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@prahou @ozzelot @smoon @kunev @FritzAdalis
ALZET Sales Strategies here ITT 🫠

@scathach
Oddly enough, my Android phone can act as a hotspot AND be connected to a different wireless network at the same time — I sometimes have to resort to such a weird setup to use this phone as a makeshift VPN box.
I think the network you connect to has to be 5 GHz and the tethered one is would be 2,4 GHz — so exactly what you want! It's certainly flaky, you better keep your laptop, your phone and the original access point close to each other, but it does work.

@mo
Да уж, самолёт из него так себе — но в каком-то смысле всё равно истребитель 😅
@dlmk @neural_meduza

@kravietz
>I hope
Yes, same here — besides, European leaders seem to be strongly against it and if Trump really wants to do this, even the GOP is unlikely to back him up.
Yet the fact that this is being discussed, and starting today even the obvious Kremlin talking points are being used — this doesn't look good! A far shot from negotiating from the position of strength that Trump had promised: all we see is carrots, but no sticks.
@gemelliz @Secunergy

@dlmk @neural_meduza
> Лукашенко пообещал
В данном случае скорее десептиконы 😏

@neural_meduza
> пенис с надписью «Слава
Помнится, был похожий анекдот — только там был фрагмент последнего слова 🤭

@millihertz
When Void starts shipping this standard-imghdr thing we can remove it out of ${HOME}/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/ and use that instead.
If you are looking for alternatives to epy — check out bookworm, it's a pretty simple ebook reader, AFAIR it doesn't bring in too many dependencies if you already have GTK installed and it doesn't have this standard-imghdr problem.

@millihertz
No, venvs are good once you get more comfortable with them, I have a bunch of homebrew stuff in Python and venvs solve problem like this just fine, I just source activate.sh, then run stuff like I normally would.
But they aren't the solution in this particular case of course as epy is a systemwide package, something like "pip3 install --break-system-packages --compile --user standard-imghdr" did the trick fixing epy for me.

@millihertz
No, I don't think it's limited to Void, it's Python's idea that you should use your distro's package manager to install the modules instead of pip — however pip is still there so you can use it to install modules to venvs.
There is a switch that allows you to force the installation of module into user's site-packages — it's a temporary solution, a more permanent one would be Void shipping standard-imghdr and make it a dependency of epy.

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social
Ha-ha-ha, yeah, muted thread gets nearly impossible to find, unless you bookmark it.
I'm never against removing someone from mentions if they ask me — but yes, being yelled at out of the blue is not what I expected 😅
Federation sometimes works in weird ways, you can never be sure you see all the posts in a thread — some replies get retrieved only when you start interacting with others.

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social
This is the first post from you I see in this thread on my instance: https://social.librem.one/@m0xee/114027303075933354
So there was no part I could understand or not 🤷
If you don't want to be notified about replies to a thread, you can mute it instead of relying on others' "understanding".

@kravietz
> better quick death under Trump than slow resistance under Biden
Not a great idea! Trump's advisors are already openly discussing lifting sanctions — which would be the worst possible move. Pooteen has managed to convince everyone that Russia's resources are limitless and time is on his side, but they aren't. Russian army is a mercenary army, it costs a ton and the economy is already showing obvious cracks.
@SnowshadowII @Snowshadow@mastodon.social @gemelliz @Secunergy

Oh, fuck this! I'm downgrading to ESR 115!
Is there a way I can have up-to-date Firefox without having to patch to option to disable WebP support back it? 🤬
I wonder if there are ESR 115 builds for Android… 🤔

@autolycus
That is the problem with Asahi — not their reverse-engineering efforts, but creating this illusion, this promise that they have no obligation to deliver on, and incentivising people to buy Apple hardware instead of supporting nice people who make open hardware possible.
If anything, this means more e-waste, not less of it.
@phoronix

@autolycus
So what happens next? The person buys this Mac, can't use it with Linux properly — but hey, shouldn't be a problem, there is macOS, right? So they switch back to that. But by Apple's standards this hardware is already pretty old — and in a few years they end up with hardware with an unsupported OS on their hands that also has half-assed Linux support — they can't use either so they buy new hardware, some would even buy new Apple hardware.
@phoronix

@autolycus
And if you think I'm making up a pure hypothetical case here, I'm not: I've seen a person here on Fedi asking why they should buy a more expensive MNT Reform and not an older, but still supported M1 Mac — this person was genuinely thinking that Asahi Linux would enable them to use this hardware well with Linux, a lot of people don't realise that they won't have support for external displays or microphone input — and a lot of people do want that.
@phoronix

@autolycus
If you wan't Linux-compatible hardware that won't turn into landfill — support open hardware. In the late nineties and early 2000s we had to rely on reverse-engineered drivers because we didn't have a choice — not anymore, we have plethora of hardware designed to run Linux — buy that instead of giving your money to the company that makes hardware increasingly less open.
@phoronix

@autolycus
In case with these Macs there would be no Intel engineer and no driver from original hardware maker!
It would always remain a best effort implementation from someone who might abandon the project sooner or later: people burn out, people can simply change hobbies — this isn't something new, this is happening all the time. They have no obligations to support your hardware.
People should stop fooling themselves into thinking that this works.
@phoronix

@autolycus
The MacBook Pro I'm typing this on has Broadcom wireless adapter that has an opensource reverse-engineered driver and a proprietary one from Broadcom and the former is not useable — it can associate with a wireless network, but it's not something I would use on a daily basis. It's a 2011 MacBook and reverse-engineered driver *NEVER* caught up, I'm speaking from experience here.
Should I explain why it would be worse in case with ARM-based Macs?
@phoronix