I would suggest first doing the basics first before diving in and trying to run cracked games. I had trouble and had to go through multiple troubleshooting steps to get DODI repacks working on windows even. the difference is there are a ton of resources of people spending hours and hours fixing broken cracked games on windows (dodi Hogwarts legacy has like 100+ threads on reddit with fixes) where Linux just isn’t popular enough yet to have a big community find fixes for your cracked games for you already and the fixes from windows often don’t work.

First try browsers, steam games, streamimg, and light use while dual booting, you can still keep windows for the games that don’t work on Linux.

It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Just take it one step at a time. You are trying to reduce tracking. That is going to be 90% internet browsing, so if you already switch to Linux for that, you are much of the way there.

Palantir

They have unique digital fingerprints for everyone already pretty much, but they are not linked to official government IDs so there is still uncertainty I think over identification.

This makes everyone’s digital fingerprint linked on a government ID. Voila, now every person in America is known by Palantir and the government at all times (more or less). Great for genocide and targeting your political opponents and voters to set up sham elections.

It also tries to stop poors who don’t have drivers licenses in America from organizing as they can’t verify.

Now with Flock surveiling most of the US: Jaywalking or littering and a Democrat or worse, leftist? You are a criminal and intelligible to vote. Incoming trump 75+% win for an illegal 3rd term or Vance.

Thiel famously said “what if there was a way, through technology, to achieve your political goals without having to beg and plead to convince people who will never agree with you anyway”

Yeah, I am no fan of proton and they have lied before (no log VPN logs magically finding logs for authorities and then later removing the no-log claim).

But this is literally just proton being legally compelled to hand over data the user willingly gave (not being harvested or de-encrypted). A nothing story.

Sadly it won’t work on fairphone 6 because it only has USB 2.0 and there isn’t enough bandwidth.

I am confused.

In developer options in basic android you can simply enable the feature right?

My old Sony xperia 5 ii can do that and it definitely isn’t a Sony feature…

Nope, it bypasses that and gives you many of the strava premium features by just parsing it out of the “raw” data. Most of the strava features are just statistics or hiding basic data calculated from your runs behind a paywall anyway. You can do the calculations yourself, technically.

I don’t think I have ever heard that for the a series. That if fact, I have always heard that it is just about the best price-value on the market, the downside being that it is google and no SD card slot (which is common now). They use the flagship chip in it still, right?

To be fair, the vast vast majority of families would throw a fit (or just go back to Netflix/Spotify) if they have to put on wireguard to access jellyfin or a navidrome server for streaming while they are out and about.

We on Lemmy tend to extensively overestimate tech literacy.

Wasn’t the last thinkphone from 2024?

Would be nice, but the last think phone had mediatek instead of Qualcomm so I don’t know if that will be the case (mediatek seems a lot harder to make custom ROMs for and there aren’t too many).

But modeled after the first think phone would be awesome. USB 3.1, wireless charging, decent camera for its time, but no SD card slot or headphone jack…

Android runs on the Linux kernel

MacOS runs on the UNIX kernel

I am not sure what that had to do with anything. It is not Microsoft, but if Palantir released a Linux distro, it would sure as shit have mass surveillance in it.

I am guessing the commenter doesn’t trust the GrapheneOS guy or something.

It also has the bonus that is one file has an issue, it doesn’t lock up and crash every single other open document in different instances across excel, word, powerpoint, everything lol

Centralized platforms for multiple uses and a huge tool ecosystem. That is it. It is simply much much much easier to set up and get a consistent experience.

Embedded coding (as an example) has an extremely scattered ecosystem of vendor-run IDE forks which are usually a pretty bad experience.

Their commandline documentation is often complete trash so instead of fixing that, they just make a simple plugin for vscode and they have a cross-compatible IDE that already works with all of their customers’ favorite plugins with very little work.

Also, code-server. There is no other IDE that has an experience like that as far as I know.

Not in electronics. Wh is a pretty difficult metric in electronics design (and thus, speccing the time a battery will last).

I have said this before because all ICs use mA as their power consumption rating because they might have a range of 1.8V-3.6V of operation or 4.5-10V or something and they consume about the same amount of current across that spectrum but vary in power. This is why low power systems often use 1.8V.

Batteries also vary in delivered power at a constant load. They can pull 100mA continuously, but a lithium ion cell delivers 420mW first and then continually falls until it delivers only 250mW, almost half as much.

What is easier to calculate?

• Integrating across a variable voltage domain for the source and then subtracting each component uses variable power, then integrating each component over its voltage range. Oh and the battery capacity left in wh is also nonlinear, so when estimating state of charge, you have to balance a nonlinear source with a differently nonlinear load, integrated over time, all on a 200MHz mcu trying to do 50 other, more important things (and that’s fast)

• battery can deliver this set current for this time, circuit pulls this amount of current, battery lasts X hours. Estimating life cheaply is just:

“get starting SoC from memory and voltage” “measure current once” “measure current again” Current*time=mAh used. Save

Again, not saying it is “correct”, but significantly easier on all levels.

For the consumer. Why does it matter? There is absolutely no specs every given for actual power used. Does your phone use 1W or 5W or 100mW on average? Never given.

Batteries are literally just “bigger = better”. Using Wh instead mAh would not change this at all. The only thing it would do is expose the 1% that try to fudge the numbers while everyone else just fudges power consumption.

Oh you got X phone because Y phone only had a 13Wh battery instead of 18Wh. Oh too bad, phone X uses an average of 9W and only lasts for 2 hours. Phone Y used 0.5W.

Don’t the panama papers detail a lot of this and a financial trail of how they collaborate with one another?

It seems like the panama papers had been collectively forgotten 2 years later, but they give blatant evidence of the secret elite money laundering and invisible payment network of collaboration IIRC.

As far as Nazi ideology, fascism always goes hand in hand with corporatism, so it makes sense.

Duh, stream a b&w tty terminal in all of its glory! What is ssh?

What I don’t get is that is

Do you mind if I ask you a few questions about it? Especially on/e/? I think you are the first user I have seen.

Does android auto work, connect fast, and have all of your enabled apps on it? My girlfriend’s maps app just doesn’t work in android auto sometimes and the same with Antennapod for me and we have to reconnect. That is quite an important one.

How is battery life with screen off? On my xperia 5ii it has always been terrible with 1.5% per hour (accubattery) on WiFi or 3% per hour on 4G…

Does your microphone work well in calls, recording, and on speaker? I have seen a ton of bug reports for that.

Have you run into the common “terrible haptics/vibration” thing that people are saying with it barely being noticeable or not noticable in your pocket? I have heard that and that the haptics are really really bad in general.

I find it very confusing to get a good workflow with it + calibre.

I sync all of my books (and use readarr for organization or occasionally grabbing books from dead authors) via syncthing. Then calibre web won’t ingest any new books I copy to the folder, so I have to go to desktop calibre to add them manually, then it will sync the database and calibre-web has a built-in task for scanning any database changes so then the book will show up.

Seems like a clunky method and I would think I am doing it wrong, but I haven’t found a way for calibre to scan books already organized in folders in its book directory.

My girlfriend and I both need new phones from her failing and buggy Samsung A52 and my Xperia 5ii. We are not going Samsung anymore because they are putting unremovable Israeli spyware baked into their devices, fairphone 6 still seems very buggy and we had a friend with a fairphone 4 with 99 problems with it, and I don’t want to give google money and we want SD card slots instead of almost no memory to force cloud subscriptions.

2027 is starting to be a big ask though.

I would think that they will have to combat AI code with an AI code recognizer tool that auto-flags a PR or issue as AI, then they can simply run through and auto-close them. If the contributor doesn’t come back and explain the code and show test results to show it working, then it is auto-closed after a week or so if nobody responds.