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Ah yes, smart lights need Tor.

I have this old TP-Link smart lightbulb, it’s the only thing that’s IoT and on WiFi in my house.

Looking through pfBlocker logs for fun, and noticed it’s been trying to connect to the Tor network.

Oh! Also, it’s been uploading and downloading 100+ MB of data a day.

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Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone
  • No idea. Could be encryption or to protect telecom companies interests, WiFi calling means bundles need to change.

    Most providers are government owned.

    Edit: WhatsApp calling is still blocked in the GCC. Users there mostly use Snapchat as an alternative.

  • Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone
  • I remember that there was an identifier based on model number. FaceTime wasn't allowed in the Middle East for a while, there was a way to tell if the model will support it based on the last character after the / in the model number. Middle East models won't even have the app at all.

    Propably they'll do the same for models sold in the EU.

    There are already hardware variants of the same iPhone. I think the US gets an iPhone with all eSIM, and China has two physical SIM slots.

  • Distro for POS
  • Tbh when I was thinking of the title that's what came to mind, sorry for being clickbaity haha. Immutable OS's have been on my radar for a while I just need to be a bit confident in using them before going live.

  • Distro for POS

    I recently got a couple of POS pc’s (Point of sale) you know the ones that are all in one with a base to sit on a counter. The thing is they’re very old non branded devices, even the label says 2GB DDR2 while it’s actually 4GB DDR3.

    Anyway, first thing I did was plug in my Ventoy and boot Debian 12 live, and guess what? Everything just works! Even the touchscreen works.

    What distro do you recommend? Will be using them in a small shop with Odoo (browser based ERP)

    Sorry if my writing is messed up, English is my second language.

    EDIT: thank all for your input really appreciate it. I think I'm going to go with the majority of recommendations and use Debian 12 with xfce maybe. At least until I'm comfortable using immutable OS's.

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    Linux needs to seriously fix itself (this IS an unpopular opinion here, cant speak bad about linux on lemmy now can we)
  • I haven’t tried gaming on linux, but I completely agree on the audio part. I have a laptop running PopOS, had a meeting and it just won’t change from the built-in mic, and some mic’s won’t even get recognized. Let’s just say meetings are now like my gaming, windows only.

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  • That's really not bad at all. I kinda want to connect it to a dock, set up everything then start using it. I even planned adding all of my bash scripts to use it to troubleshoot on the go. Thank you, you got me excited for it again.

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  • What do you think of Librem 5? I got mine a month ago, but don’t have the time to explore it yet. First things I noticed is that it gets really hot, and the battery doesn’t last that long.

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