HDBaseT is cool, except in my experience the transmit/receive units get WAY hotter than I think make any sense. We used then at my last job for AV solutions, both 'high end' Crestron units and cheap Amazon.com randos - they all got HOT to the touch!
I'm taking an online based college that makes heavy use of some heavier apps like web based virtual machines that function as 'lab environments' for development assignments. These refuse to function unless I'm in chromium of some kind. Same with the online based proctoring tools the school uses when you take tests n stuff - chrome is the only browser that can be used, and I have to specifically use a windows device 🤢
Always fun to see what I've been "missing out on" in the chrome experience, when I'm forced to use it. Man, the Firefox UX is a dream compared to chrome!
Really hoping on that FOSS browser that's on the horizon! Ladybird, I think it's called? Hopefully it won't be shit! 🤞
Nah as much as i love doing stuff via terminal, I am extra paranoid specifically about writing to the wrong device and losing data; I prefer as many confirmations as possible that I'm writing to the correct drive, and graphical installers tend to give me just a few more reassurances. A few examples would be stuff like
a graphical representation of partitions (the general layout of a drive tends to offer an easy 'fingerprint' in my mind; like the pattern of partitions help me confirm I'm looking at, say, a Debian install USB compared to a single-partition general purpose storage disk)
icons for different types of devices, like an SD card, USB, or hard disk icon
confirmation dialogues summarizing what device is targeted, and what all will be performed
I'm also the kind of person who stares at a written email worrying about every last nuance of my phrasing, so 🤷♂️😂 definitely a me problem, I think!
Spacebar.chat (or github here) is meant to be a drop-in replacement with support for discord bots, but it has been super alpha the few times I've tried it. Haven't checked in for a few months though!
(Edit: yeah I just checked and spacebar is still very much a work in progress. Looks extremely promising though!! It seems there are devs posting updates on the main spacebar instance, which is cool)
Rocket.chat also has a self hostable option, but I don't recall that one being super great either.
This 100%. Calling is also super iffy in my experience (element / schildichat), and group calls are a non-starter, since it outsources them to a separate service, jitsi, embedded inside the element client.
I immediately went to settings and, I guess at some point I'd already given these swine my phone number? Went to remove it and I've greeted by this wonderful toast message=
God I wish something was fully suitable as an easy discord replacement 😭 spacebar seems rad if it wasn't super alpha. And as cool as element is, it just doesn't have the same low bar to entry that discord has (not to mention group calls are jank as hell, when they work, and there's no screen share yet tragically)....
Balenaetcher has, for me at least, failed to write to USBs for the last 3 years or so that I've tried to use it - meanwhile random iso writers from flatpak have been more reliable for me. Very obnoxious that so many iso related sites recommend it. Rufus kicks tons of ass, if for whatever reason you're still on windows.
Also on most distros I've tried, the disk utility has some sort of right click or context menu that gets you a 'restore disk image' button that works great as well.
Edit= I used Popsicle USB writer from flatpak on steam deck with no issue today! Made by system76 (makers of popOS) and found on flatpak. It is absolutely no frills, but works well enough to write an SD card image for a raspberry pi! 🙂
Recommend checking them out! Sorry, typo'd on my comment - the brand name is Boox!
I have hers all loaded up with a FOSS reader, f-droid (droid-ify), Nextcloud, Element messenger... The only thing I haven't put time into is custom launcher stuff - but the native launcher isn't half bad, if you ignore their attempts to coax you into their cloud subscription crap!
My partner has a 'Boox' that runs android, complete with apk side loading its basically an android tablet! Super cool so far - there's even a model with a color screen!
I slapped the Nextcloud app on there and she has been syncing her books between her phone and the Boox!
Edit= the brand name is called Boox! Autocorrect makes a fool of me yet again
...in 2003, [bismuth] was discovered to be extremely weakly radioactive. The metal's only primordial isotope, bismuth-209, undergoes alpha decay with a half-life about a billion times the estimated age of the universe.
Read into his Wikipedia a bit, never heard of the guy. Seems he's a cofounder of Netscape? And ning.com, which I'd never heard of. Its wiki page describes it as
a free-form platform for the development and hosting of open-source "social applications"
Sounds cool at a surface level, kinda like what we have here! But then I read on...
February 2018, Ning launched a monetization platform, enabling users to earn an income from their social websites
Oh... And sure enough, I load up ning.com itself and behold=
Best one.