'Anonymity Online Is Going to Die': What Age-Verification Laws Could Look Like in the U.S.
Age Verification Laws in the U.S.: Here's What It Could Look Like
As controversy around the U.K.’s Online Safety Act continues, experts warn about similar legislation thriving in the U.S.CT Jones (Rolling Stone)
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'Anonymity Online Is Going to Die': What Age-Verification Laws Could Look Like in the U.S.
Age Verification Laws in the U.S.: Here's What It Could Look Like
As controversy around the U.K.’s Online Safety Act continues, experts warn about similar legislation thriving in the U.S.CT Jones (Rolling Stone)
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Starmer's new director of comms is swimming balls deep in controversy
Who remembers Portland Communications? The PR firm involved in the coup against Corbyn? Well, Starmer's new comms boss Tim Allan does...
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32GB of RAM on track to become the new majority for gamers — Steam survey indicates shift could occur before the end of the year
RTX 4060, 1600p screens, and Windows 11 gain momentum
L'inviolabile fortezza che divenne un avamposto d'Africa sulla costa del subcontinente indiano - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
L'inviolabile fortezza che divenne un avamposto d'Africa sulla costa del subcontinente indiano - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Doveva essere un personaggio dal contegno molto affascinante. Quando Piram Khan, nella sua migliore interpretazione di un mercante proveniente dalle terre dell’Africa Orientale, giunse in Deccam alle porte del forte in legno di Jazira, “l’Isola” vers…Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
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YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren't Watching From the Same Address
If you have a YouTube Premium or YouTube Music paid account, it'll need to be used by people in your household so as not to get flagged.
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'Death Warrant': New Fears Emerge as GOP Medicaid Cuts Come Closer to Reality
New reports show the major impact GOP Medicaid cuts are having on healthcare across US.
'Death Warrant': New Fears Emerge as GOP Medicaid Cuts Come Closer to Reality
"If we make one wrong decision as the parents of a critically ill child, that could be the end of it," said one Louisiana mother about the added paperwork burdens being imposed by the GOP's budget law.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
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EU falls behind China with ‘colossal’ €344bn clean tech funding gap
EU energy ministers meet this week as a new ECNO report warns that Europe’s clean tech investment gap and high electricity costs caused by expensive fossil fuel imports risk slowing the green transition.
Archived version: archive.is/20250902211111/euob…
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Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi returns to Columbia University: ‘They have failed to silence me’
Anna Betts
Tue 2 Sep 2025 16.33 EDT
Just more than four months after being arrested, detained and nearly deported by the Trump administration for his activism, Mohsen Mahdawi, the 34-year-old Palestinian student and US permanent resident, returned to Columbia University on Tuesday and vowed to continue speaking out.“They have failed to silence me, and in fact, now I am more outspoken than before, and I will continue to work for peace and justice. I do this work not for myself alone – I do this for the future of children, whether they are Palestinians or Israelis,” he told the Guardian on Tuesday in his first interview since stepping back on to campus to begin his graduate studies.
Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi returns to Columbia University: ‘They have failed to silence me’
Mahdawi was targeted and arrested for deportation due to his activism but the permanent US resident is resuming postgraduate studiesAnna Betts (The Guardian)
Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi returns to Columbia University: ‘They have failed to silence me’
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Anna Betts
Tue 2 Sep 2025 16.33 EDTJust more than four months after being arrested, detained and nearly deported by the Trump administration for his activism, Mohsen Mahdawi, the 34-year-old Palestinian student and US permanent resident, returned to Columbia University on Tuesday and vowed to continue speaking out.“They have failed to silence me, and in fact, now I am more outspoken than before, and I will continue to work for peace and justice. I do this work not for myself alone – I do this for the future of children, whether they are Palestinians or Israelis,” he told the Guardian on Tuesday in his first interview since stepping back on to campus to begin his graduate studies.
Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi returns to Columbia University: ‘They have failed to silence me’
Anna Betts
Tue 2 Sep 2025 16.33 EDTJust more than four months after being arrested, detained and nearly deported by the Trump administration for his activism, Mohsen Mahdawi, the 34-year-old Palestinian student and US permanent resident, returned to Columbia University on Tuesday and vowed to continue speaking out.“They have failed to silence me, and in fact, now I am more outspoken than before, and I will continue to work for peace and justice. I do this work not for myself alone – I do this for the future of children, whether they are Palestinians or Israelis,” he told the Guardian on Tuesday in his first interview since stepping back on to campus to begin his graduate studies.
Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi returns to Columbia University: ‘They have failed to silence me’
Mahdawi was targeted and arrested for deportation due to his activism but the permanent US resident is resuming postgraduate studiesAnna Betts (The Guardian)
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so won’t need to order the shutdown of any plants for a second year running
Absolute idiots in our government. "We overachieved, so lets stop doing anything until we are behind schedule again." My guy, we are already loooong behind schedule on climate change, just keep going. Fucking idiots.
some large lignite-burning plants that are connected to mining operations have been given more time to shut down to mitigate job losses
Those mining operations barely employ any real amount of people at this point. You can easily just pay those people with tax money for a transfer period and it would still save money for the taxpayer overall.
You can easily just pay those people with tax money for a transfer period and it would still save money for the taxpayer overall.
you do not think that those people are able to use arithmetics for calculating that do you?
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jwz: The Scale of China's Solar-Power Projects
These photos are from the future. A future somewhere between Don Davis and Simon Stålenhag.www.jwz.org
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Trump haltigas libropakaĵojn de UEA al Usono
La libroservo de UEA ne plu povas sendi pakaĵojn al Usono. Tio estas unu el la sekvoj de la kaosa doganpolitiko de Donald Trump. Usono unuflanke nuligis regulojn pri sendogana sendado de pakaĵoj ĝis certa valoro. Ĉar nun mankas ajnaj novaj reguloj, simple ne eblas sendi pakaĵojn el Eŭropo al Usono.
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German Court Rules Against Apple’s ‘CO2-Neutral’ Watch Advertising
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Event Title: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026Dates: January 19–23, 2026Location: Davos-Klosters, SwitzerlandOrganizer: World Economic Forum (WEF) The 2026 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting will convene over 2,500 global leaders...\nESG News
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a complaint by Environmental Action Germany (DUH)
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It's short for Deutsche Umwelthilfe 😀
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For anyone still typing CO2 instead of CO₂:
Just put “CO₂” into your text replacement, autocorrect, espanso config and get taken seriously. please?
University of Michigan still punishing pro-Palestine students after graduating
By MEE staff
Published date: 2 September 2025
A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the University of Michigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history.Since then, he has faced criminal charges brought by the state's attorney general, lost his on-campus job, spent time behind bars, and, as of last month, was still being disciplined by the university despite having graduated in May.
All of this was because he took part in a student encampment against the war on Gaza on 21 May 2024. Shapiro was arrested during the police raid of the encampment and was later released on bond.
University of Michigan still punishing pro-Palestine students after graduating
A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the University of Michigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
University of Michigan still punishing pro-Palestine students after graduating
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35600642
By MEE staff
Published date: 2 September 2025
A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the University of Michigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history.Since then, he has faced criminal charges brought by the state's attorney general, lost his on-campus job, spent time behind bars, and, as of last month, was still being disciplined by the university despite having graduated in May.
All of this was because he took part in a student encampment against the war on Gaza on 21 May 2024. Shapiro was arrested during the police raid of the encampment and was later released on bond.
University of Michigan still punishing pro-Palestine students after graduating
By MEE staff
Published date: 2 September 2025A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the University of Michigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history.Since then, he has faced criminal charges brought by the state's attorney general, lost his on-campus job, spent time behind bars, and, as of last month, was still being disciplined by the university despite having graduated in May.
All of this was because he took part in a student encampment against the war on Gaza on 21 May 2024. Shapiro was arrested during the police raid of the encampment and was later released on bond.
University of Michigan still punishing pro-Palestine students after graduating
A little over a year ago, Drin Shapiro was a student programme assistant at the University of Michigan's (UM) English Language Institute, and a student in his final year of a bachelor's degree in history.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Gaza’s Last Functioning Children’s Hospital
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35598947
[article contains many interviews and photos of mothers at the hospital.]from Drop Site News
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Sep 02, 2025
“This is the only hospital still providing pediatric medical care, after several other hospitals—like Al-Durra Hospital, Al-Nasr Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital, and Beit Hanoun Hospital—have all been put out of service,” Dr. Mohammad Madi, the head of the Pediatrics Department at Al-Rantisi, told Drop Site. “Now only Rantisi Children’s Hospital remains. It is the only hospital providing medical care for children.”
Gaza’s Last Functioning Children’s Hospital
[article contains many interviews and photos of mothers at the hospital.]from Drop Site News
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Sep 02, 2025“This is the only hospital still providing pediatric medical care, after several other hospitals—like Al-Durra Hospital, Al-Nasr Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital, and Beit Hanoun Hospital—have all been put out of service,” Dr. Mohammad Madi, the head of the Pediatrics Department at Al-Rantisi, told Drop Site. “Now only Rantisi Children’s Hospital remains. It is the only hospital providing medical care for children.”
Gaza’s Last Functioning Children’s Hospital
“My child should be in a safe, clean place, getting proper treatment. But here I am, on the floor, with no place to sit.”Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
When Insiders Become the Threat
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Google not required to sell Chrome, federal judge rules in antitrust case
A US judge on Tuesday rejected the government's demand that Google sell its Chrome web browser as part of a major antitrust case but imposed sweeping requirements to restore competition in online search.The landmark ruling came after Judge Amit Mehta found in August 2024 that Google illegally maintained monopolies in online search through exclusive distribution agreements worth billions of dollars annually.
Google not required to sell Chrome, federal judge rules in antitrust case
A US judge on Tuesday rejected a government bid to force Google to sell its Chrome browser but ordered sweeping changes to restore competition in online search.FRANCE 24
Hey Tech Bro—Your Dream City Is Doomed: Bill Gates, Marc Andreessen, and Even Akon Are Envisioning Utopias Without Considering How They’ll Be Governed
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Hey Tech Bro—Your Dream City Is Doomed
Bill Gates, Marc Andreessen, and Even Akon Are Envisioning Utopian Cities Without Considering How They’ll Be GovernedJoe Mathews (Zócalo Public Square)
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US Government abandons climate science, but climate scientists won't abandon government
Government abandons climate science, but climate scientists won't abandon government
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! It is an uphill battle, of course, when faced with such clear-eyed farce.Dave Levitan (Gravity Is Gone)
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Vibe coding job postings gain momentum among tech companies
Vibe coding job postings gain momentum among tech companies, reveals GlobalData
Vibe coding represents a significant advancement in the application of artificial intelligence (AI), transforming AI-assisted software development into a more conversational and efficient process.GlobalData UK Ltd.
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Judge spares Google from Chrome or Android breakup, orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36778872
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- Hacker News.
:::Today, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division won significant remedies in its monopolization case against Google in online search. In United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibited Google from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app; ordered Google to make certain search index and user-interaction data available to rivals and potential rivals; and ordered Google to offer search and search text ads syndication services to enable rivals and potential rivals to compete.The court’s ruling today recognizes the need for remedies that will pry open the market for general search services, which has been frozen in place for over a decade. The ruling also recognizes the need to prevent Google from using the same anticompetitive tactics for its GenAI products as it used to monopolize the search market, and the remedies will reach GenAI technologies and companies.
Judge spares Google from Chrome or Android breakup, orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements
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- Hacker News;
- Reddit.
:::Today, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division won significant remedies in its monopolization case against Google in online search. In United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibited Google from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app; ordered Google to make certain search index and user-interaction data available to rivals and potential rivals; and ordered Google to offer search and search text ads syndication services to enable rivals and potential rivals to compete.The court’s ruling today recognizes the need for remedies that will pry open the market for general search services, which has been frozen in place for over a decade. The ruling also recognizes the need to prevent Google from using the same anticompetitive tactics for its GenAI products as it used to monopolize the search market, and the remedies will reach GenAI technologies and companies.
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Fucken boo
We need an open standard browser that isnt owned by monied interests.
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Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.Servo
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They were considering blocking Google from paying Mozilla to be the default search engine, which is almost all of Firefox 's revenue.
It kinda makes sense, chome being the dominant browser gives Google a search advantage, and the other alternatives (like safari and Firefox) both make deals with Google to have it be the default as well.
But removing those deals would be more disastrous for Firefox than for Google.
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So they ruled they were a monopoly, but don't need to be broken up. Then called it a win in the case referenced as the monopolization case.
I'll have to read through more of the documentation later but that doesn't sound like a win for anyone, except maybe Alphabet
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Pay no attention to the fabulous new watches and luxury car the judge starts to drive.
A case that affects a broad range of people, such as this one, out be given sentencing by a broad range of people.
Nor a single judge who likely has no technical knowledge or experience that would allow him the wisdom to know what the fuck he is doing and what the (non) consequence of his ruling mean.
Judge spares Google from Chrome or Android breakup, orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36778872
::: spoiler Comments
- Hacker News.
:::Today, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division won significant remedies in its monopolization case against Google in online search. In United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibited Google from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app; ordered Google to make certain search index and user-interaction data available to rivals and potential rivals; and ordered Google to offer search and search text ads syndication services to enable rivals and potential rivals to compete.The court’s ruling today recognizes the need for remedies that will pry open the market for general search services, which has been frozen in place for over a decade. The ruling also recognizes the need to prevent Google from using the same anticompetitive tactics for its GenAI products as it used to monopolize the search market, and the remedies will reach GenAI technologies and companies.
Judge spares Google from Chrome or Android breakup, orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements
::: spoiler Comments
- Hacker News;
- Reddit.
:::Today, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division won significant remedies in its monopolization case against Google in online search. In United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibited Google from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app; ordered Google to make certain search index and user-interaction data available to rivals and potential rivals; and ordered Google to offer search and search text ads syndication services to enable rivals and potential rivals to compete.The court’s ruling today recognizes the need for remedies that will pry open the market for general search services, which has been frozen in place for over a decade. The ruling also recognizes the need to prevent Google from using the same anticompetitive tactics for its GenAI products as it used to monopolize the search market, and the remedies will reach GenAI technologies and companies.
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Sanders, Jackson, Platner Take Aim at Oligarchy With Maine Labor Day Rally
Sanders, Jackson, Platner Take Aim at Oligarchy With Maine Labor Day Rally
"We do not live in a system that is broken. We live in a system that is functioning exactly as it is intended," said Graham Platner, running for US Senate.jon-queally (Common Dreams)
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(Technology Connections) Desiccant dehumidifiers are fascinating... but not for everyone [29:19]
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Short answer — the internal “switch” is held in the on position by a magnet. Magnets become much less effective when they get hot, and while there is still water in the cooker the maximum temperature will be 100C. Once all the water boils off the temperature quickly rises — but the magnets stop being able to attract the switch when they hit around 102 - 103C or so and release the switch, turning the machine off.
So all has is a switch connected to a magnet next to the bottom of the pot. That’s it. Physics does the rest.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_…
I doubt they're using magnets, especially considering how hot they have to get to lose their magnetism as you suggest.
Most thermostats in electronics such as kettles and cookers use a bi-metallic strip inside, where the two metal layers expand at different rates.
The contacts in the switch are physically pulled apart by the strip bending when the desired temperature is reached.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimeta…
Not sure where they said they "did an entire presentation on this thing" or where they got their information from.
I'm only adding some context to what I know of how thermostats work. I would gladly admit I'm wrong if provided with some evidence.
If you want a visual demonstration of a thermostat working here's a video.
(For context I don't mean to come across as one of those "well ackshually" asshats, I just like watching people take apart electronics (was also slightly obsessed with magnets as a kid. MANY hard drives were sacrificed to my curiosity lol).)
yeah we went over that in another sub-thread.
regarding the actual info, fittingly it's a short one by his standards, but in case you're not able to watch:
rice cookers depend on the curie temperature of magnets rather than bimetallic strips because the way you want them to work is to pump full power into the pot until all water has boiled off, at which point they should instantly switch off to stop the rice from burning. a bimetallic strip bends over a range of temperatures, but the magnetic switch in the rice cooker snaps open the instant the target temperature is exceeded and doesn't automatically reset. that's the big one.
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Oh nice one, that's kinda cool
See I thought the curie temperature was a 'one and done' sort of deal where you have to go through the process of remagnetizing the magnet after it had gone beyond that point.
That's awesome. With what does he tinker? Some sort of screenshot technology?
I'm the youngest in my family, so I've never really had the chance to guide someone's growth until relatively recently. I take a great amount of pride in directing my kid toward things that will expand their creativity and curiosity. Hopefully you enjoy doing the same for your younger brother!
I try to encourage him since all my tinkering was self taught. I know I’d appreciate having a guide or even just a friend to talk to about those ideas. And he definitely comes up with some ideas that help my own tinkering.
Right now he’s really into engineering and has this box that comes monthly that I paid for him that teaches him Engineering principles. I think it’s done by Mark Rober? Not really tinkering but He also likes making models for 3D printing and he’s been trying to get into Programming, unfortunately I think that curiosity keeps distracting him though.
Right now he’s really into engineering and has this box that comes monthly that I paid for him that teaches him Engineering principles. I think it’s done by Mark Rober
That's awesome and a great gift.
I know I’d appreciate having a guide or even just a friend to talk to about those ideas
What are the ideas?
It's awesome that he has so much creativity and motivation! My wife was in FIRST way back again and I think my SIL met her husband through it. I was homeschooled, but probably would have loved it if I had gone to public school. Hopefully it's beneficial (if expensive) to you guys as well.
Didn't its founder invent the Segway or something? Then go on to drive one off a cliff ...
I could have sworn I remember hearing the founder died of Covid back when I was in FIRST myself, it’s possible I’m confusing him for someone else though.
Luckily the robotics team covers all the parts for their robot so he’s getting a bit of the experience
Well, the owner - not inventor - of Segway apparently did die riding one off of a cliff: \
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_H…
However, I don't see a reference to FIRST in his wiki page, so I must have been mixing things up. It looks like the inventor of the Segway (and founder of FIRST) is still alive: \
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_K…
I watched this. It was of interest to me because I must run two dehumidifiers in my house and they use a ton of energy. Unfortunately, this desiccant dehumidifier would use even more energy. Hoping someday someone figures out how to build a more efficient one.
In the meantime, I think manufacturers need to build all dehumidifiers with a repeat cycle timer built in. I find it far more energy efficient to run for some period like 30 minutes till the humidity drops low — like 45%, then shut off for 60-120 minutes while the humidity slowly creeps back up until the cycle repeats. Most dehumidifiers work based on a humidity threshold and will constantly click on and off as the threshold gets crossed. In my experience, this uses a lot more energy. Being in a high cost state it is completely unaffordable.
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You should be able to pick up an old style timer plug for under 10 euro / USD in your hardware store.
They're a tiny bit fiddly to set up but given how power hungry those things are you'll be saving money in no time.
We have one around here somewhere. I'll see if I can dig you out a picture.
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These timers have no concept of understanding if the air is too humid.
They want a cooldown period so the unit isn't cycling constantly.
eg. turning on and off 30 times in an hour because the sensor triggers the moment it see's 46% when it's set to 45.
They want it so that it triggers on pull humidity down to 45%, wait an hour no matter what then trigger the next time it sees 46% or greater, which could be immediately... or in 5 more hours.
A pure timer wouldn't get the same effect at all.
Best answer I can think of off hand would be Home Assistant related. Get a humidity sensor and a z-wave switch/outlet. Use a dumb dehumifier that turns on as long as it has power...
On humidity sensor change check if above 45%. If it is, turn on power. wait until below 45% again... turn power off then wait 60 minutes. Make sure automation is set to not run concurrently, that way the currently running automation script must complete it's 60 minutes cooldown before it can run again
Hoping someday someone figures out how to build a more efficient one
Some material, that catches water atoms via static charge, until it drips down, making room for more, maybe? Can't think of a more efficient catch & release cycle.
I had the same torment when buying mine, for an office-shed that's just a swamp of English dampness.
I opted for the desiccant one as while it used more energy it does heat the space, and actually works better at cooler temperatures. Very specific to my needs as I'd imagine that's counter to most other use cases
If you are running an AC, you might be able modify it to reduce the humidity.
AC units naturally dehumidify (as TC points out, they are essentially the same thing as traditional dehumidifiers). However, the amount of moisture they pull out is mostly related to how long they are running, not how cold they can get. This means that if you have an overpowered AC, you get less dehumidifying effect because the AC is on less.
Some ACs let you reduce their power, which will increase their duty cycle and increase the amount of water they pull out of the air. It also helps improve their lifespan as they need to cycle less.
I wonder why there are no humidistats.
You know, a combined humidifier/dehumidifier that keeps a constant humidity.
Maybe it's uncommon to have a climate where you need both.
My furnace has a humidistat so in the winter we can adjust how much water gets sent into the hot air stream. But it's always maxed out because it's really dry every winter here.
In the summer, the AC takes care of dehumidifying. Running a dedicated dehumidifier would be a waste of electricity, at that point just turn on the AC and any extra cold is a buffer against running the AC later on.
Humidifiers are simple and cheap. Maybe the cost of a 2 in 1 wouldn't make commercial sense.
Also, it would probably need two water tanks, as I imagine you wouldn't want to use the drain tank as a clean water source.
Just guessing here.
Yeah I am in the same boat. I operate a swamp cooler inside my house, even!
But I used to live on a hill in San Francisco, the first hill the fog would hit as it rolled in from the Pacific Ocean, and I distinctly remember the feeling of getting up in the morning and reaching between the hangers in the closet to take a shirt out, and feeling how they were all damp. Super gross!
First tranche of Epstein docs released by House Oversight Committee
First tranche of Epstein docs released by House Oversight Committee
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released a first tranche of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, one that President Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from for about two months.Robert Davis (Raw Story)
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The state of Linux phones in 2025
Linux phones are still behind android and iPhone, but the gap shrank a surprising amount while I wasn’t looking. These are damn near usable day to day phones now! But there are still a few things that need done and I was wondering what everyone’s thoughts on these were:
1 - tap to pay. I don’t see how this can practically be done. Like, at all.
2 - android auto/apple CarPlay emulation. A Linux phones could theoretically emulate one of these protocols and display a separate session on the head unit of a car. But I dont see any kind of project out there that already does this in an open-source kind of way. The closest I can find are some shady dongles on amazon that give wireless CarPlay to head units that normally require USB cables. It can be done, but I don't see it being done in our community.
3 - voice assistants. wether done on device or phoning into our home servers and having requests processed there, this should be doable and integrated with convenient shortcuts. Home assistant has some things like this, and there’s good-old Mycroft blowing around out there still. Siri is used every day by plenty of people and she sucks. If that’s the benchmark I think our community can easily meet that.
I started looking at Linux phones again because I loathe what apple is doing to this UI now and android has some interesting foldables but now that google is forcing Gemini into everything and you can’t turn it off, killing third party ROMS, and getting somehow even MORE invasive, that whole ecosystem seems like it’s about to march right off a cliff so its not an option anymore for me.
Missing those things would be a feature for me.
I'm much more worried about having a usable battery life and having basic phone functions like WiFi calling and MMS work.
Tap-to-pay and car assistance are must-have in today's world. 10-15 years ago, no. Today, yes. Bank apps is the other thing that can't be done either (because bank apps want a "certified" system to run on). Here in Greece, it's required you have a bank app on your phone to go with your daily life.
Yes, we all want a simpler life, like it was in the past, so we can envision an OS system that "it's good enough". But reality is not on our side. Linux as an open source community phone OS, made by non-commercial/non-corporate entities, can't be an OS for the masses. It just won't tick any boxes for them in today's world. The current Linux phone OSes could be contenders 15 years ago, but not today.
Are they must haves? I don't use tap to pay, pretty useless feature for me.
Cars? I don't want or need android auto. Bluetooth is the only thing I care about.
Navigation on the device is good enough for me, it doesnt need to use the screen.
I have no interest in mobile banking, but that could be an issue if people are used to sending money to each other instantly via a bank app.
Tap to pay is a choice, with a viable alternative.
You could choose to NOT use tap to pay, carry a bank card, and it would have basically no impact on your ability to conduct your life.
But I agree the banking app itself is a big problem, and something that cannot be lived without.
Not to berate you but this is a bit of a Linux-pilled response.
Tap to pay and Android auto are conveniences that are of importance to a lot of people. Not everyone chooses to use it, but losing those features will mean Linux phones will exclude a significant proportion of the population that would otherwise be open to using them.
I've never used tap to pay. I don't want any banking info on my phone. In the US, we don't need any payment apps. Cash and cards work just fine and never run out of battery power.
There's no way I would ever connect my phone to a modern car with anything other than an aux cable or a bluetooth adapter that plugs into the headphone jack. They gather up all the data they can an do who knows what with it.
"must-have" is subjective.
Yes these things are required to achieve wide spread adoption but I personally could do without them.
2. get a used phone just for that
3. use one of the open source one, anyway siri and the google one are trash abandonned in 2012
How old are you that you "need" these things.
Is not being able to use tap to pay, or having to plug in an aux cable really that big of an inconvenience?
Yeah! CarPlay has been amazing to use for navigation. I wouldn’t consider a car that didn’t have something like this.
With that being said, I could be against getting a Linux phone and just leaving an old Android or iPhone in the car for CarPlay use.
I find car play awful. So I guess there is that. Half the time it does something stupid or the screen gets strange or a bunch of other problems like forcing my nav map when I want a different one.
What I want is true screen casting with touch feedback. That's it.
By that logic, I dont need a phone on me at all times and should just go back to a landline, pay cash for everything, and damn everything convenient.
Some of us use these things and we want to switch to a system free from powerful tech bros. People like you tell us we are a problem for wanting features. That’s a ridiculous thing.
I’m not going to screw with a cell phone while driving. Using the large screen I can quickly glance at, tap what I need or use a voice command on and get my eyes back on the road makes far more sense.
Im not saying its a problem to want features, just saying its sacraficing freedom for convience, its a choice.
If you really wanted to use a Linux phone, there are options. You would have to adapt, you would have to use non-standard solutions, but in the long run you'd have more freedom because of those sacrifices in convenience.
None of the 3 things you mention was common place 10 years ago, its not that much of a setback to carry cash or a card, or to use a dedicated device for navigation. Its fine if you dont want to do that but dont act like you can't live without tap2pay or a voice assistant if you really wanted to.
That's an edge case though. That's not what we are solving for the other 99.99% of the time ...
So you sacrafice your ability to use a more free device because youd rather leave your credit card at home, but thats A choice that you made. If you wanted you could bring a card with you or cast with you or a wallet full of things. Do you not carry ID with you either?
Honestly tap2pay seems like very little advantage over a credit card for having to sacrafice privacy and the ability to control the software on my phone, but thats just me.
As cardfire said, I just have to take my debit/credit card from where it's usually stored. I have never lost or damadeged my phone since I got one in 98, that's more than an hedge case.
And I can also buy on the internet without needing physical access to my cards.
The only use case for physical cards is unfortunately gas stations. So 6 times a year in average I need them.
And what did you do five years ago or ten years ago? At what point did Tap to Pay become so convenient and so essential to your life that you're willing to give up your ability to have complete ownership and control over what's installed on your phone rather than go back to having a card on you?
It just doesnt seem like that big of a deal to me, but then i never was able to use it anyway because ive been running grapheneOS or another custom rom since before tap2pay even existed.
Tap to pay was relatively common even 10 years ago in US cities. I've been tap to pay almost exclusively for 5 years.
Mind you the US is BEHIND on tap to pay technology compared to other countries.
It was not that common 10 years ago, it was only JUST being fully rolled out in the US in 2015 when they finally made it mandatory for cards to have chips in them. I guess I'm just an old man yelling at clouds here, but i just never really felt like using cash or a card was that inconvenient.
I suppose for you tap2pay is as essential as being able to run custom software on my devices is to me, I have been using custom roms since 2009 and I wouldn't be willing to sacrifice my ability to use GrapheneOS just so i can carry one less card that i can literally fit in my phone case, but hey, different strokes ig.
Built in gps is a bit shit now and my current car actually doesn't have one unless i buy an overpriced encrypted sd card with the map data that if i want to update the maps for, have to buy again.
Phones and their map apps allow me to have up to date mapping that also show where there's roadworks and closures so i can be rerouted elsewhere which is a godsend when you're in a town or city you're not familiar with.
Edit: built in now may not be shitter than it was but it is shitter than the new alternatives via android auto (i also don't use Google maps by the way)
Cars still have built in GPS.
The updates are pretty terrible in my experience.
Seeing where desktop Linux was just less than 10 years ago and where it is now gives me optimism for mobile Linux. But I suspect the overlap between developers and users of those 3 features is pretty small, so they might be a ways out.
I was about to suggest getting a head unit that isn't tied down to CarPlay or Android Auto, but then I realized I drive a really old car from the days you'd easily take out the faceplate or the whole unit to deter theft.
1 - tap to pay
I still don't see why phone-based tap-to-pay is even a good thing. What, I should hand over all my financial credentials to Google or Apple or Microsoft in addition to my bank? I think not. I'll just keep using a physical card, thank you. (Which, by the way, can often still use tap-to-pay as most modern cards have RFID chips embedded. No different than with your phone, except it's not tied to one of the big oligarchs, even less so if you use a credit union as opposed to a bank.)
2 - android auto/apple CarPlay emulation
Bog-standard bluetooth is more than enough for me.
3 - voice assistants
Why would I need a voice assistant? I can find out information almost as easily just using a search engine. And if I'm driving, I'm not so busy as to be unable to pull over to the side of the road if I absolutely need to check something. Or, you know, get everything ready before I go. At the further risk of yelling at clouds despite my relatively young age (I'm in my early 30s), I think voice assistants and IoT things are largely just fluff that over-complicate things in a world that is already over-complicated.
2 - Bluetooth doesn’t give me maps or a UI to access my music, podcasts, etc.
3 - feature parity wins people over. You aren’t going to bring people in to the ecosystem by selling on having less. You can sell on mandating less, but opening with “here are the things a Linux phones CANT do” will never get this off the ground.
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Bluetooth works fine (or should work fine) with music, podcasts etc. I do it now with a phone, it's a standard I don't see why a mobile device running Linux would be any different.
As for maps, the voice goes over Bluetooth so I don't see an issue there either.
Tap to pay with the phone is also much smoother because it emits the NFC signal vs the card which is just inlayed in the card via the chip.
Much smoother process.
Ive heard hood things about the FLX1 but I havent tried it myself.
Im very tempted.
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Ha, if that's your first association, I think that might say more about you than about the phone 😛
(Which is not a bad thing.)
Likewise, I think I'm just about to buy one for myself. I've never used tap-to-pay with my phone, nor a voice assistant, and I don't really want to. My phone is a web browser that can send text messages, make phone calls, and take pictures. My phone carrier is VoLTE-only for calls, and the FLX1 says that it has VoLTE now. I also need to use one specific Android app for work, but the FLX1 has some type of Android emulation which hopefully will make that usable.
The FLX1 is also the only one that claims to have a working camera. I'm not sure how good the pictures look, but every other Linux phone always just says "partial support" for the camera on the PostmarketOS wiki. The FLX1, with the stock OS, should take adequate pictures from what I understand.
I think problem number 1 might be solvable if GNU Taler succeeds in europe as the digital euro backend. taler.net/
Of course this would only apply to people in the EU, but who knows, others might follow.
Switzerland has GNU Taler. They launched it there a few months ago, lucky for you. Check its website: taler-ops.ch/de/
You just kind of need to wait for merchants to use it. Could become mainstream somewhere around 2028.
From wikipedia, here's the description:
GNU Taler is a free software-based microtransaction and electronic payment system. Unlike most other decentralized payment systems, GNU Taler does not use a blockchain. A blind signature is used to protect the privacy of users as it prevents the exchange from knowing which coin it signed for which customer.
It's like PayPal, but not quite.
The wallet is like cryptocurrency wallets in that when you lose it (lose your cryptographic keys or phone), you lose all the money inside of it. So you must keep it safe like your own physical wallet. It works with NFC, so it can replace Google Pay or Apple Pay or whatever.
It also works offline, which is awesome.
Though you do need to be online every few months to refresh your digital money or they expire and become unspendable. The expiry is set by the GNU Taler operator.
You can learn how it works by reading their docs: taler.net/de/docs.html
tap to pay. I don’t see how this can practically be done. Like, at all.
The same way it was done with Google, Samsung and Apple. Just has to become more popular until banks and credit card companies will have to work with developers to make it happen.
android auto/apple CarPlay emulation.
Again, it will have to require the compliance of OEMs. However I see the entirety of these systems disappearing soon as more OEMs want to lock users into paid subscriptions for such features.
voice assistants
I'm not convinced this will ever be useful. Several of the largest tech companies on the planet have tried and all have failed miserably to produce anything useful for decades at this point.
For Linux it could be tied in with terminal commands using an LLM:
"Install Firefox" -> apt install firefox
"Open Firefox" - > firefox & disown
aichat --execute already turns natural language into terminal commands through any OpenAI-compatible API (and OpenRouter provides free Deepseek R1/Kimi K2 access), so there just needs to be speech-to-text.
Awwww man, why would you rebuke my argument before I even make it?
Are the echos in the chamber that predictable?
It's an interesting discussion to witness in these posts: convenience vs privacy and control.
The convenience and integration you get with commercial products like IOS or Android comes at a price. Everything that matters to you on a daily basis bundled together in one convenient package means that all things which define you as a person are conveniently interconnected for corporations to sell out your data for everyone who wants it.
GPS: your current whereabouts at any moment in time and a complete history of where you have been in the past
Payment functions: what you are buying and where you have bought it
Communication (Messengers, Phone): Who you communicate with and what you are talking about
Photos and Videos:
Real life evidence from all the stuff mentioned above.
Web Browsing: Interests and Needs which will be used against you in a totalitarian surveillance state, at a glance
If you in 2025 still think this convenience is there to please you as a consumer I have bad news for you.
Convenience and interconnection of services look nice and useful but at the same time they're a privacy nightmare that makes Orwell's 1984 look like a bedtime story for children.
What this all comes down to: Strictly airgapping the boundaries between the different services is the only way to have a modicum of privacy. Photos do not belong in a cloud controlled by someone you don't know and should be taken from a separate device. Navigation belongs on a separate device with no internet connection, payment should not be done with a personal identifier at all (if avoidable) etc.
Living your life this way might seem terribly inconvenient, but as someone who was alive at a time where all this convenience didn't exist I can tell you it has its advantages too. You'll rediscover what really matters.
I think some of this data is stuff im fine to share with some caveats. I think we can have a world of convenience and a world where people have a decent level of privacy. Of course there will always be tradeoffs but we can find a sane middle ground because at the moment its 0 privacy.
GPS data can be shared while im using a map to navigate and They must not "know who I am". I am ok to be a datapoint but I dont like when they build a personal profile with this information.
Payments are fine if its my bank and they never sell that info.
Communication must be encrypted and I do not want them knowing who I am talking to.
Photo and video thats private should be encrypted but anything posted public is public. I would use cloud storage but it needs to be encrypted.
Web browsing I dont mind if the site tracks what I do on the site but it must only be stuff I do on site and not build a profile using my off site data.
- battery life. My Pixel 3a lasts over a day on Android, likely much less on pmOS
- UnifiedPush for notifications. I only see a Matrix client listed as WIP. Every other app (Fediverse, Signal) I would have to keep running in the background
- Notifications while in sleep mode. Looks like we don't have "Doze Mode" from Android, so only calls & SMS work while asleep
- Fingerprint sensor. More of a QoL but I kept my phone model specifically for the ergonomics of the sensor on the back, and being able to scroll with it. Communication with the sensor is not yet figured out
huh? which linux phone got useful since you'd stop looking? I run pmOS edge on competent hardware with lotsa RAM and fast storage and that thing isn't even close to being usable in everyday life.
just basic stuff, like turn it on and it works. the keyboard works. an intuitive UI that you use while walking and dodging other pedestrians. a rock-solid base that doesn't freeze and stutter with the menial-est of tasks.
the three things you mention couldn't be farther from my mind if I wanted to.
62 comments and not a-one mentioned Sailfish OS yet?
Yes, it's not 100% open source, yes, it used to do business with Russia but not anymore since 2022, yes, it only supports a few Sony phones (available cheaply on the used market) but it is a 100% Linux operating system!
It has been my daily driver for 5 years now.
Also, Finland bonus.
I don't use any of the "needs" you mention (phone payments, carplay, voice anything) and can't see any of them as necessary. I can see thinking of them as cool, but that is different. I don't particularly think they're cool, but that's just me.
That said, Linux is mostly a desktop system with a CLI and some GUI tools. Phones as we know them have considerably different requirements. Linux could be underneath it all, like it is in Android, but at the end there is a lot more besides LInux and its apps.
I did use Meego/Maemo for a while (Nokia N900 and N9) and they had nice aspects, but the phones were way too small and slow.
How is a disposable token locked behind passwords and/or biometrics, remotely erasable, unique between each vendor a transaction takes place in inferior to…..a string of unchanging digits in a physical card?
You didn’t “call out misinformation.” You laughed at a differing opinion. That’s not an argument. That’s a noise.
Seriously, the Linux community has tons of helpful, super smart people, but mixed in with them are these obnoxious snobs like you that just embarrass the rest of us.
Because phone passwords are usually short and biometrics are public knowledge (usernames, not passwords)
You have a trade off between security and convenience. Phones are devices made for convenience. They are insecure, by design.
Device passwords should be 20 characters minimum.
I recommend attending a free opsec training course.
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How long is the password on a credit card, or the tap to pay on a credit card.
Huh. I've heard there are countries that exist where companies are legally allowed to refuse cash.
If that really is the case, then I guess your best option is to donate to your local lobbiest group to fix your (lack of) government regulations.
Someone did do some work on reimplementing the Android Auto Client Server API.
Just needs time and interest.
github.com/tomasz-grobelny/AAC…
GitHub - tomasz-grobelny/AACS: Android Auto Server encapsulates communication with modern car infotainment system
Android Auto Server encapsulates communication with modern car infotainment system - tomasz-grobelny/AACSGitHub
Why would someone maintaining a code base want to read and debug code submitted by someone else who didn't even bother to write it, especially if I'm not already using Claude code or another vibe code generator.
Are those actually the only things you find lacking? If so that's really good, practically the same as using LineageOS without any Google services.
I don't use any of the stuff you mentioned and might have to consider Linux mobile as a daily driver if it's that good. Especially if Google kills custom ROMs, it sounds like the people already running them would feel right at home switching to Linux mobile.
More importantly, how's the app situation? Can people generally expect most of the desktop GTK or Qt apps they're familiar with to be usable on a phone form factor? Is there a reliable way to run Android APKs on regular Linux now? At the very least F-droid apps?
Yes, you can even run android apps on Linux mobile using waydroid or something similar. So even if you need your stopgap android apps while waiting for Linux equivalents, waydroid has your back.
As for me, I plan on using PWAs as much as possible.
To answer your question about Android apps, there is an application called Waydroid that can run on Linux phones. This essentially emulates Android and you can install apps on there. Some Play Store apps require access to Google Play Services, and even though MicroG tries to emulate it without being as privacy invasive, it is not perfect and some apps won't run well or even at all.
I only use it for a few things that do not have any way to access through a web browser.
Yes most native applications are responsive and adapt to mobile.
GTK has it built into it's widgets. But some third party apps on GTK/QT may not adapt.
The capability is there though.
As someone who spent some time on the topic (result), it's not that every new app is adaptive. Even if someone uses the nice new widgets of libadwaita (or previously libhandy (GTK3)), that app is not necessary running well on mobile if width-reqests demand a higher minimal width or content is just too wide.
The same is true for QtQuick Components or Kirigami, which are the equivalent for adaptive Qt apps.
That said, yes, many new apps developed with these technologies work fine OOTB without the developer even knowing; and if they are too wide or tall, fixing that is usually rather simple and not a full rewrite/redesign.
LinuxPhoneApps.org
An App Directory for PinePhone, Librem 5 and other mainline Linux phones.LinuxPhoneApps.org
Yeah, Android Auto is definitely the thing I didn't think I needed and now can't live without.
I have no idea if there can be a foss alternative that would work with existing cars...
Why? I don't drive and don't have a car but I can't imagine the car itself not already having the exact same features since modern cars already have what is essentially a tablet built in.
Also, why not just have one of those phone holders on your dashboard like people have been doing before car integration was a thing?
1 - tap to pay. I don’t see how this can practically be done. Like, at all.
Yeah, better go back to carrying pieces of plastic with you at all times. Bonus: you can leave your phone home and still pay for things.
Reading these comments it looks like it's not quite time to switch over for daily use.
Graphene is not a linux OS, but you could get a used Pixel 8 running Graphene and be happy through to 2028.
GrapheneOS (like any other AOSP fork) is technically a Linux based OS. They run a modified version of the Linux Kernel. What matters is the changes they have made to the kernel, as well as enforcing AVB, SELinux, etc. etc.
"Linux" phones that run modified desktop Linux distros are hugely insecure devices that lack many basic security and hardening features.
Help a non-techy out. I've fully switched my computers to Linux (fedora workstation, silver blue, and ubuntu). Been Linux only for several years now. Silverblue is probably my favorite. I'm willing to make the switch for my phone, too. But there are a few things I'm pretty reliant on:
My banking apps, cash app, and, embarrassing as it may be to admit, Grindr.
Any chance of getting those?
You can run Android apps on a Linux phone via Waydroid, but banking apps could be an issue if they force these Google intrgrity checks. Grindr probably does not?
Anyway, you should be able to fire up Waydroid on your Linux desktop and test this beforehand. I have never done this myself, so I might have misunderstood something.
Grindr: use waydroid or switch to sniffies
Cash App: oof, I don’t know if waydroid will be enough for this one.
I've honestly never considered using my bank through a mobile browser. Yeah, it I can do that I'd be fine on that front.
Sniffies is completely dead here, and the dudes that are on it are gross. Grindr isn't much better, but since everyone's on it you can occasionally find people who are willing to use protection or hosting someone other than some bushes. I'll try way droid and see if it works. If it doesn't, I googled it and it says you can use Grindr from desktop if you pay... I may end up having to do that if I made the switch.
Which leaves cash app as the biggie. I'll try waydroid, but if it doesn't work I'll probably end up needing to keep android or switching to iOS (I hate iPhones:( ), or maybe even getting a second phone I use exclusively for cash app. No sim, just my wifi hotspot (can you do a wifi hotspot with a Linux phone yet?). In order to prevent overdrafts and accidental charges, I never spend directly from my bank account. I transfer exactly what I'll need for each purchase to cash app before the transaction and shop like that. Keeps me aware, and no accidental charges or surprises.
Baking apps: pin the websites
Typically if you want to check your account status sure, that work. Maybe do an IBAN transfer, if somehow 2nd step auth via their app isn't required, but typically mobile payment, even if it's not really mobile (e.g. scanning a QRcode on a desktop) requires their app. So in theory yes, in practice for most of the things people use banking daily it's closer to mobile payment IMHO, which is basically owned by iOS/Android AFAICT.
Not directly, here's what we have:
linuxphoneapps.org/categories/…
Of these, at least PureMaps does turn-by-turn - as a no-car-person that last drove in meaningful way when paper maps where a thing, I am the wrong person to ask about car navigation stuff.
Additionally, there's the OrganicMaps desktop flatpak (not a great experience, only good for seeing where you are) and zooming around. Fortunately, a work on a mobile-friendly Kirigami app for OrganicMaps has been funded by nlnet.
Also, runnning some web Maps in a browser (e.g., via linuxphoneapps.org/apps/dev.he…) is always an option (e.g., for browsing Google Maps for an open restaurant nearby).
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An App Directory for PinePhone, Librem 5 and other mainline Linux phones.LinuxPhoneApps.org
Vollaphone with Ubuntu touch can do that.
devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device…
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I thought Ububtu Touch was abandoned?
XL device
Ugh, nope. I want something small
You may not like tap to pay or CarPlay but I and a lot of others do.
It’s a deal breaker for me to not have these two features in a product I’d like to spend hard earned money on.
part is open source (I am not sure), someone could in theory use this to have car mirroring. I think it’s a very useful feature that no one is forced to use. I don’t see why some people are against it in the comments
google is forcing Gemini into everything and you can’t turn it off,
You can still shut off Gemini as of right now. I don't know what it'll be like in the future though.
How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should
Learn how to turn off Gemini on Android, what the Google AI can see, its privacy risks, and how to limit its reach across your device.Elena Constantinescu (Proton)
RCS text messaging is another to consider, at least in the US. The carriers implanted it in a proprietary way, so only Apple and Google apps have it. It's a poor substitute for an IM/chat app and not private and secure like it was promised due to poor implementations, but it's still far better than plain SMS. I still have people I can't get to use Signal or another secure IM app.
The Android Auto is the only one I'd be sad about. I love not having to use my phone's screen for navigation and the navigation built into most cars is crap and expensive to keep maps and data updated. I like being able to use any navigation app, though Google Maps/Waze is still the only one I've found that has both live traffic info, which is extremely important with my city, and reading the street names rather than just "turn left" it says "turn left on some street" so I don't have to look at the screen as much.
I use GrapheneOS and that's what I won't be able to replace once I finish my Immich and Home Assistant self host setups to replace Google Photos and Google Home/Nest, but st least they are sandboxed a bit.
Though Google has been moving to make it even more difficult to use their apps on these alternate OSes. Like I just found that Google Photos latest version pops up a not closeable error screen if it doesn't have full "photos and video" access. Doesn't work with the limited access or storage scopes that come with GrapheneOS, at least for now. I have photos I don't want google to scan and index even if they are not being uploaded, which they do now. It's obviously a ploy to get access to your data since it used to work fine. Now, I just use the mobile website instead until I have time to get Immich totally working and get people to switch if they want to see my stuff or share with me.
This is like a google voice number? Do they do VoIP and voicemail transcription, because I don't have a replacement for Google voice yet.
Edit: yes they do voip, voicemail, and transcriptions, but they do not do RCS yet. When they do, I might consider switching, especially if I can use their voicemail for my regular number, like gv.
JMP does not (yet) support these features:
- RCS, which allows for video calls over the phone network.
Maybe not true for phones, but the linux desktop IS usable day to day, and I'd say this has been true for atleast the last 5 years. KDE and GNOME are both fully fledged desktops, and with the popularity of snaps and flatpaks there isn't really alot getting in the way of software installation either. Even wine/proton has come so far I don't see the "linux bad for gaming" as an actual excuse anymore.
I started using linux exclusively on desktop in 2021 and I'm not any kind of programmer or anything, just a regular user. 😀
I fallback to a deGoogled phone precisely because Linux phone isn't up to my expectation in terms of convenience for now.
You can check my post history but just during the last few days :
- replied to "Why did PinePhone fail" as I have 2 of these lemmy.ml/post/35398519/2077448…
- discussed on banking apps, authentication bottlenecks on iOS/Android lemmy.ml/post/35398519/2085406…
... so yes, not there yet
PS: on "assistant" (I really think the naming is over-blowing capabilities) I have been using HomeAssistant daily for years now. I have a Nabu Casu on my shelf... and didn't even set it up because it was either 3rd party service dependencies (not why I rely on HA) or a very complex setup. So... I would recommend not looking there, at least few months ago when I received mine, sadly.
They're slow and clunky as fuck for starters. Cellular is very spotty.
Do you have a good alternative I can look into? I really, really, really want them to work. The only usable Linux phone I've seen is Jolla, but I'd much rather have Mobian or Arch on mobile or some other fully FLOSS alternative
Voice assistant through homeassistant is great. You can plug into an AI. There are guys using the SIP plugin to dial chatgpt from a landline.
reddit.com/r/homeassistant/com…
Of course, you can also self host AI models if you have the hardware. I'm not there myself yet... but the tech is ready.
I was wondering what everyone’s thoughts on these were:
- It doesn't work on GrapheneOS either, so I got separate devices I carry with me that do the tap-to-pay instead, and they've been a godsend. They're super compact as well and came for free when I opened the accounts.
- I don't own a car, on ebike I use my screen.
- Normally I use my fingers. If they're not available I yell cuss words at my phone until they're available again.
3 - voice assistants. wether done on device or phoning into our home servers and having requests processed there, this should be doable and integrated with convenient shortcuts. Home assistant has some things like this, and there’s good-old Mycroft blowing around out there still. Siri is used every day by plenty of people and she sucks. If that’s the benchmark I think our community can easily meet that.
Of all the things that my phone is supposed to be able to do this is the one thing I never touch. It has never worked better for me than just doing it with my own two thumbs.
Does anyone actually use their voice to control their phone (not voice typing)?
That's funny, I never use 1 and 2, but I use 3 often.
I used to use tap to pay, but I recently acquired one of those adhesive credit card holders that has obviated my need for to pay.
I have an old car and just have my phone in a holder if I need to see turn by turn directions. Unfortunately the credit card holder fucks with the phone stand a little bit, but it mostly still works. The few times in my life I used android auto I disliked it.
I most often use voice assistant to ask for a song to play on Spotify. This was really convenient with "hey google" while I was driving or had my phone in my pocket listening to headphones, but I live without it these days.
So in other words they're perfectly suited for day to day use?
I have zero need for any of the janky bullshit features you listed, so this is great news!
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I’m wondering if anyone me here uses a Crypto tumbler or mixer service without KYC . Looking for recommendations
Crazy how many think privacy stops at money.
Cash will never be as safe or private as cryptocurrency.
Truth nuke, the biggest scam ever made is the $
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Classic cars will still need a smog test in California after lawmakers reject Jay Leno bill
Jay Leno’s star power wasn’t enough to persuade a California legislative committee to pass a measure to allow owners of classic cars like him to be exempted from the state’s rigorous smog-check requirements.
Imagine being rich and famous and this is your political cause. What an effing creep.
Classic cars will still need a smog test in California after lawmakers reject Jay Leno bill
The Assembly Appropriations Committee killed “Leno’s Law” that aimed to give classic car owners a pass from smog requirements.CalMatters (LAist)
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I had a car caught up in this in Colorado and had to get rid of it. Specifically, I had to remove a bunch of obsolete air pump equipment and update the fueling system with a much more modern electronically controlled system. The car was measurably better than it's original standards but failed the visual check because it was missing the old, polluting, inefficient and unavailable parts.
If the car still meets the emissions of it's day, put a mileage limit on it and let it go. If there are too many on the road then implement a nontransferrable lottery system to get classic plates for them. The amount of pollution these few tens of thousands of vehicles put out being used a couple of times a month is a drop in the bucket compared to everything else that continues to get a pass.
Why not start banning camp fires? What about old boats? Stationary power units? These all seem to get a pass and probably dwarf the emissions of classic cars being used occasionally.
Storing cars is also devastating for the environment and society. We have as much land and resources devoted to housing cars as we do to housing people. I've seen so many houses that have garages as big as their house + a paved driveway + each city needs 3 publicly funded parking spots per car.
We need less cars. There simply isn't a future were we beat climate change without getting the majority of people to take trains, buses, and bikes
Labor plans to make it harder to access government information
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Tom Crowley (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Given how crucial to exposing government misconduct FOI requests are in the UK, I imagine this is a path you very much don't want to go down.
I first thought this was talking about the UK government, as I wouldn't put it past them to try and push something like this through. I'm both sad and relieved it's our Australian cousins going through it instead.
The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft – Krebs on Security
The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft
The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interaction into Salesforce leads, has left many companies racing to invalidate the stolen credentials b…krebsonsecurity.com
Posted by the hackers:
Dear Google, please please pretty please continue to attack them.
I so wanna see the fuck getting destroyed out of you
So a US Green Card is half way to the moon?
Martina Dimoska
✨ On the right: Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, standing next to the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the Moon. [1969] ✨ On the left: Martina Dimoska,...www.facebook.com
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Hello.
I recognize that you're probably being sarcastic or joking, but just in case you were curious, Margaret Hamilton is recorded as 5 foot 4 inches tall. I could not find a height for Martina Dimoska, but if we assume the black binder in her stack is a two inch binder (a guess based on seeing many two inch binders in my profession), we can estimate that she is just over 5 ft tall.
Cheers!
US Green Card
The image clearly says Extraordinary Ability Green Card (EB1-A). This is not a standard green card.
"A category for Einstein" is still a bit of a high sell.
That's like saying your mom's like Hitler because he was a human.
You must meet at least 3 of the 10 criteria* below, or provide evidence of a one-time achievement (i.e., Pulitzer, Oscar, Olympic Medal) as well as evidence showing that you will be continuing to work in the area of your expertise. No offer of employment or labor certification is required.In order to demonstrate you have sustained national or international acclaim and that your achievements have been recognized in your field of expertise, you must either include evidence of a one-time achievement (major internationally-recognized award) or 3 of the 10 listed criteria below (or comparable evidence if any of the criteria do not readily apply):
- Evidence of receipt of lesser nationally or internationally recognized prizes or awards for excellence
- Evidence of your membership in associations in the field which demand outstanding achievement of their members
- Evidence of published material about you in professional or major trade publications or other major media
- Evidence that you have been asked to judge the work of others, either individually or on a panel
- Evidence of your original scientific, scholarly, artistic, athletic, or business-related contributions of major significance to the field
- Evidence of your authorship of scholarly articles in professional or major trade publications or other major media
- Evidence that your work has been displayed at artistic exhibitions or showcases
- Evidence of your performance of a leading or critical role in distinguished organizations
- Evidence that you command a high salary or other significantly high remuneration in relation to others in the field
- Evidence of your commercial successes in the performing arts
Of course I (re-checked) the criteria on my own before commenting, and it stands.
Evidence of receipt of lesser nationally or internationally recognized prizes or awards for excellence
There are a bunch of international prises other than the Olympics. By the way, Oscars and Pulitzers aren't inherently international - they're made by the american film (newspaper) industry for that same industry. Awards juries are 90+% American, as are the awardees.
Anyway, more realistic would be to look at the International math olympiad, for example. There are about 10k contestants anually, and just under 50% recieve prizes. There are similar competitions for pretty much any school subject.
Then there's sport. There are a bunch of sports, with each having a multitude of international competitions. The ATP Open for tennis, the FIFA/UEFA championships, for soccer, various regates for yachting especially - you name it.
And these are just of the top of my head, and the second level of prestige (after Nobels and Oscars). Saying there's at least 20 international competitions per sport on average is an understatement.
All in all, for point one, aboit 5% of the population fit the bill, even discounting stuff like the France-Germany typists' association anual speed typing competition, which just might fit the bill as well.
Evidence of your membership in associations in the field which demand outstanding achievement of their members
There's Mensa, an international association - a special achievement required to join: IQ over 130. It has 150k members.
Similarily, there are: International Society for Philosophical Enquiry, World Federation of Neurology, European Mathematical Society - you name it.
Evidence of published material about you in professional or major trade publications or other major media
Not even that's that hard. Every school shooter fits the bill.
Evidence that you have been asked to judge the work of others, either individually or on a panel.
Be a member of a society in (2) and you will.
Evidence of your original scientific, scholarly, artistic, athletic, or business-related contributions of major significance to the field
Another point for fittig the bill of (1), basically, since an award is, by definition, a recognition and evidence of achievment.
Evidence of your authorship of scholarly articles in professional or major trade publications or other major media
Work for a year at a university or a subset of (2), and it'll happen.
Evidence that your work has been displayed at artistic exhibitions or showcases
This one's for the more artsy types. There are literally millions of galleries and museums. Getting an exhibition also isn't that impossible.
Evidence of your performance of a leading or critical role in distinguished organizations
Basically, have an important-sounding title of a (2)
Evidence that you command a high salary or other significantly high remuneration in relation to others in the field
So, be a CEO.
Evidence of your commercial successes in the performing arts
Be Taylor Swift, Rammstein, or any number of more "fringe" artists.
To sum up, my point is: No, you don't need to have an Oscar, Nobel or Olympic medal to qualify. Nor do you need to be Einstein.
Here's someone who fits most criteria as an example:
Meet Andriei Ogushlow. He's a polish CEO. He studied at and got a PhD in political science. He wrote 8 scolarly articles published in intenrational journals. In his free time he does photography, and had 15 exhibitions, of which 4 were in museums. He's a member of Mensa and the European Accounting Association. While doing his MBA, he earned a bronze medal in the A4SIC competition.
He'd like US citizenship to be able to make his company have a strong and stable presence in the US.
(That's 5 out of 10).
He's not Einstein. But he fits the bill more than "good enough".
Interview with Martina Dimoska: The Macedonian who conquers the space sector - Free Press
Martina Dimoska is a girl with one of the most unusual professions for our region - Master of Space Sciences, but in addition to her appetite for solving the mysterious universe, she also works as a "cosplay" model and fights to be an illustrative ex…Марија Гегоска (Sloboden Pecat)
So she’s basically that nerdy girl who happened to care about her looks and chose not to monetize them.
Nice.
Getting into Linux Development?
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I recently saw a post from one of the PostmarketOS devs asking for someone to start maintaining the sdm845 out-of-tree fork of the kernel.
Post was on mastodon, but I can't find it right now.
But you could ask in the PostmarketOS support/dev chats on what they need help with.
I think the easiest is to get the thing onto some device. Pick something that annoys you and make it work better. There are so many parts to this it's hard to recommend one. You have low level device drivers, the user interface in the form of DEs, or the apps themselves, either making the desktop apps work better or creating mobile ones.
You can also pick one of these things, find the related bugtracker and try to fix some easy looking bugs.
Have you done OS dev before? Do you know a systems programming language? Learn an appropriate language if you don't already know one, then look up OS dev books/guides online for that language. Someone's probably made a minimal kernel in that language you can refer to.
You mentioned postmarketOS so you could have a look here and here.
Great to hear that you're looking to get into PostmarketOS development! I recommend taking a phone that's already supported, using it and then figure out how improve support the device.
Porting/Mainlining a new device is also possible but that can be demotivating if it doesn't work and it's generally harder to get started with.
If you have any questions or need help you can dm me and I can help.
ChimeraOS dev announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS aimed at recreating a classic console experience
ChimeraOS dev announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS aimed at recreating a classic console experience
The developer of ChimeraOS has announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS that aims to provide more of a classic gaming console like experience.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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I was kicking around the idea of building an arcade machine at home and this might just be the one....
Now the real question - can you play old school platformers on it with split second precision that doesnt get interrupted by random shit on the OS? Even Nintendo's SNES Classic was horseshit for games like Megaman. Or maybe I just suck now.
Those really low capacity cards have DIRE read speeds though. I wouldn't want to cheap out too much on them.
We have one SD card at work that seemingly works fine, but has read speeds of like single digit Mbps. It's plenty for the arcade machine it runs with no more than 10mb roms at the max. But oof is it bad.
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If I remember right, flash memory is basically based on static electricity and those cheap SD cards might self-wipe after a couple years being unplugged
but maybe not lol
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Mostly just a small-ish info dump in the event it helps anyone. All flash and nand media can self-wipe if not used for a couple of years (though nand can last longer but may start to slow down to SATA and slower). Even if in an active PC, the parts that are only read but not written this can happen. Learned that from some episodes of "Security Now" podcast and personally saw it happen with a PC I was trying to fix for someone. On the show one of the hosts has a commercal program called "SpinRite" that was made to help with HDDs that have non-moter/actuator issues revive sectors.
Some testers using it found that it also helps with nand that has drastically slowed down from reading spots that never really get writes come back to normal speeds. In my case, I tried it on the PC I was working on and it really did help (the OS was already borked so it wasn't going to hurt trying it out) with it loading much faster. Obviously the cheaper the flash/nand the faster issues will happen.
I have seen some random motherboards offer basically a pre-erase on SSDs that are acting slow before you re-install the OS to make sure a more complete flipping of cells happens and not just a basic formatting that just zeros the first parts of data and leaves the other cells alone. In that case the data/OS isn't the focus and wouldn't need a special paid software (I am only aware of SpinRite just because of the podcast and bought it to support the host that makes it). I am not sure of any free/FOSS software that does the same full drive cell flips, but I imagine there are some (or will be as flash/nand is used more and more).
Main take away is that it is important to make sure to not just let flash drives/SD/nand drives sit without at least hooking up to a PC every now and then. My PS Vita fell victim to just sitting around dead for a few years along with the Vita card I had in it. Fortunately the ROM with the OS is still working and I was able to at least set it up again.
Someone a while back put a set of very cheap SSDs through a torture test, and after exhausting many of the write cycles, left them alone for months. When powered back on for reads, the drives were slow as the error correction hardware was working overtime to compensate for the loss of trapped charge over time, but mostly recovered their performance after a while.
That said, I have a similar anecdote where one of my very worn test bench SSDs kept complaining about the same bad sectors despite OS reinstalls until I just overwrote it with zeros using dd. Was fine for many months thereafter.
I've no idea either if SpinRite has some secret sauce that FOSS utilities have yet to replicate, but it sounds like a non-destructive read-write test with badblocks ought to do the same.
Also, my CF cards, SD cards, or USB drives from the early 2000s and early 2010s almost never give me trouble despite spending years unplugged. More recent flash memory is a different story though and I suspect the shrinking gate sizes and advent of TLC/QLC/PLC haven't helped. I'll usually splurge a little these days to get the industrial or high endurance MLC flavors and hopefully avoid the issue.
My first though was KZ OS. Cool name!
Edit: in my town several drink/groceries/street restaurant hut/stand start with KZ (funny contraction in Spanish of caseta that means hut or stand).
Serious question: Do I have to be a jew in order to use it?
(Because KZs and im German and stuff)
Once upon a time I owned a GameCube memory card, specifically so that I could have my own save progression when visiting my friend's house (who actually owned the GameCube and games). That may not really apply anymore?
On another note though, making the sd card read only means it will last significantly longer. Flash storage (like SD cards) have limited write cycles, so this preserves the games themselves while leaving the much smaller save files to be written somewhere else where they're easier to back up.
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