The experience has been nothing but awesome. I love the Android clients (mail, calendar sync) and I am also using their AI services for light tasks. Management UI is a bit confusing but not the worst I deal with.
It would not solve the ABI problem, but it would give at least an opinionated end to end API that was at some point the official API of an OS. It has some praise on its design too.
I upgraded from a Pixel 4a (running Calyxos) to a 8a, only because at some point Whatsapp videos broke on the 4a and friends got videos with some green encoding. Otherwise, I had no reason to upgrade.
I hate my new phone. I could use the 4a with one hand comfortably, but that is not the case with the 8a. My thumb does not reach the top of the screen like before. I have to hold it in diagonal position just to be able to do the gestures Android -by design- expects.
The fingerprint sensor moved from the back to the front. That design helped having the phone in the right direction when taking it out of my pocket. Now it comes half of the time upside down. The fingerprint sensor is bad. Half of the time does not work and I have to use the pin. On the 4a was flawless.
Genuine curiosity. Why would you buy a laptop with nvidia for the purpose of running Linux when it is known to be problematic?
I use Linux since ~ 28 years, and having seen all the trouble with Nvidia drivers, I just avoid it. I just pick an Intel graphics Thinkpad, likely the previous generation to the last one, check compatibility in the Arch wiki and then buy it.
I do something similar to Pi-Hole using plain dnsmasq.
I use two old PINE64 (one with FreeBSD, one NetBSD to make it more fun), and the Ansible configuration downloads https://github.com/ShadowWhisperer/BlockLists and creates a file dnsmasq can use. Which lists from the repo to use is defined as a variable.
Works very well and I feel I can understand what is going on.
It seems every time I read about a project being forked, they use the (probably) trademarked name in the project's fork, just to need a rename a few weeks after.
Zigbee is reliable and quite open. Just go for the Homeassistant and zigbee2mqtt route. You will be able to interact with almost anything from Homeassistant.
I just finished moving all my Hue lights from the official hub to zigbee2mqtt + USB dongle, in preparation for the upcoming enshitification (Hue app will require online account).
>Nextcloud doesn't require a CLA (Contributor License Agreement). The copyright belongs to all the individual contributors. Therefore we recommend that every contributor adds the following line to the header of a file if they changed it substantially:
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For me it solved most of these lockups when using heavy ram apps (Electron, Firefox + Teams, etc) and keeps the system responsive. I am happy with it and plan to keep it enabled. I have no data to validate except that I don't remember having to SysRq key + F some app for a long time.
which I find easier to setup. Just enable it and it manages itself. You can still keep swap on disk, but it will act as a buffer in between, trading CPU cycles for potentially reduced swap I/O.
I think Arch has it enabled by default, but I am not sure about that. I had to enable it manually on Tumbleweed because my rolling install is years old.
Usenet was sorted by topic. Same people stick to the required topic in different forums.In the fediverse, you follow people, and therefore can't control very well what people post about. I follow some people because I am interested in technical topics, but I end muting some of those because some are very political, and I am not interested in some of these topics.
I don't think the Usenet model can be replicated on top of Fediverse. Not everyone sees instances as a topic thing (I host my own instance).
"SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.
Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix."
I think in terms of paradigm, Serenity has a stronger ideology than RedoxOS. It brings BeOS and Mac concepts like a consistent and fully integrated monorepo system and development kits, and a very strong and defined user interface paradigm.
From that perspective I find Redox much less of a paradigm for the end-user, if the main feature is the language the developers used. Orbital does not look remarkable.
The level of productivity of Andreas himself, his videos and the community he managed to built, including growing a few individuals of to major contributors to the point they created a whole browser stack is just outstanding as an open-source case study. Also to me, much more interesting than a programming language used to built it.
Haiku is written in the same language as Serenity, btw.
The experience has been nothing but awesome. I love the Android clients (mail, calendar sync) and I am also using their AI services for light tasks. Management UI is a bit confusing but not the worst I deal with.
Glad to see this move. I am a fan!.