I got a Supernote A5X to read papers - I'm very happy with it and wouldn't want a tablet. I specifically wanted a dumb device dedicated to notes/reading that I wouldn't connect to the internet, which really helps me focus. The eink display is easy to read and is a great break from screens, it feels natural to write on.
However it's not perfect - eink has a small lag in turning pages, so if you intend on flipping through a ton of pages while coding that may be a pain. The searching experience also isn't great, typing takes longer because of the lag. I use it as an advanced notebook rather than a smart device, and I love it from that lens.
There's a discussion specifically about opt-in/opt-out on Fedora Discussion here. Per the Fedora Project Leader, "this is the first time we’re using Fedora Discussion as the main place for a Change Proposal discussion". Make your voice heard!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/17106
> Just in the consideration phase, but makes you wonder the timing after the Red Hat move. Maybe alright if they do it the KDE way of needing to manually opt in and not like Cononical's painful way of manually having to opt out. Or Firefox's needing to manually opt out though easy.
Apparently, challenges with staff turnover are partly to blame.
At the bottom right of every page, you can click on the "Instances" button (or just go to https://lemmy.zip/instances) to see what instances your site is federated with/is defederated from. lemmy.ml is under linked, so lemmy.zip is federating with them.
What you may be running into is that on this smaller instance, you may need to discover the communities:
These previous ways [searching for instances] will only show communities that are already known to the instance. Especially if you joined a small or inactive Lemmy instance, there will be few communities to discover. You can find more communities by browsing different Lemmy instances, or using the Lemmy Community Browser. When you found a community that you want to follow, enter its URL (e.g. https://feddit.de/c/main) or the identifier (e.g. [email protected]) into the search field of your own Lemmy instance. Lemmy will then fetch the community from its original instance, and allow you to interact with it. The same method also works to fetch users, posts or comments from other instances.
(from the join-lemmy docs)
You can read their original announcement and reasoning here: https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Agree - I jumped from a OnePlus 5T to a Pixel 5a 2 years ago and have no regrets. It really depends on what you're modding for, but I found that on Pixel not having (as much) bloatware, getting the latest Android updates, having real Google Camera support instead of chasing the best mod, and using Wavelet instead of Viper4Android took care of most of my rooting needs. Instead, with the unlockable bootloader I've been able to explore custom OSes like GrapheneOS which has been really great!
This whole website is great, thanks for sharing! Currently hooked on drawing a perfect circle
I believe it's this issue for 0.0.36, where it will always use your account's preferences: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/887
It looks like a temporary fix is already done, so it should be fixed when they make a new release (0.0.37). As a quick fix for 0.0.36, it looks like if you change your account's preferences, quit the app and reopen, it'll use those new settings (but that's definitely a pain), you could also use the web version.
Flatpak install/update fails with “Need more input” or “Input buffer too small”
Problem When updating your flatpak apps… as of yesterday’s update of libostree, it won’t work. You’ll see some errors like Writing content object: Need more input. Cause ostree was updated, including libostree. There’s some change that broke flatpak’s ability to update packages. Related Issues ...
Resolved: ostree 2023.4-2 (as linked in the comments below) has been pushed to stable, updating your system will resolve the issue.
Tl;dr: There seems to be a bug in ostree-libs 2023.4 that causes errors when trying to update flatpaks, gnome software loads forever when trying to update a flatpak and manually running flatpak update shows errors (I was getting an "input buffer too small" error, others seemed to be getting errors like "Need more input".)
Running sudo dnf downgrade ostree worked perfectly for me, I'll be ignoring the ostree/ostree-libs update for now and hopefully the issue will be resolved soon.
Defunctland's Disney's Fastpass: A Complicated History is a fantastic dive into the logistics of managing a giant crowd over several years, from approaching it as an engineering problem all the way to exploiting the system for profit. It's such a fascinating problem to me, and it's presented in an engaging and fun way. The rest of the channel is fantastic too!
I'll also recommend Fascinating Horror - these aren't fictional horror stories, these are real disasters told in an incredibly detailed but highly respectful way. They don't just explain the disaster and why/how it happened, but also the regulations that came afterwards to make sure these would never happen again. They're all high quality, but if you want a starting point the Nutty Butty Caves will give you a good idea what the channel is about.
Manifest V3 will not prevent Brave from blocking ads. We built ad blocking into the browser itself so it will not be affected by Google changing its rules for extensions.
Quiz Quest 4 - Ultimate Final Battle (against Miko)
Always fun to hear embarassing Miko stories! (The other three battles have also been great, tons of villain/isekai voice acting and cringe stories - against Fubuki, against Lamy, against Pekora).
If you're on Android 12 or higher with a supported device, you could disable camera access with a quick settings toggle. If the camera is disabled, any app using the camera just gets a black image. (It does cause a popup asking if you want to unblock the camera, but you can just hit cancel.)
I'm really excited for what it means for the future! I'm not going to buy a first-gen product like this, but the fact that Google is making a foldable hopefully means that Android is going to become a better experience on devices like these, so when the technology does get cheaper the software will be ready for it. I'm totally onboard with having a larger display in a more pocketable form factor.
I'm definitely not an expert and there may be a better solution to this! Just sharing what my experience has been.
You can share any image through the GUI because that will open an xdg-desktop-portal that lets you select the file - Teams/Whatsapp doesn't know what's on your file system, only the portal does. The portal brings in your selected image and only your selected image into Edge/Whatsapp, therefore maintaining the sandbox.
Dragging and dropping doesn't go through a portal, so if the sandboxed application doesn't have access to wherever that image is, it can't accept it because it doesn't know about it! It has to have access to this file. As you mentioned this is something that can be solved in Flatseal: for instance, I added the Screenshots folder to my Firefox permissions so I can drag and drop photos from the Screenshots folder. Adding this allows me to drag and drop images from Screenshots (and any other folders in this "Other files" section), but dragging and dropping from anywhere else doesn't work since Firefox doesn't know about it.
You could enable all user files if you want to be able to drag images from anywhere, but that breaks the sandbox since the app would then have access to all files in your home.
Thought it was great! It was wonderfully chaotic, Mumei did a great job voice acting, and we got some A-chan English, what else could you ask for? Super excited for Bae's episode next week!
Ugh, what a pain! I was in a similar boat with not having a phone for that week (my 5a had bricked itself :)), definitely learned a lesson to keep an old phone lying around for the worst case scenario. Definitely jealous that we don't have a Genius Bar. Hope your replacement gets to you soon!
The Talos Principle - for me, the puzzles hit the sweet spot of being hard enough to be on my mind all day, but never feeling like the solution was out of reach. But even more than the puzzles, the philosophical elements made me reflect on life, civilization, and personhood in a way nothing else has. It was a peaceful, tranquil experience of just me, a serene soundtrack, and thought provoking text and puzzles.
I had a warranty replacement recently, but it wasn't through preferred care so that process may be different! My timeline was
- Saturday morning: Went to an Asurion store, they said I had to go through Google and Google would email me in 1-3 business days.
- Wednesday morning (2 business days later): Email from Google asking for confirmation of the issue, I replied
- Thursday morning: Email from Google to start the replacement process
- Thursday afternoon: Email from Google Store saying replacement shipped with tracking info
- Friday evening: Replacement arrived
So all in all, it took 2 (business) days to first hear from Google, day and a half of processing, day and a half of shipping.
Pixel 6a - was happily using a Pixel 5a for the past ~2 years until it had a spontaneous motherboard failure 3 weeks ago 🙃. Google replaced it with a 6a, I'm still annoyed the 5a can become a brick with no warning but I'm very happy with the 6a with GrapheneOS so far and plan to stick with it until the OS updates stop.
Even if Reddit walks this decision back, the fact that a corporation is making the decisions instead of the community/content creators means that similar drama is inevitable. I can't blame them for making a decision to try and be more profitable, but that also means I will leave and put my effort towards a network that is community-led.
At the same time, running a Lemmy instance isn't free - I have concerns about how these instances will stay funded in the long term. I'll also miss the niche communities that haven't made their way over here yet, but hopefully they will!
I've been a big fan of helix as a terminal text/code editor - while VS Code is open source, a lot of their language servers (for example, pylance) are closed source. Helix lets me integrate open source language servers out of the box without any setup needed (besides installing the language servers), and it has a UI that helps you explore new features and learn keyboard shortcuts. It doesn't have plugins yet, but I find that the built in features have implemented most things I'd want a plugin for; and it has different keybindings than vim/neovim, but I've found the new model for editing more intuitive and worth the relearning process.