bdonvr
@bdonvr@thelemmy.club
Administrator of thelemmy.club
Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you're reading this.
- 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 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days ago:
At least that’s biodegradable
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 4 days ago:
At least that’s biodegradable
- Comment on China property giant Vanke reports annual loss of $6.8 bn 5 days ago:
TL;DR housing prices are going down 👍
- Comment on Greenland’s new pm rejects Trump’s latest threat to take control 5 days ago:
Maersk? They’re based in Copenhagen.
- Comment on Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos. 6 days ago:
Specifically LGBT apps?
- Comment on Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out 6 days 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 6 days ago:
To be fair even without distortion it’s still huge.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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! 1 week ago:
They’ve put the text in the image to circumvent filtering lmao
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 1 week 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 2 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? 2 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.
- Comment on When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job? 2 weeks ago:
Because as a headless server it’s likely to sit hidden for a long time. This and the always being plugged in is not good for lithium-ion batteries. If/when it starts ballooning will you notice? It’s a fire risk.
- Comment on When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job? 2 weeks ago:
Heck yeah. Not always the best for power efficiency though.
Old laptops also a great choice but I really recommend removing the battery first.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 weeks ago:
Use a separate, not ad-riddled device plugged in via HDMI. If you have a game console it can do this.
I don’t know what’s good for Android TV boxes it used to be the NVIDIA Shield was a well regarded streaming device but it’s really old now. Google makes one (Google TV Streamer) and you can install a custom launcher if you’re a bit technical and the “suggested content” of the stock launcher bothers you. Same for other Android TV boxes.
Apple, like them or not, makes a really decent TV box with no system level ads and an interface that mostly stays out of the way.
- Comment on Post promoting lemm.ee hits 67,000 views and 1000 upvotes in 3 hours. 3 weeks ago:
When you search for a community just pick the biggest one. Really all there is to it. Honestly reddit had the same issue with similarly named subs
- Comment on Canadians cancel U.S. travel plans amid anger over tariffs 4 weeks ago:
I just did some travel to Canada and maybe next week too while I’m here close to the border
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 5 weeks ago:
In theory yes. But remember that Chrome is based on Chromium which is open source. But nobody has stepped up to do a viable hard fork to take power away from Google.
Maintaining a modern browser is a huge undertaking which is why almost nobody except Google, Mozilla, and Apple are really even trying. Even Microsoft threw in the towel.
The more bad stuff is added to Firefox the harder it will be for any forks to keep up removing it while also keeping it up to date. Will anyone step up?
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 5 weeks ago:
Every one of them can, AFAIK. I have a second cheap used phone I picked up to play with Ubuntu Touch and it has a system called Waydroid for this. Not quite seamless and you’ll want to use native when possible but it does work.
SailfishOS, PostmarketOS, Mobian, etc all also can use Waydroid or a similar thing
- Comment on which softwares can I self host without public IP? 5 weeks ago:
I just have a script that checks my IP every few minutes and changes the DNS record as necessary
- Comment on How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history 5 weeks ago:
Good for them honestly
- Comment on Immich: opinion revised 5 weeks ago:
I’m not looking to become a sysadmin
And that’s fine and understandable. But I don’t think that Immich is for you. It’s not consumer-grade software. It’s a piece of Linux server software that requires occasional maintenance and administration. We haven’t seen a breaking update in a while but Immich does occasionally release updates where things will break if you don’t dig in to the config files and reconfigure it.
- Comment on Immich: opinion revised 5 weeks ago:
If you’re self hosting then you could just copy all the files from your server onto an external drive. I have to say that’s not a great backup solution though, and you should learn more about administration of Linux servers so that when things break you can fix them. I wouldn’t rely on it as a safe solution to your photos otherwise.
- Comment on Immich: opinion revised 5 weeks ago:
Are you paying for Immich somewhere? Then you’d have to trust the administrator to back your data up. I had assumed you were self hosting and by managed services I meant like Google Photos, or indeed someone else’s Immich setup.
