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Yaky

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

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  • Like desktop mode on Librem5 in 2020, convergence on PinePhone from 2021, or Samsung Dex from a few years ago, too.

  • How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really?

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  • I knew of some of these issues with the protocol, but this article definitely gives an impression that Matrix was built as a "cool protocol" first, with messaging applied on top as an afterthought.

  • How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really?

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  • It's possible to run the services without Kubernetes, but official ESS Community uses Kubernetes.

    ESS Community works ‘out-of-the-box’ on a single machine or existing Kubernetes cluster using the provided Helm charts.

  • Google Phone app rolling out ability to set ‘your calling card’ for everyone

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  • This seems great for scammers and harassers.

    Normally if a person is on your contact list and has a photo set, you will see that photo when they call. So seriously, what is the point of this?

  • How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really?

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  • TLDR: bare Synapse was fine on 1CPU 1GB RAM VPS, but uses lots of disk space (from large rooms). Current/future ESS requires Kubernetes and several services to be functional.

    More info in my blog post

  • How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really?

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  • Thank you for the queries. The rhetorical question is why isn't the server handling this.

  • too bad they made space really big

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  • This is a commonly repeated falsehood. "Robota" in Czech (and many slavic languages) means work. So it's a worker at that.

  • too bad they made space really big

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  • Like misogynistic cowboys with laser guns.

    I read first few stories from Asimov's I, Robot, and, holy shit, his robots are pretty much stand-ins for slaves. They are property, get threatened with violence, are forbidden to be in the streets at night, and some models even address their owners as "master". But none of that is addressed anywhere, it's some convoluted logic puzzles instead. So I don't know if author was oblivious or thought such things are OK because they are not humans (terrible slippery slope to go on).

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • This always gets brought up, and is the chicken-and-egg problem, but only sort of.

    Supporting software designed for different platforms is not the phone's responsibility. It should be the government and bank developers' responsibility to build software for platforms their citizens and customers use.

    Android and Apple do not jump through hoops to run Windows desktop software, for example, and the notion is kind of absurd to begin with. Yet this argument is used for Linux smartphones all the time.

    Some of this also applies to people without phone / with dumbphone.

  • New to android ROMs and degoogling and I have questions.

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  • I know of:

    • LineageOS
    • LineageOS+microg (is its own thing)
    • GrapheneOS - this is what I use
    • eOS - shiny degoogled Android
    • iodeOS - degoogled Android with some extra features and parental controls - might be something you want?

    Some other Android-derived projects are inactive: DivestOS shut down, CalyxOS is paused.

    For 3, I think it has to do with popularity, unlockability, and the chipset.

  • Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert

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  • The risk is that people start treating AIs as if they were human

    I cannot understand this. Unless AI is used to deceptively impersonate someone, how can a normal person treat "AI" as a human? The logo is right there, staring in your face. It only responds to prompts.

  • System requirements for a Matrix server?

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  • I have ran Synapse natively on 1 CPU 1GB RAM VPS for years. But it fills up a lot of disk space, eapecially with larger rooms, so get at least 100GB? (I had 20GB on my VPS, and with 4 regular users, was using up 15GB)

    If you are looking at (new) official ESS Community, they recommend 2 CPU, 2GB RAM minimum for Kubernetes.

  • Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals?

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  • You see Ivan, birthday is for other people to eat, drink, and have fun, not for you.

    Kinda like a big wedding in the US I guess? Bride and groom are not the ones having fun.

  • Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals?

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  • AFAICT restaurants were few, expensive, and difficult to get into (i.e. not for regular people on regular basis), and the option for regular people would be stolovaya (cafeteria?) which is simple, probably mediocre food.

    So seems like if you don't have the connections and want decent food, make it yourself.

  • ai;dr | (ai; didn't read)

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  • This reads as vaguely anti-intellectualist.

    I can't imaging writing code by myself again

    I don't want to bother with readability, quality, or efficiency. Taking time to think is pointless.

    The less polished and coherent something is, the more value I assign to it.

    Taking time to organize and write my thoughts is pointless. There are plenty of unpolished, incoherent ramblings on the internet, many with ill intent, that should not be given any value. (Yes, I understand that was not the intended meaning, but author should proofread)

  • Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals?

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  • Are they (post-)soviet boomers? There are some cultural things that I noticed too, some amusing, some frustrating.

    • Home food is automatically better than restaurant food, as you said. Also, somehow, any burger is automatically viewed as McDonalds burger (i.e. bad)
    • Undercooked food is unacceptable, triggering Americans who love their steak rare.
    • Unsolicited advice and unprompted attempts to help.
    • Insistence on getting you a gift or accepting a never-requested gift. "Here's a nice thing, it was expensive and difficult to get, you should like it".
    • Viewing self as "a burden". Being offered food, comfort, or accomodation is rejected because "I don't want to impose". Sometimes goes into "suffering builds character" mindset, which is nonsense.

  • A piano made of mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell, from 1853, New York City

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  • Just to infuriate you more: Plastics originally were viewed as a great alternative to such waste - instead of ivory, tortoiseshell, mother of pearl, expensive wood, you could use this human-made, often much stronger, material in different colors.

    ...and look where we are now.

  • Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution?

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  • From what I remember: France refused to join US war in Iraq in 2003, and around the same time I started hearing nonsense like "freedom fries" and "google french military victories and you get no results lolololol", and it was all really fucking stupid. But some of that seemed to remain in popular culture.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-French_sentiment_in_the_United_States

  • Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language?

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  • Sounds pretty similar to US stereotypes towards Eastern Europeans, who are "always grumpy" and "rude".

  • Self-hosting @slrpnk.net
    Yaky @slrpnk.net

    Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years

    yaky.dev /2025-11-30-self-hosting-matrix/
  • Self-hosting @slrpnk.net
    Yaky @slrpnk.net

    Is (Matrix) Element Server Suite overkill for a dozen users?

  • Android @lemdro.id
    Yaky @slrpnk.net

    Disable power to USB hub

  • Android @lemmy.world
    Yaky @slrpnk.net

    Resurrect your old Android phone - aggregated list of 1100+ devices and what OS you can install on them

    yaky.dev /devices/