Once you have Vaultwarden in a Docker container with Watchtower updating it regularly it’s zero maintenance as far as I’m concerned.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to use a set it and forget it mindset for things like these. how will they know if something happens to vaultwarden? discontinuation, enshittification, repo transfer to new maintainers, bad release by hacked account? we are roughly following the channels to get informed but someone who’s not dealing in IT much even just as a hobby probably won’t get to know if something is up. also, does watchtover properly handle database upgrades, like for postgres?

I don’t think sed syntax should be used that casually, but saying what they said is outright disrespectful.

btw spectacle is the default in kde

MaxFix

its not really an UEFI issue but a windows one. unlike BIOS systems, UEFI was made capable to handle this, yet windows fucks it up.

it also depends on your configuration. on an ESP partition there’s a default bootloader, and per-os bootloaders in directories. if you rely on using the default bootloader, windows will overwrite that from time to time, but it can fuck up the per-os bootloader setup too if it fucks with the list that the efibootmgr command manages on linux. I don’t know whether it does the latter

so I had to take all my exams with a proctor staring at me.

much much better than having to install spyware. a proctoring spyware could record your precise mouse movements, keypresses and build a profile out of it, or upload anything from your computer to its developers. but a proctor person? what will they do, take notes? they only see what you show them, and by using a different OS account they really can’t see anything sensitive.

don’t forget google drive, and facebook without ads

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One is Sun Surveyor. It’s an AR app that shows you the position of the sun, moon, and galactic center at any given time.

it doesn’t know the galactic center but otherwise check Trail Sense on f-droid. the astronomy tool has a 3d mode that shows where the sun and the moon is. oh it says there will be visible meteor showers in a few hours!

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.kylecorry.trail_sense

that wouldn’t work without tinkering anyways with the latest windows 11 versions

? The camera is just to check on the customers if they are scanning everything properly and not stealing.

the camera built in above the screen only sees your face, it cannot be used to check that.

they are satisfied that you identify yourself consistently with the same number.

they don’t want to call you, what they want is to track you

payment system: GNU Taler

but adoption is really, really slow

so I don’t know who would pirate an OS anymore

those who don’t know what they’re doing, but some are still doing it so good point

Does it suck if you own a Tivo? Yes. Don’t buy one.

as I see there are no TV and only one or two smartphone makers that are not tivo, so saying that is equal to “don’t buy home appliances, move into the woods”

The devices are locked down, sure, but there are strong incentives to upstream code and fund further development upstream. Linux ”won” because of this. You can’t build and develop Linux for such a wide audience and hardware flora with a bunch of hobbyists.

if these companies were upstreaming code, it would not be a problem to replace the factory operating system on their products with something else. however just like phone makers, they don’t upstream the driver code needed for the onboard devices to work.

so far the only good I found to have come of it, is that after we find a vulnerability in their code, we can open a shell in the system and use ready made familiar tools to try to tame the devices from inside. until they force an update that patches the vuln because it got too popular, and you are locked out again.

read this thread again, please, because you completely missed the point. but you know what, I’ll help:

grue said:

We need more real Linux – GNU/Linux, with compliant copyleft licensing – not Tivoized crap like they put on TVs.

Roku OS, Amazon Fire OS, Tizen (Samsung TV OS), etc. – all technically Linux, but you wouldn’t know it because they’ve systematically butchered them to destroy everything that made Linux good (the users’ freedom).

Rothe said:

… Who cares which distro you use, as long as it is linux it is a step in the right direction, …

roku, amazon fire, tizen and co are all “linux based” operating systems. the topic was not about people recommending linux to each other, but about corporations misusing the foundations of it to further their greed. point being, something runs linux does not make it good. and that’s where grue’s call for real linux on these devices gets relevant.

you can preload them as I understand.

one of the major apps for doing that is openeuicc: https://gitea.angry.im/PeterCxy/OpenEUICC

if you look it won’t work on unrooted phones, but it’s easyeuicc variant can still be used in the stated ways.

f-droid also has the jmp sim manager: https://f-droid.org/packages/chat.jmp.simmanager its a fork of the former, but it works 100% in unrooted phones with the jmp esim adapter that you can order in the app

you are supposed to be able to have multiple, 1 or 2 of which can be active, and switch between them whenever you want.

but afaik that’s only possible on rooted phones with openeuicc or another app like it, because by default only google’s own app is allowed to handle esim configuration, and that has limitations in what it allows.

do you seriously think roku, tizen, amazon fire are a step in the right direction?

all data of the firefox is located in /data/data/packgename, which is inaccessible without root permissions. a few android versions ago it was accessible through ADB, not anymore. I don’t think it’s possible anymore to install arkenfox on plain firefox android for most users.

even with a rooted phone its not that easy. granting termux root rights and running su, the per-package data folders are not visible, you have to switch to the correct mount namespace somehow. some file manager apps adapted to be able to do that