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federalreverse , (edited )

Not an expert but: tldr don’t.

Battery calibration is supposed to help the battery’s firmware figure out how low the battery can go. It also tends to hurt your battery, so you should avoid performing these calibrations and keep the charge between 20% and 80% as much as you can.

It seems what you’re trying to do is improve battery estimation by the OS on a new machine. And in that case, Is just trey trip love* I’d just try to live with possible insecurity of not knowing whether the machine has 15 or 25 minutes left.

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federalreverse ,

It’s not such a binary thing. For example, you can obtain some, hodl for a bit, and later return them for a profit. It’s basically like the stock market, except people refer to the money you get as a “ransom” rather than a “profit” for some reason. What many people outside the industry don’t know is that it doesn’t officially become a crime until police get involved. So just insist on “No police!” in your sales calls. /s

federalreverse ,

Mag-sein, dass du musst deinen Babelfisch fixieren.

federalreverse ,

No

Why do I puke more than once when I've been drunk?

So I’ve been drinking and it becomes like I drink water and I puke right away. So it’s like what’s the point of puking if I can’t get rid of all the toxicant in one go. I end up just puking whatever I put in. I assume puking is good but yeah I don’t get the point if it can’t be just a one time thing.

federalreverse ,

Seriously. I puked the first few times when I wasn’t used to alcohol at all. I also puked once when I drank way too much which is something I never repeated. Beyond that, I didn’t puke much.

Pizza chefs of Lemmy, is a job as a pizza chef a physically demanding job?

I’m asking because, i’m thinking about doing a little part time job as a pizza maker on one day of the week because 1. i FRICKIN LOVE PIZZA and 2. i need to do something physically demanding as an contra to my office job which is only mentally exhausting. Just doin workouts at the gym would be an option yes, but getting the...

federalreverse ,

I guess professional kitchens are often an abusive environment in general where one kind of abuse begets another. But that’s still not a obligatory part of the job.

federalreverse ,

Oracle Java uses a license called “GPL with Classpath Exception”, so it’s definitely possible to create derivatives of the GPL and name them appropriately.

federalreverse ,

The original version of Java was proprietary. Sun later open-sourced large parts of it but they kept selling a version of Java with a proprietary license. There were also random kerfuffles over the years with IBM and Red Hat who wanted to sell open-source Java into large organizations without giving a cut to Sun/Oracle.

federalreverse ,

I use Calyx on a Fairphone 4. It’s not totally degooglified, since it comes with MicroG which is used to connect to Google services. I use Aurora Store and a couple of original Google Apps like Gboard too (none of my Google apps can access the internet, since they’re behind the built-in firewall). It works well except call functionality which can be wonky and there’s the issue that a lot of apps from Play don’t work well with MicroG. I only use a small selection of Play apps though, so it doesn’t bother me too much.

federalreverse , (edited )

I never bothered with banking apps. (Outside of the virtual debit card app from my bank. That one did install successfully. However, I never got try out in store because it deleted my virtual card after a few days and I didn’t care enough to set it up again.)

federalreverse ,

Sixpack of beer? (Optionally alcohol-free, if his bad behavior is related to alcohol abuse.)

federalreverse ,

A mimosa is excellent for this purpose. And it’s pretty too.

federalreverse ,

X11 is not made with security in mind. At the point where you disable Wayland, you can basically use native apps rather than flatpaked apps.

federalreverse ,

You may be using something that counteracts the ads. Such as an ad blocker.

federalreverse , (edited )

Not a single mention of “blockchain”, “decentralization”, “DeFi”, “dApps”, “NFTs”, DAOs", or “aping in” because “WAGMI”. I am disappointment.

federalreverse ,

There’s no Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. blockchain, after all.

Microsoft Azure used to have a blockchain (aaS) implementation, iirc. It just wasn’t useful to their customers or profitable to them.

I think IBM also used to dabble in blockchain tech.

federalreverse ,

!artporn. This one has a rather prolific mod, craftyindividual, who not only single-handedly keeps up the community but also posts a large variety of artwork.

Can I refuse MS Authenticator?

So my company decided to migrate office suite and email etc to Microsoft365. Whatever. But for 2FA login they decided to disable the option to choose “any authenticator” and force Microsoft Authenticator on the (private) phones of both employees and volunteers. Is there any valid reason why they would do this, like it’s...

federalreverse ,

Push Authentication in the MS Authenticator is Microsoft’s proprietary thing. And I think that’s probably what we’re talking about here.

federalreverse ,

Is your company mandating Push Authentication or are you entering 6-digit codes?

If it’s the former, MS Authenticator is the only option.

If it’s the latter, you can use any TOTP app you like, e.g. Aegis.

federalreverse ,

Glasses.

federalreverse ,

I guess we use “Making gold from straw” (German).

federalreverse ,

Yes, that’s where it’s from.

federalreverse ,

German for “like father, like son” is “the apple doesn’t fall far off the tree trunk”. But many people nowadays use “the apple doesn’t fall far off the pear tree”, which is a variant that I think originally was supposed to suggest illegitimate fatherhood.

federalreverse ,

You’re right, I forgot about the fact that there’s a literal translation. But besides being gender-neutral, both sayings mean the same, no?

My main point was that many Germans now regularly use the pear-tree malapropism, however.

federalreverse ,

You’re not wrong, and yet it’s the name of a fairly popular porn series where actresses exchange a cab ride for sexual favors (that’s the story idea at least).

It’s popular enough that there is a significant number of people (vulgo, “creeps”) who put Fake Taxi stickers all over their cars.

federalreverse ,

Nature religions were right and we’re all part of a single bigger organism of which every part can feel and communicate with every other part.

federalreverse , (edited )

Bomfunk MC’s Freestyler is the peak of musical creation. (Ok, prolly no but I love coming back to it.)

(Fwiw, initially I read “triple !” (i.e. !!! or ChkChkChk) in your op comment and thought why?, that’s a great band.)

federalreverse ,

All humans (which afaik includes royals) are animals anyway.

federalreverse ,

They look like the wading birds I liked seeing so much in Spanish rice paddies.

federalreverse OP , (edited )

Afaiu it, he added a second package with (quote) “all the crap” later, after the storm.

And no, it wasn’t just the favicons feature that was removed (which like … is that really such a big privacy issue that you need to remove it from the binary?). Support for Yubikey was removed as well — which is not a privacy issue. The reasoning mentioned by the Debian maintainer is that all of these features might turn out to be security issues in the long run. Thus, in his view, a password manager application must do nothing but provide access to the database within the app.

I find it an interesting example of diverging upstream, maintainer, and user interests in any case.

federalreverse OP ,

Yes, these are off-by-default features.

federalreverse OP ,

You have a point to some degree, yet I still think it is defensible to make this post. He majorly altered software

  • downstream
  • against user expectations
  • for somewhat spurious reasons
  • seemingly quite ad-hoc

He then went on to defend that decision in a less-than-graceful way before announcing there will be a second, new package.

But, to make it clear: I certainly don’t approve of hate directed toward him and I don’t have a personal issue with him.

federalreverse ,

I hear that Amazon sells a locked-down e-reader, they’re the market leader as well.

federalreverse ,

The most prominent of those being Adolf Eichmann.

federalreverse ,

If Big Gravity didn’t illegally hold down the truth, your book would fly off the shelves (literally).

federalreverse ,

I don’t know, you may need to ask someone at Facebook.

However, most people who want this kind of feature hope to use it to violate the privacy of others, I think. Which is imo a good reason against such a feature. Another reason against it is that a significant portion of people are not logged in, so the data would be wrong anyway.

federalreverse , (edited )

GTK is a UI toolkit, i.e. a piece of software that draws uniform-looking buttons and scrollbars and the like.

GTK used to stand for “GIMP toolkit” but GTK and GIMP development are now entirely separate, so much so, in fact, that 13 years after the release of GTK 3 and 3 years after the release of GTK 4, GIMP still hasn’t upgraded to either.

federalreverse ,

Porting Wayland compatibility to GTK 2 would be incredibly out of scope for GIMP developers. :)

federalreverse ,

GIMP has had a GTK 3 port in development for years. They just lack the developer bandwidth to finish it. And in general, using EOLed libraries for your very popular application is not great, not for security, not for usability, and not for compatibility with modern systems.

federalreverse ,

Actually, part of the reason that American cheese cannot be called “cheese” even in the US is that it’s not just cheese + sodium citrate anymore. For cost reasons, it’s now cheese + butter + skim milk powder + sodium citrate.

federalreverse ,

I hate it when when my local /dev/shm gets smelly.

federalreverse ,

With these types of Captchas, I always wonder whether I need to click on e.g. square C2 that has a tiny bit of the seat padding on it.

federalreverse ,

Either the EU manages to step in and largely fill the gap, or Ukraine will have to give in. Russia can then ingest Ukraine, continue to seed political distrust in Western countries and then potentially start another war in Europe a few years later.

Alternatively, the NATO/EU/US may decide to become directly involved in the war in Ukraine to avoid a further destabilization of Europe. In that case, Russia can be beat, although I’d expect Russians to be more motivated to go into war.

I’m not sure whether the way the war against Ukraine plays out has too much influence on whether China decides that it needs to start a war against Taiwan though.

federalreverse , (edited )

.db is usually short for “database”. I’d suspect this file is part of an anti-virus tool or similar. Where did you find the file? Edit: phishingurl indicates that it’s part of some URL checking functionality of a browser. Not sure which browser puts that straight into .local/share though. Might be a KDE thing.

Edit 2: Qkall’s answer says it’s KMail.

federalreverse ,

I guess it’s an appropriate name if the file collects the URLs of sites that trick you into installing malware.

federalreverse ,

Wikipedia is probably a reasonably good starting point to learn. Just start at your own country’s page, read the Politics section and click through to the pages for the national parliament, the government, the regions, etc.

News, as the name implies, often has a relatively short half life. Thus it’s not a good starting point for learning. Ground News I only know from Youtube ads and I guess using that is better than, say, starting a Fox News diet. Actually, in general, keep away from (American) TV news and find more in-depth coverage elsewhere that includes a bit more context and nuance.

Also be aware that a lot of what looks like news at first may actually be opinion content and thus does not have to be entirely true.

federalreverse , (edited )

Is not up to SUSE’s marketing department, most of which is from the US, either. The company has a German origin, had German founders (they’re all out of the company at this point though), and the company name used to be a German acronym. The correct pronunciation is the German one.

(See the update @barbara added. Lisa Sherwell actually took the effort to learn the correct pronunciation. Part of the reason why is that she was actually involved in planning the new German office of SUSE.)

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