Matty_r @ Matty_r @programming.dev

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Perfect. Thanks!

I don't think hot switching is an issue. It would be setup and not disconnected unless I'm traveling. Does it use the egpu for everything when its connected? Or can you set it up like hybrid where it'll only use it for games etc?

I presume it's Fairphone 3?

Fair enough. I find if it's the default option, it's a better out-of-the-box experience as the devs would have spent more time on polishing etc.

Cool, I've wanted to give this a go for a while but never really gelled with Gnome. I'll have to give it another look.

Its not about the sales at that point (obviously), its about bolstering the user base. Everything boils down to advertising these days. The more people they have registered on their platform, the wider advertising audience.

Not entirely true. You're giving them users and downloads to pad their stats.

I use Pushover for my own notifications and was curious to see if they had any info on this. Fortunately they've got a note on their page: https://blog.pushover.net/posts/2023/12/encryption

I remember using a service like that in the late 90s/early 00s and the way to get around having the ads shown on the page was to rename the .html file to .jpeg.

No, youre right - just because its old doesnt mean its insecure. But honestly, it's very short sighted to think there may not be potential security issues. I haven't gone through the code, and I'm not going to, but the amount of problems that could crop up due to using an app that is not being maintained are potentially huge.

Maybe its reaching out to a server to get a block list, and that server has now been exploited and is now distributing malware to your phone?

Maybe the way it handles blocking calls has a huge flaw which can be exploited by another app to gain higher privileges than its own?

Just looking at the issues list, a year ago someone even points out that through using a static analyzer they found 23 issues. Who knows the severity of them?

This is all speculation. But to just wave off a geniune concern is ignorant.

I went through and disabled auto updates for them (through fdroid) just in case.

I was curious so had a look at that app. Hasn't been updated in years and the original author appears unresponsive.

I would probably advise against that, at least from a security standpoint.

Everything.

Ideally I'd choose Rust because I enjoy working with it, but don't have enough time to commit to it at the moment. But being Practical I'd probably say Java, its easy to get stuff going and has been around forever so it's easy to find solutions etc.

Excellent - how many trees can I grow on my roof? Can they be retrofitted?

/s

How cheap are we talking? OneDev is awesome but is recommended to have 2gb ram - the more repos and larger code bases might eventually need more ram.

I got up to a pack a day when I decided to quit. The biggest thing that helped me quit was getting an app on my phone which tracked the cost and how many you're smoking. When you start reducing the amount smoked etc it tracked how much money you've saved, how much healthier your lungs are (lung capacity etc), how much more time you've added to your life expectency, all that sorta stuff.

Having numbers and stats to track, made it feel more tangible and felt like I was making actual progress towards something.

Its worth a shot.

My opinion, if possible, just use the Papirus icons by default. It does such a great job of being consistent while giving apps their own look.

In the article for NordVPN it states that Port Forwarding doesn't work when using NordVPN.

Normally you'd want to take those to get a decent nights sleep, which will help recovery a lot.