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A 10+ year old meme comparing the Xbox One to a brick. Which of the two did you invest in? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

A linux PC would involve some amount of tinkering.

The steam deck is foolproof, a 6 year old can play games on it with no issues, so it's a console. The PC mode is just a nice extra.

A 10+ year old meme comparing the Xbox One to a brick. Which of the two did you invest in? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (5 children)

We're lucky to have valve. They actually managed to make a console without the downsides of a console.

My OLED deck has arrived today, can't wait to use it.

RuledIn in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Win is one of the most windows things that could happen. You just press some keys that should do nothing and boom, microsoft ad. I hope the EU version of windows will be stripped of that crap.

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Deciding between Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8 (feddit.de)
 

My phone is no longer getting updates, so it's time to buy a new one. The hardware could easily last 1-2 more years but I'd have to replace the battery, which is a pain on my phone.

I'm looking for something that has long firmware support and some good privacy roms while not being worse than my current Oneplus 8 in any way. I don't care about cameras at all and I'm still mad about the missing headphone jacks, but unfortunately those don't seem to be coming back and I can survive without one.

So, the options are Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8 from what I found out. The Pixel 8 is a little small for my taste and with 256GB storage it's more expensive, but it does have grapheneOS, which I'd prefer because the app sandboxing would allow me to have peace of mind even if I have tracking apps sitting on my phone. I could use the proper play store and do IAPs without fiddling with aurora store. I use it already and it isn't great.

With the Fairphone, I'd get a replacable battery so I can buy a spare and swap instead of charging my phone. I used to do that with the good old S3 and it was great. MicroSD slot is also nice. But the ROM options are CalyxOS and /e/OS. I know Calyx has a nice firewall to keep tracking at bay and /e/OS is an LOS fork mainly focused on getting rid of google from what I know, but neither has as much protection as grapheneOS.

My main goal is to become less dependant on google while still being able to use google maps for my way to work. The traffic aware routing saves me 10 minutes every day so letting google know when I go to work is a fair deal.

So, any opinions or experiences with either? TIA

You can choose normal, fancy, or wildcard. in c/[email protected]
Ripping spotify in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks great, but I get a lot of SSL errors without real tine downloading and one every 5 or so songs with it.

It'll take a week or two to download 3000 songs, but running it periodically after that should be fine.

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Ripping spotify (feddit.de)
 

The spotify app keeps getting worse by the week. At this point it won't load my saved song list at all when I'm offline. While writing this, it just crashed in the background.

So I've finally had enough and started looking for a ripper to use a different player app.

But try and google for one and you'll be surprised, the only reasonable results are github repos from 5 years ago and before you find one of those, you get a bunch of AI generated trash and some paid services whose websites also look very AI-generated.

Are there any proper ways to do this? Alternative spotify apps exist (though they don't seem to be very usable yet) so I'm sure there's a way to get something from the API, even if it means I need to register for API access.

lemmy.ml in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

But that's how politics work nowadays. You need to assume that every group is homogenous and when someone from that group points out that it isn't, you call them a hypocrite.

Citroen GSA X3 dashboard 1981 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

French 80s cars are the most 80s cars.

Today I got this POP-UP, anyone? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I missed that, thanks for pointing it out. The one without S is the correct one.

But that makes me wonder, how did OP not end up with two signal apps then?

Today I got this POP-UP, anyone? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

~~The package name is correct~~, but signal was never on F-droid.

Do you have a third party repo that might be compromised?

Edit: Package name isn't correct, so that's almost definitely a compromised version. Get rid of it ASAP.

Would the world be a better place if Google bought Gitlab? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They'd do what they are doing to android. Make it as unusable as possible without their proprietary crap.

Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Classic microsoft move.

Linux has gotten great over the years and keeps improving while windows gets worse and worse every day. This has been going on for many years now.

I switched already and suggest you give it a shot as well. It's honestly much easier than windows if you know the basics and understand how things are done there.

Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

VScode is the epitome of the EEE strategy. The core product is open-source, but it's filled to the brim with tracking and the official extensions have DRM. Yes, there's DRM on your python LSP.

Anyone who gives a shit should look for alternatives right away. The problem is just that there aren't any that are as easy to set up.

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It's nice to finally have an explanation for the stuff I thought was wrong with me, but I feel very stupid for missing all the clues earlier. (feddit.de)
 
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