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Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] pajn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What else is there to use? SMS is the only cross platform protocol that works. MMS is horrible and Apple refuses ro support RCS. Of course SMS apps auto upgrades to RCS if both parties supports it which is in practice only between Androids.

Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] pajn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Ctrl + ; should bring up an emoji picker in Linux when you have focused a text field

Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023 in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] pajn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like you have a borked dbus or is using the GTK_USE_PORTAL env variable, 20 second timeouts are gtks standard way of dealing with something it doesn't like. Firefox should take < 1 second to start fresh and takes < 3s for me, restoring hundreds of tabs

Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] pajn@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 1 year ago

Just don't? If I need to use Facebook to interact with something I just rather spend my time on almost anything else.

Lowest latency input in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

[–] pajn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Zigbee is for this usecase instant and definitely faster than any ESP wifi based solution. Your slowness here isn't for reaching HA, it's HA itself and primarily pushover and Alexa. What is it you are trying to do? For anything that should feel instant, getting rid of pushover and Alexa will be crucial.