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  • Installed Graphene OS

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  • Had that on one of mine too (my main one I used for many years). Yes thats very bad, nearly unfixable and you can only use it with a second phone which provides a hotspot.

    But in case you want to get rid of it it would be great if you sent it to the team for development purposes (You can reach them on their mailing list https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/maemo-leste) or even I would be happy if you send it to me, so that I have spare parts and maybe I will dare to try to fix the modem.

    (Some people had success with stripping all temperature sensitive parts and plastics from the mainboard and baking the mainboard in the oven)

    In case you want to to keep it, believe me, I fully understand :) Maybe one day you will get the urge to fiddle with it again.

  • Installed Graphene OS

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  • Still have it?You can try maemo Leste on it. https://maemo-leste.github.io/

    Far from usable as daily phone, but they are making good progress despite their small team. Dillo works as Browser for sites without js, SMS works well, calls are possible, Bluetooth is missing but everything else pretty much works.

    Of course the 256MB RAM pose a heavy limit for todays apps. You have to choose ones which use it sparingly. E.g. mupdf, gnumeric instead of libreoffice and so on.

    But its awesome for mobile ssh and, little games like SNES ones. I am starting to use it as second phone.

  • Windows-Alternative: Was das große Update auf Linux 7 bieten soll

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  • Gibt auch andere, die Clevo Barebones gehen auch meist super. Besonders natürlich die von Tuxedo und System76 aufgegriffenen. Und bei Lenovo vor allem die Thinkpad Reihe.

    Dachte ich hol mir ein günstiges Ideapad (14APH8) und bin auf der sicheren Seite. Das macht Probleme, auch unter Windows. Mal aus dem Standby nicht aufgewacht. Manchmal hängt er einfach komplett, selbst SysRQ geht nicht mehr, mal spinnt der Grafiktreiber wegen der ungewöhnlichen Kombi mit dem Display, die NPU im PC wurde von Lenovo erst nach einem Jahr freigeschaltet und es sammelt Dellen wie kein PC zuvor, einer der USB-C Ports hat einen Wackelkontakt nach 2 Monaten Schreibtisch gehabt. Hatte ich bisher nur mal mit einem USB-A bei meinem Clevo nach 9 Jahren auf Wanderschaft durch Uni, 2 Arbeitsplätze und einigem mehr. Der Zweite USB-C zeigt erste Schwächen, dann kann ich ihn nicht mehr laden. Laden geht eh nur mit 65W Netzteil, alles weniger lehnt er ab. Gut, hat nur ein kleiner Teil mit Linux zu tun, aber ich hab nie einem PC so wenig getraut.

    Das nächste mal wirds wieder ein Clevo.

  • Epic Game Store’s free giveaways just cause a huge spike in Steam sales, reveals New Blood CEO

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  • This is the same effect which makes piracy beneficiary for developers. The EU financed a big study on it, expected to confirm claims that i causes high losses for creators. After they got unwanted results they shelved it silently. The Pirate Party then brought it to light.

    Free advertising is always good and many people who have a no hassle option to own the game and to reward the creator will do so.

  • German Chancellor Merz: "Will not allow components from China in 6G network"

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  • This is very relevant. The reasoning to ban hardware from China is two fold in the article: 1. To reduce general dependency on Chinas Manufacturing 2. To increase security. And here is the point. Huawei has offered to provide source code and processes for building the firmware for their devices, thus allowing the German state to check every detail of the the devices. Neither Nokia nor Ericson have agreed to do the same, they should be forced to do so for such important infrastructure.

    Even worse is Cisco from the USA. They have been found guilty of multiple times adding hardware and/or software backdoors to their devices. Or in their wording "forgetting to remove a remote root access used for development purposes" Here one of the recent cases: https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/alerts-advisories/vulnerability-impacting-cisco-devices-cve-2023-20198 (This may happen once, but if it happens more than once the company is either guilty of implementing it a backdoor or so incompetent in security no one should dare to buy even a home router from then, much less equipment for critical infrastructure)

    In the NSA Leaks Snowden also revealed documents proving that the NSA regularly tampers with Cisco devices to implement backdoors and have standard tools for that. (Also affecting hardware from other US manufacturers)

    So asking: "Why these bold claims about increasing security and decreasing dependence with focus on China when these issues are far greater with another supplier" is very much valid. I am actually quite happy that Merz mentioned independence from the USA too.

  • Building a Linux Phone

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  • Lika a Nokia N900 with a modern prozessor, camera, some GBs of RAM and a 5G modem. And of course Open Source drivers for the Hardware. This would be my dream phone (As the N900 was, back, when its Hardware was recent)

  • Finanzierung des Deutschlandtickets bis 2030 gesichert

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  • Immerhin ist die Inflation des Deutschlandtickets damit gegenüber der letzten Erhöhung konstant gehalten bei ca 8,7% pro Jahr. Ich hab nur irgendwie verpasst, dass das allgemeine Inflationsziel auf den Wert erhöht wurde...

  • Meanwhile at Microsoft

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  • I have mostly abandoned Win for many years (I only have gaming PC where I still have dual boot) Has it really gotten that bad? Every time I boot up Win I am shocked how long this clean PC with only Games installed and high end hardware takes to get ready. But at least it does its job.

    On Linux (Kubuntu in my case) I haven't had an issue with hanging software in a long time. Even browsers have become completely stable.

  • Which timezone would win in a conflict?

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  • Hey, not country war, timezone war! Those bases? They belong to team GMT+1 now!

  • Wie ist eure Meinung zu "Brave Mädchen"?

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  • Wie ist eure Meinung zu "Brave Mädchen"?

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  • Halt, deine Aussage an sich ist zwar korrekt, aber hier geht es nicht um Pressefreiheit. Wie OP schon sagte, wäre es ein beliebiger Kanal, Schwamm drauf. Er würde nicht dagegen vorgehen oder sich auch nur groß darüber beschweren, dass diese Inhalt in die Welt gehen. Das deckt die Pressefreiheit.

    Was in seinen (und meinen) Augen nicht ok ist, ist das der ÖR, der ja verschiedene Zwecke erfüllen soll um Steuergelder wirkungsvoll einzusetzen, einen Kanal finanziert, der keines der Ziele erfüllt, beziehungsweise ihnen sogar gegenwirkt.

  • Mercedes CEO calls for ‘reality check’, slamming EU combustion engine ban

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  • We do have many of them. We just have chosen not to mine them because that creates environmental and health issues and we can obtain them from elsewhere. When we mine them here, then mostly in remote places.

    Cobalt: Top producer is DRC, Europe has a minor local production, mostly in Finnland Lithium: Abundant everywhere but difficult to extract, the EU doesn't produce any significant quantities right now Nickel: Only 1.5% produced in EU, again mostly in Finnland Maganese: This is the only metal relevant for current batteries where there are no (known) significant deposits in central EU, some are around the black sea, industrial production is nonexistent.

    Where the EU is already more present is in the refining of the raw ores. I think the current situation is, while not great, acceptable. As long as many different producers of the rare metals are available and the EU creates reserves of them (it does), it is fine to be dependent on imports for the moment.

  • Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power?

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  • First there is a reason for that, as all major incident and even many minor incidents (see above) release radioactivity. Often into the environment in very minor cases only into the reactor building and the workers.

    Secondly its wrong. Yes incidents do happen in normal plant too. But any remotely major ones also make it into the news. Actually they do it more often as the plants are not as remote and as huge that you wouldn't notice them. As you can see 4 incidents haven't been made public in Grundmemmingen B, I don't know of a single one which has not been disclosed for years with coal/gas plants.

    Lets pick a random sample of 10 German coal & gas plants from the Wikipedia list: (Kraftwerk Bremen-Mittelsbüren[49]Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Bremen (GKB)[52]Industriekraftwerk Bremerhaven[1]Industriekraftwerk Breuberg[53]Egger Kraftwerk Brilon[1]Kraftwerk Burghausen[1]Industriekraftwerk Marl[1][2]Kraftwerk Clauen[1]Heizkraftwerk Cottbus[55][2]GTKW Darmstadt[57] )

    We have 8 with no incidents at all, notable Bremen-Mittelsbüren which runs since 1964! Special mention also for Marl where the plant didn't have issues, but the chemical factories around it, oh boy!

    We have 2 with Issues, a complete list:

    • Fire in turbine, nobody hurt (Clauen)
    • boiler explosion 3 hurt, 2 dead (Brilon)

    So in total you have less issues than with a single average atomic reactor and only 20% of the list had issues. Why is that so? First these systems are simple. The only contain comparatively few parts, you can access almost everything for inspection without special gear and notice and fix any faults before they even have a chance to become a problem. Secondly they deal with lower extremes. The steam circuit has less pressure, the power for the transformers is lower.

    This also hold for the huge ones, e.g. the 4 Datteln plants where only Datteln 4 had a major fire incident with no deaths. The oldest one running 1964-2014, longer than any atomic reactor in Germany.

    When you look to wind turbines incidents are even more rare. We have currently about 28600 wind turbines in Germany, of these 129 had incidents like damage to the blades. 8 towers collapsed so 0.5% with issues and 0.02% with major ones. (And these issues concentrate on the first turbines built)

  • Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power?

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  • On the one hand, yes it is. On the other hand the general average also does not seem good.

    There are many reactors which had similar, but not as bad histories. Kozloduy NPP (BG), Zion Nuclear Power Station (US), Ignalina (LI), Shoreham, Bohunice, Superphénix, ... While reactors which have run without noteworthy problems make up not even half of the total, which is far below anything which should be the norm for public infrastructure.

    Lets take Germany as example, which fits quite well due to half of the countries having very lax requirements (DDR) and half having strict ones (West-Germany)

    • We have 7 Reactors which where built but never operated due to safety concerns (3 in Greifswald)
    • We have at least 4 sites (with at least 8 reactor blocks) with major issues, besides Greifswald we have e.g. hydrogen explosions (Brunsbüttel), turbine fires (Gundremmingen A), transformer fires (Krümmel). These are just the ones I found with a quick search.
    • We have another 9 reactor blocks with minor issues like Grundmemmingen B (Bavaria), lets pick this one at random and name the minor incidents: 2 Workers killed by boiling steam explosion (1975), short circuit leading to 3m of contaminated water at 80°C in the building (1977), failed sealing leading to automatic shutdown and repair (2008), failed rods emitting 500-fold the allowed amount of radioactive gases into the atmosphere (2011), another 4 incidents which have not yet been made public and really minor issues like value issues.
    • We have about 10 with only minor issues. Stretching from Emsland with only 2 known small leaks to Grafenrheinfeld where there were sudden shutdowns and a fire which nearly reached the main reactor but was extinguished in time.

    In fact during looking this up I haven't found a single reactor which ran a significant time without any incident, even if I do not count construction issues which were caught and fixed in time before they resulted in incidents.

  • Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power?

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  • Maybe you should look the mentioned case up before making your argument.

    Greifswald had 6 blocks in 1990: 4 blocks which were in very bad state, cracks in the pressure chamber with a high probability to release nuclear material into the environment. Due to these faults they were already shut down since 1987, except block 1 which was run against the recommendations of the security agency. To continue running them they would have to be rebuilt, completely. This includes dismantling them which as we now know would have taken many decades! Block 5 and 6 were under construction. (Started in 1970, planned for 1980) But mistakes were made during the construction, postponing it till 1990, when finally no energy company at all wanted to take over the risk of running it.

    So Greifswald was shut down. Not to spite you, but because both security of the general population and financial aspects didn't allow running it anymore. (It had already two near disasters which where kept hidden and only became known because of the fall of the DDR)

  • Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power?

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  • Now to the word "emerging"

    This was built entirely in 16 months, from groundbreaking to connection to the grid. For the cost of a single nuclear reactor you can build 30 of these. And opposed to nuclear technology batteries are still making remarkable progress in their affordability.

    Edit: Btw the battery also uses below 0,5% of the area of a usual nuclear plant.

  • Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power?

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  • I suppose you know don't about the superbattery projects already implemented, e.g. the one in Australia and its huge benefits to their grid?

    About sodium based batteries which have become commercially viable in recent years?

    And because of the implication also that nuclear reactors produce extreme waste of building materials (e.g. Greifswald, ran for 26 years, dismantling in operation since 35 years and projected to last till 2040 at least, because higher contamination than estimated) and mining for them is at least as bad as for Lithium?

    If not ask the search engine/ai of your choice.

  • Es wird heiß heute (und morgen)

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  • Ich denke wir haben hier einfach Früh- und Spätaufsteher mit euch und ihr habt beide Recht 😉

    Geht man um Mitternacht ins Bett, ist es da schon kühler und man kann bis morgens um 8-9 Lüften, wo es draußen warm wird.

    Geht man um 21/22 Uhr ins Bett und steht um 6-7 auf, dann lüftet sichs besser in der Früh.

  • As of last night, Someone Went Android-free and Google-free.

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  • Um no? And why the Upvotes?

    Yes, Jolla didlock the bootloader by default. Why? To prevent an attacker from circumventing the lockcode.

    Did they do it to take away freedom from users? No. You can unlock it yourself at any time, of couse you need to unlock your phone for that.

    Do they make you pay for it? No they even provide instructions for unlocking!