The feature is translation. Just say that, OMGUbuntu.

This is definitely shitty.

Related: JerryRigEverything just came out with a video about this and titled "I got robbed" and called it theft a bunch of times. This is copyright infringement, maybe trademark infringement, but not "theft" or "robbery". No property or money was taken from any party such that they no longer have access to it. It's important to be accurate about this.

Edit:

Here is a list of all the media I've found surrounding this that falsely claims stealing, theft or robbery:

• Techlinked "dbrand was ROBBED" https://youtu.be/2yEE34BeBnA?si=i0oKsJRV8CQUs4P0
• JerryRigEverything "I'VE BEEN ROBBED" https://youtu.be/byfWscC87Vg?si=XJosK1Ubor5fWueW
• Engadget "Dbrand is suing Casetify for allegedly stealing its casd and skin designs" https://www.engadget.com/dbrand-is-suing-casetify-for-allegedly-stealing-its-case-and-skin-designs-221012321.html
• dbrand "Casetify stole our products. Now we’re suing them." https://twitter.com/dbrand/status/1727721586856222893

I just got rid of my last Windows installation, and I got rid of all my Apple devices a couple years ago. The Linux life is so nice!

On the other hand, I just setup a Windows gaming machine for a friend (I would have pushed Linux, but I live far away and can't commit to being tech support). There were so many hoops to jump through to cut through all the crap:

• I had to set the region to somewhere in the EU so that my friend can uninstall Edge sometime in March, 2024 without breaking other functionality
• I had to run a hidden script at a specific point during the install to allow me to not have to use a Microsoft account
• I had to disconnect the non-boot drive and reinstall because the Windows installer uses motherboard drive ordering instead of UUID to decide which drive to put the boot partition on.
• I had to run Win Debloat Tools to get rid of all the crap Microsoft adds to their OS
• I had to find a 3rd party driver update tool because the motherboard manufacturer's software is terrible and installs a bunch of extra crap.
• I had to install a 3rd party Nvidia driver update tool because their official one requires making an account and gives a bunch of unwanted ads as notifications.

It's seriously bonkers. It makes you really appreciate Linux as a whole and package managers in particular.

Another great example of why proprietary connectors are stupid as hell. I'm going to be upset when my 2DS XL charger breaks and I can't get an easy replacement.

I have a framework 12th gen. It's great. Fantastic build quality and when I want to upgrade, I don't need a whole new laptop, just the necessary internal components. I can even switch to AMD!

Coreboot is cool, and I can't wait to see the new system76 laptop that is being built in-house, but until that comes out, I don't think I would ever consider the current lineup of system76 computers.

My main motivations are repairability, upgradability, and specificity of components, and system76 just doesn't offer that. They don't tell you what ram or SSD models go into your laptop, they don't sell replacement parts, and there is no upgrade path.

It's worth noting that the top picture in the article is of a kid on a $4400 Sur-ron X, which is strictly not road legal and is capable of up to 45mph and can accelerate to 30mph in 3.5 seconds.

The article explains that, yes, they did plan to move...in April. The Taliban government did, in fact, shut them down ahead of that schedule.

What you're asking for is fairly unrealistic. The only way this could work sustainably would be for something to exist where you host your own tile server and routing service and patch that into OSM. Otherwise, even if the app itself is open source, the backend will cost money to run and will be proprietary.

The reason that OSM is able to be fully open source is because you host the tiles on your phone and do the routing calculations locally.

I just opened up Google Earth in Firefox to see what would happen. It's buttery smooth with basically zero lag on loading assets, and zero lag zooming and dragging around on my 240Hz display.

I have a 1gbps symmetric fiber connection and I'm running NixOS. my Firefox Nix Home Manager config is here:

https://github.com/thejevans/nix-config/blob/main/homeManagerModules/gui-applications/firefox/default.nix

Didn't Anker/eufy have pretty much the same issue a.couple years ago?

Alacritty is really nice and easy to configure, and isn't "tied" to any desktop environment, like Konsole is. Kitty is really cool for its implementation of image display. Foot is a Wayland-native alternative that is also really nice to use.

The todo.txt format and the software being built around it.

Namely sleek and ntodotxt

I wouldn't call this a janky solution at all. The jank is the "smart" TV itself. I use an Nvidia shield to get the most out of my 4k OLED TV, but otherwise do pretty much the same thing. I put my TV on a VLAN that doesn't have Internet access, too.

The cheapest brother laser printer is the one to get.

Not much, apparently.

That's a non-commercial license. It's not open-source, just source-available.

https://github.com/vb000/LookOnceToHear/blob/main/LICENSE

Sorry, he wrote all these? Or did he just own lots of stock in a company that hired engineers who made these things?

I know it's not ideal, but a bar chart design could either focus on the difference over time for each source, or the difference between sources at each time. This plot gives a good representation of both the differences between sources and the change in time for each source. It really drives home how far solar prices have fallen relative to other sources and in absolute terms.

Solutions to systemic problems that rely on personal responsibility tend to have very low efficacy.

other open source mice and trackballs:

ploopy: https://ploopy.co/

jfedor2:

• https://github.com/jfedor2/scroll-ring-trackball
• https://github.com/jfedor2/twist-to-scroll-trackball
• https://github.com/jfedor2/two-ball-trackball
• https://github.com/jfedor2/trackbowl-mk2

I don't understand "collecting"

Don't get me wrong, there are a few categories of things I have a lot of, like film cameras, but that's because I started with cheaper ones, and kept getting better ones as I became more sure that film photography was a thing I wanted to do.

But, for instance, I have friends who collect MLB bobbleheads just for the sake of collecting, and I'll never understand that.

I couldn't agree more. Impact danger roughly scales like velocity^2, so a 30mph crash is about twice as bad as a 21mph one, all else being equal. The easier it is to get up to and maintain 28mph or more, the more likely it is that people will get in dangerous crashes.

Then they could have released an open standard instead of creating a proprietary connector.

Not really. The Taliban took control of .af a while ago. It wasn't them taking control that broke things, it was that they specifically targeted certain domains and took them down using control they had secured previously, with queer.af being a great example.

I do scientific computing and I've used Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch, and NixOS for work.

Any and all of these can do what you need. Hell, you could probably throw your whole development environment into a docker container and use it anywhere. Pick one and go with it.

That said, here are my preferences:

Right now, I really like NixOS and Nix for development environments, but it's a lot to learn, so I wouldn't recommend it unless you were really excited to try it.

Before NixOS, I used Arch on my laptop, and it was soooo nice to be able to build my own desktop environment just the way I wanted it from the ground up, which is possible on any distribution, but the Arch documentation makes this much more approachable. If you are happy with KDE Plasma or Gnome, and you're using well-supported hardware, then I wouldn't say Arch is really worth the time (unless you're excited to play with it).

Fedora and Nobara (a Fedora-based distribution with a lot of gaming-focused presets) have been a breath of fresh air coming off the heels of painstakingly setting up Arch and then NixOS. Fedora is pretty nice out of the box and Nobara has been the best experience of going from zero to gaming even when compared to Windows.

Debian (especially Debian 12) has been fantastic for servers and for machines that don't need to use the newest hardware. It's still my go-to for lots of things.

Ubuntu is fine, but Canonical, the company that makes it, has made some unfortunate choices lately, and with Debian 12 being as good as it is, I don't think I'll ever have a reason to go back.

Side note: One thing to look out for in the near future is System76's COSMIC desktop environment, which seems to be doing a lot of things right. There is already active development to get it working on NixOS, and I'm sure it will be available on Pop!OS from the start. I would also bet that it would be ready to go on Arch not long after. It will likely eventually be easy to install on all distributions, but if you want to try that out as soon as it's ready, one of those three would be a good option.

Relying on individual consumer choices to change the direction of a multinational company to a direction that is clearly less profitable is laughably naive.

Basically everything from https://charm.sh/

you need a reverse proxy.

The best things about the modularity for me are

1. That I can kit it out for different situations. Working on raspberry pis, networking, or 3d printers? Micro SD, Ethernet, USB A, and USB c. Going to a meeting? Dual USB c, USB A, and either HDMI or displayport.
2. That I can pop out an HDMI, displayport, or Ethernet module and hand it to someone else who needs an adapter in a pinch bc it's just usb c.

The touchpad on the framework is nice, but its definitely not as nice as my partner's 2022 MacBook pro 14. I had a Mac before this, but honestly I don't miss the trackpad that much.

Use pcpartpicker.com to build your system to help with compatibility.

Right now you either want a Ryzen 5800X3D or 7800X3D CPU depending on your budget.

For the 5800X3D, you'll want a DDR4 3600MHz dual channel kit for best RAM performance unless you want to overclock the infinity fabric. For the 7800X3D, 6000MHz DDR5. For either, you'll want a set of two sticks, not four. There are more specs for RAM that you can dig into and tune, but getting a kit with good reviews for a good price at these clock speeds will be enough.

For CPU cooler, the Noctua NHD15 is pretty much the best.

For SSDs, if your budget and motherboard allows it, get a PCIe gen 5 NVMe drive, but a PCIe gen 4 drive will probably be fast enough. Go with Samsung, if you can.

For power supply, get something with good reviews with 80+ Platinum or Titanium that can handle your load, and you'll probably be solid.

For GPU, go with a 7900XT or 6950XT if you can find one substantially cheaper.

For motherboard, if you go with the 5800X3D, the ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming motherboard is $110 on Amazon right now, and when I got it a couple months ago, the version I got had a recent enough bios revision to "just work" with the 5800X3D, so you shouldn't need an older CPU to update it like you used to. At this price, this board is a steal. For the 7800X3D, get something with good reviews that you can afford.

EDIT: I would build something close to this: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/yyPLFs

Jitsi has screen sharing and can be tied directly into Matrix

It costs money to host something like that. You want low latency, real-time routing and tile-rendering? Even more money. Sure, it could be funded by donations or something like that, but I'm not holding my breath.

Care to explain how this is clickbait?

Oh I'm fully aware haha, and the article is on a CO site. At the time I made my account, lemmy.ml seemed to be the best option, even with the poor TLD choice.

On top of that, if I'm going to recommend something like this to my less techie friends/family as an alternative to big-tech products, I'm not going to pick something that can't be forked and can be purchased by some bigger company and shut down or squeezed for profit the moment it gets popular.

Alright, you've convinced me. They get ONE more day.

My job is all Google and Microsoft. It sucks, for sure.

What frustrates me more is that students are trained to use specific proprietary tools like Microsoft Office or Google Workspace or Adobe Creative Suite, especially at public schools. The school systems are just further entrenching these tools.

Do you just use podcasts on your phone? If you have an Android phone, AntennaPod, while not self-hosted, works very well and is FOSS. There are other options to "self-host podcasts" to varying degrees:

• PodHoarder: mentioned in another comment, which could be piped into AntennaPod, but I find that a bit redundant for me

• AudioBookshelf: a fantastic self-hosted audiobook server, and an okay podcast server, but is focused around streaming from your server to your listening device, and I prefer to download on wifi to listen later (it was pretty clunky for that workflow).

• GPodderSync: barely supported at this point and missing too many features to be useful in my opinion, but a neat backend for AntennaPod and other players to sync to some degree.

Bonus: the creators of AntennaPod and other FOSS podcasting software are working on a replacement for GPodderSync here: https://github.com/OpenPodcastAPI

EDIT: for RSS in general, I use FreshRSS, which uses the g-reader API to sync across multiple apps. It's awesome.

Yeah, that just leaves the door open for enshittification. "Trust me bro" vibes. This license needs a better Ulysses pact.

Makes GPL-3.0 software. "Please don't share the apk file online"