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fuzzehchat··on What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
Isn't that what Qubes is all about?
fuzzehchat··on What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
The author is a tech lawyer. I think the article is there to start discussion. I agree with him that if private venues allow people to record like this they should offer, at the very least, an opt out. "Purple lanyard" seems like a good way. It's also a pretty easy spot in post production where you can either blur or cut as appropriate.
fuzzehchat··on Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers
Amazon don't check returns either. It's a nightmare if you use their FOB service. We've had product returned, not checked and then shipped to another customer who then pputs in a claim because they didn't get what they ordered - because Amazon didn't check the return. Amazon then claim you're selling counterfeit goods.

Entirely why we no longer use their service and ship direct for amazon orders. Some people still try the trick but we always put a claim in and amazon after they automatically give a refund to the buyer, and Amazon pay it. So Amazon pay twice. Maybe the cost of just accepting that loss is less than having someone check the return.

fuzzehchat··on Air quality monitors: paying more does not get you more accuracy
This is plainly not true at all.

Cheap sensors aren't as good as expensive ones.

This is like saying a DHT11 has the same accuracy as a SHT31.

fuzzehchat··on Mastodon is doomed?
The way you find stuff on the fediverse is searching for hashtags. I have wildly differing interests and it's perfectly fine for me. I have load of topics and a feed that updates at a reasonable rate. following people who share your interests exposes you to other conversations with with other people.
fuzzehchat··on Mastodon is doomed?
If you wont use it until it's twitter, just use twitter. The fediverse doesn't want to be twitter.

Very few care if most people don't want to use it because they've been using it quite happily for years before twitter imploded. blusky looking at payment for likes is a joke too.

fuzzehchat··on Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled
rsync.net seem to be spaffing a lot on advertising, anyine ot any experience of them ?

1TB bonus if you sign up, but haow good is their product?

fuzzehchat··on Mastodon is doomed?
Pleroma is lightweight and fast.
fuzzehchat··on Mastodon is doomed?
Running an instance isn't expensive. Running an instance with 10,000 users might be, but you don't have to have lots of users. I run an instance and I can and do easily communicate with lots of other people on other instances without much effort at all.

I'd say that I've managed to find more people, with less effort who share some of the same interests as me and honestly I don't know which instance they are on because it didn't matter. Using hashtags to find content that you like, following a handfull of people and suddenly your feed comes alive.

Perhaps we should stop teating users like morons. Sure it's different but people learn.