hacking

a cough - harsh, dry, and spasmodic

Was in a Trader Joe’s and this woman was practically shouting into her phone. Even worse, she had it on speaker and the woman on the other end was shouting back. Bad enough in the same isle, but then she walked up right next to me and they continued shouting into my ear. Well, if you’re going to be that rude…

I looked at her and began hacking as loud as could which is really loud. When I paused the shouting resumed so I started hacking again. The look on her face when she shouted, “Ewwww!” and backed away was priceless.

Perhaps not one of my finest moments, but one I will always treasure anyway.

You left out DDNS. It’s free, easy to set up with lots of detailed guides online, and works as well as a static IP.

“Of the people, by the people, and for the people” died long ago. The people don’t have much say in a government run by oligarchs and corporations.

A few years ago I tried to buy a couple of phones at a T-Mobile store and they flatly refused to sell to me unless I purchased their monthly phone insurance. The manager openly admitted he knew the practice was illegal but didn’t care.

The company is also famous for refusing to pay customers trade in value by fraudulently claiming phones have cracked screens and significant damage.

T-Mobile’s been a shit company for years.

US Mobile is still in the “good prices, good service, be nice” phase of their existence. Buy out or enshittification should still be a few years off. It’s a fraction of the price of TMO’s new rates too.

In 2025 T-Mobile reported a net income (net profit) of $11.0 billion. Think of the poor shareholders!

I thought Lemmy was ad-free. Guess not.

US Mobile. No significant complaints after 10 months.

The tribalism on cell company and cell phone manufacturer subs is unbelievable. There should be a study…

T-Mobile raised our rate last year which is bad enough by itself after promising not to, but they also seriously reduced the quality and availability of their customer service. Why stick around for that? We switched to a much cheaper prepaid company (~1/3rd T-Mobile’s current price) and couldn’t be happier.

Edit: Was thinking about the other problems we had with T-Mobile and forgot to mention one big problem… Incoming calls routinely would not ring and voicemails left just vanished. This happened for months. Multiple friends (and a couple of doctor’s offices) mentioned it often enough that we realized we had a problem. T-Mobile’s great customer service could find nothing wrong and refused to look at the lost calls that originated from other TMO customers.

Hocus Pocus - “Dance! Dance! Dance until you die!”

In Socal we’re scanned by more than 18 cameras just driving 8 miles to Costco.

Keepass & Syncthing has worked for years without an issue, even though my DB is opened on multiple devices at once. It is rare (once or twice a year) that I have a minor, easily solved sync problem.

When Logmein acquired LastPass in 2015 I moved to Keepass and haven’t looked back. If the word enshittification existed back then it would have applied perfectly.

I start with DDG, but it’s far from a complete Google replacement.

I’ll make sure to give your opinion all the consideration it deserves.

Not convenience, I am choosing to pay the content creators. Outrageous, I know…

It seems a good part of Mozilla’s problems keeping users are actually being caused by Google. Besides the constant incompatibilities introduced by Google there’s this:

This is Firefox’s CPU utilization when just looking at Google’s search page in a private window since Google turned on AI by default. My laptop literally gets too hot to be used on my lap. The exact same search on Chrome takes less than 2% CPU. (Yes, I know about Duckduckgo.)

Recently disabling native AI features in Firefox significantly reduced CPU use, but a couple of days ago it shot up again only when on Google’s search page.

I prefer to pay the content creators for their work.