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by seba_dos1 3mo ago
> non-phones (waydroid Some Waydroid installations are on phones.
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by seba_dos1 3mo ago
I usually use Pure Maps [0]. Note that various phones handle GNSS differently and for fast fixes, depending on the phone and distro, you may have to configure or trigger retrieval of assistance data from the Internet ([1] is an example for
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by seba_dos1 3mo ago
> What's particularly heavy in these gnome tools? Nothing. On my phone there's 770MB RAM consumed by the entire system with Phosh running right now. The rest is free to be eaten by the browser. If anything, it's GTK that c
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by seba_dos1 3mo ago
Both Passes [0] and KDE Itinerary [1] work well on phones and can handle plenty of this stuff. [0] https://flathub.org/en/apps/me.sanchezrodriguez.passes [1] https://flathub.org/en/apps/o
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by seba_dos1 3mo ago
I've been using GNU/Linux on my phones for the last 18 years, initially as a portable hacking platform back when I was a teenager and now as the most practical mobile OS for me. I often see people mentioning these areas as somethi
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by seba_dos1 3mo ago
I'm living in Poland and the only thing my bank's application gives me that its website doesn't are mobile TOTP-based payments - and even then it just works in Waydroid, so I can still use it on a GNU/Linux phone if I wa
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by seba_dos1 3mo ago
I've been using several GNU/Linux smartphones as my only phones for the past 18 years (with a short exception around 10 years ago when I carried an Android phone too as there was a gap on the market) so I can say from first-hand e
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by seba_dos1 3mo ago
Yes.
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by seba_dos1 3mo ago
> They're 13. So? It's 13 years, not months. They're perfectly capable of learning that stuff by now. > Making apps is so complicated now I haven't noticed. Why do you think it's so complicated? Making things
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by seba_dos1 3mo ago
It's sending inputs that makes preventing cheating easier.
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by seba_dos1 3mo ago
Android and Apple devices let the remote server verify whether the local application and the system it runs on haven't been modified by the user and refuse providing services if they were. That's what makes them special, it's
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by seba_dos1 3mo ago
Something being in AOSP doesn't mean your distro has to retain it. Besides, the world doesn't end on Android systems.
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by seba_dos1 3mo ago
...and Debian, PureOS, Fedora, Arch, NixOS...
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure these look significantly better than what 2006 flip phones were capable of, even after scaling down by Mastodon: https://social.librem.one/@dos/tagged/shotonlibrem5 Also, I'm perfectly ca
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
Checking Flathub should give you some idea: https://flathub.org/en/apps/collection/mobile/1 There are more, not every application that works fine has metadata filled up (and not everything is on Flathub
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
> Desktop GNU/Linux programs are either unusable or a terrible experience on a mobile device with a small screen and no mouse. Is this an assumption or coming from your experience? Because I'm typing this on a GNU/Linux ph
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
Based on what I've seen while researching the topic for my own health purposes: the thresholds differ in various sources, but in general research appears to suggest that they may tend to err on the too low side rather than too high (th
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
You keep showing up under articles about vitamin D and keep telling that more people have excess than insufficient vitamin D levels without presenting any data whatsoever. We're among plenty of inside-dwelling nerds here. Do the test.
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
More than enough for quite a lot of use cases.
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
As a reminder, GTA Online is the kind of product that made news here because players had to reverse engineer it to fix basic performance issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 Their netcode is consistent with
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
> Cheating is the client being an endpoint you don't control. No, cheating is enabled by the client being trusted despite of inherently not being trustable. The solution is to design the architecture of the game server in a way th
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
Yes, I mentioned that (have you read my comment??). These are already nightmarish environments and we don't need to copy that nightmare onto other platforms.
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
My comment is about remote attestation, which is incredibly user-hostile technology; not secure boot. Secure boot enables remote attestation, but by itself is mostly harmless.
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
> What are they spending money for? To prepare for the future use of these resources.
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
> And then secure boot attests that the kernel isn't tampered with. That's pretty much a dystopian scenario where you're unable to interact with any network services without using devices with software that's controll
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
The original Steam Machines were a line of pre-made PCs with SteamOS from various vendors. Valve made a reference machine, but it was never widely available. The device released today is their first product that's actually called &quot
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
Yes, the US doesn't arrest people for death threats on Twitter, it's too busy actually killing those that oppose ICE.
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
You usually only need one house to have in retirement, just like you likely won't need a whole /22 in retirement.
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
Unless they lived in another big city, this is completely off-topic. Suburbs tend to have hit-or-miss public transit access, and the vast majority of people who live in a big city work in that big city (20 kilometers away would usually be j
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by seba_dos1 4mo ago
I don't. Long distance trains exist too, and I can watch a movie or eat at a restaurant car there rather than focus on the road.

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