Thanks for reposting, I subscribed to this community too.

postmarketOS is fully Linux (based on Alpine Linux) Choose this for more technical projects or if you want your phone to be like Raspberry Pi++.

LineageOS is a clean Android. Choose this for Android experience.

That would be great and I might add a scraper for xdaforums, but even XDA has a lot of dead links for old devices now.

The bottom button was on LineageOS 14-15 (Android 7-8 equivalent… So rather old now)

When I read books, picturing everything in my head is a part of the enjoyment. Often, books describe senses and feelings that would be more difficult to portray in images or video. Some examples:

Right now, I am reading Ancillary Justice (by Ann Leckie), and the main character (who is the narrator) has difficulty with recognizing gender, so, unless explicitly stated, it is up to me to decide how characters look. Also, main character controls multiple bodies at once, and some paragraphs are full of parallel events and thoughts.

Annihilation (by Jeff Vandermeer) has a movie adaptation, but it’s different from the book. The book goes deeper into the main characters own thoughts, concerns and regrets. It also describes smells and physical senses quite often, and the creature the main character encounters evokes emotions more so than just a description. And throughout the story, in addition to the general eeriness of Area X, there is just a feeling of being lost. (I should give credit that It Follows does the uneasy feeling really well, too)

And just to be annoying, I can extrapolate your logic to “video does not show what happens around the camera, VR is better”, and “VR does not bring the senses of touch, smell, and heat, fully immersive simulators are better” :)

What’s the opposite of Poe’s law? I see an article like this and I can only interpret it as satire.

It’s a chatbot that encourages people to tap, tap, tap on hand-held small screens as they watch films on a big one. Users gain access to exclusive trivia and witticisms in real time (synced with what’s happening in the movie).

So like live-tweeting (why was that a thing?) but with bots. Got it.

I never understood the point of realistic (or heavily stylized) graphics. Maybe it’s just me, but after about 5 minutes of “wow” my brain’s visual processor starts treating it as anything else, whether it’s Doom 2, Borderlands 2, or Stalker 2.

forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider

Whose CEO publicly stated that “Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses”. Oh, the irony.

I run GrapheneOS and can send RCS to both Androids and iPhones mostly without issues. But then, my GrapheneOS is still the actively supported version, so I don’t know what will happen in a few years.

The only reason I have Google Messages is for RCS.

I am the same way, if I write something, I try to make it a complete, and informative statement.

IMO this trend started with Twitter 10+ years ago, where short messages were equivalent of shouting into the crowd, and more frequent shouts got more retweets. Then there was the trend of “first” comments, glad that is mostly gone.

Slighty altered:

when prosecutors reportedly alleged the murderer used Google Maps to locate and visit places where handguns were known to be sold.

Sounds kinda dumb, doesn’t it? Once again, a lesser known app gets a portion of the blame because of shitty people.

P.S. I use iNaturalist and greatly appreciate all the people who correct my identifications.

Lived in Ohio, had that BS. My PHEV (which still uses gas for long trips) was taxed additional $200 a year, same as an EV.

My calculations came out to something similar - at ~15,000 mi driven a year and optimal battery use, I paid about the same as a car/truck with 20-25MPG. That is the MPG my first car, a 90s sedan, got.

Real incentives for efficiency and progress. /s

I was always under the impression that the fraudulent intent (outside of extremly blatant cases) would be very difficult to prove in court or otherwise. If a car is used to meet clients or haul some company-related cargo, it is used for business. If a company is a real estate developer, it is expected for them to own and lease residential properties. If the owners’ family members work for the company, they must collect salary. And so on.

A popular scheme I have seen is:

Owner registered and de-facto runs an incorporated Company. Company employs Owner and pays them a small salary (down to state minimum wage even), so Owner minimizes the income tax they pay.

The car Owner drives is owned by the Company for “business purposes”, which allows the car to be operated within 50 miles of the Company (and farther with supplemental insurance). Company counts the car purchase/lease, maintenance, gas as expenses, bringing down the bottom line.

Flights, travel, meals could be paid by the Company, as long as it’s tangentially “business related”.

The house Owner lives in (or several houses for the family) is owned by the Company and is rented to Owner for very cheap, so Company pays the taxes, maintenance, etc, breaking even, or taking a loss on this house. Again, this brings down the company’s bottom line.

Somehow, purchases for a Company can be exempt from sales taxes, too.

In the end, on paper, the Company is barely making any profit, but the Owner might be enjoying a nice car, nice house, and vacations. All for “business purposes” of course. While you pay taxes on your income and purchases like an idiot

• postmarketOS for older mainstream phones
• Librem 5
• PinePhone and PinePhone Pro
• FuriLabs FLX1
• Liberux Nexx (upcoming)

I just finished Blindsight, and I am a bit torn in my opinions. It had really thought-provoking ideas about aliens, mind, conscience and subconscious, which stuck with me. But some of the descriptions, events, and characters are difficult to follow and reasoning (including key points in the story) does not make sense.

Just yesterday, saw a fairly long article on how to properly train an LLM to send short email replies, and the time the guy wasted on prompts and writing the article would have been enough for a hundred responses.

I still read HN, but I swear, they are in their own world at times.

.NET applications using .NET Core or later are intended to be cross-platform, so technically, Linux can run .NET apps. (The use-case I know is running .NET sites on Linux servers)

Not looking for a dumbphone at the moment, but

There’s a KaiOS jailbreaking community … I’ve seen an XMPP client and a Matrix one too.

This is good and opens up a path for using other messengers via bridges.

Right… My favorite “promise” so far was the Tesla SpaceX edition (with rocket boosters or microjets or some shit, IDK doesn’t make sense) and die-hard fans defending this PR stunt as “the car that might fly”.