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by opan 7d ago
Copyleft licenses like the GPL are doing the best they can in the current world. Abolishing copyright would not harm the free software movement. I wouldn't bother to treat music and art separately from software either. It's a sham
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by opan 7d ago
I'm not a fan of AI if that's what you're talking about, I still want copyright dead or drastically shortened. I'd say most people with an interest in free (as in freedom) software or computers in general should want sim
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by opan 8d ago
Checking my shell history on my PC, I have used adb sideload both with apk files and zips of custom ROMs and such.
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by opan 11d ago
Lots of good general soldering tips here. If the DualShock 4 PCB is half as complex as the DualSense PCB, good chance you scratched a trace whole removing the sticks. If you can locate the damaged area you can jump it with a bodge wire (thi
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by opan 12d ago
There's an `adb sideload` command for installing an app on your phone from your PC, with the file on your PC, it's like a remote install. For some reason some people also use the term to refer to installing stuff via apks in gener
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by opan 15d ago
>Mobile firefox is OK, it simply feels like it's designed for a different person. For example even Chrome has "force reader mode" button.. Firefox does not. I'm using Fennec from F-Droid, but I have a little document
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by opan 15d ago
RuneScape was very popular at my local public library, and as a kid I only played the F2P content. I knew maybe one or two people around that time that played WoW. The paid subscription made it not a realistic option for me at the time. Tho
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by opan 16d ago
Maybe they meant elementaryOS.
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by opan 16d ago
Spaces, voice and video calls, custom emoji or stickers. Basically the stuff people coming from Discord are used to but the people coming from IRC/XMPP aren't used to.
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by opan 16d ago
Is it still easy to get C cells? I probably would've used an 18650 or some AAs.
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by opan 18d ago
I don't think Steam being 64bit stops you launching 32bit games, just reduces the need for all the 32bit dependencies to use Steam at all.
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by opan 18d ago
Besides the TUI program itself, you also have your terminal emulator (unless in a TTY) and possibly a multiplexer like tmux. I use irssi inside tmux from my phone a lot and you can get pretty precise control with keyboard shortcuts that mak
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by opan 18d ago
That's a funny example, reminds me of how often fresh Windows 7 or older installs were missing the ethernet driver so you had to move stuff over on a flash drive to get started really setting stuff up. In your situation, a couple possi
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by opan 23d ago
Seconding Conversations, though I wish it'd let me disable relative timestamps.
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by opan 23d ago
I regularly use IRC, XMPP, and Matrix. I think your description fits IRC better. XMPP kinda has a Plan 9 or Amiga type of vibe, cult following "ahead of its time", but never took off totally how people hoped, or didn't stay r
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by opan 23d ago
XMPP is somewhat popular on the fediverse, especially the Pleroma side. If you meet people there who want to chat elsewhere, they likely are on XMPP. Also if you have a Disroot account it comes with XMPP.
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by opan 23d ago
I think GP was speaking hyperbolically, because most new features hit Element/Synapse first and other clients lag behind implementing them. If you care about more than the basics working, it's kind of just the illusion of choice.
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by opan 23d ago
IRC and email worked out pretty well I think.
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by opan 23d ago
I strongly prefer that with XMPP I can disable the encryption when it breaks to tell my friend I'm trapped under a boulder and bleeding out. With Matrix our chat is encrypted, I can't turn it off ever, if it stops working I can&#x
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by opan 23d ago
Used to be you saved and shared screenshots by pasting into Paint and saving it. Printscreen didn't save a file and only some programs (Skype) let you paste the screenshot directly from the clipboard. That's how I remember it anyw
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by opan 25d ago
With QMK you can have mousekeys including scrolling in another layer. IME mostly useful when you can't use j/k or pgdn/pgup or similar.
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by opan 25d ago
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. The biggest hits to typing speed are usually typos or fixing typos. If you slow down and try harder to hit the right key the first time, I'd bet you can hit 20wpm at least.
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by opan 25d ago
>I wonder how long it would take to get to 75WPM on graphite. A decade? Assuming you can already type that fast, 3-6 months at most I would think (with daily practice / full immersion). My best speed with QWERTY was 160wpm and I was
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by opan 25d ago
If you care about the ergonomics of the thumb cluster, the Ergodox and others like it have a bad one. It sticks out too far. For a more modern and ergonomic thumb cluster, check out Pinky4, Iris, or Corne. I've been using a Pinky4 for
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by opan 25d ago
I believe it's so people who use a 60% or 80% keyboard can order 20-40 fewer than those with a 100% keyboard.
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by opan 26d ago
PinePhone will boot off a microSD before the internal flash, so you could have a clean OS on the card and your real one on the flash. The SD card is under the back cover with the battery and SIM, so chances are they won't think to try
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by opan 27d ago
It's funny that this keeps happening to them. More recently one of their wallpapers had some sort of hippo with hair all over that looked like hairy balls[1]. I wonder how many people look at the wallpapers before they get the okay. [1
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by opan 27d ago
Most stuff is fully rewritten/replaced. KDE and GNOME (maybe XFCE) are special cases. Sway acting as the Wayland version of i3wm is more what I expect. There was an early project to replicate AwesomeWM called WayCooler, but after a few
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by opan 27d ago
>Out of curiosity: Is there any app that works on Wayland but not on X? foot, fuzzel, visurf.
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by opan 28d ago
Same here. Banking works in a browser, don't need GAPPs for any apps I use either.

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