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  • Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack

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  • that's not the main reason.

    it's more because that shit is there forever. so if it's impossible to inspect and trace payments now, that don't mean it remains so five or 10 years from now. btw, chainalisys had some monero tracing like years ago.

    so imagine if we'd have a perfectly preserved crime scene from like 1785 (and multiple, perfect copies of it!) and we can unleash the full power of today's forensics on it.

  • Plasma Vault Experiences

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  • I have the same experience. mounting the vault (sshfs) to showing contents is like 5 minutes. client ryzen 5600, no significant CPU activity.

  • What is the cheapest laptop with a dedicated gpu i should save up for?

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  • I'm gonna be the problemXY guy and suggest you get a normal laptop, like a thinkpad T14 and friends, without a discrete GPU and get an EGPU setup; you can get a DIY rig in the $50-100 region, dependent on the interface, and you get a ton of benefits:

    • you're not limited to gaming laptops. you can get a laptop that's portable, has a long battery life, and widely available on the 2nd hand market, is easy and cheap to upgrade, fix, repair, etc. everything gaming laptops fucking aren't
    • your options for GPUs rise dramatically, including reusing shit you already got laying around
    • way, way more powerful than laptop discrete graphics with practically unlimited vertical upgrade options

  • postmarketOS in 2025-07: Fairphone 6, apk3, /usr merge, immutable, new plasma camera

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  • it bothers me immensely that javascript backed Gnome that I can't make run fluidly and jerklessly on competent desktop hardware is the default on underpowered mobile hardware, making Android and iOS level fluidity practically unattainable in the foreseeable future.

    edit: I run pmOS on a SDM845 with 8 GB RAM and fast storage, tried em all on edge (gnome, plasma, phosh, plasma mobile) and it's a 5 fps stuttering mess. that's before I load something to said RAM, like a browser or (dog forbid) an electron app.

  • matrix.org - new tiers for premium and free accounts on the matrix.org homeserver

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  • holup, you can't send fucking images with a free account!? def no videos with that "limit".

    I'm already in the process of moving my corpo stuff to XMPP but this should precipitate a total exodus, both private and business shit.

  • What's your pet hate on a TV show?

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  • competent anythings. cops, surgeons, lawyers, bakers, criminals, whoeverthefucks, if they're consummate professionals and especially if there's quick-witted, snappy banter, I am out

  • Hands-On With the Minimal Phone: Week 1

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  • thank you for an elaborate and in-depth review, enjoyed imagining owning it. although it has a lot of nice-to-haves (e-ink, keyboard, etc) at 10x (that's TEN times) the price of my usual phones Imma forget about it as soon as I click "post".

  • My life has been hell since mafia bosses blamed me for their downfall. Finally, justice has been done

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  • anyone who missed it, add "zero zero zero" and "gomorrah" to you watch list

  • Best distro for me?

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  • here's why you're doing beginners a disservice with Mint.

    it's an X11 distro. no big deal if you're installing it on a 10-year old optiplex with a 1080p monitor, works same as wayland on that setup.

    if it's a laptop, you get shitty scaling and hidpi support. worse touchpad gestures. dock/undock issues with multiple displays, not to mention - more scaling issues. even if there is some feature parity with a modern Gnome/Plasma desktop, the predominant development effort isn't in Cinnamon's camp.

    if it's a modern desktop you also face issues with spotty support as Mint lags with kernel versions. finally if you got both, muscle memory is a problem if you got Cinnamon/X on desktop and Gnome/Wayland on laptop.

    if you're an experienced user, yes, I am sure you can make it work. for a beginner, we need an onboarding path with the least possible issues and when there are any, ample documentation on how to fix it.

  • Best distro for me?

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  • there's basically two types of dudes (gender not inferred): the ones that faced with a problem go "hmm, that's interesting. let's try..." regardless if it's a lazy afternoon or they're under heavy artillery fire... and then there are those that invariably go "oh what the fuck now!?"

    if you're in the latter camp, you have one option and that's Ubuntu. for an experienced user it does suck in some ways, but it "just works" in so many others. you will have ample challenges making the transition and you don't need additional ones.

    when you've been around the block a few times, survived a crash or two, know what's what and have at least a passable understanding of the OS, then you can travel farther and explore options, as your switching costs to something like Fedora WS are essentially zero and 99% of what you learned applies.

    but, right now, you can stop looking - this is your only option.

  • Arch Linux limitations?

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  • the first time I installed arch on my T420s, I was blown away! a minimalistic install, done in no time. no cruft of any kind, latest software versions, and the speed - the thing booted more than twice as fast as Fedora! I was ecstatic, how come everybody's not using this!?

    but then I needed a piece of software that wasn't available and flatpak wouldn't work in that scenario. rpm and deb available but nothing for arch. OK, so there's this AUR thingy - cool, so like a repo, right? one copy/paste and I'm done...

    not fucking so. what this does is fetch the source code and then compiles and builds it on your puny dual-core...I can't imagine what a full system upgrade looks like, compiling tons of stuff for hours. that's 1998 linux, I thought we were done with this.

    not a week later, a normal system update with no errors made the thing unbootable. yeah, said one laconic reply, you really should keep up with breaking changes by way of the mailing list. do what now? the what now? dude, this just became a job.

    so that was it for me. thanks to btrfs subvolumes, all my stuff was already there and ready to go for the new OS.

  • What can I do with this?

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  • Android 15 (Lineage OS) agressively kills apps

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  • why would swiping away an app not kill it? why would you do that? leave it be until it's done wtf

    how much RAM you got? on my two A15 phones with 6 and 8 GB RAM nothing extraordinary happens in that regard, whereas my A15 4 GB RAM tablet can't handle a lot of open apps and OOM kills some in the background.

    edit: you seem to be trying to run android apps like desktop apps. that doesn't work here. how things work is most apps are dormant when they don't have focus and when they receive a push message e.g. "you have a new message", their handler wakes up, fetches stuff from the server and updates local state (and then optionally displays the notification).

    so you either need to install unified push and get apps that support it or have e.g. microG implement a subset of Play services so that GCM/FCM works with "normal" apps. the third option, what you may be doing, is having every app excluded from sleep and doing their own updates checking.

    the example where you close an app and then go "why app closed" is unrelated.

  • Need help saving an old laptop

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  • off to recycling with that thing, that SSD is worth more than the whole machine. get a skylake or newer laptop with busted screen or malfunctioning keyboard or whatever that's not a hindrance for your use case and it'll have full hardware acceleration and consume WAY less power and be future proof.

    if you're adamant about running it, try mpv without DE/WM by way of framebuffer. I think Arch has some mpv build that enables that.

  • GrapheneOS makers take a knife to this 'Google-free' phone coming to the US (Updated)

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  • gOS threat model is "everything everywhere all at once" - nation state actors et al - and from that standpoint, yeah, eOS and lOS and whoever else is lacking.

    but the vast majority of users have a threat model that can be boiled down to two things:

    1. a lost/stolen device doesn't compromise me - the fucker can't get at my stuff and/or impersonate me, and
    2. free from apple's/google's reign - I control what stuff runs on my phone

    both easily accomplished with lineageOS and derivatives running on a $50 phone. if you truly want to spend four digits annually on Newest & Best, you do you, I'm good.

  • Controller boot into gaming

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  • "rebooting" is not a thing ova here. yeah, you can accomplish that but that's not what you want. utilising something like InputRemapper + e.g. Plasma shortcuts, you can launch a big-picture UI, like steam or plama-bigscreen when it's ready or somesuch, when you press a key combo on the controller or mouse or keyboard or any combination thereof.

  • Looking for DLNA Renderer software

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  • it's using mpv under the hood, so I guess it should be able to play audio headless. I'm using allcast to cast to it and control it.

  • Looking for DLNA Renderer software

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  • I'm using macast as a media renderer, for video and audio. don't know if there's a docker container for it.

  • "Best," somewhat turnkey, user-friendly distro for a 2016 Intel MacBook Pro

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  • ubuntu because everything works.

    in case you can't stand the snap business go fedora, add rpmfusion and poke around. if everything works, you're set.

    two possible issues with resume from sleep. if your wifi won't come back, use the script from t2linux. if your laptop won't wake up expeditiously (takes a while), come back here and ping me and I'll dig up the the script.

    stay away from mints and xfces and friends as you need wayland (so, Plasma or Gnome) for fractional scaling, gestures, seamless dock/undock, etc.