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BearOfaTime

@ BearOfaTime @lemm.ee

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  • How does app get notifications when it's not running?

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  • The app has registered for a receiver that's handled by Google Cloud Messaging/Firebase.

    When a message for that app is received by GCM, a broadcast is fired specifically for that app and wakes it up.

  • Met up with some old friends, Yesterday.

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  • Oh, boy, to have my Moto Droid with new hardware inside.

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    [Help] with mounting a FAT32 formatted drive in Ubuntu

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  • *syntax

    (Just an FYI, I'm guessing autoincorrect got you).

    Great notes too, good point about the device name vs device ID.

  • Immich - 2024 Recap 🎊

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  • Immich is part of FUTO now? Great, congrats!

    I look forward to implementing it on my new home box.

  • TIL baking and brewing yeasts produce alcohol to kill off competing microorganisms

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  • TIL too, so thanks for the links!

  • All of Telegram's Lies About Privacy

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  • After Signal's lie about dropping SMS support because of "engineering costs", I really can't believe anything else they say.

    Plus the app experience sucks, it's no better than SMS.

  • Turn off Bluetooth/GPS if is not being used

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  • Really has virtually no battery life impact (this from 15 years of testing many phones and configurations). Perhaps 1% in 24 hours, I'd have to look at my stats.

    May have a slight privacy impact, but given the overall data collection out there, probably unmeasurable. That said, I do turn mine off a lot for the same reason, I just don't believe it really makes a difference

  • As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank

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  • Except companies are already jumping ship to other solutions. One very large company is moving thousands of VMs to an implementation of KVM, virtually eliminating the insane VM licensing.

    Broadcom has all but admitted their own solution is inferior, by converting their workstation virtualization to KVM!

    To Broadcom's credit, the writing was on the wall that versions of KVM would be eating their market over the next 10 years (for example, Proxmox), so they're getting all they can now before their corner on the market weakens.

  • How do I host a site for sharing notes for peers?

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  • Check the self-hosted communities, this is a regular discussion there. I use OneNote and would like to get away from it, but every solution is a mixed bag.

    A couple options off the top of my head:

    Silver Bullet A note-taking app that supports linking. You'd need to host it on a VPS (that's the simplest approach for your use case, I'd think, with any shared app).

    OneNote As students, you probably get Office 365 for a major discount, and honestly OneNote is hard to beat. It syncs to each machine, so everyone has a full copy of a given notebook at any time. Sync is robust, and very slick, with things like showing Author, updates, etc. I do recommend the full OneNote desktop app and not the Windows App nonsense, because the desktop app doesn't require OneDrive to sync between computers, (though it can use a OneDrive location). To share a notebook on a LAN, you just share the folder it's in and other machines will sync through the share (I'd create a user just for the notebook/share).

    One benefit of a notebook being on OneDrive is the ability to sync to mobile devices (Android and iOS have OneNote apps), and sync doesn't depend on other devices being online.

    To make things easier, you could setup two accounts on OneDrive: a primary account that you manage with the initial notebook(s), and a "user" account that you share your notebook with and then give everyone the credentials for. This will make it easier for others to use, since they won't have to setup a OneDrive account. You'll only need to provide a 2FA key for them on initial login - the app will retain the credentials.

    I have a love/hate relationship with OneNote. I've used it for 15 years now, I'd find it hard to supplant, but I really dislike being tied to a proprietary format, and especially requiring OneDrive for mobile device sync.

  • Turn off Bluetooth/GPS if is not being used

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  • Macrodroid, Automate, Tasker.

    But why turn them off?

  • Intel Officials Warned Police That US Cities Aren’t Ready for Hostile Drones

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  • "The mystery in New Jersey"

    There's no mystery, the FAA issued an air restriction for the Picatinny area from Nov 21 to Dec 26, for "special security reasons" - aka some dark development group doing testing.

    Why else would these things have nav lights?

  • Guns

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  • Sounds like you have an obsession with guns

  • Personal Experience Installing GrapheneOS

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  • Frankly, their asshole attitude sucks.

    I had an error flashing it to a Pixel, and dev response was classic "what did you do wrong" instead of addressing the error message, they criticized me. Well, fuck you then.

    Mind, I've been flashing phones since 2010, I've done hundreds of flashes, so I have extensive notes for every phone. My current approach is to use a project management app (MS Project), so I don't miss anything. I'm meticulous - if a step doesn't work as expected, I start over from the beginning, including re-flashing the factory image, until my documentation is spot on (I built desktop deployment images in a former life).

    I'd read other comments about their behaviour, but thought I'd give it a try anyway. Sorry, if support is like that to me while just setting up, what it like if I had a real problem?

    I've also seen the same behaviour when they discuss how their approach is different from other people - they don't seek to clarify how their approach is different, but only to say their way is right, and to denigrate anyone else.

    Graphene is useless to me with attitudes like that.

  • Which android phone should I get?

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  • Samsung Galaxy S4.

  • DARPA wants to modify warfighters’ red blood cells to operate in dangerous environments more effectively

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  • As a civilian, I'd hope they'd show some understanding that we don't give two fucks about their petty distinctions.

    Also: I have family in multiple branches, so I know the difference, and fuck any of them who take an attitude with me over it.

  • I distrohoped many times today

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  • "distrohoped"?

    As in you hoped this next distro would be the one that worked well?

    Sounds like S.O.P

  • how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone?

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  • "Excuse me"?

    "Pardon"?

    Blank look. Shrug, turn around, go back to reading.

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    Permanently Deleted

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  • Which "white people" are you talking about?

    Irish? Scottish? Italians? How about Sicilian? Are Roma white to you? Greek?

    See, that's the problem with pre-judging someone just on immutable characteristics that you believe mean a certain thing.

    Throughout time groups of people have been biased against other groups, for all sorts of reasons, largely just "out group".

    Assuming that only goes one way, and assuming based on skin color alone (again, exactly which color, is there a Pantone code for "white people"?) that everyone in that assumed group have the same experience is just nonsense. Or bias, prejudice, bigotry. Pick whichever you like.

  • NSFW

    what's the difference between classism and racism?

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  • The difference?

    Its right there in the names