neobrain

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by neobrain 6d ago
Obviously not ideal, but update latency is much better with other third party distributions like iodéOS or CalyxOS. At least in contrast to other vendors, FP provides official support for microG, so this has been without noticeable loss of
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by neobrain 10d ago
> As another example, WINE does not ban all former Microsoft employees, they just ban anyone who has ever looked at the Windows source code. It's an interesting example given that Wine considers deriving code from traces of original
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by neobrain 20d ago
At least equally worth pointing out: Three different people are actively working on it, see https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/12/contributions/532/ .
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by neobrain 21d ago
> I already addressed that in my comment, right after the line you quoted. Where? You suggested it would go through Murena instead, but you can fully disable third party services by disabling external push providers and by using on-devic
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by neobrain 21d ago
> I am not sure what you are trying to say here. I have never had an Android system that did not have OTA updates. Everything included... I usually like to install the apps I want? The last bit of my sentence could easily be misread as a
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by neobrain 22d ago
I'm not big on this general line on argument, but one point in particular: > And of course, fairphone’s hardware and OS are nothing to write home about. For the freedom and security nerds they’re better off with GrapheneOS on Pixel
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by neobrain 22d ago
> If there are tradeoffs, if would be nice if the customers can decide what to have, in a modular product. A "modular product" has tradeoffs in and of itself (such as size, price, water resistance, …), which presumably would no
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by neobrain 2mo ago
Where are you getting GPS from? Grandparent commenter talked about bluetooth beacons and parent suggested reading the docs. The contact tracing APIs very deliberately avoided GPS for exactly the reason you mention.
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by neobrain 2mo ago
Just curious, has suspend (to RAM) been working for you? For me the nvidia driver just keeps waking up the system instantly - but my setup is deviating from the upstream flake in a few ways, so I'm just wondering if it's worth set
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by neobrain 3mo ago
Yes, this had been temporarily permitted until recently, and AFAIK they continue doing so illegally at the moment.
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by neobrain 3mo ago
For context, this refers to "Chat Control 1.0", allowing facebook and other messaging providers to scan chats for harmful content (which they had been temporarily allowed to do by a recently expired law). This is still problemat
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by neobrain 3mo ago
See https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/#speakers The effect is understated there, perhaps because Apple speakers are actually somewhat usable without this feature. For the X13s, the speakers migh
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by neobrain 3mo ago
Unlikely. I've been daily-driving the predecessor (X13s). While it's usable and technically all drivers are there, it's far from "without pain" due to endless number of small but annoying quirks. Just to give you an
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by neobrain 3mo ago
This seems to be mainly brought up by people concerned they'd lose banking apps than people who actually have issues. It's rooted phones that often get blocked, whereas those that run LineageOS/microG without rooting are
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by neobrain 3mo ago
> Is there some special feature I'm missing? I would only call it a marginal improvement. If that. I fail to see what the big deal is. Among the "GPU rendered terminal" options, afaik Ghostty is the only one that has prope
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by neobrain 3mo ago
With Dioxus, program logic compiles to native code instead of running it through a JS engine, and it ships its own HTML renderer (Blitz) instead of bundling a whole browser. So it's a lot more lightweight and performant than Electron.
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by neobrain 4mo ago
(for context, you're replying to the author of an alternative nix input pinning mechanism, which means... they're probably aware of all that and yet they chose their wording like this anyway)
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by neobrain 5mo ago
They are hiring specifically for that: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonDrive/comments/1spx14d/proton...
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by neobrain 5mo ago
Nothing public yet, but this is the Nix output for taking the screenshot, to be executed via `nix run .#screenshot`: outputs.apps.x86_64.screenshot = { type = "app"; program = toString (pkgs.writeShel
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by neobrain 5mo ago
Most people don't realize that the Asahi team ship features only once they work without quirks. For the set of supported hardware features, Asahi is much closer to a macOS experience than to an average x86 Linux laptop experience. Mean
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by neobrain 5mo ago
+1 for this approach. For a mobile app, I made Nix spawn an ephemeral Android emulator instance for generating up-to-date screenshots, requiring no prior setup and leaving no lingering data around after running. Setting it up wasn't th
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by neobrain 5mo ago
Quite the contrary, actually: not using a browser extension makes you much more susceptible to phishing attacks, since your password manager won't be able to protect you from copy-pasting credentials into an imposter website.
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by neobrain 5mo ago
Just injecting this here: What I've been missing is an equivalent for GitHub's "blame prior revision" feature to quickly follow through the history of individual source lines. https://github.com/zed-indus
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by neobrain 5mo ago
tl;dr for opt-out as per https://cli.github.com/telemetry#how-to-opt-out (any of these work individually): export GH_TELEMETRY=false export DO_NOT_TRACK=true gh config set telemetry disabled (starting from version 2.91.0, w
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by neobrain 6mo ago
The article is specifically not referring to information that's sent to Apple servers - it's about information on the phone only, accessible through forensics tools with physical device access. Signal's server-side push not
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by neobrain 6mo ago
> If some provider like Proton states they are pricacy-focused and protect your data from governments, but can still offer loads of your private data when ordered to, that damages their privacy claim. "Loads" of private data? W
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by neobrain 6mo ago
If you create an account, it may be worth looking into "starter packs", which are lists of accounts around specific topics to follow. That's an easy solution if you run into the "I don't know who to follow and there
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by neobrain 6mo ago
> I want a computer where I can basically install every non stock app in its own little world, where it thinks "huh, that is interesting, I seem to be the only app installed on this system". NixOS containers are the most conven
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by neobrain 6mo ago
Claude has a sandbox mode that uses bubblewrap to build a lightweight filesystem sandbox that only exposes the project directory: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sandboxing It's disabled by default though, an
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by neobrain 7mo ago
> NixOS is very impressive but the marketing around it feels misleading. The reproducible claim needs a giant asterisk due to link rot. It's a valid concern, though perhaps worth mentioning you will be able to restore your 10-year o

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