So if someone is stupid, they deserve to be tricked by chatgpt. Got it.

Yeah, I use fmd. It works.

Oh, no, I agree with you. I’m also gen x, first computer was a Timex Sinclair.

All the things, Facebook, LinkedIn, everything, they aren’t the problem, it’s the greed and current function of commerce that ruins it all.

LinkedIn was just very obviously taken over by douchbags almost as soon as it was launched.

Fair enough.

Not Europe, but the non-western world. Ask anyone from Brazil or the Philippines.

it’s not like sD devs forced them to adopt their option

It kind of is, though. You dont typically select your preboot environment, it’s selected for you.

You have already identified the problem in the logs.

You have a fake drive with firmware that says 1.8tb but are actually much lower.

access beyond end of device

This means an inode is mapped to a non-existing sector. Get your money back, if you still can.

Yes, I agree. We might not have rock-solid solutions, but less google is better.

I keep a oneplus 6t just to test Linux phone options.

so it was known to Google but not to me

Right, but you can assume google knows the imei and other hardware details, so they can probably link you to your identity on other platforms.

There is also the baseband issue. It is currently assumed that manufacturers could have access to snoop your LTE/5g and WiFi traffic, because the software running most phone baseband units is closed and not audited.

So you are probably private, but if you really want a phone with no Big Brother, you should get one from Pine64 or Jolla.

Um… You’re aware that your pixel was known to google before you graphened it?

I mean, LinkedIn was never really any good.

Yeah, but things like human readable logs are almost all gone because of journalctl changes that went into the systemd ecosystem without anyone really running by folks who look at logs everyday.

It’s not the functionality of systemd I don’t like, it’s the Poettering way of just making changes to stuff without bothering to learn how any of the rest of us professionally use things.

Despite the popular fantasy, the rich and powerful are not stupid.

Hubris is what the rich and powerful suffer from, not stupidity. And hubris makes the same blind decisions as stupidity.

In tempus, the setting is called “continuous play”. In feishin, it’s called “auto-dj”. Both settings are turned on by default, so you shouldn’t have to do anything.

Scrobbling helps because every played track goes into played history, and play counts help dynamic song selection more and more over time.

I don’t use the ratings, but I’ll “heart” songs I like.

I scrobble my playing from navidrome using listenbrainz and tell my two clients Tempus and Feishin to use the scrobbled data to build dynamic playlists. If I start with a particular song or album, the mix following that is usually kept in the same mood, only strays into weird stuff once in a while, but no more that YouTube Music used to.

Yeah, but updates only until the end of 2026, so no really a good option.

Plus, it’s still mostly a list of Pixel phones.

I’m not seeing much of a difference between the two, it’s basically the same list.

Mir was canonical’s own fault for trying to pull a (blatantly obvious) licensing move where Mir would have been nearly impossible to compete with in a future Ubuntu.

And that’s setting aside the absolutely insane statements canonical’s Mir team were making about Wayland at the time.

When you fumble something so badly that Intel stops supporting your efforts on it in protest, you messed up.

Analog, yes, no problem. We had 915MHz portable phones that worked fine. Digital is another matter altogether, and encrypted is a licensing mess.

Lora has like 12k max bandwidth, much less in real environments. Voice works in asymmetric transmission (like walkie talkies), but it’s not useful in any meaningful way over unlicensed airwaves.