And, F-Droid shows apps that were installed from the Play Store.
For me it's not about the size, it's about the understanding. I'd really like to understand what everything on my system does and why it's there. It seems impossible with modern systems. Back in the '90s I needed a secure email relay - it had lilo, kernel, init, getty, bash, vi, a few shell utils (before busybox..), syslogd and sendmail. I'm not sure any more as it was a long time ago, but I think I even statically linked everything so there was no libc. I liked that system.
Oh, I know how they work - we have an ET-8550. I just didn't realise generic ink could be so cheap. My wife sells prints of her photographs and artwork so is a bit "cautious" about her ink and only uses genuine Epson at $25 per 70ml. I just looked on Amazon and found that generic ink can be had for around $6-7 per 70ml ($40 for a 6-pack) - wow!
What ink are you getting for $12?? Even allowing for quite a bit of poetic licence, this seems ridiculously cheap.
It blows my mind that they need to do this with physical phones. I would have thought they could virtualise/emulate everything needed.
That made me laugh for real. Mainly because it bought back memories - I'm pretty sure I first heard it from my dad - about 50 years ago.
What's going to stop you from taking over?
Sane, rational people don't want to take over anything. We just want to vote for reasonable governments, let said government get on with governing and get on with our lives. We don't want to be bombarded with all this political bullshit everywhere we turn - MAGA stickers and Fuck Biden stickers, you can't open any comment thread on any public social media post without some idiot blaming Biden for the most ridiculous things.
Since the growth of the internet and social media these right wing nazi fucktards have figured out they can weaponise their followers to take over anything at any level and with your attitude to this site that's exactly what I predict will happen there.
Soon kids will start talking like LLMs.
When I read that I had some sort of epiphany - "wow - maybe our brains are just LLMs", and it felt weird. Probably not weird enough to change my model, but still weird.
Glad you wrote this comment - you said it so much better than I could have.
Edit - my model is going wild here. New thought - if our brains are LLMs, how do the brains in all the other species (without language) work? I guess a LLM is just a special case of a Large Sensory Input Model.
2nd edit - of course our brains are "just LLMs" - LLMs are special cases of computer simulations of neural networks modelled on brains. I know the logic is backwards and I'm a bit slow, but it still feels weird to read LLM written articles and realise that we use a more evolved version of the same process to do basically - everything.
You clearly didn't use it for long enough - I was "stuck" with it for over 20 years. I wouldn't say I liked it, but it was so familiar I couldn't dislike it.
We've got a 12 year old mixed breed dog (part Irish Wolfhound) with arthritis in her hips and spine and she's really been struggling to get up on our hard floors. My wife did some research and found Dr Buzby's toe grips. They seem expensive for little bits of rubber, but two days in now and they seem to actually work!
That was my first thought when I saw it too, but I went and looked and was reminded how bad my geography knowledge is!
There's really not much in the southern hemisphere. I spent most of my life in Australia and generally thought of Africa and South America as being down under with us, but 2/3 of Africa is above the equator and even 10% of South America is "north".
It's a good read. I have aphantasia and really struggle with reading non fiction. I was able to read, and enjoy, this in a couple of sittings.
Of course! It's amazing how this stuff just flows from the keyboard when you're typing in a shell window, but feels awkward when typing in a Lemmy comment.
grep -i fried < menu
That used to be my approach, but since I got symmetric 1Gb/s fibre I've found that if I leave it uncapped anything I download completes in a few minutes and I don't download anything popular so I don't have to worry about uploading too much.
Ha, good point. I'm showing my age here. I understand our modern phone screens have resolution approaching that of good print, but when I think of a screen my brain still defaults to something like a 14" VGA at 57PPI :-)
I'm curious if this relies on the fact that we're looking at on pixelated screens to work. But not so curious that I'll print it out to check.
I'm a retired Unix sysadmin. Over the years I've built things in COBOL, FORTAN, C, perl, rexx, PHP, visual basic, various Unix shells and maybe others. Nothing has been a real "application" - mostly just utilities to help me get things done.
Now that I'm retired, and it's cold outside, I'm curious to try some more coding - and I have an idea.
The music communities here seem to post links to YouTube. I generally use Lemmy on my phone but don't use YouTube, or listen to music, on my phone if I can help it. I'd like to scrape a music community here and add the songs posted to a playlist in my musicbrainz account.
Does that sound like a reasonable learner project? Any suggestions for language and libraries appreciated. My preferred IDE is vim on bash and I have a home server running Linux where this could run as a daemon, or be scheduled.
I'm retired spend most of my time in my workshop or doing maintenance on outbuildings on our rural property. I really like Dickies Duck Logger pants, but they seem to wear out quickly. I have three pairs that get worn almost constantly in rotation. The oldest pair is now just over two years old and is worn out - I've repaired the seam in the crotch once, but now the fabric either side of it is thread bare. My phone has worn trough the bottom of the right front pocket.
Are there similar pants that will last longer, or am I expecting too much?
I'm in Canada.
I'm trying out Nextcloud to use as on my home server. It looks great, but seems way overkill for just two users that really only want the file sync. capability.
As I'm reading I'm seeing references to WebDAV and it seems that the Nextcloud file sync. server might be "just" a WebDAV server? If it is, might it be possible to point the Nextcloud sync. client (on Windows and Android) at an appropriately configured Apache or nginx server?
The reason I'm asking here, rather than just trying for myself, is that I have no experience with WebDAV and have no idea what an appropriately configured server might mean in this situation. I'm happy to go do the required learning to make it work - just looking for someone to tell me it's not possible before I put too much effort into it.
I'm a retired Unix admin. It was my job from the early '90s until the mid '10s. I've kept somewhat current ever since by running various machines at home. So far I've managed to avoid using Docker at home even though I have a decent understanding of how it works - I stopped being a sysadmin in the mid '10s, I still worked for a technology company and did plenty of "interesting" reading and training.
It seems that more and more stuff that I want to run at home is being delivered as Docker-first and I have to really go out of my way to find a non-Docker install.
I'm thinking it's no longer a fad and I should invest some time getting comfortable with it?
Up until now I've only seen suggestions for content offered by the various streaming services. Today I started getting ads for a Hyundai car!
I tried to log a support call with Sony but they said they couldn't do anything without a photo of the offending ad. I now have a photo so will try again tomorrow. I know a single support call won't do anything (though I intend to be very persistent), but if enough people log formal complaints maybe Sony will "talk to" Google.
I know this is deep first world problems territory, but I feel really betrayed having a device I paid $2,300 for being used to shove ads in my face.
Silver fox enjoying the sun in my yard. Photo is a bit soft because I had to shoot through a dirty window.
I know this is a tiny community and my chances of generating significant discussion are small, but we have to start somewhere.
I like beer. I am lucky enough to have a lifestyle where at the end of most days I get a chance to sit with a beer and listen to some music. I like to try different beers and most times I go shopping I get a mixed 6 pack. If I find something I like I might get a few more of them next week etc.
Last weekend I was buying beer at an unfamiliar location, it was crowded and I just wanted out so I grabbed a 12 pack of Alexander Keith's IPA (I'm in Nova Scotia). The main reason I went for the 12 pack of mass produced was cost - buying individual cans of craft beer I'm paying $4-$6 per can - it adds up.
Now we finally get to to reason for my post - I'm really not enjoying the Keith's IPA and I don't have the language to describe why. I can't say any more than it tastes watery and reminds of other cheap mass produced beers.
I've been to tasting sessions where the server describes the tastes of the various beers on a flight etc., but the information doesn't get retained. Maybe I'm not supposed to share my tasting experience with anyone? Any suggestions for reading, or other experiences, that might help me improve my beer language?