Creat

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[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 46 minutes ago

I really wish I could run ipv6 only at home, but due to a variety of factors, I just can't. Lacking support for it is actually the least of my problems.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everyone having a static IP is a privacy nightmare.

There's a reason the recommendation in the standard for ipv6 had to be amended (it whatever the mechanic was) so that generated local suffixes aren't static. Before that, we were essentially globally identifiable because just the second half of your v6 address was static.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is entirely an US problem created by the "center tap" nonsense. Nobody else I'm aware of uses that, let alone with that other. The outlet in question (type F) I'm only aware of being in use with one phase of a there phase supply plus the neutral, or just "the" phase and neutral. Note that in the second case, even if a house or apartment only has one phase wired to it, it's still generally part of a three phase supply, but the other phases just aren't wired to that particular place (incredibly rare these days, but might be the case for very old homes/installations).

Now the real reason for it being safe: The neutral is required to be wired to ground at the main breaker panel. With installations newer than 2000-something, every circuit has to be GFCI protected. With even newer installations having even more granular requirements (not sure on the specifics).

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

This is an entirely theoretical problem that just doesn't exist in practice. Just to be clear, for it to short circuit, it's needs to find a path to ground. It can't just "go somewhere". Just because the line is longer didn't make it more dangerous for it to "just exist". There are regulations for wires, which include frankly absurd safety margins, regulations for the electrical devices that are not optional either (CE compliance for example). It just complicates this for basically no reason to have keyd outlets.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The 2nd and even 3rd point is not automatically true for every phone and setting. I have a combined fingerprint reader and power button on my Fairphone 5, and the 2nd thing has always worked just fine.

It also has the option to only enable the fingerprint reader if the display is on, which addresses your 3rd point completely. It means you can pick the phone up, including having a finger in the reader, and it won't turn on or unlock. You need to press down in the button to trigger the screen, then it can be unlocked. That also means that when locking it and turning off the screen actively by pressing the power button with the phone on, it never re-unlocks. To be honest this part wasn't a problem before the setting became available, as the locking would disable the fingerprint reader anyway, but letting your grip go slightly could trigger re-unlock.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Also it’s obvious Trump is a felon rapist and pedophile.

I mean it is obvious to you and me. Most people seem to either not believe it or just straight up don't care.

He also frequently broke promises from his campaign, to the point where I'd say "most", with usually zero response from anyone on "his side". But for some reason, this time they seem to care, at least some of them. If that matters in any way remains to be seen though.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The (re)pebble probably also falls in this category. It's a relaunched pebble after Google open sourced the original pebble os it acquired, but then didn't do anything with. It's the original pebble founder that is doing this relaunch (you can consider this both good and bad, but I'm sure his intentions are actually good).

It's of course a commercial product, but at least the software side is open. Battery should last a month (!). Display is always on and readable in daylight.

First of these devices should be about to ship soon, but new orders will take considerably longer.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I finally switched from Windows to Linux and chose CachyOS. This was months ago. I never had to fix anything (so far). There was a fuck up by me once, but that wasn't the distros and could've happened on any distro. Honestly couldn't be happier with it being arch based, as it's really nice to basically get anything that is released instantly as a package update.

I haven't had to hunt for packages that aren't years old for anything as I was used to on Debian (used on most of my servers). And while the AUR is there, I think I got a total of two things installed from there, anything else was just there in the repos.

But if you've got a setup that already works, and you're happy with, why change anything? Having something that works for you is what makes the large amounts of choices in the Linux world so great.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

ZFS, specifically RaidZx, can be expanded like and raid 5/6 these days, assuming support from the distro (works with TrueNAS for example). The patches for this have been merged years ago now. Expanding any other array (like a striped mirror) is even simpler and is done by adding VDevs.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

Let's just say I also don't play platformers, basically ever. It was fine.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I haven't played inside, but limbo is absolutely fantastic.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago

I hope that isn't the future, because that's a very long list of down sides for very few positive aspects. Plugging my bike in every few days is not something that has ever felt like it needed optimization. It takes basically zero effort and roughly 5 seconds, so why put all that effort into something that works less reliably?

 

I've noticed for a while that when playing a linked video directly in the app, it doesn't respect the global auto-rotate setting of the screen. Only today did I notice that there's a "lock rotation" button at the top of the player, but unless I'm misunderstanding something, it seems to do the opposite of that it's showing: when I see the little lock it's unlocked, and then it's just the rotation icon it's actually locked. For context, my phone's rotation is always locked, but the video always rotates on me.

In general my suggestion for the behavior for playing video would be to rotate and lock it to the "correct" orientation for it's aspect ratio. It makes no sense to play a portrait video in landscape, neither does the other way around. Rotating the phone should probably still be able to flip it 180°.

 

The linked post essentially performed a benchmark of lemmy apps and if they properly display the formating options available. Sync got 3rd last place, position 18 out of 20 apps, with a score of 6.9 out of 10. There's a comment that essentially contains the test set. I hope we get some fixes, cause some of the problems have been around for a while.

In my personal experience the issues with spoiler tags, and some of the embedded images and their sizes is rather annoying. For example this comment shows perfectly fine on desktop, but becomes a garbled mess on sync (as you can tell by my comment, blaming the bot). Also note that while sync technically gets 3/3 for the images, the last image should be text-sized between the "arrows". It isn't, it's just huge (and consequently a pixelated mess).

Edit: fixed link to example comment for spoiler.

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