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- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 1 day ago:
There are significant features being added too. Like satellite messaging in areas with no cell coverage can be pretty worthwhile. You’re right though, most other stuff is meh. I’d like wireless charging for my current phone but can do without it. I have a $250 phone from 2023 and don’t understand why anyone buys a flagship.
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 2 days ago:
New PC hardware is mostly compatible with the old stuff or at least somewhat standardized except at the lowest end. Phone stuff is much worse about that. Idk what a Linux phone would mean anyway.
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 2 days ago:
Yes the HW isn’t comparable to a modern phone though.
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 2 days ago:
It’s worse. Linux desktop is only possible because of the relative consistency and openness of x86 PC hardware. Phones are nothing like that. At best we will have retro Linux handhelds with phone functionality.
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 2 days ago:
Good luck, phone hardware changes very fast though.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 4 days ago:
feddit.org/post/9959466/5697405
[why blocked?] "a contributor made a push from a sanctioned region is what i saw. not even a main dev, and they didn’t receive any warning is my understanding. i might be way off, i’m not a final source:
- Comment on 'An engineering masterpiece' — reviewer raves about fastest large capacity SSD ever built, but it won't be cheap 4 days ago:
With very large SSD systems, these high throughputs mostly come from parallel chip accesses and transfers. Very low latency is more interesting. I’d like to see the numbers at queue depth 1 instead of 512.
- Comment on YSK theres a open source tool to cleanly read webpage articles called 'NewsWaffle' 4 days ago:
Nice, I wrote one of those a few years ago for some specific sites, and another thing that rewrites links to get rid of tracking parameters and other stuff. But Newswaffle sounds more sophisticated, so maybe I can switch or merge.
- Comment on LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System 4 days ago:
Nice I guess, it adds 4g to the older T-deck. I guess with a SIP client app you could use it as a voice phone. The processor is an ESP32-S3 which has wifi and BLE though the Lilygo article doesn’t mention either of those. I almost bought a used T-deck last year but figured it was another thing I didn’t have a real use for.
I’d like to see a receive-only POCSAG pager built into a thing like this. I don’t know to what extent 1-way pager services still exist in the US, but the idea is that it’s a system that sends text messages in the SCA subcarrier of FM broadcast radio stations or sometimes other classes of transmitter. It has mostly been displaced now by cellular phones, but some people like doctors on call still use it, as it is supposed to be more reliable, plus the FM signal penetrates buildings better than cell signals do.
For me though, the main idea is privacy. It is receive-only, so there is no always-on connection sending your location anywhere. People can send you a text and if you’re in the coverage area of the FM station, you receive it. Some of the more expensive plans had regional or nationwide coverage, by broadcasting the message on a whole network of FM stations.
POCSAG itself is a digital protocol for which many software implementations exist, and it doesn’t look too hard to write one. So the main challenge is having an RF receiver in the T-deck that gets a frequency where there is a pager service operating in your area.
- Comment on When Your Threat Model Is Being a Moron 1 week ago:
Yes they have different stuff now, but same idea.
- Comment on When Your Threat Model Is Being a Moron 1 week ago:
Government secure phones are special handmade by the NSA. They are nothing like civilian phones. Obama got the NSA to lock down his Blackberry but I doubt that is doable with today’s mainstream smartphones.
- Comment on When Your Threat Model Is Being a Moron 1 week ago:
Military gear generally has tons of anti-moron safeguards. Unfortunately, Signal is for civilians.
- Comment on Life Without a SIM Card 1 week ago:
I thought about doing that to protect against evil firmware in the phone’s baseband radio, but meh.
- Comment on Federated wiki software? 1 week ago:
I used gitit for a while. It’s got backed and you can propagate it around that way.
- Comment on What do you think might be some fun, positive ways for instances to distinguish themselves? 1 week ago:
There is no need for this.
- Comment on Following the article about old school forums dying, a reminder that there is !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com that is dedicated to promote the Fediverse. Pinned posts have resources everyone can use. 1 week ago:
My only experience with the fediverse so far is Lemmy and I can understand why some forum users might not want to change to it. Too much censorship, too many bots, less continuity of the user base, etc.
- Comment on Following the article about old school forums dying, a reminder that there is !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com that is dedicated to promote the Fediverse. Pinned posts have resources everyone can use. 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what this post is trying to convey. The fediverse is another thing designed to kill old school forums, I thought?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Multifunction copier printer scanners are usually consumer crap. The good stuff is generally single function. Monochrome is more of a solved problem than color, I think.
- Comment on calibre 8.0 1 week ago:
Avoids the need for a network connection or server, though I guess you could run it on a local socket. The UI might be preferable too.
- Comment on Italy demands Google poison DNS under strict Piracy Shield law 1 week ago:
I’m surprised they aren’t making the same demands of the relevant TLDs. Or are they trying that and failing? If yes, why would they have better chances with Google?
- Comment on Why do news articles and such call the governments of countries/groups of countries after the capital? 1 week ago:
It’s a type of figue of speech, called a metonym.
- Comment on calibre 8.0 1 week ago:
Thanks yeah I don’t have a kobo reader so was asking if there was a way to read paid-for kobo downloaded books that have drm, similar to how decss lets you watch DVDs that you bought. I don’t mind paying for books but don’t want a locked down reading device with it’s own crappy software and possible invasive phoning home.
- Comment on calibre 8.0 1 week ago:
Yes I’ve been using the calibre client app under Debian MATE and it’s decent. I’m a Luddite though, so sometimes I convert epubs to plain text with pandoc and read them in emacs or a terminal.
- Comment on calibre 8.0 1 week ago:
I didn’t downvote anything fwiw.
- Comment on calibre 8.0 1 week ago:
Thanks. What I meant is, if I buy a job book off bn.com, can I read it with calibre? Those books usually have drm but maybe calibre can bypass it.
- Comment on calibre 8.0 1 week ago:
Thanks, I didn’t know about that. I might try it.
- Comment on calibre 8.0 1 week ago:
Nice but 1) doesn’t Kobo use DRM? 2) I had thought selfhosted was about server apps. Calibre is great but it’s a client app. Should this post be in a different group?
- Comment on Why are Maries Sues hated while Gary Stus are loved? 1 week ago:
As another example, think of the hate Wesley Crusher still gets decades after TNG. I dunno how Wil Wheaton deals with it.
- Comment on Why is a two-party system considered democratic? 1 week ago:
Yes for some theory about this, see:
- Comment on Multilingual people all must have experienced YouTube's f**kery with auto translation. Still no workaround? 1 week ago:
You can turn off captions, I thought. Uploaders can supply their own caption tracks if they want. Otherwise auto generated ones are available. They aren’t great but they can help.