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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyztoPrivacy@lemmy.mlHelp with Privacy
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    15 days ago
    1. Maybe? There are ways to limit what apps are able to access the internet. Rooting, or installing a Custom ROM may be possible on your current phone.

    2. I won’t break entirely. It’ll probably mostly work, but a lot of systems in normal android phones do rely on google play services.

    3. Definitely. FOSS apps tend to be entirely local, not phoning home unless there is good reason in the context of the functionality of the app. At the very least, they will more often than not still work, if denied internet access. This doesn’t mean good commercial software doesn’t exist, though.

    4. A VPN is probably not necessary for your privacy. Using one is potentially even a privacy risk, as you then need to trust the company providing it, in addition to your ISP. Your actual internet traffic is encrypted either way, unless you visit websites that do not use HTTPS, which is extremely rare nowadays.




  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyztoAnimemes@ani.socialFrieren is an Idiot
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    Image source is What Happens Inside the Dungeon.

    It’s fantastic. Starts off rough, but the art, plot, and characters quickly develop into some the most fun comedic/serius stuff I’ve read.

    NSFW warning, sex and sex jokes are frequent.

    As an example, in-universe the most powerful metal is a mineral called virginium, because it can only be touched by virgins, hence making people who can work with it extremely rare, since promiscous lunacy is basically the norm.



  • The integrated GPU in your processor is not an additional bit of computing power your computer is not using, but special software that can use your processor to put out graphics if a dedicated GPU is missing. It is extremely inferior at processing graphics compared to the real dedicated GPU, and if you were running firefox to watch (Not decode) youtube, you would very likely see things like screen tearing as the processor struggled to keep up.

    This is straight up wrong. You are confusing GPUs with display adapters.

    iGPUs are an actual on-die GPU, consiting of their own hardware, present on the die in addition to the CPU.

    They can game. They can hardware decode and encode media, etc. They are full GPUs. Some are even quite powerful, though usually you’ll find them to be designed for everyday use and only light gaming.

    The GPU in every recent game console is technically an iGPU, same goes for phones, and the Steamdeck.

    They do not “translate” GPU instructions into running on the CPU cores.

    That’s software rendering, and is what CPUs do when there isn’t an iGPU at all. (Though they’ll still need a display adapter, which a GPU can act as. But a display adapter doesn’t need to be a full on GPU. And iGPUs aren’t just display adapters.)


  • Glances at the child gambling enabled by the steam marketplace, an issue being blatantly ignored by Valve leadership.

    Buddy, I don’t know how to tell you this. I love Valve for all the good they do, but they got some serious skeletons, too.

    Valve representatives were asked point blank if the third party gambling sites have a positive influence on their bottom line, and the dude replying sweated bullets for several seconds before nervously going “we… don’t have any data on that” while the rest stared daggers at him.

    Coffeezilla has a recent video on the situation.


  • Both are perfectly serviceable, but for the self-hosted storage/office suite combo, Collabora simply fits into Nextcloud better. Which is likely why you don’t see OnlyOffice discussed much.

    Collabora is just more integrated. The NC and Collabora developers actually directly collaborate on integrating it into NC as the “official” office suite.

    And AFAIK the backend of Collabora is simply LibreOffice, meaning the “desktop” version is: LibreOffice. The UI is the same, too, though they might’ve diverged since I last used LibreOffice on desktop.

    Personally I’m not really concerned with formats, as long as I can finish documents as PDFs, and Collabora has brought a google-drive-like experience to my nextcloud instance that OnlyOffice didn’t manage. Either way I was able to do a google takeout of my drive storage, and just plop that into my nextcloud. But with Collabora, actually interacting with the resulting files within the nextcloud UI has been nicer.