It’s sad how root is still required on many phones to reach full functionality, yet they makes you jump through hoops to get it.

On my phone I needed root to set a battery charge limit. The rom I’m using only added that functionality natively a few years ago. I still need root to make backups ever since google kneecapped ADB backup. Seriously, do they just expect people to not make backups of the device they use every day!?

Art is art, it doesn’t matter what tool or medium was used, what matters is it reflects the artists intention or vision.

Based. Nothing triggers redditors and chuds alike than recognizing the value in all art.

based thailand has toy guns that actually look like guns. None of that rainbow vomit laser blaster nonsense.

EDIT lmao at the 7 downvotes. Seethe more.

Food is fuel and construction material.

I live in the netherlands rn and basically at some point in history there was a guy called Calvin who convinced almost everybody to see food this way. To this day traditional dutch food is the blandest, saddest assortment of dishes imaginable. Thank god for immigrants bringing in some flavour.

My vote is for non-ai. Look at those rocking chairs. They actually make sense. Even the best image models would trip up on complex geometry like that. Also the window on the top right. You can see through to the window on the opposite side of the cabin and see some of the green foliage through it. It looks very “abrupt” in the sense that I don’t think that a model trying to come up with the most statistically likely image would just put a fragment of green in the window like that.

Speak for yourself, carbon lifeform

( /j )

This is not USB Mass Storage. This is MTP. If this was USB Mass Storage, then the phone would have a drive letter (or two different drive letter for internal storage/sd card) and wouldn’t appear under “This PC”.

EDIT here are some screenshots from The Before Times, when some phones actually allowed you to switch between the two modes. First is UMS, second is MTP. source

We will enter the post-internet age in our lifetimes, mark my words. People are starting to realize that it is not sustainable to have corporations filter your every word and authoritarian governments hold killswitches at arm’s reach. There is a growing need of a new and independent communication medium built from the ground up for censorship-resistance. And there is no shortage of bright minds to actually implement such a “peoples’ network”. Just look at freifunk, reticulum, etc.

Thirty years ago it was not possible to use a computer without installing proprietary software, but nowadays fully FOSS computing is the everyday reality of millions of people. Thirty years from now it will be possible to access all the world’s knowledge and communicate securely with anyone willing to listen, all without paying a cent to greedy ISPs or having your traffic monitored by government agents. There will be crackdowns and repression, but we will make it through.

I really miss USB Mass Storage mode. Back then you could plug in your phone into your computer and it would just expose the internal storage and SD card as standard usb storage devices. Nowadays you have shitty MTP which works barely if ever, so you’re forced to use either internet or ADB for syncing files. Old way was better.

IIRC you can still enable it if you compile your own kernel but I wish more ROMs shipped with this feature by default.

S0 Standby and its consequences have been a disaster for the computing race

Did you even read my comment? This has nothing to do with personal preference. It’s a matter of defending a shared commons from a hostile force. Sure, an individual gnome user can coexist with an individual kde user, like seriously who cares its just a DE. But as a community, users of other DEs, WMs and compositors can only “coexist” with the gnome project in the same way that a population of humans can “coexist” with the COVID-19 virus

It’s never about the DE’s themselves, it’s about the devs.

KDE’s devs are just focused on making a cool desktop environment with many features. It’s a little buggy and has some weird design decisions, but whatever, no biggie.

GNOME devs deliberately sabbotage existing linux standards in attemps to take control over desktop linux. Examples: client-side decorations, client-side shadows, systray fiasco.

This is not a question of personal preference. It’s a question of keeping desktop linux free, fair, and accessible for everyone.

Huh? How did you go from “people should have equal opportunities” to lynching and firing pregnant women? At this point you’re just saying whatever you want.

Plus, lmao at the hypocrisy of calling DEI a “boogeyman” while simultaneously accusing anyone disagreeing with you a racistsexistlyncher. It’s totally real, you’re proving it yourself.

hmm interesting. Will take a look.

The reason they don’t want you to unlock your bootloader is because of security…

…security of their revenue stream, that is.

I guess if he’s getting paid to do the interviews then it’s technically passive… wait no, then the whole interviewer thing would just count as advertising for his vending machine business

If you really want to piss people off, try adding “…and animals” to the list of things you care about.

Hey, a UBI supporter! Just curious, how can UBI be implemented in a way that doesn’t result in hyperinflation? If a society was to ration out food/shelter/necessities directly, I understand how that would work. But if it’s done through the intermediary of money, what would prevent the economy from entering an arms race where the producers raise prices to adapt to the new purchasing power of the population, and the government raises the UBI to keep up with the rising prices?

Assistance implies that it is temporary,

Not it does not. Ever heard of “aim assist”? “Assisted living”? “assistive touch” (the iOS feature)? I don’t see how any of these are temporary.

But yeah the correct solution is indeed to change the system. There will always be naysayers who argue that “no one system can suit everybody” so I guess we’ll need a system of systems.

Batshit analogies like these that simultaneously make sense and don’t is what I’m here for. Amazing.