I used to with LMDE (client) and Debian (server), but Cinnamon was a little bit too stuttery on the rickety old hardware I have (i5-5200U NUC and i5-5250U MBA), so now the NUC runs CachyOS with Xfce and the MBA runs Win10 LTSC because sometimes Windows is needed for my studies or certain voxel game leaks.
Completely agreed. My TV is some cheap Akai 24" thing, but at least it’s a dumb TV with a built-in DVD player, so I still enjoy it. The speakers on it are absolutely garbage, so that’s why I bother with a separate speaker. I too live in very small housing and frequently move about, so having any kind of speaker system is just not feasible.
For me, it’s a social activity where I can enjoy with close friends. I also don’t have a 4K TV or surround sound system, so the audio and visual quality is miles ahead in the theatre than my 1080p TN LCD flatscreen and Bluetooth speaker.
I’m completely with you and I daily drive Linux. It’s not just Lemmy, there is a vocal majority I’ve anecdotally seen that have this thing to push Linux onto everyone.
I used to be the same, until a friend I was pestering outright told me that it was ruining our friendship and Linux does not fit his needs, and it’s not something he’s open to.
Ever since, I’ve taken the approach of just never bringing it up and while I’ll happily answer questions, I accept people still need Windows and aren’t ready for such a sudden switch, because contrary to what that vocal majority says, it is a completely different environment for normies and takes a lot of mental energy and adjustment to get used to an entirely different system, even if the interface is near identical.
Side note: having this vocal majority seems to be a thing I’ve also seen in other vegans, surely there’s a term coined for this phenomenon because it’s certainly not limited to Linux users.
I’ll second that even in Sequoia now you mention it.
If I’m in a full screen application and I Exposé, the main desktop apps are in view despite the full screen application being highlighted. Swiping left or right between desktops updates something that corrects this, but definitely doesn’t feel like intended behavior.
I have dock magnification on and in certain situations, the cursor will leave the dock but the magnification effect remains where it last saw the cursor.
I haven’t kept up with the latest minor updates to Tahoe, but I’ve been staying back on Sequoia because while Tahoe looks very pretty and I’m glad to finally see a potential end to Material design, the readability issues with Tahoe are legitimate and rolling back to Sequoia has been a breath of fresh air.
I jumped over to the Mac world from Linux only this year (although I still keep my X260 with LMDE around) but perhaps it was the worst time to do so - I’ll see how I feel once Sequoia support ends and whether Asahi Linux would be more viable.
Seconded on their usefulness on the road. Incredibly easy to just reach over, hold the PTT button and get your message across. One time purchase for something that won’t get shut down or unsupported ever.
If you try communicating with a phone, the only safe way to do it (assuming one person per vehicle) is to start a phone call before leaving, and keep it running constantly. If you have a passenger, they become your secretary. If the call drops then that’s all comms lost until both pull over and redial. Requires mobile coverage everywhere on your route which in Australia isn’t the case, even on major routes like A1 Bruce Highway.
Walkie talkies are king for travelling with mates
I’d be curious to know why. I know just enough about vim that I can use it if I’m forced to (perhaps a barebones Linux system) but usually my default text editor is nano - what makes vim that much better for development?
I think my initial shock was that he’s my supervisor and couldn’t even identify that it was a standard outside of the Galaxy S5, so it brings any IT knowledge of his into question.
That being said, he was pretty open about us technicians knowing more about the nitty gritty computing than he did, so his lack of IT knowledge wasn’t a major issue as he was a decent team leader, which I found more important to his position.
I had a boss who called that connector the “Samsung plug” when I had an external HDD and was trying to find a cable for it. I had an S5 for years, so I knew exactly what he was talking about, not that it quelled my shock given he was the team lead of IT support.
Needless to say he was (and still probably is) a huge Samsung guy
Obviously that would be a total compromise. However this all depends on your threat model and how you usually use your laptop, and if someone were to steal it, would they also mug you for your flashdrive?
In my case, I just type the passphrase I have into the laptop, although my homelab server uses a USB so that it can unattended reboot, and I can put the USB in a secure location if it doesn’t need to reboot unattended.
Otherwise, in my case I usually go out with a laptop that if stolen, is only worth about $150 AUD so not a big financial hit. While I have LUKS as a passphrase, I’m not likely to be a target of any individual or entity that, if they really wanted my data, would also mug me for a USB key, so I could live with either.
It’s quite possible to set up LUKS with a USB key instead.
It is square around the world origin
He sped up his pace in the last few months, but I remember estimates when he was doing it episodically (instead of live streaming) being in the ballpark of 34 years.
I personally don’t know (someone else may be able to enlighten), but he does a fundraiser (FLoB-a-thon) to raise money for causes he believes in as part of this series.
You’re probably jesting, but I can’t see this happening because AFAIK iOS is imaged for specific phones - it’s not like Windows where it’s a generic software for any iPhone, it’s a .ipsw image that is iOS 26 for iPhone 14 Plus for example.
Once upon a time, it was called changing boards on a forum.
I guess from a consumer perspective, it can be more convenient (e.g. wireless charging in a car)
For me, I see it as a way to reduce wear on a charging port, or as an alternative if the port does fail.
I like it for the latter as I don’t like my devices to be inefficient but it makes me feel better that should the USB-C fail on my phone, it’s not game over for my phone.
Broken BIOS on a PC. You can basically throw out your motherboard
Can confirm, bricked a Latitude E6420 trying to put coreboot on it and completely missing an instruction in bright red bold text. Had a parts machine thankfully, and had to swap the boards.
Tab A7 Lite
Huh, that makes two of us. Hated every second of dealing with OneUI, back when I got it, GSIs were around but there was no straight forward guide. Now one does exist and oh boy, it feels like a completely different device with LOS and no gapps.
This announcement is for Brave hosting their own repository to host the Brave browser on that’s compatible with F-Droid, rather than the Brave browser being added to F-Droid’s official repository.
Otherwise, perhaps you meant that you did add their repo and it’s still not showing up.
Bugger, I wish I knew this option existed before I replaced my 4a with my current 7a. I daily drove it with LineageOS once support ended from GrapheneOS but it was rather buggy and at some points, unstable.
The 7a isn’t bad at all, and it’s been quite reliable especially with GrapheneOS. But I do severely miss the back fingerprint sensor, the corner camera instead of the centre one and the headphone jack.
Oh well, hopefully by the time this 7a dies (because I will drive this thing into the ground, then replace the battery and go again) the Motorola options will be available and viable. And this 7a would finally become my second phone, probably for work.