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  • Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

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  • And not to mention the custom control panel applets hanging around out there from who-knows-what vendors.

    AMD FirePro and Catalyst users are going to probably stay on an older version of the OS, considering most of those users are going to be educational institutions, engineering workshops, makerspaces/hackerspaces etc.

    Can't think of any other vendor products that integrated quite as much into the legacy control panel area

  • To prevent "karma farming"?

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  • introduce a "years of service"... Isn't that going to be the next toxic metric people are going to brag with?

    looks at Steam account

    I feel personally attacked 😂

  • Why I Prefer Minetest To Minecraft - YouTube

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  • Haven't watched the video - just my thoughts...

    Minetest (specifically Mineclone2) is an impressive feat, and a very faithful reproduction of the original. I pretty much used the Minecraft fandom wiki to progress through the game. Hours of fun was had without handing money to M$.

    I only really stopped because the redstone functionality wasn't fully implemented.

    Hats off to the devs on that project regardless

  • Poll: What is your definition of "base" Android?

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  • Plain AOSP doesn't include a dialer/phone app, camera app, or clock app anymore AFAIK, so for me i'd consider base to be AOSP+GApps

  • Big oof: The Google Pixel Watch 3 can't be repaired, only replaced

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  • Hope it sees many more years to come!

    I was interested in a steel but they're hard to come across where I am - most likely going to go with a Bangle.js instead for the always-on screen, long battery life and programmability

  • California’s new electric train makes for a shockingly better trip—we tried it

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  • My country has some cheap CAF diesel stock that's as noisy as a bus.

    Then on the flip side we have the diesel electrics which are MUCH quieter, but you definitely feel the vibration when moving off

    And finally the more uncommon full electrics which are better in every way... acceleration, noise, vibration, speed

  • Can a Linux installation be run as a VM in Windows?

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  • AFAIK on Windows the physical disk containing the partition needs to be marked offline in Disk Management, and the disk or a partition given exclusively to VirtualBox running as administrator, otherwise access is limited to read-only

    I would suggest checking some other sources as well, just in case this has changed over the years. If you do successfully pass the physical partition into VirtualBox read-write, you might need to set up a virtual disk with grub to boot into your physical Linux partition

  • YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers

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  • Platforms like Floatplane, Nebula, Patreon etc make it so easy to support creators outside of YouTube, while also giving creators a larger share of income compared to Adsense.

    There's YouTube Premium... but I don't think I'm alone in not wanting to give Google a single cent of my hard earned cash

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    Is this app not EOL? I thought Tubular essenstialky relplaced it some tine ago.

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  • Nope, NewPipe and Tubular are separate projects

    NewPipe is more vanilla, primarily focusing on the ability to watch videos without signing into an account.

    Tubular takes this a step further, integrating Sponsorblock and RYD. More recently the ability to view full comment threads was added, and the dev has plans to allow sign-in to bypass the more agressive bot checks that YT has been putting in place recently

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  • Windows 7 being discontinued.

    I migrated my HTPC to Linux several years ago, and since then just transitioned more and more of my machines over.

    My desktop is the only machine left running Windows at this point due to there being no Freetrack implementation on Linux for sim games

  • People Ask Why Some Root Their Device and For Me This is Why

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  • I'm rooted to...

    • backup & restore my apps as I please (as well as scheduled backups to my SD card)
    • BMS control to keep my battery in good health
    • Automation app for automating stuff (like Tasker)
    • revoking typically unrevokable permissions from system and Google apps
    • To actually feel like I own my device.

    If I wanted a heavily curated (and somewhat locked down) experience, I'd be in the Apple ecosystem - don't know why Google thinks it's a great idea to force this ideology onto practically all Android users...

    Similar situation with that additional warning for sideloading apps - there's already two warnings and Play Protect typically uninstalls these apps anyway, without the user's consent - in one case deleting KDE Connect from users' devices if installed with F-Droid

    Uhh I definitely went off on a tangent, oops.

  • Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens

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  • Looking forward to this. I don't run a custom ROM myself but I am rooted, primarily to revoke permissions from Google apps and to back up my OS and app data as I desire.

    However I'd much prefer to be able to run something like GrapheneOS on a Pixel if it meant I could run apps that are picky about Safetynet/Play Integrity, such as banking apps and the like

  • My first project with ESPHome

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  • A while back I made a Lolin32-based weather station that lasts for around 60 days on a single disposable vape battery.

    It wakes up every 15 mins, and while it's connecting to WiFi it retrieves the AM2302 sensor readings. As soon as they're transmitted it goes back to sleep.

    I wish there was a more power efficient alternative though, like whatever is being used in those BLE LYWSD03MMC sensors that last for around 3-6 months on a cr2032 whilst also having a display built in

  • Social media has become just a large engagement farm.

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  • My mind skipped over the duplicate words until you pointed it out lol

  • Have you been stolen from?

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  • That sounds horrible, literally couldn't own anything nice without it getting stolen and your personal space getting trashed..

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  • In my city? Really great, since people ride a fair bit here and there's a lot of protected and off-road routes that are correctly labelled. I have my settings set to choose a slightly longer route, instead of just the fastest. If I remember correctly, there were also settings for whether on/off road directions are preferred. I'm pretty much kept on bike paths all the time

    I don't use navigation in the areas with cobblestone paths here though so can't comment on that.

    For the bike map view I've enabled the clock widget, speed widget, and track recorder widget, as well as a shortcut to quickly toggle it on. I set it up about 2 years ago when my bicycle computer was stolen, haven't changed anything since.

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  • Download it from F-Droid store instead, the Play Store option only exists for funding AFAIK

  • Can you recommend raspberry pi / octopi alternatives?

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  • To answer the direct question - no

    I do have some thoughts on moving away from the Pi though - warning, heavy personal bias ahead...

    If you're looking at moving away from the Pi I would just suggest a low power x86 box, like a Nuc or some Intel N100 low-power tiny PC.

    There is a caveat though - it looks like the OctoPi project only provides OS builds for the Pi, so if you change systems it looks like you'll need to install OctoPrint manually, and port over your config somehow.

    On ebay you can get second-hand NUCs, 6th gen and up, for practically peanuts. The cheaper quad core celeron nucs (i.e. J3455) are roughly equivalent to the 3rd and 4th gen dual-core i5s (3777u, 3230m etc) performance wise, but have an updated QuickSync encoder and support accelerated 4K video encoding/playback, handy if you want to capture timelapses of your prints or just view them live. They also consume 1/3rd of the power at around 10 watts under the same workload.

    ARM support for other vendors can be pretty flaky, sometimes even non existent. While you could pick an Orange Pi, and go with a modern community-supported distro like Armbian, it isn't a turnkey experience like the Pi. There is much less documentation, and still some very early boards floating around with hardware defects and overheating issues (posing a fire risk in the worst case, the OPi Zero being the most egregious - literally melting the optional enclosure and killing the NIC). Some research before buying will let you know most of what you need to know - check around the forums for any common issues and dealbreakers, as well as the manufacturer's site to get an idea of available support.

    If you want to get an idea of the alternatives you could check out Jeff Geerling's youtube channel, he covers the Pi and occasionally videos on other alternatives, as well as issues he's had with them and support. I'll try and link some below...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KghZIgkKZcs

    Check the comments on that one for a quick synopsis, as the video is quite long...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjzvh-bfV-E

    This video pretty much just echoes my current perspective

  • Who the hell is MrBeast?

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  • To combine a bunch of explanations I've seen in the comments here:

    A bourgeois philanthropist game show producer who dabbles in poverty porn.

    That said, I do occasionally burn time watching some of his videos, however some of the content (especially the more recent game show ones which feel a bit like toying with people) rub me the wrong way.

    I have no idea if his philanthropy efforts are genuine or not - he's barely visible in those videos (he has another individual hosting those videos) although I do appreciate the efforts they appear to go to when assisting communities desperately in need, and careful implementation of solutions that are sustainable, and can actually be maintained and fixed with local knowledge.

    I've seen way too many "gimmicky" charity contributions by other organizations that become worthless as soon as they break because nobody fixes them, as well as other solutions that seemingly make sense from a western cultural lens but aren't really understood by the local people... worst one being a "merry-go-round" water pump mechanism where senior locals are forced to "play" just to pump water for survival. It was originally intended as a kids toy, but they of course don't have any attachment to such a foreign device, thus don't use it.

    Ehhh apologies for the mini rant there 😅