Sheridan

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  • SheridantoAsk Lemmy*Permanently Deleted*
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    11 days ago

    I’ve had a mid-tier OLED tv the last few months. The colors and contrast look phenomenal to me. You get true black on OLED since each pixel is individually lit.

    I watch a lot of horror films which will have many dimly lit or night time scenes. OLED makes those scenes much easier to see because of increased contrast between dark and light.


  • So many people think Mac is an acronym for whatever reason, as in “Do you use MAC or PC?”.

    I don’t know why they think this. It was never formatted that way in any of Apple’s marketing materials.

    It really annoys me. In my head when I read it I hear “MAC” pronounced in the voice of Gilbert Godfrey.

    I’m guessing they’re confusing it with MAC addresses? They probably saw the term somewhere and wrongly assumed it had something to do with Apple Macs.










  • SheridantoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlComputer related pet peeves
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    1 month ago

    With Word, people using section breaks when most of the time they should have used the simpler page break.

    Section breaks are supposed to be used if you want to have a change in the document layout in the middle of the document. This change could be with the margins, the orientation, the contents of the header or footer, the numbering (eg switch from roman numerals to arabic numerals), etc.

    But if you just want the line to move to the next page, use a page break. Section breaks increase the chance of unintended layout and page numbering inconsistencies.

    Microsoft should rename section break to “layout break” maybe.

    Also, related topic, I really hate it when people just input a bunch of line breaks to get the cursor to the next page, instead of a page break.




  • SheridanOPtoPrivacymacOS + iOS browser recommendations?
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    1 month ago

    Wow, I didn’t know iCab was still being developed. I remember it from like 20 years ago.

    Its iOS app store page says it doesn’t collect any information, so that’s promising. The recent reviews as of version 11 aren’t great; lots of bugs apparently. I might try it nevertheless.

    Thanks for the recommendation!


  • SheridanOPtoPrivacymacOS + iOS browser recommendations?
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    1 month ago

    While the rendering engine (WebKit) is the same across iOS browsers, WebKit is an open source project. To my knowledge there isn’t any telemetry baked into WebKit that reports back to Apple or whomever about user identity or behavior; tracking would have to be added by the developers making use of WebKit for their browser, I think? So in terms of privacy, it should make a difference which iOS you select.


  • SheridanOPtoPrivacymacOS + iOS browser recommendations?
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    1 month ago

    I have hundreds if not thousands of bookmarks; I’d like them to stay in sync between desktop and mobile and that requires the same browser on both platforms, no?

    The main problem I’m having is finding a trustworthy iOS browser that does absolutely zero tracking of its users. You look at the privacy info on Apple’s App store pages for like Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi, DDG, and other privacy oriented browsers, and they say they collect this or that. Only Orion from what I can tell promises they collect nothing (whether that can be independently verified idk since it’s closed source).