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jcarax

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  • Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware

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  • To be fair, the bezels were huge by today's standards, and one of the main (non-Apple) competitors had a hardware keyboard below the screen. Just think how much more usable these old smaller phones would be, if we had the screen to body ratio of the Pixel 9a.

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  • Yup, I jumped around a lot early on, but Debian was home. It's hard to break if you follow the Debian way, and it's definitely stable. I still use it for server and lab stuff, because I can write a doc and come back in 18 months and is still largely reproducible.

    I've used a LOT of distros over the years, and Arch is home now (technically Cachy at the moment), but Debian is probably my second favorite. Fedora is 3rd, for user friendly polish.

  • PipeWire 1.6 Released with Support for Audio Channel Layouts, LDAC Decoder

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  • It's better than the OSS days, at least. And I dare say Pipewire is better in most situations than Alsa, can't really speak for Jack. It's really trying to be that unifying, centralizing force that allows us to move past the Frankenstein mess. But, well...

  • Help with multi-monitor and multi-audio in CachyOS

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  • I believe the search term you're looking for is 'multi-seat'.

  • Password managers less secure than promised

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  • I just don't have my passwords on mobile, easy solution. Though I do have Stratum on there for 2FA.

  • New launcher to replace Nova?

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  • Yes. Make sure you're installing the beta, they never really release stable anymore from what I can tall.

  • Laptop randomly freezes. How to debug it?

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  • I was thinking the same with my 7840u. Could try something a bit more cutting edge than Mint, though I will admit I have no idea how up to date they keep the kernel these days. Though if they live boot, they're removing the SSD and likely qtile from the equation, so it's a bit tricky to isolate.

  • COSMIC Epoch 2 and 3 Roadmap

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  • I came up using primarily Fluxbox and XFCE, and could tolerate Gnome 2. Had a love/hate relationship with Gnome 3 for awhile. Never really liked any version of KDE, but...

    I used Cosmic for about a year, just switched to KDE last weekend. For me, Cosmic is the first Wayland DE to hit that sweet spot of lightweight window manager feel, with a few conveniences like integrated panels, notification bus (which is bidirectional, unlike KDE's), small application suite, and some useful applets. I'm always tempted to go back and roll my own with LabWC and god knows what at this point, because it's not quite what I want ideally, but it's quite good.

    It's still a bit buggy, recently I started having an issue where windows would lose their position and size after minimizing and restoring. I've long had that issue after unlock. Others feel differently, but tiling has never been great for me, I hope they rework it, or introduce more customizable snapping without the rigidity of full tiling.

    But it's lightweight and clean, fairly customizable (compared to Gnome, not KDE), and generally sane. We'll see how Budgie and XFCE come along on Wayland, they both have a far more mature DE as a whole, but Cosmic does have a head start on Wayland, and has the benefit of being a fresh code base.

    I'm hoping Cosmic, along with the lightweight DE ports (?) to Wayland, kick start development of more lighter weight, non-DE-centric applications with native Wayland support.

  • Coworker wants to try Linux with gaming, Bazzite or Mint?

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  • Yes, but CachyOS might not be, and while it does a bit to make things substantially easier for your friend, you'll have a lot of familiarity with it as an Arch user.

    Source: An Arch user for 15 years who just installed CachyOS when I wanted to switch from Cosmic to KDE.

  • Microsoft has blocked Massgrave's KMS38 activation method for Windows

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  • In my experience, it's usually power users or basic users with very specific application requirements, who have trouble moving between operating systems. There's usually a FOSS alternative to those applications, but often requires reworking a workflow or upskilling more than they want to. But they're still basic users so it's more a speed bump than a road block.

    So yeah, most people can switch to MacOS without an issue, and the vast majority of those can switch to a distro like Fedora or Ubuntu and quickly feel comfortable.

    Power users get stuck in this situation where they've learned how to do advanced things in Windows, have things tweaked to support more complex and peculiar workflows, but often don't understand the actual concepts behind them. And even if they do understand the concepts, they still have to learn the alternatives in a new OS, and rebuild their workflows. Now, there's a lot more ability to learn behind the scenes about the why and how with Linux and BSD, so I'd argue they'd be better off to just suck it up and get started, and they'll be better off before long.

  • Easy Effects QT port is finally out

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  • I'm with you. I've never really liked the look of QT, but I think I'm going to go for it anyway. It's always felt more plasticky and artificial, compared to GTK feeling more grounded and earthy. Plus, KDE has always felt cluttered in every way they can clutter it. So I was into the boxes (I was partial to fluxbox) and XFCE back in the day. Played with Gnome 3 a bit, had a cyclical love and ultimately hate relationship with it, but got hung up on Gnome as the best option when I wanted to switch to Wayland.

    I've been using Cosmic since January, and I like it, but I'm left wanting more out of it. I was thinking of spinning my own environment with LabWC, but... meh. It's a lot of work, and I want something more integrated.

    I've been using KDE in Asahi on my Macbook Air a bit, and I guess I could use it more. But I don't really use that machine a ton, either. Mostly for it's better speakers than my Thinkpad, and I have it connecting a VPN automatically until I can be bothered to switch from iwd/systemd to network manager on my primary.

    God I wish Gnome would change it's tune, and stop being so militantly simplistic. The idea of extensions is great, but using a rolling release distro is rough when you're relying on a bunch of extensions to make your DE suitable. I really like their approach to UX at it's foundation. Cosmic is showing a lot of promise, and has that configurability built in, and I do look forward to where it goes. but it's going to have this problem where a lot of the software that looks best in it is libadwaita, which enforces drastically different UX.

    Ah, now I remember why I bought the Macbook.

  • Fairphone 6 in US

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  • Man, I really hope they're the manufacturing partner GrapheneOS is talking about, or they at least include Verizon support on future models. T-mobile just doesn't do it for me out in the middle of the forest.

  • Keep android open

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  • Honestly, I don't know if having play services running in a profile that can be deleted would pass that standard for certification. Probably not, I guess.

    As for being a fork, I mean the larger community of Graphene, Lineage, Calyx if it continues to exist, and probably a couple Chinese manufacturers who rely on AOSP to manage a fork that is collaboratively developed going forward, that no longer relies on Google's maintenance of the project.

  • Tablet market stalls because there’s not much new to buy

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  • That's definitely one way I've been looking, the hinge makes it enough tablet for me probably. Though the Starlite is passively cooled, which I really like. Right now I just have two laptops, a Thinkpad P14s and an M1 Macbook Air running Asahi. My ideal would probably be to go back to a desktop, and then have something like a passively cooled ARM or RISC V (obviously anticipating the future on both of those) Framework 12. Or even an N350 in a passive Framework 12, like in the Starlite. This would be more of a writing/browsing/video machine for when I'm lazing around or out at a coffee shop or whatever.

    Ah well, the P14s is fine for now, and RAM is too damned expensive to buy anything right now anyway.

  • Tablet market stalls because there’s not much new to buy

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  • Last I checked, they'll pre-install any number of distros. I just... I don't know what I'd use it for that justified a separate device from a laptop. Maybe once I get home assistant setup in my new place, but even then... what I'm really wanting is a Linux phone that I can use on Verizon's network. But even there, I'm tending towards moving to my cell phone sitting on the charger 95% of the time, and using kdeconnect.

  • Keep android open

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  • That seems to be their mid-term strategy, release their own certified device. That should have some interesting implications on safetynet attestation, too.

    I still think we need a fork of AOSP, before the community atrophies any further.

  • Tablet market stalls because there’s not much new to buy

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  • I keep looking at the Starlite, it's recently upgraded to an N350. But every time I'm about to pull the trigger, I can't come up with enough use case.

  • Democrats: Stop dividing the left

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  • On the one hand, a totally unified party is clearly a problem. I don't particularly want the Democrats to be united on everything, we can see from the Republicans that is a recipe for authoritarianism.

    On the other hand, it would be nice if they could fucking unite against authoritarianism.

  • What software do you use to aggregate email in a single interface?

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  • Evolution being just a little bit clunky is a massive improvement from the Gnome 2 and early Gnome 3 days, for what it's worth.

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    Whole home audio and AES67 in Pipewire