Hi, please kindly direct me to the right community to ask this:
Plasma 6 is my favorite DE and i use KDE neon. The screen brightness adapts automatically to the windows i focus on, which is a good idea. But it does that the wrong way IMO. Dark windows are dimmed and bright windows are lit up. Why? Now i have both extremes switching back and forth all the time. Can we turn that the other way around or turn it off please?
I like that the screens hardware brightness setting is used now from the desktop. Great! But now i have no control over it anymore, since when i open a bright window, the brightness setting goes up too. I hate that at night.
Usually adjusting the brightness for me has one purpose: - bright room: max display brightness (day) - dark room: min display brightness (night)
...maybe something in between for transition. All the other features are nice to have but please only work on them when this main feature is secured.
If both monitors are messing with your sensors, you may just want to disable adaptive brightness and manually control it. They don't seem to have a workaround for it as of yet.
Whoops, it's already been months since I last blogged. I've been actively involved with Plasma and especially its power management service PowerDevil for over a year now. I'm still learning about how everything fits together.
That's probably the new Extended Dynamic Range setting from Plasma 6.4. You can find it in the display settings. It is meant to adjust the display's brightness to emulate an HDR display.
The screen brightness adapts automatically to the windows i focus on, which is a good idea.
That's definitely not something Plasma is doing... Sounds like your monitor is dumb with "adaptive contrast" or just terribly implemented local dimming.
As anyone who has ever seen anything I have created knows: I am not a designer. So take my reasoning and thinking here with a grain of salt. I do have many designers amongst my friends and I do think that a lot of software engineering falls within the domain of design to a certain degree. Let me explain.
To me design is the process of exploring, potentially formalizing a problem space and possible solutions for that problem culminating in a solution based on that exploration. Design (to me) is about creating artefacts that do certain specific things for specific target audiences/users. The specific thing can be evoking an emotion or an abstract thought process or just doing a certain task really well. Beauty is a quality of good design because things being pleasant can help with their use, acceptance, but anyone who has ever had to sit on a chair designed mostly to look good knows that beauty only gets you so far.
So using that understanding of design I keep thinking about the current trend of everything being turned into chatbots or “conversational systems”. And I can’t shake the feeling that these paradigms are – for most cases – just bad design.
Broken promises
A chat/conversational interface implies a whole lot of things: We chat with other people, a chat implies a level of social experience, of a shared space for people to meet. Which is great if you want to tell your users “this part of the app is where you talk to people”. But what happens when that “promise” the design made is broken?
We’ve all been forced to interact with chatbots for support. There’s an issue with your phone contract, the underpants they sent you don’t fit or some other thing and you need to talk to someone to sort things out. Enter the chatbot who keeps answering your questions with useless links or other strategies to keep you away from the “expensive” humans to talk to. The company wants to save on support so they try to distract you with a bot which either accidentally helps you find a solution or makes you think “it’s not worth it, I’ll just have to live with my crotch being strangled”. It’s a distraction to avoid investing in you and the relationship. How does that make you feel?
This is not just a support question: Onlyfans recently had issues where people realized that they were not actually chatting to the adult performers they paid for but someone or something else. Now the other side of the chat might have been underpaid staff but the dynamic is the same: Chat interfaces make a promise of social experience and trust that LLM Chatbot can never fulfill. It’s a deception. And good design should not deceive.
Guideless
A good interface guides you to solving the problem you have, good design makes it easy for you to do what the thing is supposed to do. Think of a program you really like to use: It probably shows you the steps you need to take in a structured way asks you the few things it needs from you and then does the thing you want it to do. Because that is what good design does.
What does a chatbot guide you to do? Maybe it asks you a question but for many chatbots it’s just “how can I help you?” or “Ask me anything”. Does that help you use it? Does that structure your path towards solving your problem? The huge number of people whose whole identity has become telling others how to write prompts begs to differ.
I have already argued before that “AI” systems are not tools. Because they don’t contain clear and specific descriptions of problems and corresponding strategies for solving said problem. But let’s pretend that we have a system that can solve a certain problem really well and efficiently: Is a chatbot a better interface than a structured form or UI that let’s you just go through the required steps and then get the result? Chatbots don’t narrow down the path towards a solution, they leave everything open. Which might be great for engagement and keeping people hooked but is that an efficient use of your time?
Outsourcing of work
Let’s talk about your time a bit. I am very protective of mine, I hate it when objects or processes mindlessly waste mine. I do of course waste my time on weird shit, thankyouverymuch, but I want to make that call.
A bad design that forces me to waste time or do a lot of unnecessary busywork is bad because it didn’t do its job: It didn’t make the process easier and more structured for me, it leaves me to do that labor. And I have a similar feeling towards this as I have towards self-checkout terminals at stores: Why do I have to do unpaid work for you and still pay the same? Why should I make it easier for you to employ fewer people getting a worse service while paying the same? That feels dumb. And wrong.
Chatbots don’t make my work easier. Instead of getting a predictable, understandable result based on my needs in a specific situation I get extra work assigned: I need to phrase my query the right way in order to get the machine to lie maybe a bit less. Need to add magic words to the input to stop it from going off the rails. That is my labor I have to put in to make a bad design work. Feels like I am not just doing my job but also the work the operator of the service or product I am having to use through chat should have paid professionals to do. And I’m not getting paid for it.
Like, why should companies get away with refusing to do the work of designing their products in a meaningful way and still get paid?
I want solutions
I do not need the one magic machine that claims to solve all my issues and then makes me jump through conversational hoops to get a mediocre result. That is actually the opposite of what I need.
I want people who know their shit to externalize all they know into tools I can use to benefit off of all that embodied knowledge. And chatbots do not help me with that at all (regardless of the capabilities or lack thereof of LLMs).
I want simple tools that do specific things build by people who were paid fairly and go home on time.
Customers dismayed by Broadcom's move to selling costly bundles such as VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) will realize its value if they'd just use more of the components, the company's CTO says.
VMware, now a Broadcom subsidiary, is shifting away from selling perpetual licenses for individual products. It instead offers subscription bundles of software and support, such as its flagship VCF private cloud platform – version 9 of which was released this week.
The largest enterprise users seem content with this. Broadcom chief Hock Tan told investors this month that 87 percent of VMware's top 10,000 customers have signed up for VCF.
However some smaller and middle sized customers reacted negatively to the licensing changes, claiming their costs have increased by eight to 15 times since the Broadcom acquisition, and there are many stories of firms planning to migrate their workloads from VMware to an alternative platform in future because of this.
"A lot of those stories around cost don't play out when we actually get to sit down with the customer and talk to them about their situation, what they need, and what we're going to do with them," said Broadcom's EMEA chief technology officer, Joe Baguley.
"Initially people might go 'all the prices have gone up,' but those 87 percent of people that have renewed with us have renewed because they've chosen VCF as their strategy going forward," he claimed.
I picked up an old optiplex I'm trying to use as a NAS and do other things with. Initially I put Debian on there but felt like I was running into too many problems with things like power management, remot desktop, Docker, and mounting drives.
So I put Openmediavault on there and it's working now. But what are some of the best ways to get the most out of it?
Can I do most things through the browser interface, or should I remote into it to install things?
How easily can I mount it as a network drive to other computers? I still have a Windows PC so I'd like to access it from there too if possible.
And what's the best way to get other services running on it? I'm thinking of how it's possible to set up torrenting software and control it with a remote app from your phone. (For managing and sharing my distros, of course).
Happy to hear any feedback on what people do with OMV, or their setups for a NAS in general. This is more of a tinkering computer to get me more familiar with networks and Linux.
I don't use OMV, but I have a nas server I built and here is my .02
set up an smb share in OMV for windows. Mounting that in windows should be trivial (don't hold me. Haven't used windows in years now, but last I used win10 smb was super easy to mount)
look into docker on OMV for deploying stuff. I run docker on my NAS and host a bunch of stuff including:
jellyfin for all the rips of my DVDs
navidrome for all the rips of my CDs
nextcloud to replace google stuff
radicale for my calendars
Joplin server for my notes
mealie for recipes
more stuff I can't think of right now
with docker, if you want a GUI for creating, managing and interacting with your stuff, look at Dockge and Portainer
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Thank you. This is what I've wanted to do with this PC for over half a year now. It's good to de-Google in general, but drive not working well on Linux has been ruining my writing workflow on my laptop so I've been looking for a way to sync files between my computers.
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So DNS Black-holing is not new obviously, and what stands out as the go to solution? Pihole probably... and yeah thats what im using because hey its a popular choice. Though I am running it in docker. Combining that with Unbound (also in docker), and configuring outbound DNS to use DNS over TLS, with a few additional minor tweaks, but otherwise mostly standard configuration on both.
Wondering what you guys might be using, and if you are using Pihole and/or Unbound if you have any tips on configuration.
I use cloudflared to translate DNS into DNS over TLS instead of Unbound to make it into recursive DNS. Just never really seen the need to switch it. I'm happy with nextDNS + Cloudflare resolving DNS upstream.
The main thing I wanted to note is port 53 outbound is blocked at the router to prevent devices from using external/unencrypted DNS. If a LAN device wants DNS resolution they MUST use the LAN DNS servers they were given via DHCP, or use their own DoT config, as plain DNS won't make it out of the network.
It's because of this block/enforcement that I run two local DNS servers: pihole on an RPI and a mirror on my main server tower, with Galaxy-Sync keeping them identical. If I tinker with/update one, the other picks up the slack so connectivity/resolution isn't disrupted.
Yeah, I am pretty close to that, the pihole to unbound, unbound DoT to cloudflare. What I am doing at this point is bypassing the DNS to ISP, but as I stated in my response above, not yet blocking everything on the net from using the regular stuff. Just feasibility testing at the moment.
Love the dual setup for DNS. I set my primary to this and my secondary to just cloudflare at them moment for when I bork my primary DNS will fidgeting with it, haha.
I have an n100 box that I put opnsense on for routing, firewall, DHCP, DNS and IDS. It uses unbound for DNS and so I'm leveraging the blocklist functionality in unbound. And then I use unbound to resolve instead of using DoT forwarding.
Dnsbl is only a small component of effective network security. Arguably the firewall is most important and so I have a default deny all for any device on my LAN trying to reach the Internet.
All applications need specific allows. Thus internally no device can use dns over tls because 853 is blocked by default. Then I use a DNSBL to catch known DoH by domain since the cert is provided by domain name.
"Dnsbl is only a small component of effective network security. Arguably the firewall is most important and so I have a default deny all for any device on my LAN trying to reach the Internet." 100%, I decided to break up my posts into sub components of the total stack, but to your point currently im enforcing a deny all inbound and outbound at the host level, as the network is shared with the fam and they are not ready for that level of learning (pain, lol)
I just learned about unbound, didnt realize it had a blocklist capability so thats great to know. Gotta dig into it.
I like that last bit, blocking DoT except for the one approved path. Much like TLS 1.3 it offers insider threat protection against inspection. So with that in mind when you said you are using unbound instead of using DoT forwarding, you mean instead of allowing clients to DoT forward, right? Thats what I am doing now as well, though I am not actively blocking it yet. Just currently enabling and testing feasibility on a single host to see the performance and operational impacts of privacy/security implementations.
Curious to your IDS solution, I gotta dig into opnsense. I know about it, its been around a long time, but havent touched it in so long I cant remember its capabilities.
Wrt lan deny all for the fam, it's mostly hard on gamers cuz games tend to use wide port ranges and outbound IPs are potentially home isp networks not the game servers. But yeah it takes some time and research to really lock it down.
Most stuff is running through web protocols though. So right off the bat you create allow rules for any LAN device to hit ports: 80, 8080, 443, 8443 which are your common http and https ports. That's gonna get most ppl what they need.
I do ASN based allows for certain applications like Google, Facebook, etc.
For consoles they're pretty locked down so just give them full allow to the Internet. I don't do that actually but it's probably the better way.
IOT devices get only the ports they need to the IPs they need.
when you said you are using unbound instead of using DoT forwarding, you mean instead of allowing clients to DoT forward, right?
No I mean my unbound resolves DNS for something like microsoft.com all by itself. It calls up the root name servers, finds the com nameservers, then asks the com nameservers for Microsoft. And for any subdomains it asks the MS name servers. This is instead of relying on external forwarding services like 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 or quad 9 or whatever. At least the former two are sure to be aggregating this data.
Additionally I do not allow devices on my network to reach out to external port 53, or 853 to circumvent lookups on my unbound by reaching out directly, which would then bypass the DNSBL. Anything for port 53 gets NAT'd to the unbound server. You can't redirect TLS attempts so those get hard blocked.
Curious to your IDS solution
Securicata is what opnsense uses. Pretty easy to set up.
Unbound on the router which connects upstream with DNS over TLS. Ports 53 and 853 are NATed to the piole and several other DNS servers like Google's are blocked so devices can't bypass the pinhole very easily. This is only on my primary VLAN. Other VLANs are given the Unbound DNS by default but are allowed to bypass if they insist. I have one VLAN for guests and one for trusted devices in addition to the primary one.
In my particular setup, I have an additional constraint and that is that my network has to be designed for portability and travel. Not that it affects your design per say. Thank you for the response. Just something that occurred to me that I hadnt mentioned.
I am living a transient life at the moment. So lots of virtualization and lack of control concerning the WAP and such.
totally arbitrary, lol. Im used to DNSSEC, saw DoT and DoH about the same time, think I saw a write up that used DoT and just went for it. Havent even compared DoT vs DoH, but DoH reminds me of Homer Simpson cuz im old XD
I'm using a service called Control D, which has 4 levels of free DNS. One is no blocking at all. One is only blocking malware. One is blocking malware and ads, and the other one is blocking malware, ads, and social media, like Facebook.
I got two PiHoles running on my network via Docker Compose, I tried setting up Unbound in Docker-Compose and that fell flat, from my understanding DNSSEC was preventing DNS resolution outright.
Also tried OpenSense + Unbound which led to the same thing.
Eventually got tired of having my network cutting in and out over minor changes so I just stuck with Quad9 for my upstream needs.
happy to share my docker-compose with pihole and unbound. im not the original author its a compilation of a few peoples. no issues. normal DNS inside the house DoT outside.
If you don't mind DM'ing me or dropping it in a comment here it would be greatly appreciated! The docker engine isn't something entirely new to me so i'm a bit skeptical into thinking that i missed something but always happy to compare with others, actually Docker is what pushed me to switch fully to Linux on my personal computers.
Snippet from my docker-compose.yml:
pihole:
container_name: pihole
hostname: pihole
image: pihole/pihole:latest
networks:
main:
ipv4_address: 172.18.0.25
# For DHCP it is recommended to remove these ports and instead add: network_mode: "host"
ports:
- "53:53/tcp"
- "53:53/udp"
- "127.0.0.1:67:67/udp" # Only required if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server
- "127.0.0.1:85:80/tcp"
- "127.0.0.1:7643:443"
environment:
TZ: 'America/Vancouver'
FTLCONF_webserver_api_password: 'insert-password-here'
FTLCONF_dns_listeningMode: 'all'
# Volumes store your data between container upgrades
volumes:
- './config/pihole/etc-pihole:/etc/pihole'
- './config/pihole/etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d'
- '/etc/hosts:/etc/hosts:ro'
# https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole#note-on-capabilities
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN # Required if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server, else not needed
- CAP_SYS_TIME
- CAP_SYS_NICE
- CAP_CHOWN
- CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
- CAP_NET_RAW
- CAP_NET_ADMIN
restart: unless-stopped
labels:
- "traefik.enable=true"
- "traefik.http.routers.pihole.rule=Host(`pihole.my.domain`)"
- "traefik.http.routers.pihole.entrypoints=https"
- "traefik.http.routers.pihole.tls=true"
- "traefik.http.services.pihole.loadbalancer.server.port=80"
- "traefik.http.routers.pihole.middlewares=fail2ban@file"
unbound:
image: alpinelinux/unbound
container_name: unbound
hostname: unbound
networks:
main:
ipv4_address: 172.18.0.26
ports:
- "127.0.0.1:5334:5335"
volumes:
- ./config/unbound/:/var/lib/unbound/
- ./config/unbound/unbound.conf:/etc/unbound/unbound.conf
- ./config/unbound/unbound.conf.d/:/etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d/
- ./config/unbound/log/unbound.log:/var/log/unbound/unbound.log
restart: unless-stopped
Edit: After re-reading the Unbound github and their documentation it seems i may have missed some volume mounts that are key to the function of Unbound, i'll definitely have to dive deeper into it.
services:
pihole:
container_name: pihole
image: pihole/pihole:latest
ports:
# DNS Ports
- "53:53/tcp"
- "53:53/udp"
# Default HTTP Port
- "8082:80/tcp"
# Default HTTPs Port. FTL will generate a self-signed certificate
- "8443:443/tcp"
# Uncomment the below if using Pi-hole as your DHCP Server
#- "67:67/udp"
# Uncomment the line below if you are using Pi-hole as your NTP server
#- "123:123/udp"
environment:
# Set the appropriate timezone for your location from
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones, e.g:
TZ: 'America/New_York'
# Set a password to access the web interface. Not setting one will result in a random password being assigned
FTLCONF_webserver_api_password: 'false cat call cup'
# If using Docker's default `bridge` network setting the dns listening mode should be set to 'all'
FTLCONF_dns_listeningMode: 'all'
FTLCONF_dns_upstreams: '127.0.0.1#5335' # Unbound
# Volumes store your data between container upgrades
volumes:
# For persisting Pi-hole's databases and common configuration file
- './etc-pihole:/etc/pihole'
# Uncomment the below if you have custom dnsmasq config files that you want to persist. Not needed for most starting fresh with Pi-hole v6. If you're upgrading from v5 you and have used this directory before, you should keep it enabled for the first v6 container start to allow for a complete migration. It can be removed afterwards. Needs environment variable FTLCONF_misc_etc_dnsmasq_d: 'true'
#- './etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d'
cap_add:
# See https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole#note-on-capabilities
# Required if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server, else not needed
- NET_ADMIN
# Required if you are using Pi-hole as your NTP client to be able to set the host's system time
- SYS_TIME
# Optional, if Pi-hole should get some more processing time
- SYS_NICE
restart: unless-stopped
unbound:
container_name: unbound
image: mvance/unbound:latest # Change to use 'mvance/unbound-rpi:latest' on raspberry pi
# use pihole network stack
network_mode: service:pihole
volumes:
# main config
- ./unbound-config/unbound.conf:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/unbound.conf:ro
# custom config (unbound.conf.d/your-config.conf). unbound.conf includes these via wilcard include
- ./unbound-config/unbound.conf.d:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d:ro
# log file
- /srv/docker/pihole-unbound/unbound/etc-unbound/unbound.log:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/unbound.log
restart: unless-stopped
I am relatively new to docker as well tbh. I did a lot with virtualization and a lot with linux and never bothered, but I totally get the use case now ha. just an FYI, if you use docker on Windows it runs slower as it has to leverage the Windows subsystem Linux (WSL) and a slightly different docker engine (forget which one). So linux is your best bet. If you do want to use a full VM I found Qemu to be the best option for least resource usage.
Three-panel meme showing a man in military fatigues speaking in a forest setting. In the first panel, he says “The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it…” In the second panel, he continues “…and that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine.” In the third panel, he concludes “It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than it is behind a single incident.”
This gives "the fuckin loser on the playground that thinks he's hot shit, goes to start a fight and then screams no fighting no fighting!! before the person can hit back."
Fan dell’universo Marvel, preparatevi! Le voci sul ritorno di uno dei personaggi più amati (e odiati) sono sempre più insistenti. Stiamo parlando di Loki, l’affascinante fratello di Thor interpretato magistralmente da Tom Hiddleston. Ma cosa dobbiamo aspettarci dal suo ritorno in Avengers: Doomsday?
Loki è pronto a tornare nell'universo Marvel con Avengers: Doomsday! Tom Hiddleston stuzzica i fan con nuove anticipazioni. Scopri tutto quello che c'è da sapere!
Hey so I'm currently homeless at the moment looking for an entry level IT job. I have just enough money to purchase the RHCSA voucher ($700 CAD) but I wouldn't be able to eat lol.
The LFCS currently has a 30% discount and it was already cheaper than the RHCSA so I'm very inclined to purchase this but I'd only be doing so with the expectation that I'm able to atleast start landing interviews for help desk/tech support.
What would you guys do in my shoes? 0 interest in networking and I already daily drive Linux so I'm confident in my abilities to pass the LFCS.
Only reason I got it, was because it was cheaper than the Red Hat one and my employer just needed me to get a Linux certificate. So the cheapest was what I got.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Donald Trump on Sunday, June 22, after the president said the US military bombed three nuclear sites in Iran. "Congratulations President Trump. Your bold decision to target Iran's nuclear facilities with the awesome and righteous might of the United States will change history," Netanyahu said in a video message, adding that the attacks demonstrated "America has been truly unsurpassed."
Netanyahu added that Trump had created a "pivot of history" that will "help lead the Middle East and beyond to a future of prosperity and peace." He shared in a separate statement that the US attacks had been carried out in coordination with Israel and said the promise of destroying Iran's nuclear program was fulfilled.
Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new law that will make the state the nation's largest to attempt to impose such a mandate.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Saturday that he signed the bill, which is expected to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state.
A similar law in Louisiana was blocked when a federal appeals court ruled Friday that it was unconstitutional. Arkansas also has a similar law that has been challenged in federal court.
Trump initially sought to negotiate a new nuclear deal with Iran — one to replace the Obama-era agreement that he abandoned, despite Iran's apparent compliance, in 2018.
I feel like this doesnt get enough attention.
Dude threw away a winning hand and is now at the table naked.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, ripped President Donald Trump for his military attack against Iran on Saturday, saying the move is "absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment."
Democrats are splintered on Trump's move to strike the Middle Eastern country amid days of back-and-forth strikes between Israel and Iran as tensions catapulted amid nuclear concerns.
Newsweek previously reached out to the White House via email for comment on the strikes.
my parent's old dog ruka. she lost her eye as a very young puppy before we ever met her, but she gets on fine without it.
she can catch balls out of the air no problem, but cant find them 3 inches from her face once they hit the ground. never quite understood that. she's old and tired now, with achy joints and bad hearing. she didn't want to spend much time outside today with all this heat. i make sure to give her all the belly rubs she can handle every time I see her.
I have a specific song that doesn't seem to be on youtube. I've tried a bunch of spotify download websites plus spotdl, they all claim to find it but then the song isn't the same song (or is instrumental when it should have words).
One of my kids has asked for this for their MP3 player. I'm even happy to pay for it properly, I just can't find it anywhere except spotify. The song is this specific version of Power in Me by The Young Voices Choir: open.spotify.com/track/4xkRsdm…
Any ideas?
Edit: I managed to get the song using spotidown.app, thanks for all the suggestions!
It's not on youtube, which is the issue. SpotDL uses youtube, but it gets the wrong song. I did find a site that did it though, Spotidown, which someone else suggested.
what is the best tablet for iodeOS, GrapheneOS and LineageOS - with smooth stylus support that is as good as apple pen - palm rejection - pressure sensitive stylus - works well for krita / excalidraw / xournalapp - latency - at least 16GB RAM and 256GB storage
For LineageOS - What tablet+stylus+LineageOS has the best performance? - What tablet+stylus+LineageOS has the best balance between price and performance? - Can someone share their stylus experience on krita / excalidraw / xournalapp?
The models below are officially supported by the iodé team. Don’t see your device in the list? Don’t panic! We also support a iodéOS GSI. You can also find here a list of unofficially supported models by the iodé community.
Murena released a tablet with /e/OS, and it's also possible to install it on other tablets. It's still quite early after the release so I am not sure there will be reviews from artists on their specific use of the tablet but you can consider it another option.
Edit: didn't UBPorts release a tablet version of Ubuntu Touch?
I haven't heard of this before. The name was curious "Pixel" so I compared it to the Google Pixel tablet and it's basically identical except for the WiFi chip. You could get a Google Pixel tablet for way cheaper and install Graphene. The Murena tablet seems like a ripoff and it has an account too (not sure if it's optional)
I'm afraid I will have to agree with with @sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today Murena tablet seems to be too expensive and less featured compared with pixel tablet + grapheneOS
I realize my title is confusing, when I say degoogle I really meant completely Open Source and private.
ipad with network disabled?
not feasible in my use case
apple backdoor is highly likely in my opnion
Of course I don't have any proof, but I would assume it runs camera and microphone without us knowing even when the network is disabled. The data is collected and processed locally and send to apple server when network is enabled
speech recognition is integrated in many app and sold to advertiser
I doubt apple could resist the temptation of money and the threat from government not to activate microphone and camera without us knowing
I don't have the responsibility to show you why you are wrong
Oh but you do. You say Apple isn’t any better (or worse off) than Android when it comes to privacy. If that’s the case, you would then prove your claim with facts from reputable sources. Just saying something doesn’t make it true.
I have made my point and clarified myself in my previous comment. If you are having trouble comprehending it you can ask nicely
You say Apple isn’t any better (or worse off) than Android when it comes to privacy. If that’s the case, you would then prove your claim with facts from reputable sources. Just saying something doesn’t make it true.
I would expect your apology for your misuse of language. I would also expect your gratitude in return for the time I spent enlightening you.
None can make a solid conclusion about which one is better because both stock google and apple are closed source. YOU CAN ONLY GUESS
It's not fully featured but the remarkable series of epaper tablets are supposed to be pretty good and run a Linux fork. The supernote family run a version of Android that's very stripped down and doesn't require an account or an Internet connection ever.
Iran announced the first-ever launch of its multi-warhead Kheibar Shekan ballistic missile during the twentieth wave of Operation True Promise III in the early hours of Sunday.
In a statement, the public relations department of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said that this phase of the retaliatory operation marked the debut of the third-generation Kheibar Shekan ballistic missile, successfully striking its intended targets.
The twentieth wave came just hours after the United States claimed to have struck three Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
According to the IRGC, a total of 40 solid- and liquid-fueled missiles were launched at strategic targets across the occupied Palestinian territories on Sunday.
American warplanes bombed three nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday night, bringing the U.S. military directly into Israel’s war with Iran. “NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE,” President Donald Trump incongruously wrote in a social media post announcing the attacks.
Trump campaigned on ending foreign wars during his 2024 presidential run and has cast himself as a “peacemaker.” In his second inaugural address, he pledged to “measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.” Trump also regularly claims to have opposed the Iraq War from its outset. (He actually supported it.)
The Netherlands has officially handed back 119 ancient sculptures stolen from the former Nigerian kingdom of Benin more than 120 years ago during the colonial era.
Olugbile Holloway, director-general of Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments, said on Saturday that the artefacts were the “embodiments of the spirit and identity of the people from which they were taken from”.
HMD will launch a final batch of Nokia feature phones in 2025 before the licensing deal with Nokia ends in 2026. Nostalgic models like 3510 and 8310 return.
The former politician explained that the situations in Ukraine and Israel cannot be compared because Kyiv did not threaten Russia’s existence.
“I don’t quite agree that Israel does not adhere to international law. When a country’s existence is threatened by Iran or Hamas, it’s not so easy to respond strictly according to international law. If some are allowed to declare they want to destroy the state of Israel, then Israel must have the ability to defend itself,” Merkel said.
At the same time, she emphasized that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine violates international law.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that Israeli strikes on Iran cannot be equated with the war in Ukraine, as Russia violated the world order with its full-scale invasion
James Maxton, born on this day in 1885, was a socialist Scottish politician, pacifist, and leader of the Independent Labour Party, a dissident working class party to the left of the Labour Party of its day. He was also a prominent supporter of Home Rule for Scotland.
Maxton was born in the burgh of Pollokshaws (modern day Glasgow), the son of two schoolteachers. He would later become a teacher himself, joining the socialist movement after witnessing firsthand the poverty of the schoolchildren he taught.
Maxton was also a pacifist who opposed both World Wars. During World War I, he was a conscientious objector who refused conscription, and was instead given work on the barges. While there, he became involved in organizing strikes in the shipyards as part of the Clyde Workers' Committee. In 1916, Maxton was convicted of sedition and served a year in prison.
Initially serving as an MP with the Labour Party, he broke with the party under its leadership of Ramsay MacDonald, joining the Independent Labour Party (ILP) instead, later becoming its leader.
One of the best known members of the ILP, Maxton remained a prominent dissident in Parliament for the rest of his life, the only person out of 465 members of the House of Commons to vote against a Motion of Confidence in Winston Churchill's wartime government. Maxton died in 1946, still serving as MP for Bridgeton.
"In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder."
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in reply to klay1 • • •I believe you're talking about the challenges discussed here: blogs.kde.org/2024/09/04/brigh…
If both monitors are messing with your sensors, you may just want to disable adaptive brightness and manually control it. They don't seem to have a workaround for it as of yet.
Brightness controls for all your displays
Brightness controls for all your displaysBjörn Tantau
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in reply to Björn Tantau • • •Zamundaaa
in reply to klay1 • • •That's definitely not something Plasma is doing... Sounds like your monitor is dumb with "adaptive contrast" or just terribly implemented local dimming.