welwala

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by welwala 8d ago
> People were probably saying "I'd love to avoid tracking cookies on all websites" back before the EU cookie law too, and look at how that turned out. The problem there was industry lobbying. What the EU should have done w
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by welwala 9d ago
And the S5 was waterproof and almost the same thickness as the S26 Ultra.
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by welwala 9d ago
Yes please! That would be great. I would love to just be able to replace a screen easily. And really this is what this law does already.
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by welwala 15d ago
Yes, F-Droid and its apps are great <3 They add so much security by simply not having a lot of tracking code that can be exploited and tries to hook all over your system. And they have reproducible builds which is something the commercia
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by welwala 15d ago
Yes but Aurora isn't only for GrapheneOS. I use it on a phone with (unfortunately) regular google play services. If I sign into the play store, that same account will be used for all other google services on the phone too. I'm not
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by welwala 15d ago
Annoying but this kinda thing happens every 6 months or so. Sometimes Google starts throttling, other times doing some API checks. Every time the Aurora guys figure out a way around it. They're our heroes <3 Even this particular err
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by welwala 24d ago
I don't think a TUI is easier tbh. It's certainly more economical on resources, that's for sure. Really amazing programs running in 35k or so, compared to hundreds of MB for a whole electron stack. The more decent platform na
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by welwala 25d ago
> The people that keep arguing for TUIs for everything seem like religious fundamentalists that can't be convinced with any argument that user interfaces should be about the user, and need to adapt to the task at hand. We are user
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by welwala 25d ago
I completely disagree. I love using TUIs, the apps are lighter and faster and work great. The author starts with a bunch of vibecoded slop apps that show exactly what I hate about 'modern' GUI apps, a lack of options and wasted sc
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by welwala 28d ago
It was in insider builds yes but it still seems to be 'live' in production builds. The writing is on the wall though.
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by welwala 1mo ago
Is that still the case on Linux as well? I'm on FreeBSD and yes there's still many bugs and nasties in Wayland. It works technically but it's not great, at least alongside KDE. But I thought on Linux it was a lot further alo
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by welwala 1mo ago
oobe\bypassnro it is. But there's been some talk about them removing it though there was a more cryptic one as a replacement. Still seems to work on recent versions though.
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by welwala 1mo ago
Yeah I love KDE especially because it doesn't force a certain look and feel, it's super configurable out of the box and even more if you install themes and plugins (which I don't even do).
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by welwala 1mo ago
the thing is with these CRT emulators is that they always look so over-artifacted. I looked at CRTs for a big part of my life and they didn't actually look like this. Maybe if you took a photo of them, but not in full motion. With real
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by welwala 1mo ago
Another easy workaround: 1. Install Linux with KDE 2. Turn on weather report widget 3. Enjoy :) PS: You've also solved the mandatory account requirement, adds all over the OS, "Copilot" everywhere, Edge constantly coming back
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by welwala 1mo ago
I'm not surprised. Everything Microsoft makes is web tech now. And this isn't really new either, they've been pushing for everything web tech since the 90s no less. Remember Active Desktop?
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by welwala 1mo ago
Wow I hope this is true. This can only be good for the world. I'm sure AI will still come but it is too disruptive now. It needs a slowdown. As usual all the greedy investors are to blame.