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lemmyvore ,

I think the “Valorant” mind set also applies to other software, like Photoshop or Excel etc. The vast majority of people don’t really need to use Photoshop professionally, or the advanced capabilities that only desktop Excel can provide, but they like to think they do. It’s a comfort zone thing, the devil you know and all that.

lemmyvore ,

It’s there anything out there that can pretend to be a Chromecast that’s not a Chromecast? And lets apps like Netflix cast to it?

lemmyvore ,

Fell off this passing truck that was carrying shows and movies!

lemmyvore ,

Lots of places do not allow no-fault divorce and the Republicans are planning to make it universal if they win the elections.

lemmyvore ,

Are you using Magisk?

lemmyvore ,

Lol. There are tons of security experts out there they could’ve hired. As Snowden said there’s only one reason you hire from the NSA, to work with the NSA.

lemmyvore ,

there are a ton of security experts. But none of them are the former head of the NSA.

That doesn’t make the point you think it makes. 🙂

Look at it this way. You can get the same expertise, in any branch you’d care to name, elsewhere. Hiring, security etc.

What this guy is uniquely positioned to do, what you can’t get from anybody else, is oversight of integration with NSA surveillance. And that’s where the smell comes from.

lemmyvore ,

I really wish I could find iPhones sufficient. It sounds nice to just don’t care and let the phone do what it will.

Unfortunately I’d be missing out on:

  • Ability to install apps from 3rd parties (or my own).
  • Ability to install older versions of apps and to backup and restore apps myself.
  • Ability to use third party or self-hosted services.
  • Features like conversation recording (on my own terms).
  • Payments without paying the Apple tax or Google tax. etc.
lemmyvore ,

Yeah let me know when Apple figure out notifications. They’re light years away from what you can do on Android to customize them.

Or UI navigation. Apple’s insistence on not having an OS “back” feature has led to each app implementing their own. Sometimes it’s a button, good luck finding it and figuring out how it looks, sometimes it’s a gesture or something else.

lemmyvore ,

Do they? Bad UI and bad notifications is something that everybody constantly complains about with Apple. But do they act on it or do they rest secure knowing they’ve got a captive audience and can simply be tone-deaf and forge on?

I can come up with lots of other bad UI examples btw those aren’t singular. The security code input pad is atrocious. The 3D touch fiasco etc.

Selfhosted alternatives to Goodreads?

So I finally broke down and made a very poor purchasing decision and ordered an e-ink writer to be a notepad/e-reader hybrid. Partially so that it is less of a hassle to read books I got from kickstarters and the like while still using the kindle app for the disturbing amounts of money I throw at Amazon....

lemmyvore ,

I wanted to migrate my CSV export from Goodreads somewhere selfhosted but apparently it’s not possible. All the selfhosted book trackers I’ve tried insist on “properly” importing your books and to do that they only consider entries with proper ISBN numbers. Guess what, many of the books I’ve read don’t have those on Goodreads. So they’ll simply ignore like 3/4ths of my export. So stupid.

Anyway, I ended up knocking together a shell script to convert the CSV to a plain text file and I’ll be updating that from now on. I never really cared about “shelves” and all that other stuff anyway, I mainly need title, author, and when I started/ended reading something. I don’t need ratings and reviews to know what I think about a book and if my memory fails I can just read it again.

Back when people I knew were on Goodreads it was fun checking out what the others were reading but they’ve all left the platform ages ago.

The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning. (lemmy.world)

Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively. Creators like TheLinuxExperiment on YouTube always feel the need to add a disclaimer that “some people think AI is problematic” or something along those lines if an AI topic is discussed. I get that AI has many problems but at the same...

lemmyvore ,

You can’t do machine learning without tons of data and processing power.

Commercial “AI” has been built on fucking over everything that moves, on both counts. They suck power at alarming rates, especially given the state of the climate, and they blatantly ignore copyright and privacy.

FOSS tends to be based on a philosophy that’s strongly opposed to at least some of these methods. To start with, FOSS is build around respecting copyright and Microsoft is currently stealing GitHub code, anonymizing it, and offering it under their Copilot product, while explicitly promising companies who buy Copilot that they will insulate them from any legal downfall.

So yeah, some people in the “Linux space” are a bit annoyed about these things, to put it mildly.

Edit: but, to address your concerns, there’s nothing to be gained by rushing head-first into new technology. FOSS stands to gain nothing from early adoption. FOSS is a cultural movement not a commercial entity. When and if the technology will be practical and widely available it will be incorporated into FOSS. If it won’t be practical or will be proprietary, it won’t. There’s nothing personal about that.

lemmyvore ,

There’s a small but vocal minority that absolutely hates the idea of “Arch made easy”. They think you should work hard to be worthy of using Arch. Manjaro is their anti-Christ. They show up in every conversation about Manjaro. I call them the “Manjaro sucks btw” people. 😆

They usually mention some irrelevant shit that happened years ago. Sometimes they can’t be bothered to type it out and only link to a page that one of them put up. Or literally just say “Manjaro sucks”. Sadly, the irony of being lazy when smearing a distro they consider lazy is lost on them.

lemmyvore ,

And here’s some of mine: lemmy.world/comment/10439242

I grow weary of Manjaro detractors because the malice is always there. You can’t make up your mind whether you hate the developers or what they do. You hate episodes like the “AUR DDoS” without knowing all the facts, or considering how shitty AUR infrastructure is that if a pigeon landed on the roof it would go down, so in the same breath you condemn Manjaro for “AUR incompatibility” and for promoting AUR and for “DDoS”-ing it. I mean pick a lane.

But mostly it’s just the hate that always seeps through that bothers me, not the content (which is the same inane stuff on manjarno over and over). What kind of person defines themselves by hate for something they don’t even use? There’s a million distros out there, there’s something for everybody. You’re not Inigo Montoya, get over it, Jesus. There was a root exploit unfixed in Debian for a while, do you hate them too? Can you imagine the reactions if there were a root exploit in Manjaro? Is any of this irony getting through?

lemmyvore ,

Which kernel was that? Manjaro recommends using LTS kernels.

lemmyvore ,

You must’ve not been around when Mint and Fedora were new.

They’ve been around for about twice as long as Manjaro. They made plenty of blunders.

caused real harm

Lol.

lemmyvore ,

Do tell, how did Manjaro hurt you?

lemmyvore ,

Yeah you can do that, it’s in the license. You don’t have to “tell someone”, you just have to publish the source.

lemmyvore ,

I also have a Lenovo E16 G1 and it’s great. Everything worked out of the box (Manjaro and XFCE) and that’s pretty much all there is to say about it.

lemmyvore ,

Firefox reader mode.

lemmyvore ,

Most kei trucks have 3 cylinders. A few have 4. Here’s a starting point.. Here’s another.

lemmyvore ,

There are a ton already. RPi stopped being interesting 5 years ago.

lemmyvore ,

I usually recommend beginners to start with a consumer plastic router and a regular PC as server.

A consumer router with 16 MB of flash and 128 MB of RAM running OpenWRT will be able to do pretty much everything you need from a router including port forwarding, DNS, DDNS, adblocking (like pihole), traffic shaping etc. They can usually be found super cheap and with even better specs (flash and RAM).

A regular PC will use off the shelf components that are cheap to buy used and easy to replace. It also lets you use regular 3.5" hdds as well as 2.5" hdds, ssds, nvmes and anything in between, and it doesn’t use USB for that, which is unreliable and prone to a million issues.

Again you don’t need super specs for the PC either, the smallest NVME you can find for the system drive and 8 GB of RAM plus a gen 6 Intel CPU will get you started and you can probably get this used for $50.

Use the PC for storage (NAS) and for hosting services, the router for network management, DNS and adblocking. If you know any Linux use it. If you don’t, install a ready-made tool and use that.

Buying USB enclosures and mini-pcs limits your options and ties you to cramped, unreliable and proprietary hardware.

lemmyvore ,

Thanks, I needed that laugh.

lemmyvore ,

Red Hat used to be a really solid choice for desktop back in the 90s and early 2000s. Some milestone releases:

  • 6.2 was the first version to put up ISO images for install. This is the one to get if you really want a blast from the past (early version of anaconda installer, ext2, LILO bootloader, Linux 2.2, Gnome 1 etc.)
  • 7.3 was the last version to come with the Netscape browser.
  • 9.0 was the last version before they split into Fedora and RHEL. It’s the last and most mature desktop release of that era, included the “Bluecurve” unified look and feel introduced in 8.0 but had bugfixed versions of KDE and Gnome.
lemmyvore ,

Before 6.2 you had to get them on actual CDs which wasn’t an option in many places. Starting with 6.2 they put them online on FTP.

lemmyvore ,

That’s what the chip on the card does too. It’s an embedded computer that generates one time codes just like the phone.

The main difference is that the phone typically has an extra security measure, like requiring the screen to be on to pay (but you can get a mesh wallet which prevents tap from working); or the phone needs to be unlocked, which is actually useful.

lemmyvore ,

Anything up to a certain amount. All the banks here have configurable limits for contactless payments (both in number of payments per day and in total amount). If you go over the limit they ask you to confirm in a way that requires the phone anyway. You can also block the cards remotely.

I’d say it’s a decent mix of convenience and security, even if you use cards.

And sometimes you have to resort to using cards because some banks have been migrating from using the NFC directly to using Google Pay and I for one don’t relish giving Google insight into my shopping.

lemmyvore ,

They ask for PIN too but that’s a different limit ($20 by default but also configurable). The limits I mentioned block payments for the day if not confirmed.

never heard of banks using the NFC directly

Really? I’ve never heard of Garmin Pay. 😄 But that’s the whole point of the NFC chip being open on Android, so apps can use it directly. On iPhone it’s an artificial limitation imposed by Apple so they can take their cut from payments and have a processor monopoly. On Android any app can just do it — not only banking apps and not only payments, the NFC can be used for lots of things like opening doors etc. There are apps like meal tickets that can issue payments, gym apps and so on. Giving that up and going with Google is extremely narrow sighted.

lemmyvore ,

OP is taking about packages and updates using peer to peer, not just the install media. AFAIK no distro does that.

lemmyvore ,

Threads is only federated in name. It’s simply Meta’s taking advantage of Twitter’s downfall. It’s as centralized and under Meta’s thumb as they come.

lemmyvore ,

Easier to maintain… Arch?

If OP managed to break a distro that releases once every 2 years and then only issues stable updates I don’t think they’ll cope well with a rolling distro.

lemmyvore ,

How is “Unix philosophy” even remotely connected to the philosophy behind free software?

“UNIX philosophy” refers to modular design made up of small components that interconnect well and each focus on its own goal. It’s not about the freedom.

Unix itself was proprietary.

Bell Labs UNIX was proprietary but open source, Berkeley UNIX was FOSS. Both were developed in academic environments that valued the spirit of software freedom and often followed it by breaking the letter of the licensing imposed by their corporate sponsors.

Just wanted to correct the confusion. On a side note I don’t think Wayland goes against UNIX philosophy. It’s just that some of the components are still missing or badly divided. It will get better eventually.

lemmyvore ,

That was a solved problem 20 years ago lol. We made working systems for this in our lab at Uni, it was one of our course group projects. It used combinations of sensors and microcontrollers.

It’s not really the kind of problem that requires AI. You can do it with AI and image recognition or live traffic data but that’s more fitting for complex tasks like adjusting the entire grid live based on traffic conditions. It’s massively overkill for dead time switches.

Even for grid optimization you shouldn’t jump into AI head first. It’s much better long term to analyze the underlying causes of grid congestion and come up with holistic solutions that address those problems, which often translate into low-tech or zero-tech solutions. I’ve seen intersections massively improved by a couple of signs, some markings and a handful of plastic poles.

Throwing AI at problems is sort of a “spray and pray” approach that often goes about as badly as you can expect.

lemmyvore ,

The IRC bots that run these sharing channels will crap themselves if hit with any kind of automation. Many/most have limited bandwidth and use a queueing system that only serves one or two downloads at a time and a small queue (it varies, some may have a 10 slot queue, some may have 50 or 100).

lemmyvore ,

They’re nowhere close to something like Anna. They have nice collections but it’s mostly English mainstream stuff.

lemmyvore ,

FWIW I don’t recall ever finding anything obscure on there so I think it’s mostly mainstream stuff.

lemmyvore ,

If that hadn’t happened, BSD would be the longest continuous OS today, and probably way more significant than it is.

Or if the GNU project had used the BSD kernel instead of deciding to make their own from scratch.

lemmyvore ,

So I’d say MS-Dos family died with windows 2000.

Did you mean Windows Me?

2000 was NT-based.

lemmyvore ,

web.archive.org/web/20200330150337/…/article.php?…

Stallman wanted to use TRIX initially but it was considered too limited for the goals of GNU.

BSD was considered too but some of the Berkeley crowd were uncooperative because they secretly planned to make a commercial version (BSDi).

In the the end he compromised on Mach.

Thomas Bushnell:

RMS was a very strong believer – wrongly, I think – in a very greedy-algorithm approach to code reuse issues. My first choice was to take the BSD 4.4-Lite release and make a kernel. I knew the code, I knew how to do it. It is now perfectly obvious to me that this would have succeeded splendidly and the world would be a very different place today.

RMS wanted to work together with people from Berkeley on such an effort. Some of them were interested, but some seem to have been deliberately dragging their feet: and the reason now seems to be that they had the goal of spinning off BSDI. A GNU based on 4.4-Lite would undercut BSDI.

So RMS said to himself, “Mach is a working kernel, 4.4-Lite is only partial, we will go with Mach.” It was a decision which I strongly opposed. But ultimately it was not my decision to make, and I made the best go I could at working with Mach and doing something new from that standpoint.

This was all way before Linux; we’re talking 1991 or so.

From “The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin” by Dr. Peter H. Salus.

lemmyvore ,

Linux started in 1991 but initially it was just one student’s project. It was only considered mature in 1994, by which time there were over 100 people working on it, lots of software was ported to it, the first distributions came out, and it officially hit version 1.0.

A working, established kernel in 1991 would have given the GNU project a 3 year head start. I’m also unsure if the combination of GPL userland and BSD kernel would have been ideal but 3 years can mean a lot in tech.

lemmyvore ,
  • Recall is a proposed feature that would screenshot the Windows screen periodically, OCR the screenshots and store the results. Ostensibly supposed to be a “remember things you did” feature for the user but suspected to be a data collection tool for Microsoft to train its AI systems. Security researchers have also warned that it puts users at significant risk if their computers are breached by malware.
  • Copilot started as a programming AI tool which used open source software off the popular development site GitHub as training for its AI and as source of code samples. It’s already caused Microsoft to be sued because it offers code verbatim to users without mentioning or obeying its licensing. Nowadays Microsoft is expanding the Copilot brand to include other kinds of AI assistance, for example one that helps you write emails in Outlook etc.
  • Hello is an authentication method for Microsoft accounts using biometrics and TPM chips.

Proton Calendar to...Android calendar? Via caldav, perhaps?

Hi guys! So, I have Proton Mail, and this also gives me the Calendar. I love that I have a encrypted private calendar, but it bothers me that it doesn’t play well with any other app, as it’s not officially a “calendar” to Android. This bothers me, because I use GrapheneOS, with mostly no Google services, and I’d like...

lemmyvore ,

There are two ways to use an .ics link:

  • You can add it in Google Calendar using “add URL” and it will show up in the GC app. Downside is that you need to use the app… and also it refreshes the link when it wants (you can’t set it).
  • You can use a calendar app that can import .ics links directly. The one I use is called Calengoo. This way you’ll be able to control when to refresh it, but it bypasses the normal Android calendars so it won’t be visible to other apps or widgets except the one that imported it.

I noticed what you said about not using Google services. The Calengoo app has a version you can download on their website (as opposed to Google Play) and purchase a license code with CC or PayPal, that is not tied to Google Play.

lemmyvore ,

There are FOSS Android apps that work with .ics URLs, like ICSDroid and DavDroid. Some of them work read-only but I guess you’re ok with that.

Radicale and Baikal servers are fairly easy to set up in Docker. Let me know if you run into trouble.

I use Radicale and I expose it over the internet at my own domain. It has full support for events, tasks, contacts (and notes, if you can find an app to support them, AFAIK the only working combination is DAVx5 + jtxBoard). The data is saved in plain text files so it’s very easy to backup and non-proprietary. The server itself is lightweight, it’s literally only one process (Python) and uses about 100 MB of RAM. It has a basic web interface you can use to check if login credentials work and to create/import calendars and contacts. You can turn off this interface when not needed.

lemmyvore ,

I hope you weren’t installing NextCloud just for CalDav because that would indeed be overkill. 😆 Glad you found something that works.

lemmyvore ,

What’s mouse drivers, precious?

Networking Gear Recommendations? (starting from scratch)

Hi, I hope its appropriate to ask this here, considering this is the most active community closest to this topic (Networking). I am moving places shortly and will need to start from scratch will all networking equipment. Including router and wifi-extenders. Am wondering what the general consencus is around networking gear, what...

lemmyvore ,

Isn’t 500€ a bit much for just the router?

lemmyvore ,

Should probably add that a power line transmits network signal over the power plugs. OP may not be aware this is possible.

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