I didn’t realize you were the person who made the project. Nice job! It’s very useful and polished!

I just had someone not hold the door for me, after I held the door for them and they acknowledged it, and said thank you. 🤷

I was walking towards the entrance of a building, texting on my phone and didn’t realize someone was walking behind me as I got to the main doors. So I apologized to the woman (for being in her way), put my phone away and held the door open and let her go in first. She said “thanks!”

Then we went through the 2nd set of inner doors she opened the door and didn’t bother holding it open for me or look back or anything. Just pulled it open just enough for her to squeeze through and let the door start to close in my face.

People are fun.

Thats pretty neat! I also just bought a fairphone 5 to mess around with Linux on, so I could probably adapt it to that as well.

As far as my HTPC needs go, I’d have to figure out a way to shoehorn bluetooth into this, as it would have to be wireless for TV use, missing a mouse trackpad as well.

For the steam controller, I wonder if the controller has USB host mode to power and accept input from it, and if it would register the keys at all, not sure.

I’m not sure it favors some of us, as it’s a sign all of us collectively have gotten waaay too comfortable letting pieces of shit off the hook for their behavior. If we ever make it out of this I think we need to swing pretty hard the other direction on ‘tolerating’ people being total fucking assholes to everyone else in their career, in politics, in public. Call that shit out, shun them, make them understand freedom of speech does not allow you to literally spew hate speech, threaten people, and generally be a corrupt asshole. None of anyone’s behavior in the GOP since basically 2016, is okay. Obviously this has been going far longer, but 2016 election is when it went full gloves off.

I hope so! Waydroid works on linux and on handsets, but since its still a container the android OS/apps still don’t have full hardware access like direct Bluetooth, WiFi, etc. They pass internet, audio, and GPU acceleration to the waydroid container, but Bluetooth, WiFi, USB peripherals, etc are still locked to the host linux system. So having an android translation layer instead seems like it would be great for exposing all the hardware capabilities of the host system, to the android apps.

Here’s to hoping postmarketOS gets audio, camera and VoLTE support added for the Fairphone 5, and Valve releases its android translation layer. That would make the Fairphone 5 a daily driver for basically anyone.

The one thing I really want is an open source, hackable, DIY mini keyboard to use with my HTPC. I’ve been clinging to this thing

But when it dies it would be nice to get a replacement that had backlit physical keys, is modable, etc…

A keyboard attachment on the new steam controller would be amazing now that I think of it.

I’ve been following the development of these games for about 12 years, both SkyBlivion and SkyWind. Sadly I’m probably not at the age anymore that I would realistically be interested and have time to sit down and play these open ended games again. I’m really bummed about that after waiting all this time, but each year that goes by I’m less and less excited about these games getting released, I just don’t have the desire to play them anymore.

Obligatory, under the killing moon

That was my polite way of ending the conversation, I disagreed with the person, but I got tired of arguing about the metaphore and burgers, etc with someone who was clearly not gonna let this go.

“I don’t like being watched while consuming anything, really.”

“Yeah, but bro, you’re too stupid to realize why they’re doing it, let me tell you why!”

So… Can you opt out and talk to a person without having your face scanned? I really don’t want another piece of identity that can be stolen and used against me in the form of identity theft or worse, in yet another database.

“It’s the FBI Michael, how hard could it be to run?”

I don’t really use them, so I don’t have much of an opinion, but I agree with your assessment.

I guess I should put more mindfulness into how I’m consuming restaurant food then, lol either way I think we can put this hypothetical to bed.

I’m commenting on literally being watched though, so let’s say you get up to go to the bathroom after your first bite the chef marks that as ‘didn’t like his burger’ because you took a bite (watched 1 episode) and didn’t continue to binge eat the burger (binge the whole season by the end of the month), BAM because you had a life event you couldn’t control, you now hate the burger and hate the show.

This is not a fun way to consume anything.

The thing I hated about Netflix was the stress of knowing i was being watched with my viewing habits and that affected how they decided to cancel or continue shows.

Imagine being a customer at a restaurant and the chef is in the back watching you eat, saying things like:

“well, if he doesn’t eat the whole thing in less than 10 minutes that means he probably hated it and won’t continue to buy more burgers, so we should just remove it from the menu now and never serve that burger again.”

Who the fuck wants to ‘relax’ and watch stuff when i know if I start watching something and stop after episode 1 because I liked it, realize my partner might also like it, and I wait 3 months to watch it together (not within their 30 day or whatever window), knowing that might contribute to Netflix canceling a show that I fucking liked in the first place!

SO RELAXING GUYS!

So no, I don’t stream stuff anymore. I’m sick of paying for content that constantly gets canceled, and also experiencing stress while doing so.

Even if it was foss, it would still be a chromium based rendering engine. Basically Firefox and apple’s WebKit are the only things to run to that isn’t chromium based, the web is barely staying ‘open’ as it is.

Its all fine until their approach of privacy or security differs with what’s best for the project, then there’s no reasoning with them to fix it because they’re not calm and flexible. Then ya gotta fork it and get everyone to transition to the new fork, and get developers back onboard, etc.

A crazy, but pointed example of something like this could be: the dude could just claim grapheneos going forward will not have networking anymore because thats an attack vector, and at that point the project doesn’t even suite anyone’s needs to be used as a smartphone anymore. How are you gonna reason with someone like this that, while keeping networking in the project is an attack vector, its necessary to be able to use the project for it’s intended use case? You probably aren’t

The maintainer Catfriend1 set the whole repo to private and apparently transfered the repo/code ownership, and signing keys to someone else without telling anyone? There’s some more to it, but the maintainer didn’t choose to share any info with the public, and it makes it seem highly suspicious what their intention and motivations are/were with the codebase.

Piloting a basic-income is great, but just a reminder coinbase backed Trump during the election…

sigh

posting for others…

From what I learned about the video, HDMI is an organization that charges licensing fees for the port, logo, and revisions to be included in devices, charging between $5-$10,000/year for licensing plus per unit fees, and more for specific revision features, while Display port is just a connector/protocol with no licensing encumbering it, and supports all the HDMI features and more.

This is highlighted by the new Steam Machine from Valve where it includes both a display 1.4 port, and an HDMI 2.1 port, but the HDMI port isn’t listed as a 2.1 port because it can’t legally be licensed for Linux machines, so to get around this valve just didn’t label it 2.1 even though it supports 2.1 capabilities.

The creator of the video is rightfully calling for the industry to shun and abandon HDMI as a port, and just use the royalty free and unencumbered display port.