michael_palmer

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Linux on old School Machines?

Hi all, the private school I work at has a tonne of old windows 7/8 era desktops in a student library. The place really needs upgrades but they never seem to prioritise replacing these machines. Ive installed Linux on some older laptops of mine and was wondering if you all think it would be worth throwing a light Linux distro on...

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I’m running Gnome 46 on i3 3217U with 4GB RAM. Works so smooth, maybe even better than Cinnamon. SSD makes all the difference.

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A lot of weight on the wheel isn’t a good idea. Please don’t make up anything. A conventional motor wheel and an external battery is the most successful solution for converting a bicycle.

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Rough, but it makes sense. Instead of electrifying a crappy Walmart bike, people should just spend that money on a decent road bike. Most people have no idea how fast a good mechanical bike can be.

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Use the adapter plug as mentioned.

Type C can’t spin 360°. I have a 90-degree 3.5mm jack, which doesn’t create a risk of breaking the port, so I can put my phone in my pocket in any position.

Hurts waterproofing, phone slimness and design

Check out the Sony Xperia 10. It’s the smallest phone on the market with a 3.5mm jack, micro SD slot, 5000 mAh battery, and IP68 rating.

Nothing was taken away. It’s literally just combined with another port now.

Haha, remember 2000s, when most phones were using proprietary connector for both charging and headphones output? Everyone hated that stuff.

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PostmarketOS devs have made huge improvements over the past year. Now it can be used for daily driving. Some functions do not work simply due to the lack of drivers.

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I mean that phones had combo port both for charging and headphones. Using adapters was annoying. And if you saying that 3.5mm is obsolete than why newest Macbooks have 3.5mm port?

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briarproject.orgIt can use bluetooth, wi-fi and internet to send text messages. Also has a desktop client.

michael_palmer,

Lutris can execute scripts before launching game and after closing game. I use this to disable “win” key in games.

sk, (edited ) to technology

@Technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtfU9AsUmc4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtfU9AsUmc4

A product you were just talking about pops up in an online ad. How? Advertising algorithms are so good that they may know what you want even before you do. C...

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I always say into the microphone of my smartphone, “I know you’re listening to me.” If they are really listening to me, they will get scared. And if not, no one will know about it.

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Gitlab is crazy. They require my phone number and credit card details just to create an account.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/800a4d80-8e11-47e9-a7f3-dd7f4e435982.png

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Maybe debit card would also work, but why they need this info at all? I wanted to create new issue for app, but Gitlab required card details. I had to write to the developer in Matrix.

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I can’t live without dash-to-dock extension.

I just finished setting up Linux Mint for an old buddy of mine on his old dog of a laptop, rendering it useful once again! (i.imgur.com)

Edit 2: to everyone suggesting an SDD: i know. Look, if this guy had enough $$$ for an SSD, he could buy a used lappy less than half the age of this one that has an ssd and 2-3x the memory....

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Traffic data? If a grandmother had a penis, she would be a grandfather To implement this function, Osmand should gather location data from every user.

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muPDF viewer is great. It only shows the contents of the PDF file and nothing else.

Torrenting exposes your public IP. In a country where government doesn't care, does that pose a risk?

I honestly don’t believe I will have any legal trouble because I don’t do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?

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But if the server is located in a piracy-friendly country, doesn’t that solve the problem?

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To find out my real IP address, you need to contact a hosting provider that is registered in a country with laws that allow it not to cooperate with authorities.

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As I know you can’t even unlock bootloader on modern Huawei devices

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Just in case, I use ADB & Fastboot tools on my phone(root on phone required) to quickly install smarttube on hotel TVs.

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