It’s too long for a comment but I made a Markdown copy in a post here: https://feddit.org/post/10009622

Me neither. But I bet you haven’t seen my favorite 1970s movies, Joachim, Put Him into the Machine! or Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!. You’ll probably prefer Star Wars but we all have different tastes.

You can’t really replace YouTube’s massive library yourself, the best you can do is avoid it but that’s hard too. As for the frontend, there is

• NewPipe/Tubular (Android, also supports Peertube, media.ccc.de, SoundCloud, Bandcamp)
• Piped (web, very privacy-friendly)
• Grayjay (Android and desktop, partially open source, support for many services including PeerTube and Odysee, $10 or guilt-tripping infinite free trial)
• Revanced as mentioned above

You’re lucky with Gmail. Both my work and school uses Outlook and they ban IMAP, POP3, third-party apps (even those with OAuth2) and also forwarding to another address. So I have to keep another browser or an anonymous window open for one of them, as it takes WAY too long to switch accounts and I’m NOT downloading the official Outlook app.

They are keeping around so many deprecated features for internal use and whatnot, I would be surprised if they did remove this registry check.

Until Windows 12 is released, you can always use an old ISO and then update to the newest version.

The command (C:\Windows\System32\) OOBE\bypassnro (.cmd) one types into the command prompt (after opening it with Shift+F10) for the bypass is the location of a batch file they will be removing (the parenthesized parts are optional, implied by the command interpreter, and so is any capitalization). You can still do whatever it’s doing (adding a registry key and restarting) by typing the command manually or providing a copy of the file on a USB drive. After a restart, the OS will check for the registry key AND lack of internet connection to provide the local account option.

For the record, the contents of the file are

@echo off
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
shutdown /r /t 0

The first line is optional, and so is the third if you’re OK with restarting manually. If creating the file on Unix-based systems, make sure the newline sequence is CRLF (DOS/Windows standard).

Obligatory shoutout to literally any Linux distro, which does not need this workaround, and is usually easier to install and set up than debloating a fresh Windows 11 install.

DMs had their uses, for example RemindMeBot cannot work over chat because there is no API.

Speaking of API, I don’t think there’s one for the chat, so removing DMs will greatly reduce the capabilities of RemindMeBot etc.

Not much work really, but few companies want their spaghetti code seen publicly.

Unless you “bypass technological measures”. Which is a loophole if I’ve ever seen one.

The client app is more lightweight than a web browser so getting it that low is just not practical

Also, in what universe is it easier to change a phone’s RAM than to disable apps or get a custom ROM?

Technically not a voice. It was using a speaker to create sounds a human voice system cannot. Maybe a well-trained human could do DTMF but I think it would take two (DT stands for dual-tone).

Modem sounds are not a voice. I wonder how efficient digital communication over sounds that can be made with the human vocal system could get, and what it would sound like.

Of course, Reddit has that “stay away from Lemmy” post first in search results.

Fewer ads. Not zero, though

Way to confuse adblock users

Is there a German-hosted instance? The URL https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/login/ is making me wanna barf and no way I’m clicking it to risk seeing more Fr*nch.

Look up “friends with benefits” and “situationships”. You only meet for sex or a little romance. Very different from the kind of committed relationships you associate with the terms like “bff”, “girlfriend” or “marriage”. They aren’t neccessarily bad or immoral, just make sure to set boundaries first so each of you knows how to feel about polyamory etc.

Is there a live chart available?

The fix:

If you’re used to the official Android app: ReVanced installation guide

Alternatives: NewPipe (FOSS), Grayjay ($10 or unlimited free trial, source-available with OSS plugins)

Not to mention alternative services like Peertube, Odyssey etc.