Same here… what prompted this research was an event that caused me some anxiety. I searched the keywords “sunshine” to find the song “walking on sunshine”. I noticed it came up with health document PDF results and even photos containing sunbeams. I’m like wait… how did it find those files?! I was horrified and went to check their privacy policy, only to become even more horrified lol

I’ve been dragging my feet migrating out of Dropbox but now I need to get out ASAP. Really lit a fire under me. 10 year paying customer btw

I care 💖

Surely a centralised service like Proton Drive which is zero access encrypted would be a good alternative, right? There’s a difference between “encrypted (but we also have a spare key)” and “encrypted (not even we can access it)”

That’s the problem with screenshots of other social media platforms; we don’t have any of the buildup or history leading up to this. I’m completely out of the loop on this entire thing. It’s like seeing a 9 layer meme that builds on all the other memes posted this week without context

Imagine seeing a post making fun of lämps and you’re just like… what about lamps? They’re bright?

They wanted the ECG recordings. Since it came in fancy PDF form it added some legitimacy. They didn’t care about anything I said at all, but being able to show actual evidence like that was a big deal. Just like, hey this is actually real, stop ignoring me.

I dunno if other heart rate monitors would give the same level of data. It was also good for setting up an alarm when my heart rate goes above 190bpm (dangerous), but I don’t need it anymore because I know what that feels like now. I still keep it around just in case though.

Mine’s probably a unique case though. But I also saw a study that 7 people around the entire world got diagnosed with atrial fibrillation from the watch’s warnings, which is a tiny number overall; but I wasn’t included in that study either so they probably missed others too.

It’s what got me my POTS diagnosis. No doctor would even listen to me unless I brought in my own data (60bpm lying, 80 sitting, 110 standing, 130 walking). Obviously I shouldn’t have to pay $500 just to do their job like that, but it changed my life for the better, personally. Now I have medications that help

In this case, the more we talk about how evil this distro is, the more evil people will find and support it. We were never going to install it in the first place.

These are the same people that also spend 10k annually on drive through coffee, work cafeteria lunches and second coffee, then takeout for dinner; while also complaining how expensive everything is and how poor they are. The word “budget” isn’t in their dictionary

I get banned a lot because of accidentally using words that have become problematic when I wasn’t looking. How about we just stop letting extremists claim all the perfectly good words and symbols instead?

Y’know what maybe I will. Fuelled by the power of irritation I’ll try and fix it. If anyone’s reading this in a few months and the header tags are in a logical order; you’re welcome

Did you feel comfortable searching to learn how to use GIMP?

I found a Stack Overflow thread where people discuss this and actually test it. Further down the page is a 2026 test. The results are it’s basically the same, very little practical difference in normal usage. If you’re auto saving a file every 30 seconds you will not notice any difference between XML and JSON.

Personally, I like XML more for data files like this. I would not reach for JSON as my first thought for deserealizing a complex object hierarchy. Stuff like, a polygon can have a drawing of type vector which can have n paths which each have exactly 2 points… easy to store and validate in XML. Quite messy and complicated in JSON.

<Drawing type="polygon">
  <Line color="#fed1aa">
    <Point x="6" y="7" />
    <Point x="69" y="420" />
  </Line>
</Drawing>

I got irritated by the differences, but I was more irritated by Microslop, so it was the lesser of two irritants. I mostly figured it out eventually. Finding H2 is always at the bottom of the entire style list though for some fucking reason like there’s no excuse for that kind of mild irritation

No offence, but I don’t feel like this thread is the right place for any kind of rational discussion. You can use your imagination for what the mod removed comments contained

All I hear is personal attacks. How is it disgusting privilege to just live my life? Your life would be exactly the same if you didn’t open the news. It’s just the news cycle preying on your sense of injustice and impotent rage for clicks and money. There’s literally nothing you can do to stop a country on the other side of the world from doing stuff. And being snarky and hostile to neutral parties isn’t going to gather you any more support or sympathy.

Nice username by the way. Bonus points for irony

What are you on about lol

Yes let’s shoot lasers wildly into the æther, great idea. Green ones too, the most pilot-blinding wavelength. This just in: birds and bees also allergic to lasers. This is some mad scientist shit.

You got a problem, mate? Or you just going to be passive aggressive via emoji?

Not the same person. I don’t read the news, and I try not to watch genocides. I’m poorly informed about most politics and pretty happy about it to be honest. Sounds like they should probably stop genociding, that’s usually a bad thing to do. But I’m not going to pretend I know what’s actually happening over there or that I can do anything about it.