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  • Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server!

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  • my 2 old phones (usb c) were both replaced because of hardware issues.

    one has a broken power button that is constantly detected as being randomly spam pressed, so as soon as it gets power if it ever manages to boot it either hard reboots itself or tries to call emergency services.

    the other has a flaky usb c that constantly connects and disconnects unless you hold it at a specific angle and the battery is like a step away from meltdown - it can hold charge for a couple minutes.

    I'd be afraid to leave either plugged in at home.

    I guess the article is for people that buy a new phone for fashion, not need.

  • Linux Mobile Friendly GUI Toolkits

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  • there is also the cross platform one by jetbrains - i always forget the name

  • When you are unable to obtain a "free" copy of something, do y'all just give in and pay for the thing? Or just give up on having the thing altogether?

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  • Before it was sold, it was at a university library. The uni I went to had an open library, so anybody could come in. So either a student or somebody from the public, I guess.

  • When you are unable to obtain a "free" copy of something, do y'all just give in and pay for the thing? Or just give up on having the thing altogether?

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  • I have a funny storry:

    there is a book I really wanted to read. It is an old af psychology science book. There is no pirated version of it anywhere.

    I found one copy of it on the used market and bought it because the price was ok (70$).

    At home, I open it up and go through it properly and see that THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTER WAS CUT OUT!!! Literally there were the ends of the pages still bound with strings and you can see a wavy scalpel cut where the rest of the page would be.

    Thats the physical equivalent of an incomplete torrent. Felt so bad.

  • WhatsApp to launch third-party chat integration in Europe soon

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  • telecom is usually enceypted unless you get knocked down to lower g and I never suggested E-Mail or SMS.

  • WhatsApp to launch third-party chat integration in Europe soon

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  • Previously I had to use Whatsapp app to to talk with them

    ah I see where our views split. I just told people what app to find me on and I'd rather call or write mail than use whatsapp for a tidbid of convenience.

    So from my pov the interop will reduce security. From your pov it will be at worst equally insecure.

  • Confession: I don't know what passwords in Linux are for

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  • Confession: I don't know what passwords in Linux are for

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  • I only enter one password for LUKS and have kde autologin

  • Confession: I don't know what passwords in Linux are for

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  • What is Linux protecting us from by using passwords?

    I'd argue: from yourself.

    On windows I often spam clicked through dialogues and popups and without thinking got malware or some other unwanted outcome.

    On linux, when asked for a password it takes effort to type, so I have a moment of my lazy brain resisting and asking "do we really need to do that" and it makes the action more conscious and responsible. I cought myself one step from fucking something up multiple times this way.

    I had some viruses and malware on windows, just like you. But I never had them on linux in mt 15 years of daily driving it.

  • Confession: I don't know what passwords in Linux are for

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  • Thats fine until it isn't.

    Remember all the small folk people the government or other powerfull institutions fucked over in unjust ways for a wide range of reasons (sometimes down to personal grudges other times completely random)?

    Yeah, it would be super easy to put some incriminating files on your computers and lock you up for years. Your grandma would be really sad.

    Also on linux you can set everything to passwordless in polkit/sudoers or a blank password - it doesn't actually force you and I've done that where it made sense (not on a PERSONAL computer)

  • Confession: I don't know what passwords in Linux are for

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  • it always baffles me when people set up disk encryption with the TPM instead of a password

  • WhatsApp to launch third-party chat integration in Europe soon

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  • You just disproven your own first point.

    If you chat with somebody and they have a client that is closed source and thus can not be trusted - your conversation is not secure, even if your client is open source and trusted and secure.

    So interop makes end to end encrypted communication as a whole less secure, not more.

  • Decent 3d scanners under $1000

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  • I guess iphone (one with lidar, so one of the pro models, but it can be as old as 12) with a 3d scanning app might be the best general purpose in this price range...

    Whats also interesting are diy rotating bed scanners like https://fabscan.org/ which come at 200-400$

    There are a ton of apps and rotating table diy scanners so you can look around.

    Afaik hand guided 3d scanners are way more expensive and start at like 3000$.

    EDIT:

    some quick googling showed relatively positive sentiment about the rebopoint products. There is one that is exactly 1k https://www.revopoint3d.com/products/3d-laser-scanner-metrox but you're in for a software license subscribtion after a year of included use...

  • Drewlive github removed

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  • and that kids is why you always do an off service archive

    (first time I heard of this github repo and I'd love to use it, but now it's gone)

  • VNC Thin Client

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  • The Matchbox window manager is normally a good start for this sort of project.

    It displays a single application at a time full screen.

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    Sick of ProtonDB noise? Let us build 'Game Launch Recipes' - tiny YAML + one-click launcher for reproducible fixes

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  • add gamescope config/flags

    I have a couple of games that don't capture the cursor or don't scale properly with my display config

  • KDE's start menu bugs make it feel 100x slower than it is

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  • arch

    no

    I found it pretty easy to see with thedynamic examples. It flashed "no result" for a second before showing a result for example, happened, especially the first time when searching something after a fresh boot.

    For a static example - what the fuck is this result ordering? What do any of those apps except keepass have to do with "ke"?

    here is another, when I want to start teamspeak, steam is the first result like WTF?

    I find it is absolutely insane and deranged UX that the results where the app name STARTS with the entered substring are not at the top of the list.

  • Why go through the trouble to use Arch?

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  • I had much more trouble with keeping my debian/ubuntu installs running for years back in the days. And it was always out of date. Whenever there was a bug, I would search for it, see that it was already fixed upstream and be frustrated that I'd only get that fix in half a year. And then after half a year, dist-upgrade borked my whole install and I had to reinstall from scratch. I remember all the lost weekends of fiddling with it and the stress from needing my pc in working order for my job.

    With arch, I've broken it a couple times in the first 2 months, while doing my ideal setup. But now I have been on the same install for about 10 years. It survived being cloned to multiple new computers and laptops and just keeps updating and working. Been using it professionally of course. Rarely do I have to do a minor fix. 2024 was kind of bad iirc, there were 3-4 manual interventions I had to do. 2025 was mostly super smooth sailing, iirc I had to do 1 or at most 2 small fixes that took less than 20minutes each.

    But I must say, I've set it up in a very deliberate and failsafe way. I can't guarantee the same result if you do anything different from my setup - software choise and process wise. And I've seen pretty bad fuckups on the support forums again and again from other people that do their own approach with arch.

    I guess thats the power of it. It can be molded into very different forms. With Ubuntu you just get spoonfed what canonical cooks for their corpo overlords.

  • KDE's start menu bugs make it feel 100x slower than it is

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  • I tried to reproduce those out of curiosity for a couple of minutes without much effort and I immediately saw that I have about 40% of those...

    But the other 60% seem weird and my menu refused to behave like that. Maybe thats just luck, maybe it depends on version and distro. idk.

    Very interesting and detailed post regardless.