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Re:If you love a website, back it up on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:41AM (#50351311)
I've been using self-hosted Linkding for about a year now to save bookmarks. It will also use a Chromium instance to scrape and archive the content/page in an HTML format.

I've not had to use that yet, but it's also nice to save terms and conditions and the like when you agree to them so there's no sneaky edit.

Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:53AM (#50335239)
Of course this is a thing. My LG CX is way out of warranty and on older FW. Will give this a go later! Thank you.
I work in oil and gas manufacturing and we are slow dinosaurs when it comes to adapting or using new technology.

Recently we've hired a few startups for PoCs regarding to data analytics and they all get deeply frustrated at the pace it takes us to even agree basic details.

I concur, they know their target market too.

I have a custom domain setup and I can share an album with people without Ente, they can add their photos too.

The ML for facial clustering/recognition is definitely a step behind what google does in the cloud (especially on kids). But with a small amount of massaging it's a very good product.

I went with Ente for this reason. I have 5 family members on my plan. They'd have likely joined my immich.

1) I don't want their photos on my server in a form I could view. My brothers a stand up guy, but you never know what people are into. 2) I've spent the last 2 years convincing people the cloud is someone elses computer and google can access your photos if it's not E2EE. To then get them using my server.

There was another reason which they solved in the latest release (my wife and I share an album of our daughter automatically via facial recognition).

I guess while I'm at it, the final reason I went with Ente even though it's paid was due to not wanting to be the failure point of my families photos, doing backups etc.

Yep! Posted elsewhere, with LLoyds you get Disney+ With Ads.

If you block a single domain at the DNS level you never see those ads either.

I get disney+ with ads via my bank. We use it for my daughter and just blocking *disneyadvertising.com at a DNS level has meant not a single ad is shown.
I can relate to this. I run a whole network DNS adblocker and my wife made me whitelist her phone so it's freeeee
Thought they'd be allover it. Dropping in cheeky ad results.
I'm not wanting to dispute or tell somebody what to spend their money on. I see this take a lot on reddit especially.

You bought arguably the same phone with marginal gains to CPU score and a little better battery. Paying €650 for that privaledge doesn't seem like a great deal to me...

Re:AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:43PM (#49900186)
Not going to happen, but also not every company will "win" so all of this revenue doesn't need to be recouped, just the revenue of the market leader/leaders.
Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @12:17PM (#49767778)
That first poster example is exactly how every poster at my kids school looks. If theres ever any carton people they have extra fingers or are reading books backwards.
Re:Your car is selling your data on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:44PM (#49716942)
I did a GDPR request to KIA and I was amazed what they collected.

Here's some examples: How long I let the car warm up before driving, G force around every GPS corner, acceleration rates, max speeds, every GPS datapoint etc.

Re:Ask HN: What default model do you use and why? on Saturday September 12, 2026 @02:32PM (#49675556)
I don't deploy anything, I don't make money.

V4 flash latest has been great for me. It's so cheap it's almost free.

Re:Will There Be a 7G? on Saturday September 12, 2026 @02:04PM (#49675215)
Can't answer this question as I know basically nothing.

I'd be perfectly happy with less headline speed increases and just a real world busy tower speed improvement. That or efficiency gains.

Re:Kagi Translate Is Back on Thursday September 10, 2026 @05:50PM (#49650611)
I'm more bewildered that they've limited our service as paying customers, restricting Kagi Translate. They have, however, not given any information on what our "free" limit will be.

I feel like it'll be quite restrictive. I use Translate maybe once every two to three months, but for those one or two days or a week I use it a lot. I'm not signing up for the translate service simultaneously just for that.

Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns on Saturday September 05, 2026 @05:03PM (#49580650)
My xcancel RSS still works fine too!
One thing about Motorola. They aren't known for supporting devices long term with fast updates.

Is there any guarantee that in 4 years this device will be getting monthly patches, source and builds regularly?

Weird omission then... Seems asinine...
Such a shame. Google themselves barely utilised it in their stock builds. I wonder if there is some silicon or development overhead they decided to cut.

I'm optimistic about the Motorola partnership and when my 9 Pro is EOL I'll definitely look at how that's played out.

Re:"It works better in the app " on Friday August 28, 2026 @07:48PM (#49485552)
If you use brave or Firefox and ublock origin. You can just block the elements. I do this on so many sites now.

While ads are blocked I still remove tonnes of needless elements on websites I frequent. Hide little banners or app reminders.

Good! Was there ever a compelling reason why they went for this switch initially?
Re:Fastmail offers EU data region on Sunday August 09, 2026 @03:06AM (#49229107)
I just try hard to pick e2e or encrypted at rest then I guess it doesn't matter to some extent if there's a breach or where it's hosted... I hope
Need a few more providers that wont violate ZDR and i'll switch over.
But why should I care? If my metrics are speed and cost? How many tokens it takes as a user is arbitrary to some extent.
Re:Donate to GrapheneOS on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @06:11PM (#49090638)
I donate £10 a month to a rotating set of causes and Graphene OS is one. However they did recently say they have plenty of funding and need to start spending it. Ive tried and tried but I can't find the x post now
That made it trigger for me intuitively. Thanks
Re:Updated Xbox Console Prices on Thursday June 25, 2026 @01:44PM (#48676872)
Hate how nowhere on that page does it say what the price will be. I guess they don't want the full price in the announcement...
Re:FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @04:37PM (#48651014)
Futo with the new swipe model is the first android keyboard i've used that I don't feel like i'm compromising vs GBoard.

Integrated speak to text, good autocorrect typing, good autocorrect swiping.

Re:FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @04:32PM (#48650941)
I've used both extensively and it's a fair bit better, but was significantly worse preupdate

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