unix_joe

@unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.org

SDF user since 2001. BSD user since 1998.

Just here for the tech discussion.

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unix_joe,

My favorite Mastodon album, IIRC track six had the Sanitarium riff Easter egg.

unix_joe,

Honestly, fuck Bandcamp. I used that platform for years, purchased a huge library, supported artists even when I was about 90% sure that some of them were just resellers providing rips of the original artists music.

And then for no reason at all a few weeks ago, I was asked to verify my account via email. Despite using the correct autosaved password. That email never arrived. Never arrives no matter what I try. So I cannot get back in. Support is like check your spam folder like motherfucker you don’t think that’s the first place I went when I didn’t see the conformation email?

Fuck the new ownership. Fuck Bandcamp. Good luck with your upcoming job search.

unix_joe,

1984

unix_joe,

Back in my day, we used MySpace quizzes for Mental Health Diagnoses.

…

But seriously, thanks for sharing this article. What a fascinating website that I was simply not aware of. Added to my bookmarks.

Feedback on CalyxOS

UPDATEThank you for your feedback! Based on what you all provided, I’m going to postpone installing any de-Googled Android OS for the time. It seems there’s still a lot that needs to be worked on in terms of device and application support, and I don’t have the time to work out the kinks and issues that might show up here...

unix_joe,

I use CalyxOS on my Fairphone since 2022. It is better than the stock OS and allows re-locking the bootloader. It also provides timelier updates than Fairphone OS. It is absolutely fine and has zero issues.

I have one banking app that doesn’t work. Another one that does work. Also, I have paid purchases through the Google Play Store that do not see the subscription. I was going to let them expire anyway. I also have a Google One that doesn’t see the subscription, so none of the advanced editing features in Photos works. I assume all of these would be problematic on GrapheneOS as well.

I would run GrapheneOS if I had a Pixel, or if it supported the Fairphone.

unix_joe,

As a sheltered dialup kid, I learned Turbo Pascal and later Delphi back in the late 90’s.

Imagine my surprise when I found out it wasn’t used anywhere at all.

unix_joe,

iPhone isn’t a rosy picture either; still down in China despite a last minute price slash to boost sales.

Maybe stop designing tone-deaf products like you are bigger than the market. Nobody is immune to current market and geopolitical conditions.

unix_joe,

I got the popup all the time for a few weeks with Firefox and uBlock Origin. As a YouTube Premium subscriber. The paid service. The whole reason they were pushing back on ad blockers to begin with.

Fuck these guys, I let the subscription lapse.

unix_joe,

No problems in the couple of years that I’ve used it, but upgrading in the past wasn’t painfully terrible either. Just fetch bsd.rd and boot into that.

Of course you couldn’t do it remotely, but the historical ease of updating highlights the well-engineered simplicity of OpenBSD.

unix_joe,

I don’t use Discord but this is great for Flathub. It seems that the community is coalescing around flatpak as the distro-agnostic package manager for desktop Linux moving forward. The next biggest targets should be Steam (kinda sorta official already) and Spotify.

I would imagine VSCode stays a snap only app so long as Ubuntu is now Microsoft’s baby.

unix_joe,

CalyxOS

unix_joe,

Champion of the people

unix_joe,

Debian stable

Liquorix kernel

Flatpak the apps

Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)

The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...

unix_joe,

13% is low, but I guess this shows how resistant to change people are. It’s better to establish a new market (or the first to become popular in a young market) than to try and come along with something disruptive in a mature market.

unix_joe,

Probably the only life my piece of shit Z16 has left.

unix_joe,

Keep an eye out for system76 laptops on eBay. They are a bit pricier than equivalent generation ThinkPads, but they have supported Coreboot on their laptops for about three years now with continuous updates.

Be careful when searching; none of their AMD devices support Coreboot, and none of the desktops do, even if they are Intel. Also, if buying an older machine, make sure it came after 2020 or so. Galago Pro after galp6 and Darter Pro since the redesign are safe bets since they have Intel graphics. System76 has excellent documentation on their website for older laptops so you should find your answer there. These systems are designed in conjunction with Clevo, but one cannot simply flash Coreboot on the equivalent Clevo hardware since system76 has a different embedded controller.

Also, if not system76, the answer nobody wants to hear for Coreboot is, Chromebook.

unix_joe,

I have nothing but good things to say about system76. They are everything we wanted a Linux-focused hardware vendor to be. I’ve owned three of their laptops with no major issues.

Good luck, I hope you find something that works for you.

unix_joe,

No, unfortunately I use the trash they give me for the job. Low end ThinkPads and Elitebooks.

So that’s why it’s nice to come back to a decent system at the end of the day.

unix_joe,

There is an entire industry of shady companies who make tens of millions per by selling dogshit “secure comms” products to barely literate and computer illiterate LtCols and procurement officers in the US Government.

Those officers are close to retirement and by regurgitating big words they do not understand while still in their procurement positions, they can land a job at said company and receive some of those funds once they hit minimum retirement age and wait a year.

Signal is free and disruptive to those business models.

Ergo the misinformation campaign, the FUD, is well funded, by people who have a lot to lose.

unix_joe,

Some laptop manufacturers disable functions and stay in low performance throttle if there is no battery present, and remain that way until a new one is installed. Apple does this.

Some laptop manufacturers disable features if their operating system is not installed. Apple disables integrated Intel graphics, for example, and forces amd graphics on Linux and OpenBSD.

So its not impossible that your laptop is crippled by design without the battery.

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