[-] may_pretender@feddit.ro 7 points 1 year ago

There seems to be a general consesnus that feddiverse users don't want anything to do with meta and that instances will defederate with threads. I'm curious if the majority will follow this trend to avoid yet another EEE, or if there will be some exceptions. I bet meta will be open to pay good money to instance admins for "colaboration" if the instance is big enough.

[-] may_pretender@feddit.ro 4 points 1 year ago

there's a guy on youtube who specialises in apple repairs. maybe you could send an email to ask. I also think i saw him doing exactly what you're planning in one of his videos. maybe check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w

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I'm reposting this here hoping that some of you have some cool ideas to share. My main intention is to make something solar powered, but I'm really open to anything! Inspire me please!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by may_pretender@feddit.ro to c/linux@lemmy.ml

edit: here is the link so it's more easily accessible

[-] may_pretender@feddit.ro 3 points 1 year ago

Haha, this unfortunately falls way out of my area of expertise :)

[-] may_pretender@feddit.ro 3 points 1 year ago

Interesting ideas! I'm don't do mobile dev either, but regarding your first point, I think the idea is very cool, but taking that direction would be very difficult. Achieving what you suggest the easy way is through a mobile app. The problem is that the if we're looking at older phones that are not supported anymore, they aren't secure, so we could run into problems there. The second option you suggested, which is a single purpose ROM seems very cool, but it also seems very daunting, as it is hardware specific from my understanding.

I'm not familiar with the animal prosthetic field too much, but could be an idea.

thank you, and please share more ideas if you can :)

[-] may_pretender@feddit.ro 2 points 1 year ago

this could be interesting. unfortunately I am not at all familiar with composting so don't understand why this would be useful. could you please explain why temperature monitoring is important for composting, or direct me to somewhere I could read more for myself? I want to learn, thanks :)

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Hi! I'll be participating in a hackathon next month in the hardware division. I was thinking of making something sollarpunk inspired. I'm posting this to ask for inspiration.

What is some of technology (esp. hardware) that you'd like to see implemented? What is a problem that you'd want solved that could have a potential hardware solution?

I know this is very vague, but I'm curious if anyone has some ideas to share :)

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Basically the title.

I'm interested in any opportunity to inprove the way I navigate the internet. What I've been for a few years now is DDG, which works fine. Not great, not amazing, just fine. And that's ok considering how they opperate.

I just heard about kagi and was really cosidering it. Makes sense as a business model (pay so we don't have to sell you data), seems privacy respecting, and claims to strive for best search results in the market. Some test searches from the trial seem promising.

If you've used it for any amount of time, what has your experience been with it? What plan are you using? What are you mostly searching for?

Even you haven't used it, any thoughts / opinions are welcome.

[-] may_pretender@feddit.ro 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow. HIGHLY impressed. I'll save this. expect me to ping you with questions when I gather the courage to make one of these!

edit: or rather you could share the parts used here :)

[-] may_pretender@feddit.ro 2 points 1 year ago

this is amazing. is it custom built or can be bought somewhere?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by may_pretender@feddit.ro to c/neovim@sopuli.xyz

So, I've been a Neovim user for a few years now. I started as most of you (I assume) with vim, and just kept on using and expanding that config file over the years.

I only recently realized there's quite a split between the Vim and Neovim plugins and that the Neovim community is pushing Lua as a better development platform. From what I can see, some users are switching their configs from Vimscript to Lua. To be honest all I know about Lua is that it means moon in Portuguese...

Should I too? What would the advantages be? What would the disadvantages be? For those who did switch, why did you switch and what was your experience? For those who didn't why did you not?

p.s. review (roast) my dotfiles

edit: thank you all for your input! I will consider slowly switching to lua by modifying only some parts of the config as some of you suggested.

[-] may_pretender@feddit.ro 2 points 1 year ago

very interesting. I honestly never considered going without microG. I wonder if it's viable for my usecase.

[-] may_pretender@feddit.ro 2 points 1 year ago

It's very interesting that OP doesn't use microG. How do you deal with no notifications? Do you use apps with custom (non-google) notification support? What are the disadvantages?

Here's a list of apps I use that are not on OP's list:

Compared to OP, I do use MicroG with LineageOS. I also use quite a few closed source apps (banking apps, uber-like, car/bike sharing, some local apps for public transport, chatting apps, navigation, etc) but I do try my best to avoid them if I can. From time to time I log into Facebook / Instagram or use Google Maps in the browser, but don't have the apps installed.

[-] may_pretender@feddit.ro 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nope. Checked it out now and seems to work very well! Thank you @Heine!

[-] may_pretender@feddit.ro 3 points 1 year ago

doesn't seem open source but aurora store reports way less tracking compared to the adobe one, so this might be an option. thanks!

[-] may_pretender@feddit.ro 5 points 1 year ago

I'm actually trying to avoid google, but thanks for the recc!!

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I'm looking for a document scanning app. I currently have OpenScan installed, but I feel like the only usable setting is the default one which only takes a picture and allows you to crop it.

I'm looking for something closer in processing to adobe scan to pdf, so the end pdf looks more "scan like".

Is there such an app? What are guys using?

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