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by kop316 4y ago
heh, right now I have had an issue where in Stripe checkout. I paid for something for my spouse, and she decided to put her email in Stripe Checkout for the invoice. Now, EVERY purchase I make through Stripe Checkout with that credit card g
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by kop316 4y ago
I actually think this link helps: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1575233618170982400.html All of the statements are small and almost have to be encapsulated to make sense. This robs a lot of nuance and background i
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by kop316 4y ago
While this device has yet to be released, their full size laptop, the MNT Reform, is available: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt Personally, the fact that they have released a HW device already gives me a lot more confidence
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by kop316 4y ago
Sorry, there is a typo in my post! I meant not instead of now And it is unfortunately. For me, It means I won't buy one.
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by kop316 4y ago
As of now, it is now open source: https://www.wiphone.io/downloads.html Firmware: Latest firmware is sent with your phone. Once we are done shipping all the pre-orders we will publish the firmware on the web. If you want to
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by kop316 4y ago
This comment provides a good reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32763149
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by kop316 4y ago
> All for a minor convenience during first setup. I think it is a huge inconvenience. When I was with my stepdad, trying to port a SIM to an eSIM took over 20 minutes. Since my mom wasn't there, we attempted to call her because they
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by kop316 4y ago
For TOTP Apps, I recommend: https://sr.ht/~martijnbraam/numberstation/
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by kop316 4y ago
> It is great if you can get the right people. But if you have someone who just needs one bugfix/feature so they can get on with their own thing, they are rarely the right people. I think Linus' point is you never know. If you
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by kop316 4y ago
> - Lost his SD card with the photos he took the day he got the phone. I haven't lost a photo since I started auto-backing them up with Google Photos in 2014 There are plenty of ways to back up your photos? Syncthing, Nextcloud, rcl
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by kop316 4y ago
Depending on how motivated you are, Element One/Element Home is a good solution for WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: https://element.io/element-one You can bridge all of those to a Matrix account and use a Matrix cl
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by kop316 4y ago
I think Linus has a good perspective on that. https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/20/255 Personally for me, the most exciting releases I have has for the OSS software I maintain are the ones where I was NOT th
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by kop316 4y ago
> So now i know whom to blame for the fact that the camera app crashes 90% of the times before I manage to take a photo. Heh, so every so often, I read an L5 or Pinephone review and they say "I had some weird problem with MMS and it
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by kop316 4y ago
> AOSP is fully working, open source Linux-based phone software Uhh....no.I know for a Pixel 3a, you cannot even boot AOSP without compiling in the driver binaries: https://source.android.com/setup/build/downloa
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by kop316 4y ago
> start calling themselves "nightly" distros It's not a "nightly" distro, it's a "let's take patches that are unfinished, release them into the wild onto unsuspecting users, and let the upstream de
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by kop316 4y ago
For some additional context: https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/ Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32494659 > Supporting Manjaro has historically done very little to facilitate th
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by kop316 4y ago
> Since then it has developed a fault whereby the phone crashes immediately as soon as I switch the wifi kill-switch on. Just instant black screen, nothing happening. Heh, I have never seen or heard of anyone with that issue? You may wan
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by kop316 4y ago
> For the downvoters, please provide an explanation based in facts about Italy. I would offer you would get less downvotes if you cited statistics or verified third party info?
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by kop316 4y ago
I was curious too: https://flowersfordreams.com After clicking around and going to checkout...I cannot recreate it?
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by kop316 4y ago
Do you run anything on them then? I think the article's argument holds for any software, not just Linux.
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by kop316 4y ago
I guess it depends on how much you use it? On the Linux phone itself, you can try out Waydroid https://waydro.id (and it seems to work on regular Linux too?). I also think there are Android Distros you can install in a VM as wel
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by kop316 4y ago
> One thing this phone has going for it is that it is, at its core, an Android phone. There is a chance the device itself may not be unusable after just a few years even if the company disappears. That is not the case for a comparable pr
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by kop316 4y ago
Thank you for that info! I am in a similar situation and that was something that did not occur to me.
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by kop316 4y ago
From the article: "South Carolina state senators introduced legislation that would make it illegal to “aid, abet or conspire with someone” to obtain an abortion." This bill isn't law, which is what I thought based on the head
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by kop316 4y ago
heh, that's even worse than when I saw it: https://i.imgur.com/Z2HwkwY.jpeg
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by kop316 4y ago
Heh, I feel like that has been Target's target demographic (excuse the pun) for at least 20 years (I don't have anecdotal evidence before that). They have things that aren't designer/high cost, but at the same time are n
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by kop316 4y ago
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
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by kop316 4y ago
> Reality is that no one owns a car for 200k miles anymore. Do you have statistics on that? I purchased my previous car (a Dodge) when it had 8k miles and had it as my primary car until 240k miles. It only started to have serious mainten
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by kop316 4y ago
IIRC, the location history in Google is pretty fine grained in both time (like minute to sub-minute) and location (GPS location if it has it). So if the location history is deleted when a user is within ....500 ft of a sensitive place? The
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by kop316 4y ago
> My guess is they are showing how easy it is to make an app on the PinePhone. True, that just isn't specific to Zig, which is why I was confused. It is neat that building the GUI isn't too hard, building a GUI in C/GTK in

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