If you’re interested in other series, you might like Octopath Traveler. Each character has their own job, but as the game progresses you’ll be able to switch each character’s second job. So you can make the thief a thief/merchant or thief/cleric or whatever, and swap out that second job anytime you want, but they’ll always have the thief abilities.

For instance, Mozilla said it may have removed blanket claims that it never sells user data because the legal definition of “sale of data” is now “broad and evolving,” Mozilla’s blog post stated.

Uh huh.

The company pointed to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as an example of why the language was changed, noting that the CCPA defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”

Yes. That’s what “sale of data” means. Everybody understood that. That’s exactly what we don’t want you to do.

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FYI, Graphene just released an update that includes the new network location option I mentioned. See https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114076777599414646

I’ll try it and see how it works for me over the next week or two.

I wonder if the “never will” part is legally binding. Most companies bend over backwards to avoid making future-looking guarantees like that.

Question for those in the know: does it make sense to use LibreWolf if you don’t want to operate in private browsing by default? In my primary browser, I want my logins and settings and browser history to persist.

I’ve always heard that as one of the big differentiating features of LibreWolf, but I’ve never really played around with it. Can you change those settings, and if you do, is it any different from stock Firefox at that point?

Considering how poorly their Switch games perform, this is probably the best-case scenario. Perhaps they can make a Switch game that will run decently on the Switch 2.

Hmm. According to Wikipedia you are correct, and the original SEQUEL was simply renamed to SQL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#History

I’m not sure how much that original SEQUEL/SQL has in common with later publicly-available SQL implementations. I never personally worked with SEQUEL but I was under the impression it was more of a spiritual predecessor to SQL than a direct ancestor. But I trust Wikipedia more than I trust my my memory here, so I guess I was wrong.

Something like that, yes. More info at https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/431329/what-is-the-correct-pronunciation-of-sqlite with links to videos of Richard Hipp (creator of SQLite) pronouncing it.

I actually couldn’t find a section on pronunciation in the official FAQ, though I think it was there in the past. Still, they do use phrases such as “an SQLite database”, indicating that “SQLite” starts with a vowel sound.

SQL is not traditionally pronounced like “sequel”. Sequel was a whole different language.

Official pronunciation for MySQL, SQLite, and PostgreSQL all pronounce each letter.

But “sequel” is probably more common at this point and some of them include it as an alternate pronunciation now.

The only use I ever found for it was setting alarms and starting timers. That was reliable, and faster than opening the app, navigating to an alarm, and manually setting it.

I disabled my assistant entirely though. Setting alarms a little faster is not enough to justify it.

Good point. You can’t even get an M* Pro with 128GB. Only the Max and Ultra lines go that high, and then you’ll end up spending at least twice as much.

Memory bandwidth is 256GB/sec, much less than M4 Max (526GB/s) or M2 Ultra (800GB/s). Expect performance to reflect that.

Yes, the issue persists even with all of that enabled. I don’t understand why.

I had a similar issue on my previous phone, but never on my Pixel before. So I guess Google specifically does something extra.

Google Wallet (or whatever they call it these days) doesn’t work, even if you install Google Play Services. So NFC payments are simply not possible for me. I’ve heard that some banks have NFC payments built into their apps, but I have never seen a list. I’d switch banks if it meant I could get this to work.

There’s currently no NLP (network location provider) support, so if you don’t have an actual GPS satellite signal, you will not have active location unless you use Google’s location services. There’s been some talk of including a new NLP service in the future but I don’t know of any timeline.

Even when using Google Location Services, accuracy is worse than on the stock Pixel OS. I’m not sure why, but I get tons of drift indoors (whether Wi-Fi is enabled or not), whereas on PixelOS it was almost always stable. It also means navigation apps will sometimes think I magically hopped off a bridge and onto the side street below or something like that.

There’s no “extreme battery saver” mode like on Google’s Pixel OS. When I switched, I didn’t realize that was a Google feature rather than an Android/AOSP feature.

If you rely on Google backups for app data, I’m not sure if there’s any reasonable way to get that into GOS since it can only happen during initial setup. Might be solutions to this, but personally I didn’t spend time on it because there was nothing I cared too much about. Check your apps to see if they have settings import/export functions. A lot of open-source apps (like Lemmy clients) do.

GOS has an open-source backup system called Seedvault, but of course if you ever want to switch back to a stock Android OS, you won’t be able to bring those backups with you since apps simply can’t get that level of access on any stock Android OS. You’re stuck on GOS or other third-party OSes that support Seedvault, or maybe rooting if that’s possible.

If you use WhatsApp (ew), be aware that it only supports backup via Google Drive. And you can’t manually download and restore that backup without adding Google Play Services and logging in.

Lawnchair and other third-party home screens seem to work worse on GOS than stock Pixel OS when it comes to the app switcher animation bug. I’ve seen some GOS forum threads about this so I know I’m not alone.

Yes, his name is Headmaster Gandalf.

I used that briefly 10+ years ago when I got a Fire Stick for like $5. I even installed it on one of my phones back then, since they had a lot of app giveaways and I was dumb.

It was basically “Google Play but worse”. Like the Epic Games Store is to Steam.

DNS over HTTPS. It allows encrypted DNS lookup with a URL, which allows for url-based customizations not possible with traditional DNS lookups (e.g. the server could have /ads or /trackers endpoints so you can choose what to block).

DNS Over TLS (DoT) is similar, but it doesn’t use URLs, just IP addresses like generic DNS. Both are encrypted.

I don’t think there’s any simple answer to what’s beginner-friendly, because so much is hardware-dependent. They mentioned obscure laptop hardware, and at that point I wouldn’t even make a recommendation to someone beyond “see if any distros have a wiki page about that specific hardware, and search for forum threads about it”.

I’m sure there are cases when Arch is a lot easier than Mint. I’m not sure why they dismissed Fedora out of hand, though. What’s wrong with Fedora?

No love for cvs?

And that’s the #1 reason to use Mint over Ubuntu!

Snaps make a little more sense in servers since you can package CLI stuff in snaps, but not in flatpaks. For GUI apps, it’s “fine” but it doesn’t solve new problems, and the way Canonical has migrated apt packages to snaps is aggressive and error-prone.