[-] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 18 hours ago

When billionaires complain about how windmills "ruin the view" but then are quiet about oil rigs, you can tell that it's not about the view.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 19 hours ago

That's really astute, I've never seen that comparison drawn so directly. It's the same situation with the people who claim that AI "democratizes" art by allowing someone to have a "work" of art without putting in the work of creating which is what makes a work a thing to be desired in the first place.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 19 hours ago

Compared to Windows. To be clear I'm just basing that on vibes, and I haven't done any 1:1 testing, but it's absolutely not any worse than Windows with everything I've tried. But also, even if it was slightly worse, the benefit of almost never needing a mouse/keyboard still would make it worth it.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 14 points 1 day ago

Yep well said. My hope is that Google's recent changes will encourage some activity into other projects or (even better) a Linux Phone OS.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago

Honestly, I like Bazzite because it's very controller and gaming friendly and you won't be disappointed with it. That said, for a daily driver workstation computer you might want to try Fedora Kinoite which is very similar but focused towards desktop use.

Also it doesn't hurt to try both as I said they're very similar! Would love to hear a follow up on your experience.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 44 points 1 day ago

I've been trying out Bazzite with an Nvidia GPU and performance is slightly better but the overall experience is significantly improved over windows.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

That's actually interesting because Google's MVNO is on T-Mobile and Google was pushing hard for RCS.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 2 days ago

Oh my goodness automatic theme transitions finally!

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

Oh interesting I read "atomic" and assumed it meant small. As in small updates to an immutable system.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago

It's actually slightly less risk especially for someone's PC you won't be around 100% of the time to help fix. Immutable just means the system files can't be edited.

The "atomic" part means it gets frequent (daily, if desired) updates but you can change in the settings to only check monthly so it doesn't feel crazy.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 3 days ago

I support this and would suggest Fedora Kinoite which is Fedora's immutable version with KDE Plasma and is very very hard to meaningfully break.

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/c/fuckai has two dozen mods but ironically only time I've ever seen them take action on anyone was when they removed my post asking for recs for a community with more active moderation (lol)

I'd like to discuss generative AI from a highly skeptical perspective but with higher standards of quality and without all the mouth-frothy raging and bad memes of /c/fuckai.

Does anywhere else like that exist on the fediverse? I don't care if it's small/underutilized. And no I'm not interested in creating it myself.

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I'm trying out LineageOS Android TV for Raspberry Pi 5. There is an option for HDMI-CEC in the menus, but nothing I do can get it working.

I know it's not the Pi, my TV, or my cables because CEC worked immediately with LibreELEC.

The Pi will go into sleep mode when the TV shuts off (even when the setting for that is disabled) so I can tell that something is being communicated. But I don't seem to have any control over it.

Does anyone have any advice for troubleshooting? I've tried power cycling the TV and Pi, unplugging cables, etc.

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I tried Kodi with Libelec but it's still so jank. The Plex app is broken, there is no invidious or YouTube app I found that works. And sometimes it just "thinks" forever and I need to get up and unplug it.

I saw that Plasma Bigscreen was revived and it looks promising, but they don't have a release yet.

Are there any other options?

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Will LineageOS, Graphene and /e/OS be affected by Google's changes to prevent sideloading? Is UbuntuTouch or Sailfish OS promising in the long term?

I understand that right now we are in a bad place, but in your opinion, what OS do you think people who care about freedom should rally around?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Graber

In 2015, Graber began working as a software engineer for SkuChain in Mountain View, California. She then worked in a factory in Moses Lake, Washington, where she soldered bitcoin mining equipment. In 2016, she began working as a junior developer for the Zcash cryptocurrency.

So lately I have been trying to figure out why people are calling BlueSky decentralized and I noticed that fun fact. It made me realize how cryptocurrencies are something else that was often technically "decentralized" but in reality controlled by a single person or group.

In case it's also not known, Jack Dorsey who helped found BlueSky is a big cryptocurrency booster.

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Yes I know I'm behind everyone else!

First the away team spends a long time debating if they should proceed or... step outside for five seconds to call the ship. They ultimately decide that stepping outside for five seconds is not feasible.

But then literally one minute later Ensign Gamble is somehow beamed up. Presumably they must have called the ship to do this? Did they just... leave out the part about the (now obvious and real) danger? Was there a scene where Pike said "ok yeah his eyes are gone but you can keep going"?

Then later in the episode the away team spends a long time talking about trust and friendship while debating if they should walk on an invisible walkway instead of just like, I don't know, tapping it lightly with their toe or throwing a pebble on it first?

The Ensign Gamble B-plot was good and freaky and featured some great acting by everyone involved. But the A plot felt like it was vibe-scripted! I love SNW but come on.

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