m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@inference Yup, same here, completely out of Rad-X 😅

@inference Let's just hope we won't transition into Mad Max or Fallout setting 🤭

@Jessica The idea is weird enough to try! I have an old PBX somewhere in the closet, maybe it's time to put it to use 😉

@evelyn
Rich in protein 😅
@GNUxeava

@randomColorContrasts Norton Commander column captions… or something.

@evelyn "Guns for show, knives for a pro"

@Mabelz Blep!

@neural_meduza Лучше такие новости культуры чем настоящие. Только что пришла рассылка «Премьеры недели» и два фильм из трёх — об Иване Грозном. Вряд ли ведь был какой-то госзаказ, ну правда же? 🤭

@pankraz
There were a lot of "controversies" like that, e.g.: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/1722
But I don't remember any being enforced by Google.
They did ban Element once for the reasons very similar to the ones in the opening post: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/google-play-bans-open-source-matrix-client-element-citing-abusive-content/
I get why most developers can't just ignore Play Store, but their policies look totally nuts to me 🤪
@hierarchon @mcc

@internetoftrash Doesn't look too fishy to me. Most likely they've used microcontroller from some other device and didn't rename it properly. The vape device I used to have even allowed software updates, so this interface is most likely even useful.
Charging these devices over USB is a bad idea in general, their boards often get fried this way, it's best to remove the batteries if they are removable and use a proper charger.

@sneak Sad to hear. Apple used to have a knack for striking the right balance between hiding rarely used stuff in the GUI (you did have to use plist editor or something like that from time to time, but not too often) and dumbing everything down, looks like they've lost it 😢

@dave Well, compared to artillery from the 50-ies and tanks from the 60-ies that 🇷🇺 army starts putting to use recently this is bleeding edge 🤣
TBH, I was puzzled on seeing these guys being moved by railroads. I remember reading about these vehicles when I was a school kid, even at that time they were aged. What use do they have in modern warfare? They are most likely completely useless against UAVs and 🇺🇦 didn't have a sizeable airforce that required excessive AA 🤷

@sneak Is it still that bad? It used to be very good and fully-functional, you could do anything with it: manage Apple Raid and CoreStorage, create, format and even resize partitions, make images of partitions and empty sparse images. I had Paragon Hard Disk Manager, but I barely used it, Disk Utility was more than enough, then in 10.11 or 10.12 they made it too basic, but I stopped using anything Apple since then, I don't even know what it looks like now 🤷

@Synclair Even if we assume that it really uses some clean energy with lesser carbon footprint at night time, I still can't imagine any reasonable use case for this feature: you plug your phone into a wall charger, but you do not want it to charge the battery… But you still want to keep it plugged… Why?! 🤪

@s0 First I was like "yeah, that's cool", but then… directional HDMI cables 😱

@s0 Wow! 😲
Is aluminium even a good material for speaker case? I was always pretty confident they use wood because it's supposed to act as a sort of resonator, at least for speakers that have bass reflex design 🤔

@s0
You sure do! I still have a bunch of old Macs with that 😁
It was great for its time, but the DMA thing was always a double-edged sword: it was a lifesaver as you could connect devices like sound cards to laptops — CPUs weren't that powerful so USB was a bad option, but it was also a security breach.
Now it's obsoleted by Thunderbolt which is basically PCI Express and they've probably made it negotiable between devices, I wonder how it actually works though 🤔
@futzle

@thor Same here, I don't get the natural language processing hype at all! Computers act in precise and hard-coded ways so the interface to interact with them should match it — like pressing different buttons. They are not as flexible as human beings (and they'd better stay this way) so interacting with them the same way as you would with a human being is the worst of both worlds 🤷
Having it as an accessibility feature or using it for devices like smartwatches is cool though!

@s0
I know, that wasn't the point, but FireWire is a security nightmare of its own — it has DMA 😅
@futzle

@annika Conversations like that started happening to me a lot more often recently. This and "oh, look this (thing that you hated when it was popular) was so much cooler than (more current thing that you hate too), right?" 😅