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  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • Nope, only the banking app can be used to generate the code.

  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • There are a couple of issues with that mentality, there are some countries in which money transitions almost entirely revolve around proprietary apps and services, Sweden for example (a decent article that talks about Sweden in particular). In my country, I can't find any public information on which banks require apps and which don't. The bank that I am currently using does have a website, but I have to login with a one-time password generated from an app. Also, going to a different bank assumes the same bank won't do the same and exclusively require an app down the line.

  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • Yup, privacy (and many other things) should be done to ones ability and not to ability of others.

  • Is there still any hope for privacy phones? 2025 and beyond

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  • Depends, if it is used as a dumbphone (calls, SMS, being in sleep most of the time), it is okayish. However, going outside dumphone sphere, it becomes cumbersome to use.

  • nvidia 470 on debian trixie (kernel 6.12). any ideas?

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  • I gave it some thought, I think that you are getting slowdowns because of some kind of a bug and not due to slow speed of the GPU.

    I have actually daily-driven a MacBook Pro 15-inch 2009 with a GeForce 9600M GT and even at 279 Mhz core, it was usable on Manjaro KDE, animations were a bit laggy, but nothing compared to what you are describing.

    I still remember trying kernel 6.7 or 6.8 and immediately seeing MUCH worse performance with constant lags. I have only consistently used kernels 6.1, 6.6 and 6.12 on Manjaro on that machine, all of them with decent experience. I would try some other kernel if that's possible, but considering that you have tried 6.12 and 6.16 at this point, I am not too hopeful.

  • nvidia 470 on debian trixie (kernel 6.12). any ideas?

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  • Oh that sucks. Other than that, I don't have many other ideas, maybe get a cheap used ATI/AMD card, even if it is worse on paper, as they should be decently supported, unlike Nouveau.

  • nvidia 470 on debian trixie (kernel 6.12). any ideas?

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  • Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC

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  • Yup, it happened to me, installing necessary vlc plugins fixed the issue.

  • Which distro would you install on a celeron 2gb ram laptop for a lay person to use?

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  • Yup, two years ago I installed Q4OS with TDE (basically KDE 3.5) on an old Penitum 4 1.8 Ghz computer with 2 GB of RAM and integrated graphics (Intel Extreme Graphics, part of the Intel 845G/845GL/845GE/845GV chipset as far as I remember). I wasn't pleasant, even just using the computer was sluggish.

  • Bourbon Blaze

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  • For a second, I thought that I was looking at Bomb Voyage from the Incredibles.

  • e-waste go brrrrrrr

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  • Mine is 2009 15 inch model. I love it and I have been using it for more than a year. However, sometimes it is quite annoying to use, battery barely holds a charge, it sometimes completely freezes for around 10 seconds (with a lot of ata errors, I am assuming that the SATA cable is the culprit), fan are rattling and Nouveau sometimes breaks itself. The problem is that replacing all these parts would get really expensive, at least if I bought most of them from iFixit.

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    what is the BlueStacks for Linux?

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  • Yup, pretty much that. I really hope an open source ARM to x86 translation layer will be developed in the future, right now you have to install one of them (libhoudini or libndk) separately.

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    what is the BlueStacks for Linux?

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  • It is definitely very performant. However, it was a pain to set up when I first tried to use it. First installing it, then installing an ARM to x86 compatibility layer, and then certifying the device for Google Play to work (which in hindsight isn't necessary considering that Aurora Store exists.)

  • what is your Favorite passwords manager and why

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  • Same, I do however also write all of my password in a notebook, so I don't lose them if anything bad happens.

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  • Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. I should have really had this information a year ago when I was constantly screenshotting Google Maps, LOL.

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  • Same, I have recently installed LineageOS on my phone and was looking for various replacements for Goggle apps. What I really like about OrganicMaps is that it downloads the maps locally, so you can view it even if you aren't connected to the internet.

  • Does anyone know if any of these can be rooted or custom ROM very easily?

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  • GSI (Generic System Image) ROM-s do have bare-bones apps due to their nature of being mostly designed for developers. That won't really be a problem as you can just install better alternatives to those apps. The problem with these ROM-s is that they most likely won't have drivers for the camera for example. Also the phone has to be Treble-compliant and it has to come with Android 9 (ie. it has to be preinstalled, devices that have been upgraded to Android 9 aren't supported.)