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Is there any proprietary Android app for which you wish there would be an open-source alternative?
  • I've been a paying bitwarden customer for years but i through they were moving more towards free software and not away from it... Makes me consider quitting my subscription. Why do they do this?

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    Getting into EDC: Bag vs Pocket?
  • What kind of phone flashlight do you have? In my experience my fenix e03r (or even a e05) blows a phone light out of the water and is a lot more practical to use. Personally i find my keychain light to be the most ofen used edc item closely followed by my small swiss army knive.

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    Fedora proposal to change default desktop to KDE
  • Ah i see kde has fixed the issue where dropdowns had broken behavior when scrolling https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/-/commit/f6ca218607ff7e5d5066eb3224154c3256cb9516 this was my main blocker why i couldn't use it when i tried it around 2020. Maybe i could give it another try?

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    Windows 11 now supports USB4 at 80Gbps, also known as USB 4 2.0 | Faster USB4 devices could start appearing in 2024
  • Actually the naming scheme you propose e.g. USB4 80Gb is the real naming scheme! It's officially what the specification demands manufacturers label their products. "USB4 version 2" and so on are explicitly only the names of the internal standards that only concern people writing drivers or designing chips.

    I have no idea what tech journalist are smoking. This has been a problems for so many years but they keep using the internal names. I mean nobody is complaining about having to always say "IEEE 802.11bn" instead of WI-FI 8

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    Fortune Teller
  • Reimplements in C

    Segmentation fault (core dumped)

    change code so it no longer segfaults

    still is UB, has arbitrary code execution vulnerability

    everybody dies

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    Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February
  • What non standard thing are they doing with the power supply? The PSU looks like a regular usb c PD supply to me (even supports 12v, nice!)

    Edit: wtf! 5v@5a yeah thats non standard. What were they thinking?

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    Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
  • The tweet in the picture is from April 17 2022. so as of today it is. 1 year 8 months 5 days old.

    https://twitter.com/Ciara_BK/status/1515504916600606720

    Of course i cannot say whether this is thefirst time this joke was made.

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    Who uses pure GNOME (no extensions)
  • The system tray is the one thing i need to see that/if email/steam/chat is running and if there's new messages. Otherwise gnome works great for me

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    If only more Linux programs followed sandboxing best practices...
  • There are portals: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/desktop-integration.html#portals . they allow secure access to many features. Also any flatpak app still have access to Private filesystem, just not to the host.

    Doesn't work for all applications but for many sand boxing is possible without a loss of features.

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    "First remove the closed source vendor lock in from your own codebase before checking for license issues in your neighbor's codebase" Engineerings 5:33
  • Edit: the meme says “closed source” which is patently false for Mongo

    No, MongoDB is closed source, proprietary software. You might be confusing open source with source available.

    Edit: Actually I am wrong sorry. Closed source is not the opposite of open source. I didn't read your comment exactly enough. MongoDB is not open source, it's not free software, it is source available and thus not closed source. The things below are still true but don't contradict what you said.

    The SSPL is not a free software license and it is not an open source license. The OSI said so:

    https://blog.opensource.org/the-sspl-is-not-an-open-source-license/

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  • It might sound surprising but it makes a lot of sense to have different standards supported over USB-C. USB-C is just a form factor of the connector.

    For USB 3 or USB4 speeds you physically need more wires in the cable, while for USB 2.0 you only need 5 wires. Also if you want really high data transfer rates of 40 or 80Gbit/s the cable can only be around 1 meter or 3 feet long.

    So because USB-C supports different USB versions, a charging cable can simply be USB 2.0 and be cheaper and long and do it's job just fine.

    If USB-C was only USB4 it wouldn't be all that useful. Devices like wireless mice or DACs or game controllers wouldn't/ couldn't use it and the cables would all be thick and expensive and short. And for charging regular things we'd still be stuck with micro USB.

    The only downside is that, yes if you are doing a thing where you need high speeds such as connecting a screen or external disk to a PC you do need to check that you're using a high speed cable, but pretty much all good quality fast cables have the speed printed onto the connector housing.

    But yes the iPhone restricting speeds to 2.0 is strange and most definitely just a trick to sell more pro models. There are plenty of devices that simply have no need for anything besides 2.0, be it because they send no data or just very little. But phones really aren't in that category.

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    Unity reveals plans to charge per game install, drawing criticism from development community
  • The only "drama" I recall is that one guy, who ran an unofficial forum, went on a weird rant about how Godot is a scam because he thought development was too slow or something. He then shut down his unofficial forum. That's a long shot from "being destroyed".

    But maybe I missed something?

    (Edit: I had misspelled "forum" as "form". Sorry if that confused anybody)

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    Wayland or X11? Why?
  • I get screen tearing when gaming on x11 so i use wayland and I only switch to x11 if i need to screenshare on discord.

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    Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man?
  • Well it being in the middle of a desert makes it more wasteful.

    But yes giant festivals that encourage a lot of travel and needlessly burning things are in general wasteful and potentially excessive. There are other leisure activities, so discouraging festivals is not equivalent to working nonstop.

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  • So I want to try out using an ANSI layout. I've been using ISO all my life but there just are so few keycaps supporting ISO... I was thinking of getting a Ducky One 3 Yellow SF and putting Kalih Box Navy Switches in it and combining that with a Akko Black & Bronze ASA keycap set. I initially wanted to get the Akko Starry Night keycaps but they are no longer available locally to me. What do you think about that? Is the ducky a good choice? I like how compact it is and yet it has arrow keys.

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    So HP calculators have been ... well not frequent. And from the perspective of a casual calculator user HP might as well not exist. If you wanna buy a new useful scientific calculator it's TI or Casio and maybe sharp. However with the recent announcement that there would be a collectors edition re-release of the HP 15c it looks like the new owners of the HP calculator brand do care! Well at least a bit. So what do you think they will do next? Do you believe HP still has a great calculator in them? What would be your dream HP calculator?

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