Chewy7324

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4 months durability for an $800 phone!

My old $200 Motorola G9 Power phone lasted almost 4 years with only very minor scratches. Obviously in that period I have dropped it a few times getting out of the car, where the phone sometimes work itself out of my pant pocket while I drive, and then it slips out when I get out of the car. But no problem on my previous phones,...

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Glass backs were already popular on Android phones when Apple started using them. Previously they used metal backs, but they aren’t compatible with wireless charging so manufacturers have to choose between plastic and glass — guess which one is more popular with reviewers?

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The 13T Pro, as well as the standard 13T, come in two versions - dual-glass design and glass front with vegan leather back, both featuring plastic frames with matching colors and metal-like finish. [1]

The Xiaomii 13T Pro is available with a vegan leather back (plastic) which won’t break from a drop. Instead vegan leather likely deteriorates in look and feel over the years, but I’d prefer it over broken glass.

[1] gsmarena.com/xiaomi_13t_pro-review-2622p2.php

Chewy7324,

Note that some devices aren’t able to correctly mount the second partition.

I guess this is because the first partition is used to boot ventoy, while the second partition holds data and some devices (e.g. printers) won’t mount the second partition.

PS: I nearly wasn’t able to hold a presentation because of this, luckily a second stick/phone/copy on web storage saved me, iirc.

Chewy7324,

Or they do it like their e2e-encryption: proprietary extensions to RCS without any compatibility with other RCS apps (not that there’s any, given it’s necessary to partner with Google to do so).

Chewy7324,

Huaweii’s HarmonyOS is also based on Android, just like other manufacturer’s Android reskins.

They might’ve hard forked AOSP without incorporating newer changes and over time farther deviate from upstream AOSP, but at least three years ago they basically just replaced all mentions of Android with Harmony.

arstechnica.com/…/harmonyos-hands-on-huaweis-andr…

Torrenting exposes your public IP. In a country where government doesn't care, does that pose a risk?

I honestly don’t believe I will have any legal trouble because I don’t do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?

Chewy7324,

What happens if you start the torrent client without the VPN already running?

Bind your torrent client to the VPN interface, then you won’t even need a killswitch.

Chewy7324,

Nur was bringt eine Stimme für die letzte Generation, wenn sie keine Chance auf Sitze im Bundestag haben? Je mehr Stimmen progressive Parteien unter der 5% Hürde erhalten, desto mehr Sitze bekommen Rechte Parteien.

Chewy7324,

Sadly I find myself opening up Stealth (open source reddit client without any login) more than I’d like. There’s just more content for some topics. No longer supporting reddit by commenting is largely good enough for me, but it makes me understand how most people never left reddit.

At the same time I spent more time on social media than I should, like typing this comment.

"Keine Plattform für den Staat": Antidiskriminierungsbeauftragte hält neuen Tiktok-Auftritt des deutschen Kanzlers Scholz für einen "Fehler" (www.tagesschau.de) German

Begleitet von einer hochkarätig besetzten Wirtschaftsdelegation ist der Bundeskanzler am frühen Morgen zu einem dreitägigen Besuch in China eingetroffen. Kurz vor seinen Gesprächen mit der chinesischen Führung hatte Olaf Scholz diese Woche öffentlichkeitswirksam einen eigenen Auftritt auf der umstrittenen chinesischen...

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Ich bezweifle, dass die Präsenz von Olaf Scholz auf TikTok zu einer maßgeblichen Aufwertujg der Plattform führt. Dementsprechend bin ich der Meinung, dass die Vorteile von demokratischen Inhalten auf TikTok die Nachteile überwiegen.

Die AfD und andere populistische Gruppen haben eine vielfach größere Reichweite als demokratische Parteien. Es gibt auch eine substantielle Anzahl an Personen, die nur über TikTok/Instagram von Nachrichten erreicht werden. Deshalb ist es wichtig, dass z.B. die Tagesschau in den sozialen Medien präsent ist.

Chewy7324,

Die FDP wirkt einem potentiell geringeren Absatz von Autos durch erhöhte Preise mit dem fehlenden Ausbau der öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel entgegen. Wenn ein Auto alternativlos ist, bleibt die Führerscheinquote sehr hoch.

Bürger mit regulären Gehältern hassen diesen Trick.

Chewy7324,

Banks were able to create their own NFC payment app, which can be set as default payment provider.

I’m not sure what else Google Wallet is able to do, but I guess this might be about being able to have a default wallet with tickets for events and similar.

Hopefully there’ll really be open-source wallets. With banking/nfc pay this isn’t possible for service ands security reasons.

Chewy7324,

One always has to be suspicious of Mozilla these days.

As far as I know Mozilla never lied on technical details, at worst they didn’t know about wrongdoings by their partners and acted once known about.

The translation being done locally is advertised and should be simple to check with it being open-source. It also has to download for a while on first use, as well as translations take a considerable amount of time depending on the hardware. E.g. for larger sites it takes a short while until the last paragraph shows up as translated.

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KDE and Gnome being nearly identical, irrespective of X.org and (X)Wayland, was to be expected. Prior benchmarks came to the same conclusion, altough I believe to remember the gap between Wayland and X.org has been widening slightly.

It’d be interesting to see if games running natively on Wayland will change things a bit more, but I don’t expect it to change performance any more than it did until now (barely measurable). Most of the performance issues of games is having enough compute to calculate the frames, not how they are presented.

But it’s interesting that Gnome Wayland still has some unexpectedly worse results in a few cases, altough it’s not a reason to choose any desktop over another.

Chewy7324,

PiVPN is great and was one of the first services I experimented with on my old Pi 3.

Now with wireguard existing I didn’t feel the need for anything besides wg-quick or using wireguard directly. I didn’t even know PiVPN got support for wireguard, but it’s great that it got maintained for so many years.

Chewy7324,

In this case it’s a bit weird though, as the game lists Linux as supported platform, but obviously just ships the Windows build with Proton instead of having a native Linux build that uses open cross-platform APIs.

It being under supported platforms might mean that the developer officially supports proton and thus Linux. Hopefully they’d provide fixes if they somehow break the game on proton (e.g. they won’t add an unnecessary launcher which breaks the game).

Chewy7324,

If that’s the case, streamrip still works fine with Tidal. Deezer support is currently broken.

github.com/nathom/streamrip

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The dowloaded files can’t be played and testing .flacs with flac -t throws errors.

github.com/nathom/streamrip/issues/656

Chewy7324,

For swap files on btrfs COW and features like compression have to be disabled. I believe for btrfs the swap file even has to sit on a subvolume with those features disabled, so it’s not enough to only disable them for the swap file.

Chewy7324,

I prefer swap files over swap partitions, because it makes it my partition layout simpler to manage.

If your using a swap partition, make sure it’s located on an encrypted partition, else it exposes data stored in RAM (encryption keys etc). With SSD’s it’s difficult to make sure this data is actually deleted, even after overwriting.

My preferred setup for a long time was LUKS with btrfs on top. Then subvolumes for /, /home and the swap file (+ /var/cache, /var/log etc.). This gives me peace of mind nothing is unencrypted except /boot.

Nowadays I simply use zram, which allows for a small part of RAM to be compressed for swap. It’s great, simple to setup and performs well. Imo it should be default for all desktops.

Chewy7324,

After 15 to 20 years of 64bit supporting systems being sold, I don’t think it’s an issue to drop 32bit support. Even if someone wants to use such an old pc for any reason, it should be fine to run an older version of Minecraft. There’s still MC 1.8 servers around, and they’ll likely continue to exist for many years to come.

Chewy7324,

It still works for private instances. The moment a public instance makes enough requests to reddit, they block it.

I’m running libreddit on my home server and access it through wireguard. Never been rate-limited. It’s the only thing I still use Libredirect, since most platforms ban third-larry frontends.

Chewy7324,

Doing the dishes while listening to podcasts with low battery makes me wish my wireless earphones didn’t break so soon. The amount of times I took my phone out, put it on a table and walked away to tow it off the table is staggering. Or forgetting to turn down the amplifier before unplugging just to get blasted with static noise isn’t something I miss.

Not having to bother with reconnecting bluetooth headphones and instead plugging in a cable is great tho, so I understand everyone who still likes their wired headphones.

Chewy7324,

Agreed. Their discord has been full of inconsiderate jokes and memes for a long time. It’s not untypical of many edgy internet communities but it being directly associated with a project isn’t a good look.

I definitely wouldn’t want to get involved with such a project, altough it is a good piece of software and I don’t see their behaviour influencing the popularity of hyprland.

Chewy7324,

Yes, with Vaxry being banned from contributing to wlroots, hyprland development won’t get easier. At the same time I’d say wlroots and hyprland are largely feature complete, so not being able to contribute might not have a large impact on hyprland.

Chewy7324,

Hyprland and sway are the most feature complete tiling compositors I’ve tried. But since I strongly prefer dynamic tiling, there’s not much of a choice. River tiling is the best in my opinion. Sadly it doesn’t support moving workspaces between monitors, as each monitor has its own set of workspaces, which is a deal breaker to me.

In general I strongly prefer Wayland over X11, as I’ve found Sway to be a better experience than i3 + picom for many years (not having to disable the compositor while gaming, better multi monitor support, etc), but having to switch to wayland-native tools is necessary coming from X11 wm’s. For DE’s that’s not an issue.

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