What is something you can’t live without, technology wise that saves you time?
I have to say it’s my virtual assistant I’ve made. It saves me a lot of time with making reminders and such alarms for meetings or interviews, music etc.
What I can learn in 10 minutes courtesy of the internet is staggering.
Even if I was at a library, standing in front of the card catalog, it would take longer to even find a book/periodical to even start a search on a subject.
Add my pocket computer (yea, we call them smart phones) with note-taking apps, and what I can study/learn and keep in a searchable personal DB of sorts is just amazing. It’s something that was talked about before personal computers were even ubiquitous, and it arrived incredibly quickly since then.
I followed the links in that story, and see nothing but claims.
Toyota (and Honda) engines are incredibly robust. To have a single new engine fail would be very surprising, but 2 or 3? Yea, I need to see a lot more detail about what’s going on (and not just links from a story quoting an owner with broken links to forums).
As someone who first tured a wrench nearly 50 years ago, and worked on every brand available in the US, with racing siblings all that time, um, no, I’m calling BS here.
I refuse to own vehicles from the Big 3 any more. Tired of working on them.
Anecdotal: I ran a Toyota engine for 7 years with rare oil changes (once a year), and it was still running fine at 300k miles when I traded it in. And everything on the vehicle still worked. None of my Big 3 vehicles made it to 300k.
Security and privacy are especially laughable since iMessage encryption lacks forward secrecy (all your messages throughout time are encrypted with the same keys), and just today we find the encryption hardware on Macs is fatally flawed and can be hacked by a user-mode process (no admin/root privelege required). Oh, and it’s un-patchable because it’s in the hardware itself.
You get an upvote for “whatever that is”, because it’s annoying as hell when people post stuff with no background and assume the entire world knows what they’re crying about.
Everywhere I’ve worked people who are sexist get pushed to the side. It’s simply not tolerated when work needs doing, and expertise is what matters.
I don’t care what your dangly bits are, or who you screw. Why is that even part of any conversation about making widgets better, or more efficiently?
I’ve worked with people who love to talk politics at work, I can’t fucking stand it, on any side. It’s not related to what we’re doing, so keep your fucking opinions to yourself, and focus on the job at hand. Your politics only interfere with what the rest of the team is trying to accomplish.
From @LineageOS install instructions - success is normal, but errors are also fine:
> Normally, adb will report Total xfer: 1.00x, but in some cases, even if the process succeeds the output will stop at 47% and report adb: failed to read command: Success. In some cases it will report adb: failed to read command: No error or adb: failed to read command: Undefined error: 0 which is also fine.
Haha, the downvoting. OP didn’t present anything, just some quote from a setup. There was no question, no explanation, just a quote.
Are we supposed to assume what OP wanted? Because I had no idea OP was just posting “for the lulz”. To me it seemed like there was potentially a question, but it hadn’t been stated.
Hence my “ok, and”.
Don’t assume people know what the fuck you’re on about. Communicate
I have started the year with a paid subscription subscription for @protonmail. I am very found of @protonprivacy services and Proton Mail has replaced GMail
For Molly, I kept seeing this popup by Google when downloading Molly FOSS from fdroid.
Should I be concerned? What should I do to ensure I am downloading Molly from a trusted source if Fdroid isn't an ideal place (due to misleading names as depicted in the referenced post)?
This BS is one of the last straws pushing me away from Google.
Running DivestOS, you can install MicroG as a user app in a secondary profile. So it runs only when you want it to. You can install play store there too, and again it only runs when you want it to.
That should limit this nonsense until I can replace my paid for apps with something else.
Shut up Google. Most malware comes from the play store.
The future of selfhosted services is going to be... Android?
Wait, what?
Think about it. At some point everyone has had an old phone lying around. They are designed to be constantly connected, constantly on... and even have a battery and potentially still a SIM card to survive power outages.
We just need to make it easy to create APK packaged servers that can avoid battery-optimization kills and automatically configure an outbound tunnel like ngrok, zerotrust, etc...
The goal: hosting services like #nextcloud, #syncthing, #mastodon!? should be as easy as installing an APK and leaving an old phone connected to a spare charger / outlet.
It would be tempting to have an optimized ROM, but if self-hosting is meant to become more commonplace, installing an APK should be all that's needed. #Android can do SSH, VPN and other tunnels without the need for root, so there should be no problem in using tunnels to publicly expose a phone/server in a secure manner.
In regards to the suitability of home-grade broadband, I believe that it should not be a huge problem at least in Europe where home connections are most often unmetered: "At the end of June 2021, 70.2% of EU homes were passed by either FTTP or cable DOCSIS
3.1 networks, i.e. those technologies currently capable of supporting gigabit speeds."
PS. syncthing actually already has an APK and is easy to use. Although I had to sort out some battery optimization stuff, it's a good example of what should become much more commonplace.
I hadn’t considered the RISC angle. Does RISC consistently use less power than CISC at given operations levels (MFLOPS, for example), or is there another/better way to make a power-consumption vs operations/performance comparison?
I realize this is kind of esoteric for my use-cases, but it would be useful for making projections to see if spending X dollars on Y number of Pi’s recoups the investment over a given period, just in power consumption.
E.G. If I can reduce my power consumption by 70% by switching to 3 Rpis, then I can recoup their cost in 2-3 years. Since my server needs replacing anyway, this seems like a no-brainer.