Discord, Spotify and other electron applications will work fine in a browser. Rather than installing packages that are causing you issues just run them in Firefox.

It’s not a hardware issue but a combination of software issues.

Unsure why your downvoted, aluminium cans have a plastic liner on the inside. Their “better” than plastic bottles but still contribute to waste plastic.

You mean pump up the jam?

I’ve got 3 cameras running on a vlan, with no access to the internet.

Frigate / Home Assistant + tail scale (want to move away from this service) let me see my cameras remotely, receive notifications from events and even look at events / stills on my watch.

I have some cheap 5mp Reolink camseras, not the best for frigate but get the job done.

I’ve started using Geddit, a 3rd party app that doesn’t use the Reddit API. And it’s still better than the app they develop in-house.

I rarely visit Reddit, but when searching for something niche there always seems to be a few threads over there sadly.

I’ve used PayPal in 4 a couple of times.

Budgeting pretty hard, sometimes it’s easier to spread the load out over 4 weeks for something that would eat my whole weekly personal spendings in one swoop.

Ahh yes, history is always written by the winner.

Nah, I’d join random gaming discords over that future.

*nation-state chips

Saying that the good ol’ America aren’t doing the same is keeping your head in the sand.

*Big* Tech really falls into the devil you know vs the devil you don’t. Their all shit sandwiches, take your pick or go hungry.

Not yelling at clouds, just being realistic.

About your connecting phones to cars, you’ll have to allow perms as to what data is shared right? My 2011 VW has Android Auto, but no onboard Sim, how are VW making off with my data?

EDIT: Above between **, see below for further information.

Teslas were banned in areas of China for the same reasons as @Pretzilla@lemmy.world mentioned here. https://searx.tiekoetter.com/search?q=tesla+china+bans

To quote an article:

" Tesla cars face more entry bans in China as ‘security concerns’ accelerate. TAIPEI/BEIJING – Tesla drivers in China are facing entry restrictions at more government-affiliated venues, including meeting halls and exhibition centers, due to data security concerns amid ongoing tensions between Washington and Beijing.24 Jan 2024 "

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Supply-Chain/Tesla-cars-face-more-entry-bans-in-China-as-security-concerns-accelerate

I guess the answer is money, but why would you do any handling of card details in-house. Having a third party process transactions passes to some degree ensuring security onto said third party.

I’d still doubt any risk of full card details being leaked unless the hack goes much deeper than just Epic.

Company I worked for was the only importer of Corsair chairs into Australia, we were told by Corsair (on a chair by chair basis) to have end users destroy faulty chairs if no replacement parts were available.

Same thing with Lian Li, we had a batch of white cases with a paint defect, they were never sold onto end-users but our warehouse teams destroyed every case, sent images to Lian Li of the destruction and we were sent another shipment.

Cooler-master had some bad mITX PSUs, same deal, sent the boys out with a hammer and safety squints.

At the end of the day it’s cheaper for everyone involved to not have a faulty product that is too costly to repair shipped across the ocean or to a local disty. Sucks for the environment, sucks for the end user having to dispose of a faulty product but it makes for some interesting emails sent out to customers :D

But they do freely allow it, grab an APK from F-Droid and install it.

You posed a question about Google policing sideloading, then posted an article that has nothing to do with google policing side loading.

🤷‍♂️

My takeaway from that article is they don’t, and haven’t.

The splash screen for installing a package not from the play store is there to protect the end user. Without it there would probably be a much worse unwanted software issue on android.

I’ve been “side loading” or just “installing” applications on my android devices since the nexus one, without the help of the play store.

ive got limited experience however i think ive got tegaki-python to build under nixos:

https://pastebin.com/yCKUBrgG

name to default.nix then run (from the same dir)

nix-build -E ‘let pkgs = import { }; in pkgs.callPackage ./default.nix {}’ --show-trace

lots more to build but i looks possible to have up and running in nix with some small tweaks from the initial nix-init .nix

a sparceCheckout would trim some fat however minimal on a per-package basis too

looks like its running into perm issues, bit over my head :D

Picked up a laptop with a busted screen $30 cheaper than the RPI 5. 1135G7, 8gb upgradable ram, m.2 storage, wifi, bluetooth and a battery.

Raspberry pis’ were great early on, but their appeal has quickly diminished in my eyes considering used hardware options that are available now.

Size would be the one redeeming quality of a raspberry pi for me, my headless laptop is thin but takes up substantially more space.

I’ve recently (in the last week) added my contacts and manage my calendar via nextcloud locally. Davx synchs to my android devices, nextcloud is synched to my haos VM to help me remember bin nights / other appointments. For someone with ASD + ADHD it’s a godsend.

Minimum for me would be 120hz, i’ve been using 120hz since 2012 (12 years… man) and anything less feels like a massive step backwards. My old S10+ and my cheapie laptop feel sluggish in any animated / transmission scenario.

I love me some hyprland, it’s minimal enough to run on my 4gb ram foldable laptop with the same animations I have on my main laptop & desktop.

Wayland x Nvidia aside (on my laptop) it’s the perfect minimal environment for me.

Man looking at my old 5960x with it’s 20mb of cache from 2014, and Intel’s current top consumer chip with 36mb.

Crazy to think Intel were ‘ahead of the curve’ so long ago, those x99 chips are still relevant compared to some AM4 chips.