doors_3 6mo ago • 100%
Wait, blocking subtitles of all things? TV shows and films often get entangled in copyright issues, which sometimes make them regionally available only, but subtitles! That's preposterous.
Most of us are aware how geoblocks are one more reason people nudge towards piracy. Well, I didn't knew that companies imposed geoblocks even on *free content*.
doors_3 7mo ago • 100%
Ever since Nova Launcher was acquired by Branch, many users have had privacy concerns.
doors_3 7mo ago • 75%
That is an incredibly low bar to judge any organization. There are multiple conflicts going around the world that UN has done nothing to do. When it comes to permanent members of the Security council, the UN is powerless. Heck, it is powerless if one of the permanent members decides to flex it's muscles somewhere else geographically either.
Also, no world war is also largely due to presence of nukes with nations. The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction prevents nations from going into full blown wars when 2 nuclear powers are involved.
doors_3 7mo ago • 100%
Truman never wanted that. He flew around knowing that his nukes gave him an advantage over the USSR. From this paper, it is clear that Truman wanted to maintain an atomic monopoly and as for Joint Chiefs of Staff, they didn't want to share the nuclear secrets with any organization including the UN.
doors_3 7mo ago • 100%
It's quite old, I think. Ideological foundings were around 1970 only though the party only officially made in 2004. The then PM called it the biggest threat to India's internal security when they spanned multiple states in their fold. Their influence has reduced significantly but they are still active in couple of states.
doors_3 7mo ago • 100%
A bit of context, India has basically three communist parties, two of which compete in the democratically electoral form(and one even governs a state currently) and third is Communist Party of India(Maoist). The latter is officially banned by the state and there have been numerous pitch battles between government and the Maoists in the past.
doors_3 7mo ago • 92%
Get your history correct atleast. East India Company was in charge of India until 1857 and squeezed it dry. It was basically an early blueprint of modern day capitalism and imperialism.
doors_3 7mo ago • 100%
Yes, there are many presets in the app whose wallpapers I don't care for either. One issue with the app failing to randomly change wallpapers could be the OS throttling the app in the background. If the app is killed for Battery saving reasons, I doubt it can do it's job.
doors_3 7mo ago • 100%
I really like your home screen wallpaper. Do you have it's original source/ high resolution variant? Also, hello firefox user.
doors_3 7mo ago • 100%
I also currently have one generated by Tapet as my wallpaper. On a tangent, the app seems to have undergone a rehaul in terms of UI, atleast on Android.
doors_3 8mo ago • 100%
One can upload their own music to Youtube/Music's servers via their web client.
doors_3 8mo ago • 100%
Youtube Music's interface is a cluttered mess and I much preferred the spartan UI of Google Play Music. It took much time for the former to reach feature parity as well. Oh, and now they shutdown their dedicated Podcasts app in favor of merging It into YT Music. It is a disappointment, to say the least.
doors_3 8mo ago • 95%
Did you intend to say GNU/Linux?
doors_3 8mo ago • 100%
No wonder. Ubuntu was also my first nix distro though I later moved to it's 'parent' Debian and dual booted it back in the day with Cent OS before the latter was discontinued.
doors_3 8mo ago • 100%
Wasn't there a post earlier detailing country wide metrics? I think India had quite a lot in there with nearly 15% market share in the country. I wonder what is the most used distro for desktop users.
Since Distrowatch only tracks clicks for that page, it creates a positive feedback loop for MX Linux(which was top of the list last time I saw), I think. Hardly I have ran into anyone online who uses that. Meanwhile, I know dozens of people IRL who almost correlate Ubuntu with coding and have it installed but this is purely anecdotal.
doors_3 8mo ago • 100%
I was just piqued that if third party forks might offer extra features, some of which if they overlap with Telegram's Premium offering, could be an issue. But I checked out couple of apps listed in this thread and they feel alright. I had confused a fork with a mod of the official app, the latter of which would certainly be a grey area.
doors_3 8mo ago • 100%
I had been on Linux since 2016 when I finally installed Windows 11 on my newer shitty laptop which had a bug that was apparently unresolved no matter what distro or config I tried. But Windows' issues like it's famous update times, the modern distasteful UI(in my opinion) and inclusion of more and more features that the user didn't ask for send me back to Linux. And with Copilot being forced on users, I don't think Microsoft is respecting their customers choices.
doors_3 8mo ago • 100%
Does Telegram actively enforce stuff against third party clients? Like if I use a third party client, is my account at risk of being banned?
doors_3 8mo ago • 100%
I read the article but still can't wrap my head over what exactly the provisions are. The ministry itself says that the advisory is not legally binding as of now.
Further down, it says
In a tweet Monday, Chandrasekhar said the advisory is aimed at “untested AI platforms deploying on the India internet” and doesn’t apply to startups.
I know it started after Google's Gemini reportedly called the Prime Minister a fascist, well answered, which might have triggered it. But how are they distinguishing tested vs untested AI platforms and what about the startup exclusion thing?
doors_3 8mo ago • 100%
Is that Tidal ?
I don't assume many folks here, considering the channel, would have purchased a subscription of any kind from Google Play. But I only recently discovered that whilst refunding apps within a certain time frame that are one time purchases are quite easy; refunding subscriptions are not. Even if you report within 30 minutes of the subscribing, they say it doesn't meet their policy. (It was for a Podcast syncing/podcast app for WearOS. Considering that it had no server side component, I wondered why it was subscription based.) I still kick that I paid for one year instead of going to Mobilism and requesting the folks to see if the app could be cracked.
I am one of those suckers (:sigh) who paid for *Youtube* since it bundled *Youtube Music* with it. However, today I used the latter's Revanced version and it was so much customizable. Right from removing menu items to the stupid cast button Google has forced on us; it seems a billion dollar company can't compete with these folks who make their apps so much more serviceable. I don't wish to go too much into the official Youtube client which too is tacked with things like *Remix* button and what not.