Looking for Beta Testers – DNA Analysis App
Hey everyone! 👋
I'm a student who recently got into bioinformatics, and I’ve been building an — a lightweight tool to help with DNA sequence analysis and primer design.
🧑💻 I built it entirely using Python on Linux and I’m excited to share it with this community!
🔬 What it does:
• Converts DNA sequences & generates complementary strands
• Flags invalid or non-DNA characters (great for catching copy-paste errors)
• Supports degenerate bases (e.g., M, R, Y – helpful for primer design)
• 100% offline – no internet, no ads, no data collection
• Save and export sequences easily
🧪 I’m running a closed paid beta and need at least 12 testers to qualify for public release on Google Play:
• Price: $3.59 AUD (~$2.39 USD)
• Just keep the app installed for 14 days (Google’s minimum)
• Feedback is welcome but optional!
✅ How to test:
1️⃣ Join the tester group:
👉 groups.google.com/g/companiond…
2️⃣ Opt into the beta:
👉 play.google.com/apps/testing/o…
3️⃣ Install the app from the Play Store link you’ll get after joining
Thanks so much if you give it a try! I’m still new to all this, so any support from this community means a lot 💙
DM me with questions or bugs!
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The US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation tasked with examining the June 2023 implosion of the Titan submersible released its report
The board determined the primary contributing factors were OceanGate’s inadequate design, certification, maintenance and inspection process for the Titan. Other factors cited in the report include a toxic workplace culture at OceanGate, an inadequate domestic and international regulatory framework for submersible operations and vessels of novel design, and an ineffective whistleblower process under the Seaman’s Protection Act.The board also found OceanGate failed to properly investigate and address known hull anomalies following its 2022 Titanic expedition. Investigators determined the Titan’s real-time monitoring system generated data that should have been analyzed and acted on during the 2022 Titanic expedition. However, OceanGate did not take any action related to the data, conduct any preventative maintenance or properly store the Titan during the extended off season before its 2023 Titanic expedition.
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📢 Looking for Beta Testers – DNA Analysis App
I'm a high school student who recently got into bioinformatics, and I’ve been building an Android app called DNA Companion — a lightweight tool to help with DNA sequence analysis and primer design.
🔬 What it does:
• Converts DNA sequences & generates complementary strands
• Flags invalid or non-DNA characters (great for catching copy-paste errors)
• Supports degenerate bases (e.g., M, R, Y – helpful for primer design)
• 100% offline – no internet, no ads, no data collection
• Save and export sequences easily
🧪 I'm running a closed paid beta and need at least 12 testers so I can release it publicly on Google Play:
• Price: $3.59 AUD (~$2.39 USD)
• Just keep the app installed for 14 days (you don’t have to use it daily — Google just requires this)
• Feedback is appreciated but totally optional!
✅ How to test:
1️⃣ Join the tester group:
👉 groups.google.com/g/companiond…
2️⃣ Opt into the beta:
👉 play.google.com/apps/testing/o…
3️⃣ Install the app from the Play Store link you’ll get after joining
Thanks so much if you give it a try! I’m still new to all this, so any support from this community means a lot 💙
Feel free to DM me if you have questions or run into bugs!
ChatGPT Confessions gone? They are not !
ChatGPT Confessions gone? They are not !
OpenAI closes gap, but another opens of 110.000 chatsHenk van Ess (Digital Digging with Henk van Ess)
First time - which distro is best for me?
Hey everyone I'm looking at setting up an 8th gen Intel machine to run some things for me. I'd like it to run jellyfin & tailscale, but also be able to stream steam games off my windows gaming computer. I'd also hope to be able to use it to run a jellyfin client as it would be plugged into my LG TV (which can't run jellyfin).
Is there one distro that can do all these? My mate is using unraid and I recommends it but he is only running jellyfin.
Thanks!
I recommend Debain, or else Linux Mint which is a derivative of (and fully compatible with Debian Linux) but has more recent software packages available to it.
Both Tailscale and Jellyfin have instructions on how to install onto Debian which are not too difficult to follow.
If you intend to use this computer as a server, Debian is probably better, it is lighter-weight and slightly more stable. If you intend to also use this computer as a daily driver, you might try Linux Mint instead, since it includes more of Ubuntu's more recent software builds in their app store (i.e. package repository), and it is helpful to have more recent builds of the most popular apps. I have heard it is also a bit easier to install games onto Linux Mint than Debian.
I have a blog post about how to pick a Linux written for people switching from Windows or Mac, if you are interested in a more detailed explanation.
Install Tailscale on Debian Bookworm · Tailscale Docs
Install the Tailscale client on Debian Bookworm.Tailscale
Is there one distro that can do all these?
Yes, basically all of them.
Asking open-ended distro questions means you're just going to get a list of people's personal preferences stated as "facts".
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I use Bluefin and tailscale is built in (you just have to login to your setup). They're atomic so they upgrade the whole image automatically (no faffing or bugging you) and apps are all flatpak. I get on great with it. Only caveat is it only supports relatively modern nvidia graphics cards.
universal-blue.org/
Universal Blue - Powered by the future, delivered today
Universal Blue manufactures a diverse set of operating system images to provide the the reliability of a Chromebook, but with the flexibility and power of a traditional Linux desktop.universal-blue.org
For your mentioned use cases, any distribution would do.
In fact, any answer for your question would be anecdotal, and here’s mine: Debian if this isn’t your first rodeo, and Ubuntu Server if it is.
Heck, just play around with Ubuntu Server and then go to Debian.
Moreover, you may ask this question on !selfhosted@lemmy.world for better insights.
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Debian 13 (Trixie) is scheduled for release on August 9, featuring KDE Plasma 6.3.5, GNOME 48, and Linux kernel 6.12 LTS.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Your mate is running a Jellyfin client on Unraid? Or the server? Unraid is a NAS that can run VMs and containers. It is not a desktop system.
If you were only running server stuff on that machine, I would recommend Proxmox.
As others have said though, basically any Linux distro can do what you are looking for.
If you are going to run it as a desktop, pick a distro that has a desktop environment (GUI) that you like and go from there.
Fun fact: Unraid is really just Slackware Linux running the Unraid application on top
i am really worried about what's going on in eu
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and it’s heading in a troubling direction
I'd say it's heading in an orwellian direction...
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then some wealthy business donor has a quiet word to them because businesses need VPNs to function
A little credit here. They'd rephrase the law to only target VPNs whose purpose is offering as a service to the general public (as opposed to exclusively employees and contractors) the ability to connect to a private network with exit points / the ability to appear as if their traffic originates from outside of the UK.
On a related matter they could also require know your customer for all VPNs, require all VPNs keep logs available on request for police inspection and those who don't are banned. All companies keep extensive logs for corporate VPNs so this wouldn't present any additional burden to private enterprise but would be the end of anonymous VPN services.
I really don't think this is more of the spectacle and move on. Not this time. I think Palestine has them spooked because they lost control of the narrative and the best way to seize control of the internet and clamp down on people conveying information they don't like is starting with things like this.
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What do you mean with chat control BS? Care to share a link?
That being said, there are a lot of worrying politicians out there.
Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence Take action to stop Chat Control now! The Chat Control 2.Patrick Breyer
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For example the greens, the left, the SPD and even the FDP.
Edit: Even the right wing nuts from the AfD are against it.
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but it's starting to feel like some weird out of place patriotism is on the rise or something.
Oh no, not again... I'll go ahead and paint my Danish flag white in preperation of what's to come.
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Germany always had a different flavor of distopia, I think the people there similarly to America drink the state sanctioned cool aid so they can never have a Orwellian distopia.
Germany wants to deport four pro-Palestine activists: What you should know
The US citizen and three European nationals who face expulsion have not been convicted of any crime.Jad Salfiti (Al Jazeera)
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You literally have to provide identification when buying a SIM card for a mobile phone in Germany and it all gets registered.
Most of Europe doesn't have any such thing and even the UK with all it's authoritarian overreach doesn't have this.
There is literally no other use for this other than for the state to be to know who calls who.
Germany is a lot more "papers please" than most of Europe in my personal experience.
Yeah I think it's very subjective and this one anedcote is just that.
In Germany cash is preferred in most places, and that makes tracking payments difficult. This is not the case in most other european countries. That's an another anecdote for you.
That's a "people" preference.
Mandatory registration of who buys a SIM card is a "government" preference.
My point is that in Germany the Legislation favors privacy less than in other countries.
Your point seems to be that in Germany people favor privacy more than in other countries.
I made the point be about legislation because you mentioned GDPR / DSGVO, plus this post is about what governments are shoving down people's throats when it comes to surveillance. I don't expect that most people in Europe actually want governments snooping on their chats.
Still, it's good to know that in Germany the people themselves favor privacy, even if so far they've been less successful at avoiding governmental overreach on surveillance than people in many other European nations (though compared with, say, Britain, Germany is veritable paradise in terms of state surveillance of the civil society).
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the only thing that can really stop it IMO is mainstreaming decentralized social media and messaging services.
You'd need to effectively replace Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Whatsapp etc.. The only thing that totally keeps us from 1984 is that all these platforms for now have decided to be relatively free and impartial (compared to how bad it could be). But that could change at any time if the powers that be decide to on a whim. They could completely ban all privacy, pacificsm or any kind of political opposition tomorrow.
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Not quite.
Farage keeps running around saying "Pick me! Pick me!" and the press keep asking "Is farage a viable candidate?" while not offering the same credence to anyone else.
The British public are "We're fucking sick of this bollocks from the establishment" and a lot of them are falling for the privately educated ex city trader Farages nonsense that he's a "man of the people" because all the centrist parties are saying "aren't immigrants awful?" in an attempt to distract from their own incompetence and quite frankly, the left is 10 years behind in offering a coherent alternative to all the bullshit.
a lot of them are falling for the privately educated ex city trader Farages nonsense that he’s a “man of the people”
This parallels Trump, but I think it's mostly not that people are really fooled into believing these wealthy politicians are just like them. I think the attraction is more that the current system isn't working for a lot of people and hasn't been for a long time. Someone who offers to tear it down can attract a large following even if they don't have a good proposal for what to replace it with.
It took a while for me to see that because I find the racist and nationalist beliefs of the likes of Trump, Farage, and the AFD so appalling it's hard to see anything else.
Definitely, it's them playing stupid so centrist liberals will mock them because they can't help themselves and they use that to say to the genpop "look, I'm just like you and these sneering elites are laughing at me, and by extension you"
I think the attraction is more that the current system isn't working for a lot of people and hasn't been for a long time.
Exactly. They play the outsider who has the balls but not embroiled in the quagmire, to come and "drain the swamp"
The perverse hilarity of trump saying this is that he is the 1%, he is the trust fund kid that had everything handed to him on a platter. He literally is the swamp (a corrupt child rapist)
Farage in the UK went to one of the top schools (Dulwich college) where he was disciplined for singing Hitler youth songs. He got a job in the city through his dad as a commodities broker before going into (disrupting) politics and people seem to believe his shit when he acts like he's one of the common folk!
People need their heads banging together falling for that shit!
how will this "client side scanning" be implemented?
it's, not only worrying, but very confusing.
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As an American it's nice to see were not the only ones in a complete downward spiral.
EDIT: wild that there are users pretending to be butthurt by this obviously joke comment so they can farm upvotes from the tens of users on Lemmy
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Also, Americans are subject to supporting this bullshit. If any company in the us (or in the world really) owns or maintains data that the EU qualifies as adult-oriented, they have to either maintain a means of actively prevent EU users or support the filtering and tracking that the EU mandates. If not, they can be fined by the EU, and as long as there is a financial relationship between the us and EU, the fines will be enforced.
This has global impact.
I'm curious if more companies will move their hosting to countries that are non compliant with EU regulations and move to accepting payment from cryptocurrency only. I would not be surprised if x-rated content providers were to move to such places.
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I do agree. But calling the UK Orwellian is kind of funny, given Orwell's 1984 is largely, if not mostly, based on the UK:
- Like Winston, Orwell worked in the UK as a war propagandist, and lamented that he constantly had to lie and censor facts, but thought it worth it to defeat the Nazis.
- The 'ministries' were entirely based on the UK's, especially e.g. the 'Ministry of Defense' actually being a ministry of war.
- Orwell complained that the UK secret police constantly opened all his letters because he was a commie.
- Room 101 and the Ministry of Truth is basically just satire of the BBC.
As well as cultural changes in the 80s-90s, I think people don't quite realise how much the internet 'escaped' the grasp of governments for the past few decades. By constantly banging the drum of "what about the children D:", governments are finally just catching up to where we used to be.
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I am not aware of any western country that isn't a police state.
The reason the police state gets worse and worse is simply that our glouriouss western countries shift closer and closer to fascism every day.
Unfortunately that doesn't only impact privacy but also stuff like state repression or presence of state thugs.
To quote very smart people:
OOONEEE SOLLUTION
REEEVOLUTION
Is this thread about the rising fascist movements? Oh...
Is it about the refugees from their colonies they drown in the Mediterranean? Oh...
Well is it about the pivot from renewables and nuclear to oil and gas? Wh... well what is...
Oh. This is a thread about your online treats.
#1 on lemmy 'top in last 12 hours'
you are saying that as if all (or any) of those would have started to be a problem just in the last 12 hours...
and this is not about "online treats", but online threats. It's not just netflix, amazon and other silly unnecessary things, it's everything, including every forum where people can organize and discuss things, fucking youtube with their tons of knowledge based content, ...
but sure! we have 4 other problems, count climate change too, that's 5, we really should just ignore this one because it's literally meaningless!
No... Just exposing bias of the commenter.
Russia and china good
Westoid regime bad
Imagine simping for some gereatric strong men as an adult 🤡
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No one in those countries believes that they live in a free, enlightened society...
But the west always portrayed otself in such a light... Now everyone knows their politics are just as ugly as Chinas, Irans or Russias politics.
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I don't see anyone in US LARPing freedom bullshit since at least covid lol
Well besides regime whores on tv... But that's a different story
But in us unlike china or russia, shit posters don't get charges or at least not nearly as much for saying stupid shit online. People in russia peope get prison for being anti war.
It can happen in the US too... My comment above touches on this fact.
In china and russia people get disappeared in regular course of business.
If this was true, half of Lemmy would be in Gitmo already
Does china have a place like reddit or fediverse?
Link it up!
in USia we got south park, i am sure they stream it in canada too
the recent one is a strong entry on the limits of free speech
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The UK is owned by a different country. That country is Italy, where the Roman Catholic Church resides. Any Catholic-owned platform will shut down anything that goes against the RCC, or at best, they'll just minimize the reach for those who have some things to say against the Jesuits and Catholic leadership.
That's from what my producer, Neigsendoig, researched.
US big tech is influencing europe to do the same as the us, and opening them up for absolute power.
the only way out is to stop being US vassals.
I'm not going to defend the US and it's tech oligarchs, they are all shit, but the way things are going, the EU and the UK are currently in way worse shape than the US in terms of all this 1984 bullshit.
No country is safe from this anymore, and we may very well be looking at the worse time to be alive when it comes to privacy, regardless of where you live.
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That's an opinion lol
We deff have it better now with corpo and goverment replacing family and the hood
You do make a good point. However, consider the fact that you could talk with your wife, kids, friends or anyone for that matter, and the only way someone else would find out was if one of the parties involved told someone else or if you were too loud for someone else to listen. Now we have to go fully out of our way to keep anything under wraps, and even then, there's no guarantee that nobody else knows.
I firmly believe this is the worst the world has ever been for privacy and individualism, and everything points to that everything is going to be worse moving forward.
Additionally, it's highly that any of us lived through those times you mentioned, so I'm speaking from my own life experience, and I'm over half a century old.
No. This is a very naive & dated way of thinking about the world of today. We don’t really have distinct borders distinguishing politicians at that level.
It’s more accurate to say the Davos group is ruling all western nations. What looks like separate world leaders and parties is actually one world-spanning organization of those with power. And what’s worse, they’re all Nazis and technocrats.
The Nazis learned from WW2. If you invade a country, the people fight back. If you groom and install/bribe your own people into leadership positions, the people just let it happen.
big US capitalists are the ones ruling western nations (and the third world, through neocolonialism). other western oligarchs might play a role.
in this case, europe doesn't have its own big tech that compares to the US's, and i don't think they are allowed to.
i don't think they are relying on a formal, yearly summit to do so either. the real politics are made behind close doors, and i doubt there's a public list anywhere of the people coming to agreements on how to direct their power.
i will agree they are fascists who learned their lesson from nazi mistakes.
i am really worried about what's going on in eu
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Not even close to the horrors of an Orwellian society and saying it is is an insult to the characters in those books. It isn't great though, and it's heading in a troubling direction
From the other post, as with all others, is linked and we don't have to multiple post comments too
How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?
How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?
A technical investigation into information uncovered in a class action lawsuit that Facebook had intercepted encrypted traffic from user's devices running the Onavo Protect app in order to gain competitive insights.haxrob
Pakistan arrests over 200 activists as they rally to support former leader Imran Khan
LAHORE, Pakistan -- Police arrested more than 200 supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday as they tried to hold rallies in cities throughout Pakistan to mark the second anniversary of Khan’s arrest, a party spokesman and officials said.
The detainees included Rehana Dar, 73, a politician from Khan’s party known for her fiery speeches against the government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. She was seen being thrown into a police truck in the northeastern city of Lahore.
The crackdown on PTI supporters came hours after Pakistan’s election oversight body disqualified opposition leader Omar Ayub Khan and several other PTI lawmakers following their convictions over their alleged role in riots that broke out in May 2023 after Khan’s initial arrest in a corruption case.
Pakistan arrests over 200 activists as they rally to support former leader Imran Khan
Officials say police arrested more than 200 supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in various parts of Pakistan as they attempted to hold rallies to mark the second anniversary of Khan’s arrestThe Associated Press (ABC News)
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Can magnet damage hard disk?
But the consern is it has a magnet on botom side, so it sticks to metal surfece inside the case. Wery usefull again but my hard disk is under that metal surfice. So i wonder can it corupt data or damage hdd itself..?!
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Microsoft unveils Project Ire, a prototype AI system that can reverse engineer and identify malicious software autonomously, without human assistance
Project Ire autonomously identifies malware at scale - Microsoft Research
Designed to classify software without context, Project Ire replicates the gold standard in malware analysis through reverse engineering. It streamlines a complex, expert-driven process, making large-scale malware detection faster & more consistent.Alyssa Hughes (2ADAPTIVE LLC dba 2A Consulting) (Microsoft Research)
Revealed: Gaza Spy Flights From UK Base On Cyprus Secretly Shift to Plane Leased by Company with Billions in US Military Contracts
Since December 2023, the Royal Air Force (RAF) had been flying the same Beechcraft King Air 350 plane over Gaza and sharing the intelligence with Israel, but now this programme appears to have ceased, and is instead being undertaken by the new US-leased private plane.
The British planes, which are called Shadow R1s in UK service, have flown near-daily from RAF Akrotiri, Britain’s sprawling airbase on Cyprus, for almost the entire duration of Israel’s assault on Gaza.
But the last RAF spy flight over Gaza from Akrotiri was on July 25, within days of the new US plane coming into operation on the same route. During the US plane’s first five trips over Gaza, it was accompanied by the RAF plane in an apparent training exercise.
For the 20 months of UK spy flights over Gaza for Israel, the planes had turned off their transponder about half way to Gaza so activity over Gaza had stayed secret.
On 28 July, however, the newly-trained US plane took off at 8pm and forgot to turn off its transponder. The flight path of a surveillance flight from RAF Akrotiri was visible for the first time. It shows the plane reaching Gaza at 9pm and circling over southern Gaza for an hour and half, concentrating its surveillance efforts over Khan Younis and surrounding areas.
The new US-leased spy plane, which flew from RAF Akrotiri on 28 July, circles over Khan Younis area for three hours.
Revealed: Gaza Spy Flights From UK Base On Cyprus Secretly Shift to Plane Leased by Company with Billions in US Military Contracts
The American leasing company was awarded $472m contract by US Special Operations Command in June and is developing US military’s new long-range spy planeMatt Kennard (Palestine Deep Dive)
This opaque system is designed for clients to operate spy planes with limited oversight and accountability.
How is this different than if the UK military operated its own aircraft?
This article is written as if it's a big scoop, but "military conducts operation using rented equipment instead of its own" seems pretty boring to me. Am I missing something?
The UK military Royal Air Force used to perform these flights but have recently stopped doing them.
Now a US contractor is doing the flights, however they use the RAF base and were provided RAF training.
What's interesting is that the RAF always turned off their transponder when they neared Gaza so nobody knew where they were flying.
The US contractor didn't turn off their transponder and likely leaked what the RAF has been doing for the past 2 years which is flying above Gaza (in a circle of interest to the IDF?):
For a more detailed video explanation:
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Maybe this all just got lost in the noise talking about insignificant details like where the US company is based. "Change in operations reveals where RAF spy-plane flights have likely been operating" is more interesting than the actual headline, and more interesting than most of the other information in there. But because that is not the focus, I'm not really sure that was supposed to be the take-home.
I'm reminded of early in Russia's invasion of Ukraine when NATO RQ-4s, RC-135Ws and other spy aircraft were flying over and near to Ukraine - all with transponders on. It's interesting to people obsessing over the war, but it's not politics.
The article itself is extremely dense on details, I tried to condense it a bit in my summary but it's hard.
It’s interesting to people obsessing over the war, but it’s not politics.
Well this is the opposite. They RAF turned their transponders off when they were doing these secretive flights. Spying for Israel during a genocide means being a direct participant in it. Kid Starver seems to have reached a point where he is trying to look less complicit and is now trying to shift the blame to a US company.
UK willing to hand over Gaza intelligence to war crimes court
The RAF has flown hundreds of surveillance flights over Gaza since last December.Jonathan Beale (BBC News)
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said these flights were to gather intelligence related to the hostages seized by Hamas on 7 October last year.The UK has said it would consider providing intelligence gathered from surveillance flights over Gaza to the International Criminal Court (ICC) if requested.
The UK has said it would consider providing intelligence
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I think I've done what I set out to do by showing your assumptions for what they are.
You are trying to present a narrative where the UK is enabling Israel's genocidal war by finding targets for them to bomb and that, knowing that the public wouldn't go along with this, are concealing their role by handing the contract to a third party - but have presented no evidence for this narrative at all. Everything that we actually know is consistent with an appropriate role for the UK military in helping to return hostages, while also gathering information that could help prosecute Netanyahu and his government.
All you have is spin, aspersions and name calling. Do better.
Desktop app for Lemmy?
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Alexandrite is easily the best.
For people like me who don't know about the web frontends: use your desktop browser and go to: alexandrite.app/lemmy-instance…
GitHub - asimons04/tesseract
Contribute to asimons04/tesseract development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Oh, I think I've heard of Tesseract before... The reason I ended up going with Alexandrite was because Tesseract looked a little over-featured and very busy; not really what I was looking for, but it looks great!
A shame about those issues with developments. Sometimes that's just what happens with Open Source, especially for niche stuff developed by a single individual. Do you know why the dev swore off the Fediverse? I'm very interested in why someone would decide that. I did go thru their post history and got an idea as to a possibility, but I wonder if they made a post about it or something that I might've missed.
Here's the Readme from the commit when he discontinued Tesseract.
Here's a post where the developer explains his reasons.
tesseract/README.md at e86f2f2e45be6879740346586a682c5a1f033b44 · asimons04/tesseract
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I have þe same question, except wiþ a qualification: no web apps. No electron apps. I want a desktop app, not an SPA bundled with a bunch of JavaScript.
More þan þat, however, I want a decent, functional TUI for þe FediVerse. Þere's a couple great ActivityPub microblogging TUIs, but I haven't been able to find a good TUI for þreaded FediVerse like Pixelfed or Lemmy.
GitHub - mrusme/neonmodem: Neon Modem Overdrive
Neon Modem Overdrive. Contribute to mrusme/neonmodem development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I'm using Voyger iOS client on my phone, so decided to self host the same web app on my homelab.
Split screen mode is useful for me on desktop.
github.com/aeharding/voyager?t…
GitHub - aeharding/voyager: Voyager — a beautiful app for Lemmy
Voyager — a beautiful app for Lemmy. Contribute to aeharding/voyager development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
There's this apps doc. From there I see in addition to others' comments:
Both being Go based apps. but the neonmodem looks more interesting to me.
Another option is a hybrid one, to add the rss feeds from the lemmy communities your're interested in, or the rss feed from all of them together into your feed reader (even better if newsraft), but those feeds don't show full lemmy conversations and one has to show them in the browser, and also if in need to comment or post one still need to use the browser.
apps doc is constantly evolving, so it's good to keep an eye on it periodically, 😀
GitHub - rystaf/mlmym: a familiar desktop experience for lemmy
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Neonmodem looks really cool and support multiple backend. TUI is cool and definitely earns its place. Excellent for my old laptop.
But on the other hands, I wish we have a proper complicated non electron liked desktop gui. My browser probably has 1000+ tabs. So able to open multiple threads are must. But building this sophisticated desktop app is hard. I am really being spoiled by open source apps. And I am always thankful to devs' hardwork.
GitHub - lemmygtk/lemoa: Native Gtk client for Lemmy
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Bennett: Israel’s status in US ‘has never been so bad,’ it’s becoming a ‘leper state’
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett warned that Israel’s status in the United States “has never been so bad” and that it is being seen as a “leper state” in a lengthy social media post on Tuesday.
“The Democratic party hasn’t been with us for some time. We’re also losing the Republican party, whose support for Israel could once be counted on,” he wrote, though he credited US President Donald Trump with retaining support for Israel within his administration.
“Even those who have been our friends are having a hard time defending the State of Israel,” Bennett continued. “Israel is being seen more and more as a liability and burden on the USA and Americans.”
Is Tor browser on Mullvad DNS a bad idea?
I set secure DNS to Mullvad DNS.
Since I can't afford a VPN, I do my web searches on Tor browser.
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that's how ipleak and co. check for DNS leaks.
No. It's fine.
Tor uses its own DNS system to my recollection. It's true there is DNS as part of fingerprinting and DNS leaks are a concern for VPNs (see for example dnsleaktest.com/) but Tor is not vulnerable to this and it's more a problem of you're using a VPN to appear to be in NYC but your DNS shows Phoenix so that's a big discrepancy that raises the uniqueness of your fingerprint on a VPN and even lets threat actors guesstimate where you actually are. As I said though this is not an issue on Tor.
So understand that the DNS from Mullvad will only affect other programs not Tor. It will prevent say your ISP's DNS from seeing your video games calling their domains that way. Your ISP can still see you're connecting to infrastructure for as an example Genshin Impact when you launch the game because they can see where your traffic is flowing and the IP addresses as well as traffic patterns, ports, etc. It somewhat limits the data and visibility they get but there is something called SNI snooping as well as of course the fact they know the IP addresses where your connections go. So it's perhaps better than nothing but understand the limits of it as they still have a lot of visibility though they shouldn't be able to see your web searches regardless just that you're accessing google or bing or duckduckgo as those sites use HTTPS.
DNS leak test
DNSleaktest.com offers a simple test to determine if you DNS requests are being leaked which may represent a critical privacy threat. The test takes only a few seconds and we show you how you can simply fix the problem.www.dnsleaktest.com
More context please. Where did you set the DNS? Smartphone, desktop? In browser or on system settings?
Assuming the following: You set the general DNS on your AOSP based smartphone to Mullvad and use Tor bowser simultaneously.
This is perfectly fine as Tor browser uses its own DNS. They won't interfere.
This kinda reminds me of when Beavis and Butthead first came on the air. Panned as the stupidest thing on TV.
When it came back in the 2010s, it was exactly as stupid. However, relative to what ELSE was on TV? Suddenly it was relatively high brow. It was easily the smartest show on MTV. By a LOT.
Putting super Gover in the first Iron Man? Nonsense. Putting him in whatever they do next? IMO it would generally raise the bar. No offense, MCU superfans.
Domain names for catch all email aliases
I'm looking into getting some domains for email, so I don't need to use the same few addresses for everything. In doing this, the domain name itself becomes the identity, but it's also entirely arbitrary.
What is a good method to choose domain names so that they look more or less normal? Catch all addresses can of course be detected in SMTP, but the idea is just to not look suspicious. Would anyone be comfortable sharing the constructions they use? (though not the domains themselves, for obvious reasons) Should I use subdomains for the things that can safely be correlated, (as spam defense) or is it better to only use different mailboxes on one domain?
Look into simplelogin.io/
They make creating random aliases for custom domains like this easy.
As for the domain name itself, anything that already looks like a mail service is good. “examplemail.com” or “mailexample.com”
SimpleLogin | Open source anonymous email service
With email aliases , you can be anonymous online and protect your inbox against spams and phishing.SimpleLogin | Open source anonymous email service
I went to expireddomains.net and searched for ones ending in "__mail.net". Found a good, short domain that was once a regional ISP and email provider 15-20 years ago. (I still get spam for some of their old subscribers.).
I do not use subdomains for this one. Generally, I combine a simple name with a number for the mailbox name. Like "johnathan2715@zzzmail.net" if I think it needs to look like a real name, or some other word like "giraffe1238" or something like that.
It's working great.
I just use a single catch-all account in my existing domain. If you send an email to my primary address it just goes to my primary box. If you send an email to my secondary address it goes to my secondary box. If you send an email to anything else it goes to my catch-all box.
Rumba@mycustomdomain.com Skips the catch only goes right to me.
Intel@mycustomdomain.com Go straight to the catch-all
I don't have to pre-make them I simply use anything that doesn't exist.
I set up my postfix server so that anything after a hyphen ("-") becomes a wildcard. It like Gmail's "plus addressing", but the hyphen is more subtle. It means multiple users can make infinite aliases on one domain.
So, "user@domain.com" has the same mailbox as "user-somesuffix@domain.com".
I'm not OP but I use mailcow to host my mail and it comes with the + aliases by default. So mail+google@example.org goes to mail@example.org.
You can also do fully random aliases on demand, both time limited and permanently. Useful for those few services that do not accept + in their email fields.
Something you can remember...
Catch alls are most useful when you are away and you need to give an email out. If you can't remember the domain that becomes a pain.
I’m looking into getting some domains for email, so I don’t need to use the same few addresses for everything.
Getting a custom domain for email is smart. It’s a necessary step given how data is treated these days. The domain becomes your identifier, but it's essentially arbitrary. I switched from sharing a single email address (which predictably led to breaches and spam) to creating dedicated emails for each service. Now, when an account gets compromised, I just redirect that email to oblivion. It’s a clean break, and a strangely revealing look at how online identities get resold and repurposed. Worth considering.
Announcement video of Deepmind Genie 3
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Kalamazoo Linux Users Group
Tonight in #kalamazoo is the weekly Kalamazoo #Linux Users Group. I have been going again lately. It is a nice old group that has been holding on for more than 10 years by the one and only Lynden Kirk.
If you happen to be in #swmi, #westmi, #battlecreek come out and join us.
So it is tuesday nights at 6pm(18 for the rest of the world) at
Kzoo Makers
1102 E. Michigan Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49048
Kalamazoo Makerspace - Kzoo Makers
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From Gaza: A Student’s Story of Loss, Resilience, and Hope
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5757723
My name is Soliman — a young man and student from Gaza, carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life, I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times.We once had a small farm — olive and citrus trees, and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops, but dreams.
That farm was our only source of income, and more than that, it was a place full of memories, of hope, and of the laughter that once made life a little easier.
But in a single moment, everything was gone.
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes.
We lost our source of living, our stability — and with it, a part of our souls.
Now, despite the pain, I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing, to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength, dignity, and sense of humanity.
On top of all this, I’m also struggling with serious health issues.
I suffer from a urinary tract infection caused by the lack of access to clean drinking water.
Here in Gaza, we’re forced to drink water mixed with sand and other contaminants — there’s simply no other choice.
It’s affecting my health badly, and I need treatment I can’t afford in these conditions.
I’m sharing my story with honesty and hope, praying it reaches a kind heart — someone who can help, or even just share it with others who might be able to.
If you’re able to support us in any way, here’s my GoFundMe link:
Every share, every kind word, and every small donation could be a lifeline for us.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking a moment to read my story.
I completely understand your doubt — the world is full of scams, and it’s your right to question things.
But my story is real, and unfortunately, what my family and I are living through in Gaza is beyond words.
The photo is real, the account is real, and the GoFundMe link was created by a friend in Germany because I’m unable to create one from Gaza.
All I ask is for you to consider sharing it if possible — or even just a prayer.
Thank you for your compassion, even if you’re still unsure.
Thank you for replying, and I’m sorry that bad actors on the internet make people like me have to be a little suspicious of posts like this.
Have you considered providing photographic proof that you are the person in the picture, such as providing a photo of you holding a piece of paper that says “Hello Lemmy” with the current date and time on it? Things like that are usually typical when you are proving your identity in a post like this because it allows people to analyze it for signs of photo manipulation. With nothing but a few photos of you in Gaza, it is impossible to tell if it is really you or if someone has stolen those photos and is impersonating you for money.
Assuming that you are the man in the photo, I do want to say how horrible I feel about the genocide happening in your country. Nobody deserves that, and most of the world sees the crimes happening against your people, even if those in power are too cowardly to do anything.
From Gaza: A Student’s Story of Loss, Resilience, and Hope
My name is Soliman a young man and student from Gaza carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times
We once had a small farm with olive and citrus trees and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops but dreams
That farm was our only source of income and more than that it was a place full of memories of hope and of the laughter that once made life a little easier
But in a single moment everything was gone
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes
We lost our source of living our stability and with it a part of our souls
Now despite the pain I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength dignity and sense of humanity
I share these words with honesty and hope hoping they reach a kind heart someone who can help or even simply share my story with others who might be able to
If you’re able to support us in any way here is the link to our GoFundMe campaign
Every share every kind word every small donation could be a lifeline for us
From the bottom of my heart thank you for taking a moment to read my story
Congratulations to Linux on recent victories!
They see you clearly on the world stage.
Be strong. Be Vigilant. Stay safe.
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Again...Linux is deployed to more devices on the planet than any other OS, beating MS by a long shot.
Are you just referring to Desktop?
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
In other words, Linux is the most deployed kernel. But if you're talking about the "linux OS" then you're probably actually thinking of GNU/linux, which I don't think is as widely deployed as windows (maybe I'm wrong? that's why I was asking). Or, you can include all OS's using a linux kernel, in which case you'll include all androids, but that's not what most people mean when they talk about linux os.
Ah OK, just found
Napster was the original peer-to-peer platform and drew heat from the recording industry. Artists like Dr. Dre, Eminem, Metallica, and plenty more spoke out against the platform.
(I do know Napster, but didn't know they had spoken out against it. Ah well.)
"spoke out against" is an understatement:
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic…
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dre#…
...besides contributing to the eventual shut down of napster, Metallica first compelled it to ban hundreds of thousands of their fans - who's usernames they delivered to them. Lars Ulrich responded to the backlash by saying "If you'd stop being a Metallica fan because I won't give you my music for free, then fuck you. I don't want you to be a Metallica fan."
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'Unjustified and unreasonable': India calls out US, EU over oil trade with Russia; pans double standards
“India will take all necessary measures to safeguard its national interests and economic security,” the MEA said in a statement, while pointing out that the US and European Union have themselves continued trade with Russia, including in energy and critical commodities, despite publicly opposing the Ukraine conflict.
'Unjustified and unreasonable': India calls out US, EU over oil trade with Russia; pans double standards
India News: NEW DELHI: India on Monday pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s threat to “substantially” raise tariffs on Indian goods over its continued .TOI News Desk (The Times Of India)
🌐 Guida a Diggita.com su Lemmy: come accedere ai gruppi tematici
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@formula1@diggita.comPuoi seguirle e interagirvi anche senza aver effettuato l’accesso diretto a Diggita, direttamente dal tuo account mastodon.
📌 Come seguire una comunità su Diggita da Mastodon o Lemmy
Opzione 1: su Feddit.it (istanza italiana Lemmy)
- Vai su feddit.it
- Incolla nella barra di ricerca l’URL della comunità oppure il tag (es.
https://diggita.com/c/fotooppure!foto@diggita.com) - Dal risultato clicca “Subscribe / Iscriviti”
Opzione 2: con client come Raccoon, Jerboa, Voyager
- Usa la funzione “Esplora” o “Cerca”
- Digita
!nome_comunità@diggita.comes.!foto@diggita.com - Clicca sul pulsante “+” o “Subscribe”
🗣️ Come pubblicare su un gruppo Diggita direttamente da Mastodon
Se sei su mastodon.uno (o qualsiasi istanza Mastodon), puoi rilanciare un tuo toot su Diggita senza bisogno di creare un account Diggita. Basta aggiungere al toot:
@nomegruppo@diggita.comEsempio: per inviare un messaggio alla comunità
fotografia, aggiungi al tuo post:@foto@diggita.comIl tuo post verrà automaticamente pubblicato nel gruppo su Diggita e sarà visibile a tutti i suoi follower.
⚙️ Come cercare utenti o post su Diggita da Lemmy
Puoi anche mantenerti aggiornato su utenti o post specifici:
- Cerca una comunità incollando il suo link:
https://diggita.com/c/diggitao!diggita@diggita.com - Segui un utente cercando il suo handle:
@filippodb@diggita.com - Visualizza un post coprendo il link completo: ad esempio
https://diggita.com/post/303e incollandolo nella barra di ricerca
✅ Perché questa è la soluzione ideale
- Ti permette di seguire decine di comunità tematiche italiane federate, senza dover creare un account Diggita.
- Funziona su qualsiasi istanza Mastodon o Lemmy che supporta ActivityPub, tramite client come Raccoon o su feddit.it.
- Favore l’inclusione del Fediverso italiano, rendendo più facile interagire e farti vedere anche fuori da Mastodon.
✍️ In sintesi
- Scopri tutte le comunità Diggita disponibili: ce ne sono 23 attive e tematiche.
- Iscriviti a una community tramite qualsiasi istanza lemmy usa URL o shorthand con
!fediverso@diggita.com. - Pubblica da Mastodon aggiungendo
@fediverso@diggita.comper rilanciare automaticamente sul gruppo. - Segui utenti, post o argomenti copiando link e utilizzando la barra di ricerca del tuo client Lemmy.
Questo sistema integra perfettamente Mastodon e Diggita, rendendo il Fediverso italiano facilmente esplorabile, visibile e partecipativo.
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As a Ukrainian I can confidently say that those people resisting the lawful mobilization efforts by our legitimate and democratic president Mr. Zelenskyi are definitely all Russian agents.
You can actually prove it with pure logic!
As we all know from watching reliable sources like CNN - Russia literally tortures and massacres everyone on the territories they illegally capture! Dying in a war protecting the last democratic bastion against invading orcs is surely a better option than getting massacred by those evil orcs (like it happened in every city captured by them), right? So the only ones who disagree are Russian agents who will be spared.
Now you see, stupid tankies?
“Mobilisation is a mandatory form of military service, and citizens have an obligation to defend their country. This is probably why there is such a negative attitude towards the drafting offices: because, to put it bluntly, our function is to force a citizen to do his duty.”
God somebody get me off this planet 👨🚀 🚀 👽
Well there's two different things that people who relate to this picture may want: either the nature or the solitude (sometimes both); for the second, part of the fantasy is that they would never have to deal with anyone.
In reality what people want may be completely different, but the picture passes the message better.
either the nature or the solitude
i think this is why i don't get it: growing up in the middle of nowhere taught me that nature can fuck you over in an instant multiple times and living in suburbia gave me a cold & painful dose of reality when it comes to solitude.
i suppose it looks nice if you've never experienced enough of the dark sides of nature and solitude.
I used to live alone in the forest like that and I loved it. I can’t wait to move back.
Yeah, nature can fuck me over but as long as I don’t have to deal with anyone I’ll manage.
nature isn't as bad as people; you can atleast try to prepare of it.
out in the middle of nowhere, people can and do make sure that you can't prepare for them.
Sad part living next to ppl in city with hoa feels like a prison.
The awful air
Mugging
Packages stolen
Noise
Never see a tree or stars
Can't do jack all without gossiping hens
Etc
Humans need a good balance but many just want to see if grass is greener on other side.
Humans need a good balance but many just want to see if grass is greener on other side.
this makes the most sense to me because that's what i did. life had taught me that being queer, autistic and brown is boring AF in urban enough environments; but it REALLY makes those hens gossip in the country side and the ppl forcing you to conform because they refuse accept your true expression of yourself is a prison of its own. to make matters worse: that 1 factory; 4 MASSIVE beef & pork farms; and plantation that employ 80% of the population will fuck up your air & water worse than the city thanks to a friendly local government that gives them passes. having to drive 5 hours to the nearest water source, to spend another 2 hours filling up, and then another 5 hour drive back every month is galling when there's a natural stream nearby that the local gov't makes illegal to take from.
i wanted to see if the grass was greener in the core of several cities and found that, yes, very much so for someone like me.
You write about (a quite shitty) reality, but the picture is somewhat of a dream, everyone is projecting their own wishes all around it. Running water, electricity, in the vicinity of supermarket/restaurant/pharmacy… it’s all there, in magic country land.
I am also a city person. I love disconnecting for holidays, but then I am back with similar minded friends, in a city with all city commodities and I don’t think I would switch.
Yeah this is why I’d like to be close enough to civilization to have city water.
But if you actually threaten my family’s right to stay alive, you just lost yours. I have no qualms about being a psychopath if I have to.
Just leave me the fuck alone.
the ticks have gotten so bad in recent years, it's actually a main reason I wouldn't want to move farther out from the city.
my dogs are too low to the ground and too fluffy to find the many ticks on them after being outside. hell they get ticks even inside city limits (in the green spaces) here.
we stopped taking a wonderful forest route at my parents' with them because it's just not worth finding ticks on them over the next 48 hours and having them crawl out onto you at night
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You don't need A/C.
Source: I live in Wyoming.
Edit: I meant that you don't need A/C in a cottage like the one pictured, not that A/C is unnecessary altogether. I used to live in Texas. No A/C will literally kill you in Texas, but in a wooded mountain cottage surrounded by trees like that, you don't really need it. In my house in WY, the hottest it ever gets inside is 78 with low humidity. Below is the current temp in my room, with computers running, at 2:22PM.
I live in the U.K., no one has AC. Some people will say you don’t need AC. If it was free, or even reasonably affordable, and easy, do you know what I’ve had this summer?
Edit; edited for clarity.
I also live in the UK. The last few years I’ve been tempted to buy a portable AC. Just as I go to spend £300, the weather turns and I decide to spend money on other stuff (like food)
We had that heat wave just after Easter this year, much earlier than I remember, that was the final straw. Bought one on marketplace for £180.
Every night going to bed the sheets are crisp and cool. I sleep like a baby.
The biggest downside? Damn those things are pricey to run
You don’t need A/C.
Eh, it's REALLY nice to have right now with daytime highs in the upper 90s. It's even nicer when it's both hot and humid.
Source: I live in Wyoming.
So do I.
Source: I live in Wyoming.
No you don't Wyoming doesn't exist. Garfield told me so.
Yeah, no.
While you might not need it, everyone has a different temperature tolerance and for some people, it is absolutely a requirement.
You don't need AC now.
I live in Vancouver Canada, and up until like 2005 none of the lower density developments (townhouses and low rise apartments) had air conditioning because no one really needed it. Our townhouse for example even has windows that aren't compatible with window air conditioners and no one minded until fairly recently. All that's changed really quickly and now everyone is scrambling for air conditioning with heat waves getting worse every year.
Me, living in Wyoming with gigabit fibre:
Yes it's a bit of a flex but I sold everything I owned in order to own a humble old house here and I am proud of it. Cow poop walls? No regrets.
Aha! I suspected you'd comment.
Can confirm, the internet here is decent and it's pretty far from people
Nothing consistent. I probably should pick a spot and do a roll-up of the last four years and then post more regularly. I did a little summary about a year ago here --> lemmy.ca/post/16843909/7896562
Since then we actually have installed a deep well, washer/dryer, and two more outbuildings. I'll try to reply to your comment in the next few days with more details if you are interested.
I also post completely randomly as Bo7a@loops.video and mstdn.ca/@solace
SolaceHomestead (@solace@mstdn.ca)
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Would like a variant on this, the bugs and darkness of the woods would drive me insane:
- On a field, farming optional
- Add a soldering station, solar panels, well with pump, and septic tank
- Perimeter tripwires and defense (nobody's coming to help if something happens)
- Tornado shelter with medical supplies and a healthy supply of 3D filament
And I'll finally be able to complete everything on my bucket list that doesn't involve travelling.
No need of AI if you have money
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The spiders tend to stay out of the house. But everything outside the house?
Yeah, spiders own that.
We get maybe 2 or 3 spiders in here every summer, and they get relocated. (unless they are on the ceiling above the bed, then they get dispatched.
I went and had a pile of kids so I have to do it everyday. Oh my god I’m tired.
And what was I thinking?
We have to kids and cook every day. We have about 12 dishes we cycle through, plus a new dish every couple of weeks. Plan for a week and shop for it accordingly.
Before the kids i would go to the local supermarket, that, regardless of the city i lived in, never was more than 10 Minutes away by foot. I'd figure out what i was feeling like cooking once i was
But it is nice to have other options, like ordering food, for the very lazy and very stressful days. This i would give up for a nice place in nature though.
You don’t understand actual honest to god hermits then.
My wisdom tooth is going to kill me because I’d rather die than have someone touch me. I’m not kidding.
I had appendicitis and barely noticed. I just felt like I had a mild case of gas for 3 days. I was lucky that I was with my ex at the time and she got worried, otherwise I might be dead and would barely have cared.
But then the year after that I broke my back and also only cared to go to the doctor after one month, so maybe I'm not the best example
I did see a guy make a cooler with a cistern, pump and radiator. Water in the cistern/well is cold most of the year. Guess you just have to drain it in the winter, but yeah I'd say batteries can be a money sink.
Also I did kill a lot of batteries by hooking them in parallel to a bad 12v battery, buuut that's just me saying battery system can go for a lot
If you live in the wilderness, you should have a boat.
Edit: yes I'm pretty sure I can order a boat for delivery, but if not you can always make something.
denying free speech
Not any different from the UK or USA
and the Tiananmen square massacre
That happened over thirty years ago. The USA wishes it could do that.
It's hardly North Korea or Russia.
El Salvador is doing a good job in solving their crime issue
Except you pulled a "but akshually ☝️🤓" when someone brought up the USA and Israel.
What does that even mean?
You can make a case both are worse than China
Feel free to make that case and present it to me.
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I would, but with electricity, water and no kids. You could with determination live alone here, but it's far from simple.
Fetching enough wood, harvesting (it takes heavy labor in a forest), protecting your food from wild animals, baking your products, like soap, clothes, maintaining you cabin, preparing and surviving winter, and i only covered a tiny part of everything.
But if you're truly ready, life like that can become a great source of happiness. Got that from a old local forest guard who tried to live like that for one year.
I did it for nearly 3 years with limited access.
You get over it eventually and start living life instead of watching other people live theirs.
I can't wait to unplug again.
A friend inherited off-grid property. I was already into the idea of homesteading and survivalism and had been building those skills sets for years. What started as a little bit of helping on the weekends turned into full time living. I didn't think I could do it and it was hard.
But now I know what I'm capable of and how much nicer life is when you live it. I've been back in regular society for a few years and my phone is still on 'do not disturb' mode all the time.
Yeah i have notifications silenced as they are a stupid distraction.
I have a tablet for work that I rarely use so I leave it for the kids to play on. Everytime i look at it there is hundreds of notifications from games they play. How are the kids meant to get anything done if they keep getting interrupted.
This right here. Just disappear into the woods and forget about the doomscroll in its entirety.
If one day you wake up in your cabin to a bright flash in the sky so be it, and least you had a good life.
May - blackflies
June - mosquitoes and blackflies
July - mosquitoes and deer flies
August - mosquitoes, deer flies, and horse flies
September - All of the above, and start to worry about stuff freezing.
October - Whew, I can finally work outside
November - Start the fire, and keep it going until April.
Ok where I live it's :
Jan - snow and first sunrise of the year
Feb - snow
Mar - snow
April - snow
May - snow followed by two weeks of thaw, last sunset for 2 months and one week of spring
Jun - warm but no bugs
Jul - where has all my blood gone (mosquitoes and horsefly) sun starts setting again
Aug - same exsanguination issues as July
SEP - too cold for bugs lol
Oct - snow
Nov - Snow last sunrise of the year
Dec - snow
A composting toilet is all I want and need.
- No clogging
- No splashing
- No waste of water
- No smell
I always hate to use a plumbed toilet when we visit friends or family.
1 stick to put your pants on and second one to fight off bears while u poop?
We basically have this in Ireland. Only instead of a log cabin its an old cottage in the middle of nowhere.
An old cottage with a gigabit connection.
Yeah my Father in Law basically has this… but significantly nicer (4bed, 4bath, full kitchen, running spring water, off-grid solar+batteries), up a mountain, surrounded by pine trees, with StarLink internet.
It’s amazing when we can go visit for a week or 2
For me and my friends it would be a bunch of small close islands, and then one larger community island in the middle.
I'm thinking something like in Sweden's Skärgård, where there are lots of such islands.
Nah the internet sucks no matter where you live. That cottage with a closed network or something like Secure Scuttlebutt/Manyverse in a little village would be cool though. The town library can have gigabit internet (for downloading media) and a shared local Jellyfin (& calibre, Navidrome, audiobookshelf, etc) server that can be accessed by anyone in town.
Want to play Live Service or online games? To the library.
Publish your website or music album or artwork outside of the local loop? To the library.
Online classes? To the library.
Amazon requires gov-ID photo before refund.
So I bought a product for €200 on Amazon.com. I am slightly ashamed of doing so but I did, didn't know where else to find this type of product. So after a few days they told me they would not be sending me the product for whatever reason. So I would be getting a refund. They said if I hadn't gotten the refund within 5 days I should contact support. So after 5 days I contacted support. And as soon as I did that, they sent me an email claiming that they require me to upload a picture of my "government issued identity document". They write that if I don't do that "You may continue shopping on Amazon, but you will no longer be eligible for a refund on the order ". Surely they have no right to do so right? They claim they've noticed some suspicious behavior on my account, but all I did was order a product, pay for it in advance, which they decided not to ever deliver to me. It's not me who's being suspicious here.
Anyone else had this experience? This a clear dealbreaker for me. I feel shame for ever having bought something from their store.
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Chase bank is a scam. Minimum balance of 1500 or 500 direct deposit monthly or that charge 12 dollars a month to have an account. They bill it yearly. So when 144 comes out of your account randomly and you call removed. That's when they tell you.
Fuck chase bank.
Amazon has a non-existent customer support, so you may have limited options.
If they had customer support, I'd suggest contacting them and tell them to either refund, or else you'd give them the ID immediately followed by a GDPR request to purge your data. That might have gotten some movement, because those GDPR requests have the force of law, and are also a fair PITA for Amazon. However, there's no way to give them a shot across the bow. I think your options are:
- process a charge-back, as someone else suggested, which might result in an Amazon ban
- take the loss (that's entirely your call, regardless of anyone else's opinion)
- give them the ID, get your refund
- you can still initiate a GDPR purge request. I'm going to guess it's going to result in a block, but maybe not. You might be able to recreate your account
The happy news is that you are protected by GDPR. Many of us are not, and don't even have the option to demand they purge the information.
I’m not sure how “suspicious behavior” could be relevant to a seller issuing you a refund.
"suspicious behavior" is just a BS term used for switching the blame back to the consumer. Kind of like "for your convenience, we are [removing a capability]" or "for your safety, we are [taking away a right.]" You are correct that it makes no sense.
(unless you go beg for mercy at the altar of Bezos)
The "one time one free gift" from amazon policy !
Won’t that blacklist your address from ever buying from amazon
So, win-win.
I recommend a very high quality laser projector !
Do not stop contacting Amazon customer support. Occupy their resources to the maximum.
Phone > Chat > Email
Record time spend and demand immediate compensation at your billing rate. Never accept contacting them back again at a later date.
Always demand their names, transcripts and email confirmation of any promises with exact match wording and check before hanging up. Then, use their own words against them.
That would vary from one jurisdiction to another, but I'm sure you can find guides best suited for your local laws.
As inspiration, here's what I sent to Amazon & Samsung last year (in a formal cease & desist format):
Amazon .com .ca ULC
40 King Street W 47th Floor
Toronto, Ontario
M5H 3Y2Samsung Electronics Canada Inc.
2050 Derry Road West
Mississauga, Ontario
L5N 0B9Montreal, April 26, 2024
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
Dear Madam or Sir,
I purchased a Samsung 980 PRO SSD 2TB drive (model MZ-V8P2T0) on Amazon .ca on March 3, 2022, which broke on April 4, 2024. This product was used under normal conditions, and I believe it should be covered by the manufacturer’s 5-year warranty.
Several chat sessions with Amazon and Samsung support have failed to provide a solution, with each party referring the matter to the other.
I am requesting that you repair or exchange the product under the Consumer Protection Act regarding the legal warranty of the reasonable durability of a product. I am also requesting reimbursement of $25 to cover the cost of sending this letter.
Therefore, I am formally notifying you to resolve the above-mentioned issue within 10 days. Failing to do so may result in legal action against you without further notice or delay.
Lemon, ginger and lemon balm beer
Happy days! My new beer is done. This is a battle-tested recipe with lemons and ginger. This time I also had 10 g of fresh lemon balm in the seasoning infusion. This guy:
Works really great as a beer component, sharing to spotlight this herb with you all! There's a Wikipedia page that describes the many aromatic compounds it imparts. It's perennial (pic is from my garden), grows in a slightly invasive manner so you only need to plant very little to get enough for many brews. This was a warning 😀
Another new twist was a helping of Weyermann spelt wheat malt. I expected the nutty spelt flavour from it, but the taste profile ended up so multi-faceted that I'll need more tastings to pinpoint it 😁 All in all, a distinctive flavour to this beer. Fermented to bone dry very smoothly.
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Nice, Ill keep lemon balm in mind.
How big was this batch?
do you filter the beer at all when bottling?
Is your lemon balm separated from the rest of your garden or do you keep an eye on it and remove as needed?
How much longer do you ferment beer to get the dryness? I've fermented wine, but it rarely made it long enough to get rid of all the excess sugar.
Also for beer you have some unfermentable sugars, so you can't achieve driness by just fermenting, you have to use enzymes to break them down completely to fermentable ones.
So scientifically speaking it is dependent on the "substrate" (what you ferment) and yeasts.
As the others said, it comes down to how much alcohol the yeast will ultimately tolerate, if there is enough fermentable sugar to get to that point. I still don't do og / fg's, so my 'bone dry' was not a measured outcome, only perceived. I'm type 1 diabetic so I prefer no leftover sugar in my brews 😀
In this case, six days of fermentation followed by a hasty cold crash of two days was enough. The yeasties at work were a standard Finnish fresh yeast, 0,25 € at any grocery store and known to produce 10+ % ABV sahti brews. Speed comes from having a fair bit (25 g) of yeast in there and making a starter with it. I also ferment under pressure and at the cool-ish temp of 16 °C. There is 23 L of the stuff with 6,7 kg of malt, pretty strong stuff.
I filter the wort into the fermenter with reusable coffee filters. The fermenter doubles as a keg, so I only bottle on demand.
The lemon balm is in a garden bed, so yeah, I do battle with it. Hence the warning 😁 It makes good pesto too, so the battle is not too bad XD
Great idea! We're overrun with Lemon Balm!
How did you extract the flavour? Did you add it to the boil or make a vodka tincture or something?
In fact I'd really be up for trying this out if you'd care to share your recipe?
Absolutely! On mobile so I'll make this tight...
Mash is 18 L water, 6,7 kg of mostly blond malts, including 1 kg of Weyermann Spelt and 1 kg of Simpsons Premium English Cara for a little sweetness. 60 min BIAB mashing with strike temp at 71,2 °C.
Then there's the infusion: 3 L water heated to boil, off the hob, in with ingredients and let sit with lid on. This had 2 large organic lemons sliced thin, one smallish ginger sliced thin, 10 g lemon balm leaves and growth tips, 30 g Simcoe and 30 g Amarillo hops (pellets). It had about an hour and half to infuse.
One more thing was the yeast starter - 2 L water, 1 dL white sugar, 1 dL sugarcane syrup, pinch of yeast nutrient. Extra sugar there to feed the starter and offset the diluting effect of 5 L water added on top of the mashing.
Boiled the wort for 50 min, added 60 g Challenger hops at 45 min to go. The 3 L infusion went into the boil at about 10 min to go, flame up to allow a little boiling for that too.
One thing I might have changed in hindsight is a little less of the Amarillo and Simcoe in the infusion to leave more room for the lemony notes.
Would be great to hear how it went if you try this 😀
App for downsizing MP3s automatically when copying to a phone?
I'm ditching streaming services and just going with local music. However all my CDs are converted to either flac or 320kbps mp3 files on my PC and thus far too large for the limited storage I have on my phone.
I was hoping there might be an app that would automatically downconvert to something like 128kbps and then copy over to the Music directory on my phone. A bit like how Calibre can automatically convert eBook files (e.g. mobi to epub) and then send them to your ereader?
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I don't know about automatic, but I also have music locally on my phone after moving away from streaming services.
I use fre:ac to convert from FLAC to MP3, and then just save it in a separate folder. Then when I'm done I move the folder to the phone and delete it from the computer so I just have FLAC on my computer.
Not automatic, but that's how I usually do it.
This is a valid question, but it's hard to answer because it depends on the security of your own network. Tailscale creates a secure tunnel directly into your home network, but if your home network is compromised then it's not secure.
Could Tailscale be compromised? I think it would be difficult but not impossible. It's safe enough for personal use, certainly, but I wouldn't use it to protect state secrets.
And if you have it on your phone, and someone gets access to your phone, then they can access your home network. How secure is your phone? Do you use biometrics or a password keeper? Do you leave your laptop unlocked?
Security is a mixed topic, and it's impossible to pull one thread from the sweater without unraveling the whole thing. Sometimes the illusion of security is as effective as actually being secure, and sometimes it isn't at all.
Not automatic (I think) and a bit clunky but the Strawberry music player does have a transcode feature so you could select music files and transcode them a certain way output to another folder. It's not something I ever do but I did a quick test to a USB drive and it seems to work okay. It's an option if you opt to use a gui to click through.
OTOH if you're happy using the terminal and/or scripting then ffmpeg would be a better bet.
PS - Strawberry does have a panel where it lists "Devices" and maybe your phone could show up there and the transcoding would work a bit more automatically, wasn't able to test that here.
Might not be the most convenient option depending on your personal use-case, but have you considered a dedicated audio device? I personally got a refurbished LG V30 because I came across a YT vid while looking for cheap options for having a dedicated "mp3" player to keep archived/favorite episode of podcasts, audiobooks, and music. Seems there is a decent fanbase of folks that love the 3.5mm DAC that phone has (of course has Bluetooth too). It also has microSD slot. Got a 512GB card (can use up to 2TB which I might do at some point). Most of the music I have on it is flac where possible. I keep it offline and just transfer files via USB, but could use wifi to sync with PC if I wanted to at some point. Shit lasts a pretty long time with wifi/bluetooth off only using the headphone jack (helps that the battery was replaced by the refurb).
There are also lots of cheaper Android-based players (I got one before I came across the vid on the V30) but can have some amount of malware and no easy access to their firmware or communities that can advise custom ROMs to safely flash something clean and/or newer. When I got my no-name device I just side-loaded apks to avoid giving access to my Google account (though I plan to keep my V30 offline after I got the last updates for the OS and LG apps). I just wanted to have something that I only use for local audio and just keep it in my car or backpack and have access to the three apps I like (Musicolet for music, Podcast Addict for podcasts, and Smart AudioBook Player for my audiobooks).
If your device supports it, you might want to encode to Opus instead. Opus produces much higher quality files at much smaller file sizes than MP3.
For example, Opus at 128kbps is considered transparent when compared to the source file. You can probably go down to 64-96kbps when its just for playback in your car.
wiki.xiph.org/Opus_Recommended…
As for transcoding them, you might want to check out ffmpegfs: github.com/nschlia/ffmpegfs
It can create a "virtual" drive based on your source files and automatically transcodes them when you drag & drop files from there onto your device.
GitHub - nschlia/ffmpegfs: FUSE-based transcoding filesystem with video support from many formats to FLAC, MP4, TS, WebM, OGG, MP3, HLS, and others.
FUSE-based transcoding filesystem with video support from many formats to FLAC, MP4, TS, WebM, OGG, MP3, HLS, and others. - nschlia/ffmpegfsGitHub
Navidrome does that. You have to setup a PC, or a raspberry Pi with navidrome, and then use a client like Symfonium (costs $5, not open source, but it's the best subsonic client out there), and tell it to automatically downconvert music when played via the phone. I have a Raspberry Pi 3B+, with just 1 GB of RAM, running navidrome. DietPi + navidrome (which is installable directly via dietpi's software selection), together they take just 80-120 MB of RAM!
I had Jellyfin before that, and Emby, and they were dogs. 1 GB of RAM was not enough for them, they'd swap with an additional 200-300 MB of RAM. And they were slow with large music libraries too. Navidrome/Subsonic don't have such issues. Big music libraries are handled fast with their db/engine.
If you prefer to not use a server, there are encoding shell scripts that do batch-encoding: github.com/caleis/flac2mp3/blo…
flac2mp3/flac2mp3.sh at master · caleis/flac2mp3
Scripts to batch convert FLAC to MP3 files and build libraries - caleis/flac2mp3GitHub
Tempo is a good open-source player for Android that works well with Navidrome.
On iOS, Arpeggi is good, but not open source (I think). It's still under development, but I don't think it's missing any major features at this point.
GitHub - CappielloAntonio/tempo: An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.
An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android. - CappielloAntonio/tempoGitHub
That’s a shame. Has the developer stated this, or is it just based on the lack of activity?
There seems to be a fork planning to continue the work. It was updated only a few hours ago.
GitHub - eddyizm/tempo: An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.
An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android. - eddyizm/tempoGitHub
For lower bitrates, I'd suggest using a different codec than MP3. Opus is really solid, and at 128 kbps it will probably get you quality similar to MP3 at 192 kbps. Or you could go lower, and 96 kbps with Opus will be similar to MP3 at 128 kbps. I don't know an app that will do it automatically, but the CLI tools are really simple to use: you point them at the FLAC and tell it the target bitrate and that's it.
Alternatively, if you have access to a macOS machine, their AAC encoder is really good and likely superior to any MP3 encoder at equivalent bitrates.
Opus Codec
Opus, the open standard, high quality codec. Presentation, documentation, comparison with other formats, download links, source code repository.opus-codec.org
This, @Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works.
I'm an audio engineer and can confirm that if you want the best quality audio for the file size, you want Opus. Opus at 128kbps is considered transparent, so it's roughly as good as 320kbps MP3s, but y'know, less than half the size.
Hey! Good to know about the 128 kbps threshold.
What's your take on MP3 bitrates? I've read some posts online claiming that 320 kbps is overkill most of, if not all of, the time. They claimed that there is little to no gain going above around 220 kbps. In your experience, is there any truth to this?
Generally this is true, but it depends on the encoder used. Back during the huge boom of MP3 popularity in the late 90s and early 00s, it likely did make a difference, so if you're looking at MP3s that were encoded back then I would go for 320kbps every time just to be safe, but modern encoders generally do much better like you said.
These days if I were encoding an MP3 I'd use LAME at -V0 setting, letting it lower the bitrate where it can without sacrificing quality. That said, per this test from 2014 that I found as a source on Wikipedia, a 96kbps VBR Opus file is at least as good if not better than an MP3 with -V 5 as the setting on LAME with approximately a 135kbps bitrate.
AAC is more widely supported than Opus and sits closer to Opus than MP3 in terms of compression efficiency, but still trails Opus in that category.
Still, better than MP3 for sure.
Have you considered self-hosting Plexamp? It supports lossless quality and lets you both steam and download your music at any bitrate you want (even 128 if you really have to, but fuck me that hurts to type.
That's what I do, and before long trips with spotty service I'll download a dozen albums or so in flac so I've got a decent lossless selection for flights/etc
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Well, it's not great to take an already compressed audiostream like 320kbps mp3, and then compress it again. Use your FLACs if possible. Then, I'd recommend that you use .ogg - they give better compression (smaller files), but with better sound than mp3...
There's a lot of apps out there, but AFAIK not anyone who does this automatically for you.
It's not really an "App" but tools like ffmpeg or sox or lame can do that no problem. It might take a while to convert your entire collection though ... but depending on the size might just take a night or, few nights.
If you have a ridiculously large collection and do want it "on demand" you could also use e.g. inotify to monitor directories, e.g. ~/Music/ForPhone/ so that any file added to that directory gets converted.
FWIW I'd use a phone with a microSD card as those days one can get a 1To for less than 100€ so probably no conversion needed even for a large collection.
Edit: based on a recent conversation I'd try transcoding capabilities of LMS github.com/epoupon/lms cf lms-demo.poupon.dev/settings from their demo instance
GitHub - epoupon/lms: Lightweight Music Server. Access your self-hosted music using a web interface.
Lightweight Music Server. Access your self-hosted music using a web interface. - epoupon/lmsGitHub
This might be a bit overkill for what you want but you could try using a selfhosted music server like navidrome and streaming to your phone. I use symfonium on on phone which can be configured to request the streamed music to be transcoded to a smaller size for streaming from mobile network or for caching it on your phones storage for offline listening.
Given that symfonium supports a lot of self hosted media providers from which to pull, you could also try sharing your music locally using samba. I'm not sure if the transcoding still works in that case though (it would obviously have to be done on your phone)
I would sooner suggest that you find a decent hosting service of free storage or just shove a decent sized microSD into your phone. Lossless music is the way to go. I started doing the mp3 thing quite a long time before most of the world even knew what they were, having been on the pirating scene early in the 90s. So back then I got most of my music in highly compressed mp3. But in the recent years I’ve been slowly replacing all of it with lossless format and it sounds SO MUCH better.
So while I hope you get your answer, should you choose to go that route as you’ve tentatively planned, I’d just suggest you pause a moment and rethink whether it’s the route to go. MicroSD chips are very cheap, and if you have an iPhone so it’s not an option, you could get a cheapie Android phone with a slot and use that for music. You can get a nice small device several years old online for like $15. I even have quite a few I could provide you with one if you wanted.
"Downsizing" an mp3 is what we call transcoding, and it's bad. An mp3 (or the better ogg vorbis) works (basically) by discarding parts of the audio that you won't hear. Doing that will discard parts of the mp3 that already has a bunch of parts discarded and this makes it sound bad.
I do something like what you're looking for, but it's all through a bunch of custom scripts and crap that I made. I buy flac, encode that to ogg (which sounds better than mp3s at lower bitrates), those oggs get synced to my phone, then later I organize those oggs to my collection.
I think you'll have to either accept these large mp3s or start a lossless collection.
So... if I ditch my MP3s (@ 320k) and use Ogg + Opus (@ ...? bps?), then I'd have the same / "better" music in less storage space?
Does that work ok with Picard, etc as I'm a bit OCD with metadata
I'm in a similar boat to you. I ripped almost all of my CDs to 320kbps mp3s for portability, but then I wanted to put all of them (a substantial number) plus a bunch more (my partner's collection) on a physically tiny USB stick (that I already had) to just leave plugged into our car stereo's spare port. I had to shrink the files somehow to make them all fit, so I used ffmpeg and a little bash file logic to keep the files as mp3s, but reduce the bitrate.
128kbps mp3 is passable for most music, which is why the commercial industry focused on it in the early days. However, if your music has much "dirty" sound in it, like loud drums and cymbals or overdriven electric guitars, 128kbps tends to alias them somewhat and make them sound weird. If you stick to mp3 I'd recommend at least 160kbps, or better, 192kbps. If you can use variable bit rate, that can be even better.
Of course, even 320kbps mp3 isn't going to satisfy audiophiles, but it sounds like you just want to have all your music with you at all times as a better alternative to radio, and your storage space is limited, similar to me.
As regards transcoding, you may run into some aliasing issues if you try to switch from one codec to another without also dropping a considerable amount of detail. But unless I've misunderstood how most lossy audio compression works, taking an mp3 from a higher to a lower bitrate isn't transcoding, and should give you the same result as encoding the original lossless source at the lower bitrate. Psychoacoustic models split a sound source into thousands of tiny component sounds, and keep only the top X "most important" components. If you later reduce that to the top Y most important components by reducing the bitrate (while using the same codec), shouldn't that be the same as just taking the top Y most important components from the original, full group?
If your files are flac and you just want to.copy some files you could try Mp3fs
That'll make your files appear to be MP3 when you access them
You could them use a file transfer mechanism to read them from the mp3fs location onto your phone with - kinda - one step.
GitHub - khenriks/mp3fs: FUSE-based transcoding filesystem from FLAC to MP3
FUSE-based transcoding filesystem from FLAC to MP3 - khenriks/mp3fsGitHub
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postmarketOS in 2025-07: Fairphone 6, apk3, /usr merge, immutable, new plasma camera
postmarketOS in 2025-07: Fairphone 6, apk3, /usr merge, immutable, new plasma camera
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
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it bothers me immensely that javascript backed Gnome that I can't make run fluidly and jerklessly on competent desktop hardware is the default on underpowered mobile hardware, making Android and iOS level fluidity practically unattainable in the foreseeable future.
edit: I run pmOS on a SDM845 with 8 GB RAM and fast storage, tried em all on edge (gnome, plasma, phosh, plasma mobile) and it's a 5 fps stuttering mess. that's before I load something to said RAM, like a browser or (dog forbid) an electron app.
Javascript isnt the problem, its a problem of priority.
Gnome obviously isnt made primarily for low performance devices.
It will improve over time i think. If the time and efforts of unpaid volunteers continue to be invested into it.
And also idk if you were running with hardware acceleration? Makes a big difference.
You are doing something wrong.
Gnome that I can't make run fluidly and jerklessly on competent desktop hardware
I was referring to this statement.
My Rockchip 3399 powered former Chromebook (now running proper Linux) from 2017 runs Gnome smoothly with Wayland, not with Xorg.
That's reasonable to directly compare with phones from 2017; it's slower than a Pixel 2. Mine actually benchmarks a little slower than the reference board linked here.
It isn't working as it should be if it doesn't run smoothly on more powerful hardware, but it's not necessarily a matter of the end user "doing something wrong". Sometimes it takes effort to get a particular combination of hardware and software to run smoothly even though it should work.
Rockchip RK3399 Excavator Board edp avb (Android) vs Snapdragon 835 [cpubenchmark.net] by PassMark Software
Comparing Rockchip RK3399 Excavator Board edp avb (Android) vs Snapdragon 835www.cpubenchmark.net
I hope it will be daily drivable in a few years.
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The india painted by american tiktok feed is very different than actual India as a south asian country.
South Indians morbidly feel bad for the US citizens currently
Indians make up like 17% of the world's population so one would imagine so.
I've also run into many people who claim to be Indian here so I don't doubt it.
This is inaccurate. The piss goes on Americans and America.
He helped align Iran to Russia during his first term and does the same with India now.
What Are Your Experiences With Crypt.ee?
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I use it for docs only and quite like it. My biggest complaints are that it doesn't support the dark mode setting server-side, which is quite annoying, and that you have to convert to PDF to print dark mode files, aaaand that if you type in your encryption key it will automatically log you in before you're able to tick the "save this device" setting.
Very minor, really. But I use Immich for photos so I can't speak to that. I'd probably opt for Ente if I were looking for managed hosting.
So I tried windows tiling...
And omg! I have slept on this feature for so long. I assumed it was just dragging windows to corners and they snap on to the left or right back or top.
Then, I installed PopOS and saw an explicit button to turn on windows tiling but I was already using the drag function, so I was confused. I turned it on and omg! I have not felt more stupid and happily surprised by a piece of tech in a while.
It just works. I don’t have to be worry about arranging windows a special way for multitasking or for following guides. So much time saved.
How to make the most of it? Have you had a similar experience with something?
I believe pop does a river style tiling system. Look up videos on Niri, Cosmic, or PaperWM.
There are many other tiling types too. River is however my favorite and I think most intuitive. Other popular ones are Sway, i3, and HyprLand.
Edit: my bad, seems like I misunderstood. PopOS used/is still using GNOME and has a Auto-Tiling plugin that behaves like i3wm (?). I guess this is what OP is talking about!
Not entirely sure what you mean. PopOS, developed by System76, uses the Cosmic DE, which is itself also developed by System76.
River is a dynamic tiling WM which is known for it's customizability among Wayland WMs, as it doesn't distinguish itself with it's "layout generator" (though it does come with a very basic one), but instead let's the user write their own or use an existing, third-party one. This way you can achieve essentially any dynamic tiling behavior with River.
How does PopOS use a system like that? Or do you mean that Cosmic is DWM-style, i.e., dynamic and with tags?
I do agree that River is wonderful though!
And PaperWM is a gnome plugin I thought was developed by System76 as a prototype for Cosmic.
Edit: seems i just made that up too lol
I've tried out a bunch, but at the moment I've mainly been playing around with hyprland, cause it's also a dynamic tiler and im used to that layout now
The main advantage to me tbh is that certain windows don't overflow the assigned tile space like in pop-shell (this is also fixed in cosmic), but there are other things like having all your move/resize actions on the main mod layer instead of needing to enter adjust mode (super + enter is the default keybind on pop-shell), and the fact it uses wayland instead of x11
Of course there are also things that can be downsides depending on how you see it, like the fact it's a TWM not a desktop, which means if you want to adjust any setting you'll need to manually adjust config files, and that it doesn't come with things like a top bar or app launcher etc. So it can take a while to get up and running
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What do you use it for?
Everything? Lol. I mean.. I just run my desktop in hyprland, no matter what im doing. Which for me I guess is gaming, drawing, some coding, and writing.. oh and tinkering with linux (though honestly I mostly do that in VMs)
How much does it make your experience better?
I'd say it's an improvement over GNOME 😛.. though I have enough issues with the configs that I wouldn't really recommend it unless you have issues with GNOME that majorly bother you.. or unless you use one of the premade dotfile configs that people make lol..
For me being able to adjust the windows with my keyboard without needing to enter a special mode for it, and having windows forced into the tile size was worth it, as it was something that was a pet peeve of mine (and now I get to be annoyed by trying to set up my waybar vertically, tradeoffs lol)
Not quite hah :3
It's actually not one of the things I've tried when looking for the best DE/WM for me, though I might at some point just to see if im missing out on anything
Windows Tiling is just having specific zones or regions defined on the screen where windows can be placed or configured to open in, correct?
I should try it out. There is a part of me that wonders if it would be worth it on a 1080p 15in laptop screen.
Yeah, it was a revelation when I discovered tiling. I was always doing work with two windows open, and i'd spend so much time fiddling and resizing the windows. Then i'd open a third window and wouldn't know what to do with it.
I used i3 for many years and switched to sway when migrating to wayland. It does what I need and see no reason to try hyprland or other tilers.
This first paragraph is so me.
Any good wayland implementation? I'm OS hopping to fedora kinoite. I never used tiling now I see the difference from your reply. I'm the dummy.
That's where workspaces come in place, I usually have a single full screen application per workspace, so Meta+1 is my browser, Meta+3 is my IDE, Meta+4 is slack, etc. Some workspaces have more than one application, e.g. I usually keep a few terminals in Meta+2.
This means that I usually work with things occupying all of my screen and in a short keystrokes I'm in whatever I want to be. But if I ever need to open a terminal or a random application it will occupy half my screen and whatever I was doing would resize to the other half, so I never have to grab my mouse to move stuff over to be able to see what I was doing.
I usually have a single full screen application per workspace
Forgive my ignorance but doesn't that just defeat the purpose?
It depends, up to four works for some apps depending on monitor size, but otherwise I do the same thing as @Nibodhika@lemmy.world.
Overlapping window managers, the most common type in use by far, just seem crazy to me. Windows almost never use the available monitor space, and they have to constantly be wrangled around each other so that… you can drag something instead of using the clipboard, I guess?
I use this for KDE tilling github.com/anametologin/krohnk…
Edit: It is the active fork of krohnkite, the official repo is dead since 2022.
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You could try also:
- GNOME PaperWM, a GNOME extension with tiling and endless horizontal scrolling
- niri
- StumpWM, a tiling WM with Emacs-like keybindings (and zero eyecandy and waste of screen estate)
- HerbstluftWM
Yup, came here to mention PaperWM. I used xmonad in the past, but I executed it on top of Mate to have an "easy" desktop environment.
Nowadays Gnome extensions providing tiling is the equivalent "easy" method. Gnome is not for everyone, but it works out of the box- then you add the fancy tiling window management on top.
For people who have bounced off systems that require much more set up, I think they are a good option.
I've used i3wm for a long time now before switching to hyprland.
The top useful thing: Workspaces. Even without tiling, workspaces give a massive productivity boost.
You can have email clients open on one, monitoring systems on another, browsing on a third, gaming on a fourth.
When you combine with tiling, everything is in its own perfect space and nothing overlaps.
This is especially useful on single-monitor or laptop setups as you don't need multiple monitors to keep track of everything.
I also see people struggle with notifications tiling.
You probably don't want a bluetooth connected message to take up half your screen, so you'll want to make sure to properly configure those things.
At least in i3wm/hyprland, you can use the window class name to exclude a window from tiling (ex. for_window [class="mako"] floating enable or windowrulev2 = float,class:^(mako)$).
Buy a large 4k tv (like 48"+) to use as a monitor and use it without scaling. It'll have similar DPI to am average 2.5k monitor, but you'll have way more real-estate.
Window tiling lets you break the large display surface up into reasonably sized pieces.
Pop OS tiling is awesome. What I always try to do on tiling WM: set workspaces and spawn specific applications on specific workspaces. Not sure if Pop OS can do it, but on i3/dwm/sway...etc. you can freely spawn your applications wherever you like.
Try to play around with those DIY tiling environment. You will have a lot of fun if you like tinkering with stuff. Maybe one day you will run EXWM
How to make the most of it?
Use workspaces, I almost never used it before because I was set in my ways, but after switching to tiling WM it's a must and increases productivity by a LOT, I've grown so used to it that using windows with a mouse feels super clunky and cluttered.
Neigsendoig (my producer) and I have used i3 for a while... and we've probably stayed on that since we first started using WMs.
That said, we've attempted the likes of Xmonad (configured in Haskell), Awesome (configured in Lua), HerbstluftWM, BSPWM, Hypr (not Hyprland), JWM, Ratpoison and even SXWM.
Neigsendoig and I wouldn't recommend any Wayland compositor due to new security risks (despite an attempt to fix X11 security issues), though a lot of people want Wayland to be shoved down our throats. We personally use X11 due to many things that Wayland devs can't/won't fix.
This is also part of the reason why the two of us are excited about XLibre (as much as some will hate the control of IBM, GNOME and FreeDesktop with their Wayland, Systemd and PipeWire push). Sure, its main developer left the project from what we've heard, but otherwise, there are a lot of contributions to it, and it will improve big time.
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100%. Learning a crossplatform thing is always better, especially when using proprietary OS.
How useful is tmux as compared to regular tiling? It might be a bit janky, I suppose.
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The bee took one for the team.
With any luck, there's a hive of like-minded bees near the White House.
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He deserves a goddamned posthumous award. There will never a death more ‘billionaire’ than this. I mean this is cartoon level, over the top, absurdist level perfection.
I mean tell me, if you just saw the headline “Man dies after swallowing a bee at a Polo match” that your reaction is anything but “I wonder which billionaire that was.”
Little dude makes us honey, AND kills our oppressors?? May you spend eternity in an infinite field of wildflowers.
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