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Uncovering Every Lie in MKBHD's Softball Interview; a scathing critique of 'brand safe' influencers
  • I really don’t think large brands like Apple have that many paid shills. Apple has a large fan base and good marketing. People that like their devices just naturally repeat the marketing line because they don’t really know why they like the devices, Apple marketing just told them that is why it is good. And fanatics will spend mental energy defending them for no good reason

    Lemmy and the fediverse have sizable Apple communities and Apple is definitely not paying anyone to shill here

  • Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims
  • It states that it’s somehow breaking the permissions sandbox by dynamically recompiling code after the app is opened. Unless there is some undisclosed exploit that it’s using to break the sandbox, it’s outside most people’s understanding of how these platforms work

  • Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan
  • It’s not really documented anywhere officially. I’ve found the knowledge over the years from searching the ubnt forums. But I stopped using unifi equipment a few years ago for similar reasons.

    This forum thread is probably the best starting point I can give you but configuring unifi APs via ssh for any reason other than maybe a botched IP configuration is a bad idea

  • Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan
  • You can configure them independently of a controller by ssh but the config will be lost on a reboot or when the device next polls the controller

    Edit: and apparently someone else has said you can use the app to configure them without a controller at all

  • Any lemmies that are politically neutral?
  • The best advice is to be on communities on as many servers as possible. You can’t really obtain “political neutrality” heavy-handed-ly but in aggregate by getting as many viewpoints as possible it will be neutral in aggregate

  • Lemmy user succinctly explains why Prom became such a prominent US teen tradition
    lemmy.dbzer0.com Can someone explain me USA obsession with prom and similar school rituals? - Divisions by zero

    I just don’t get it… Why is that important, especially for kids now, that feel like they need to do a YouTube video asking for a date or doing some meme stuff. Some teens even hire the hottest celebrity or ask them to appear in their prom? This is so bizarre for me, all that just for a frivolous nig...

    A really good explanation that I felt deserved to be highlighted.

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    [Weekly discussion thread] Parents, how are you doing? Any experience or tips to share?
  • In this exhausting phase with one of my 4 year olds where he won’t sit down to eat his supper. Every evening meal is a battle where he refuses to eat for a half hour before he finishes half his plate and can get up finally an hour later

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  • It’s definitely the smaller viewports that give the most trouble, and as I am a stubborn mini phone user, I make sure that my projects are responsive to smaller screen sizes.

    The other part is that I’m not a front end dev, so these are just my personal projects and I don’t know all the hacks to really optimize layouts on smaller screen sizes.

  • Apple planning redesigned iPhone, MacBook Pro, and Apple Watch that are significantly thinner
  • I just want another mini phone, it’s nice they are making them lighter but I want something I can use with one hand. Not a brick that’s been sliced slightly thinner. I want another iPhone mini with usb c and better battery life

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  • Apple TV is the only set top box that doesn’t show you ads and sell your watch data up and down a river. The battery life on Apple silicon laptops are unmatched and it’s a better OS than windows by far and the big desktop environment packages on Linux don’t match it either (It also doesn’t feel right not just using terminal/bash on Linux for me either, GUIs are overrated)

    Lastly I feel better about my data privacy using the full Apple ecosystem compared to using Google’s full ecosystem. (But will admit using an open source rom focused on privacy and disconnect from any cloud service would be the most effective, I do want some level of convenience )

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  • At first glance the rules seem to make sense and be straightforward until you start dabbling into screen size responsiveness and display and layout rules and then you get into questions like “what the hell is flex box and how is it different from flex. Why is this element randomly wrapping, selector specificity is joke and everything’s made up and the rules don’t matter.

  • Afterplay.io now has RetroAchievements support!

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15246802

    > Afterplay.io now has retroachievements support! > > Afterplay.io is a web-based retro gaming emulator with support for SNES, GB, GBC and GBA (Premium includes support for even more consoles including N64, PS1, and DS). > > The latest update just added retroacheivements support. As far as I know, it’s the only emulator that supports them on iOS that doesn’t require sideloading.

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    Afterplay.io now has retroachievements support!

    Afterplay.io is a web-based retro gaming emulator with support for SNES, GB, GBC and GBA (Premium includes support for even more consoles including N64, PS1, and DS).

    The latest update just added retroacheivements support. As far as I know, it’s the only emulator that supports them on iOS that doesn’t require sideloading.

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    Best iOS for creating gifs from mp4s/videos from camera roll?

    I’m looking for a recommendation for making gifs on iOS. Preferably one that lets you add text and with the option to remove the watermark with a one time purchase instead of a subscription.

    Does this community have any advice? I tried a bunch on the App Store but there’s literally dozens and most of them either don’t let you add text or have like a $20 a minute subscription or obnoxious ads with no option to remove

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    [Retro Dodo]Google is killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites
    retrododo.com Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites

    It honestly breaks my heart to write this article, but I want to be as transparent as possible with our readers because you are the ones that have quite literally…View Post

    Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites

    I know that the source is more focused on retro gaming as a topic but the topic of this post is Google and its pagerank algorithm which is more appropriate for this community.

    We’ve all noticed the enshittification of Google Search over the last few months, but it’s still hard to hear how it is affecting content creators and putting them out of business so we can see 20 AI generated spam pages about whatever our query is.

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    [Link's Awakening]Another Zelda game down!

    I conquered Koholint island finally! I really enjoyed my time playing Link’s Awakening. I can’t believe they fit a whole Legend of Zelda game on Gameboy! I really enjoyed it

    I ended up getting stuck trying to get the bird key. I could not figure out how to get the flying rooster. I tried bombing the weather cock, lifting the weather cock, pulling, using the hook shot, using the magic rod, digging every tile in mabe village, getting the boomerang, giving back the boomerang, tried every key item I could think of. I ended up beating level 8 before level 7. I even made this map of the entire game in google sheets to try to figure it out.

    Tap for spoiler

    Turns out you can just push the statue

    Oh well, I don’t count it as time waste. If anything else it was a great excuse to keep playing. I’ve never played a 3D Zelda before so I am looking forward to OoT

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    [Self Post]How I hosted my blog on Google Sites
    www.kmstrube.net KMSTRUBE.NET - How I hosted my blog on Google Sites

    I've always been something of a tinkerer. In high school and college, it was messing around with the game files of Call of Duty and Call of Duty: United Offensive to create multiplayer mods for myself and my friends. This might sound hard to believe, but in the late 00s and early 10s; Stack

    KMSTRUBE.NET - How I hosted my blog on Google Sites

    I hope a little self promotion is ok. Thanks to all of your help a few weeks ago, I was able to get an RSS feed set up for my blog. For reasons I still don't fully understand, a year and a half ago, when I moved my personal website from github and Azure App Services to Google Sites; I decided to just hack Google Sites into a blog rather than do the logical thing and start a blog on Wordpress or Blogger.

    As I was documenting the process of hosting a feed using Google Drive and automating it with Google Apps Script, I decided to turn it into a full blog post on the journey I took to get things working.

    If you do have some morbid curiosity on the actual steps to take to host, automate, and update RSS using Google Apps, I do have a full guide with instructions but can't say I recommend doing things this way to anyone but the truly delusional.

    The whole post is about a 20 minute read. Despite having started my blog 18 months ago, this is only my 11th post, I'm still kind of new. I'd appreciate feedback for anyone that would be willing to offer it.

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    What's the deal with "Scaled" sorting?

    Lemmy.world finally updated to v19 and I see that I have the option to do scaled sort. Typically I sort by “Top 6 hour”, “Top 12 hours”, and then “Active”.

    None of these options are really like the old “Hot” sort on Reddit. So how does the scaled sort work? Is anyone who has been on v19 a while using it much?

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    [Question]How to set up RSS for my blog?

    I've never dealt with RSS before on a personal level. I've pretty much always used social media to discover blog posts. I'm wanting to set up RSS for my personal blog but since I have no experience, looking for some guidance for best practices. I'm currently setting up a script to automatically update the xml when I publish new posts.

    Am I supposed to include the entire post in the description field? Or just a summary? How do I handle the markup and formatting of the post?

    Am I supposed to delete items from the feed or do I just keep appending items to the bottom of it?

    Its it good practice to include a thumbnail image or anything with the item in the feed? How is that possible.

    How do I distribute the feed beyond adding a button on my site?

    Thank you in advance to anyone for their advice.

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    Apple releases new "Apple Sports" app
    www.macrumors.com 'Apple Sports' App Announced With Personalized Scoreboards and More

    Apple today announced "Apple Sports," a new free app that provides real-time statistics, scores, and more. Apple Sports features a...

    'Apple Sports' App Announced With Personalized Scoreboards and More

    The app is available in the US now. It links to appropriate Apple News articles, Streaming services, has scoreboards and more.

    Makes me curious if we see Apple lean more into live sports for their Apple TV+ packages, especially with the NBA contract coming up to match their current MLS and MLB offerings

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    Played and beat A Link to the Past for the first time!

    As a big Zelda hater as a kid, I skipped the series completely. I’ve been going through to experience them all in order now. I really enjoyed the first two games of the series so I expected to like this one too. What I didn’t expect is was that it really is one of the best games on the Super Nintendo if not one of the best games of all-time.

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    AppleTV+ 2024 Reccomendations?

    We recently subscribed to AppleTV+ (you get a pretty decent trial from just download the app on a playstation by the way). And are looking for exclusives to watch on the service. Of course everyone recommends Ted Lasso and we have started that. My wife, has already watched through "The Morning Show" and liked it.

    Especially looking for good movie suggestions as those don't require as much of a time investment for me.

    What does everyone on Lemmy watch on the service?

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    How do you host your blog?

    Do you self-host it using FOSS tools? Use Wordpress? Design your own using PHP frameworks such as laravel? Just curious what those that do it use?

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    Clicks: A real keyboard for the iPhone

    I’m really intrigued by the video, and the concept but why? 10 years ago I would have loved it, but this guy is wayyyyyy too long.

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    Cox Media Group claims to be listening to private conversations to sell advertisements
    www.404media.co Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads

    “What would it mean for your business if you could target potential clients who are actively discussing their need for your services in their day-to-day conversations? No, it's not a Black Mirror episode—it's Voice Data, and CMG has the capabilities to use it to your business advantage.”

    Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads

    While I’m dubious of the claim due to the robust permissions management in the latest versions of iOS and Android, it is interesting that a company has come out and said they are doing what everyone is thinking.

    And yes they are a subsidiary of the parent of Cox Communications, the ISP, so I would be switching to a competitor ASAP if I had their services

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    [Zelda II]I did it!

    I’ve been determined to finally beat Zelda II and determine that I would do it without save states and without a guide.

    I know Zelda II is considered a black sheep somewhat but I really think in some ways it’s more fun than the original although I’d still pick Zelda 1 over II.

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    Call of Duty MWII/III/Warzone now available | GeForceNow Thursday
    blogs.nvidia.com ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’ on GeForce NOW | NVIDIA Blog

    Stream Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, the first Activision title to come to GeForce NOW - part of over 65 new games for December.

    ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’ on GeForce NOW | NVIDIA Blog
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