As in between them ? Not something I do enough to care about, and I use Zen and Betterbird, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, but I just selected something from Zen and dropped it into a new message in Betterbird without issue…KDE FWIW. There are still some rough edges with flatpak and wayland, but they’re mostly smoothed now. It’s usually permissions (KeepassXC and firefox is a bitch for example, but doable).
Yup, you can just do your Arch (or other distro-hopping) stuff in a distrobox if you want. Break it, blow it away and start fresh, uBlue don’t care… Switch DEs, that’s a one liner (although Gnome and KDE still don’t play well together, so use a fresh user). What’s not to love?
Experienced here, did my time in Arch, learned a lot, perhaps even more than necessary, now retired to Fedora, then Bazzite and Aurora-dev. It just gets out of my way nicely. Something, something, Bell curve meme, plateau of enlightenment meme.
And I would absolutely recommend Arch to a technically competent gamer newcomer as the fastest way to get up to speed.
Horses, Courses.
Pocket high power laser to burn out the camera ? Just make sure not to hit their eyes (or don’t). /s
Second, it sucks that the wrist band thing is being tied with bullshit ai glasses. I would love to see that as a regular input device for PCs and smartphones.
Seconded, have long considered sub-critical neuron monitoring a really good in to ‘thought control’ without the privacy complications. No thanks neuorolink, stay out of my head (at least for many years until the implications and side effects shake out, fMRI also spooks me) but I’m fine with wrists and perhaps voicebox (ala firefox ), you know, voluntary stuff. What are the odds they’ve locked it up in patents and it’s now a tech dead end for the next decade or two…?
Well said, and you’re right, it’s not hopeless. Most people don’t need the latest superphone, personally I want to carry around a good music device, that I can read books on, and preferably have maps. Many like cameras, but I like the idea of a devoted one. The communications (/surveillance) device is a separate thing and perhaps we should think seriously about breaking these things apart, hotspot that you turn on when needed for example. How about a nice general purpose pocketable linux gadget and a secure simple telecom to give it a connection?
I like my qudelix-5k, does flawless 96Khz/32bit LDAC to my Pixel7 (not that I use media that high, but it works well). Balanced output, onboard equalizer, it’s a good usb DAC as well., been solid for 2 years+, goes great with IEMs. It’s a bit pricey and likely to be a pain when I have to go in to replace the battery, but I find myself charging ~ weekly, so Li-ion is good for ~ 1000 charges, perhaps 500 before significant degradation, which is 10 yrs or so. Worth it for my use case.
IMO nerds are mostly not resistant, so much as take pains to actively remove ads from their sight (adblockers, pihole etc, avoiding Meta type crap and so forth). Adtech has been awfully refined over the last century and if they’re doing it right you don’t even know that it’s effecting you, so best to avoid.
Also it’s martial, not marshal, which is reasonably important as martial means pertaining to war, i.e. the army running things.
Thanks anyway, but my backlog of stuff that needs listening to is plenty big enough already.
Automated rotation of a large music library on a weekly basis via syncthing, I prefer an offline solution, (but navidrome is there if needed) ~150Gb containing all my playlists and a random selection of other albums keeps me well stocked with old and new. That leaves plenty for taking photos / video (which all gets backed to immich anyway). I don’t consume video on tiny screens. 256Gb is plenty for me with this system, 128 would probably do fine.
I am however thinking of hacking together a RasPi type device with a nvme drive, good audio and a backlit ePaper screen and perhaps GPS (music, books and maps covers 85+% of my use case, a standalone camera would get another 10+% ) which would reduce my need for a personal surveillance device being on significantly. Project suggestions gratefully received.
If you’re thinking like that, consider a second hand Pixel 8(a) GrapheneOS and 7 years of security updates… Zero crapware. I combine it with a Qudelix-5K which gets me back a very high fidelity (48/96 Khz 32bit) audio jack via bluetooth.
Link don’t work for me, but I’m guessing “Know your rights” by The Clash, in which case kudos.
servicing your own car or modifying the exhaust on your motorcycle (teenagers here didn’t have cars in the first place, actually)
Today’s equivalent is building your own ebike, and it’s awesome and way easier than rebuilding an engine.
Aaand, that’s how you get magic ;)
If it has lots of independent eyes on the code and provides a service I need and can’t find a superior solution to, sure, as I will not be needing any services that disagree with my political opinions and as long as I’m not financially supporting said developer.
or as it goes,
mice lie and monkeys exaggerate
It seems likely that simulated testing (in a computer) will be mature by 2050, it’s under development now.
I’ll second the framework if you’re keen on a new device, but second hand AMD thinkpads are probably flooding the market (they usually are, but 5000 series CPUs are well capable for roblox) and combine it with an eGPU and a monitor for heavier lifting. It’ll get them used to the desktop paradigm, alongside a school capable durable, repairable laptop with reasonable weight and battery life, and you’ll have a video card to get started on that desktop later. Worth considering…
You should be fine on gOS for 6 yrs+, which is how long google promised to keep up with security updates. The device tree (think hardware drivers), which is what google removed with pixel 10 is what is causing grief, is already there for lower pixels. Unless, of course, google comes up with some new fuckery to invalidate the usability of the security updates (pray I don’t alter the deal further…)
Attaching files from Dolphin to mail just works as Drag and Drop (gives you the choice of inline or attachment for images, cool, did not know that). Not sure for firefox, would need a target, but there’s always right click, copy location, paste into any file chooser.