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NekuSoul

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  • We should push other phone OEM's such as Fairphone and Samsung to work with PostmarketOS, GrapheneOS, and Ubuntu Touch

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  • Exactly. This was less important before the internet got ubiquitous, but nowadays, when manufacturers can screw you remotely, it's very important.

    This kind of vertical integration, where a single entity controls both hardware and software shouldn't exist.

  • [PlayStation] [DRM] Licenses now requires an online check-in every 30 days.

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  • Physical cs. digital isn't the problem though. It's DRM.

  • Previewing the Framework Wireless Touchpad Keyboard

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  • It's kinda weird that this is mofe or less just a fancy, but regular keyboard/touchpad combo. Would've been neat if they reused those modular ketboard modules from their laptops.

    Speaking of those, I'm still waiting to see those ortho keyboard modules. I like their laptops in theory, but I can't switch back to a regular keyboard anymore.

  • The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep

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  • The whole setup actually consists of three parts:

    1. Lights: A bunch of different Zigbee-compatible lights with adjustable color temperature: Ceiling lights, a few LED-strips and some ambient/spot lighting.
    2. Home Assistant: Runs on my home server with a Zigbee dongle attached.
    3. Adaptive Lighting: This is an Addon (HACS) for Home Assistant that does the actual strength and temperature synchronization.

    Basically, it's less about using specific lights, as long as they're remote controllable. Home Assistant is where the real magic happens. I've also set it up so that lights automatically turn on/off based on motion.

  • The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep

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  • Yup. Personally I just don't like having multiple light sources emitting differently colored lights. I've even configured almost all lights in my house to synchronize both their strength and color with the sun.

    Bright and energizing light during the day, warm and cozy during the night. Even if it doesn't do anything, it's still just neat to be in.

  • PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites

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  • Yeah, I really hope these are just the death throes of a slowly crumbling market segment (walled garden consoles).

    Not only has the Steam Deck already blown a small crack into the almost entirely propietary handheld market, so much so that there's now even a (niche) market with a bunch of different devices competing, but I also wonder what happens once the Steam Machine and whatever is happening with the next Xbox.

    I'd usually be the last to root for Microsoft, but if their next device is really something more akin to a PC, then I wish them the best. That said, anything shipping with Linux, e.g. Steam Machines would still be my preferred choice of course.

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    The new user experience

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  • It's hard to tell because the actual crime that has been commited here is saving this comic as JPEG instead of a PNG.

    Ultimately I'm not very confident, but I think I agree. The text and layout look very human to me and it's looks all pretty human to me. There are some inconsistencies in the ports and the linework on the inner age between the three laptops on the left, but I think that's just the artist doing some touch-ups on it after already having copied the laptop across the panels.

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    The new user experience

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  • gave up on Linux Mint and switched to Fedora

    And that's exactly why I think that recommending Mint to gamers is actually evil.

    If you want to use any of those features exclusive to Wayland there's no option to do that on Mint. Your only choice is to completely restart and use another distro, which I don't think that leaves a good impression for anyone who is just starting out with Linux.

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    The new user experience

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  • Yup. People need to understand that "stable" is not a synonym for bug-free.

    As you said, DEs in particularly move so fast that the rare bug that makes it through and is subsequently quickly fixed is much less problematic than sometimes years of missing features and longstanding bugs that don't get backported.

  • Operating System Political Compass - Updated version

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  • I know this is one of my hotter takes, but IMO rolling release vs. stable has no influence on how beginner-friendly a distro is, at least not in a one-size-fits-all manner.

    Particularly for gaming, I'd say a rolling release distro is a much better fit because bugs with new games and hardware will be gone much faster than what you'd see in something slower moving.

  • Operating System Political Compass - Updated version

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  • Only asterisk I'd add to that is that if your plan is to do any more gaming than just basic stuff I'd go straight to CachyOS, or maybe Fedora KDE, openSUSE Tumbleweed or anything similar.

    Mint is great for basic usage, but right now that kinda also locks you into X11. So if you plan to use multiple monitor at different framerates, VRR, HDR or generally better frame-pacing you need Wayland, preferably KDE or Gnome, and Mint just isn't there yet. Emphasis on the -yet- though. Once they've overcome that hurdle it'll probably become THE unconditional beginner distro once again.

  • also don't use brave or vanilla Firefox

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  • That includes appeals to morality

    I mean, you say that, and to some degree you're right, but you do know that the Brave CEO is the same person that brought JavaScript upon us, right?

    /j

  • This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period

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  • Yup. I've heard this first about Home Assistant, but software like this often inadvertently acts like a pacifier for tech enthusiasts. We may have our neat solution for the moment and be content with that, but that doesn't help anyone else, or us in the long term. Things will get worse with no push-back.

    Disclaimer: That's not to say that we shouldn't advocate for those tools in the meantime as well. We just shouldn't lose track of the actual problem.

  • This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period

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  • Even if it's only a thing that needs to be done once: Either the one-day delay has to go, or Google.

    There's nothing redeeming about their plans.

  • The Free Software Foundation Europe was cancelled by their payment provider after refusing to hand over personal account data!

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  • Agree, there's no way this is the whole story. Someone is hiding something. If that isn't the FSFE then I'm guessing that the payment processor set the whole thing up as a flimsy reason for kicking them out with a "justified" cause. As to why, who knows.

  • :3 :3

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  • I'd say most of that is just outdated opinions based on a time when archinstall wasn't yet included in the live ISO and using it was also more frowned upon and seen as a "cheat". Thankfully we mostly got over that second part.

  • Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash

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  • Speaking of install scripts, their refusal to version them for "reasons" was my first hint that the project wasn't in a healthy state.

  • Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English translations inevitably strip away a lot of a game's "flavor"

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  • And considering this is about the Dragon Quest creator, those games historically got high quality inventive translations as well with lots of different dialects for different locations.

  • Dawarich 1.0

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  • Wait, just two weeks ago I was looking for a new GPS logging app and didn't notice that there's now an official (and non-official) dedicated Android app available. I'll have to try it out.

    I've been using Dawarich for a while now and the biggest problem was always finding a way to get a good app that can do both accurate, and battery-saving tracking.

    Anyway, love the project and seeing it continually improving.

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    Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud

    www.home-assistant.io /blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/
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    Dolphin Blog: What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?

    dolphin-emu.org /blog/2023/07/20/what-happened-to-dolphin-on-steam/