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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, webpages that mention it get blocked from what I’ve heard. But there’s no way to know if a videogame chat will have it (especially if TLS/SSL is used), so it wouldn’t happen there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Countries/Cities without Walmart's/Giant super centers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was also bored one day and made this image in response to someone sending the same thing but about Lidl ATB gordon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Countries/Cities without Walmart's/Giant super centers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ukrainian here, smaller town. Most stuff is purchased on a street market a.k.a. bazaar. But there are also two competing grocery chains, Tavria V and ATB. It’s like RED and BLU. Left twix / right twix situation. I once saw them sell tiny ass stollen loafs for 12 whole bucks because “it’s a slightly niche foreign recipe so it must be expensive” (and same with pretty much everything else in there). Might not sound like a lot but this is a week worth of (other) food, idk how much stollen costs for neighboring countries but went on amazon.de and scrolled for a little bit to find a similar thing for 2 euro.

  Bigger cities have one or two really large (3+ story) buildings, which are renting spaces for the two competiting grocery chains, arcade halls, casinos, pizza/burger stuff and small stores selling random foods by weight. When one enters, all sense of time is lost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, it’s funny if you can read Egyptian signs!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  crdroid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Memory Foam doesn't actually "Remember," it just deviates from the base and goes back. It's more like Forgetting Foam!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All foam does, you need a unique property for the name

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, see, unlike on x86 where you have the ACPI to detect hardware with minimal device quirks (still a lot of them), everything else doesn’t have that. Well, except some Qualcomm chips, but their implementation sucks and basically only works reasonably with Windows and Windows Phone. So you need a device tree blob (DTB) to tell the kernel where everything is. But enabling all of the drivers in a single kernel build makes it not fit (the partition for that is traditionally quite tight), so you make different kernels per device.

  AND, on Android in particular, lots of features need device specific configuration for all of the small stuff like the proximity sensor and the cameras (a LOT more complex than webcams). There’s GSI, which basically forces the OEM to write drivers and all of that with a stable-ish API to make universal images possible, but it results in a system with lots of tint inexplicable problems that slowly make you loose your sanity in my experience.

  How postmarketOS handles it is that there are basically meta packages per device that depends on the kernel package appropriate to the device (sometimes for a whole platform or SoC, having multiple DTBs inside for each device) that flashes itself to the appropriate partition via a post installation hook, as well as all of the config files for apps that need device specific stuff and don’t already have it upstream (like camera apps).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use MUSL/Linux on a tablet btw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
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  It doesn’t fit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like trains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, everyone on the internet is American

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And how do I explain my income to federal agencies?