Depending on the laptop (or with any laptop + smart plug) you can set charging thresholds, both for starting and stopping the charge (lower and upper limits), this way it will do a few cycles instead of staying fixed to a certain level of charge.

In order the worst things we can do to batteries are: leave them at 0% for years, leave them at 100% for years, leave them halfway for years (what happens when left plugged in with only an upper charge limit like 80%) - batteries need to do a few partial cycles at least, once in a while.

I love OSM, the best part is I can add whatever is missing :) have a good trip!

Well put, that’s the most commonly experienced anti-feature introduced, another less common one where they have been less and less lenient over the years is geolocation restrictions: people in the past could register with other countries (cheaper) pricing, today most legitimate customers cannot access their content even when traveling for a few days, or they risk getting blocked. Similarly to the region-codes on dvds and blurays, I can’t imagine it really helps sales, but it siloes consumers into country blocks and monopolies tend to like that.

EasyPeezy for you to say! :D but yeah if it’s not even in the appstore…Pixelfed has seen a boost at least

Loops would be the fedi alternative for tiktok, no? I think. And I agree…but fediverse has only a little word of mouth (reading your comment I feel guilty not pushing it to my friends a little), no money for these viral campaigns/swarms of new users.

That 5$ could have been about 15btc in the beginning of 2011, so 1.5M$ today

I feel ya, I kept my gmail account(s) many years before I realised I didn’t need to check on them “just in case” anymore lol. What helped at first was using 33mail for all the less important stuff, shopping receipts etc. Even today I create domain aliases only for addresses from which I might send email, most of the rest goes into 33m or addy.io ; They make it super easy to switch mail accounts because they’re intermediaries.

Hi do you mean domain registrar? I use Bookmyname. OVH also worked for me, my most important features are multiple mail accounts (for family) and unlimited aliases.Then I do everything from Clawsmail and Thunderbird/K9 Mail. And of course KeepassXC to save all the aliases and passwords.

For DNS I have yet to setup a server/VM like pihole, for now I just added a few in the router like Quad9, and a few more local ones.

My suggestion is, get yourself a domain with email included (I know a few european providers that I tested personally but I bet most of them include a mail service, even if it isnt advertised in the product page), can be had for as cheap as 6€/year. Test it out see if it’s enough and it works with third party email clients that you like.

Then later you can also purchase a dedicated mail service on top (but separately) of your domain, starting from 1€/month usually; the advantage to just the barebone approach is a nicer dedicated web interface, apps, support, etc. But it’s optional.

I’m wary instead of these all-in-one hefty and pricy (for personal use) services like Proton, do we really need all this interoperability between a drive storage and email and calendar? I think that’s the job of the operating system. Is copy-pasting a link to a different app really that inconvenient?

Great! No worries

Hi, what do you mean by checking the keys? If you mean checking the downloaded file signature (sha256sum) to make sure of its integrity, this is a different issue.

Anyway the recent signature spoofing problem is explained here by microg author: > Google seemingly has updated their signature checking code. […] This means that all signature spoofing patches need to be updated.

And another comment from the same thread summarizes the minimum versions of various ROMs with the fix included. > LineageOS for microG (fix auto-included from upstream) - All builds from 2024/12/17 onwards contain the fix

Many files are there for convenience so one doesn’t have to extract them from the main lineageos zip, or build them. Gaining root capabilities, modifying the kernel, reflashing a broken partition table, etc.

Sometimes they’re needed for some procedures like upgrading the OEM firmware before upgrading to a newer major release of LOS, which you might not have to do if you’re installing for the first time.

Danke! I’ll try OpenAndroidInstaller next time

Good stuff! Imagine a world in which in a few minutes you flash your oldest smartphone and mount it on your handlebar as an ebike controller, odometer, GPS, and can easily download/view BMS diagnostics in real time with BT from your other pc/smartphone!

Here with Italian subs

Found it on youtube in original language (Brasilian Portuguese), no subtitles tho

Not everyone is US based, but ofc it’s an understandable assumption since it’s a very populous and well Internet-connected country (plus we’re discussing in English).

To save one’s behind when torrenting (pirating is a bit generic), a VPN is a great tool, but falling into the privacy/security and legal nightmare of a cheap service installing malware (or getting their proprietary app hacked) and/or stealing residential connections is a big risk (like with those services where a huge budget is spent on predatory marketing on youtube); paradoxically having that unrestricted VPN app installed might mean that a lot more people are torrenting with your residential connection. This point is not a deal breaker, just a “beware”, do your homework and isolate that connection within your OS or even better within your network.

Other counterpoint: within a country where they haven’t started to really crack down on it, you are protected by the impossibility of fining / suing / arresting millions of people at once. More people sign up for VPNs and torrent from outside the country, the more their connationals will also need protection.

Sorry for the wall of text…

Totally agree, you’re preaching to the choir here (I’m amused at this being the first time I’m receiving downvotes but I’m glad it’s because I might have sounded like a slop AI apologist)

Those few people I know that find chatgpt at the same time incredible and very useful, are using the official app from their iphone, just to give you an idea. If they knew how to search the web 20 years ago they forgot it. And the web has worsened a lot in the meantime as you said. One of them was complaining to me a few months ago how it was considering incresing his subscription level or something, and that he needed it to get ahead at work, while I was trying to explain to him that at best it’s regurgitated stuff, no smarts are there, and I don’t think down the line he’s gonna really save time (what’s very sad is that he wants to use it to help him write medical research papers)

Ahah I’m totally with you, I just personally know people that love it because they have never learned how to use a search engine. And these generalist generative AIs are trained on gobbled up internet basically, while also generating so many dangerous mistakes, I’ve read enough horror stories.

I’m in science and I’m not interested in ChatGPT, wouldn’t trust it with a pancake recipe. Even if it was useful to me I wouldn’t trust the vendor lock-in or enshittification that’s gonna come after I get dependent on aa tool in the cloud.

A local LLM on cheap or widely available hardware with reproducible input / output? Then I’m interested.

In this and other use cases I call it a pretty effective search engine, instead of scrolling through stackexchange after clicking between google ads, you get the cleaned up example code you needed. Not a Chat with any intelligence though.