The only ones I’ve ever used myself area is the DC variety. Apply power: beeeeep; stop applying power: <sound stops>

I don’t know which ones are more commonly used in consumer electronics.

That is very unlikely to change by 2027 though.

As far as I know, you can just do that with no cost. But I’m not using it myself, so just check their docs?

The official service, hosted by them, exists. You can pay for it just like for Tailscale. If you don’t wanna host, use that (like a business might). But you can still see and audit the whole source, including what they are hosting for you, because even that is open source.

Where the hell did you get that idea? Netbird is fully open source, including the server power you need for brokering. Afaik that part isn’t open for Tailscale. You can use none of their infrastructure and not even have an account with them and fully use netbird. You can’t do that with Tailscale. See reply from Dojan who did just that, here in this thread.

To be clear, Tailscale is relatively open and generally considered a “good” company, but you still need to use their infrastructure in order to use it. Netbird is fully open.

I’ve run it on my last two laptops, everything just works. And I do mean everything. Special buttons, standby and all. I do run CachyOS (which is arch, btw), so it’s always recent, but I won’t think that’s a requirement these days.

I’m also sure there are laptops where that isn’t the case, but I don’t have them or know people who have them, so I can’t even say how common that is either.

The “and more” part is the problem for me.

This is the of the weirder interview series I’ve ever come across, and fittingly I get introduced with the correct guest. Well done. Appreciate the introduction!

I didn’t check all missing songs (wsy to many), but the ones I did check were actually missing, and it wasn’t just an import or transfer error. I mostly checked those that were important to me and stood out in the import-list marked as missing when quickly scanning across them.

I have probably 100+ playlists. Not having folders is just not feasible. I wish use playlists in non-normal ways, more like notes in some cases, which is harder or impossible without folders. So for me it isn’t an option to use a service that doesn’t have them.

Yes discoverability for new music is also critical for me, but I never even got that far to give it a shot. The majority of the time in listening to music is to discover new-to-me artists/songs. I had heard mixed reviews on that, some incredibly happy with it some saying it’s just horrible, but the other issues are already showstoppers…

I recently tried to switch from Spotify to Qobuz, had to give up basically immediately. Two reasons:

1. Your can’t put playlists in folders. At all. Like WTF.
2. Every playlist was missing around 15% of all songs. Some favorites included. Going from 860 to just over 700 songs isn’t really ok for me.

Surprisingly, 1) was a bigger deal breaker than 2). I need to find the time to check the other alternatives.

I think it’s about printers being required by law to (covertly) watermark copies as such, and make it somewhat traceable. This is supposedly to prevent duplication of protected works (books?) but also to prevent someone just using it to print money (badly, probably).

To my knowledge all major brands incorporate something like this.

Wikipedia article about the technology

The one point that has basically been solved is NAT traversal. Thanks to Wire guard, Tailscale and the like. The relevant parts are open source and can be used basically as a library.

I don’t know how recent your experience is with installing Linux, but there are no “hacks” required, haven’t been for many years. In 99.5% of cases everything just works, including sleep & suspend. This is just incredibly outdated or just plain bad advice. There is no tech-savvy-ness needed to use it either.

I’ve installed it for as tech illiterate people as you can imagine and told them “just use it like you have before”. They had a few questions where the answer would usually be “well what did you do before”, told em to try and that was that. I personally found the PCs to feel faster, but that’s my own comment, not theirs. I don’t think they noticed.

No, cause it’s at work and not my choice. It’s also just one example of many. I don’t run Windows on any of my own PCs any more.

You can’t even install Windows (local account) these days without answering 3 of these. If you ever click on one of the recovery options, you’ll be asked for one of them.

My solution is usually to just randomly smash the keyboard for a while.

So far I’m happy with my Fairphone 5. Not exactly cheap, but I’d argue it is value for money in the end. Timely security updates, unlockable bootloader (though I haven’t yet) and updates for (at least) 7 years after launch. I haven’t had the need to swap any of the middle things yet, but I’m starting to suspect my USB port has a loose pin or something so I’ll probably swap that module soon. Glad that I can.

These days, you can install any of the gaming focused distros (Bazzite, CachyOS, Nobara, …). And you didn’t have to do anything. It just works, and works well. Steam is either installed or suggested initially. Really trivial.

Password managers on Android (and frankly all platforms) actually try to avoid using the clipboard. They prefer the auto-fill service, which is intended for applications just like this. Unfortunately this isn’t working in all cases, but you can also set your password manager as a keyboard (temporarily), so it can directly input a selected username/password without anyone else seeing it.

Examples where I know this is the case are open source keepass options (Keepass2Android, KeepassDX). But I’d assume bitwarden and the like also work this way.

That really depends on how the VPN is setup and configured on the company side. And possibly how the applications it their servers are configured as well. In our case, absolutely nothing breaks and it just works.