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by foresto 4y ago
Sony Xperia XZ1 is on there, but not the Xperia XZ1 Compact?
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by foresto 4y ago
You seem to be arguing in bad faith. Being a few years old does not make my example less valid. (Arguably the opposite, given that it still works well today.) The point is that it meets GP's needs. Sony's poor marketing strategy w
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by foresto 4y ago
> that’s not likely to happen. Why not? It has happened before. My Xperia XZ1 Compact: - runs Android (I'm on Android 10, but might upgrade) - measures about 14cm diagonally and 8-9mm thick - uses around 10-15% charge per day of lig
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by foresto 4y ago
> user-friendly reliable method of getting lots of files from my PC to the phone's storage Have you tried KDE Connect? (Hint: It's not only for KDE desktop users.) https://kdeconnect.kde.org/
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by foresto 4y ago
Sound setup was one of those fiddly tasks that we came to expect whenever installing a new game. Did I remember the correct interrupt and port? Did I leave the card jumpered with alternate settings last time I played that one game that uses
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by foresto 4y ago
Radicale - a calendar (CalDAV) & contacts (CardDAV) server, with DAVx5 on phones and Thunderbird on desktops.
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by foresto 4y ago
This reminds me of a documentary I recently watched. I don't have the domain knowledge to judge the practicality of its suggestions, but I found it interesting. Perhaps someone else here can offer some insight? Kiss The Ground (2020)
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by foresto 5y ago
> what are you using now? I switched to Debian. The core of my system is now Debian Stable. For the handful of packages that I want to be newer, I either pull from Debian backports or backport the Debian Unstable package myself (just a s
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by foresto 5y ago
Indeed. Which brings us back to my original comment.
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by foresto 5y ago
Five years from when? The purchase date, or the product introduction date? If the latter, the effective support lifetime will be (on average) much shorter.
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by foresto 5y ago
> Why LineageOS and not GrapheneOS? One problem with GrapheneOS is that it only supports a tiny handful of devices, and only for few years (at best) per device. A lot of people can't afford to keep buying Pixel phones on that schedu
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by foresto 5y ago
Exiting vim with :cq is also handy for backing out of git commits.
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by foresto 5y ago
Desktop Element's interface is also awkward for some of us who don't use many channels but simply need our screen space for other things. Even in compact layout, with small fonts, with one sidebar hidden and the other in icons-onl
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by foresto 5y ago
I imagine this could be useful in workplaces that already use Thunderbird and want to introduce Matrix without the support burden of new desktop software. Potentially cool?
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by foresto 5y ago
Few tech manufacturers support reuse in any meaningful way, and I seldom see it in practice. While I'm glad you've managed to include it in your own life, my comment was about the bigger picture. I think we can and should do a lot
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by foresto 5y ago
For some of us, it's not impractical at all. I have hardware from about that time (plus a six-year-old GPU) that plays many modern games. The 1-5 year upgrade cycles that so many companies are pushing seem criminally wasteful to me.
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by foresto 5y ago
> Probably the most open "console" one could get right now is an x86 PC. Yes, and it's called the Steam Deck. It will be interesting to see how it affects the console industry over the coming years.
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by foresto 5y ago
GP's needs are not invalid just because they differ from yours.
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by foresto 5y ago
That is the cutest project name I've seen in a while.
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by foresto 5y ago
I think the Samsung Galaxy S10e and some of the Google Pixel models are nearly hand-size, but I don't know of any that rival the (now unsupported) Xperia XZ1 Compact. The XZ2 Compact is (AFAIK) still supported by LineageOS, but it&#x27
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by foresto 5y ago
It's also hostile to users who browse with javascript disabled, as a privacy or security precaution, for example.
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by foresto 5y ago
> I use KOReader for PDFs, but it's not great. Are FBReader or Librera any better? I think I've only tried PDFs once on each of these apps, and that was so long ago that the PDF experience could easily have changed since then.
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by foresto 5y ago
It's a great resource. With my minimal needs, I don't use any other Android store these days. (I only wish they had enough donations to fund faster builds of new app releases.) A few gems that I have found useful: Aard 2: Offline
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by foresto 5y ago
The documentary is available here: https://archive.org/details/8bit_Generation_The_Commodore_Wa... Following the "by Commodore" link on that page leads to some other interesting archives as well, including an
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by foresto 5y ago
Since my browser removed the two-click feature for sending a site's feed URL to my RSS reader, I now do a bit more manual work to find RSS URLs myself. Twitter lost its native RSS support, but Nitter provides RSS links. Example: http
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by foresto 5y ago
Valve (with the help of kernel and Wine contributors) have been making great progress working with the anti-cheat vendors. BattlEye [1] and Easy Anti-Cheat [2] are already working on Proton. Each game's developer has to opt in to enabl
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by foresto 5y ago
> Firefox, while open source, doesn't provide footing for the community to build browser forks the way Chromium does. This reminds that Wine uses Mozilla code for their Internet Explorer replacement (wine-gecko). I wonder how far be
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by foresto 5y ago
> not sure of they actually have rss feeds but my rss reader supports them Nitter makes Twitter tolerable, and helpfully adds RSS links that should work with any reader. For example, https://nitter.net/eff has this link
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by foresto 5y ago
Also known as client-side window decorations, or CSD. You're not the only one. Lots of people view it as a terrible idea, for a variety of reasons.
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by foresto 5y ago
Qt looks like the strongest candidate right now. I haven't started coding with it yet, so I don't know whether I'll embrace KML in my own code or go a more traditional route. One thing that stands out as a potential limitati

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