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How do you use GoatMatrix?(self)
15 commentsbyJasonCarswell

If other, please comment what/how.

Why?

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[-]gloomybear12(+2|0)

On my mobile phone. But I might use it on my laptop too.

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[-]x0x72(+2|0)

At the end of the day I really have to target all. If anyone uses multiple devices and notices that something is off on one device but not the other let me know.

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[-]VantaFount2(+2|0)

Why?
I built my gaming PC to take the place of TV/game consoles, so I use it for nearly everything.
And I have mounts for my phone on my car, desk, motorcycle, forklift, and porch swing.
They're the two communications tools I like the best.

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[-]JasonCarswell2(+2|0)

It reordered things for some reason. (I forgot "Other" on the second attempt.)

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[-]x0x72(+2|0)

It reorders to put most popular up top. Ties are randomized. It helps eliminate order bias in the results.

You can add other to the existing poll. https://goatmatrix.net/edit/poll/55

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[-]JasonCarswell2(+2|0)

I could edit the existing options, but not add new ones. The bottom "Edit poll" button didn't seem to do anything.

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[-]x0x71(+1|0)

You're right. I guess I didn't add that in yet. I'll do it via cli.

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[-]x0x71(+1|0)

Other: Chromebook

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[-]LarrySwinger2(+2|0)

Are those devices any good and did you install linsucks on it? If I want a laptop with the netbook form factor I'd buy the last 11" macbook air I believe it's the one from 2015. They reversed course on the automatic scanning / sending hashes of pictures so I may even trust the OS again, with a firewall like Little Snitch (I 'member there's an open-source alternative to it), you can even block system services. I feel like in practice you won't be spied on. Although it's mostly about the option. You can always install linsucks on it.

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[-]x0x73(+3|0)

It's ultra light-weight and mobile. I only use a browser and and ssh into servers anyway. So it's more of a thin-client or a mobile computer monitor than a real computer. I often work on my desktop from it while my desktop is only 15 feet away. I like that some software of mine runs on VPS instead of the desktop like my todo software because it's nice to have a tmux session that never shuts down.

If an OS has flip flopped on something like that they'll push it out in an update eventually without telling people. To me that would be a huge deal breaker because I have had times when I've had to moderate things (helping moderate pic8 when I worked with that, and a chan I ran that got attacked with malicious content). Moderation means seeing things. Seeing things means it has to hit your computer's memory. That's fucked up that your OS would rat on you to the cops for trying to obey the law.

Even if you want to use AI yourself to do the moderation, you can't use AI while never looking at data ever. If you are using AI for classification you should have some sense of the confusion matrix (false positive, false negative, true positive, true negative).

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[-]LarrySwinger1(+1|0)

Yes, it's difficult, but the combination of proactive connection filtering with Little Snitch, and keeping track of tech journalism / reacting to it should keep you safe imo. In fact, they will announce such a change because the shame in simply getting caught doing it is greater than legitimating it beforehand, plus crApple is still trying to appeal to privacy-conscious users. They announced it when they tried to do it earlier this year. And they reverted the changes rather silently to avoid the shame of admitting they were wrong. I think that if they will push it again, we'll know.

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[-]x0x71(+1|0)

Wouldn't the timing of tech journalism be after the fact? Trying to appeal to privacy-conscious users sounds like a business strategy. Business strategies shift. The fact that they thought about it at all means they have other parties they are trying to appeal to as well, and are liable to listen to them considering they almost did. Apologizing later is a PR path companies choose all the time.

Also, their shit is always 2x the price of the raw hardware, even used. At least that's true of the computers. Probably the opposite case for the phones.

I figured out Apple's pricing model. Price to not be the top of the global market share. They literally price to make it not make sense to the average person, on purpose. So they are quite literally priced for it to not make sense. You can always do something smarter.

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[-]LarrySwinger0(0|0)

Also, their shit is always 2x the price of the raw hardware, even used. At least that's true of the computers. Probably the opposite case for the phones.

How is it the opposite for their phones? Those are expensive as hell as well. 90% of their revenue comes from the iPhone.

I find something like the mac mini with the minimum specs acceptably priced if it suffices for your needs. From the second hand market you can get a maxed out one at an acceptable price. Or just go hackintosh like I did. But the macbook air 11" sort of beats the competition when you consider the convenience of using macOS on it in fact. EEE PCs suck ass. In fact Chromebooks may be the only competition and I'm not familiar enough to determine if they're better.

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[-]x0x70(0|0)

On Chromebooks their price has gone up. I've bought three of them between ones I've bought for myself and others. All of them around the $30-$50 range. I've relooked up the price of my current daily driver and it's like $150. I don't know what happened to make them go up in price but they used to be priced at e-waste levels. If they ever go back down it's worth it to have a computer you don't care about that's hyper-mobile.

This current one I repaired its screen because I took it kayaking to be able to stop and do some work from the kayak and on the trip back I must have crushed it. That's how cool having a disposable thin-client is.

Maybe it's less disposable now that I know replacing it wouldn't be as cheap.

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[-]LarrySwinger0(0|0)

First I lubricate it then I stick my dick in it.

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