• 3 Posts
  • 284 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 12th, 2023

help-circle
  • While true, in order to get Linux mobile more mainstream, you have to have great google compatibility just because of the sheer volume of people that have to use google calendar for sync with family and friends and/or have gmail as a primary email. That’s just a shitty fact of life. Baby steps.

    However, indeed you are completely right that at the current time there are probably a very low amount of people wanting to use it right now that are completely reliant on google.


  • ~/workspace/git

    That way I can also keep other stuff in the same “workspace” directory and keep everything else clean

    I have a Code, simulations, ECAD, and FreeCAD folder in the workspace folder where projects or 1-offs are stored and when I want to bring them to git, I copy them over, play around in the project folders again, then copy changes over when I am ready to commit.

    I could better use branching and checking out in git, but large mechanical assemblies work badly on git.


  • KDE for my main PC. Pretty with floating panels, KDE Connect, QT apps are often the best apps in their class and are perfectly integrated (FreeCAD, krita, okular, kdenlive, vlc, dolphin, etc…) And konsole is also very full featured.

    I don’t know what KiCAD uses, but it also seems very well integrated into the KDE desktop unlike most gnome apps.

    XFCE on MX Linux for an old Intel Compute Stick to keep it very usable.


  • Ease of electronics.

    It is more expensive and bulkier using those cells because you need boost converters instead of dirt cheap linear regulators to put a modern 3.3V MCU in there. With how cheap lithium cells are (and that they are rechargeable) nowadays, the power converters + the mechanical AAA housing is often more expensive than a lithium cell + charger

    Hopefully we will switch over to sodium ion in the coming 5 years or so which are rechargeable, cheaper materials, higher charge cycle counts, and completely safe at the cost of also needing a boost converter. Maybe we will even start to shift more towards 1.8V MCUs. Sodium ion is better in nearly every way than alkaline while just having bad capacity compared to Li-ion.


  • “Critical” as in not really needed.

    It is very bugged and constantly runs even if it isn’t doing anything. It will also max out your disk IO for hours at a time with an HDD for larger game storage.

    I have had it off for 1.5 years across 3 OS installs and have never had a problem with stuttering or shader related problems in that time. It is really not needed anymore for 95% of games since the Linux async solutions were merged.

    Maybe if one uses severely out of date kernels it is critical




  • That is a different usecase though. That is simply syncing local musical with a server.

    I do that too because i have an SD card. Just use Syncthing for that. Much faster and less hassle. You can use any music player on your phone that you want, not just one that works with jellyfin.

    If you aren’t streaming music in real time for the majority of time, then do a phone sync, not a streaming server.






  • 321

    Kopia backup to secondary HDD

    • Pictures (phone photos backed up to my server via immich)
    • workspace (git repos, ECAD, MCAD, firmware, etc…)
    • qmk layout
    • Documents
    • vim folder with bundles
    • ebooks

    KDE vaults stores on secondary HDD

    Soon I will set up kopia to also back up every via SSH to my server and then small size essentials and important docs via google drive

    I need to set server cloud backups too, but haven’t had the time…




  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhat the hell Proton!
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    30 days ago

    People can’t learn not to throw trash in the street, climate change that is backed by decades of science is a problem, or hell, they can’t even learn to effectively not click on super suspicious phishing links.

    How on earth are they going to learn about implementing encrypted DNS when most barely know the difference between a browser and a computer.