cyberwolfie @ cyberwolfie @lemmy.ml

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What you describe happened in Munich, at least. This is in another state.

Wow, thanks a lot for this thorough answer. I see I need to dust off the old employment contract and see what it says - I've had an assumption that any ownership my previous employer has pertains only to any discovery that could be commercialized through patents and spin-offs - this is not that. This work is academic research, and I was required to make any publication openly accessible (with CC-licenses) due to how the work was funded, and this code base contains all the analysis tools that underpin these publications.

The idea that a license added would only apply to code added after the license change is very funny.

I suppose it makes sense if it originally had a license, and you then change the license to be less permissive.

What is more difficult is that earlier commits won’t have that license explicitly unless you rewrite git history to make that happen (which is possible but tedious).

I will probably not do that, but I guess it factors into my second question: That I in that case should make sure to include it in all branches (which are not treated as branches in the common sense, but rather as forks within the repo - they will never be merged to the main branch).

check your contract, you might not own the code and your organization may have a process to determine how to license something.

Good point. I will need to double check the contract, but I believe the ownership restriction has more to do with patents and commercialization. All our output was in general meant to be made public.

Thanks for your answer.

1. The license change won’t apply retroactively - I am not sure theres a legal way to retroactively change licenses and terms? I am recalling back to the Unity runtime fee, which they wanted to apply retroactively, but there was a lot of noise/discussion on whether it was legal to even do this.

OK, in that case it may not even make much sense to add a license. There will be no added code to this repo in the future, so there will nothing the new license would apply to.

2. Once you have main released version of the repo that contains the license you want to use going forward, any branches from that point should contain license by default? Since its just a file in the main branch.

Yes, you kind of answered this in question 1. Since it is not retroactively applied, it won't apply to the stale branches that only exist as snapshots of the code.

3. Since you are using it commercially, and want to change the license for future versions, you will absolutely want to discuss this with whatever entity is using it. You could choose a license they refuse to accept, and end up not being able to use any future releases. My employer will not use copy-left style licenses for example.

Good point. This is not included in any software that is distributed, it is only a smaller part of an internal codebase used for data analysis. Does that not change things? But to be on the safe side, it would probably make sense to make it as permissive as possible to avoid any issues here. But then again, if it is not applied retroactively then nothing of the code used will be subject to any license. But good thing to remember for the future.

And I just discovered this some weeks ago. The "woah there, pardner!" is so cringeworthy.

My setup as well, and happy with that.

What flaws are you referring to? I'm perfectly happy with my FP4. Just wondering what flaws I should be annoyed about.

Hm, yeah, I am connected on 5 GHz on all my devices and it is working fine. My main VLAN runs a combination of 2.4+5 GHz.

I have some light bulbs that use Zigbee which would be the only other things running on 2.4 GHz in my home. Could it be a source of congestion, and if so, why did this not happen with the previous computer?

I checked out WiFi Analyzer. What exactly would I be looking for here?

Are there any types you could recommend? I managed to dig up one among some older stuff (my guess is that it is maybe 5-7 years old), but it performed significantly worse. It is a small dongle (like a USB Receiver) and I am sure it was quite cheap.

It's a Minisforum UM690S. Currently I've turned off WiFi, and there are no other devices nearby with Bluetooth turned on. I have a laptop and phone nearby that are on WiFi.

I just tried to have a gaming session a bit closer to where I would typically sit. It would sometimes work flawlessly for a long time, but then it would enter a period of lag and missed button presses. I can't think of whether there would've been anything that started interfering at the times it started lagging. The keyboard can be pretty unresponsive very close to the computer as well. This keyboard has worked perfectly with another mini-PC at my desired distance that this computer meant to replace.

I'd like to keep it neat without anything sticking out and being visible from the cupboard. None of these devices had any issue with my previous computer that was placed in the exact same manner, so I imagine it must be possible to get it working here. But could it be that the network card is simply trash and can't output any stronger? In that case the same kind of USB BT adapter could simply be placed in the cupboard. I think that would be an acceptable backup solution if I can't resolve it with existing hardware.

EDIT: I should add, keeping the door open does not improve anything. The cupboard is wooden.

Konsole. Never had the need to explore alternatives.

I've already done that after having had very slow speeds in a room far away from the WiFi hotspot. But another thing I've noticed is that the TxPower-setting is very low (3 dBm), which I believe was the real culprit for the slow speeds. I think the max allowed value of this is 20 (according to a line in the dmesg output), so I've been wondering if I could just change this to a higher value. It is now placed close to the router, so I am thinking of connecting it by cable (I just don't have one at the moment) - maybe that could solve my other problem as well.

This is yet another problem, but do you know if the TxPower-setting could affect the Bluetooth-capabilities? I use a keyboard connected by Bluetooth. When I run the Dolphin Emulator, where I've set it to emulate a Bluetooth-adapter and search continuously for my Wii-remotes, it seems to interfere with the keyboard-signals.

• I'm using FitoTrack to keep track of running, biking, hiking and walking with GPS-data.
• I have a Xiaomi Mi Band 7 that's set up with Gadgetbridge to keep track of especially heart rate and roughly sleep habits (though not very accurate).
• I use Loop Habit Tracker for various habits I want to keep, not only related to health.
• openScale to keep track of weight data with my Xiaomi Mi Body Composition Scale 2. I think this can use GadgetBridge as well, but openScale works like I want, so I have not bothered trying it out.

For the most part, I try to set up automatic data exports from these apps that is synced with my Nextcloud server, and my plan is to eventually develop something of a dashboard that allows me to easily view historical data from all these sources, but as of now it more a backup solution.

Cheers, that's pretty cool! I've looked into scrcpy before, but never got around to testing it. The way you present it is super easy, so I will definitely give this a shot!

Regarding my problem, it seems it wasn't as fixed as I thought :p The connection issue described in the original post still comes once in a while, not sure what triggers it, but it usually resolves if I ping the device and run iptraf to monitor the traffic. Probably superstitious, seems weird to me that it should fix it. It also happened once between my laptop and my new machine, so it was not isolated to the phone after all.

You can set exceptions per site in LibreWolf. Would that solve your issue?

Ah, then there could be a different issue with my banking app. Maybe there's a hope I can solve it then. I just assumed it the custom ROM that was the issue. Then again, maybe they just don't bother letting me know the reason.... :)

I'll look closer into this when I'm back at the computer in about an hour. In the post on the KDE forum, they seem to get an error complaining about the version though, while in my case they don't show up at all when I attempt to pair. I've checked the things listed on the KDE Connect wiki, but those checks pass.

EDIT: UDP discovery was turned off on my phone, and turning it on allowed connection. All is good now!

Hehe yeah, this persisted over several days and through several reboots and on two different phones. No clue what changed as I understood iptraf to simply help me diagnose. But a run directly before and after running iptraf for the first time had different results, and now I am reproducing it every time.