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qweertz

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tech-savvy geek and queer disaster(I also hate capitalism and have a general interest in social sciences)

  • Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

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  • Arguably, 2nd hand private sellers would have bought it anyway and you are just saving e-waste at that point

  • Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

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  • Ok this is gonna blow your mind, you can buy used or refurbished Pixels

  • Distrochooser: Tool to choose a good Linux distribution for your needs

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  • It's bloated with Canonical BS, from their custom extensions (which break touch on Wayland) and Snaps obviously

  • “On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.”

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  • We should ban knifes BC they enable people to cut their wrist in the first place!!!

  • Immich 1.136 Photo and Video Backup Brings Breaking Changes

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  • Is this not what semver is for? Like making consumers aware that there are breaking changes...

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    The way I see it, they either stop coming to my door or they start sending people who can best me ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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  • Yo can we please not use this com for memes, but discussion? Yk that linux_memes exists, right?

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  • gnome terminal and console have hardware acceleration and have had it for a while AFAIK

  • Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: CoMaps is Born

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  • Organic Maps and thus by extension CoMaps are supposed to be minimalist and light on features. They are kinda the polar opposite to OSMAnd (at least regarding that)

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    Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds

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  • It's so jover. Not even "reputable" news outlets know what correlation is anymore 💀

  • Will kernel-level anti-cheat ever work on linux?

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  • Every IT-literate person fights kernel-lvl malware disguising as games with everything they got.

    Since Linux has a high percentage of those, I hope those "solutions" will never spread

  • How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state

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  • How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state

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  • "Turning"?! "into"?!

    ig neither the glowies, nor Snowden, nor Manning exist

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  • Postgres slowing factor

    I'm pretty sure one of the best optimised free/libre DBMS's is faster than Python 💀

    EDIT: skimmed it wrongly, see corrections below

    Also no one knows how Piefed scales, since it only has like 350 MAU

  • autofocus glasses

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  • Looking forward to when these are actually affordable, like in a few decades.

    Assuming they haven't gone bankrupt by then ((:

  • Recent commits suggest Signal is preparing a paid subscription for backups.

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  • Glad to be of help! I personally really like Syncthing, since it makes implementing a resilient decentralised backup strategy quite easy.

    Though I would recommend you go with "Syncthing-Fork", as iirc the "vanilla" app was put into maintenance mode or smth like that

  • Recent commits suggest Signal is preparing a paid subscription for backups.

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  • Well, if you didn't know, Molly is a soft fork of the Signal Android client.

    But, I think both support making local backups of your chats.I do so daily and keep two copies. These get synced in real time to my little NAS and/or my PC/Laptop

  • Recent commits suggest Signal is preparing a paid subscription for backups.

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  • Glad to see they are establishing useful streams of revenue

    I, however, will continue using Molly in combination with Syncthing

  • GNU Taler (a swiss FLOSS alternative to Visa, Mastercard and Paypal) begins operating in Switzerland as Version 1.0 releases

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  • Go on the official Taler Website, they have all the info there iirc

  • The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI

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  • exactly, "reserve army of labour" is a tale as old as capitalism.

    Just that the IT industry has run a very effective propaganda campaign for it