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by josteink 5y ago
iftop has networking covered.
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by josteink 5y ago
Those permissions have pretty clear use-cases which benefits the user itself and enables things which otherwise wouldn’t be possible. What user-oriented use-cases does this enable which couldn’t have been done otherwise? I really thinks thi
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by josteink 5y ago
I mean as opposed to having to use weird key-combos, special reset-modes, and arcane tools to flash/erase internal storage and re-install my phone every time I want to try something new. With the PinePhone I can boot from external medi
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by josteink 5y ago
The fxtec looks neat in theory, but one thing I love on my PinePhone is its ability to just boot any OS on any SD-card you insert. Do you know if the fxtec will offer the same? For a tinkerable Linux phone where you genuinely go distro-hopp
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by josteink 5y ago
Sure. I have one too. I know. But that’s no reason for it not to work , it will just work more slowly ;)
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by josteink 5y ago
The PinePhone runs mainline Linux on a regular Arm64 SOC. Why shouldn’t it work? ;)
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by josteink 5y ago
This is what makes some recent movies (like Mad Max Fury Road) so much more intense. The director has intentionally decided to not use CGI for anything which can be done with real vehicles and real actors. And unlike the Marvel superhero
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by josteink 5y ago
> Although from what I heard they're porting the good parts into GitHub and deprecating/putting into maintenance mode ADO soon. Hush hush! By now that’s pretty much an open secret covered by various NDAs :) What even the NDAs w
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by josteink 5y ago
> have used at least in university That’s showing a bit of bias. Personally Ive been in the industry for roughly 20 years and I’ve yet to meet anyone IRL who has even dabbled in Haskell. Basing your packaging-format on Haskell is a great
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by josteink 5y ago
I'll be damned. That guide actually worked for me. Thanks for the heads up :)
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by josteink 5y ago
I’d love to try it out, but for the time being I’m running Ubuntu (for work needs) and there doesn’t seem to be any trivial/non-invasive ways to get PipeWire to run on a regular Ubuntu desktop install. Maybe it makes it to next LTS as
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by josteink 5y ago
> In fact I think it was running an earlier version of OpenELEC (not sure when they changed their name to LibreELEC -- or maybe that's a new project with the same goals?) My exact question too. Anybody care to help us out?
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by josteink 5y ago
> Coupled with recent Microsoft effort such as Visual Code Which is officially supported on Linux. There might be reasons to run Windows, but this is not one :)
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by josteink 5y ago
History has been repeating efforts like this.
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by josteink 5y ago
> That is the case of Linus Torvalds not using the standard "or later" clause. He has his (bad) reasons. Linus does not think GPLv3 is a good or fitting license for the Linux-kernel and that it changes too much things to be con
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by josteink 5y ago
So… Google’s plan to rid itself of GPL’d dependencies moves one step further. At what point are we going to call out Google for doing the “popular” embrace, extend, extinguish act?
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by josteink 5y ago
> But from a historical perspective, desktop Linux was only made possible by Nvidia and their closed driver. Intel Integrated graphics has been around for a long time now, it has open drivers and since its first release, it has been more
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by josteink 5y ago
> This will be super unpopular, but Linux missed the desktop boat 20 years ago, Nothing to feel bad about saying. As a mass-market option it absolutely did. There was no flood of new users coming along back then, and there wont be this t
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by josteink 5y ago
And how will you know?
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by josteink 5y ago
And then automatically reported to some backend, which reports to the police. That’s a wee bit different from showing YouTube previews imo.
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by josteink 5y ago
> That being said, I can’t even use Signal on them without some major configurations. Sadly bridging Signal into a matrix home-server and just using a matrix-client from the PinePhone/Librem is probably the simplest option.
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by josteink 5y ago
> Phone: Pinephone Talking as a Pinephone (and iPhone 12) owner, I think the software is starting to show promise, but the SoC is nowhere beefy enough. If I’ll go this route fully and make a Linux-phone my daily driver, I’d seriously con
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by josteink 5y ago
That good old CDE-look is making me feel seriously nostalgic :)
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by josteink 5y ago
> CardDAV address book support That’s nice. That will make it easy to setup master-data management without additional extensions.
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by josteink 5y ago
Odd to see using UEFI to NetBoot not considered an option at all. It should eliminate whatever timing-bugs you have and leave you in a more reliable (and scriptable!) pre-boot environment. What more do you need?!? Both the RPi3 and 4 can be
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by josteink 5y ago
> Client side scanning is really the only choice with reasonable tradeoffs. As the guy sitting on the client-side, how about “No”?
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by josteink 5y ago
Thanks for the constructive reply. I wasn’t aware of such default assumptions. I still thinks it sounds like nonsense, but at least it explains the massive downvotes Im getting :D It must be hard to live in a country where everyone is so ob
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by josteink 5y ago
They are only a “minority” because someone decided to come up with a way (race) to divide people into groups where one group is bound to end up smaller, and somehow claim that division is of significant importance. IMO the solution to that
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by josteink 5y ago
> Neither Claws, Geary, Sylpheed, or others offer such broad support But Geary works nicely on mobile phones, like the PinePhone. For me it serves a different niche than Thunderbird (which is my default desktop email-client).
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by josteink 5y ago
Almost all mainstream Linux distros can OOB do UEFI secure boot through a MS-signed shim, or Grub signed by Canonical or Fedora (which is a trusted cert by the MS cert). Secure boot does not prevent a user from installing Linux. That’s just

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