It's a strange diagram but shows what you have to know. If you ever seen different keyed m.2 cards, you should understand this. The important thing is the location of the keys, the notch. All m.2 cards has an 'up' and 'down' side, it shows only the 'up' side. You have to look inside the receptor to see the pins, that's why it shows both sides, it's not possible to see one side only on the receptor as they are in a plastic casing. Usually you can't see the pins on the mobo, only the key.

You can see a similar diagram on wikipedia, both sides of receptor, top side of card:

The offset you were writing about doesn't matter, it actually helps. You can't accidentally insert the card upside down. The location of notches also help with this, as not all possible notches used yet, but in the future it could change.

These connectors are really small. The receptor is similar how sodimm connector works, but smaller. Are you also afraid about inserting a ram in an laptop? It's basically the same.

Read more about the connector in wikipedia, I'm really happy this slowly replaces sata, msata, mpcie and even pcie in current pcs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2

What really stood out to ESET researchers was the embedded driver signed by Microsoft. According to its signature, it was developed by a Chinese company named Hubei Dunwang Network Technology.

[...] according to our research, this software was advertised as an internet café security solution aimed at Chinese-speaking individuals. It purports to improve the web browsing experience by blocking ads and malicious websites, but the reality is quite different — it leverages its browser traffic interception and filtering capabilities to display game-related ads. It also sends some information about the computer to the company’s server, most likely to gather installation statistics

Sounds like MS was fooled some way, they don't check Chinese only software that carefully? Historically ms had good relations with the Chinese state (E.g. Windows 10 China Government Edition) It sounds like this was targeted to Chinese users.

They don't know how it slipped through, or they don't want to tell us...

I don't know what needs to be discussed. Everyone owns their code, every project has some kind of hierarchy. Chromium is a project started by google, so Alphabet Inc. has a final word in any decisions. Similarly Linus Torvalds has a final say in Linux kernel development, and Lennart Poettering in systemd. That's how it always worked, and I think it's good enough.

What you can do is, you can hard fork a project, than you can have a final say there. This is actually how chromium's engine started: its Blink engine is the fork of Apple's webkit engine which is again a fork of Kde's khtml engine.

Ungoogled chromium is not a hard fork it's just a list of patches: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium They can override google's decisions this way, but the more thing they patch the more thing they have to maintain, more work, and more things can break with each update. Afaik it's similar how all other chromium based browsers work.

Everyone said this for years now. If you care about the freedom of internet (caring about your privacy is secondary) you shouldn't use chromium based browsers. Stop using it now.

Your example with the buses is wrong. There is a standard called GTFS and public transport companies publish their fleet status and timetable according to this standard, Google just reads and displays this data. Nowadays you should see the same data in the official apps and gmaps. There are even foss solutions displaying the same thing like transportr.app

You can browse this data worldwide on https://www.transit.land

Ublock Origin is not an option? It automatically updates blocklists, and can block ads served from the same domain as content, where hosts based blockers can't help.

Afaik dns based blockers like pihole are useful for locked down systems (iphones, smart tvs, consoles, not rooted android phones) where you don't have access to other ways of blocking ads.

There is an official foss telegram client in the main f-droid repo. Packages on fdroid are built from source by the fdroid build server, not developers uploading their apks like on play store.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.telegram.messenger/

There is a really small chance it's compromised and could got unnoticed in the source code.

Check what is in the desktop file first. If the icon name is misspelled there, it won't work with any icon pack ever.

I know how this works because the same happened to me with Thunderbird, at some release they changed the icon name in the desktop file, but it wasn't updated in my icon packs, I expect something similar here as well. Without checking this you can't be sure who's fault is this, but I guess the app's developers or maintainers messed up their desktop file some way.

Wow, it's strange. I don't have a yellow but installed countless m.2 and pcie devices in countless computers, and never seen such a limitation. Ram and cpu compatibility lists are a thing on mobo websites, but pcie? Is this some ARM thing?

It's a 10" tablet, how big is your pocket?

My bigger concern checking its specs is this:

Storage: 64 GB eMMC Flash, 64 GB

Unlike ram, ssds die after some use. So the lifespan of this device depends on this SD card, eMMC is basically a soldered SD card, a bad quality ssd. I have 3 old tablets with dead eMMC, they are otherwise perfectly fine devices, but unusable for anything

I'm not too familiar with the surface lineup, but iirc there are higher end devices with replaceable ssds. I think soldered ram is not a big deal in this form factor if it's enough for the expected use case, but a soldered hard drive lowers the lifespan of your device

Every legend is nonsense, they are just not (yet) debunked. I like in stories like this, that the origin can be traced, as it's only several hundred years old. You can imagine that all thousand years old stories of gods and other supernatural beings had a similar origin, but the context was lost. It's a small glimpse into how human imagination works, how legends evolve

Usually an ~~Any~~ app that knows traffic situation, knows it from your (and other users) location, so it obviously doesn't know about traffic.

Edit: Magic Earth gets this data from a third party: https://lemm.ee/comment/1993667

In openstreetmap it's not recommended to map temporary things, and the map only updates once a month in OrganicMaps, so that's also expected.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Don't_map_temporary_events_and_temporary_features

Play Store is just one part of the bigger problem: Google Play Services aka GMS. Unfortunately most proprietary apps cannot run without this, but here comes the solution: microG: "A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries."

More info: https://microg.org/

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