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How can I easily and conveniently transfer files wirelessly between my linux computer and android phone?
  • KDE Connect has been mentioned before. You can supplement this and other tools by using a VPN so that both endpoints can see each other even if the underlying network does not allow this. My preferred solutions are Tailscale (managed, cloud-based) or Headscale (for self-hosting).

  • Suggest me a secure chat platform for my family
  • Yes, XMPP with proper TLS on the server side and Conversations or one of its forks (preferably fetched from F-Droid) using OMEMO encryption should be good enough. If you are brave or paranoid, give Tox a try: https://tox.chat/

  • NAS, Home Servers, and where do I even start?
  • Maybe the first question is what your budget is, both regarding money and time. For example, you could buy a pre-configured NAS from Synology or QNAP, which requires less technical skills but more money, or a home-made solution reusing used components (but fresh disks for reliability). Depending on your electricity costs, you may want to choose a low-power solution or something which you power off when not used. For storage, maybe a three-disk RAID5 is a good compromise. For backups, plain S3 cloud storage encrypted via restic is a good idea.

  • Mutation Has Led to a New Type of Cat, Scientists Say [Sharon Adarlo | May 25 24 | Futurism]
  • Those of us who remember ‘Alf’ may wonder if the name is due to taste as well.

  • Mullvad will no longer be able to accept DKK from its customers
  • Well, you have Finland in the north-east, Ireland in the north-west, and every land border faces a Euro-zone country. Few other countries can claim the latter.

  • Did I just solve the packaging problem? (please feel free to tell me why I'm wrong)
  • If at all, you want to use Gentoo's ebuild system, which can be seen as some kind of superset of PKGBUILDs. I guess one could write a Python script that “dumbs down” ebuild scripts to PKGBUILDs for simple packages (excluding complex stuff like kernel, KDE, …). The main challenge, as pointed to before, would be maintaining a table mapping package names between distributions in order to get the dependencies right.

  • If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time?
  • What comes to mind:

    • Collect trash in nature
    • Demonstrate in front of parliaments if politicians are about to make stupid laws
    • Demonstrate outside of billionaires' properties demand that they pay their fair share to society
  • Critical Rust flaw enables Windows command injection attacks
  • Yes, one of the factors that contributed to the demise of Windows Mobile was the lack of backwards-compatibility for apps between 7, 8, an 10.

  • Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab
  • Qt (the one used by KDE) has progressed not only through a number of owners (Trolltech, Digia, Nokia, …), but also licenses such as the QPL to be triple-licensed under GPL, LGPL, and commercial for most of its components.

  • Willkommen im Jahr 2010! Für Ausweise bald nur noch digitales statt ausgedrucktes Foto nötig
  • Mal als Beispiel wie das in anderen Ländern (Schweden) gemacht wird:

    Das da ein freundlich-lächelnder Mann in rot steht, ist nur fürs Pressefoto. Normalerweise Selbstbedienung. Der ganze Apparat kan in der Höhe eingestellt werden. Vorne die Fläche ist für eine digitale Unterschrift, die auf die Karte gedruckt wird. Bezahlt wird dann per Bank/Kreditkarte. Alles papierlos.

  • What is the most visually pleasing package manager (in terminal)?
  • The "C" in the progress bar is alternating between "c" and "C" to give the impression of munching.

  • [Solved] VPN (tailscale) connection issue each time i open the laptop
  • There is some information missing in the problem description. For example, if you close the lid, does the computer suspend/sleep/hibernate? It may be that when the computer sleeps something "breaks" or it may be that the act of physically closing/opening the lid has an effect (e.g. because the WiFi antenna is embedded in the display frame).

    Some time ago I had a similar problem with Tailscale and sleeping. When Tailscale initializes itself (at boot), it has to interact with another service to communicate which DNS servers have become available (e.g. 100.100.100.100). Several implementations of such services exist (resolvconf, openresolv), in my case systemd-resolved. During normal operation, resolvectl status (if using systemd-resolved) shows which DNS servers and which search domains are configured for each network interface such as tailscale0. Now, there is a bug (or feature) that systemd-resolved "forgets" the DNS configuration it got from Tailscale when the computer is put to sleep. So, when the computer wakes up, name resolution via Tailscale no longer works, giving you the impression that Tailscale itself is not working, although Tailscale's low-level functions are still operational. My "solution" was to write a small script that gets executed when the computer wakes up which sets again DNS server and search domain for network device tailscale0.

  • What is the most visually pleasing package manager (in terminal)?
  • ArchLinux's pacman with ILoveCandy option enabled.

  • Rich Countries Are Becoming Addicted to Cheap Labor
  • I recall hearing that already during the classical antiquity the Greeks and later the Roman could have invented steam engines (for reference of their technical skills see the Antikythera mechanism), but the abundance of cheaper slave workers made this economically infeasible.

  • Or maybe introduce them to Little Bobby Tables
  • To fuck with computers that don't know how to do UTF8, add a few emoji.

    Even better, add some byte sequences that are invalid UTF-8.

  • GfK-Umfrage: Mehrheit isst wegen Teuerung seltener im Restaurant
  • Die Älteren unter uns werden sich noch an den Wechsel von DM zu € erinnern, als in Restaurants die Währungsymbole ausgetauscht wurden, aber die Beträge gleich blieben.

  • Beste Stadt für Homeoffice mit Kindern?
  • Gibt es da nicht da nicht die ganzen Rankings von Zeitschriften (Focus, …)? Was Schulen angeht, Bayern vermeiden. Da habe ich schlimmes gehört. Da herrscht (pedagogisch) teilweise der Muff der 1950er Jahre. Gebiete, die von Klimakatastrophe (Dürren, Überschwemmungen, Küste) betroffen sind, meiden. Fahrradfreundlich (flaches Land, Fahrradwege) und/oder guter ÖPNV ist ein Plus.

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  • I guess this refers to MiG-24 vs. F-15. Wikipedia writes:

    The appearance of the MiG-25 sparked serious concern in the West and prompted dramatic increases in performance requirements for the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, then under development in the late 1960s. The capabilities of the MiG-25 were better understood by the West in 1976 when Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected in a MiG-25 to the United States via Japan. It turned out that the aircraft's weight necessitated its large wings.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25

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