FWIW, I took the plunge with a iFixit kit to replace my Pixel7 spicy pillow battery. I’m reasonably handy but had never done a glued phone before. I sprung for a clampy, watched the video and it all went extremely smooth, ~ 1 hour.
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MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Linux@lemmy.ml•Nexus Gamers are going to test gpus on Linux (Bazzite)English2·4 days agoAttaching files from Dolphin to mail just works as Drag and Drop (gives you the choice of inline or attachment for images, cool, did not know that). Not sure for firefox, would need a target, but there’s always right click, copy location, paste into any file chooser.
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Linux@lemmy.ml•Nexus Gamers are going to test gpus on Linux (Bazzite)English3·4 days agoAs in between them ? Not something I do enough to care about, and I use Zen and Betterbird, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, but I just selected something from Zen and dropped it into a new message in Betterbird without issue…KDE FWIW. There are still some rough edges with flatpak and wayland, but they’re mostly smoothed now. It’s usually permissions (KeepassXC and firefox is a bitch for example, but doable).
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Linux@lemmy.ml•Nexus Gamers are going to test gpus on Linux (Bazzite)English5·4 days agoYup, you can just do your Arch (or other distro-hopping) stuff in a distrobox if you want. Break it, blow it away and start fresh, uBlue don’t care… Switch DEs, that’s a one liner (although Gnome and KDE still don’t play well together, so use a fresh user). What’s not to love?
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Linux@lemmy.ml•Nexus Gamers are going to test gpus on Linux (Bazzite)English17·4 days agoExperienced here, did my time in Arch, learned a lot, perhaps even more than necessary, now retired to Fedora, then Bazzite and Aurora-dev. It just gets out of my way nicely. Something, something, Bell curve meme, plateau of enlightenment meme.
And I would absolutely recommend Arch to a technically competent gamer newcomer as the fastest way to get up to speed.
Horses, Courses.
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New GlassholesEnglish1·4 days agoPocket high power laser to burn out the camera ? Just make sure not to hit their eyes (or don’t). /s
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New GlassholesEnglish21·4 days agoSecond, it sucks that the wrist band thing is being tied with bullshit ai glasses. I would love to see that as a regular input device for PCs and smartphones.
Seconded, have long considered sub-critical neuron monitoring a really good in to ‘thought control’ without the privacy complications. No thanks neuorolink, stay out of my head (at least for many years until the implications and side effects shake out, fMRI also spooks me) but I’m fine with wrists and perhaps voicebox (ala firefox ), you know, voluntary stuff. What are the odds they’ve locked it up in patents and it’s now a tech dead end for the next decade or two…?
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Android@lemdro.id•Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwedEnglish0·8 days agoWell said, and you’re right, it’s not hopeless. Most people don’t need the latest superphone, personally I want to carry around a good music device, that I can read books on, and preferably have maps. Many like cameras, but I like the idea of a devoted one. The communications (/surveillance) device is a separate thing and perhaps we should think seriously about breaking these things apart, hotspot that you turn on when needed for example. How about a nice general purpose pocketable linux gadget and a secure simple telecom to give it a connection?
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Roll 3d100 for story pointsEnglish10·8 days agoRule of thumb.
Double the number, bump the units.
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Charlie Kirk Assassination Sparks Social Media CrackdownEnglish27·15 days agoAlso it’s martial, not marshal, which is reasonably important as martial means pertaining to war, i.e. the army running things.
At that level (of age), choices come into play.
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Have a bit of trustEnglish11·20 days agoThe usual paradigm for dev estimates is double the number, bump the units.
1 hour -> 2 days.
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Linux@lemmy.world•Linux is one of the last bastions for the tinkererEnglish3·26 days agoservicing your own car or modifying the exhaust on your motorcycle (teenagers here didn’t have cars in the first place, actually)
Today’s equivalent is building your own ebike, and it’s awesome and way easier than rebuilding an engine.
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•If we are living in a simulation, do you think it is running a FOSS OS/software or a proprietary one?English15·27 days agoAaand, that’s how you get magic ;)
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Increasing life expectancy must be stoppedEnglish2·27 days agoIt’ll be biotech, so low production cost, high IP gatekeeping costs (pharma patents). Something on this scale of financial and political (once people know it’s out there riots will be just the beginning) implication will lead to some government somewhere nationalizing it and then it’ll be on for young and old (pun intended).
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Increasing life expectancy must be stoppedEnglish7·27 days agoBut governments will see a way to turn expensive retirees (in civilized countries that look after them) into taxpayers again. So, long lived slaves…
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux MobileEnglish111·30 days agoYou should be fine on gOS for 6 yrs+, which is how long google promised to keep up with security updates. The device tree (think hardware drivers), which is what google removed with pixel 10 is what is causing grief, is already there for lower pixels. Unless, of course, google comes up with some new fuckery to invalidate the usability of the security updates (pray I don’t alter the deal further…)
MalReynolds@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis RossmannEnglish4·1 month agoAnnual rentseeking incoming, 3.2.1…
It’s PCIe 4.0 :(
Boo! Silly me thinking DDR5 implied PCIe5, what a shame.
Feels like they’re testing the waters with Halo, hopefully a loud ‘waters great, dive in’ signal gets through and we get something a bit fitter for desktop use, maybe with more memory (and bandwidth) next gen. Still, gotta love the power usage, makes for one hell of a NAS / AI inference server (and inference isn’t that fussy about PCIe bandwidth, hell eGPU works fine as long as the model / expert fits in VRAM.
podlet does a pretty good job of spitting out quadlet .container files or entire pods from a dockerfile.