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- Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder 3 days ago:
Oh, I bet. They probably hate GrayJay more though.
GrapheneOS is luckily out of their jurisdiction :)
- Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder 3 days ago:
Lineage, Graphene, and /e/ OS are all forks I believe, not alternatives (since they are dependent on the main Android branch for some updates and feature implementations).
Linux phones don’t really have enough support for the necessary applications to be viable for most people, at least for now.
- Comment on Had to happen sometime 5 days ago:
The hacker known as “4chan”
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 5 days ago:
Regarding EVs I agree with you, but I was referring to battery production.
As for Chinese production leading the charge, I also think that’s apt, but I’m referring to the availability of domestic alternatives for things such as military production, which seems to only being kickstarted recently compared to say the 2010s. Currently, it seems like compromises will have to be made in order to minimize reliance on imported batteries from China, which is not necessarily a problem for the consumer market, but may be for governments seeking isolationist policies for their self-sufficiency (EU, US).
There is still plenty of time for things to change of course, but there are plenty of missed opportunities along the way.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 5 days ago:
Oh, certainly. However, if enough nations had their heads out of their asses and spoke with engineers rather than oil tycoons, we’d have a more competitive and distributed market for these technologies and a lower future dependence on Chinese imports for said technologies.
Right now, I can see a chokehold forming on that sector, and it’s a completely self-inflicted circumstance for those deadset on oil.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 5 days ago:
Facing reality and evaluating technologies through the crucial era of the 2010s with an eye on efficiency and pollutant reduction in the overall energy sector. From there, having the empirical justifications to your nation that focusing on energy storage and further electrification would be more beneficial than fossil fuels.
Rather than doubling down on the existing status quo due to lobbying and sunk cost beliefs from prior consumption rates.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 6 days ago:
recursive
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 6 days ago:
It’s recursive for Wine Is Not An Emulator. The program is a translation layer - including translating Windows specific function calls into something Linux can understand (IE: DirectX to Vulcan).
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 6 days ago:
shake shake
“Hey, you! You’re finally awake. Trying to run Adobe software right? The boys managed to get things working smoothly with a virtualized method. They call it Winboat, a cut down VM that breaks Adobe’s windows infatuation.”
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 6 days ago:
Run photoshop in a virtualized environment such as Winboat rather than directly through translation (Wine). It is a rather nuclear option, but as far as compatibility goes, can’t beat a barebones virtual machine.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 6 days ago:
If you have the activation key/account, you could try installing it through Winboat or similar on your distro of choice, since Winboat’s essentially a per-program VM that should theoretically have perfect compatibility.
- Comment on Took you a while... 1 week ago:
You probably don’t need to do that. There’s lists for DRM free games on steam out there (Toby Fox games are good examples)
- Comment on A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet 1 week ago:
I’d argue if you took the step of explaining some privacy concerns with her existing internet activity with her, and after that conversation, they decided against taking precautions, it’s just their decision to partake in the system.
With that being said, you should take precautions for your own personal devices and things such as appliances/IOT if you are privacy conscious and want to protect the household from leaks.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 week ago:
The FreeCAD team have a series of video tutorials on their website alongside a wiki/documentation for individual functions if you’re searching for those.
Also, there is an interface style called “OpenInventor” in the settings that changes the layout of the toolbars into a near-mimic of AutoDesk Inventor, and if you enable the “Blender” 3d modeling style (warning, does take dedicated graphics hardware to run at good speeds), things like plane layouts and rotating the object should match Inventor as well.
- Comment on Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking 1 week ago:
Placing a bet now: under 10% of vulnerable units will be patched.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 week ago:
Think Nouveau will catch up by then?
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 1 week ago:
Storage capacity for datacenters and other data-hungry business operations (think YouTube scale).
Current alternatives don’t reach the same capacity for dollar without caveats (magnetic tape has an incredibly slow seek time and SSDs are too expensive for non-cache usage).
Of course, AI data harvesting is essentially creating artificial (sorry) demand for even more data capacity, and it doesn’t make rational sense for them to use other forms of hardware.
Fun fact - the scale of data involved is so great that Google famously used “sneakernets” (give an employee a backpack of hard drives and tell them to go from A to B) over traditional internet or intranet connections between their larger facilities in the 2010s, because it was faster.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 week ago:
It’s better with something like Winboat (virtualized windows container) within your OS than something like Wine. This is the same case for other “We don’t support Linux officially because fuck you” productivity applications like Adobe’s suite.
Personally, I moved from Fusion360 to FreeCAD instead, but I haven’t heard anything negative about the Winboat method.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 week ago:
Yes. Especially if said application was developed before 2010.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yes, it is incredibly easy using the module in EmuDeck, and the framerate is very solid (and can be modded and enhanced with things such as internal resolution upscaling)
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This is nintendo we are talking about here, they have enough enemies that most of their consoles get blown open within the first year.
- Comment on Meta Reportedly Cutting About 1,500 VR and AR Jobs Amid Renewed Push to Become an AI Juggernaut 1 week ago:
The index controllers come with integrated finger tracking, the headset displays are higher resolution with better FOV and maximum refresh rates.
Also they’re not meta, which counts for a lot.
The only way I see a Q2 being superior to the index is wireless functionality (which I’ve heard is a situational blessing and curse), and standalone play, which is useless once you need a dedicated PC for any steamVR software (as the games are ran on the PC).
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Tbh a self hosted git or gitlab vs github only really matters for takedowns lol. I wonder how far we could go if the scene just paid a random dude in China or Brazil to just run repositories for warez and reverse engineering efforts that are untouchable by the ninjas.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah the steam deck might be a bridge too far, but I’m sure any modest gaming PC could handle a S2 workload quite easily. If I remembered correctly the deck is CPU bottlenecked for S1 emulation, and that probably will be more pronounced for S2.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Truly, the PS5 of the new generation.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They’re already on some of the basic components - but no retail games are playable yet. Fortunately the architectures between the S1 and S2 are quite similar :)
- Comment on Meta Reportedly Cutting About 1,500 VR and AR Jobs Amid Renewed Push to Become an AI Juggernaut 1 week ago:
A used index will probably cost a 3rd of the price of the Steam Frame ATM, just saying. All you have to do is buy a replacement face gasket (which valve sells for like 10 USD, or you can use a more padded aftermarket one).
No need to wait if you’re trying to get a non-meta headset at meta headset prices (since the steam frame bundle will probably have to be at least 700 USD)
- Comment on Anon tries to save the internet in 2026 1 week ago:
You need to enable the setting in sources for the bypass. Youtube started putting in soft bans for VPN IPs and age restricted videos by forcing users to sign in (even in a web browser). Grayjay does have a bypass, which sometimes can counter the issue (you also can disable the login fallback so you don’t get asked to sign in anymore).
- Comment on Anon tries to save the internet in 2026 1 week ago:
The most powerful statement I ever heard was from when I asked my uncle why he doesn’t take as many physical security measures for his home, despite his educational background (electrical engineer) and knowledge of vulnerabilities.
His reply was simple:
“I trust my neighbors, I trust my neighborhood. If something happens to my family, I can ask around. If my neighbors need my skills or assistance, they can ask me whenever I’m home.”
I hope FOSS communities can reach that level in the common user sphere.
- Comment on Anon tries to save the internet in 2026 1 week ago:
Is there some sort of FOSS UX club we can establish? Maybe partner with some artists?