I use a Xiaomi phone, it has this annoying "Security" app that gets everytime I'm installing or updating an app to pass a "security scan" and show me an add. F-Droid downloads updates on start, but then I just get this message "App update is ready to install" and then I have to manually install each update.
Any idea on how to bypass this app? I have partially debloated my phone using some ADB debloater but I'm worried my OS will break if I remove this "Security" app.
Also don't know if I'll also need to keep installing each update individually even after deleting it.
I also noticed that I haven't given permissions for "modifying system settings" to F-Droid.
Why coding yourself a corporate practice that encouraged addition? Why you felt we were lacking that stuff?
The chatbot gave wildly different answers to the same math problem, with one version of ChatGPT even refusing to show how it came to its conclusion.
KDE, but it seems I soft-broke it as well while installing after regular Gnome Ubuntu. Now I'm installing Kubuntu on my laptop and will try out any other distro on a new SSD I bought for my desktop.
As others pointed, doing stuff in a rush and blindly using guides and pasting commands makes everything more difficult. No matter how robust or good the UI is lol
Wonder if there's any alternative to plastic sponges that are more durable
Speaking of myself, I think I'm just too lazy / have too little time and energy to slowly troubleshoot everything.
I am always on a rush, and when you're on a rush and something like apt not working happens, you just implement some workaround that maybe makes everything worse or is not a full solution. As others pointed, putting commands you see on Google without fully understanding them is a bad idea, and a lot of my "Linux troubleshooting experience" is "trying a bunch of Google solutions in a trial and error fashion".
For example a base issue I have with my current installation is that I firstly installed Ubuntu and then installed KDE, instead of installing Kubuntu, and the installation is kind of glitchy. I never put the time to fix the issues that maybe were not that difficult to fix, but they were unimportant and it just worked. That stuff slowly accumulates over time until the fresh install with that characteristic "this time will be different" feel lol
Don't get me wrong. I love Linux and FOSS. I have been using and installing distros on my own since I was 12. Now that I'm working in tech-related positions, after the Reddit migration happened, etc. I recovered my interest in all the Linux environment. I use Ubuntu as my main operating system in my Desktop, but I always end up feeling very limited. There's always software I can't use properly (and not just Windows stuff), some stuff badly configured with weird error messages... last time I was not able to even use the apt command. Sometimes I lack time and energy for troubleshooting and sometimes I just fail at it.
I usually end up in need of redoing a fresh install until it breaks up again. Maybe Linux is not good for beginners working full time? Maybe we should do something like that Cisco course that teaches you the basic commands?
Una pena que creo que Mastodon y Lemmy no son muy compatibles, o al menos aun no he podido conectarme con nada de eso
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> I hate Facebook but realized I can't uninstall the bloatware Messenger app from my phone since I actually need it for Facebook Marketplace (I usually use it for selling second-hand stuff and looking for other products/services). Also I have plenty of friends there and it might be good to reconnect with some without dealing with the spyware Meta shit. > > Also something for WhatsApp would be good as well
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> I hate Facebook but realized I can't uninstall the bloatware Messenger app from my phone since I actually need it for Facebook Marketplace (I usually use it for selling second-hand stuff and looking for other products/services). Also I have plenty of friends there and it might be good to reconnect with some without dealing with the spyware Meta shit. > > Also something for WhatsApp would be good as well
I hate Facebook but realized I can't uninstall the bloatware Messenger app from my phone since I actually need it for Facebook Marketplace (I usually use it for selling second-hand stuff and looking for other products/services). Also I have plenty of friends there and it might be good to reconnect with some without dealing with the spyware Meta shit.
Also something for WhatsApp would be good as well
What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding "reddit" or whatever internet community to the results?
Has OpenAI provided an explanation for the very clear degradation of ChatGPT’s performance with the GPT4 model? Since the last two updates, it is significantly faster (which is fundamentally useless when we are capped at 25 messages in 3 hours…), suggesting that computational power has been reduced,...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1820678
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1820668 > > > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1820574 > > > > > Link: https://readhacker.news/s/5JBLv > > > Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/5JBLv
Has OpenAI provided an explanation for the very clear degradation of ChatGPT’s performance with the GPT4 model? Since the last two updates, it is significantly faster (which is fundamentally useless when we are capped at 25 messages in 3 hours…), suggesting that computational power has been reduced,...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1820668
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1820574 > > > Link: https://readhacker.news/s/5JBLv > > Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/5JBLv
Has OpenAI provided an explanation for the very clear degradation of ChatGPT’s performance with the GPT4 model? Since the last two updates, it is significantly faster (which is fundamentally useless when we are capped at 25 messages in 3 hours…), suggesting that computational power has been reduced,...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1820574
> Link: https://readhacker.news/s/5JBLv > Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/5JBLv
Has OpenAI provided an explanation for the very clear degradation of ChatGPT’s performance with the GPT4 model? Since the last two updates, it is significantly faster (which is fundamentally useless when we are capped at 25 messages in 3 hours…), suggesting that computational power has been reduced,...
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/5JBLv Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/5JBLv
More than just the question I want to explain a thought that led me to this topic. How often do we play?
I mean, we are usually entertained, whether scrolling, watching some content, making silly jokes, and shit like that, but is it an actual play?
I was just kind of playing a sort of Q&A game with my wife, basically I was just asking her random questions and recording them in Notes as if it was an interview. It was super fun and we ended up with basically a log full of both funny and interesting questions&answers and intimate stuff. It was just interesting to think about questions and for her to think about answers. We felt pretty connected this time and it costed us 0.00$.
Now, compare that to the usual forms of "entertainment" we usually just "consume": mindless scrolling interrupted by ads, clickbait videos, movies and series, porn, videogames with set rules and competition, "going out" (which is mostly purchasing a burger or other services). Usually it either costs money (which sometimes means you need to employ someone else for a while) or it has set rules and we do it for some competitive, compulsive interest -like winning something or farming karma.
Idk but all this I previously mentioned makes me feel addicted, guilty, fooled and even dirty 90% of the time, and in the end it is a loss of autonomy. I don't even really enjoy most of that shit. But when I'm really playing or doing something creatively, I feel genuinely liberated and connected to others, not just relaxed or soothed from whatever impulse.
I just realized this is the kind of stuff I liked when I was falling in love with my wife, having conversations about life, dreams, knowing each other. I also recalled how common was to really play when I was a child. I mean using my imagination, being creative, whether alone or connecting with other people, and I just think socialization and maturity grabbed that away from me. And I am under the impression that before mass media, mass entertainment, etc. play was more common at all ages. Probably the introduction of wage labour also destroyed the habit of playing to a greater extent since of course farm work was not as inhumane as the long hours at factories.
I also think sports are a form of playing, but it's not quite the same because there is usually an interest outside the play itself (like the pride on winning a competition and stuff) and the set rules means the focus is not in creativity and free expression but in performing, but I think it is a way more autonomous than other forms of entertainment such as watching the NFL or something.
And to finish, think about the next generation, aren't they playing less than the kids from previous years? They "play" using apps or watching YouTube, and I am also under the impression that physical activity or imagination whether alone or with other kids might be compromised if they are being subjected to highly addictive stuff from an early age.
Just something very concerning to me. I think we should regain control of our activities and it just feels that society today pushes more and more for taking away our so-called free time and selling it back to ourselves into their consumerized boxs. I think we all know that's fucked and that's why reddit refugees feel better here without that fucking karma score, without ads, without algorithms fucking trying to make you addicted. I think that fresh air is called autonomy.
Hope you find this reflections interesting, I think I will be cutting those forms of passive/addictive entertainment and replacing it with creative, imaginative activities.
> TL;DR just was playing with my wife and felt very liberated and fresh, then compared it to modern entertainment activities and the difference struck me hard, also recalled how as a child played freely a lot more and how younger children are probably just hooked into tablets from an early age and playing less than the previous generations.