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JustEnoughDucks

@ JustEnoughDucks @feddit.nl

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  • Do not gift a Bongo Voucher to people you like, it will ruin their day(s)

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  • It is always great to warn people against bad European companies too. We have plenty of people and companies who are as bad or worse than in the US.

    Nestle is objectively one of if not the worst companies in the world apparently devoted to almost exclusively doing evil. Spotify is also terrible, Unilever had done some bad shit apparently, our many of our auto companies are also not good, etc... Many of our companies would literally kill to get American labor laws here and have spent billions Union busting and lobbying/bribing against workers.

  • ProtonMail provides information used to identify email owner...

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  • 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.

  • 40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Reduction and renewables could make much of this traffic obsolete

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  • Which is still all due to investors not looking longer than 2 years since all of the crashing companies except Northvolt are startups. Lithium prices will always rise again at a much much higher rate than sodium.

    Sodium was always better for grid storage due to temperature charging and discharging and still plenty cheaper than Lithium Iron Phosphate that it is a replacement for.

  • Warren says 'it's so much worse than you thought' after classified Iran briefing

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  • I think China had much more to gain by completely crashing the US economy and becoming the world Electronics design hub as well as manufacturing. They don't need more land and definitely wouldn't want to deal with US citizens as far as administration goes.

  • Recommendations for sharable ToDo lists?

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  • Yeah no email provider providers everything that you need I have found 😅

    I believe the other sync options like decsync are made for syncing without a server per se.

  • Recommendations for sharable ToDo lists?

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  • Tasks.org is great.

    It can be synced via Davx5, caldav, etesync, decsync. Also via Microsoft to-do and google if you want to try it out without having to re-input everything before you commit.

    Edit: sorry, didn't see the web client thing. It doesn't have that. However, you can sync to a computer email client like Thunderbird or evolution and use it there.

  • What are your recent "BuyEuropean" wins ?

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  • Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

    If you have a google account because it contains email history but it sits dormant, logged out, not using google products for years, then it isn't supporting them with data.

    They won't delete your data anyway or your fingerprint link or tracking data if you delete your account, might as well also have access to it if needed.

  • Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable

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

  • Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable

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  • 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...

  • 🚀 Statistics for Strava v4.7.0 released! Dark mode & Milestones timeline

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  • 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.

  • Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

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  • 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?

  • Is there a good european alternative to Digikey?

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  • No. I am an Electronics engineering and believe me, I try...

    Any sort of embedded size-constrained sensing where you need an AFE from maxim/analog/TI. Absolutely forget about it. Even mouser and digikey are export restricting those now. Mouser canceled an AFE and PPG sensor hub on my last order.

    RS components in the UK: pretty meh selection MCUs with mostly STM and some outdated AVRs/PICs, missing a lot of key brands in different areas, decent/good for industrial stuff. Pretty much no NXP stock at all (Dutch company). Bad transceiver selection of outdated things. They only get new products like a year later. Good selection of power resistors though. Not good for opamps, but they have a decent Wurth selection of LEDs and Inductors. They are also good for connectors, e.g. they are the only European distributer with Wisblock compatible Panasonic connectors

    TME Poland: high prices, better stock than RS for MCUs (EDIT: I just looked and they actually have a worse selection now), but they still only have mostly microchip PICs, only 500 ARM processors so a very limited selection. In general they have a ton of microchip and less of a selection of other things. Chances are, if you found a perfect IC that isn't microchip, it is a 50/50 if it will be there. I have very often found chosen parts from manufacturer sites and catalogs and built out a design and check by TME and >2/3 of the parts are out of stock or non-stocked. Horrific site UX also. Finding anything is a crapshoot, so use other sites to find them and enter the MPN to check if it is available. They also have a strange selection of passives if I remember right. Like a lot of pieces from different lines, but missing most of the values in the specific manufacturer line.

    Farnell: they don't sell to people without a VAT number in mainland Europe because of some stupid "people were asking too much support" bullshit excuse years ago. They have the best selection of the 3, they actually have nRF MCUs and a decent selection of interfaces, opamps, and ICs like fuel guages. IIRC their inductor selection is worse than others. You can order from UK farnell in the EU I believe. Owned by an american company. They are the only ones with sparkfun/adafruit board of the major distributers IIRC and only a small selection.

    Sinuss.nl "alternative" to farnell apparently. Literally 3-4x the price of almost everything. A dirt cheap stm32C011F6U6 that is 0.80€ on all other shops is 3.50€ there without shipping included and the only time I have ordered from them, they messed it up. Stay away!!!

    Also, the fucking STM webshop from the European company doesn't have a warehouse in Europe or east Asia and ships from damn Texas. Getting a sample of a cheap part is like 50€

    If I am being honest, we have a TON of electronics and IC intellectual property in Europe, but the manufacturing and distribution of those designs is disgraceful and almost all goes through the US first.

    If you are looking for modules and not PCB design: Tinytronics.nl, opencircuit.nl, and kiwi-electronics are the best

  • I set up a Jellyfin server and used a Cloudflare tunnel to let me access it from anywhere.

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  • 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.

  • Attacking Iran ‘won’t make the Epstein files go away,’ Republican lawmaker warns Trump

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  • I bet you any amount of money that if you did a survey 20 years ago, you would get 90-95% saying that it is a wild conspiracy theory and isn't true.

    Sadly, I think this is opening many many Americans' eyes.

  • GrapheneOS and Motorola partnership for next privacy-protecting phone

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  • 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....

  • Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones

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  • 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.

  • ...wasn't it supposed to be other way around?

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  • I did IT for my company on the side of my job for a year or two.

    Prolific problem where windows would disable the microphone but every single "windows tool" said it was working perfectly fine except teams would say it was not available.

    The only possible fix that someone on the internet found was to download an old sketchy file from a 3rd party source for an archived version of their "pre-help-assistant AI slop" audio troubleshooter, and run that and it would immediately say "oh, it is disabled, let me re-enable it for you"

    Even though every tool, setting, and even registry said it was enabled.

    Microsoft has the worst audio.

  • Body Armor

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  • I just saw someone tested a TEMU $30 hard and soft body armor trying to disprove its claim to be bulletproof and it somehow actually worked up to quite a decent caliber.

    There is also a person (I think in America) making their own and documenting the process.

    But it isn't something you wear when not actively in a warzone or searching out a conflict...

  • How do you explain to your co-workers that you use Libre Office Writer and other Linux apps?

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  • 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

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • 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.