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TonyOstrich

@ TonyOstrich @lemmy.world

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  • Why are parts of application in a different language?

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  • No, I am not. I'm based in the US. I was wondering if it could be VPN related, but I haven't connected to a node anywhere outside of the US in months. My phones language is set to English (US) with no other languages selected, and I have explicitly set F-Droid's language to English (US) in my phone's configuration as well.

    I just now opened F-Droid after a reboot and without being connected to a VPN and began scrolling through latest and quickly found a random assortment of apps displaying the same way. None of them are installed though.

  • Dream job...

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  • I knew exactly what book the image was from as soon as I saw it, but could not for the life of me remember the name. Thanks.

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  • For whatever it's worth I have been using a Fairphone 5 in the US for over a year on T-Mobile.

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  • I live in the US. I blame 40% of the people at a minimum, and likely more than that.

  • Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support

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  • Indeed. I usually use 7-zip's built in tool to do it when I need to.

  • MAGA influencers fall in line behind Trump after U.S. airstrikes hit Iran

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  • Well, do you want to be right or do you want things to change for the better?

    I don't think anyone should have to engage with these people if they don't want to, but something like 40%+ of the population are more or less OK with the way things are going. Humiliating someone, even if they had it coming and it's entirely justified, tends to make them very defensive and double down on their position.

    Is it fair? No. I hate it. They do not deserve grace in a lot of cases in my opinion, but when dealing with people and human nature I often find I have to decide between being right or being constructive. I am no saint. If the stakes only really involve myself, I'm probably more inclined to be a self-righteous sanctimonious jack wagon more often than not, but at these scales I think we need to be realistic. Acknowledge that it's not fair we have to do this work, and then do it anyway.

  • Does anyone ever just feel like an opposite-gender persona?

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  • I don't know if this contributes to the conversation as it's almost the polar opposite, but I don't really feel attached to my body or gender at all. I am myself, that is all. I only care about my body in so much as it is the vehicle through which I am able to do the things I enjoy. If I could snap my fingers and swap my gender I would, but that is only because within where I exist many of the things I'd like to do or have would be easier as the opposite gender.

    How I look, the space I inhabit, what others may think, doesn't really change anything for me. I am me.

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  • Why doesn't she have to ask me out? That doesn't seem very equitable.

  • Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content"

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  • You are allowed to record content like a broadcast though, which makes me wonder if that means that ripping is illegal, but piping it through a capture card isn't?

  • Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content"

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  • Technically I'm half right and half wrong (I think). It's not illegal to backup media that one owns, but it is illegal to break DRM/copy protection which is required to rip most physical media these days.

    Suffice to say the legality of it is a cluster fuck, but the morality, in my opinion, is pretty clear. Fuck the corpos.

  • Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content"

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  • But it is legal in the country he lives in as well as the country YouTube is headquartered in.

  • Which States Would Lose the Most if the IRA is Repealed: How a potential IRA repeal would impact clean energy deployment in each state

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  • That's not an Individual Retirement Account

  • Here in America, you can have whatever car you like! Yup. As long as it's the same silver, white, or black truck or SUV, you're spoiled for choice!

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  • That just sounds like a worse station wagon. Which, being the owner of a Subaru Outback station wagon, I can confirm.

  • We have to solve the money problem!

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  • You don't sound like a very pleasant person to try and have a constructive conversation with.

  • Southern Baptists target porn, sports betting, same-sex marriage and 'willful childlessness'

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  • Did it in my mid 20s before it was all the rage. Couldn't be happier.

  • What's something you once had a lot of respect for but now have no respect for?

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  • It wasn't Bowser, it was the finance guys that were placed at the head of the company after Satoru Iwata's death.

  • Fairphone 6 to be announced June 25, 2025

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  • None of those arguments are very good. Why should they have three sperate cameras? Why should they have a USB-C charging port? Wireless can work as well. Why have a 90Hz display? A 60Hz one would work just as well.

    Not only that, there is plenty of space. My BlackBerry Z10 running the BB10 OS (that I could side load Android apps on) had a headphone jack. It was physically smaller, running an SoC built on a much larger manufacturing node with a similar style of swappable battery and enclosure had a headphone jack. I even had to replace it and it cost me less than five dollars at the time.

    It costs me less to integrate a headphone jack on a circuit board design than a fingerprint reader.

    Also if we are talking about sustainability, Bluetooth earphones have batteries. Most of which can't be replaced. Weird headphones are literally cheaper and can last longer.

    Having worked in this industry, I can't see any good reason to leave the jack out.

  • Fairphone 6 to be announced June 25, 2025

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  • To give users a choice. It doesn't cost much and it doesn't take up any room. I have a FP5 and have taken it apart. There is plenty of space where one could be integrated.

  • Why Microsoft open sourced PowerShell and ported it to Linux

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  • Random question for everyone from a bit of a noob. When I'm using Powershell (PS) in windows I can start to type the name of a built in command or one I have added to PATH and then press tab to auto complete the command. That part works the same in my Linux terminal.

    What I can also do after I have typed that command into PS is start to type a file name that exists in the directory that PS is working in and then press tab to auto complete or cycle through the files that match and it even formats the name of the file correctly (meaning if it has a space in the name it will wrap the name in quotes so that it is understood by the commands they are fed to). This auto completing of file names even works on files that were created after the PS window was opened. This functionality doesn't seem to exist by default in any distro I have used. Is it possible to do this in the Linux terminal?

    Although I have done some distro hopping, most of them have ultimately been Ubuntu based. Currently running Kubuntu.

  • US court blocks Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs

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  • That has been my position all along. I think the best thing long term is if shit gets real bad really quickly. The slower the decent the longer the suffering will be overall, and the less people are likely to notice and remember.