Mmmh, no idea about that, sorry …
jlow (he/him)
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Cake day: July 13th, 2023
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Im petty sure you don’t need to root a phone to install a custom ROM nowadays (unlocking bootloader, yes. And it is obviously more work installing a custom ROM than buying one that comes with it preinstalled).
I’ve always had a bad feeling about them since I read a pretty damning critique years and years ago (I can’t really recall what it was about now but I think it was privacy fuckups, devs not communicating very well and they included apps from rather shady sources from then internet that could potentially to not very tech-savy people installing malware through their official apps store).
That they somehow managed to fuck up their own cloud infrastructure recently (as others have hinted had) doesn’t really make me hopefull that they changed much from back then. Mind you I now next to nothing about this incedent but if you have a service that potentially thousands of people rely on with their data you should have working backups and rollbacks in place.
(Personally I also just can’t deal with the fucking branding, it just looks pretentious, unsearchable and weird.)
I would (and have) just always gone for Lineage and MicroG with F-Droid/Optanium for FOSS apps and Aurora for the few Google Play Store apps I need. Plus Netguard as a firewall.
Here’s a very in-depth German review of a pretty well-respected security researcher on the not-so-stellar privacy aspects of that ROM:
I’m pretty that Lineage does not fare much better, though. If you’re into privacy the only real option seems to be GrapheneOS which only runs on Pixel Devices 👌
Backups, backups, backups.
1·24 days agoPaseo is still working perfectly fine for me, been using it for years, what features are you missing?
Almost have as many people speak Tamil as Russian? Interesting!
1·25 days agoThis. People always go “It looks like MacOS” but to me esp the icons just look like outdated Linux Mint/Cinnamon from 15 years ago. If people like ot that’s cool, it’s just not for me.
12·25 days agoLove how my heartrate sped up as soon as the three dots animation started to slow down …
Yeah, that sounds like the age old “why so many desktops (or other apps)” debate. Because we can. Because doing new things is fun. Because this isn’t all about being effective and capitalist logic.
You have checked Krita? I’m not doing much so it’s more than enough for me.
Is it easy to get NVIDA drivers, Vulkan, Cuda etc in Debian? I somehow thought that was kind finicky, not sure why …
Can confirm that the Razer BIOS is absolutely bar bones. Never really minded that and as I said aside of the non-working speakers (apparently a known problem with Razer) it was all good.
I’ve used a Razer Blade 16 last year and could never get the speakers to work no matter what I tried. Tested quite a few distros (Mint, Manjaro, Debian) and ultimately settled on Fedora. Didn’t mind the speakers not working much since I used Bluetooth speakers/headphones mostly anyway. Other then that Fedora worked prefectly.
Oh, that sounds nice! I think it would be very smart of Europe to build their own (open-source) infrastructure just in case someone not reliable were to become US president … Can’t hurt to start preparing (better far to late than never …)
I’m really having high hopes of Schleswig Holstein doing of right (I’m also being prepared of these hopes being crushed 😸). A Swiss Linux podcast (Captain, It’s Wednesday) did an interview with one of the politicians responsible for the project and it sounded like the looked at why these projects have failed in the past and are trying to learn from the mistakes:
So I would love if this would be the case (German gov using open soruce software) but tbh this reads like marketing bs to me, sorry. “Aims to transform public administration”, “providing Germany’s public sector with a secure and open-source alternative”. Yes, good. Nice. Cool. But are any government agencies are actually using it? I feel like if they wpild be they’d surely name them …
Not much new for me, already on Plasma 6.2 with Kinoite, but there seems to be an alternative to rpm-ostree coming up (not sure if/why it’s needed/better but if I don’t have to remember when it is “rpm-ostree” and when it’s “ostree” in cli I’m all for it 😸):
You’ve checked out this:
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#subtitle-options
? I think I’ve used --write-subs and --sub-langs all and it worked as expected in the past.
Ah, ok. Very nice!
Lol, the hardcoded linebrakes, haven’t seen that for a while, what a glorious mess.