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  • Latest Android 16 QPR2 finally forces all app icons to follow the "Material You" colour scheme, but....

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  • The problem is that they are naively inverting the colors, which doesn't work for photos. Lazy, yeah.

    In principle I think it makes sense (as much sense as the feature in general, anyway). Personally I do not understand the push in iOS and Android to make all icons look the same, but if that's what you want, then excluding shortcuts would be an eyesore, right?

  • Hillary Clinton Says Young Americans Are Pro-Palestine Because They Watch ‘Totally Made Up’ Videos of Gaza Horrors

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  • UN-confirmed

    In case anyone misread that, they mean the United Nations (UN) confirmed it.

    Yes, it's a genocide. Genocide is bad. It's not that fucking complicated.

  • Zohran Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas for NYC transportation team: ‘War on drivers’

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  • Is that picture real? It looks like it should be a KenM post, talking about the very normal-looking restaurant shack instead of the prominent pile of un-binned garbage.

  • RIP Windows: Linux GPU gaming benchmarks on Bazzite (Gamers Nexus)

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  • There is certainly a very big amount of fuckery going on right now with nvidia drivers.

    "Right now" meaning every year for the past decade or two.

    It's always something with Nvidia drivers. Performance+stability is more the exception than the rule.

    That said, AMD drivers have a bad rep too. Personally I've had zero issues since I switched to AMD but experiences seen to vary a lot from what I've read.

    Before that, I don't think I ever got through a full year without at least one weekend lost to troubleshooting Nvidia bullshit. CUDA is a pain in the ass even on Windows.

  • Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy

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  • Jesus Christ what a dumb take. But at least they didn't say that millennials are killing the cell phone industry. I guess that doesn't make for good clickbait anymore.

    Reminds me if the parable of the broken window, in which French economist Frédéric Bastiat explains the painfully-obvious truth that breaking windows is generally a bad thing, even though it drums up business for the glass maker.

    But if, on the other hand, you come to the conclusion, as is too often the case, that it is a good thing to break windows, that it causes money to circulate, and that the encouragement of industry in general will be the result of it, you will oblige me to call out, "Stop there! Your theory is confined to that which is seen; it takes no account of that which is not seen."

    It is not seen that as our shopkeeper has spent six francs upon one thing, he cannot spend them upon another. It is not seen that if he had not had a window to replace, he would, perhaps, have replaced his old shoes, or added another book to his library. In short, he would have employed his six francs in some way, which this accident has prevented.

  • Switch to a Fully free Operating System

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  • I think Debian offers a very good compromise. The primary repos follow the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG).

    Then they have a separate "non-free" repos for "non-DFSG-compliant packages that are considered important enough to make available anyway". If you want to be a hardline free software stalwart, you can do that, and Debian supports you. If you are comfortable making a few compromises for the sake of usability, like fonts and device drivers, Debian supports you on that as well.

  • A comparison of Lineage OS, /e/OS and GrapheneOS by someone who's used all three

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  • To this I'd add that it is very common, and very easy, to install either MicroG or the real Gapps (Google Play Services, Play Store, etc) on LineageOS.

    GrapheneOS has another added bonus of allowing you to install Google Play Services only in the "work" profile, leaving your main profile Google-free.

    Personally, I think everyone should be at least a little worried about their phone potentially being seized by malicious state-sponsored actors. Whether it's a power-tripping cop, airport security, or the New American Gestapo, this kind of thing is only becoming more common as time goes on. GrapheneOS has repeatedly been shown to be resistant to attacks that stock ROMs are vulnerable to, sometimes for months or years after Graphene patched the holes. LineageOS with an unlocked bootloader is likely to be less secure against any USB attack than stock.

    Just my two cents. I love LineageOS but I would never feel comfortable traveling with an unlocked bootloader. Then again, it might be better to take a burner phone when traveling anyway.

  • Questions on lemmy

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  • Lemmy is a federated platform. That's a new (or at least newly popular) term, but it's not a new concept. It's a lot like email, and the answers are going to be the same, for the same reasons:

    Can you be banned from lemmy email ?

    Not really. Your specific email provider might ban you, in which case you'd need to get a new email address from a different provider. Same deal with Lemmy; your Lemmy instance's admins might ban you, but they have no power over other instances.

    Where can i find the rules?

    Your provider will have their own rules. Most email providers will have rules about not spamming, or conducting illegal activity, etc. etc. Most Lemmy instances will have some basic rules that boil down to "don't be a jerk" listed in the sidebar on the main page. I see that your instance does exactly that.

    why do need picture every time i post

    I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate?

  • I’m tired of ‘free’ apps that are just trying to bully me into paying

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  • Hmm, maybe I'm thinking more iPhone 3G era than original iPhone era? I recall a time when there weren't many apps yet and you could put out anything marginally-functional for 99¢ on the app store and get some quick cash from it. I don't remember $10-20 being the norm but maybe that was before I was onboard.

    I've certainly been burned by apps either breaking with iOS updates or no longer being available to download on the App Store (so you could keep using them, but only on existing devices that already had them installed).

  • I’m tired of ‘free’ apps that are just trying to bully me into paying

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  • I blame Apple for setting the standard of $1-$3 for an app with lifetime updates. And also for making it so old apps stop working on newer OSes after just a few years. The business model was broken from the start. It was great at first but the bubble burst in record time.

    That was nearly unheard of just 20 years ago.

  • Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'

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  • Also, people's goals change and "secure" means something different.

    When I was making half as much as I am now, I felt fairly secure. I could pay my rent, I had no credit card debt, and I had a few months' worth of savings. Money was not a day-to-day worry. Most of my peers were in debt and/or living paycheck-to-paycheck so I felt like I was living large.

    Now I am objectively more secure but I feel less secure because I am thinking about retirement, childcare, college funds, and elder care. I have nowhere near enough savings to retire in the foreseeable future. I honestly don't know if I'll ever get there.

  • Man who took Hamilton bus on joy ride 'did a great job' driving, left no dings, say police | CBC News

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  • Canadian police seem pretty level-headed here.

    "There was not a ding on the bus. He did a great job," said McKenna said. "It's comical but at the same time it's serious. We're thankful nobody was hurt."

    "We didn't want to spook him," he said. "We didn't want to make this a tragedy."

  • I almost succeeded to set my Librem 5 phone to work as UVC camera for the computer. Things you can almost do yourself on Linux phone are so much fun then propriety app that do them on android.

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  • I think it's just that Mastodon posts in Lemmy are weird.

    Toots don't have titles so it just duplicates the content, and then you have a mess of @ and # tags that don't make sense in Lemmy.

    Cross-ecosystem federation is cool but also leaves a lot to be desired.

  • Linux MacBooks & the cursed Broadcom module

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  • Debian Stable staying true to form!

    Thanks for the writeup. Good stuff.

  • Facing problems using Bazzite for software development

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  • I'm a software developer first and a gamer second. Being a "gaming" distro does not detract from anything else, really. It just means that getting proper GPU acceleration is easy, and you're likely to want that for development too. That was actually why I chose Bazzite. I was tired of wrestling with CUDA and ROCm.

    It's not "gaming" vs "developing". That's a false dichotomy.

    The real choice is immutable vs traditional. And I'll admit, immutable distros have a big learning curve. But it forces you to learn techniques that will make your life easier no matter where you go. The time I spent wrestling with dependencies on Debian or Ubuntu or OpenSuse just because I didn't know about Distrobox...

    Unless your needs are very narrow and unchanging, you're likely to run into something that's a giant pain in the ass no matter which distro you choose. I used to use Ubuntu LTSR so I could install a few big things in easy mode, but it made everything else harder because it was so outdated. Switched to OpenSuse Tumbleweed and everything was modern but those few vendors don't support it so I had to wrestle with dependencies.

    The answer to this problem is Distrobox. It's the answer on Ubuntu, it's the answer on OpenSuse, and it's the answer on Bazzite. I'm never going back to dependency hell because I can just run everything the environment it is specifically designed for.

    If you're wondering "should I use distro X, Y, or Z", the answer is simply "yes". :D

  • Facing problems using Bazzite for software development

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  • On bazzite, your search order for apps/packages should be something like:

    1. Flathub
    2. ujust. This is more for general configs than specific apps, but take a look at what it offers.
    3. Homebrew
    4. Distrobox
    5. Podman/Docker images
    6. rpm-ostree

    rpm-ostree is a last resort because it compromises the "atomic" principle of the system, but in a pinch it will give you access to anything you could get with dnf on a regular Fedora install.

    Don't sleep on Distrobox. I have a Debian box so I can run Signal from its official repo and install Geany with both GUI and CLI support. Once you export applications from distrobox they behave like first-class citizens within your desktop.

    I strongly recommend trying Distrobox. If you instead hop distros, you're going to find yourself in a similar situation eventually, where something is unreasonably difficult. That's why Distrobox exists; so you can get the best of all worlds.

  • Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones

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  • It makes sense to me IF it actually works.

    Having extra capacity when a device is brand-new isn't a huge boon, but having stable capacity over the long term would be. At least for me.

    Of course this will depend on your habits. If you replace your phone every year, then it doesn't matter. If you're a light user and only go through a couple charge cycles per week, it'll matter less than if you go through 1-2 cycles per day.

    Personally I'm at around 1 cycle per day on my current phone, and after nearly 3 years (over 1000 charge cycles now) the battery life is shit — much worse than just 80% of its original battery life. Performance also suffers. With my last phone, I replaced the battery after 3 years and I was amazed at how much faster it was. I didn't realize throttling was such a big problem.

    I might replace my current battery, but it's such a pain, and it costs more than my phone is realistically worth.

  • "Maybe This Phone ISN’T Just for Criminals - Trying Graphene OS for a Month" - Linus Tech Tips

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  • WTF is up with that title. Jesus.

  • GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend"

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  • I use Wayland now but there are still apps I run in X mode. Notably mpv and Firefox, because I cannot for the life of me configure them sensibly in Wayland, and I don't want to write arcane KWin scripts just to get widow sizing/positioning to stay the way I want them on launch. I tried; it was extremely frustrating and still not quite functional.

    Perhaps there are other window managers that would make my life easier. I haven't tried many, but in principle, there is no way for the widow manager to know the correct size and location of new windows for arbitrary applications, so I doubt it. I consider this a user-hostile design choice in Wayland and I pray it will change in the future.

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