• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    I like the part where windows selects a random media you have in your web browser tabs to show on the lock screen. No way that could go badly for someone.

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      14 hours ago

      I had this once, and I don’t know why and how it happened. I live in a shared flat, otherwise I wouldn’t care. Ever since I use a veracrypt to store such stuff, so that it doesn’t happen ever again.

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      15 hours ago

      What the actual fuck. You know, I lock the screen because I don’t want people to see what I am doing.

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      My work machine occasionally displays the contents of the active cell in Excel over the lockscreen. I can’t imagine this going wrong. It’s somewhat rare but I’m ready to take photos the next time it happens, could yield some bug bounty.

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        doesn’t bother me because anyone snooping deserves to be traumatized. However, it’s linux, I’m sure there’s a setting for that.

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          There’s no less than two GUI for that setting, because the two devs got mad at each other and forked it. Only one GUI actually work, but it’s not the one that your distro ships with. Once you manage to compile the right GUI, you’ll find that in your version, because you didn’t get the optional libs from an obscure Russian website that’s been static since 2007, it only works if you run it right after killing the screensaver timing process. Otherwise you have to edit an undocumented .config file, and do it everytime you reboot your system… Unless you remember that there’s a special variant of vi to edit the screensaver config file.

          /s

          I love Linux, but sometimes I don’t feel the love go both ways.

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      14 hours ago

      That doesn’t exist. I’m looking at the page right now and this does not exist.

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          Ohhhhhh, you meant to say media player controls not media. This actually makes sense, and is valid if you’re the type of person who never looks at settings and expects Microsoft any corporate software engineer ever to take your privacy to heart.

          It’s also how your phone (regardless of make) and the other major OS vendor both work. It’s also how the bluetooth in your car works. You dont have to like it but if you refuse to look at device settings you’re gonna get boned at some point.

          Blame Firefox for, 15 years after release, finally integrating with the system-wide media API.

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            No, I’m going to blame Windows. My phone is in my pocket or face down on my desk when it’s locked so whatever i’m listening to isn’t visible I can’t very well do this with a monitor. There’s exactly zero reason for this functionality to exist on a desktop especially if they’re not even going to give you an option to turn it off. There’s no setting in windows for this. I’ve looked. There no setting to turn this off without doing it through the media control setting in firefox which takes your keyboard media controls down with it. That’s not a fix.