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  • Tibert@compuverse.uktoPrivacy@lemmy.mlAnyone use Skiff?
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    1 year ago

    I find what they are offering interesting. But I myself use Thunderbird on my pc, spark on my phone, to get the emails from Gmail and yahoo mail.

    Skiff isn’t compatible with imap, and from what they are saying, is because it’s an encrypted service, and using imap would require to unencrypt them.




  • Hmm, ok. I see. When clicking on the last button in a category tree, it chooses randomly an instance.

    Tho for that specific category, I cannot access https://lemmy.sdf.org/. Why? I don’t know, maybe broken or regional block?

    If regional block, that is an argument to warts looking at user location. Tho not sure if it would be useful for anything else.

    It would also be interesting to categorize more instances. Maybe even put smaller ones to distribute the load. Tho sometimes the smaller ones may not be well prepared for a lot of users. And at the same time the local feed may not be the most active. Tho the all feed may be interesting for new users.

    The instance where I am, compuverse.uk is a general tech/computer instance, but had issues with storage for example.



  • So when does the random instance is chosen? When the website is loaded? When the user clicks on a category?

    Maybe currently there aren’t enough instances categorised on the website to get enough randomness.

    Is there, or would there be, a weight in the randomness in order to chose closer instances based on the user’s location?

    For example sh.itjust.works is an instance based in Canada. When the reddit exodus happened. That instance was slow due to the distance. While others closer to the western europe were faster because they where closer to me.

    Tho rn, it’s about the same. So not sure.



  • I am sory for not living in a giant home without any 2.4ghz neighbors around me.

    Also I myself use 2.4ghz for low bandwidth devices, and other connected devices which don’t have 5ghz. And there are also the neighbors who cast their 2.4ghz network they may use how they will around me.

    But I didn’t have many issues on most of the headsets I tried. At least higher end.

    There were still some outliers and with bad unreliable connections, even on high latency (jbl tour one m2 for example).

    Others like corsair headsets had issues at “high” range (like 10-15m through walls), but no issues at close range, but that is expected from their specs.





  • Not really like that.

    Right now it’s not possible to connect a headset/headphone via wifi to a device other than some proprietary things.

    So a general competitor usable on all devices allowing more data transfer for more audio with less compression. I think it could be interesting.

    Not just because it would maybe be better. But because competition on a market is a good thing for the consumer. And push bluetooth maybe further than what it is.

    Tho if by some misunderstanding, the chip used isn’t compatible with bluetooth I’m not very sure… As brands would need to include 2 chips, which increases the cost.







  • System76 is a bit strange. Their laptops are more expensive than other windows brands, while offering Linux. I’m not sure if it’s really worth going with them, as a lot of other laptops ca work with Linux. Tho maybe I missed something about their laptops.

    Framework I think I saw some Poole saying it has some issues running Linux with some component incompatibilities. Tho you may want to do more research, maybe even opening some reddit threads and dodging useless comments.


  • There is a flatpak zoom app. I guess it can be sandboxes somehow. It would most likely not pose any privacy threat outside of zoom.

    But keep in mind that zoom got into it’s privacy policy, that they can record and use for ai anything you do and say during a meeting (if you didn’t allow access to the desktop during the meeting, zoom shouldn’t be able to record it, so most likely won’t matter for that, only what you send through their servers).