Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)G

glitching

@ glitching @lemmy.ml

帖子
25
评论
302
加入于
10 mo. ago

  • Port87, My Alternative to Gmail

    跳过

  • soo... what's stopping spammer mcspammer to send emails to hperrin-friendo@port87.com and thusly hitting your eyeballs? or spam you with millions of new tags by adding random junk to the hyphenated part?

  • Alternative phone OS

    跳过

  • which phone you got? is sailfish still xperia only?

  • Can I pick something better than a Raspberry Pi 4B/5 for a low-power home server?

    跳过
    • don't need GPIO or IR; there's a buncha android bluetooth remotes around that you can repurpose via input-remapper
    • don't need SATA for 3.5 drives, there are USB-to-SATA adapters in the sub$20 range

    so that allows you to go for a board from a discarded laptop. you need skylake or newer for purposes of video decoding and power efficiency and a board that can run without battery and display (e.g., most thinkpads can, some consumer models can't).

    a search in my local marketplace nets 20+ of those in the sub$40 range (busted screens, keyboards, etc.), you get all the connectivity, way more storage options than rpi, included power brick, and you don't hafta dick around with arm packages.

  • KDE releases alpha build of KDE Linux, an immutable arch linux distro

    跳过

  • sorry, lazy, can't be bothered to check.... is it the same deal as the other immutables, I gotta reboot to get new shit?

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

    跳过

  • UT and mobian need to be on stock, ancient versions of android prior to flashing. that is a challenge in an of itself, just check out what it takes to go from lineage A15 to stock A9. also, "easy" and "foolproof", please - you're not the target audience I'm addressing.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

    跳过

  • see, this is the thing I'm talking about. your comment indicates that it's possibly a viable alternative to OS developed by the wealthiest corps in the world, for 15+ years and people are like "ok, there's options"...

    it is nowhere near that. it's linux on a mobile device, and that's such a humongously, vastly different thing than an alternative and that should be the first and foremost thing said. same with the "android is linux" bozos in every thread (it really, really isn't) who are not helping the issue, at all.

    and then we can dwell on whether it's usable or not in its present state.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

    跳过

  • I'm not critiquing your post, I'm just clarifying to a buncha people who think otherwise that it's not an option.

    as to "it needs to accelerate", I have a grim outlook. the only way it's gonna do that is if there significant cash behind it and if everything non-essential is to be trimmed so that a functional platform can emerge. in our ever-enshittifying, greater-fool-theory investment climate, it's doubtful there loose capital with such an agenda, and I doubt such a thing is even on the horizon.

    same way with "desktop linux"; like, can you image where we'd be if every development effort is geared towards just one DE/WM, instead of tons of duplicated efforts and abandoned paths? yeah, good things eventually emerge from all the disjointed chaos, but eventually. and our joint assessment is that we're running outta time for the "eventual" part.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

    跳过

  • that's not a thing, presently. the OS has trouble running on its own and handling "native" apps, let alone introducing an emulation to the mix.

    of course, it can and does work to some extent - but not one where you depend on it, like you do with modern phones.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

    跳过

  • the vast majority of commenters here either have no direct experience with a Linux phone or have seen some shallow youtube "review" of a dude swiping the same two screens left/right and extrapolate a buncha shit that has no contact with reality.

    presently, and in the foreseeable future, linux phones aren't an android alternative, they are just linux on the phone, i.e. they allow you to do linux shit on a handheld device.

    like, the bleeding edge version of any variant (plasma mobile, gnome, phosh) isn't even close to an Android phone from like 2015, let alone a modern one.

    and that's before we touch on the pillars of mobile tech like fluidity, battery efficiency, reliability, etc., none of those things are even in a remotely passable state, not to mention - using the thing to make calls. you are better off forgetting about the camera, as well.

    and the reason is simple, not only is there a gargantuan discrepancy between evil corp's resources and the predominantly unpaid enthusiasts, each dev team's reimplementing shit that's already solved on another platform. apple doesn't have to do that. google as well.

    then there's the idea that the javascript-backed Gnome - that has issues running fluidly on super-capable hardware - is the basis on a low-power device on which the linux mobile phone experience is built. reinventing solved shit, but in a stupid way - THREE FINGER swipe on a phone, really?

    although there's a solid app base, the apps that are supposedly mobile friendly are few and far between, most are just downright unusable on a vertical screen and dog help you if launch an electron app. firefox, even with pmOS patches (useless without) is tiresome to use. you can forget about dating, ubering, banking, or even just using a messenger everybody else does.

    if you're squeamish about flashing custom recoveries and ROMs, the e.g. pmOS install process is way, way, way more involved and failure prone. if you go with ubuntu touch or mobian, even more so.

    finally, if you're talking about a device that you've grown accustomed to to the extent that you're using it subconsciously, swiping and multitasking and such whilst walking and dodging other pedestrians - no such thing exists over here.

    I'm just tying this up because I keep reading about "switching", people are either delusional or misinformed, there's nothing (yet) to switch to.

    get a couple of $50 ex-flaghips to play with, flash lineageOS on one and pmOS on the other and that should hold you over for a coupla years.

  • How much of my digital soul am I giving away by using "The Transit App?"

    跳过

  • no idea what that does but OsmAnd has navigation with public transit which works plenty fine for my use cases

  • It's possible to substantially speed up wakeup from hibernation

    跳过

  • not sure what you're asking me, but to explain: the main file system is still encrypted, only the swap is unencrypted. swap is off during normal operation so when dumping to disk systemd turns off zram and activates swap (and the inverse on restore). so when restoring, it boots superfast, no decrypt prompts, restores from the swap partition, and dumps you right at the lock screen - feels magical, almost mac-like.

    it's def less secure that way, but for my threat model (lost or stolen device) that's plenty secure - it's highly improbable someone will forensic the shit out of my swap to get at my decryption keys, it's more likely it'll get sold or parted out.

  • It's possible to substantially speed up wakeup from hibernation

    跳过

  • I've managed on a couple of my old laptops to set suspend-then-hibernate so that it restores from hibernation faster than coldboot, but that was with 16 GB RAM; can't imagine what 6x that does.

    anyhow, try switching to systemd-boot and disable the pause altogether (menu will pop up if you press arrow key), use efibootmgr to set the timeout to 0 and possibly systemd-analyze to check if there's additional holdups during boot. I also seem to remember shaving additional secs when I switched from swap file on encrypted btrfs to separate, unencrypted swap partition (no decrypt prompt at boot).

  • Petition to stop Google from blocking sideloading

    跳过

  • why are you upvoting this inane, useless, poser, impotent bullshit? we is petitioning evil corp to be a smidge less evil what the fuck?

  • The state of Linux phones in 2025

    跳过

  • huh? which linux phone got useful since you'd stop looking? I run pmOS edge on competent hardware with lotsa RAM and fast storage and that thing isn't even close to being usable in everyday life.

    just basic stuff, like turn it on and it works. the keyboard works. an intuitive UI that you use while walking and dodging other pedestrians. a rock-solid base that doesn't freeze and stutter with the menial-est of tasks.

    the three things you mention couldn't be farther from my mind if I wanted to.

  • WTH is happening at the GNOME Foundation ?! - Linux Weekly News

    跳过

  • au lot.

  • I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You

    跳过

  • what do you do with the scanned ones, put them online perchance?

  • Recycling a Surface Pro 3

    跳过

  • ubuntu. you're a beginner, you want things to just work and you need a touch-centric environment with good UI scaling OOB - mint is X11 and has neither of them things.

    then once you figure stuff out, moving to e.g. fedora with stock GNOME and no snap crap will be a breeze. good luck.

  • [Opinion] Signal, encryption and backdoors

    跳过

  • what do I need to know before I shrink a LUKS partition to enlarge the boot partition?

    跳过

  • combine efi and boot into a single partition and switch to systemd-boot