correct, saw feb 4th and went berserk. maybe take the post down?

yeah the foil thing is a usual go-to in them affairs; don’t consider it as it’s hella expensive and I seriously doubt I haz the skillz to pull this off - just imagine trying to cut out the keyholes and fitting them so they cover everything and it’s taut and adhered everywhere…

it’s known that google doesn’t want you to use email, they want you to use gmail. same as how all those fucks co-opt standard protocols (XMPP, ActivityPub, etc.) and then defederate it and make it their own walled, proprietary thing.

I ran a slew of geo-dispersed mail servers for a decade+; not really spam as it’s willing recipients but essentially not that far from it, either. also fully compliant, experimenting with voodoo-adjacent tips for improving deliverability (none of them work). so glad to be out of that racket.

anyhoo, you can utilise mailchimp/sendinblue/etc as they have a direct pipe into gmail/outlook infra and are not subject to any of those harassment tactics, which is basically payola. the prices last time I was involved with checking things weren’t that much better (worse in fact, if you add the costs of running all that shit) than transferring everything to gmail and friends, which is their ultimate goal.

I mean, you do you, but if you’re gonna go the FOSS way, you kinda hafta ditch google and especially its “AI” bullshit.

otherwise, that’d be like you turning vegan and going to a steakhouse and be all like “what salads y’all got”

if you’re on fedora, your file system is btrfs. that one has subvolumes, think partitions as folders that you don’t hafta pre-size.

so what you can do is install this endeavour thing in its own subvolume; presently you got root (fedora) and home. so you install the new os in /newroot, mount it at / and mount the existing home in its /home.

you don’t mount the old root at all, so fedora is ready and waiting when you grow tired of the new toy, and all your shit is there, no need to backup, restore, miss something etc.

the windows partition is easily taken care of, just format it as btrfs and add it to the existing file system.

this wipe and reinstall way isn’t a thing over here, as it’s rarely needed. good luck!

I mean good for them, but at that price and them specs that’s an insanely expensive thing.

seeing as how it’s directed at enthusiasts i.e. people who’ll fiddle with their phone, I contend that those people are equally likely to pick up an used ex-flagship of some years, flash lineageOS and have at least an equal device at like a tenth of the price.

the repairability - cool, it’s better if it’s there than not. but, I stress for the intended audience, swapping out batteries and cameras and stuff is perfectly achievable on normal phones. and even if it isn’t, $50 gets me an immensely powerful SDM8xx device, so dicking around with replacing parts at that price point is more of a hobby than necessity.

this thing with those specs should cost like $200. engineering efforts should be spent at identifying soon-to-be abandoned models from existing manufacturers and taking over production, not on designing bespoke parts and fucking lanyard covers and whatnot.

if someone wants to try, a fyi: only available in USA, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Czechia, Belgium and the Netherlands

yeah of course. if you go the non-microG lineageOS way, every app has to implement its own checking for messages, that’s a significant drain on battery. there are non-google push alternatives, like UnifiedPush, but the app has to be written to specifically support it - element x, conversations and clones, Molly (Signal fork), KDE Plasma, etc. have it. but if you want an app from the play store, they predominantly can’t handle push on their own, you hafta open them manually and check for e.g. messages.

also, the notifications you receive via FCM aren’t readable by google, it’s just a signal for your app to wake up, then the app’s handler goes to its server, fetches the message and then locally forms and displays the notification.

it implements a subset of play store features, notably a client for GCM/FCM so push notifications work. you can see which ones are subscribed in microG settings.

no idea how the three apps you mentioned work with that stack. maybe it’s time to look for alternatives, not just for this stack’s sake.

TIL vice is still a thing

I haven’t kept up with that clown but if that’s a reference to the time he attempted to switch, that was a top-gear-like slapstick show, consisting of making wrong turns at every fork and having outliers galore in the form of some hardware he and one other dude on the entire planet got. that show of his is infotainment, as in not a reliable source of information.

you go with the beginner-friendliest distro, with the widest distribution which is ubuntu. that ain’t the distro I’m running, but it’s something you need to go through to figure out how this shit runs. after you’ve been around the block a time or two and you start bumping your head at the ceiling, you’ll have enough experience to switch to something better.

first off, every time you see any of them visionaries claiming they gonna build this and that, think musk bullshits “in two years yadda yadda yadaa” so take that with a bag of salt.

second, what no “nostromo” the size of a city where one can walk about, have leisurely meals and discuss the bonus situation anytime soon?!

I’m ignorant of the potential advanced offerings of bitwarden, but the idea that storing your passwords - essentially an encrypted csv file - necessitates a) a server/client infra and b) continuous, yearly payments of any amount is beyond ludicrous to me.

as many here, I’ve also dicked around with vaultwarden, as I already selfhost a buncha stuff, so what’s one more. aside from the stack, which is beyond ridiculous, the client app is some electron nightmare that doesn’t even have full functionality - you need the web UI for a number of tasks. I mean, how complex can you get!

KeepassXC is free in all senses of the word, the binary is minuscule, its database is easily versioned, backed up and syncthing-ed around and you’re done with that racket for good.

thanks, this looks good, gonna try it out with my next build

can someone who runs arch btw on weak hardware, like dual-core U-series i5 and such, tell me how they’re handling AUR and friends? every time I bring that up I get downvotes as if I’m some MICROS~1 agent paid to besmirch arch btw’s good name and whatnot…

the idea that I hafta build and compile shit on a puny dual-core in 2026 is fucking ludicrous to me, never mind the bloat and cruft from all the build tools and deps for every possible stack. so what obvious solution am I missing? like, how do you handle a full system upgrade, say you got like ten things from AUR in addition to regular packages, what does that look like?

dogdamn, that thing is still alive… forgot about that monstrosity. condolences to everyone who has to put up with that snapcrap.

you did what? I mean, dude, give with the pictures, wtf!

aside from it being the futo thing, I don’t think it has an android sender and it was incompatible with anything I tried last time.

I’ve been using macast for the past 5-6 years and I’ve been looking for a replacement but none seems to pop up. the thing @Ephera@lemmy.ml mentioned looks interesting, might try to recreate.

anyhow, you let it run on your media-PC and you send it stuff from your phone - video urls (not limited to youtube), actual video files, since it’s a DLNA sink you can connect jellyfin clients to it, etc. on your phone you need allcast (not on the play store no more, get an archived apk from apkmirror or sumsuch). behind the scenes it uses yt-dlp and mpv to play back the video, full screen if you set it up so.

it mostly works fine, needs the occasional restart when it ran too long and it’s not aware of already playing stuff, like if there’s jellyfin-media-player already playing something, it would be cool if it would pause it and resume after video.

I feel this should be a functionality of JMP, doesn’t seem that hard to implement it.

I mean dude, come on. the ref to mbpr was to illustrate the fragility of the things - did you count the busted screens that aren’t due to drops? the video was to illustrate the problem with soldered on SSDs, how apple got a multitude of different suppliers (and whose quality varies wildly) and how the TBW’s for those devices are incongruent with normal use on other platforms - and those you can simply swap out.

I’m arguing people shouldn’t buy 5-year old 8gig devices for $300+, you’re advocating for $1K+ machines that are marginally better and not even that when you consider the subject of this post, running linux on it. give it a rest already, you’re not proving anything.