I'm also on Connect. Despite the fact that developer occasionally is a bit slow, I found nothing better. It was annoying to be locked out of my main server when they silently upgraded to 0.19 and Connect dev did not add support for it for several weeks.
Works really well if you only have one user. But my car, unfortunately, has wireless apple car play, but only wired Android auto. Apple device always gets priority and creates issues for aa wireless a lot.
My problem with appimage is that they never work. Every time I tried one, best case scenario it crashed with a random error message. All attempts to fix them were damn near impossible to debug.
It honestly felt like they were not universal enough and still relied on certain libraries being available on OS. Hopefully I'm wrong because that would completely defeat their purpose. I stopped wasting time on them after Plex and VLC both failed to run reliably and switched to flatpak that "just works" 100% of the time.
To be honest most of the time I look for an rpm anyway. Flatpaks are always a last resort. I'm on OpenSuse Tumbleweed.
The power supplies feeding these are typically .5A at 5v so they can't draw more than ~2.5w. Is that really enough to generate sufficient heat to start a fire? Maybe if they are wrapped around something incredibly flammable?
I have pixel 7 pro. Total piece of shit. Spam blocking is nice and camera is great but everything else sucks. I'm definitely upgrading to oneplus as soon as 12 comes out now that they brought back wireless charging.
I think the point is all these features are supported by RCS. Open standard that would be trivial for Apple to implement. They choose not to because they are greedy cunts. They are fully aware that this causes bullying and inability of tech illiterate to communicate with their friends/family.
Nobody older than 13 cares about color of text messages and most people recognize convenience of a single app for all messaging needs. This is an issue that Apple could trivially make disappear overnight if they weren't cunts.
Public registration has nothing to do with federation. My instance required admin approval for all new registrations. Illegal content is much more likely to come through federation than from inside.
IMHO, the few reasons to host your own instance largely disappeared with 0.19 and the risks were never worth the rewards to run a tiny instance. Things are likely to continue improving with future releases. Which is why sdf.org became my main.
I agree with you, but I just wish you threw in a few notable examples for people that might stumble on this comment and not believe it or just not be aware of it.
I'll throw in two pieces of shit he famously fucked: Gulliani and Cohen.
Printing in Linux has mostly been plug and play for years now. I just gave it the IP of my printer and it automagically set everything up. Scanning was a bit of a bitch.
CUPS is dated for sure, but most modern OSes (OpenSuse here) have wrappers around it to make the setup pretty straightforward.
I recently saw one in the wild and it's even uglier in person than it was in pictures. For a second I thought someone DIYed that nasty looking car; nope, actual designers puked that thing out.
It isn't legal (in US) and cops do occasionally set up decibel traps, especially in places frequently visited by motorcyclists, but I completely agree with you. Quiet nights outside of city feel strange now.
Places like Los Angeles are mostly SFH. Most areas are already loud as fuck from road noise, proximity to airports, etc. Nobody will notice a few drones.
If it becomes popular in LA, that's pretty much definition of mainstream.
Their pre-orders are always full and keep growing. Sure looks like they are doing very well.
I wonder if they are even considering offering an option with RISC architecture. I doubt RISC-V is coming any time soon, but SnapDragon Elite looks amazing even though it's ARM. Would love to get RISC based laptop from a manufacturer like Framework that doesn't lock it to specific OS unlike Apple or Microsoft.
Is there a status page for sdf.org services somewhere that actually gets updated? Or at least release/update log?
Incredibly annoying to just lose access to services without any notifications.
Is anyone from sdf IT team even here? Do you guys need help? I'd be happy to offer my time/expertise.