Greece in a nutshell: 3€ to send a letter, but the postal service doesn't actually deliver mail, not even registered mail. You can pay extra for a PO Box, but it's illegal to use it for official business. They don't do email, of course. Oh, and there's no auto-pay of anything, so you need to go in person to the various offices to ask whether you have a bill due, since they don't deliver mail.
@jbqueru Meanwhile, Sweden: everything is so digital, automated, and modern I have not even seen Swedish paper/coin money since moving here five years ago.
@h3artbl33d Yeah it's a thing. We like some of the modern conveniences, especially with two small toddlers, and choosing between Google and Apple is easy (Google is the far lesser of two evils).
As much as I prefer open source etc., there's no open solution that can compete with this without being a massive hassle for both me and my wife.
@aral@h3artbl33d Understand their business models, and you will realise where your data is safer.
Google's core business is selling insights based on user data. That user data is the goose, the insights (ads) are the golden eggs. Unlike what a lot of people think, Google doesn't sell user data - Google would be stupid to do so. Why sell the one goose, when you can endlessly sell golden eggs? Google will protect the goose - your data - with its life, because its very existence depends on it. Ergo, I use Google products (Android, Google Home, etc., but my Gmail account is corporate to no email scanning).
Apple sells you devices and services. It needs to keep selling you devices and services to survive. That's why Apple's services revenue is so important to it... But that services revenue is 80% income from gambling "games" in the App Store. The more people are addicted to gambling in the App Store, the more money apple makes. The more services Apple can get you to sign up for by pestering you with ads in iOS, the more money it makes.
Even worse - Apple's devices business model is built on genocide. Afraid of TikTok? You should be afraid of just how cosy Apple is with with the CCP.
@mntmn I'm trying to find the contact information for the person who wrote the blog post about Linux support, since he's been working at Qualcomm for almost a decade, and TI before that, and seems to be a huge engineer. I have no idea if that's the right person to ask (for your or my questions), but I figure it's a better shot than talking to PR people.
I love seeing people go through COSMIC for the first time. It is always useful to see what worked well and what needs adjustment. If y'all have any questions about COSMIC, don't hesitate to ask, I wrote the editor, file manager, store, and terminal.
@soller What are the odds we'll see a COSMIC web browser (using an existing engine, of course)? Or is that just entirely unrealistic?
As great as Firefox is, its integration into Linux desktops is only so-so, at best, and I'm not comfortable with how much the Linux desktop relies on Firefox for Linux continuing to exist. 😐
@vwbusguy For sure, but since this is not really specifically a Fedora issue, but more likely a kernel/driver/Wayland issue, I want to focus there first before bothering the lovely Fedora people. :flan_laugh:
i just installed windows 10 and i feel so fucking disgusted by myself
luckily its just a spare parts box to play league
and keep your "just stop playing" takes to yourself pls life is bs enough as it is, and after 14 years of almost daily playing, it's a little comfort blanket for me that makes me content
An M4 iPad Pro that can run iPadOS and macOS simultaneously would be an incredibly-powerful device, and it really wouldn’t take anything away from either experience — only open whole new opportunities (and price points for Apple to upsell you to) https://zeppelin.flights/@jsnell/112396434384516406
Completely baffled by why audio is not working on OpenBSD. Well, correction: the audio is clearly working, as the audio streams are listed in sndioctl. So it must be something else.
sndioctl lists "server.device=0", and using -v tells me it has recognised four server.device options. However, when trying to switch with sndioctl server.device=x, it will claim to have switched, but running sndioctl again will still say it's using device 0.
Using dmesg I can tell there's two actual sound devices using the HD audo driver azalia: the actual Intel HD audio sound chip, and another sound chip on the video card. My guess is that server.device=0 is the GPU sound chip, but as I said, changing it doesn't seem to be working.
I'm at a loss.
PS: all listed mute switches are set to 0, so that's not it either.