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by commoner 2y ago
Not needing to reposition your hand to switch between typing and operating the mouse makes the TrackPoint super efficient. The difference is even greater in cramped places like airplane seats that don't have enough room to place a sepa
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by commoner 2y ago
On the other hand, the use of WordPress servers is in no way covered by the GPL. WP Engine can pay for their own servers the same way Bluehost used to.
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Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4(blog.stremio.com)
142 points by commoner 2y ago|81 comments
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BlendOS v4 released: Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic(blendos.co)
2 points by commoner 2y ago|0 comments
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You Apps: Collection of open source Android apps, developed with privacy in mind(you-apps.net)
1 points by commoner 2y ago|0 comments
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by commoner 2y ago
Archive before deletion: https://web.archive.org/web/20240518030444/https://old.reddi...
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PayPal releases $90K of bathwater sales after freezing account in 2019(businessinsider.com)
3 points by commoner 2y ago|0 comments
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by commoner 2y ago
There are free and open source apps for Android that automatically lock the device when the accelerometer detects rapid acceleration, which is a simple detection method. For example, Private Lock is on F-Droid: - Private Lock (source): htt
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by commoner 2y ago
The Cato Institute is libertarian, so them being anti-interventionist shouldn't be surprising. The article was written by a "weekly columnist at Antiwar.com" according to the author's bio, which explains the tone of the
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by commoner 2y ago
> An included tip would incentivize getting customers out the door to get new butts in the seats and collect more included tips. Faster service with honest pricing? Sounds good to me.
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by commoner 2y ago
avbroot is not officially supported by CalyxOS or GrapheneOS, but it does work with both OSes. The point of avbroot is to make root access available to trusted Android apps while leaving commands such as "fastboot flash" and &quot
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by commoner 2y ago
No, over-the-air updates are not supported. The instructions for flashing updates patched with avbroot are here: https://github.com/chenxiaolong/avbroot?tab=readme-ov-file#u...
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by commoner 2y ago
Anyone who prefers root access on Android with a locked bootloader (on the OSes that support it) can use avbroot: https://github.com/chenxiaolong/avbroot Works great with CalyxOS and GrapheneOS.
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by commoner 2y ago
With those restrictions, Akaunting is definitely not open source, but it is source-available.
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by commoner 3y ago
Both KDE and GNOME have improved dramatically over the years in stability and user-friendliness. The leap from KDE Plasma 5 to 6 was massive and brought proper DPI scaling to all displays for both X11 and Wayland applications, on par with w
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by commoner 3y ago
CalyxOS has been working well for me and I recommend it. I appreciate how the included microG allows me to disable Firebase Cloud Messaging for any app that I don't need push notifications for. Having push notifications without Google
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by commoner 3y ago
LocalSend is also on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/localsend/localsend While GitHub is not open source, LocalSend is under the MIT License: https://codeberg.org/localsend/localsend/src/b
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by commoner 3y ago
libhoudini and libndk are libraries that translate ARM instructions to x86. There's an installation script for Waydroid: https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script
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iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose third-party app stores(imore.com)
93 points by commoner 3y ago|189 comments
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by commoner 3y ago
> What's the best alternative? Waydroid runs Android apps on Linux and some people claim to have gotten it to work on WSL. - Waydroid: https://waydro.id Reddit threads: - https://www.reddit.com/r/bas
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by commoner 3y ago
I want to thank you all for open sourcing the Ente server and for supporting desktop Linux. Even though I already had a working photo backup solution that fulfilled my privacy criteria, I've switched over to Ente with a paid subscripti
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by commoner 3y ago
The headline is definitely wrong due to all of the above and also due to iMessage being closed source. iMessage does not have the transparency or auditability to be on the same footing as Signal, which is free and open source.
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by commoner 3y ago
Ad blocking has already been mainstream for a long time. > As of March 2023, 31% of US adult consumers said they used an ad blocker to protect their privacy, with baby boomers (31%) being more likely than Gen Zers (27%) to use the tech,
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by commoner 3y ago
To anyone looking for an alternative, the best free and open source desktop publishing software is Scribus. The look and feel of Scribus is closer to that of professional applications like Adobe InDesign. Scribus is able to import Microsoft
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by commoner 3y ago
Apple has no way of enforcing any kind of platform fee for PWAs since the developer does not need to interact with Apple at all. This financial conflict of interest is why the availablity of the full PWA feature set is desirable to develope
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by commoner 3y ago
I found this: > Now, when a user in Europe taps a web app icon, they will see a system message asking if they wish to open it in Safari or cancel. The message adds that the web app "will open in your default browser from now on.&quo
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by commoner 3y ago
> no new such links can be created The article doesn't say that. It says that Apple is changing iOS in the EU so that PWAs can't be linked to alternative (non-Safari) browsers. The article doesn't mention any changes to ot
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by commoner 3y ago
Nothing in the article says that new PWA links can't be created in Safari. Read carefully: > PWAs can’t be linked to alternative browsers . If the situation that you think is happening were true, the article would simply say that A
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by commoner 3y ago
As the article says, Apple is changing iOS in the EU to prevent non-Safari browsers from adding PWA icon links to the home screen, making this feature exclusive to Safari (and granting Safari an anticompetitive advantage). Apple did not rem
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by commoner 3y ago
From TFA: > PWAs can’t be linked to alternative browsers. Apple simply doesn’t allow it anymore at the operating system or launcher level. Users in the EU are forced to open them in Safari, if they want to open them at all.

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