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  • Is Signal safe?

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  • Isn't simpleX also starting shitcoin crypto scam enshittification? https://feddit.org/post/20942973

    Also apparently the founder is also a raging right winger his twitter account aources and supports fascist states. It doesn't mean the technology isn't good, but makes donating to the project supporting a fascist...

    At that point, delta chat might be the better option.

  • Recommendations for data backup solutions ?

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  • It's a bit difficult. I don't have the money for an entire 2nd server on my network and $500 in HDDs just for a backup solution as part of 3/2/1.

    I have 3TB of fault-tolerant-ish data in a ZFS mirror then 12TB in a third, single drive full of stuff that I don't care a ton if I lost (media and stuff mostly)

    Maybe I could back up the more needed data to Hetzner or something for cheaper, but it still adds up.

  • What's the biggest case of planned obsolescence you've dealt with?

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  • It's funny, because if they just made this a "battery preserve" option, it would probably be hailed as genius and put in every single phone on the planet by now.

  • We're in the worst timeline

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  • More like they lose -1 house seat.

    Then a few weeks later trump again comes out and says "thank god we could win because my paid staff know so much about those voting machines"

  • Denmark Flags the United States as a Security Risk for the First Time

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  • Denmark is also the leader of the EU movement to break encryption, mass surveil all EU citizens (to make sure nobody pushes back against the corporate bank ownership , but "for the children's of course), then because they broke encryption, ultimately give access to everyone's mass surveillance data to foreign nations and bad actors.

  • New Fairbuds XL released. With better sound, more comfortable and sustainable materials, and backwards compatible components (you can upgrade your older version). And same price.

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  • It is their second run at earbuds. The first, released with the first phone that they didn't have the 3.5mm jack on (fairphone 4) were promptly discarded, unsupported, and ewaste.

    "Fairphone True Wireless Earbuds" for 100€, released November 2021, dropped in October 2023, <2 years from launch. Cheap Anker wireless earbuds are supported longer.

  • Linux GPIB Drivers Declared Stable - 53 Years After HP Introduced The Bus

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  • I am actually debating getting a serial adapter for it. At my work we have an old Norma 3 phase power meter that is an unkillable beast with a very good update rate, and it only has GPIB but as we modernize, it could definitely be used to automate testing.

    It was worth, in today's money, like 100k€ or something crazy.

  • What's your boomer trait?

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  • Dear god there doesn't have to be an app for everything.

    Make a website and if you really want an app-like experience, make a damn PWA. No, I don't want to download your terribly optimized, huge app to get a receipt...

    I'm sorry, but to get my UK ETA for traveling for work I had to download an app that I will literally use 1 time in 2 years because it is valid for 2 years. It could easily be done with a PWA.

    It is not more secure, it is less secure for the end user as apps have been caught many many more times stealing data and being malware compared to a web page where you generally have to download malware.

  • Locked

    TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally ill

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  • I would be interested in seeing compiled statistics of how many fell without capitalist interventions.

    The CIA themselves have stated how active they were in the 20th century with corrupting, breaking down, and ultimately overthrowing communist regimes and installing dictators.

    But also socialism with worker owned co-ops and only infrastructure and regulations through a central government may somewhat be a good direction to go.

    The crux seems to be that all forms of government are susceptible to authoriatarians because people themselves are very susceptible to authoritarian strong men and propaganda, inherently.

  • Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN.

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  • Yep, openvpn with factory firmware. It even had a (limited) choice DDNS services for self hosting, on a cheap consumer router. I could never figure out if NAT hairpinning worked though.

    Almost all routers have an "advanced" section where you get a lot if these nice options.

    I have only bought a ubiquiti device in the last few years though, so I guess it is possible that routers have been enshittified like a lot of tech products with features locked behind a paywall.

  • Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN.

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  • Sure, but you can't access your home network anyway if your router is turned off...

    I have yet to encounter a router made in the last decade that couldn't. Asus routers, even my 15 year old tplink archer A7 could, ubiquiti always can, openwrt, pretty sure at work we did testing with a dlink router and it also had that option.

    Pretty much if you don't use a Linksys 100Mbps router from 2005, you can at least do openvpn if not wireguard.

  • Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN.

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  • You can even use an ESP32 or similar since it just has to perform 1 tiny function.

    Getting an WT32-ETH01 knockoff dev board for 15€ or PoE for 25€ and uses <300mW with the wireless modem off. You could even just use a WiFi module for 8€ if you don't want something wired.

    https://registry.platformio.org/libraries/a7md0/WakeOnLan

    There is already an wakeonlan library to generate a packet very easily.

    You can even do it in pseudocode with ESPHome if you have HomeAssistant

    https://community.home-assistant.io/t/solved-wake-on-lan-packet-from-esp32-to-ha-server-how-to-automate/617595

    Then VPN in, send a signal to the esp using one of various methods to tell it to send the packet.

  • No more gmail? My switch to European alternatives.

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  • Isolated on their own vendor lock-in without IMAP maybe?

  • Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month

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  • Yes but they force you to use GTK apps by default for the core apps.

    They even replaced Discover with Bazaar where you can't see certain package types (like mangohud) and have to install them manually, can't browse by category and just get "selected" games shoved in your phase, as well as getting no update notifications and it will silently fail sometimes in the background with no notifications or messages.

  • Linux continues to grow and has reached a new peak of 3.20% in the November 2025 Steam Hardware & Software Survey

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  • I have just run into such an insane amount of problems with atomic distros. The thing is that you don't know it will be a problem until you start having a need for the functionality

    I still daily drive bazzite, but embedded programming, wireshark (constantly breaks upgrading on atomic fedora), any VM that had to connect to the LAN, any sort of document signing, key management, using any sort of government ID software like Belgium's EID to log in on a web browser, and much more is very difficult with most of the examples being dead in the water and will apparently never be attempted to be fixed.

    It works great for most people, until they need to do 1 thing outside of the mainstream and it falls apart. Hell, there is literally no documentation at all on how adding a user to a group is fundamentally broken (fedora's fault, not bazzite) and you have to copy groups manually from a non-documented file to /etc/group.

  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • And for any of the people saying "he changed".

    One of his most recent "philanthropic" ventures was to partner with Nestle (good start) to "modernize and increase yields" of the dairy industries in impoverished countries.

    The two organizations then sold modern (likely non-servicable) equipment and entrenched them in corporate supply chain systems geared towards export and making it much harder to trade locally (not sure how that part worked, but was in what I read).

    For a grand total of........ 1% increased dairy yields.

    Then 3-4 years later they pulled out, leaving heavily indebted farmers without the corporate supply chains and delivery systems they were forced to switch to, and making it very difficult to switch back to the old ways of working, so they can't sell nearly as much locally.

    Who do you think will buy up those farms when the farmers go bankrupt and have to sell ar rock bottom prices.

  • Saab says Canada's air force could have Gripen fighter jets in as little as 3 years

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  • Because making a fighter jet is a more than a decade long undertaking with existing military industrial design, manufacturing, and test infrastructure.

    Making one from scratch without the existing IP and infrastructure is an even larger and more expensive task.

    It takes the cost (out-my-ass example) from 30 million per jet with a 3 year lead time, to 150 million per jet with a 15 year lead time with an unproven, likely worse, aircraft. And if they are trying to protect themselves from close neighbors' current trajectory turning hostile, they probably don't have 15 years.

  • Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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  • I am split on this.

    If you allow it, then you get eevblog sort of posts where there are 1000+ comments over 5 years in 50 pages that switch topics so regularly that every 2-5 pages should be entirely seperate posts and reading them because of wanting to find information on the title topic is completely useless.

    On the other hand, sometimes an issue will become stale and someone will comment with an update or solution to a problem and get chastised for "necroing" and sometimes their comment with a solution deleted.

  • EU court rules entire bloc must respect same-sex marriages in rebuke to Poland

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  • There are also tons like Italy, Czech republic, Croatia that have civil unions, but I don't know if they respect foreign marriage.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Can someone sanity check my NOR memory structure for me?

  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    Where to buy Canning Jars?

  • networking @sh.itjust.works
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    It is so confusing in europe having a Cca required rating vs CCA cable makeup.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Should I or should I not use a VLAN? I have trouble understanding the benefits for home use

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Immich

    What is the "proper" way to navigate migration from another service (all photos are already on the server)

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Headless server hardware transcoding without X or Wayland?