Been thinking about getting some sort of Android tablet to read comics on, but worried my preferred feature set ("rectangular screen" "rectangular means the edges of the displayable area are ninety degree angles. that's not a rectangle" "cheap, like tablets were five years ago back when you could still get tablets with rectangular screens" "preferably not Samsung") might reduce the pool of available devices to zero
We must protect privacy, even in the face of cryptocurrency crime. As governments crack down on one of the most notorious tools for criminal money laundering in the cryptocurrency world, I’m worried about the ramifications.
@molly0xfff Do you follow @sarahjamielewis and Lyn Alden (she's on Nostr these days). They might change your mind on «I don’t think there’s much good».
Trying out OpenMPT because it's open source and putting up with open source UI ugliness
Downloading the first result off Google for "rust music tracker" (this turns out to be an open source project abandoned by its owner in 2022), adopting and forking it, and spending the next two years writing features for it but never producing either completed music or releasable software?
Does anyone want to take this moment to convince me that I should use Guix instead of [Nix or a Nix hardfork]? Or otherwise, convince me that I should use [Nix or a Nix hardfork] instead of Guix? It is okay to be a Reply Person about this. I am giving you an invitation.
@mcc Guix: Scheme, no SystemD, they're active on Mastodon.
Nix: I don't know anything about it.
As opposed to @ieure I've been daily driving it for two years on an MSI gaming laptop. Between Guix, Nonguix (for non-free stuff), guix shell and Flatpak I can run pretty much anything. But it's going to take work like running Linux 25 years ago.
There's also the option of running it on top of another Linux distro for Guix (and also for Nix I think).
@mcc Reading this post https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112357501062886191 I can say that my laptop doesn't work as smooth as you seem to expect: I've got some clunky script that I need to run by hand for suspension and hibernation that takes 30s to 60s to run 😐
Created a test account on bsky and there appears to be literally no way to opt out of algorithmic feeds. If it decides you aren't following enough people, rather than allowing the Content Spigot to end it starts showing you its fucking algorithmic recommendations after that. God. Fuck Twitter and everything that spawned from it
So before I make this next post, I want to be clear that I personally hate April Fool's Day. The essence of humor is surprise. There is no surprise in April Fool's Day! Everyone's actively bracing for it! April Fool's Day on the Internet has long since stopped being about "jokes" and devolved into a series of exhausting, repetitive, occasionally-cruel pranks, often enacted by the world's biggest corporations against the captive audience of their customers.
Does anyone know of a modern #Android phone which allows call recording without root?
I'm currently on an aging 5T running #LineageOS and can record calls just fine - a button in the dialler lets me record straight from the line. I don't need to put it on speaker and record via the microphone.
(Looking for 1st hand experience, not search results. No need to reply to discuss the legality of call recording. I need root-less for online banking etc.)
In addition to the bazillionty things I said I would do this week, I need to get my astrobiology students to pick their final project topics: they have to evaluate a work of scifi on the plausibility of its aliens using what they learned from my astrobiology course.
I've asked here before, but I'll ask again: what are some scifi works that have really great aliens and/or alien worlds?