bdonvr
@bdonvr@thelemmy.club
Administrator of thelemmy.club
Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you're reading this.
- Comment on Overclocked Nintendo Switch Modded With 8 GB RAM Is Capable Of Running PlayStation 3 Games via RPCS3 Emulator Surprisingly Well 2 days ago:
Yeah but it’s way easier and less tinkery than what’s described in the OP
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 4 days ago:
It was always shit. IIRC wasn’t it started by some guy who was mad Something Awful didn’t allow loli?
Gross
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Well for some items it’s definitely easy. Laptop for example just say it’s your laptop. No box or receipt you brought it with you. But it has to be like 1. And it’s still illegal.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Yes. But only one or two things at a time. It’s illegal but like you said if you just say you had it when you entered Canada you’ll probably get away with it.
If you come over with 100 laptops in your trunk you will almost certainly be forced to pay import duties on them.
- Comment on Has anyone told MAGA they are free to shut themselves off from the rest of the world all on their own. Honestly they do a pretty good job of it already. 1 week ago:
That is definitely not Austin
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 1 week ago:
Hopefully not here
- Comment on Which Lemmy instances have signups without registration? 1 week ago:
I do occasionally turn it on when there’s waves of spam sign ups.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
It’s pretty open hardware I’m sure it would be very easy to flash it to Fairphone’s OS
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 1 week ago:
You can compile iOS apps other ways… But IIRC to publish them on the app store you’re supposed to use XCode
- Comment on How do I request an inactive community on Lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
You can be moderator of a remote community
- Comment on Every non US market could impose their will, simply by banning imports of products that use, or reference SAE instead of metric. 2 weeks ago:
If we could get the who world to team up and do anything we’d be in a better place
- Comment on Don't ever hassle a dog when on a plane 2 weeks ago:
Jeez dude who shat in your cheerios?
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 3 weeks ago:
Sure. Looks like on Ubuntu Touch the only thing not working is the fingerprint reader
devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/fp3/
The OS in general isn’t ready for daily use though. It’s maybe doable if all you need is text, calls, camera, and a browser. And the calls only work in some countries. But it’s fun to play with.
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 3 weeks ago:
Do you in the US or Europe? There are some possibilities out there, but it’s kinda region dependent.
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 3 weeks ago:
It seems like Linux-compatible handsets stopped around 2021. Except a few bespoke models that are hard to get your hands on outside of Europe.
I have a OnePlus Nord N10 flashed with Ubuntu Touch as a tinker device, unfortunately in the US it’s not daily-able because we shut down 3g and 2g networks and they still haven’t managed to get VoLTE working on Ubuntu Touch yet (though it may be coming in the next year!) so phone calls don’t work.
There’s also the Pixel 3a/3a XL which are plentiful and cheap but I like the N10 a bit more because of the additional RAM. Makes it feel a little less old compared to the Pixel.
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 3 weeks ago:
At least that’s biodegradable
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 3 weeks ago:
At least that’s biodegradable
- Comment on China property giant Vanke reports annual loss of $6.8 bn 3 weeks ago:
TL;DR housing prices are going down 👍
- Comment on Greenland’s new pm rejects Trump’s latest threat to take control 3 weeks ago:
Maersk? They’re based in Copenhagen.
- Comment on Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos. 3 weeks ago:
Specifically LGBT apps?
- Comment on Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out 3 weeks ago:
Si preguntás el mundo hispanohablante, estarán de acuerdo contigo.
- Comment on Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out 3 weeks ago:
To be fair even without distortion it’s still huge.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 3 weeks ago:
In here absolutely everyone knows this stuff and it’s all just common knowledge.
Absolutely not. Not even close.
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 4 weeks ago:
Employees in Florida (and most states, like ~40 states) have no laws that require breaks. Many states do/did require that minors get them though
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 4 weeks ago:
The VAST majority of US states (last I checked it was ~40 states) have NO law requiring breaks of any kind for workers. (Sometimes exceptions for minors and medical reasons). And there isn’t a federal rule either.
Most employers do allow/require them, but with spotty enforcement.
It’s actually insane. And generally no limit on shift length either. They can make you work 36 hours no break and fire you for looking tired.
- Comment on FOREX is not for the faint hearted 4 weeks ago:
Yep. ATM or call your bank before you leave they can often give you foreign currency with advanced notice
- Comment on Finally, FINALLY! SENPAI NOTICED ME! 4 weeks ago:
They’ve put the text in the image to circumvent filtering lmao
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 4 weeks ago:
Incredible game. If you ever get the chance I 10000% recommend playing it.
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 5 weeks ago:
Google gets to control the source code, what additions are added, and what features don’t get into it.
Yes technically some organization could fork it and then maintain a fork themselves. But it’s a huge undertaking that almost nobody has the money to fund. Browsers are free so there’s really not a lot of monetization schemes for browsers.
So nobody as far as I know has really been able to maintain a hard fork of chromium for very long. Remember, every change you make then has to be maintained by you and then you have to keep it up to date with the chromium master tree while also keeping all of your changes compatible. It is a big undertaking almost as big as modern operating systems. Browsers are just too complicated so Google in this position does still have a monopoly that’s very hard to fight.
Almost all browsers other than Safari and Firefox are based on Chromium, which gives Google a ton of control.
- Comment on When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job? 5 weeks ago:
You can typically replace the battery inside the UPS (and should every few years). Looking at $40-50USD for “official” replacements, less for questionable third party ones.
