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Kevin

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  • What open-source Android apps should people know about?

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  • You can configure which features you want to have enabled. I have this running with just the gps locate functionaly enabled in case I misplace my phone or my wife wants to check to see if I'm almost home yet or something.

  • Approximately 1 in 25 Pixel users run GrapheneOS

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  • At the same time, I run Graphene with no Google services or apps and it's fantastic. The only thing vs a rom with microg, is you need to be able to depend on unified push or background listening for push notifications. Imo this is actually more de-googled than connecting to Google services with an open source client (which still results in your phone having a constant connection to Google). Graphene also provides options to connect to proxies or alternative services for things like location services, DNS, internet connectivity checks (which can also just be turned off), etc.

  • PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners

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  • Syncthing desktop in termux and handle triggers like battery + wifi via tasker?

  • Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.

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  • Speaking of upgradability, I wonder if an egpu could be connected to that usbc port.

  • Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.

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  • I ran ps2 Linux as my "desktop" for 6 months or so back in the day. It wasn't capable of much compared to a general purpose computer at the time. Videos only played at almost full speed if you ran em in fbdev from a vterm with nothing else running. There was so little ram that using kde1 would run you into slow motion computing because of all the swapping. Window maker was ok, but running much of anything inside it would eat through that 32 megs of ram pretty quickly (I spent most of my time in vterms).

  • I wish the Steam Controller used AA batteries

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  • I'm not sure what kind of black magic they employ, but I can charge three sets of 4 enloop pros in a day with the official charger, more if they weren't completely dead. I'd been using an older charger before and it would take 10+ hours for a single set with that thing.

  • Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we're working on and how you can help shape it | The Mozilla Blog

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  • Do you have issues with website compatibility when using Librewolf? There were a few features I thought were too aggressive and turned off when I first started using it (in the "librewolf" section of the settings), and since then I haven't had a single issue with any websites. If it didn't have a different logo and name I might forget I was using it.

  • What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?

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  • You could rent a VPS in a neutral country and use ssh to create a SOCKS proxy to it, then use foxyproxy to add the proxy to firefox/librewolf/whatever and either allowlist certain sites you don't want your country knowing about or denylist websites you don't care if your country knows about (especially higher bandwidth sites that aren't controversial like YouTube).

    At that point you'd have plenty of "real" traffic from the unproxied websites and any traffic the rest of your OS is using, and when you access the proxied sites you want to hide it'll look like you're using ssh and/or scp.

    You could also create a proxy server with a tor connection on the server and use ssh port forwarding to access it locally. The Mullvad browser + foxyproxy would probably be your best bet for using that since it's basically tor browser without tor.

    EDIT: Additionally, if you wanted to proxy an application that doesn't support SOCKS internally, you can configure proxychains with the proxy and then launch proxychains applicationname.

  • F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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  • That's a really good point, basically throw their weight around a bit eh?

  • Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck

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  • I almost checked out around then too, it gets a lot better in the respects you criticised as well as environment design.

    I'd recommend hard mode for combat once your characters feel ready to advance. It isn't that much harder, and at least the last chunk of the game is way too easy without it.

  • Open source smart watches

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  • There's a lot to like about the pine time, and it's really cool that you can adjust things and recompile. The reason it ultimately didn't work for me was because the vibration motor isn't strong enough for me to notice if I'm actively doing something. Your mileage may vary, but it's worth keeping in mind.

    The original pebble and garmin watches have all been great in that respect.

  • F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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  • 100%, my bank thankfully doesn't tick that box, but if it did I wouldn't think twice about dropping the app. Freedom is more important.

  • F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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  • If they want a lot of play store banking apps + other things that opt into play protect to work they'll need to add the signature verification requirement.

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • On the upside, Louis left FUTO last February

  • Games with Text-based Interaction?

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  • Moonring uses natural language for interacting with NPCs and progressing the game (though you aren't actually controlling them, and there are different gameplay elements so I'm not sure if it would fit the bill?). It uses word matching, but has a really cool system where you'll get bubbles with suggestions based on other information you've uncovered (and then there's hidden stuff you can ask/say as well).

    It's free on that note, so you could try and decide without having to invest more than time: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2373630/Moonring/

  • spend hours ricing my desktop and decided I hated it at the end, and ended up wiping my entire OS

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  • It's an old term from the car customisation scene, but I've seen it in use for referring to custom desktop setups for more than 10 years now. The unixporn subreddit was the first place I ran into it.

  • Are there open hardware wrist watches around?

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  • It's definitely not perfect, like I can grab a nap and not have it notice sometimes so I assume there are a bunch of heuristics at play that create a "best guess".

    That said, how rested I feel does typically line up with the number of hours it shows (regardless of how long I've actually spent in bed), and it has a short description about the quality of sleep like "restorative" or "not enough rem" that further lines up with how I feel.

  • Are there open hardware wrist watches around?

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  • Exactly. Gadgetbridge reverse engineered the protocol so it can configure all the same settings the Garmin app can, notifications get forwarded to the watch, the watch sends its sensor data, gps tracks, etc and Gadgetbridge knows what to do with the data so it's displayed in graphs and lists, etc.

    And yeah, if you get a watch without wifi or don't connect one with it to a network, then all data i/o is going to be exclusively bluetooth with Gadgetbridge, which specifically avoids the network permission (so there's zero chance of anything leaking to a server somewhere.) That's why it communicates with a weather app fur that data instead if pulling it in itself.

    It also works with more than just smart watches; like I can use it to configure the buttons, noise cancelling state, etc on my bluetooth headphones.

  • Are there open hardware wrist watches around?

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  • Mine does (a fenix 7). I think any model that has a heart rate sensor would probably work based on the wiki page. There are certain models that offload sleep tracking to the official app, and I don't think those support sleep tracking in gadgetbridge yet (last I checked this was the case), but the ones that handle it on the watch like mine fully support that too (and you can view stats and a graph in gadgetbridge).

    Speaking of the wiki page: https://gadgetbridge.org/basics/topics/garmin/ - there's a lot to parse since so many models apply, but my fenix 7 has had full support aside from live cloud maps in the weather app, and I've been issue-free since last October aside from a couple things they quickly fixed for me after I opened them.

    There are 2 main gotchyas:

    1. despite the weather sync not requiring the official app (gadgetbridge can sync with breezy weather), the watch stops trying to refresh it if it's been ~3 months since rotating the api key. In the advanced settings you can have gadgetbridge create a new api key for you, but that may break the ability to use the official app (I don't so I went with that).
    2. gadgetbridge can't update the firmware or maps, however you can update directly on the watch via wifi, or you can use the PC app (which works great in a libvirt windows vm).