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matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 00:46:35 JST matthew - retroedge.tech
- Rusty Corgi
Sums up how I've been feeling about the browser situation.

#firefox

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  Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves. Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah. Me: See? Please use Firefox. :blobfoxmeltsob: Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!! Me: ... :corgi_wtf1: I hate it here. #Mozilla #Firefox #Google #Chrome #Chromium #FOSS
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matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 00:35:23 JST matthew - retroedge.tech

I'm not sure if people are crazy to be paying this much for this kind of service... or if I am not charging enough for my work on PCs (Windows and Linux). Possibly just the Apple tax, as I have stopped working on Apple devices for the last five years or so, for the most part.

Cleanup service for $149.95 per device!

This is a screenshot of an email promotion from a local store that specializes in Apple, not from Apple themselves.

#Apple
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1. Your devices can get cluttered with lots of junk that can make them sluggish and glitchy! Our Spring Cleaning Service will clean up your Mac, iPad and iPhone so they can run like they're supposed to and make sure they're in good health. When you bring your Apple devices in for our Spring Cleaning Service we'll: Clean out junk files to free up storage space Do a safety sweep to exterminate any malware/viruses Perform a hardware health check with our Apple Diagnostics Check for needed Apple software updates Provide recommendations for best security and user experience Give your device a good physical cleaning Our Apple device Spring Cleaning Service is just $149.95 per device.
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matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 06:16:27 JST matthew - retroedge.tech
- Brave
- matthew - retroedge.tech
Posted this using the @brave browser

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matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 02:31:19 JST matthew - retroedge.tech

I'm looking into the issue with Intel 13th and 14th gen processors.

Will be replacing two for my customers with AMD Ryzen motherboard and CPU.

One system just immediately crashes on Windows or even the Windows installer. I replaced the storage, tried installing again and it crashed.

However, when live booting to Linux, it seems to run fine with no crashes. I even ran a CPU intensive task over night and it is still running fine.

We know there are serious issues with these Intel 13th and 14th gen chips, but why do you think it seems to run fine for me for simulated workloads in a Linux live environment?

Do you think I'd see the same crashing problems if I installed Linux to a disk? If so, wouldn't that point to some kind of storage controller issue instead of a CPU issue?

CPU in this instance is an Intel i7-13700KF, so we know it is one of the Intel chips affected by the "Intel Crisis".

#Intel #Linux #Windows

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matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 07:33:20 JST matthew - retroedge.tech
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- Soul Dessin
That's what I thought. I'm trying to figure out if the extra things offered by these type of services are even worth looking into.

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matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 07:32:57 JST matthew - retroedge.tech

One of the clients that I work with uses MailChimp. Got their domain validated with DNS records and after they were pitched on the ValiMail dmarc service.

I wasn't familiar with it before.

Anyone has experience with this kind of service?

Looks like you can use it to monitor what emails are sent using your domain. Not sure that is needed.

On their webpage it says that they partner with Microsoft and Google. That makes me trust them less, not more.

Are alternatives like PowerDmarc worth checking out? They tout "ai" as a part of their technology, which also does not inspire trust.

https://www.valimail.com/

#email #valimail #dmarc #powerdmarc
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  Leading Email Authentication Solution | Valimail
  
  Protect your business from phishing and spoofing 4x faster with Valimail’s automated DMARC, DKIM, and SPF email authentication solutions.
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matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 02:26:42 JST matthew - retroedge.tech
- Monsieur Pierrey
I hope to at least do this less frequently.

#procrastination #gtd

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matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 10:46:49 JST matthew - retroedge.tech
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- Brodie Robertson
I agree that it has been a slow descent into a weird state of affairs with Mozilla.

I used to be a huge Mozilla fan. I still use Firefox and Thunderbird, but the excitement for them are gone. I now also use the Brave web browser in addition to Firefox.

Mitchell Baker writing an official blog post calling for more censorship, "We need more de-platforming" just seemed so at odds with the "open web" message they had previously promoted.

Their doubling down on AI now just seems like they are intentionally running Mozilla into the ground.

#mozilla #brave #firefox #ai

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- Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:
Excellent news!

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  Attached: 1 image The USDA has taken down most website pages that have references to climate change. The Trump administration had ordered USDA workers to identify, archive, or unpublish materials mentioning climate change by "no later than close of business this Friday," according to leaked emails.
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matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 08:36:12 JST matthew - retroedge.tech
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- meatgrinder
I'm guessing that KVM is available on Linux, but not Windows.

I was just curious to see if there's any new alternative to VirtualBox on Windows as I may be recommending people try Linux in a VM on Windows.

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- meatgrinder
I'm Linux on all my stuff, but support computers with Windows for customers.

A full computer is much better than virtualization, so I usually try to get people to try a separate computer with Linux instead of a VM, but I thought I'd ask and see if there have been any recent virtualization developments on Windows.

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matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 08:19:13 JST matthew - retroedge.tech

Hey, question for you.

I haven't paid much attention in years to virtualization within Windows, as I mainly use Linux.

I used to use VirtualBox on Windows to set up VMs of Windows XP for people who needed it for running older applications or VMs for trying out Linux.

Is VirtualBox still the 'go-to' software for that?

Is there anything else that is recommended?

#windows #virtualbox #virtualization #vm

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matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 08:35:52 JST matthew - retroedge.tech

I got a gaming computer in for testing today.

It has both a 2TB Samsung SSD and Intel i7 13th generation CPU, both of which have seen early failures and problems.

There's a chance this custom gaming build suffers from both of these issues. I'll find out soon.

#samsung #intel #gaming #testing #hardware

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- ooignignoktoo
I'm sitting over here just chuckling to myself.

#ai

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- Mancow Muller ?
Sip. Sip.

... so now every black person who enjoys coffee and continues to buy it is a white supremacist.

Terrible logic. Too generalist in its pronouncement.

#coffee

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matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 17:55:35 JST matthew - retroedge.tech

Just say "no".

#bigtech #oracle

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matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 10:06:37 JST matthew - retroedge.tech

I'd like to know people's recommendations on VPS hosts, too.

I am currently using Digital Ocean for a work project and has been good to work with so far. Not sure if Digital Ocean "droplets" count as VPS, but seems equivalent to me.

#vps #digitalocean #selfhost

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- GluedToTheScreen
We are going to push back on this "cancer vaccine" bigtech stupidity.

Who's going to accept it? Liberals shouldn't get it because they don't trust the Trump administration and MAGA people should know better to get jabbed with anything.

#bigtech #oracle #maga

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- DMA
Push back against evil. Don't let anything be injected into your body that you do not want.

#oracle #bigtech #ai

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Looks like more good news is on the way!

#FreeRoss

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