Kevin @ kmacmartin @lemmy.ca

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I run two multimonitor systems with different DPIs and 2.5gbe and they both run great. What issues are you hitting?

Because they only offer open source apps they build themselves

You can also use weechat as a bouncer, and it works even better with its own clients which can sync chat history rather than receiving it in a dump. The android client is fantastic in that respect.

The plugin ecosystem is also great. I have a plugin that pushes notifications for PMs and mentions to my gotify server, alerting me on my phone without having to drain its batteries staying connected.

I'm curious what about Graphene you think would prevent certain demographics from using it as a daily driver? There are pretty well no downsides to using it compared to a first party ROM aside from not having certain things like Google Assistant baked in. It has automatic updates, you get the play store and services if you want them, it even has android auto. It's also the most rock solid android experience I've had since I switched from iOS in 2012 or so.

Obviously a stereotypical grandparent would need someone who knows computers to do the initial install and setup, but after that it's pretty well just set and forget.

Signal started out as textsecure, an sms/mms app that encrypted your text messages. It quietly started sending messages over its server at one point after an update, but before that sms is what it was about.

Is it possible she has variable refresh/gsync/freesync support and that it's enabled? That turned out to be the cause of the flickering I was seeing.

The Lenovo Yoga 6 works surprisingly well. I got it to replace a surface book for my daughter and wasn't really sure what parts of the hardware would be supported, but literally everything I tested works (the only thing I haven't tried is the fingerprint reader) and the included stylus is amazing in krita as well as just generally. The tablet mode works well, and tent mode is more convenient when it's on a desk (screen rotation requires the iio-sensor-proxy package). Battery life is decent; it gets around 6-7 hours with moderate use. I'd recommend using it with KDE.

https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/p/laptops/yoga/yoga-2-in-1-series/yoga-6-gen-8-(13-inch-amd)/len101y0027

You should put your foot down and tell them it's all about free software while they're under your roof; they can push open source once they're 18 and have their own place.

Hah, I feel like they might not approve of a Microsoft laptop? I could be wrong though :)

I got my daughter a surface book with Archlinux on it when she turned four. She'd previously been using an ipad so I wanted something that had a touchscreen, and I installed KDE as the desktop. She learned how to use it extremely quickly, and has even started in on the commandline now that she's 5 and knows how to read. GCompris is great too.

Me and my wife haven't bothered with parental controls and instead just keep an eye on her usage, but I agree with other commenters that controlling things at the router level seems like a better bet.

Yeah, I'm on plasma 6, and interesting that they call it experimental. The setting is available by default in the display settings with no warning or anything. Either way, it works perfectly- hopefully kubuntu updates to 6 soon because it's so much better than 5 :)

HDR has been working great for me in KDE. I've been using mpv for HDR videos, and games with HDR work great. KDE has an SDR vibrancy setting when HDR is enabled that lets you decide how bright and colorful you want SDR content (turn it up enough and it looks like HDR to me), I'm not sure if that's how auto HDR works.

From what I understand, the updated firmware image has passed all the tests and will be included in an upcoming release. My system has been rock solid for a few weeks now with it running, but if you aren't up to dropping the blob in yourself it sounds like you'll have it officially soon (assuming you run a distro that keeps those up to date).

Input Leap is a Synergy fork with mostly working compatibility for Gnome Wayland, and Waynergy works well as a client on sway (and possibly kde?)

I was seeing those issues on my 7840u, but they were completely resolved with the testing firmware for phoenix here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/8044

In X11 it's server side, and in gnome wayland it's of course client side, but they look exactly the same as the SSD ones. I doubt they'll change that between the current beta and the 3.x release.

That's pretty much where I'm at too, and I find it easier to get to the file(s) I want to send through the cli. No judgement to anyone who prefers the gui though!

As far as I know the relay just NAT busts, after that it's encrypted p2p.

The main advantages for me are:

1. You don't need to swap ssh keys, which makes it great for setting up new systems I haven't connected to everything else yet (or don't plan to)
2. It's cross platform
3. The devices don't need to be on the same network (it NAT busts too)

Termux is awesome! I use it for a bunch of things:

• sshing into servers and my home when I'm out and about
• using croc to transfer files
• making videos I'm going to send people smaller with ffmpeg
• downloading stuff with yt-dlp
• giving myself access to the sandbox + /sdcard from other computers by running an ssh server
• scripting phone stuff (like taking photos) with the api
• running weechat locally, which I can then connect to with weechat android
• using vim
• probably a bunch of other things I'm forgetting