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by neobrain 1y ago
> you really want the latest versions you can get > Even as of Ubuntu 24.04 I get that this is the current LTS release, but clearly this isn't want the parent poster had in mind. Notably 24.04 never shipped Plasma 6, which carrie
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by neobrain 1y ago
> ⇒ I think it’s more of “we were looking for a new revenue stream, and picked this as a way to get that” This seems highly implausible given the 2 USD/mo pricing, the existence of a free storage plan, and the non-negligible operati
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by neobrain 1y ago
That translation app is so cool, exactly what I've always been looking for (offline + camera integration + clean UI). Thanks for putting in the work and for putting it on F-Droid even!
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by neobrain 1y ago
It was also caught during progressive rollout, i.e. it never affected anyone who had disabled "studies" in their preferences.
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by neobrain 1y ago
Oh, that's much simpler. Just buy AMD :) More seriously, it's only the motherboard and the GPU that can be problematic here in the first place, isn't it? So that's far more manageable using websearch than laptops with th
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by neobrain 1y ago
On macOS, I never worried about battery life when leaving the house even when doing compute-heavy work. On Asahi, that is equally much true. I couldn't tell you how many hours it lasts because I never have to carry a charger unless I
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by neobrain 1y ago
I can recommend it! I've been daily driving M1 for a few months now, it's working really well. Parent poster is raving about a potential "greatest linux laptop", but depending on your use case it's already there. IM
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by neobrain 1y ago
Good news for you: Networking (ethernet/wifi/bluetooth) on M1/M2 have been working perfectly fine for a while and don't require any special tinkering.
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by neobrain 1y ago
> If anyone has any recommendations for how to pick hardware that will "just work" with Linux I'd love to hear them. Some vendors sell hardware with Linux preinstalled or specifically tested (besides the obvious ones like
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by neobrain 1y ago
> I am never going to run a Mac (or worse: Windows) I'm 100% on Linux, I'm guessing you're well aware, but just in case you're not: Asahi Linux is working extremely well on M1/M2 devices and easily covers your &q
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by neobrain 1y ago
> He did in fact support the GOP since they will tackle "big-tech abuse" more The context was that some GOP-affiliated politicians attended certain meetings for supporting tech regulation whereas democrats didn't. The arti
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by neobrain 1y ago
> Proton's leadership supported Trump and the GOP ... this again? Come on. The CEO once expressed support for Gail Slater as head of antitrust and subsequently criticized lack of effective work towards tech regulation on the Democ
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by neobrain 1y ago
> Let's be honest and admit that the only reason to prevent users from rooting their phones is to protect companies' profits by ensuring users can't fight back against the blatant tracking, data mining, and analytics captu
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by neobrain 1y ago
> From a security/privacy perspective the fairphone is on the worse side of options unfortunately. Compared to Pixel phones this is without a doubt true, but how does it compare against your average mid-range Android device? Do thos
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by neobrain 1y ago
Just adding minor context: > - Fairphone 5 is still on Android 14 (since Jul 2024). The Android 15 update was actually released this week! https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/186828004651... &g
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by neobrain 1y ago
Also worth noting it's automatically disabled if telemetry ("Send technical and interaction data to Mozilla") is disabled. Though even without disabling it, PPA is currently in limited rollout and only visible to Mozilla webs
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by neobrain 1y ago
> If there was a way to name lambdas for debug purposes then all other downsides would be irrelevant (for most usual use cases of using callbacks). Instead of fully avoiding lambdas, you can use inheritance to give them a name: https:&#
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by neobrain 1y ago
Your links are a bunch of user comments? The push notification payloads don't contain message/sender data. Signal also runs fine without Google services, which avoids any potential problem entirely.
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by neobrain 1y ago
No, he didn't. You're thinking of the story where he expressed support for Gail Slater as head of antitrust and where he subsequently criticized lack of effective work towards tech regulation on the Democratic side. Implying suppo
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by neobrain 1y ago
Thanks, this is very insightful! Sadly there's no magic trick but this gives me some good ideas next time I find myself in that situation.
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by neobrain 1y ago
> I couldn't tell you the amount of times I've had to fight back against implementing yet another tracking tool at work, just to collect data that I know for a fact no one will look at after the first few weeks of the tool bein
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by neobrain 2y ago
> whether he's just lying, or both things are true and he just deleted his account after it was suspended This is obviously just a Mastodon bug (backend treats suspension and deletion as the same thing, for example). I'm not su
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by neobrain 2y ago
It doesn't say anything about moderator action for me. He closed the account himself: > I actually wasn't sure if I wanted to delete my Mastodon entirely or not, but as I intended to fill in my password for confirmation and dec
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by neobrain 2y ago
There's no mechanism to enforce this is done consistently. With nix, there is. The degree to which this guarantee is useful or necessary depends on your use case.
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by neobrain 2y ago
Actually Amarok did see a revival in the past year or so! https://blogs.kde.org/2024/04/29/amarok-3.0-castaway-release... They've recently pushed out a new release with the code base ported to Qt/Pl
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by neobrain 2y ago
> Does it require a Firefox account? Does it only store them locally if you haven't signed in to Firefox? The passwords are available offline, so they are stored locally.
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by neobrain 2y ago
> Which is why my password manager has zero integration directly with the browser, or anything else for that matter The ideal amount of integration is actually non-zero. Manually copy-pasting passwords makes you susceptible to URL phishi
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by neobrain 2y ago
> I'm "pulling this from" the settings on my browser. When I look at the check box in preferences it's unchecked and greyed out. > I don't see any discussion of telemetry as controlling this behaviour. As I me
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by neobrain 2y ago
This is also false. Where are you pulling this from? There is a user-visible setting in the normal preferences. It's grayed out unless you have telemetry enabled. I think the initial version they shipped PPA in had no such option becau
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by neobrain 2y ago
This is a false narrative not backed by their actual communication about the feature: https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_about_p... (Note that additionally when this post was written, t

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