I’m thinking of getting a second phone to ease off iOS. It has been good for productivity stuff but the closed off nature of the device keeps disrupting my plans. Everything is either expensive or ad ridden. (Except floccus, floccus is awesome)...
So, I’m on a P7 with GOS, and truly it is a brilliant way to divest oneself from google services, alongside being probably the most secure third party ROM. I think, they’re certainly very keen on it, and laudably competent, updates are around weekly, sometimes every couple of days, because there are some vulnerable (to state level actors etc.) users. It’s been great, I have a primary profile that is google free and a secondary for google stuff that I want, and over time I find, at my own pace, FOSS things to move into my primary, so I don’t need my secondary as much, until I didn’t need it at all. It’s great, and now I can move to any other ROM without google services and be (mostly, except for some bastard in real life requiring an app that I can’t install in secondary on Lineage etc, at least last time I used it, which will come up) happy. Thankyou GOS. Also, being able to revoke network permissions on any random app (including google services) via OS is Gold.
That said, P7 has some issues, it runs hot (I recorded via termux), and if you live in a hot humid environ, don’t expect longevity near the 5Yr security updates promised. Mine’s spicy pillow at 16 months, enough to break the seal and accelerate degeneration. I live in a country with consumer protection for 24 months, so it’s not so bad (I hope, batteries are special), but in the rest of the world it would suck. I do not want to replace my phone every year, assholes.
TLDR: Get a second hand Pixel (4-7), hence not giving money to google, replace the battery, install GOS. Learn, live, enjoy, at the end you will have learned to live free (if that’s what you want).
Obvs it’s about control and money, but it highlights (perhaps badly, but also validly) a need for a mechanism to get funding from profiting entities for open source development, and unfortunately GPL and charity is not it. A well-thought-out license with an expectation of sharing profit from OSS would be a boon for OSS and its (independent) developers. Sure would be nice if FOSS developers got to eat for their trouble (rather than going after yachts). Could be something for the EFF or similar minded, legally aware types to have a chew on, or maybe there are pre-existing works that are not as well known as they should be.
All storage is secure if you encrypt locally first (metadata notwithstanding). Of questionable utility for phone apps (happy to be corrected, some sort of FUSE type filesystem with cached filenames etc. could probably work), but great for offsite backups (preferably using multiple services) of critical data.
It’d be really nice if df -h actually worked for btrfs…
Also, the discrepancies can be way worse than that.
Which is not to say don’t use it, it’s a way superior filesystem, just needs some polishing with these things. Also, remember to occasionally sudo btrfs balance, or better, set up a systemd to do so…
So a couple of weeks ago, I made this post asking for help from those who used Linux and Davinci Resolve, and their experience. To those who’s response was effectively “I use arch btw”, I hear you, but that wasn’t the question I wanted to ask....
I can install the driver from Nvidia itself and install it that way
and noped out. Protip, never, ever install the driver from Nvidia, that’s windows thinking. Find out how to install it from your distro (in this case RPMFusion, or better for this person, bazzite). It might even work, but it will break on updates.
Edit: Also foot shooting behaviour with cinnamon, get things working using distro default, then try on cinnamon.
Wait until you see the scam in Australia, we pay significantly more locally than we export it for, thanks Howard. Bright side, people are ditching it in droves.
At least it has direct pass through optics, by the time it’s ready to daily drive (see what I did there?) we’ll have vr/ar glasses (not sure the designation, transparent eyeglasses with screens, if you’ve got a term please chime in) for general use. Still, the software is likely to be useful. Until mature, would not play with this, but shall watch.
Yeah, but apple (and meta I guess) are co-opting that with passthrough cameras, so the terms get murky. We need a new term. If I’m riding, I 100% want direct vision.
As someone who checks comments to see if it’s worth my time to read the source, thank you for your service. And also as someone who checks primary sources, curse me for caring, I shall look because I commented…
Thought I’d post here as well, it blew up over there.
“And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that—”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes—”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
All too often, people who identify as an authority do so because they think of people as owned things. An ugly situation somewhat ameliorated by Celine’s Second Law “Effective communication is only possible among equals.”
And I didn’t say it there, but here I say, while coping mechanisms should be carefully cultivated, and acting is useful and effective, ABA sounds like an excuse for abuse. You’re likely better off doing improv unless you have a truly great therapist who for some reason isn’t using better methods.
Scientists Put Tardigrade Proteins Into Human Cells. Here's What Happened. (www.sciencealert.com)
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Google Pixel alternatives?
I’m thinking of getting a second phone to ease off iOS. It has been good for productivity stuff but the closed off nature of the device keeps disrupting my plans. Everything is either expensive or ad ridden. (Except floccus, floccus is awesome)...
Fedora proposal to change default desktop to KDE (fedoraproject.org)
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The successor of Openboard, Heliboard finally comes out in 1.0 my favorite open source keyboard out there.
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Cloud storage has become ubiquitous in modern society. The most widely-used example, I think, is the one that comes prebundled with our p…
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Right way to check free/used storage of btrfs filesystem [SOLVED]
While checking for used and free space in a btrfs subvolume, I’m not getting a consistent value. It’s confusing and doesn’t help....
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I've Installed multiple Linux Distros on my Editing Rig to see how well Davinci Resolve Studio works. Here are the results.
So a couple of weeks ago, I made this post asking for help from those who used Linux and Davinci Resolve, and their experience. To those who’s response was effectively “I use arch btw”, I hear you, but that wasn’t the question I wanted to ask....
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Yamaha’s Augmented Reality Helmet (www.cycleworld.com)
Yamaha has been working on AR and HUD helmet technology for years, but with the latest advancements, is the time finally ripe for production?
What is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?
The monotheistic all powerful one.
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Return to Nature - René Magritte (1938-1939) (feddit.de)
Due to Falling Enrollments, We Will No Longer Offer Courses in Romulan at Starfleet Academy (www.mcsweeneys.net)
Respect (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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