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  • The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started

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  • The thing currently costs at least 50% more than the closest equivalent LiFePo4 from the same brand. The only real advantage seems to be it's ability to handle sub freezing temperatures, but usability still drops dramatically (both capacity and available power delivery). Everything else is straight up worse in this one in direct comparison.

    It's only the first product, so it'll most certainly get better. Also as numbers of products sold rise, costs fall. Once these are cheaper, that are a real choice.

  • ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times

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  • Teams actually works just fine. I'm my case installed from the AUR using the electron already present anyways. Zero issues. More specifically zero additional issues compared to Windows.

  • Got 'em

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  • It's level, not flat. Measuring flat-ness is a whole different complexity and ball game.

  • Which distro for a non-technical windows user?

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  • First two seem fine. Just commenting to actively discourage Ubuntu, as it does many things bad or just weird.

    If you expect someone to need a lot of real windows programs (wine) or games, look for something pre-configured to be hassle free. Like Nobara or Bazzite (both fedora based).

  • Trello or any To-do list alternative?

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  • There are too many to list, as everyone and their mother include a kanban-style board now. Included by default in NextCloud. Trivial to host standalone versions are also relatively plenty. Basically I'd look for someone that fills other needs, it'll probably come with one anyway.

  • Oh the humanity

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  • Back left is the second most used one in our house, cause it's the 2nd largest. No idea how universal that is...

  • Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?

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  • Didn't notice anything like this, not even slightly.

  • As Microsoft bids farewell to Windows 10, millions of users won’t

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  • No, if you're in the EU you get 1 year updates free.

    Microsoft has already made this available many months ago to US and the rest of the world, but required the weird MS login and settings backup to OneDrive. This is against EU rules, and the ruling that it isn't ok came like a month ago or so. Since then Ms has been scrambling to make this possible, but I know many people who didn't have the option even a week ago.

    If you're in the US or most of the world (but not EU), you can enable 1 year of updates by logging in with Ms account + backing up settings once per OneDrive. This enables updates, and you can instantly undo both things again, which won't undo the update status.

  • Valve launches the Steam Next Fest right on Windows 10 EOL because they hate me, specifically (also, distro-picking).

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  • I've gone with CachyOS, frankly it just works. Can recommend. You can tinker more if you want to, but there's no need.

  • Windows 10 End Of Life - Your Story

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  • I've finally swapped over my main personal (gaming) PC 6+ months ago. Should've probably done that a lot sooner, but lazy. I knew I wouldn't upgrade my Win 10 to 11, and didn't wanna wait until the last minute, but have fallback options and time to distro hop if needed.

    I'm not new to Linux at all, as most servers I'm running (personally or in my job) are Linux based. Debian, usually, cause servers. But I haven't used a Linux desktop in well over 20 years.

    My choice fell on CachyOS, as I wanted something pre-configured for performance/gaming/wine, but kinda dislike fedora (rules out Bazzite, Nobara, and actual fedora). Also in the running was PikaOS, but I tried CachyOS first and stuck with it. I had no experience with Arch, but what a brilliant base that turns out to be for me. Love the rolling up-to-date-ness and AUR accessibility. I'm used to having to contort myself to get a more current version of software, possibly compiling from source and screwing with dependencies, but everything is literally just there and up to date. Critically, all games basically just worked. Everything just worked. EXcept all mail programs suck to an unexpected degree, but that is literally my only complaint.

    I do use the EoL of win 10 as an opportunity to get people to move over or at least try it out. Depending on their use case, I usually still recommend Mint for non-technical people, mostly because searching for help from a Windows convertee likely finds appropriate solutions. The more technical ones get personalized recommendations, depending on context. For example I do have a colleague who spends half his day complaining about anything Microsoft, but still uses Windows at home, but that is mostly because of a single piece of software (and so far I haven't been able to get that to run, but haven't tried very hard yet either).

  • Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones

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  • The attack seems similar to sidechannel attacks for CPUs, where you'd essentially read protected memory by observing side effects. Same idea but with pixels sent to the display.

  • DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source

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  • The critical thing with these is response time. If it's even slightly too high (I think 20-30ms is easily too high), some/many people get very motion sick. Getting that time down as low as needed is also not trivial.

    With it only being 60 Hz on the controller itself, that's basically impossible to hit. That's 16.6 ms already. Then the processing, sending to the PC, and the PC reacting has a budget of just a few ms? Yea, not happening.

    I'm assuming he's really not sensitive to this. As it's open source now the people who are sensitive can improve it. That's the beauty of open source after all.

  • Videobombing

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  • Why is whoever filmed this clearly not able to comprehend that holding the phone sideways would probably be better?

    Or is it a compilation of entirely 16:9 content letterboxed into a vertical video?

  • I just found out my fiancee wants to switch to linux, lets start a distro war, what should be her first? + other questions

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  • Not really possible, because how a desktop feels or what can be configured it's hard to show on a website. Especially how you can visually adapt it. And what you can configure in general. Running it from a live USB takes like 5 minutes.

    For example KDE is also very close to Windows, but can also be configured to behave more like a Mac. Visually most desktop environment can be themed. Cinnamon just got additions to be able to theme gnome apps globally I think? If you want to use a central dock like a Mac and have running apps at the top, that's just a master of setting that up on KDE.

  • VPN Comparison 2.0

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  • So then delete the row. OP, you control the spreadsheet, right?

    I can't speak for others, but I personally appreciate the info anyway. Because I wouldn't trust a VPN company that's been around for like 3 months. And it allows you to judge a track record with context.

  • Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica

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  • Mine are of course also on a VLan but with no Internet access unless they need it for everyday operation (like a radio, or the amplifier that can play Spotify).

    We don't use the manufacturer apps at all. Everything is integrated into (fully local) home assistant. No need to open a specific app to operate a switch, or a light. Everything in one place. Trivial and incredibly clear. Things that can be are of course automated.

  • Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica

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  • Just because it's a "smart" service doesn't mean it has to connect to the Internet or a server or the manufacturer. If it does neither, it can't be turned off by them.

    All my devices run local-only protocols. Nothing leaves my house. The devices that would be proprietary were reflashed to tasmota (fully open source, local only). Others are either Zigbee or Shelly. While Shelly has a cloud connection, it's fully optional and disabled by default (including automatic updates). The hardware is also supported by tasmota, and reflashing is always just 5 minutes of effort away.

    There is absolutely nothing that any manufacturer has to do to keep my stuff working. I have to do a little something (keep my tiny server on, basically). But more importantly there is nothing any manufacturer can do to stop my stuff from working.

  • How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels

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  • As I'd replied to a sister comment of yours, I didn't even consider that the author could be talking about actually available power, so that's on me. I did go re-read it and I really don't think that's how it is meant though. I do think they are just ignorant on this point.

    That being said, "balcony solar" isn't limited to 800 W in panels. It's limited to an 800 W inverter, but 2 kW for the panels. So you can have quite a bit more capacity in solar compared to the inverter, which also means that worse weather impacts you less. When you got a full sunny day, you can have the full 800 W for much longer, if not most of the day, as it'll essentially be limited further down the chain. On the other hand I do think the most common size actually installed is much closer to also only have 800-900 Wp (basically 2 panels), which is the most commonly offerend (and presumably sold) kit size.

    We also have roughly 8 kWp installed, and obviously on cloudy or dark winter days we're an order of magnitude away from that number. There are days where we break 40 kWh in production, and there are days where we barely make it to 1 kWh. That low is very rare, even in winter or on dense, cloudy days, so I'd consider 4 kWh a more realistic minimum value. We have relatively detailed monitoring of most (relevant) consumers, which is why I have a somewhat good idea of how much our house consumes in practice. Before this full size installation, we had a 2 panel balcony solar "test setup" for quite a while. It was actually quite a (positive) surprise on how many days we essentially covered the majority of our daylight usage with these panels. Obviously not for the big-ticket consumers, but even a washer/dryer will be mostly covered.

  • How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels

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  • Ok, fair point. But even considering that as an option, it's not at all how I read that paragraph even if I actively keep this in mid.