This is a genuine question, so please don't do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...
For example, I'm using Debian, and I think we could learn a thing or two from Mint about how to make it "friendlier" for new users. I often see Mint recommended to new users, but rarely Debian, which has a goal to be "the universal operating system"....
Gentoo - patience.
But seriously. With the USE flags, compiler options, you can understand software more from a developer's point of view.
You can try to optimize software for your hardware.
Fully explore the configure options. With a binary package you have no control.
What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes....
HTC (Wildfire, Desire Z, [rip!]), Samsung (they are/were easy to flash; S3, S5, S7, A5 2017).
I once had Nexus 5 (by LG [rip!]) - I was disappointed, poor quality.
Nowadays, you should have control of a baseband firmware too!
So, looks like the Pixels are the best option.
A complex camera support library for Linux, Android, and ChromeOS
Cameras are complex devices that need heavy hardware image processing operations. Control of the processing is based on advanced algorithms that must run on a programmable processor. This has traditionally been implemented in a dedicated MCU in the camera, but in embedded devices algorithms have been moved to the main CPU to save cost. Blurring the boundary between camera devices and Linux often left the user with no other option than a vendor-specific closed-source solution.
To address this problem the Linux media community has very recently started collaboration with the industry to develop a camera stack that will be open-source-friendly while still protecting vendor core IP. libcamera was born out of that collaboration and will offer modern camera support to Linux-based systems, including traditional Linux distributions, ChromeOS and Android.
Now, Walter de Heer at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and his colleagues have created graphene with a bandgap and even demonstrated a working transistor, an on/off switch that either prevents or allows current to flow through it.
For example, things you do often but not often enough to make a muscle memory? On Linux systems with Bash, I just use bash aliases. If I do it more than once, It gets an alias or a script; cause I won’t remember next time. Example of my current desktop aliases :...
There is an information in the /etc/tlp.conf file:
<span style="color:#323232;"># Select platform profile:
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># performance, balanced, low-power.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># Controls system operating characteristics around power/performance levels,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># thermal and fan speed. Values are given in order of increasing power saving.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># Note: check the output of tlp-stat -p to determine availability on your
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># hardware and additional profiles such as: balanced-performance, quiet, cool.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># Default:
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># !!!!!!!! Warning !!!!!!!!!
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># When use power-profiles-daemon, please use below items in
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># /var/lib/power-profiles-daemon/state.ini
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># 1) "balanced" is default mode
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># 2) "power-saver" mode means "low-power" in ppd
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># 3) "performance" mode
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#PLATFORM_PROFILE_ON_AC=performance
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#PLATFORM_PROFILE_ON_BAT=low-power
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>
So, it depends if your distro uses power-profiles-daemon or if your desktop environment controls power profiles.
I always used old.reddit.com with RES on my desktop. I’ve started using old.lemmy.world now, and I love the familiarity, but I realize how much I miss RES. I wish there was something for the old.lemmy.world that offered the same enhancements.
Which Android mobile phone brand brings less pre-loaded 3rd-party apps?
Please write the 3 phone brands (in order please) which you think they bring the least number of third-party apps....
Benefits of resolutions beyond 1080p
This is a genuine question, so please don't do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...
Telegram apparently censor queer groups ( mastodon.social )
cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/6433881
FLOSS sound level meter for Android?
Is there such a thing? I wasn't able to find anything in the F-Droid repository.
This laptop was MADE to be HACKED! ( www.youtube.com )
General Availability of AlmaLinux 9.4 Stable! ( almalinux.org )
Which are the F-Droid apps everyone should download?
‘Can you catch it as well?’: bird stunt causes flap in European parliament ( www.theguardian.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14652477...
Quad9 censoring DNS requests?
I noticed that Quad 9 is not able to respond to the spy.pet query:...
I have a IBM eServer xSeries 346, does anyone has experience with the ServeRaid-7k, to create a RAID array? Also, you can ask me anything about this 2005 beast! ( lemmy.world )
Police in Japan have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of selling illegally modified Pokémon save data to customers online ( www.ign.com )
HMD launches Nokia 6310, Nokia 5310 and Nokia 230 featurephones ( www.gsmarena.com )
What could your distro learn from another distro?
For example, I'm using Debian, and I think we could learn a thing or two from Mint about how to make it "friendlier" for new users. I often see Mint recommended to new users, but rarely Debian, which has a goal to be "the universal operating system"....
jfrog cve-2024-3094-detector ( github.com )
President Biden is now posting into the fediverse ( www.theverge.com )
Your first distribution
What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes....
What phone brand do you like the best?
*In terms of privacy, customisation, camera quality, and battery time....
Lemmy's Image Problem ( wedistribute.org )
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Israel starts work on filing genocide case against Iran at International Court of Justice ( lemmy.ca )
https://archive.is/RVDaM
How A Steam Bug Deleted Someone’s Entire PC ( iv.datura.network )
We’ve Forgotten How to Use Computers – The mouse is sorely missed. ( archive.ph )
Original (pay-walled): https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/computer-mouse-evolution-trackpad/677228/
Clarifying Misunderstandings of Slowroll ( news.opensuse.org )
PhotoMaker: Customizing Realistic Human Photos via Stacked ID Embedding
Abstract...
iPhone sideloading seems a certainty for European users - here's the latest development ( bgr.com )
libcamera v0.2.0 released! ( gitlab.freedesktop.org )
First working graphene semiconductor could lead to faster computers ( www.newscientist.com )
I'm Done With Windows, Are you? ( youtu.be )
The worst technology failures of 2023 ( www.technologyreview.com )
archive link
[dwl] rice and tear ( lemmy.world )
doom is fun and thall
Worth trying using a 15 years old notebook for self hosting?
I found an old notebook PC lying around and I’m wondering if it could be enough to run a few services like the arr suite, qbittorrent and pi-hole....
How do you recall your most used commands?
For example, things you do often but not often enough to make a muscle memory? On Linux systems with Bash, I just use bash aliases. If I do it more than once, It gets an alias or a script; cause I won’t remember next time. Example of my current desktop aliases :...
Indexing a billion pages ( blog.mwmbl.org )
How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux
How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux...
Do we own our posts?
Who owns what we post?
FineControlNet: Fine-level Text Control for Image Generation with Spatially Aligned Text Control Injection ( i.imgur.com )
Abstract...
New Huawei Phone Shows China Continues Bypassing Biden's Chip Embargoes ( www.freedomsphoenix.com )
Good for them!
Tokyo taxi driver arrested for allegedly running into and killing pigeon ( www3.nhk.or.jp )
🔋TLP Question🔋
Does anyone know how I can change the power profile on TLP from “balanced” to “low-power” so that it will survive reboot?
Windows 10 support doesn't end in 2025 after all, if you pay up ( www.xda-developers.com )
Can't decide if she's an angel or a buzzard. What do you think? ( lemmy.world )
She’s such an oddly shaped canine
Uncommon Syncthing usecases
What are you non-obvious, maybe strange usecases of Syncthing?...
Polish state mining firm offers Black Friday discounts for online coal sales ( notesfrompoland.com )
Bored ape NFT event attendees get their faces burned by event lighting ( www.theverge.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/7879294...
Reddit Enhancement Suite for Lemmy
I always used old.reddit.com with RES on my desktop. I’ve started using old.lemmy.world now, and I love the familiarity, but I realize how much I miss RES. I wish there was something for the old.lemmy.world that offered the same enhancements.