Have you looked into those tinycorp nvidia drivers for thunderbolt egpus on Mac?

I don't care about any of reddits social features anymore, I logged out a long time ago, but where do we go now for the knowledge base of old reddit how to questions / recommendations / guides? Good forums with trustworthy guides are hard to find for niches you're newly learning about. Discord is it's own problem. I haven't explored mastodon / blue sky / etc. in a while. Do we have to find an old dump of reddit html, and self host a snapshot of days before the front page of the Internet went behind a login page?

I spent my whole childhood without computers and a good chunk of my teenage years without stable internet connection. Now, I have both, but due to the state of the internet, I'm returning to my old routine: A load of books to learn from and hopefully finding some time to apply the knowledge.

Don't give up yet.

Lemmy is good, but not enough people on there for network effect to kick in yet.

I think once the enshittification gets too bad for even the average person, people will look for alternatives, and old style forums will return.

Although with all the ID verification, those forums might end up on Tor or something.

Lemmy dbzer0 (one of the big instances) has a lot of stuff.

Context drift. You're basically talking about asking questions to MMAcevedo in the year 2500. He doesn't know what's going on, because he's from 2046. Most answers from 2011 are not applicable now.

Let’s bring Stack Exchanges back!

Or the OG, Expert Sex Change.

What niche are you looking for? I usually append "forum" to topic searches when I am looking for humans with similar interests. I have found communities for all the niche topics I have looked for so far.

I liked the anime discussions because I don't speak Japanese and there's often stuff that is not translated well (at least in the first official subs) that people will go out of their way to explain the language (or reasons for changes) or cultural significance of things that don't exist in other places. Also if one has read the source, one can discuss the differences, or if not, one can get clarification from readers on some things without getting spoilers one did not ask for. There's also nintendoswitch subreddit I used to look at for upcoming releases and opinions, nintendolife.com is ok, but not nearly the breadth of activity.

I predict that we will see people flocking to altnets such as i2p or tor.

IRC

One of the biggest banks in the US forces staff and contractors alike to install a proprietary 2fa app on their personal devices. if you can get a company phone, you can't finish activating the MDM, to install the company 2fa app, without first using that 2fa app on your personal device. Even a company yubikey can't be activated without the 2fa appp, which again, you can't get on a company device without first installing it on your personal device.

What about people who don’t have smartphones? Not everyone has one.

Easy fix. The company buys me a second personal phone, which I can then use to set up the work phone which they also buy.

I'm not logging into twitter, to read the rest of the thread of why the EFF is leaving twitter.

Here's their full statement. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

We've merged this thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706268, which has that article.

Wow, responses in that thread go a long way toward validating their decision.

I like the big link to their Twitter profile at the top and bottom of that post!

This does beg the question. For the 14" mbp, can those stands that heatsink the chasis give enough thermal headroom to compensate for the size difference, without relying on internally thermal padding the heatpipes to the chasis, and making it uncomfortable to use on a lap?

On the networking side. M4 max does have thunderbolt 5, 80gbps advertised. Would ip over TB not allow for significantly faster interconnects when clustering Macs?

Yes, people use Thundebolt networking to build Mac AI clusters. The Spark has 200G Ethernet that is even faster though.

Made the correction to 80Gb/sec thank you.

W.r.t ip, the fastest I’m aware of is 25Gb/s via TB5 adapters like from Sonnet.

You should not be using an adapter to get IP over Thunderbolt. Just connect a Thunderbolt5 cable to both machines.

For point to point sure, but if you want to connect multiple machines in an actual fabric you’ll need some kind of network interop.

The Asus clustering speed is not limited to p2p.

Fair enough. On the other hand you have more thunderbolts to make up a clique mesh of seven point to point Macs.

I'm curious how quickly that trend will reverse when Google fulfills their promise to lock down sideloading on android.

Samsung makes nice hardware, but their bloatware is infuriating. I spend a lot of time on every new device, using ADB to purge as many samsung apps as I can. I'm getting tired of doing it.

Once I can't sideload anymore on android, my next phone will be an iphone.

The trend, if there is one, will be effected in no measurable way when a few nerds bail because they can't remove Samsung's browser.

By the way, outside of core phone features like Phone (dialer,) Settings, Camera, etc. you can disable or uninstall everything else without sideloading anything.

Very, very, very few consumers even know what sideloading is

Unfortunately, very few people care about sideloading.

And for those who do, Apple has been blocking sideloading for years.

The actual solution is to buy a phone that supports GrapheneOS. No bloatware, install what you want, and get top class security and privacy too.

Absolutely not, and thanks for the warning. Sidebar was already set to off, couldn't find any options for making sure that copilot was more off.

Not having ai bs baked in is a vanishingly rare feature in consumer software.

Are there any 3rd party, privacy respecting, voice assistants that integrate with android? Gemini is staying uninstalled, and I'm not in a hurry to switch to iPhone. If I can pay once for an on-device voice assistant to set gps destinations, alarms, timers, and tell me the weather, I'm set.