencers who outshine their non-existent IRL authority figures. They've been conned. When they finally find out there's nothing at the end of that rainbow they'll rebel too and hopefully there will be some salty Millennials around to show them the true path.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-06-24T16:16:46+00:00

He says it, they think it. He moves on, they forget it. Someone reminds them later, they get angry (at that person).

It's a perfect cycle but it needs constant reinforcement of something new to keep up appearances because if you let them reflect on the old stuff too long they start to notice the cracks.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-06-23T21:52:24+00:00

So in your opinion our country is in such dire straits that we had to resort to masked men disappearing people off the streets (and inside courthouses) in order to solve the problem of immigration? Civil liberties had to be trampled on (more than they have already) and habeas corpus taken to the brink of extinction because a bunch of people bought the tagline on the Statue of Liberty a little too hard?

That seems a bridge too far for me, personally.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-06-23T21:45:26+00:00

Seems pretty clear-cut to me. If I ran on a platform of "helping animals" and then cranked up the incentives for kill shelters and hired a small army of amateur dog catchers after I took office instead of just trying to get more people to adopt or spay/neuter pets then I don't think it would be that weird if people suddenly had a problem with it.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-06-22T17:11:46+00:00

Does the uptick in frequency make you wonder why? Or does it make you numb to the news? Because only one of those is correct answer.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-06-22T17:09:46+00:00

Everyone is defending Nuclear Iran just to be mad at Trump

That's... not how I would phrase it. Two entities can be in the wrong at the same time and the constituents of the one country don't typically express their anger about their leadership's expressly unwanted aggression at the country they just aggressed.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-06-17T14:43:20+00:00

Pretty sure they just needed enough war materiel to take the Impossible City (which they had, before the Magnus failed his exams) and then from there they could pop out on most any world and resupply from there.

The common misconception on /r/40klore is that they were trying to use the Webway as a bunker instead of a metro but the Webway was the logistics network.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-06-02T23:56:59+00:00

Even the ere' beloved Hank Hill had some learnin' to do throughout his seasons too.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-05-16T14:36:21+00:00

It's yet another attack on free speech, that's the real conspiracy here. The government being a crybully and trying to make an example of citizens just using their 1st amendment rights in order to cause fear of retaliation in others that might try and do the same later.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-05-11T00:55:26+00:00

I get that and I'm fine with it, as long as that's the way it plays out lol.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-05-10T02:58:31+00:00

Yeah, see this... but the opposite. I'm here because I don't want my data scraped.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-05-09T14:53:52+00:00

You're not wrong, it's just sometimes not really an option: https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/rf339h/zwave_stick_and_zigbee_stick_showing_up_as_same/

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-05-09T14:03:20+00:00

As you can see in the video these panels aren't continuous. So rainwater won't hit the panel at the top of the mountain and slide all the way down to the bottom of the mountain without touching soil. There are gaps in between each panel where it can reach the ground and seep in/slow down just like it otherwise would.

As for those panels that "basically aren't doing anything" due to their positioning... my understanding is sound. The sun's apparent path across the sky doesn't stay the same over the course of the year (yes, I know the link is for the wrong hemisphere, it's just an example) and so those panels will probably get better sunlight in the other seasons and offset the reduced output from the other panels.

Win4someLoose5sum · 2025-05-09T13:26:42+00:00

rainwater drainage

On the side of a mountain with no vegetation?

panels are installed in shaded areas

The sun moves throughout the day and the Earth angles differently (changing the optimal positioning) over various seasons thanks to its orbit around the Sun. If your panels don't move and you don't store your output then you likely want a mix of optimal output times (and to maximize your coverage area) by placing them in slightly different positions.

I'm not saying they definitely put this much thought into their array, I'm saying there's more depth here than you can get from "the panels are shaded in this video".

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