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  • What are your recent "BuyEuropean" wins ?

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  • Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

    If you have a google account because it contains email history but it sits dormant, logged out, not using google products for years, then it isn't supporting them with data.

    They won't delete your data anyway or your fingerprint link or tracking data if you delete your account, might as well also have access to it if needed.

  • Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable

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  • Sadly it won't work on fairphone 6 because it only has USB 2.0 and there isn't enough bandwidth.

  • Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable

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  • I am confused.

    In developer options in basic android you can simply enable the feature right?

    My old Sony xperia 5 ii can do that and it definitely isn't a Sony feature...

  • 🚀 Statistics for Strava v4.7.0 released! Dark mode & Milestones timeline

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  • Nope, it bypasses that and gives you many of the strava premium features by just parsing it out of the "raw" data. Most of the strava features are just statistics or hiding basic data calculated from your runs behind a paywall anyway. You can do the calculations yourself, technically.

  • Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

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  • I don't think I have ever heard that for the a series. That if fact, I have always heard that it is just about the best price-value on the market, the downside being that it is google and no SD card slot (which is common now). They use the flagship chip in it still, right?

  • Is there a good european alternative to Digikey?

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  • No. I am an Electronics engineering and believe me, I try...

    Any sort of embedded size-constrained sensing where you need an AFE from maxim/analog/TI. Absolutely forget about it. Even mouser and digikey are export restricting those now. Mouser canceled an AFE and PPG sensor hub on my last order.

    RS components in the UK: pretty meh selection MCUs with mostly STM and some outdated AVRs/PICs, missing a lot of key brands in different areas, decent/good for industrial stuff. Pretty much no NXP stock at all (Dutch company). Bad transceiver selection of outdated things. They only get new products like a year later. Good selection of power resistors though. Not good for opamps, but they have a decent Wurth selection of LEDs and Inductors. They are also good for connectors, e.g. they are the only European distributer with Wisblock compatible Panasonic connectors

    TME Poland: high prices, better stock than RS for MCUs (EDIT: I just looked and they actually have a worse selection now), but they still only have mostly microchip PICs, only 500 ARM processors so a very limited selection. In general they have a ton of microchip and less of a selection of other things. Chances are, if you found a perfect IC that isn't microchip, it is a 50/50 if it will be there. I have very often found chosen parts from manufacturer sites and catalogs and built out a design and check by TME and >2/3 of the parts are out of stock or non-stocked. Horrific site UX also. Finding anything is a crapshoot, so use other sites to find them and enter the MPN to check if it is available. They also have a strange selection of passives if I remember right. Like a lot of pieces from different lines, but missing most of the values in the specific manufacturer line.

    Farnell: they don't sell to people without a VAT number in mainland Europe because of some stupid "people were asking too much support" bullshit excuse years ago. They have the best selection of the 3, they actually have nRF MCUs and a decent selection of interfaces, opamps, and ICs like fuel guages. IIRC their inductor selection is worse than others. You can order from UK farnell in the EU I believe. Owned by an american company. They are the only ones with sparkfun/adafruit board of the major distributers IIRC and only a small selection.

    Sinuss.nl "alternative" to farnell apparently. Literally 3-4x the price of almost everything. A dirt cheap stm32C011F6U6 that is 0.80€ on all other shops is 3.50€ there without shipping included and the only time I have ordered from them, they messed it up. Stay away!!!

    Also, the fucking STM webshop from the European company doesn't have a warehouse in Europe or east Asia and ships from damn Texas. Getting a sample of a cheap part is like 50€

    If I am being honest, we have a TON of electronics and IC intellectual property in Europe, but the manufacturing and distribution of those designs is disgraceful and almost all goes through the US first.

    If you are looking for modules and not PCB design: Tinytronics.nl, opencircuit.nl, and kiwi-electronics are the best

  • Attacking Iran ‘won’t make the Epstein files go away,’ Republican lawmaker warns Trump

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  • I bet you any amount of money that if you did a survey 20 years ago, you would get 90-95% saying that it is a wild conspiracy theory and isn't true.

    Sadly, I think this is opening many many Americans' eyes.

  • GrapheneOS and Motorola partnership for next privacy-protecting phone

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  • Wasn't the last thinkphone from 2024?

    Would be nice, but the last think phone had mediatek instead of Qualcomm so I don't know if that will be the case (mediatek seems a lot harder to make custom ROMs for and there aren't too many).

    But modeled after the first think phone would be awesome. USB 3.1, wireless charging, decent camera for its time, but no SD card slot or headphone jack....

  • Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones

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  • Android runs on the Linux kernel

    MacOS runs on the UNIX kernel

    I am not sure what that had to do with anything. It is not Microsoft, but if Palantir released a Linux distro, it would sure as shit have mass surveillance in it.

    I am guessing the commenter doesn't trust the GrapheneOS guy or something.

  • ...wasn't it supposed to be other way around?

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  • I did IT for my company on the side of my job for a year or two.

    Prolific problem where windows would disable the microphone but every single "windows tool" said it was working perfectly fine except teams would say it was not available.

    The only possible fix that someone on the internet found was to download an old sketchy file from a 3rd party source for an archived version of their "pre-help-assistant AI slop" audio troubleshooter, and run that and it would immediately say "oh, it is disabled, let me re-enable it for you"

    Even though every tool, setting, and even registry said it was enabled.

    Microsoft has the worst audio.

  • Body Armor

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  • I just saw someone tested a TEMU $30 hard and soft body armor trying to disprove its claim to be bulletproof and it somehow actually worked up to quite a decent caliber.

    There is also a person (I think in America) making their own and documenting the process.

    But it isn't something you wear when not actively in a warzone or searching out a conflict...

  • How do you explain to your co-workers that you use Libre Office Writer and other Linux apps?

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  • It also has the bonus that is one file has an issue, it doesn't lock up and crash every single other open document in different instances across excel, word, powerpoint, everything lol

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • Centralized platforms for multiple uses and a huge tool ecosystem. That is it. It is simply much much much easier to set up and get a consistent experience.

    Embedded coding (as an example) has an extremely scattered ecosystem of vendor-run IDE forks which are usually a pretty bad experience.

    Their commandline documentation is often complete trash so instead of fixing that, they just make a simple plugin for vscode and they have a cross-compatible IDE that already works with all of their customers' favorite plugins with very little work.

    Also, code-server. There is no other IDE that has an experience like that as far as I know.

  • vivo is testing a phone with a 12,000mAh battery, claims tipster

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  • Not in electronics. Wh is a pretty difficult metric in electronics design (and thus, speccing the time a battery will last).

    I have said this before because all ICs use mA as their power consumption rating because they might have a range of 1.8V-3.6V of operation or 4.5-10V or something and they consume about the same amount of current across that spectrum but vary in power. This is why low power systems often use 1.8V.

    Batteries also vary in delivered power at a constant load. They can pull 100mA continuously, but a lithium ion cell delivers 420mW first and then continually falls until it delivers only 250mW, almost half as much.

    What is easier to calculate?

    • Integrating across a variable voltage domain for the source and then subtracting each component uses variable power, then integrating each component over its voltage range. Oh and the battery capacity left in wh is also nonlinear, so when estimating state of charge, you have to balance a nonlinear source with a differently nonlinear load, integrated over time, all on a 200MHz mcu trying to do 50 other, more important things (and that's fast)
    • battery can deliver this set current for this time, circuit pulls this amount of current, battery lasts X hours. Estimating life cheaply is just:

    "get starting SoC from memory and voltage" "measure current once" "measure current again" Current*time=mAh used. Save

    Again, not saying it is "correct", but significantly easier on all levels.

    For the consumer. Why does it matter? There is absolutely no specs every given for actual power used. Does your phone use 1W or 5W or 100mW on average? Never given.

    Batteries are literally just "bigger = better". Using Wh instead mAh would not change this at all. The only thing it would do is expose the 1% that try to fudge the numbers while everyone else just fudges power consumption.

    Oh you got X phone because Y phone only had a 13Wh battery instead of 18Wh. Oh too bad, phone X uses an average of 9W and only lasts for 2 hours. Phone Y used 0.5W.

  • Fear as senator discovers staggering true amount Trump spent on arming ICE

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  • OP is the one who fabricated the "missiles and warheads" to rile people up. The article says nothing of the sort.

  • Fear as senator discovers staggering true amount Trump spent on arming ICE

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  • Where in the article does it say anything about missiles and warheads?

  • What lurking suspicion do you have about something but is hard to prove?

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  • Don't the panama papers detail a lot of this and a financial trail of how they collaborate with one another?

    It seems like the panama papers had been collectively forgotten 2 years later, but they give blatant evidence of the secret elite money laundering and invisible payment network of collaboration IIRC.

    As far as Nazi ideology, fascism always goes hand in hand with corporatism, so it makes sense.

  • Who Actually Makes Trader Joe’s Food?

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  • Heron— A native third party Bluesky client for Android

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  • I respectfully disagree. I understand what you are saying. But censorship and echo chambers on a platform level are a related, but different issue.

    I agree that Lemmy is very much anti-censorship.

    an environment in which somebody encounters only opinions and beliefs similar to their own, and does not have to consider alternatives

    However, echo chambers can exist with 0 platform censorship whatsoever. It doesn't have to be the platform's fault. If people only read and interact with communities who's viewpoints confirm their own, that is a completely self-made echo chamber. Completely seperate than censorship and completely unrelated to the platform, but instead the people and community moderators.

    For example, hexbear users pretty much only interact with hexbear and .ml users (and often ban others). That is an echo chamber. The .world main communities ban people of both too far right and too far left so there is little interaction of those viewpoints with those communities. That is an echo chamber. The community of open source doesn't ban many people, but the only people who go to that community are very positive about open source. That is an echo chamber.

    If you have a dozen rooms in the same building and you have 1 room that thinks the world is flat and the people don't go into any other room, even though they have free and open access and can go to hear the opinions of the 11 other rooms, that room is an echo chamber

  • Heron— A native third party Bluesky client for Android

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  • Lol nope, i don't use bluesky. I agree that corporate manipulative media can go fuck themselves.

    I was just correcting your implication for other viewers that the fediverse is any different as far as echo chambers. It is just not a corporate controlled echo chamber.

  • 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?