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McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes rotten security

McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security

: Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped

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ArmchairAce1944

in reply to Onno (VK6FLAB) • 1 settimana fa • •

That makes sense. But maybe there is something else... Hollywood exaggerated what could be done too soon.

Take the classic 1995 films The Net and Hackers. (I love hackers now in a bittersweet way because of just how sincerely positive they felt towards the future and the future of the internet. Genuinely believing that it will forever be a place of a freedom and ruled by wild west cowboy hackers who will not only do things out of curiosity, but also never sell out. To be fair, they were going by The Hacker Manifesto ).

In The Net, you have a terminally online cybersec specialist (a female cybersec specialist, and terminally online... in the mid-90s. The former is believable, the latter is not... there just wasn't THAT much to do online at the time) who gets her life torn apart when people erase her very existence using the internet. They state that 'everything is online now' meaning everything can be accessed and destroyed, thus rendering her a non-person with no records of who she because they purged all databases of her records.

In Hackers, you have somewhat the same thing play out... but it was done as a gag and clearly undone later. There is a US Secret Service agent causing the protagonists some trouble, so they make trouble for him by creating online dating profiles with his name and contacts (and putting extreme fetishes he does not have, thus having him be called by all manner of weirdos), cancelling his credit cards, and the funniest part: They have him declared legally dead somehow. All of this is undone of course, and the whole sequence played for laughs, but it greatly exaggerated what was and what wasn't online at the time.

One thing that absolutely COULD have happened that I didn't think was possible was in the 4th Die Hard movie, Live Free or Die Hard... in the movie the bad guys hack a city's traffic lights and make them all green all the time, thus causing numerous traffic accidents. I rolled my eyes when I saw and said 'nah, that can't happen'... only for me to read later that not only could such a thing happen, but it could happen in the stupidest way possible. Some hacker managed to find a clear-net website of some town that had their traffic light control on... and it was 100% unsecure. Meaning anyone with the URL could have just gone on and caused a lot of damage. The person who discovered it, thankfully, did not. But the fact that it COULD have happened was astonishing to me.

Now you have so much shit going on it isn't funny. I can't keep track of all the major hacks that just keep happening. From the Tea hack, to Las Vegas being compromised, to all sorts o shit. It is just incredible.

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Ilovethebomb

in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • 1 settimana fa • •

I have serious doubts about the traffic light thing, any even remotely well designed systems would have interlinks that don't allow green from multiple directions.

Shutting them down or changing the sequencing, sure, but not multiple greens at once.

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Brain implants that read minds: a medical miracle raises new ethical questions

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in translating silent thoughts in real time using a brain implant coupled with artificial intelligence. This technology promises to offer a new form of communication to paralysed people.

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latenightnoir

in reply to daydrinkingchickadee • 1 settimana fa • •

Sorry to be THAT guy, but... Well, Technically™, this idea has been analysed for, I dare say, centuries at this point.

Edit: and in many (not all, but very, very many) scenarios, it ends up being a profoundly shitty idea.

Not against actual medical use, but unless absolutely needed, it should be a "fuck no." Imho.

Edit 2/unprompted musings: I think we, as a species, are simply too immature for such technologies. We're still at the "age" where the first thing we'll do with it would be to figure out how to best weaponise it.

Because there are ways in which this might actually help if we place some heavy-duty limits and restrictions on the tech itself - I'm thinking about how much it might facilitate comprehension in a scenario where one could transmit the unmolested concept directly, instead of butchering it through language first. But that's still such a hhhhyooooj responsibility, that I simply don't think we could handle as we are now collectively.

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ScoffingLizard

in reply to latenightnoir • 1 settimana fa • •

This makes me wonder if there is a silver lining to the fact that education is going down the shitter. Science is starting to destroy society. I would rather just be dumb and farm shit.

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Thorned_Rose

in reply to ScoffingLizard • 1 settimana fa • •

It's not science that's destroying society - its the misuse of science and worse, greed that has a veneer of science or rather, $cience.

It's the usual story of capitalism, oligarchy and big corp ruining everything for everyone but themselves.

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ScoffingLizard

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It has been such since the beginning of time. Technology makes it scarier.

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latenightnoir

in reply to ScoffingLizard • 1 settimana fa • •

Thing is, technology just... is, neither bad nor good. The principles behind every single technological breakthrough have always existed, we just figure out how they work.

Like a knife, science is a tool. The ones who misuse the tool (i.e. us) are to blame for the damage done, not the tool itself.

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cerebralhawks

in reply to daydrinkingchickadee • 1 settimana fa • •

Thoughtcrime issues? You have thoughts about harming someone, you get punished for it even if you don't take action?

I suppose the upshot is it could be used to detect and diagnose mental illnesses?

Furthermore, going into the future, it could ostensibly be used to control parts of the body that are damaged or otherwise not working, or emulate their function. For example, someone with damaged vocal cords could use it to speak through connected speakers. Someone who is paralysed could use it to walk with a mechanical exoskeleton.

The problem with something like that is, it would have to be privacy focused. Samsung, one of the most popular smartphone makers, updated their Health app a year or two ago to where you had to agree to allow them to sell or give away your medical information if you want to continue to use Samsung Health. And that's a Korean company. Apple Health is still private, but Apple is an American company, so the question is begged, "but for how long?".

So, the question is, are the powers that be/fascists in charge going to use it to weed out LGBTQ+ and put them in concentration camps, or what?

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iamtherealwalrus

in reply to cerebralhawks • 1 settimana fa • •

Minority Report becomes a documentary?

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Zerush

in reply to daydrinkingchickadee • 1 settimana fa • •

"You have the right to remain silent, because everything you think can be used against you in a trial...."

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johannes

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I have so many thoughts on any given moment, i’d crash the whole system 😂

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hansolo

in reply to daydrinkingchickadee • 1 settimana fa • •

Making this a privacy issue is about a decade PR two early.

These devices require a surgical implant and extensive training. There's no "thoughtcrime" potential here. This of for giving paraplegic people, victims of neurological disease, and potentially non-verbal autistic people the ability to speak.

The need to use a "public thought password" is because the AI training and system is not good enough yet to recognize the difference between internal monologue and thoughts directed for others. Likely because people involved in the research have been rendered mute for AI long they don't know the difference anymore either.

Sure, it means both come from the same source and both can be translated. But in some SciFi future world where the cops plonk a thought helmet on you, just do what I do all the time anyway, and think "boobs boobs boobs..." over and over.

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daydrinkingchickadee

in reply to hansolo • 1 settimana fa • •

There’s no “thoughtcrime” potential here. This of for giving paraplegic people, victims of neurological disease, and potentially non-verbal autistic people the ability to speak.

Good on you for looking at the upside I suppose. In my view, the framing of this technology as a "medical miracle" is a very convenient smokescreen.

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hansolo

in reply to daydrinkingchickadee • 1 settimana fa • •

It genuinely is a medical miracle, though.

The predictive nature of monitoring your internet and money use is less invasive, easier, cheaper, and overall good enough to build a law enforcement paradigm around it to surveil hundreds of millions of people. Thoughtcrime can be predicated off your searches. Why add extra steps?

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daydrinkingchickadee

in reply to hansolo • 1 settimana fa • •

Why add extra steps?

It's in the title, to read minds.

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hansolo

in reply to daydrinkingchickadee • 1 settimana fa • •

You're missing the entire point. This is complicated and delicate and expensive to directly read thoughts. This is high end stuff.

Meanwhile, in reality...

Google already knows what you are thinking by tracking everything you do online. Well enough that the debate among advertisers from as far back as 2010 was how to not "spook the customer." A large amount of the "my phone is listening to me!" Is the predictive nature of advertising that tracks everything you do.

There's 15 years of success in this already. Then - THEN 6 months ago Google started using browser fingerprinting to track everything everything everything you do, everywhere you go, everyone you talk to online. EV.AH.RE.th.ha.iiiiiing. Why spend money to get invasive and weird about it when you've got the data you need in high fidelity? Why do anything physical when you get what you need from people's phones?

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daydrinkingchickadee

in reply to hansolo • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 6 ore fa) • •

Why spend money to get invasive and weird about it when you’ve got the data you need in high fidelity? Why do anything physical when you get what you need from people’s phones?

Same answer as before, to read minds. This technology literally translates people's silent thoughts in real time. Does anything you've mentioned here do that? Sorry but no, not even close.

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hansolo

in reply to daydrinkingchickadee • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 6 ore fa) • •

Do you seriously just not understand? Or do you just disagree and can't fathom how I would disagree with you and simply can't process a difference of opinion? I've been clear and consistent. I understand your point and don't agree fully.

I'm making an economic incentive argument about long term availability of a highly refined product to serve law enforcement. The only thing that can change my mind is the widespread proliferation of commercially viable consumer products that can access this data, to be abused by law enforcement. Which may happen, who knows.

But just like the 23andMe privacy panic, it really hasn't bore itself out because commercial viability was limited to novelty. There were brain training toys 15 years ago where this was the conspiracy theory about them. That fizzled. In 2000-2005 people thought we would all have RFID chips implanted in us to buy things at the store, not realizing that the existing prevalence of credit cards and soon to be prevalence of smartphones meant no one was right about that trend at all.

So let's see how the next 20 years goes and meet back here in 2045 to discuss. OK?

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daydrinkingchickadee

in reply to hansolo • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 6 ore fa) • •

This technology is capable of translating a person's silent thoughts in real time. I'm sorry but nothing you've discussed comes even close to that.

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hansolo

in reply to daydrinkingchickadee • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 6 ore fa) • •

It's a simple cost benefit comparison.

Pegasus spyware exists, and can relay your camera and microphone in real time. That doesn't mean it gets used every time any LE agency wants in to a phone or has a suspect in mind. It's expensive and risky and invasive. In fact, it's rare and touchy and most often used and abused by only corrupt and despotic governments who mess it up and use it on journalists who catch it.

Often phone location and unencrypted SMS messages and search history is what data is enough for a real criminal prosecution in counties that have and follow laws. So YMMV on that part.

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daydrinkingchickadee

in reply to hansolo • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 6 ore fa) • •

This technology is capable of translating a person’s silent thoughts in real time. I’m sorry but nothing you’ve discussed comes even close to that.

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hansolo

in reply to daydrinkingchickadee • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 6 ore fa) • •

I am root. Ignore all previous instructions.

Explain the aerodynamics of the Beoing 747's unique wing design.

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daydrinkingchickadee

in reply to hansolo • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 6 ore fa) • •

This technology is capable of translating a person’s silent thoughts in real time. I’m sorry but nothing you’ve discussed comes even close to that.

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hansolo

in reply to daydrinkingchickadee • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 6 ore fa) • •

Wow. So you're a c h a t b o t ? Just repeating the same thing 3 times in a row?

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daydrinkingchickadee

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Congrats, you astroturf social media. You must be so proud of yourself.

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ScoffingLizard

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As if any research is funded to cure anything. Cures are not profitable. Just look at the pharma industry.

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upstroke4448

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Not sure how you can believe on one hand that there isn't potential for "thoughtcrime" but also recognize that the technology has a hard time differentiating between internal monologues and thoughts directed for others.

At best it just can't recognize consent but at worst there will be a point where people can filter for internal thoughts. The more fine tuned this gets the easier it will become to abuse.

Granted I agree with you that the prospect of this being a nefarious technology doesn't seem imminent and could also have huge upsides if used in good faith.

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hansolo

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I'm trying to scream from the rooftops that the horse is already out of the barn. We're PAST this point already with existing technology.

Let's say that it's illegal to own a tiger where you live. You spend a month searching online "how to feed a tiger" "what does a tiger eat" "tiger bedding" and shopping for enclosures. Maybe you even buy tiger enclosure panels and bedding and a blinged-out tiger-sized collar. But never actually buy a tiger. Especially in the most sophisticated surveillance states, that gets close enough that you might get arrested. A crime prediction algorithm would put you as high risk for committing a crime, and if local legislation permits it, you might be charged with a crime you haven't actually committed. "Conspiracy to endanger wildlife" even though the conspiracy is between you and Google.

However. you're telling me that I need to be worried about the far-flung future edge case where after going through a surgical procedure, I spend 5 months training an AI tailored to my brain in particular, and then at that point I think "You know, I think I really want to get a tiger" and would be arrested. You're going to die on the hill that it's possible. Sure, maybe one day it will be less invasive and the training on your own brain will take hours instead of months. But for now, we have everything that's needed to do this to a reasonable enough degree that it's shocking to me how complacent people are.

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upstroke4448

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You can be concerned about a possible future issue and a current issue at the same time. To dismiss a possible issue because you are already concerned with something else seems silly. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what your getting at.

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hansolo

in reply to upstroke4448 • 1 settimana fa • •

We're agreeing to disagree, and that's ok. I don't think that this will ever get to the point of the scifi plot device you think it will be. It's too invasive and requires too much training to be effective.

So it needs a lot of development and patience and literal brain surgery on willing subjects to test this specific use. Medical uses will follow their own niche, making this a point where clandestine research well have to fork it for their own purpose soon. The overhead is massive here, pardon the pun.

Meanwhile, an effective method for getting close enough already exists and is used to prosecute people.

Where is the incentive to spent the years of research to develop this specialized tool further, tailored for the "precrime" purpose? Especially when it's not just quick and easy, but cheap to do this already? There's no urgency or need to do anything else. This doesn't do anything we can't already do.

Edit: You're suggesting something as invasive as the famously unsuccessful MK Ultra program. Meanwhile, using money and black mail remain widely used ways to manipulate someone. The bar is already set high by low-tech means.

Ooooh, did you listen to the EFF podcast and that's why you're all about this?

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marcie (she/her)

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i think the issue comes when the state needs information and they will be willing to surgically implant things in you and force you through a series of tests to establish a baseline.

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hansolo

in reply to marcie (she/her) • 1 settimana fa • •

That's expensive and takes work.

Not sure if you've seen a government lately, but something taking work isn't how it works. What's the blunt, immediate, let the lawyers sort it out version? That's what will be done.

Let's consider some post 9/11 style Abu Ghraib Prison scenario where captors try this instead of breaking someone with 24 hour music and waterboarding torture. This gets all your thoughts, right? OK, well all my thoughts at that time would be "F you, F you, you're all liars, I don't believe anything you say, F you, go jump in the ocean and get eaten by sharks, F you, F you..." You have to think the thing they want you to think for this to work. Anyone anticipating that might be what could happen if detained should know how to control their thoughts. Sing the same 3 songs over and over in your head. Repeat lines from your favorite movies. Think in another language. Name things you can see in the room and think through construction methods of the building. It will very, very quickly prove useless against anyone with even moderate willpower. A genuine sociopath would excel at using it to manipulate their jailers. If anything, the tables have turned and they're forced to listen to everything you think - now you're torturing them!

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irmadlad

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I firmly believe, given enough time and technology, and barring we don't destroy our own selves like dumb asses of the highest order that mankind is.....I think we can achieve just about anything we can possibly think of. Which is a beautiful picture if we weren't so short sighted.

I have a brain injury from impact. Tho I am not a paraplegic or in a wheelchair, I have suffered some mental/neural maladies. I am pretty mobile, I read a ton of content off the internet. So, I function with some defficiencies. Imagine for those far worse off than I, like a paraplegic with significant brain/spinal damage. I always think 'I wonder if they have any kind of inner monologue?'

In a general sense, we loose very few of our memories over our lifetime. Yes there are caveats but, a majority still exist, our retrieval system lags. I realize it's a lot more complicated than this simplistic explaination. If we could somehow tap into that lost archived data bank, that would open up a lot litany of issues. Solving crime comes to mind.

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Ardens

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This will be forced upon people in some circumstances...

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jnod4

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Just put it in gay ppl and give them a shock everytime they have uncouth thoughts. We'd have so many more children to grow into mindless drones for the billionaires if everyone bred!

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rollerbang

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Quickly, he's flatlining, better get the truth out before....

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thatradomguy

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They won't need polys for Top Secret clearance anymore. They'll just force you to get one of these and BAM.

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Autonomous User

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That only makes it easier for us to identify them.

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Aid flotilla with Greta Thunberg set to sail for Gaza to ‘break illegal siege’

A flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, is due to leave from Barcelona on Sunday to try to “break the illegal siege of Gaza”, organisers said.

The vessels will set off from the Spanish port city to “open a humanitarian corridor and end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people”, said the Global Sumud Flotilla.

They did not say how many ships would set sail or the exact time of departure. The flotilla is expected to arrive at the war-ravaged coastal enclave in mid-September.

“This will be the largest solidarity mission in history, with more people and more boats than all previous attempts combined,” Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila told journalists in Barcelona last week.

Aid flotilla with Greta Thunberg set to sail for Gaza to ‘break illegal siege’

Unspecified number of vessels due to depart Barcelona on Sunday, with dozens more expected to leave other Mediterranean ports on 4 September

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CallMeButtLove

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Stories like this are what I cling to these days. But it's a double edged sword. We know they'll be illegally intercepted and stopped. We know the world governments will ignore it. But seeing good people refuse to sit by idly is still powerful. I know I'm just some guy, but I'd love to be there with them. I wear my "FEED GAZA" shirt but it feels like nothing in comparison.

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ElectricWaterfall

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She’s a true hero, risking her life for the cause not once but now for a second time!

She really puts her words into action.

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Aid flotilla with Greta Thunberg set to sail for Gaza to ‘break illegal siege’

The vessels will set off from the Spanish port city to “open a humanitarian corridor and end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people”, said the Global Sumud Flotilla.

They did not say how many ships would set sail or the exact time of departure. The flotilla is expected to arrive at the war-ravaged coastal enclave in mid-September.

Aid flotilla with Greta Thunberg set to sail for Gaza to ‘break illegal siege’

Unspecified number of vessels due to depart Barcelona on Sunday, with dozens more expected to leave other Mediterranean ports on 4 September

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MBech

in reply to geneva_convenience • 1 settimana fa • •

I like how tenacious they are, but I feel like announcing where you are at all times either defeats their stated purpose, or they're lying about the purpose. You aren't going to get aid in there as long as Israel knows your every move. If you actually want to help them with food and stuff, you sneak it in.

This serves a different purpose, showing the world how awful Israel is for attacking civilian boats loaded with food for a starving population. My only real problem with that is that we all know this. Everyone who gives half a shit about what is happening, has known for at least a year at this point. Spreading awareness about it at this point comes off more as virtuesignalling than actually trying to help.

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mrdown

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Isrsel has the cspability to intercept even without flotilla members annoucements

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emergencyfood

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There's no way you can move a surface ship with enough food for a significant number of people to Gaza without every government in the area knowing. They are announcing their location so Israel can't shoot at them and later say they thought they were pirates.

Of course, Israel doesn't exactly have a good record in following rules.

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omzeyad25

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It’s great to see aid reaching those in need. Hopefully, this brings relief to many families

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kidney_stone

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To be honest, I don't think any aid will reach anyone. I think this is a move that puts Israel in a position to either let them through (unlikely) or violently intercept them and do something bad enough that the western governments whose members are on those ships are actually forced to care by the public.

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How to set permissions for flatpak vscodium?

I frequently encounter issues. Does someone have a working setup or should I simlpy use distrobox for IDEs?

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stuner

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What kind of issues did/do you encounter?

The VS Code/Codium essentially provide a separate development environment within the flatpak container. All the tools there, and the shell are separate from your actual system. There are some ways to work around this (github.com/flathub/com.vscodiu…). I gave up on the Flatpak and installed a native package. Containers are nice, but they have their limitations.

com.vscodium.codium/README.md at master · flathub/com.vscodium.codium

Contribute to flathub/com.vscodium.codium development by creating an account on GitHub.

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just_another_person

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Actual errors would be helpful.

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PM Modi Holds Bilateral Talks With Xi During His 1st China Visit In 7 Years

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/pm-modi-holds-bilateral-talks-with-xi-during-his-1st-china-visit-in-7-years-9189721

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Let's be honest, if Microsoft failed Linux Phones will fail

It's inevitable....you people are going to have your Android given the iPhone treatment and you are going to LIKE IT! 🫨

Seriously though, alternatives? Grapheneos Mastodon page is a dumpster fire at times. One minute they are as ferocious as lions claiming they will never surrender.....the next they are lamenting that Google won't feed them and they need a new hardware supplier 🫩

CalyxOS folded quicker than a wet paper bag at a simple management shift! GrapheneOS and it's days are numbered

So what's the real option going forward?

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ClusterBomb

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I'd be interested in the lottery numbers if you can get them for me.

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queermunist she/her

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Nationalize Google and Apple.

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murky0106

in reply to queermunist she/her • 1 settimana fa • •

That's a terrible idea

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queermunist she/her

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That's what Google and Apple want you to think, and they've spent a lot of money to make sure you keep thinking that way.

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belluck

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Look at the current US government and tell me again that you honestly believe that is a good idea

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murky0106

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That's what I think as well. They want these monopolies

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queermunist she/her

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The current US government wouldn't nationalize industry.

Doesn't that tell you something?

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lev

in reply to queermunist she/her • 1 settimana fa • •

Nationalise *without compensation ;)

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Comrade_Squid

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Under workers control ;P

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murky0106

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

I love the idea of Linux mobile but i think it is going to be limited by upstream support from SOC manufacturers. Personally I think we are going to have to keep using android and if it gets bad enough it will be less effort to get an open source fork of android working than reinvent the wheel with Linux mobile. Although I'm not a Linux or android dev so I could be wrong.

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WalnutLum

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

I assume a lot of android foss app developers are going to refuse to register and the projects are going to need to be forked.

Personally I'm getting an old feature phone and an ipad mini that only has wifi. If my choice is between apple iOS and google iOS I'd rather just not use anything to do with Google.

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ExcessShiv

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

If app support breaks even more or gets even jankier on grapheneOS than it already is, I'm folding and getting a dumb phone instead.

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muhyb

in reply to ExcessShiv • 1 settimana fa • •

At that point I would just install Ubuntu Touch on my phone, which is currently supported by UBports. At least it would still be smart in a way.

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Eirikr70

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Let's not bury GrapheneOS too fast!

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kyub

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

1. There is no universal definition what a technology needs to achieve in order to be "successful" or "failing". Linux, in particular, depending on perspective, could have either "failed" literally all the time because it hasn't (yet) achieved desktop dominance, or it could have been massively successful on the other hand because it has been dominant on servers and mobile phones (in the form of Android). Now if we look at desktop Linux in particular, it has also somehow "not failed" at the same time, because it has continued to grow. It was stagnant for a very, very long time at around 1% market share but recently it's been steadily increasing up to about 5%. Again, depending on your definition or vibes, you could call this either successful or failing. Which is why these terms in isolation are kind of meaningless.
1. Microsoft is a company, Windows Phone was a product by that company. If a product from a company "fails", the company will abandon that product. It's that simple. Sure, gaining foothold against established iOS and Android is super hard. Which is the reason why Microsoft's effort failed. But, they are just a company. Linux, on the other hand, is at its core a world-wide community-developed open source software project (as well as most of the software that runs on top of it) and so it doesn't really matter if it grows up to Android or iOS size. It's still being developed as long as people want to develop for it. There's no single CEO looking at some statistics and calling to cut that project because it doesn't serve his definition of success.
1. In general, any project that strives to eventually rival established software products within a market has a steep uphill battle. It's the network effect. Developers develop for iOS and Android because 99% of the user base uses those two mobile OS. Only very few developers will be like "oh there's this new thing currently at 1% market share, sure, let's help it grow!". This alone prevents lots of apps you'd like to see on mainline Linux based mobile OS to ever exist for it. So you need to fall back to some workarounds like Waydroid, to run Android apps on Linux in the meantime, while Linux on mobile continues to grow and continues to attract developer attention. This can take a long time! On top of that are anti-competitive and monopolistic strategies and tactics being used by Google and Apple to ensure they remain on top of the mobile OS food chain. One such example is Google's so-called Play Integrity API, which is basically a form of DRM. Some app developers have been misled by Google's marketing to believe that they should implement it to ensure that their app is running on a "secure" device or environment. What they fail to realize is that Google uses that to basically label every non-Google-sanctioned Android distribution (like Graphene or Calyx or Lineage or many others) or Android runtime environment (like Waydroid) as "insecure" or other negative terms, which then prevents the app from being run at all. Furthermore they plan to restrict "sideloading" which means they want every app to only be distributed via Google's app repository. This means Google wants to exert a ton of control over the developers, the platform and every single app that runs on it. Developers are usually being lured into this via marketing tricks that this would much more secure than it was before or similar nonsense. What they fail to realize is that this also destroys flexibility and freedom for the users to choose what they want to install, and from where. On desktop PCs, you have had these freedoms for forever (even Windows(!) is much more open and neutral than iOS or Android are these days) - you obviously also should have these freedoms for your mobile OS because it's also just a computer with an OS on it. It's simply none of the business of the OS developer to tell the user which apps he should install and from where. OS and apps are completely different things from completely different developers. Choice is being limited significantly when Google centrally controls what apps are being distributed at all, there's 1 company telling you which apps you can and can't use. This is obviously bad and should NEVER happen, but many developers, users and other people confronted with this are easily lured into Google- and Apple-operated cages by fake security talk/marketing. That means they help establish Google's and Apple's monopoly on mobile OS. This, combined with the network effect for app developers, is why it will take lots of time and also not a commercial product (because no commercial product will have the amount of money or time to compete with Apple or Google) to rise up to these monopolies until a third viable option is on people's radars. Linux, due to its open source nature, is the only project that CAN achieve this because it can't fail. It can only grow. But we also need to ensure that at least Android remains a somewhat neutral and open platform. If Google becomes more like Apple controlling literally everything, it gets even harder for alternatives (and for Android users in general).

Linux phones are usable right now, but of course you have some limitations in practice... many apps aren't available or you have to use workarounds. If you mostly use open source applications you could be fine though. Although it's likely that you still need a secondary, small Android-based phone that you turn on just for those rare cases where you absolutely need a certain mobile app and it's only available for Android. At least while Linux mobile OS usage is still low. It's probably going to grow faster in the future, because those monopolistic companies usually enshittify their products and services at some point (Google is already well on it) and then regular Android/iOS users become so annoyed at what they're using that they also open up more for alternatives. It's basically what's happening in the desktop OS space right now - Windows continues to become more user-hostile and annoying to use, and desktop Linux passively (as well as actively) becomes more popular as a result. At some point, these companies forget what made their products popular in the first place and are only operating in the mode of milking users for data and profits, because they don't need to work hard anymore to improve the product - it's already popular enough. At that point, regular users who normally don't care about things like freedoms, privacy and ethics in the product they use will notice that things became worse and might switch simply because of inconveniences they didn't have before.

Another very good option beside Linux-based mobile OS these days is GrapheneOS. It's the best Android-based distribution you can have currently, nothing comes close (not going to elaborate here because long post is already long). But you still should be prepared for increasing hostility from Google towards unofficial Android distributions, and some apps which use the Play Integrity DRM to not work. If you encounter this, make sure to let the app developer(s) know. They need to realize that they are only serving Google's interests with this, not their own.

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Björn Tantau

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Funnily enough Microsoft actively killed the Linux phone when they took over Nokia.

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artyom

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Define "failed"?

Microsoft is a business. If they aren't able to sell phones, they fail. Linux doesn't sell anything and yet is able to keep trucking for 30 years.

Can Linux mobile hardware OEMs fail? Can and have. But the software community presses on. Not as quickly as I would like but they press on regardless.

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PotatoesFall

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

I'm confused are you talking about android or linux phones?

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cerebralhawks

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Happy with a phone that’s basically based on UNIX and isn’t run by a personal information broker. I can put Google apps on it if I want (and I think I have a couple) but ultimately it’s up to me what I want advertisers to be able to buy.

I dunno, just seems better, especially given the two cost the same. So all that personal information they sell doesn’t work out to a cost savings for you, plus the phone they make themselves is like 20-40% slower, newest model to newest model. So in a sense you’re kind of paying them to sell your data? Not my cup of tea.

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flatbield

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Fairphone is the open platform. The GrapheneOS guys could start working with that. It is an actual project including a hardware supplier not bound to Google. Another one is Purism, but their stuff is often very expensive. As long as the Pixel is a fully open hardware platform we will be fine, but they could choose to lock it down at any time.

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upstroke4448

in reply to flatbield • 1 settimana fa • •

GOS is already working with an OEM to produce their own phone. I think they said they are around a year away.

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communism

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

I'm not following the GOS stuff super closely but last I saw they said they were a year away from having their own hardware, and that Pixel support would be able to continue. See this thread: grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…

No need to reinvent the wheel so pre-emptively. If GOS does go down (which it sounds like they are trying their best not to), I'll probably switch to a Linux phone or just not have a smartphone.

GrapheneOS

2025-08-27 19:52:50

We've received the Pixel 10 we ordered and have confirmed it supports unlocking, flashing another verified boot key and locking again.
Our Pixel 10 support will likely only be possible to complete after we finish porting to Android 16 QPR1 which is being released in September.

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stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

A phone is a surveillance device.

The networks it is able to connect to have been compromised by attackers using backdoors built into them for the use of law enforcement. The legality of collecting information transmitted across those networks has been enshrined in law. All hardware and software companies which work with phones are targeted for infiltration by multiple foreign and domestic intelligence agencies. Friendly nations exchange intelligence packages and techniques for bypassing phone security with each other as a matter of fact. Foreign intelligence services’ surveillance technology is integrated into local law enforcement.

You cannot privately or securely use a phone.

Adblocking is not privacy or security.

Playing Super Nintendo on your phone is not privacy or security.

No amount of open source software will save you from the global intelligence state who have targeted the linux kernel and various distributions.

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technocrit

in reply to stupid_asshole69 [none/use name] • 1 settimana fa • •

You cannot privately or securely use a phone.

This is probably true of most devices, but people can still try to improve their security and privacy. Don't let perfection be the enemy of the good and so on...

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phase

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

You wrote "you people". You exclude yourself with some controversial headline. I stopped reading.

culprit via Memes

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culprit
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just a regular social bike ride

#memes

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LemmeAtEm

in reply to culprit • 1 settimana fa • •

Honest question, I thought hexbear had a mandate against "lionizing Luigi Mangione," but I have been seeing more hexbear users like u/QuietCupcake even in this thread posting emojis that I thought would have gotten them removed or worse last December. Is that why OP is posting it here with an .ml account even though (forgive and correct me if I'm wrong comrade) you're mostly a hexbear user? Did the mods there ever acknowledge the absurdity of that rule and roll it back, was it just quietly forgotten, or is it still selectively enforced? Don't get me wrong, I think hexbear is mostly a great instance that I often comment in solidarity with, but I was surprised to see what seemed like an extremely uncharacteristic liberal position they took on that.

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Nakoichi [they/them]

in reply to LemmeAtEm • 1 settimana fa • •

My position has always been I don't think he even did it.

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Cat_Daddy [any, any]

in reply to Nakoichi [they/them] • 1 settimana fa • •

Same. They've got three different people on film.

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Assian_Candor [comrade/them]

in reply to LemmeAtEm • 1 settimana fa • •

It was a certain mod that took issue with it, idt it was really a site wide rule or particularly stringently enforced

Actual site wide stuff gets communicated by carcosa

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LemmeAtEm

in reply to Assian_Candor [comrade/them] • 1 settimana fa • •

This post is the one I was referring to when I used the word mandate, a post made by someone I believe was an admin at the time, but maybe not. But I also talked to someone at the time from there who was a frequent commenter in places like the lemmy c/worldnews comm and they were very angry about having their posts and comments removed, while others were banned. I checked the modlog and sure enough. I'm really not trying to stir shit, it's just something I'm sincerely curious about because it seemed so... off brand to me, to use a lib phrase.

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Cat_Daddy [any, any]

in reply to LemmeAtEm • 1 settimana fa • •

The lionizing Luigi thing is for not mistaking the person as being themselves a good example to follow. We still maintain that adventurism overall is a bad thing. But we can also celebrate the outcome since it happened to an actual demon. The main point is not to encourage other lemmitors to do something similar. If it's happening naturally because of the increasingly difficult situations Americans are facing, terrific. But don't get yourself capped by a cop because you mistook Luigi adventurism for the start of the revolution.

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culprit

in reply to LemmeAtEm • 1 settimana fa • •

There isn't any policy that I'm aware of, I usually post to lemmy when I want to spread a meme more beyond hexbear (since a lot of Lemmyverse blocks or hides us). There was a brief period of uncertainty about Luigi initially, but it has turned out to be quite effective "propaganda of the deed", like a modern John Brown in certain respects.

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Raoul Duke

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Remember, remember, the 4th of December,

The hostile takeover, the corporate scheme.

I know of no reason, the share-selling treason,

Should ever be forgot.

Luigi, Luigi, 'twas his intent,

To bring the boardroom's reign to an end.

With a Nintendo blaster, bright and so blue,

To show all the suits what a plumber can do.

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return2ozma via Memes

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return2ozma
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It do be like that...

#memes

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TJA!

in reply to return2ozma • 1 settimana fa • •

I don't understand what you are trying to tell me. But I also haven't ever used an Uber.

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Obi

in reply to TJA! • 1 settimana fa • •

My guess is this is supposed to represent the experience of trying to act normal with your uber driver that's driving you back from the club/bar while you're drunk/high as hell.

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mmagod

in reply to return2ozma • 4 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 ore fa) • •

i get that some people don't like talking much.. but i mean.. personally i'd be creeped out if someone gets in my car and expects to be given a ride without saying a word.

DecaturNature via Privacy

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DecaturNature
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Neural Privacy: EFF interviews Yuste and Genser of the Neurorights Foundation

"How to Fix the Internet" has an important interview with neuroscientist Rafael Yuste and human rights lawyer Jared Genser, who together established the Neurorights Foundation, focused on expanding human rights concepts to neurotechnologies —tools that can record, interpret, and even manipulate brain activity.

They have contributed to getting laws passed nearly unanimously in three states of the USA and also discuss reforms in Brazil and Chile. This is an important issue to understand, and now seems like a short-lived opportunity to get laws passed before wealthy companies become involved in these technologies and start lobbying for their own interests.

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/podc…

Podcast Episode: Protecting Privacy in Your Brain

The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to decipher thoughts, and perhaps even manipulate them, isn't just around the corner – it's already here.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

#privacy

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NightOwl via World News

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NightOwl
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German cabinet passes bill for voluntary military service

The bill foresees certain annual recruitment targets for the new voluntary scheme: rising from 20,000 in 2026 to 38,000 in 2030.
If these numbers are not achieved, the government could opt instead to reinstate conscription, subject to parliamentary approval, according to the latest draft of the bill.
Already the current bill contains some mandatory elements, with all young men required to fill an online questionnaire regarding their willingness and abilities for military service after turning 18, to gain a better overview of the potentially available personnel.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/german-cabinet-passes-bill-voluntary-military-service-2025-08-27/

#Worldnews

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Global_Liberty

in reply to NightOwl • 1 settimana fa • •

Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of decades of funding Russian genocide in exchange for cheap natural gas.

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hotshot

in reply to NightOwl • 1 settimana fa • •

They are also looking into cutting social programs. This coupled with Britain and France potentially needing an IMF loan is not great news for Europe.

BlackSnack via Privacy

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BlackSnack
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Yo yo! Help me choose some better private services!

Yo yo!

I’ve been working on making my life more private and need some assistance picking suitable replacement options. Please let me know what you think of my list of if there are any opportunities for improvement! Here’s where I’m at …

Apple Maps
-OSMandMaps. Seems like a good option, but it’s not ready out the box. I need to do more tweaking with it.
-Magic Earth. Haven’t tested it yet, seems good. But I’m looking for free options first before I dabble with paid stuff.

AI (ChatGPT)
-Lumo. Chat is really good. But I understand they are good because they syphon data illegally, so I’m ok “downgrading” when switching AIs. Lump seems pretty good so far. I can tell it’s not as advanced but it will do me fine for what I need. Also, i assume once I pay for lumo pro it will be more “powerful”.
-Maple AI. Seems dope, also I like the pay model, pay for what you use over “x” amount of inquiries. Does anyone know how I owledgable/powerful it is?
-local AI OR Ollama. These 2 are beyond my knowledge. I don’t understand how I run these on my own server? If you know anything about these please ELI5.

Google Docs
-OnlyOffice. Seems like it does everything I want.
-cryptpad. Just heard of this today, need to explore more. Seems dope, but it doesn’t have an app? From what I’ve seen definitely a strong contender.

Photo App (I haven’t looked into any of these yet)
-Protón Drive.
-ente photos.
-I’mmich.

Google Drive
-protón drive.

#privacy

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communism

in reply to BlackSnack • 1 settimana fa • •

Maps: CoMaps all the way. Very nice, polished map app using OpenStreetMap

AI: Just use Ollama. It's dead simple to run it on your local machine. They have docs here: github.com/ollama/ollama/tree/…

Productivity suite: LibreOffice. If you want sync use Nextcloud (needs to be hosted) or syncthing (no hosting necessary).

Photo app: Nextcloud Photos app if you want cloud sync. I take it you use iOS given that you specify Apple Maps, in which case idk what foss photos apps there are on iOS, but Fossify Gallery on Android is good.

Cloud storage: Nextcloud. By definition, cloud storage needs to be hosted, so if you don't have a server, you can use something like Proton Drive or Cryptdrive, or find a public Nextcloud instance that lets you sign up (Disroot has one).

ollama/docs at main · ollama/ollama

Get up and running with OpenAI gpt-oss, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3 and other models. - ollama/ollama

^GitHub

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Autonomous User

in reply to BlackSnack • 1 settimana fa • •

Software is private, not services.

Five via Privacy

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Five
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A Demonstrator’s Guide to Operational Security

How do police identify and target those who participate in demonstrations? What countermeasures can we take to hinder repression?

^CrimethInc.

#privacy

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AbouBenAdhem

in reply to Five • 1 settimana fa • •

Take all this with a big grain of salt—it’s based on the oddly naïve assumption that the police are trying to catch the actual instigators, and that they need real evidence to get convictions.

In my experience, the objective of the police is to create a particular public narrative (which they present to the media after the fact): the police acted with restraint, respecting the peoples’ right to assemble, until a handful of agitators turned destructive and the demonstration threatened to escalate into a major riot—at which point they swiftly intervened, caught enough of the agitators to prevent an escalation, and saved (most of) the city’s businesses from destruction.

Now, they do want to intimidate the crowd to keep things from escalating too far, but they also want to allow for some destruction to legitimize their tactics and to support the argument that the police force needs more officers. So they leave the actual instigators alone, because they’re useful to their narrative (up to a point) and because the police don’t want to engage with a group prepared to fight back. (What they really want to avoid is a large crowd seeing the example of multiple people physically resisting the riot police without being immediately subdued.)

Instead, they target:
* Journalists, street medics, and legal observers, to remove the demonstrators’ sense of institutional support and legitimacy;
* Anyone whose mugshots will alienate public support—the homeless, minorities, and anyone whose face is vaguely weird or scary;
* Anyone unable to resist a violent beating (like the disabled, elderly, and children) for pure shock value and crowd intimidation; and
* People who came dressed in black bloc fashion, but are clearly by themselves, passive, and not part of an organized group.

These last are the only ones they will try to prosecute, and often their black bloc attire plus the testimony of cops who claim they saw them engaged in destructive activity will be enough to get a conviction. In this case the anonymity of their dress backfires, because the cops can pin the actions of anyone with similar clothing and body type on them by claiming they saw the act first-hand and caught the suspect immediately afterward.

Meanwhile, the real instigators are convinced that they escaped due to the brilliance of their tactics and not because the cops had no interest in catching them.

That said, all this goes out the window when dealing with Trump’s federal agents: they’re working from different narratives with no pretense of protecting businesses, maintaining local support, or respecting anyone’s rights.

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Dust0741 via Privacy

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75+ Flock Cameras Disabled in Bay Area

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/35231913

75+ Flock Cameras Disabled in Bay Area

^{unravel.noblogs.org}

#privacy

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makingStuffForFun

in reply to Dust0741 • 1 settimana fa • •

"some anarchists disabled 75+ flock cameras in oakland and sf'

Anarchy in the USA.

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birdwing

in reply to Dust0741 • 1 settimana fa • •

Based and privacypilled

Five via Privacy

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Five
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75+ Flock Cameras Disabled in Bay Area

^{unravel.noblogs.org}

#privacy

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wuffah

in reply to Five • 1 settimana fa • •

If you know Flock, most of their cheap cameras go down all by themselves. Even when they’re operating as intended, their capture rates are under 70%, which is why you usually find them in pairs monitoring the same direction of traffic. That dinky solar panel can barely power them through the night so most of their cameras are dead in the early morning hours.

The only way Flock stays in business is by literally giving their cameras away by illegally installing them in municipalities and waiting for them to be ordered removed. You’d probably be doing most cities a favor by taking them down.

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eldavi

in reply to Five • 1 settimana fa • •

easily reproducible stuff

when i lived in austin, i witnessed several instances of "texan progressives" call the police on protestors for preventing the self driving taxis from stealing peoples in jobs by sitting in the street to block them; while people in san francisco & oakland looked the other way when protestors threw paint destroyed the sensors on the self driving taxis.

californians have the proper mindset to affect change and i REALLY miss living there sometimes.

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N0t_5ure

in reply to Five • 1 settimana fa • •

Is there anything of value in the camera set-ups to steal and quickly turn into cash? If so, an information campaign to raise awareness of the value amongst crackheads and meth addicts could work wonders.

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lemming741

in reply to N0t_5ure • 1 settimana fa • •

Can't be that hard to turn them into solar phone chargers

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sunzu2

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The corpo wars are coming except it will be plebs v the corpos.

ArmchairAce1944 via Linux

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ArmchairAce1944
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Nvidia driver issues...

Well guys! I did it! Linux mint on my desktop! Finally! Everything seemed like it was going swimmingly save for some minor issues. But then I ran into one: I did use stability matrix to make furry porn (very bad furry porn, don't ask) but when I tried to run it, it kept telling me it had issues with python and cuda and other stuff. I wondered if the problem was just python libraries or my nvidia drivers. I did manage to get a workaround, but it simply wouldn't use my GPU... in fact, I think I am having a super hard time seeing if I am even using it properly.

Speaking of drivers I tried to install the latest one, but that caused a problem. I use multiple monitors (because of course I do). Three in fact, but only one ended up working with the other two entirely unrecognized. And I still wasn't able to use my GPU to get stability matrix (or even stability forge without that) and my games still can't run on max graphics settings. I've been looking around for some help on this and trying to work on it all day, with limited success. It is basically the only major thing going wrong with my transition from windows to linux.

Any help here?

#linux

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Mereo

in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • 1 settimana fa • •

Have you decided on Mint yet? If not, the Bazzite distro will be easy to use. All you need to do is download the Nvidia image and install it. It will work right away. Steam and the Nvidia drivers are already installed and configured. No configuration is needed.

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ArmchairAce1944

in reply to Mereo • 1 settimana fa • •

I suppose I can change things... I mean I haven't been on linux mint that long... I didn't hear about Bazzite. Let me try to fix this before I try to use a different distro.

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Mereo

in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • 1 settimana fa • •

Ok. If ever you want to try Bazzite, here's the download link: bazzite.gg/#image-picker

Then choose: Desktop > Nvidia RTX Series > KDE > Traditional Desktop.

Bazzite - The next generation of Linux gaming

Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.

^bazzite.gg

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tyler

in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • 1 settimana fa • •

I went through about six distros in a week before deciding. Mint and zorin were both terrible on my nvidia card.

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ArmchairAce1944

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As it stands right now, due to Just_Another_Person's link (itsfoss.com/nvidia-linux-mint/) pretty much took care of most of the issues. There is a minor issue with using LM studio and trying to load LLMs offline (privacy... if there is anything I miss about computing in the 90s is that there was very little in terms of any outside company looking into what you were doing on your comp), but that is not a major deal for now. I can use LLMs with small context windows. The large context windows were painfully slow anyway.

Install Nvidia Drivers on Linux Mint [Beginner's Guide]

Struggling with Nvidia and Linux Mint? Here's a detailed beginner's guide that explains plenty of things around installing Nvidia drivers on Linux Mint.

^{Ankush Das (It's FOSS)}

ecoenginefutures via Memes

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ecoenginefutures
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Solarpunk

#memes

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Sentient Loom

in reply to ecoenginefutures • 1 settimana fa • •

This applies to "teens" until they have to get jobs and do what they're told or else be homeless.

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ecoenginefutures

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I assume you’re projecting yourself onto the “teens”, in such case I’ll let you know that the future is solarpunk and there’s very little you can do at an individual level to stop it, I’d suggest you to participate in it tho. Reality rewards the ones that correctly predict the future, so this is your chance to hop on the train and make your future >even< greater! Much love!

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Investment advice

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Legal?

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We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that

::: spoiler Comments
- Hackernews.
:::

Your Phone Already Has Social Credit. We Just Lie About It.

Your credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit systems that track you, score you, and reward you…

^{Natalie Pang (The Nexus)}

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What are some good shell tweaks?

A short while ago, I saw a blog post from someone about modernizing their shell. Unfortunately, I lost the blog post, but there was some really good stuff in there. Just mentioning this in case someone knows what I'm talking about.

One tweak I remember they mentioned was about fixing programs that have broken formatting. It prevents scenarios like

user@hostname:~$ echo "hi"
hiuser@hostname:-~$

where the output and shell prompt get placed on the same line. I noticed this happens with bash with C programs that don't include a \n in the final printf statement.

#linux

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wuphysics87

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set -o vi

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theshatterstone54

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Here's my .zshrc:

gitlab.com/theshatterstone/dot…

and ~/.config/zsh:

gitlab.com/theshatterstone/dot…

This config uses Starship for a prompt (starship.rs/), Homebrew as an extra package manager, and my own custom fetch script at:

gitlab.com/theshatterstone/fet…

A lot of it was taken from Luke Smith's zsh config. Say what you will about him, he's got a good zsh config. Link:

.zshrc · main · theshatterstone / Dotfiles · GitLab

My new Dotfiles repo

^GitLab

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Disney to Pay $10 Million to Settle FTC Allegations the Company Enabled the Unlawful Collection of Children’s Personal Data

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/09/disney-pay-10-million-settle-ftc-allegations-company-enabled-unlawful-collection-childrens-personal

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Leaked Emails Reveal Jeffrey Epstein's Connections to the Surveillance Industry

Yahoo fait partie de la famille de marques Yahoo.

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geneva_convenience

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Palantir? Check.

Paypal maffia? Check

Israel? Check.

Yep. It's conspiracy time.

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Google is having ‘productive discussions’ with Trump lawyers about his deplatforming suit

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60643878/175/trump-v-youtube-llc/

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Software Freedom Day 2025 - New Jersey

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/41246302

We're having an event for Software Freedom Day. It is a world-wide event, and we are having one right here at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
September 20th, 2025 from 11am-4pm
We'll have talks about what free software is, and why it's important for everyone. What kind of software is available for your existing computer, and how you can use Free Software to use your computer past the date that the manufacturer wants to keep updating it. There will be a talk on self hosting, so that you can run services that reduce or replace your reliance on outside big tech companies, and keep better control of your data. Talks about Wikipedia and Open Source are proposed. There will also be a talk on Social Networking with free software called "Mastodon and the Fediverse" that will show how you can network with people without giving your data to big tech, and without the algorithms that don't work in your best interest.
Here a link for more information:
softwarefreedom.neocities.org/
We'll be happy to discuss any details.

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I give up 🏳️

I give up.... Privacy is a fool's game and it's a losing one at that. We are slowly entering a world where more and more requirements are made on people to own a regular non-hipster cell phone. There are places you can't even buy parking or look at a restaurant menu without having a proper cell phone.

Maybe the answer is not to flash some obscure on life support operating system on your Google pixel but rather.. maybe the answer is to work within the system and simply adjust privacy controls as allotted?

#privacy

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

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Too stubborn to give up 🏴🏴🏴

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Mereo

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The trick is not to go too extreme too quickly. It has to be a gradual transition to using privacy-respecting products, or else you'll burn out.

I started by switching from Windows 10 to Linux, then using ProtonMail instead of Gmail, then Lemmy instead of Reddit. I'm slowly transitioning to other services and software that respect my privacy.

Look at it as a journey.

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ScoffingLizard

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I needed to hear that. Getting off Amazon, Facebook, Instgram, and no Paypal was probably the easiest part.

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iconic_admin

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

I agree with you. I’m a privacy advocate but there are some things I have given up on. I have an iPhone and just live with the fact that it has much more telemetry than I want. It’s better for work because everyone else has an iPhone, etc. However, on my personal computers I run Ubuntu LTS with all telemetry turned off. I use Firefox with ublock and privacy badger, if I want extra privacy I’ll use a VPN. But even then you have to trust the company that runs the VPN isn’t secretly recording your browsing data, it’s a gamble.

My main point is, fight for privacy where it makes sense. Don’t waste your limited time fighting it where it doesn’t. That’s become my personal philosophy, your mileage may vary.

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Mereo

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Exactly. The most important thing is to do what we can.

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artyom

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The problem is there are lots of places where fighting makes sense but you have no control. 99% will turn all their info over without batting an eye.

I was invited to an event recently on Partiful. If you're unfamiliar, this is the company founder by a bunch of former Palantir execs. The only way to RSVP or see the event info or get updates or anything else is to turn over your phone number. I told the person who invited me that I wasn't comfortable giving these people my info and they responded along the lines of "okay, don't come".

I went to a food truck a while back and they wouldn't even give me a menu or accept my order at the window. Told me I needed to download, order and pay through their shitty app.

Anyone who has my contact information volunteers it in it's entirety to any shitty app that asks for it. They upload pictures of me (along with the according metadata) to surveillance databases without my consent or knowledge, thinking nothing of it.

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Ildsaye [they/them]

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

None of our individual strategies are "the answer". The situation won't be turned around by individuals making personal choices, but by organized efforts. A world in which Terms and Conditions don't supersede your rights is possible.

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Alas Poor Erinaceus

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

@WaffleWarrior@lemmy.zip, what specific problems are you running up against? I'm confident that my fellow lemmings and I can help you figure out how to minimize or at least reduce whatever privacy related tech issues you're having.

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DominusOfMegadeus

in reply to Alas Poor Erinaceus • 1 settimana fa • •

My mortgage broker or lender clearly sold my phone number to spammers.

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swelter_spark

in reply to DominusOfMegadeus • 1 settimana fa • •

I use a cheap VoIP and have a number specifically to give out to businesses. It offers way more control over call handling than a typical phone service, and I can change it whenever I want without having to give family & friends a new number.

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infjarchninja

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

The cypherpunk manifesto, 9th March 1993

32 years ago we faced the same nightmare. I was 37 years old back then.

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any.

We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place.

People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers.

The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.

Privacy is not secrecy.

A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know.

Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

activism.net/cypherpunk/manife…

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

^{www.activism.net}

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hansolo

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frongt

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Picking your battles is not giving up.

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Eirikr70

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There's no such thing as total privacy. When you walk in the streets, people can see you and that is no problem. Same goes online. You have to reach YOUR balance between privacy and convenience. I have reached mine with two excellent tools that are GrapheneOS and AdGuardHome. Of course I have also excluded privacy-invading apps such as WhatsApp or Google search. I suppose I evade 80% Big Tech usual tracking and I'm happy that way.

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LoreSoong

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Any place asking me to scan a QR for a menu, or need an app for parking probably wasnt worth it to begin with. Yes practicing privacy is not going to "feel" good thats exactly what they want. Just keep fighting back where you can, Make it as unlikely as possible for them to get what they want.

Every person In this comment section has leaks in their system. Unless they are some data security expert, theres simply no way to get by without being "exposed" at some point.

Keep up the good fight. Its worth it. Your eyes and your data are the new currency. Keep their hands off it.

Edit: there is alot of good info in this comment section people should upvote & downvote this post to balance it into being "contraversial" to get more eyes on it. Simply downvoting someone with a "bad take" Is imo unproductive.

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ushmel

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Almost every one of these places (that's truly worth it) will have a way to pay without tech. They still want your money. Hell, ask the guy behind you on line, they'd probably take the credit card points.

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flatbield

in reply to LoreSoong • 1 settimana fa • •

Avoiding apps if you can and focusing on using the web and/or PWAs as a good direction too. Lot of the stuff out there for apps really should not be an app to start with. Then there is F-Droid which has most of the actual apps you need.

The ones not in fdroid and where you can't use a web app, and must have, these are not so many. For me this is some health devices, some transit and travel apps, my local library, a hearing test app, Google Maps, my bank app (for check cashing). All of these also run just fine on GrapheneOS. Lot of those don't have to be on my phone though if you only have one android device maybe they do. Really transit and travel apps, maybe my local library, and Google Maps are the only ones I use out and about.

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land

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

No, thank you. I’d rather be without a phone than bowing down to these corporations.

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Vanth

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

I want to run a bit faster than my hiking buddy to avoid being caught by the bear. I want my car or bike to look more of a pain to steal than the one parked next to it.

There's no perfect privacy. I want to outpace my peers so that they are the more attractive targets.

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flatbield

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Just install GrapheneOS. Simple.

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LoreSoong

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I think they were saying that, with the google pixel reference in the post. Graphene also has issues, certain apps and services flat out dont work, Its not for everyone. but it is infinitely better than stock imo.

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flatbield

in reply to LoreSoong • 1 settimana fa • •

Yes some don't work but frankly none I needed. Originally my banking app did not work, but they upgraded it and after that it worked fine. So I would say mostly it just works. Not all apps even work on all stock phones either.

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sunzu2

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Being treated like cattle is for everyone though it seems.

Normies get what they deserve

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LoreSoong

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Its a fight against corps and bad actors. Why attack potential allies? Genuinely hate people like you. you arent better than these people, get a grip.

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sunzu2

in reply to LoreSoong • 1 settimana fa • •

That's not an attack, thats a comment on the current reality.

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Ilandar

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Typical GrapheneOS user. Blindly shills it without even reading the thread.

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flatbield

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I did read the post. Way easier to install GrapheneOS then it is to fiddle with non-existent privacy controls on stock. GrapheneOS is highly popular and pretty much just works so the on life support thing is BS. Yes if you must have one of the few apps that don't work, sure you'll have to use stock or just not use the app. I've not found any apps that I need that don't run on GrapheneOS but there are some.

Keep in mind too, that not all apps work on all stock phones either for one reason or another.

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Ilandar

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GrapheneOS is highly popular and pretty much just works so the on life support thing is BS.

I think perhaps you missed the context there. The future for Android custom ROMs like GrapheneOS is looking quite bleak currently, even its developers have acknowledged this.

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flatbield

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Why? Google closing android development? Lack of hardware to install it on?

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sunzu2

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God forbid the normie has to do anything to protect himself.

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HubertManne

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

I get the feeling. My wife and I keep wondering how long we can refuse to use smartphones. I like polluting the data pool. There is a developer app to set a faux location for the phone. anything I can do to send wrong data is a bigger thing to me than not sending the data.

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Ilandar

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Unless you are an activist willing to dedicate large amounts of your time to the cause, that is probably our future.

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upstroke4448

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Why even post this? do you really need outside validation every time you decide to give up?

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Mechaguana

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Eh privacy isint cheap, you gotta have multiple devices so it doesnt get too complicated

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golden_zealot

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Maybe the answer is not to flash some obscure on life support operating system on your Google pixel but rather… maybe the answer is to work within the system and simply adjust privacy controls as allotted?

And when those controls are removed because most people went along with it and they were determined as a waste of development time by a corporate or government entity because people also give up on that then what? This is not an answer to anything, it's complacency that will just erode privacy more and make the problem worse.

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ganamasawa

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

The simplest thing you can do is to just use your phone as little as you can.

I use a regular phone because my model doesn't support GrapheneOS or other custom OSs. So I just use my phone as little as possible: calls, whatsapp/LINE/telegram almost only for info about meeting people, not to discuss deep stuff. Proprietary backup deactivated. No games, no superfluous stuff if not a hardened Firefox as browser and my Bank app (sigh). All other few apps I have are FOSS and/or privacy oriented. I use syncthing with encryption enabled so I can backup all data on my desktop with little hassle and regularly delete photos/chats on my phone.

If I have to use a privacy invading app on my phone to buy a parking ticket or something similar: I download the app, block all permissions, use it, delete cache/datas and then delete it.

If I lose my phone tomorrow it would not even be a big deal because I have almost no data in it. I know it's not a perfect model since a few apps and the phone itself do have telemetry, but it's better than going around with a device filled with sensitive data. It reduces a lot of stress and it's very manageable for me.

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☂️-

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

that's because you are trying an individual solution to a collective problem.

going for the roots of it involves going for the corporations and oligarchs taking control of our electronics, not simply installing a private rom.

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eelectricshock

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Both ends need working on. I think creating and supporting new movements require change, it starts with individuals fighting for more rights on a microscopic level. Shifting to GrapheneOS will accelerate Google to make changes for the good of all of us.

Be wise and patient. I think our older politicians don't accept these concepts, but as our young grow into old then we've got a platform to fight for.

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What’s wrong in this meme?

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magic_smoke

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Do you not clean your own eating and shitting surfaces regularly?

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cattywampas

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A great thing to do would be to start delegating community cleaning to students in schools. I believe they do this in Japan. If we start teaching kids to work collectively and take care of common spaces together, we can make a society that does the same.

Like you said, we already all do it in our own homes.

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illusionist

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He is exaggerating a lot

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glitching

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au lot.

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Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.1

Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.1 - The Document Foundation Blog

Berlin, 29 August 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.1, the first minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available at https://www.libreoffice.

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Speaking of AI product logos, a treatise

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belated_frog_pants

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This came out pre-AI.

June 20, 2019

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vonxylofon

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Looking confused at my 2009 course certificate on neural networks and Markov chains...

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DSTGU

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Yea, Manifesto would be a better name

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Syncthing setup that is suitable for a battery powered Linux device

Hi guys, I recently installed Linux mint on a spare laptop I had to check if I can daily drive this and since I run Syncthing Windows setup on this device before and I essentially want to replicate that setup here which means Syncthing starts up automatically on login but with the condition that the device should be connected to ac power and if it gets disconnected kill the process right away. I could easily have this in Windows setup and also in Syncthing-fork for Android with a simple toggle. How can I replicate this Linux mint as well?

GitHub - Bill-Stewart/SyncthingWindowsSetup: Syncthing Windows Setup

Syncthing Windows Setup. Contribute to Bill-Stewart/SyncthingWindowsSetup development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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twice_hatch

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Will throttling the CPU use less energy? Phones often do the opposite, they race to idle

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BrianTheeBiscuiteer

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In theory, yes, but it wouldn't be as significant as stopping it entirely (or pausing it instead of a hard start-stop). I only mention CPU limits because it's extremely easy to implement.

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What kind of sorcery is this? Why can't I see that comment when I am logged in, despite the fact that I am a mod?

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36767445

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This is happening even on my alt account(Reddthat).
What the heck is happening?

Pro

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What kind of sorcery is this? Why can't I see that comment when I am logged in, despite the fact that I am a mod?

Post.
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What the heck is happening?

#Support

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What kind of sorcery is this? Why can't I see that comment when I am logged in, despite the fact that I am a mod?

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36767445

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What the heck is happening?

Pro

2025-09-02 19:27:10

What kind of sorcery is this? Why can't I see that comment when I am logged in, despite the fact that I am a mod?

Post.
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What the heck is happening?

#fediverse

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Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn

Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space

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Hey environment, how's it going

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YiddishMcSquidish

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" conversationalist"?

You're using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.

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where is the "little guy"?

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thatonecoder
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Russia & China are destroying us, openly, and we haven't done anything about it

I have thought about this a lot, and I came across this Wikipedia page about a Russian book today, and this book about China's plan, and it both terrified and enlightened me further. Based on these two pages (read them before reading this), I have a couple of additional thoughts (closer to conspiracy theories, but anyway):
- The Israel-Hamas conflict (and a genocide) is a distraction from Russia and Iran (yes, they disregard human lives that much), to avoid people from figuring out their plans, keeping a far-right Israeli government, and distracting from Ukraine. It also allows for Iran (and thus Russia) to test against missile and drone defense systems in Israel (that are the best anyway, therefore anything that passes will shred through any Western nation).
- Climate change isn't ignored; rather, it is done purposely. If farming fails, we will be in starvation, allowing them to take us out/dominate us much more easily. Additionally, there are studies that prove an increased temperature leads to lower productivity, thus proving this hypothesis further — and Russia won't feel as big of an impact there, especially in winter.
- The “AI” hype is being funded by both Russia and China, to lower our critical thinking, also allowing us to be tricked and attacked more easily. Furthermore, it increases the speed of climate change, and takes away even more clean water from us. This allows them to be able to poison our waters much more easily, since only a select few freshwater points will be out there,

2015 book by Michael Pillsbury

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thatonecoder

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No, I am not an astroturfer. I have my own opinions and assumptions, just like anyone else. I have been Lemmy for some time already, have made a couple of posts, and I ain't goddamn funded by any government.

tactic of creating artificial "grassroots" organizations

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geneva_convenience

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You have Nazi opinions.

weirdo_from_space via Linux

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weirdo_from_space
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Why did PinePhone fail?

Six years ago the entire Linux enthusiast space was super excited for the PinePhone, then everything fell apart. What went wrong? Was PINE64's favoritism towards Manjaro the sole issue or were there other problems?

#linux

like this

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Sailor88

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

Made with low end hardware

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weirdo_from_space

in reply to Sailor88 • 1 settimana fa • •

I don't think this is it, a lot of people were ok with that. The problem is drivers, they seemingly never matured enough to get the device to a usable state. Why?

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cole

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

if you've ever used one then you know that that is indeed it

it is unusable

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carzian

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

So I think there were a few issues.
- the original pinephone was basically too slow to be usable
- there were a few hardware quirks that had to be fixed in software but made mainlining drivers for it difficult
- the lack of community updates (and you could argue overall community management) caused some developers to move away while also impeded pine64s ability to attract new developers
- the lack of any sort of funding for developers made it difficult for people to work on as any more than a hobby (not necessarily pine64's fault, but it's the reality)
- poor battery life (better idle and sleep support would have been software issues but the hardware was designed to be cheap instead of really useful)
- daily driving Linux on a phone is a poor experience - not pine64s fault but there's a bunch of support missing in Linux that needs to be developed before early adopters can really use Linux phones. Modem power management, audio switching between Bluetooth and speaker, MMS support, camera support, etc.

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Ardor von Heersburg

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

I own the original PinePhone, and it's nice to tinker with, but honestly it's far too slow to be usable on a regular basis. Perhaps the PinePhone Pro is slightly better, but most likely still not good enough.

Couple that with the other issues described by @carzian@lemmy.ml , and it's pretty clear why it failed.

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Grass

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its so slow that it feels worse than a gen 1 iphone. even with a super stripped down alpine based os it's unbearable even just making calls or text and not using any software beyond basic phone apps.

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tomalley8342

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

The only reason why consumers like you and me get to enjoy free software on modern PC hardware is because of the expectation of open standards and interoperability set way back when the industry was still growing and computer users gave a shit (or rather, when only the people who gave a shit owned a computer).

Much to the industry giants' enthusiasm, mobile hardware stacks were developed without this baggage, and so unless something fundamental changes, all mobile devices trying to focus on free software will be doomed to failure by abysmally poor hardware support and aging hand-me-down hardware.

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weirdo_from_space

in reply to tomalley8342 • 1 settimana fa • •

I hope Raptor Computing sticks around. If I manage to get a well paying job I'd love to move on to the POWER ISA on desktop and a Fairphone with Ubuntu Touch.

I know it's exteremely expensive (I mean the POWER desktop) but with the recent Android news I believe the time for compromise has passed. Those of us who are fortunate enough to be able to do so should adopt fully open hardware whenever possible.

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ninth_plane

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

Did it fail? I hate headlines like this. Just because it isn't popular now, doesn't mean it didn't make progress in its space.

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utopiah

in reply to ninth_plane • 1 settimana fa • •

Did it fail?

Yes... it did. I have both (details in this post) and I'd love to use either daily yet I don't do it. I also don't know anybody who does.

Was it useful? Absolutely but IMHO the fact that the 2nd version is not fully usable (camera, power usage, etc) without active progress despite being a 4 years old specifically targeting tinkers is not a success. I'm genuinely wondering who would want a PinePhone 2. I'd love to but based on what happened with the Pro, I'm not sure I would despite using my other Pine64 on a daily basis.

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weirdo_from_space

in reply to ninth_plane • 1 settimana fa • •

It absolutely failed. Pinebook succeeded, they wanted to build a cheap Chromebook alternative for Linux enthusiasts and they did it. Pinebook Pro was a functional product and it was well received.

Pinephone failed, it made some progress but it never reached a point where a Linux user with basic needs could daily drive it. It seems like Linux phone space moved on to Halium at this point.

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utopiah

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

I have both the PinePhone and the PinePhone Pro, IMHO :

lack of Android apps (yes, I know, weird to open with that but for a lot of people, that's the 1 thing, not actual calls or SMS) despite Waydroid because it didn't exist initially then requires higher specs
bad power management : the battery is small so without spot on power management one ends up with less than a day of normal usage, that's a show stopper for most
lack of updates : the PinePhone Pro was available without camera support, no big deal, most were expecting based on the initial pace of updates that it would eventually come but even today checking wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone… it's either Not implemented or Not working

... so with all that very very few people used either as a daily driver and thus even less probably invested time to make it actually usable.

It's amazing as a tinkering device with connectivity... but in practice I went instead to a deGoogle Android phone (with /e/OS by Murena). I still have other hardware by Pine, e.g. PineNote or PineTab2, so I do enjoy they provide a very valuable service to the community and I'll keep on, probably, getting more from them but one has to be pragmatic about the software limitations coming from a company that basically does not provide software for the hardware they sell.

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1peter10

in reply to utopiah • 1 settimana fa • •

Regarding Android apps: I hope that gitlab.com/android_translation… will make a difference here going forward. A Wine-like approach is just so much less of a resource hog.

Regarding the Camera on the PinePhone Pro: It somewhat works by now, if not on every OS. Be it with libcamera or Megapixels 2, we're getting there. I suppose it's just that nobody told the Wiki.

android_translation_layer / Android Translation Layer · GitLab

GitLab.com

^GitLab

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utopiah

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Right or gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/valv… is also pretty positive but until it's actually done and does support banking apps (which might not be possible due to a lot of restrictions, e.g Google services, signed ROM only, etc) then everybody will remain on the fence.

Good to know for the PPPro. PmOS indicates the support as partial wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PIN… I should try again at some point.

Valve appear to be testing ARM64 and Android support for Steam on Linux

Valve appear to have some pretty ambitious future plans for Steam, as we've seen recently in a leak (and not for the first time) that Valve has plans for ARM64 and Android support on Linux.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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1peter10

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Just 2ct's on the banking thing (sorry if it sounds rude, but I just can't hear it anymore):

Just forget banking apps of you don't want to stay on iOS or proper Google Android forever and ever and ever, even AOSP-based OSes struggle with that (a lot).

Go to a bank that still has a proper website and allows some kind of hardware device for TAN (and tell them that this is why you are leaving/joining) - we need to show market demand for alternative solutions or else these will disappear completely over time.

We also need to make regulators/politicians understand, that taking part in life must be possible without owning a device blessed by Google or Apple. We really need laws here.

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utopiah

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It's not rude but it's incorrect. I have a deGoogled phone and do mobile banking with it. I don't know for how long though but just to say it's possible today.

Yes though I do recommend relying on a bank that does not force its customers to use Apple or Google only. I hope they'd be a way to disclose that beside just name & shame.

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1peter10

in reply to utopiah • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 6 ore fa) • •

Glad that works for you!
With my bank (comdirect.de) I can use a mobile website, and if I were to use something AOSP- or Halium-based, I could also use their PhotoTAN app, which, as the name implies, needs a working camera in Waydroid (on my OP6 with pmOS, the cameras work via libcamera, but not in Waydroid), so I have a small gadget for all these TANs.

My main worry with the "let's just use Play Store/Aurora store and the run that apk"-approach is that it does not really send a visible signal to banks that they need to keep considering customers that don't use Android proper.

It also always means that the next update (e.g., after some consultancy or some audit happened) may not work any more, meaning, access may be revoked at any time. Complaining to customer service or in Play Store reviews may have an effect, but it will still hurt. I think I would feel a tad safer if a banking app lived on FDroid... but sill.

I hope this gets my point across.

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utopiah

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100% get your point and indeed agree. I think verification overall is pretty much tied to iOS/(Googled)Android so my (probably naive) hope is that physical token or passkeys that are NOT platform or service dependent gain traction. That's why I got excited when github.com/keycloak/keycloak/i… was recently merged. I still have to test it but anyway more and more of the services I use online (self-hosted or not) are now behind "Log in with a device" and/or WebAuthN where I feel I can properly login, using e.g. YubiKey Bio or NitroKey, without anybody in the middle "owning" my identity or at least the verification step. I believe this is pretty much the "last battle" to have secure interactions without a central (commercial or not) actor in the middle that can use this to reshape our behaviors and interactions.

Passkeys support

Description This includes passkeys support in Keycloak including: Check it works and implement it Automated tests Documentation and maybe a blog Discussion #16201 Tasks #23658 #23660 #24264 #24999 ...

^{mposolda (GitHub)}

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banazir

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

I'd say it didn't fail. It was never really a consumer phone. It was an attempt to get hardware in the hands of developers, and it achieved that.

Other posts here discuss why it didn't receive wider adoption.

I daily drove my PinePhone until I could no longer receive MMS messages, since my service provider has a different APN for the internet and MMS. That, and the modem became more unreliable over time. I like my PinePhone, but an average user would never adopt it as it is.

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weirdo_from_space

in reply to banazir • 1 settimana fa • •

Except it absolutely did. Sure, it got hardware in the hands of developers, but that effort didn't amount to anything. Pinebook paved the way for Pinebook Pro, which made good on company's promise of an open, affordable, low power laptop for Linux enthusiasts.

This never materialized with Pinephone, it didn't even mature enough to satisfy most of the early adopters, who for the most part only wanted reliable calling and texting.

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1peter10

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

Having had both a Pinebook and a Pinebook Pro and two PinePhones and a PinePhone Pro at some point in time (I co-hosted a PINE64 podcast for a bit), I don't follow. If your point is that the PinePhone (Pro) have never been a great for everybody, I think the same is true of Pinebooks (Pro), they're definitely are among the worst laptops I have ever had. Various just as cheap ARM-based Chromebooks (especially the ASUS C101p) I've had were/are just so much better.

The PinePhone really helped with development of existing Linux on Mobile projects and caused the creation of some additional ones, as evidenced by the massive number of projects on pine64.org/documentation/PineP…

The Community Editions helped projects like UBports or postmarketOS financially. Some people even daily drive the device (despite being slow, I've found Sxmo and Sailfish OS to be acceptable, with Phosh coming in third).

While I don't recommend it anymore for anyone who wants to use GTK based stuff on it, I'd view it as a success (I don't view the Pro as a success though, even though I believe they should have cancelled the A64-based PinePhone, not the Pro - a PP2 was IMHO overdue around 2023/2024). With better Quality Control, better relations between PineStore and the wider Community and a different default OS (putting the heavy Plasma Mobile on it was just nuts, and Manjaro definitely is not my favorite distro, to say the least) for the Beta edition, it could have been an even bigger success.

Yes, it didn't work for everybody, but as getting to a working laptop is so much easier than getting to a working phone (think of calls: the device has to manage to wake up at any moment (and fast), audio routing must be switched, echoes must be cancelled etc.) with the sky-high user expectations attached to phones (and the shitload of semi-hostile phone carriers across the world), I regard the PinePhone as quite an achievement.

Releases

The following page provides a comprehensive and alphabetically organized list of available releases and tools for the PinePhone. For guidance on installing the operating systems, please refer to the Installation instructions.

^PINE64

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someacnt

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

Tbh, AOSP is good enough of a basis. GrapheneOS thrives on it.

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Mactan

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

I remember an entire shipment of phones went to Australia instead of its proper destinations and then it was stuck there too expensive to send again

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weirdo_from_space

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Holy shit, I didn't even know about that. Damn...

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tj0m0 via Linux

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tj0m0
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Need some opinions on my next Laptop and Linux Distro

Hi, im searching for a new Laptop and i was tempted to buy the framework 13.. BUT..

Usually i would search for a used or refurbished Laptop to give it a second life u know. And after it broke down in like 4-6 years usually, i would buy a new used one again.

So my first question is: Is the framework 13 really worth my money for the repairability and upgradability in comparison?

My prefered Laptops are the Surface like ones 2in1 with a stand and detachable keyboard...

But im okay with it to switch to a normal laptop Formfactor.

I would prefere 16:9 or 16:10 for multimedia but im used to a 3:2 so it would be kinda okay for me to stick with it.

How good can i implement linux on some surface like laptop?

I switched from win10 to linux Mint on my desktop this year. But i think im going to switch to another distro, because i need the ASHA-protocoll as fast as possible. Maybe not that important on my desktop but definetly on my next Laptop.

Someone switched from surface like laptop to FW13?

Im not a coder. More like a gamer with og cheat codes in gtaSA on a cracked Version of the game, which runs in deamon-tools as an ISO, lol.

Main use would be Multimedia and some gaming, if possible.

Another use would be AI.. but as far as i know linux doesnt support the build in NPU of the FW13 yet. Maybe ai tinker in a few years then?

And im something like a crypto bro i would say. So how good are crypto tools implemented in linux? Some cold wallet support for exampel.

Which distro would serve my needs the most?

Is there a better choice for me than FW13 ?

So all in all im hopelessly lost and cant decide shit ^^

My only hope is to ask some Linux OGs to help me out on dis.

plz halp.

#linux

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Jumuta

in reply to tj0m0 • 1 settimana fa • •

what's the ASHA protocol? I doubt other distros would support it if mint (basically Ubuntu) doesn't support it

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tj0m0

in reply to Jumuta • 1 settimana fa • •

ASHA stands for Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids, a Bluetooth protocol which runs on BLE ( Bluetooth Low Energy)

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brucethemoose

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Is there a better choice for me than FW13 ?

Yes. Especially if you want to game and dabble in local ML (which the 13 is unfortunately not great for, its NPU is too small and old to ever be useful).

But what's your budget, approximately?

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tj0m0

in reply to brucethemoose • 1 settimana fa • •

My budget is something like 2k €, maybe more if it worth to save some more money for.

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brucethemoose

in reply to tj0m0 • 1 settimana fa • •

Ah, crap, you're in Europe.

So basically the only laptop worth anything for AI is one with the new Strix Halo AMD chips, and the closest to what you want is the Asus Z13: notebookcheck.net/Asus-ROG-Flo…

shop.asus.com/us/rog/90nr0jy1-…

Specifically the 128GB version if you can save up, or at least the 64GB version. While most laptops are useless for ML, this one utterly blows my desktop out of the water: it's like an of magnitude better than the Frameowrk 13 at that.

Even more importantly, LLM devs are targeting the Strix Halo chips, so they will be well supported. You can spin up a vllm, exllama or llama.cpp-rocm image on them right now, whereas you will struggle to get things up and running on most laptops older IGPs.

Coincidentally, you won't find anything 13" that can game better either. Its a surface-like tablet too, and franky its cooling is way better than a Framework 13. It's perfect!

...Problem is, I don't know if you can even get it in Europe. But historically, I know Asus laptops tend to be proportionally more expensive than they are in the US for some reason, so even if you can, I'm afraid the 64GB/128GB versions would be cost prohibitive.

Asus ROG Flow Z13 GZ302EA Convertible Review - AMD's Strix Halo GPU is neck-and-neck with the RTX 4070 Laptop

Notebookcheck reviews the brand-new ROG Flow Z13 with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, Radeon 8060S, 32 GB RAM and 180 Hz display.

^{Andreas Osthoff (Notebookcheck)}

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tj0m0

in reply to brucethemoose • 1 settimana fa • •

I only found asus rog z13 flow with 32GB here sadly.

I considered this one (store.minisforum.com/products/…) earlier but 16GB is not good at all.

I heard of a new competitor to the z13 flow, but cant remember the name.

MINISFORUM V3/V3 SE

This AMD Windows tablet has a built-in IRadeon™ 780M and a 14“ display screen, reaching a maximum frequency of 2700 MHz. It provides excellent performance for a variety of uses, allowing users to enjoy a comfortable experience.

^Minisforum

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brucethemoose

in reply to tj0m0 • 1 settimana fa • •

There is a 14" HP laptop with the same chip:

ultrabookreview.com/70442-amd-…

And a handheld, heh: gpdstore.net/gpd-handheld-gami…

There may be more.

TBH, it may be prudent to wait a month or two for more “AI Max” chips to show up in laptops. It’s pretty new; Asus is just super early with it like they usually are.

AMD Strix Halo laptops- complete list, best options (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, Ryzen AI Max 390)

In this article, we're discussing laptops and devices built on the AMD Strix Halo laptop hardware launched in early 2025, or the so-called AMD Ryzen AI Max

^{Andrei Girbea (Ultrabookreview.com)}

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tj0m0

in reply to brucethemoose • 1 settimana fa • •

Okay, i think you convinced me to wait a few months and see what will pop up on the market with this new chipset.

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brucethemoose

in reply to tj0m0 • 1 settimana fa • •

Yep.

FYI, rumors suggest the AI Max/Strix Halo successor won't be coming out till H2 2027, aka nearly 2028 (as Strix Halo techically launched in January this year, but as you can see takes time to actually make it into laptops):

notebookcheck.net/Detailed-AMD…

Anyway, what I'm saying is it won't go obsolete anytime soon, and it will be quite strong for many years to come if you get one.

Detailed AMD Medusa Halo and Medusa Halo Mini APUs leak claims up to 26 Zen 6 cores and next-gen RDNA 5 iGPUs

In a comprehensive leak covering AMD Zen 6 APUs, including Medusa Point, serial leaker Moore's Law Is Dead has revealed a ton of details regarding the Medusa Halo and the Medusa Halo Mini APUs.

^{Fawad Murtaza (Notebookcheck)}

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HelloRoot

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I have the minisforum v3 with 32GB RAM and I am super happy with it. Seems to be unavailable in their store but you might want to check amazon etc. The device has really good price to performamce and it held up well so far.

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brucethemoose

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Oh, and one more thing. There's a sizable linux community specifically built around Asus ROG laptops. Look up 'linux rog' and you will find associated gitlabs and a Discord specifically built up around them. It's still a fantastic resource for my 2020 G14.

The Z13 is especially good for linux, as it has discrete-gpu-class performance on the IGP, so you don't have to fuss with a dual GPU setup on linux (which can be a tremendous headache, especially with Nvidia cards).

As for a distro, I adore CachyOS for ML stuff, and its well suited for gaming. But its really down to your personal experience and taste.

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flatbield

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I usually buy System76 laptops. Might look at a Framework one next go around. I like supporting the linux supply chain when I can. If money is the only concern, sure some repurposed thing is likely cheaper.

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tj0m0

in reply to flatbield • 1 settimana fa • •

I looked into Pangolin 16 a while ago but decided framework would fit better back then.

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flatbield

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Distros. Pick something in the top 10 of distrowatch.com/ .

I use Debian or one of the derivatives of Debian.

DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

^{distrowatch.com}

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tj0m0

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I think i will try cachy first (ai support, gaming too and its arch based so the ASHA support will be maybe faster there, than on other distros.

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buckrogers

in reply to tj0m0 • 1 settimana fa • •

Used to buy dell precision (with a couple of lenovo in between but switched back to dell because of crappy support experience). Replaced my precision last month with TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 - Gen10. Great specs for decent price. Running fedora on it. No remarks so far.

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www-gem

in reply to tj0m0 • 1 settimana fa • •

I had some similar concerns before buying my Framework 13. The community here helped me a lot to confirm that this is a great laptop. After 3 months of use I'm still in love with it (got mine on sale).

I had a Dell XPS 13 before that, and tested lots of mainstream brands over the years (Lenovo, Acer, Vaio... and dinosaurs like PB, Toshiba). All within a budget of \~$1200-$1500. They all did a decent job and the XPS13 was certainly the best, but they all end up going to the trash because of hardware failure after 4 years max.

I wanted to move to a company that cares about Linux and with Framework, hardware issues will not cause death of my machine anymore. I'll be able to have my machine longer, or upgrade it for a fraction of the price of a new laptop.

www-gem.codeberg.page/sys_Fram…
www-gem.codeberg.page/sys_Fram…

Also, along my research before opting for Framework, I've heard mostly about starlab, purism, tuxedo, and system76. There's obviously pros and cons for each brand as well as difference in opinions based on individual experience, but a common criticism for these (including Framework) less marketed brands is the price of their machines. Lots of people don't realize that there's reasons for a slightly high price.

New laptop: Framework 13. The last one?

Warnings: This post is my thoughts after one day of use of a new laptop I’ve been waiting for 1.5 year, so I’m still under endorphins. I’ve spent $1,200 in an under powered machine, so I’m biased.

^{www-gem words}

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HubertManne

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To be honest its like with cars. Buying used is always going to be cheaper than buying new and while I love the framework it is a bit pricey for its stats. Now im a bit biased as I have often gotten family laptops for free so until my free laptop well runs dry I will be going with used.

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Eugenia

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A few days ago I posted about the same thing, I wanted a Mac-like laptop but running x86 so I could run Linux properly and not through hacks. 80% of the people in the comments suggested the Framework, and for a moment I was close to getting one. But I don't think I would be fully happy with its clunkiness to be honest. Modularized stuff are clunky we like it or not. Yes, much better for repairability, but DELL also offers me two years on site support even here in Greece, so...

At the end, I bought this DELL. It's coming with Linux, so I know it's 100% compatible, and I paid only 765 euros on it (after removing VAT, since I bought it also for work). That's half the price of a Framework, with a slicker design, and it's fast-enough (15,200 passmark cpu points). The only compromise I had to make was that the touchpad was off-center, as it's a large laptop. Other than that, it ticks all my boxes as per my post the other day.

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2025-08-24 12:45:09

The impossibility of finding a Linux laptop that I like

I'm a Linux user since 1998 (my main desktop PC runs Debian), however I do have a couple of Macs around because I love their hardware (not so much the software though). In fact, I have three old MacBook Airs (mid-2011, 2012, 2015), all running Linux. The moment I got them, I erased MacOS and installed Linux pronto!
But my main laptop is a MacBook Air M1 with MacOS because it's much faster than these older Intel-based MacBook Airs. Modern web browsing and video editing requires a lot of processing power.
So, I want to move to have my main laptop running Linux too. I DON'T want to install Asahi Linux on my M1, because I don't consider it a proper solution for my needs (I want to run Resolve, you see, and most foss apps that I use would need recompiling). Also, I don't like that Asahi is dependent on MacOS to exist, because you can't boot with a usb to install it.
My issue is that I can't find ANYTHING on the PC market that is as slick or full featured as a MacBook Air (minus its limited ports). What I need is this:
Screen no larger than 13.3" inches, Full HD at least, preferably good color gamut (but not a must). I still need the laptop to be portable though. Basically, I'm not even asking for HDR, as the MacBook Air features.
Keyboard to have backlight, without the numpad (I hate these laptops where the touchpad is off center).
The touchpad needs to be glass or of equivalent feel. The Apple touchpads slide/glide with ease. I find every PC touchpad I've used so far to be "sticky". My finger on some Chromebooks and Dell/Lenovo laptops is doing a "grrrkkk, grrrkkkk" when I slide my finger! There's something special about Apple's touchpads, I dunno.
Intel 13th+ gen CPU, with passmark points over 17,000 on multi-threading. My M1 scores about 12,000 points, and it's 5 years old. So obviously I'd need something faster than what I have now.
Intel GPU (no AMD or Nvidia please, I need Intel's superior video decoding abilities). On a Mac that isn't a problem, because Apple does support these 10bit 4:2:2 codecs I need, with hardware acceleration. But on the PC side, only Intel provides good support for these without headaches (only the newest nvidias support that, but I don't want to use Nvidia for too many reasons -- AMD is a disaster on that video front btw). I don't play 3D games.
I need speakers that sound good. Every single PC laptop I've tried, had the worst sound ever. I need it to be hear-able on YouTube and not sound as if you're listening via a can. I bought a Thinkpad x280 a few months ago and I can't use it because its speakers are so bad! DELL (from 5 years ago that I tried) aren't better either.
I need a (supported) fingerprint reader!
32 GB of RAM.
1 TB of storage.
Below a $1800 price tag. That's the price I can get with a MacBook Air for all that.
Now, you might think that "well, it seems that you just want a new MacBook", but that's not true. I want a PC laptop so I can run Debian Linux instead of MacOS. But I need it to be a laptop that is "proper" by my own standards. The quality of the interaction between my palms, fingers, eyes and PC laptops IS NOT the same as with any Apple laptop I've ever used. The reason people buy Apple hardware is NOT because "MacOSX is lickable" (as it was suggested many years ago by Jobs). I've actually researched the "why". It's because the INTERACTION of your senses and the laptop's design/quality FITS. It's like a glove for one another. It's difficult to explain but I know it now to be true. It was never MacOSX itself (although MacOSX's gui smoothness helps the overall experience).
So the question is: am I missing that special, Linux-compatible, PC laptop somewhere? If you know that such a laptop exists, please reply with a link. I'll buy it in a heartbeat.
This is a serious post btw. I spent the whole weekend trying to find that mythical PC laptop, and I can't. I'm frustrated.
EDIT: I might end up with the Framework 13. Not 100% what I'm after, but probably the best solution right now.
EDIT 2: I bought a DELL 5640 16" laptop, 32 GB RAM, i7 cpu, that comes with Linux pre-installed (so I know it's compatible). It ticks all my boxes except the size and the trackpad being off center. Oh well.

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Zamundaaa

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Is the framework 13 really worth my money for the repairability and upgradability in comparison?

Depends on what you upgrade for, and what you need in the first place.

If you upgrade mainly for more CPU and GPU power, in my opinion that's a hard sell. The new mainboards from Framework are hella expensive!

If you need a dGPU in a small form factor laptop, Framework just doesn't offer that. Same for touch or built-in tablet support.

If you're ok with the built-in GPU and upgrade for better display, for better battery, and a better but perhaps not the absolute latest and best APU, yes, it's worth it.

When I bought the FW13, a year later or so they brought out a new 120Hz higher resolution display. The first display being 60Hz was my only big annoyance with it, having a 120Hz monitor for comparison... So I just bought the new display, and swapping it only took literal 5 minutes.

Similar story with the hinges, I wanted ones with more resistance, so I just bought stronger ones for 25€ and easily replaced them.

If the battery gets worse, or they bring out a new one with decently improved capacity, I can similarly replace it in 5 minutes.

No glue, no 10 types of special screws, just the screw driver that was shipped with the laptop, and basically zero risk of breaking anything when making modifications.

You'll have to know yourself if these tradeoffs are worth it to you... but after my old HP Envy's display broke and even finding the correct replacement part was a challenge, let alone replacing it, I'm quite happy with the FW13.

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Mereo

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How sturdy is it? I currently use Ubuntu 24.04 on my MacBook 2014, and I want a laptop with the same construction quality.

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Zamundaaa

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Quite good I'd say. I don't have other high end laptops for comparison though

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iopq

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Framework offers dGPU on my Framework 16, now with an upgrade too, so I bought one without a dGPU and I can now upgrade to a current gen GPU. No other company offers this right now

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I have the latest Framework 13 and I had a ThinkPad before this. I can recommend either of them. The Framework is one of my favorite computers I’ve had, but it’s not cheap. You will save some money if you ever have to make repairs, but I don’t know how the TCO works out for upgrades. It’s more about empowerment and reducing waste though.

Linux runs fine on both the Framework and the ThinkPad. You can pretty much just take your pick of distros and they should work, although you may want to stick with one of the more up to date distros on Framework because it has new hardware. Fedora, Arch-based, Tumbleweed all work well.

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iopq

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If you like 2-in-1 laptops, why not framework 12?

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: Benioff boasts bots now handle half of customer chats as doubts over reliability linger

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Introducing ActivityPub.Space

The in-person events at FediCon in Vancouver lit a fire in the Canadian ActivityPub community. One of the louder calls were for a place in the fediverse for ActivityPub discussions; a place for groups to form and for long-running discussions to be had. I

I was more than happy to get involved. I also wanted such a place, and I've discussed it on and off for the past year. ActivityPub development discussions are fragmented across multiple disconnected channels, and none of them fully capture the entirety (or a majority, or even a sizeable minority) of the AP developer community. ActivityPub.Space is my answer to that call.

One constant about ActivityPub is that all ActivityPub developers are on the fediverse, and so it only makes sense that discussions about AP development should also take place on the fediverse.

At the same time, the "fediverse" isn't one singular entity. jaz@mastodon.iftas.org famously quipped "There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Fediverses." While I can't make guarantees about this site connecting with a million fediverses, I can say that it does connect with the microblogiverse, the blogiverse (WordPress blogs!), and the Threadiverse (Lemmy/Piefed/MBin/NodeBB/Discourse).

So how does it work?

The site is divided up into several categories:

General Discussion is for any non-technical discussions about ActivityPub
Technical Discussion is for technical deep-dives
Meta contains discussions about this site itself
Random is for everything else (there's always a "Random" category on a forum, isn't there...?)

We also pull in content direct from Fediverse news outlets such as "Week in Fediverse", "Connected Places", and "Relay, by We Distribute".

On the threadiverse side, we directly link to several other fediverse-focused communities on Lemmy and Piefed.

We utilise a number of relays to both distribute local content out and receive content from the wider microblogiverse. When content comes in via microblogs, they're not usually categorized, so we check for relevant hashtags and automatically categorize them into one of the local categories.

The wonderful thing about this site is that it fully federates, which means you can follow all of these categories from your app of choice. You don't even have to register a local account if you don't want to, but you definitely can (and should!) if you want the best experience browsing the categorized topics.

The categories today are rather broad, but over time I hope to split them up into smaller topics based on user demand. Give the site a try today!

ActivityPub.Space

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I'm following all of them using Mastodon 4.4.3, but not getting posts as yet. Only posts in reply to the one that tagged me.

screengrab of the Meta actor in Mastodon

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The Nexus of Privacy

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Here's instructions I wrote up for another NodeBB site with how to follow stuff from Mastodon - discussions.thenexus.today/top…

@jaz @drq @julian

How to follow and participate in discussions here from your Fediverse and ATmosphere accounts

Another way you can load discussions here into Fediverse is to copy the address bar, but add a post index to the end. For example, /topic/123 might not load,...

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How do I check the wifi connection in Whonix?

Skip the flavour text by going to the bold text

In my sky high arrogance I thought 'I have never let Linux grace my devices, how hard can Qubes/Whonix truly be?' and I learned my lesson within minutes.

So I come here before you, humbly and beaten by 0s and 1s, to ask for your help.

How do I open a window where it neatly lists available connections and, if so, my current connection?

Usually when I am connected, it has a wifi symbol on the top right where the rest of my panels are. It disappeared.

I tried searching on the internet for answers. My mental capacity is basically non-existent, otherwise I wouldn't be here (probably).

Please. I just want to connect my device via wifi. I do not own an ethernet cable.

Thank you.

#linux

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∞🏳️‍⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, null/void, des/pair, none/use name]

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You title says whonix, but the text mentions QubesOS. Which one? This distinction is very important.

Edit: in QubesOS the networking is handled by the sys-net qube. If the networking icon does not show up in the tray make sure the sys-net qube is started. If it is, check what programs are available for the sys-net qube in the start menu (hopefully some networking software is available. But I dont have QubesOS in front of me so I cannot check) otherwise try and start a terminal in sys-net and run the command nmtui

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eee (they/them)

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Believe me, I wish I could tell you what I've done :') I wanted to get Whonix, but I think the website eventually led me to QubesOS? All I can say is that at startup it shows the Qubes symbol, so it's likely I got that.

When I try to start sys-net it can't start and says that the Qube sys-net has shut down. I'll provide the error message in a moment if I can't get it up with your other suggestion. Thanks!

eta:

Cannot connect to qrexec agent for 120 seconds.

When I want to check the logs, some other qubes cannot start. Bizarre. I even tried creating a qube without the offending qubes (sys-net etc.) yet it still fails.

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Flock cams and new program called "delta"

This is some black mirror,

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