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It’s funny because Russia is a very very right wing imperialist oligarchy. Everything they say they hate about the US, Russia also is. I have multiple friends that escaped there and they tell it as essentially 1900s Jim crow in America with respect to people of color, lgbtq, etc… Just because a country is against the US, doesn’t mean it is perfectly good or bad.

Russia is Trump for tankies. Regardless of any horrors they do, whatever lines they cross, whatever lies/propaganda they get caught telling, they can no wrong and they will defend every choice and action to their last breath. It is purely a cult of personality, but the personality being against the US.

I get it too, I am not a fan of the US and try to buy everything possible European or Chinese, but I am not under any illusion that either EU countries or China have amazing, great governments or don’t have massive racism problems, surveillance problems, have committed uncounted atrocities, or have a big weathy corrupt elites problems.

You’d fit in here in Belgium. 80% of people eat 2 pieces of white bread with a spread or a single piece of meat in between for lunch lol

Do you mind if I ask you a few questions about it? Especially on/e/? I think you are the first user I have seen.

Does android auto work, connect fast, and have all of your enabled apps on it? My girlfriend’s maps app just doesn’t work in android auto sometimes and the same with Antennapod for me and we have to reconnect. That is quite an important one.

How is battery life with screen off? On my xperia 5ii it has always been terrible with 1.5% per hour (accubattery) on WiFi or 3% per hour on 4G…

Does your microphone work well in calls, recording, and on speaker? I have seen a ton of bug reports for that.

Have you run into the common “terrible haptics/vibration” thing that people are saying with it barely being noticeable or not noticable in your pocket? I have heard that and that the haptics are really really bad in general.

Ortlieb is expensive as hell but extremely thick, waterproof (resistant?) fabric. I have just a bike bag Urban Roller Plus I think. It is a nice fabric texture instead of smooth dry-packish and it has a nice insert to organize everything and protect my laptop.

My girlfriend has the Various which you can flip the cover over to switch between backpack and bike bag and it is awesome, but more expensive.

Fjallraven is also good, but the strap padding wears out rather quickly. Every teenage girl in Belgium had a Fjallraven pack back when they were in style and every one has the strap pads completely flattened and useless lol.

Dutch company Newlooxs has a couple bike and backpack switchers. The material is thin though and mine ripped open on a fall during my commute.

I find it very confusing to get a good workflow with it + calibre.

I sync all of my books (and use readarr for organization or occasionally grabbing books from dead authors) via syncthing. Then calibre web won’t ingest any new books I copy to the folder, so I have to go to desktop calibre to add them manually, then it will sync the database and calibre-web has a built-in task for scanning any database changes so then the book will show up.

Seems like a clunky method and I would think I am doing it wrong, but I haven’t found a way for calibre to scan books already organized in folders in its book directory.

My girlfriend and I both need new phones from her failing and buggy Samsung A52 and my Xperia 5ii. We are not going Samsung anymore because they are putting unremovable Israeli spyware baked into their devices, fairphone 6 still seems very buggy and we had a friend with a fairphone 4 with 99 problems with it, and I don’t want to give google money and we want SD card slots instead of almost no memory to force cloud subscriptions.

2027 is starting to be a big ask though.

How did you measure the water going through? Did you hook up an in-line flow meter to the dishwasher? I would be interested to know if my Bosch dishwasher is the same way because I always use Eco.

I would think that they will have to combat AI code with an AI code recognizer tool that auto-flags a PR or issue as AI, then they can simply run through and auto-close them. If the contributor doesn’t come back and explain the code and show test results to show it working, then it is auto-closed after a week or so if nobody responds.

Since Nuremberg had less than 0,02% conviction rate and was essentially a show trial kangaroo court and they promoted, supported, and hired the Nazis to government positions afterwards, I am hoping a very un-nuremberg like trial happens.

Nuremberg proved that being a Nazi war criminal was the safest and lowest convicted crime in history.

Maybe not a good example because all TVs and Smart fridges run MCUs (or SBUs) that are 10x-20x more powerful than what is in any smart watch besides the apple watch (where the watch is mostly one gigantic custom IC).

They usually run NXP I.MX Arm M7 processors at the bare bare bare minimum, much more common is an ARM A7 or higher which is a completely different world than the tiny nrf52840 with 192KB of RAM and 1MB of flash that is standard across lower-end smart watches (and doesn’t go upuch with higher end) That is why I was confused. But I guess people get down voted to hell for asking a question lol

I would think Linux would be way too heavy for these watches. A lot of them use pretty lean MCUs, a far cry from the beefy Qualcomm phone chips that Post market runs on.

Even running zephyr on the NRF52840 can get heavy with adding a bunch of apps to it.

Nah, it is pretty much if you didn’t buy one of 2 trendy models of the year, then nothing else has ever or will ever be supported (of course you can always write your own drivers but it is a ton of work, especially for non-coders)

I have a thought that a lot of the enthusiasts that go through the pain and effoet of writing all of these drivers for old phones they have were usually the kind of people to buy the best/most popular device of the year

Whatever helps an individual healthily manage their calorie intake is fine.

How can text chat suck? It’s like one of the most simple things to do and has been done since the 1990’s lol

Can trillium store all files in markdown/plaintext?

How is the theming by trillium? I use a light tan interface because it is much easier on my eyes, personally than high contrast white or eye-straining dark themes.

Times have changed. I used to be excited 10 years ago when new android versions came out with cool new features, often better performance, and a lot of gimmicks that sometimes were useful.

Now it is: “Oh I wonder what feature they are taking away this time, what freedom they are stepping on now, what they have enshittified now, and how they are adding additional surveillance to sell to Palantir…”

And what they advertise is literally “Location Indicator is slightly darker”. “Settings menu had very slight spacing change” and “brightness icon is mirrored”

Somebody is getting a promotion for those extremely minor changes

This is theoretically something sodium batteries would be good at right?

Aren’t they not as sensitive to storage voltages? They are almost a perfect lead-acid replacement. Plus a UPS is a great usecase because it doesn’t matter if it is 33% bigger to achieve the same capacity.

Even the creator of the open source initiative has said that open source has failed and we need more restrictive licensing because open source simply is too permissive and has been aggressively exploited at the expense of the people, who it was meant to empower.

For me, source available licenses that are open source except specifically restricting for profit hungry, exploitative companies and corpos are with something like non-commercial clauses are fine for an end product. I use CERN OHL S v2, but I can’t fault people for going noncommercial like the entirety of the art and 3D printing world pretty much already are to protect themselves.

Probably because it is all portable and in markdown, the devs are widely available and it is open enough that community, open source plugins can be easily made which allow you to make custom workflows that simply aren’t available in any alternatives.

Linking is significantly easier and better than any alternative I have tried which significantly lowers the effort of documentation which is the largest hurdle for most people. As all social media shit apps have taught us, ultra low-effort beginning of a habit is the key to consistent use.

And if the dev enshittifies, all of your notes are safe in plaintext markdown and not a proprietary format and can be imported and cleaned up in your choice of new editor and fix the linking.