Sad to hear, just had a look at the readme for that project and it sounds extremely full-featured for a lemmy client.

Hopefully someone can port some of the changes back into Photon, where it originally forked from, or maybe even continue the project, but realistically I feel both of these are unlikely at the moment seeing as very few people have heard of this compared to Voyager (wefwef 😢) and Mlmym

Looked up what “fawning” meant, never heard that word before

praising someone too much and giving them a lot of attention that is not sincere in order to get a positive reaction

Source

Haven’t watched the video so I’m unsure of the context, whether it’s about a neurotypical as the recipient of fawning, or a neurotypical fawning another individual

I hope this NEWAG gets raked over the coals for this.

It’s outrageous to hold public infrastructure at ransom because the equipment spent X days in an independent repair shop - and pretty invasive to have DRM monitoring the train’s GPS location, and in some cases live reporting these back to the manufacturer to facilitate a remote lockdown.

Not to mention pushing an update to flag up a copyright warning on a screen in the drivers’ cab while the train is running 🤦‍♂️

I commend the engineer at the independent repair facility that had the idea to have hackers pick apart the train’s control unit, and the rest of the team for agreeing to it.

The room might stink, but nobody intentionally shat on the floor.

I like this figure of speech a lot, stealing it 😁

Free google play credit, I usually get an email every year for it

But I do pay for Plex, despite Jellyfin being a thing. If I like something and it’s worth it to me personally, why not 🤷‍♂️… but you will never find me defending their kinda crappy decisions like the new Discover feature, removal of “All Songs” from the plex apps in favor of moving people to Plexamp, removing the Gallery sync a few years ago etc.

Some people want their software to be 100% FOSS all-eyes-on-the-codebase, others just do a balancing act based on their personal values.

I value my software to be “transparent enough” in how it operates, “just work”, and hackable to some extent - if I really wanted to I can swap out the ffmpeg binary that Plex uses for transcoding to something else (doesn’t remove the Plex Pass limitation for those curious), I can hook into the server API to change ambient lighting colour based on the cover/background of whatever media is playing, I can create speakers running a Linux board to cast Plex media to, etc. But once that hackable ship sails, then I will look to FOSS alternatives.

For Niagara, everything “just worked”. No noticeable bugs, fast search, consistent feel and design, useful contextual info (e.g. next calendar event shows under the clock), and gestures that made sense for its overall UX. Using it felt less like you were using a “launcher”. The yearly sub was cheap enough that I wouldn’t mind covering for it if I didn’t get credits, and having a single person working on software usually comes with a high level of attention to detail (particularly in performance and UX) but it does have the downside that the experience may be more opinionated and closed compared to if it was a community-driven FOSS project instead IMO.

Alas, google didn’t send credits this year, Niagara made less sense for value/worth-it compared to Kvaesitso, so I abandoned it.

For me, Kvaesitso does everything in a slightly different, much more customizable way, and being FOSS was one of the things that made it particularly attractive as a replacement

I would expect better from xda to be honest, considering most of the early days in android rooting and roms really took off on their forums

I was pretty careful in specifically not naming this a “win”, just “great”. A true “win” would be a recent model as you mention.

Personally however, it’s not 1980s/90s anymore where recieving a service manual with your purchased property was the minimum standard - I feel the bar is pretty low in general when discussing companies’ attitudes providing owners with the full documentation and firmware for their property

I thought this was noteworthy, taking into account Tesla’s previously horrible attitude towards people who repair and rebuild totalled teslas, where the company subsequently remotely disables onboard features such as autopilot and the ability to use a supercharger as soon as they find out. This car has neither of those features of course, but it at least hopefully sets some kind of precedent.

Despite the age and production quantities, it’s still extremely rare for any company/manufacturer to actually release these materials to the public IMO - particularly including the firmware and diagnostics tools on GitHub, meaning owners don’t need to waste time reverse engineering their own vehicle, or be stuck paying someone else to figure out why it isn’t working…

Hopefully this move helps encourage more auto manufacturers to start releasing resources for their vehicles to the public, instead of restricting these to specific dealers (some of which thankfully leak some to the public 👌)

I’m assuming you’re using Android 14.

Do you actually see your lockscreen or your launcher, or are you just dumped to a “Android is Starting” dialog after the boot animation goes? I’d try to get an adb logcat up to see what the device is doing/gotten stuck on, but you would have needed to authorize your device beforehand…

Are you using Magisk for root or riru? Seeing as you’re using a very recent version of Android, I’d say try a dev build of Magisk and see if that works any better. I would have also suggested using an older version of magisk that doesn’t exploit via zygote injection, but your version of android is too new. Have a poke around on the github Issues tab and see if anyone else has gotten stuck with the same issue as you.

Another thing would be to try changing your phone’s boot slot in fastboot (don’t flash, just change slot) - maybe something for the zygote injection is missing from the boot slot your device defaulted to?

For all of the above, except 🏴‍☠️🚢

2000: I bought myself a car!
2023: I bought an limited licen$e to drive a car!

Take the A train like the rest of us.

This! Instead of burning the money on useless garbage, put it towards the existing underfunded infrastructure which would benefit way more people!

the entire conservative ideology undermines ideas like right-to-repair

Louis’s videos are posted to multiple platforms out of principle, not politics… that means they also get posted on sites with creators that have been kicked out of YouTube, like the one linked here

If I’m not mistaken, this is a setting that only the patreon user you’re subscribed to can change: whether you’re billed in advance, or billed retrospectively.

One lets you cancel and keep your benefits for the rest of the month, the other will immediately terminate your subscription upon cancellation.

Their terms describes both of these IIRC?

Express Scripts sounds so much like a name you’d associate with some fly-by-night software company lol

Informative, and unfortunate.

100% agree with your take on the original issue - it should be a discussion between the devs, not edging along the lines of an argument. However, I do feel like the discussion would have been better suited to the dev Matrix chat or something

Even if they were upsetted by your comments, banning you was not the right way to handle that IMO.

No GIMP 😮. Will definitely be taking a look at Inkscape the next time I’m doing vector art work though…

I’m going to be unreasonable because I don’t like the ethics behind Pharma companies.

They should eat the loss; their research was healthily subsidised by the taxpayer

Very, very, very brave you are to torrent on Hetzner lol

The only thing sleeping here are the specs 😂 but IMO that’s a very price effective build at around $70-80, surprised OP managed to fit an SSD into that budget too

Whoever designed that seems like they have something against transmission lol.

For me personally: it gets the job done, is allowed by most private trackers, fast and responsive, has a functional webui, and a very vast selection of third party apps (in addition to the cross platform first-party offering)

It’s simplicity is kind of its selling point. Only real criticism I have is that it’s unfortunate some of the supported features aren’t accessible in the first party apps, and especially from the lightweight web interface