Oh, the name Longhorn unlocked some memories just now…

User replaceable batteries are a part of the new battery directive and will be in force from sometime in 2027 if I recall correctly.

Good to see - especially in government this is needed. In my team at work we are taking some mouse steps to reduce our Microsoft-dependence, but the enterprise at large is really deep into it all, and I learned today that there are some more systems being integrated soon, Purview and Defender being two of them. It will be really difficult getting out of this.

I have challenged my boss on what our strategy is to manage the business risk that a total lock-in of a single American company presents, given the geopolitical tensions, but I have yet to recieve a reply. My guess is that if we suffer along with everyone else that chooses similarly, no one’s head will roll because it is what everyone else is doing. Nevermind us going bankrupt, that’s a small price to pay to avoid getting any blame. Like back in the day when you wouldn’t get fired for choosing IBM.

Hosted on Jellyfin, Feishin on laptop and Finamp on mobile.

I am perfectly happy with Konsole, and sleep well despite perhaps missing out on features I don’t know about.

I bought a kettle with some WiFi features, but never planned to put it on my network as it works without it. Or was supposed to, at least. The thermostat was erratic and it needed a firmware update to fix it, only installable via this WiFi-connection. I set up a temporary VLAN just for the update, and disabled the VLAN right after. Then I took a shower.

I find it odd that one of its core features worked so poorly out of the box. And it’s not like it was a way to trick me into connecting it either, as I first got a replacement part because they didn’t know what the issue was.

Genuine question: is no banking app access really a showstopper, if that is the only thing missing? My bank app does not work on CalyxOS, but it has turned out to be no problem at all since I always use my laptop for serious banking tasks anyway. Are browser based bank apps starting to be phased out forcing people to use mobile apps? Is it just a preference?

For me, the lack of certain phone features has been the showstopper. I still need my phone to be a phone. So postmarketOS is not going to work on my phone. I recently learned that Ubuntu Touch supposedly has full support for my device, including phone stuff, and I want to test it out, but I am trying to get a cheap second-hand version of the device to test.

And it has an Android fork (FreeTube Android), and can have playlists, subscriptions etc. synced across devices with Syncthing. It does sometimes result in sync conflicts though, but if you reload it before using it on a device, you will be fine. Most sync conflicts I get are for history, and that’s fine by me to lose some history.

WE WOULDNT BE BLOCKING ADS IF YOU REGULATED ADVERTISERS LIKE YOU ARE TRYING TO REGULATE VIEWERS.

I still would.

I use it consistently with few issues. Once in a while, usually on Thursdays (when it seems YT rolls out changes), something breaks, but the devs are quick to fix it. The last issue I experienced was when YT transitioned to SABR, and it was out for a day or two before they had things working again. I am at least perfectly capable of going without for a day once every two months.

It’s also one of the projects I’ve used to learn more about how fixes are worked on in FOSS. I will typically run nightly builds also - I find it pretty cool to follow an issue and once they push a fix I can instantly grab that fresh build without waiting for it to be packaged.

Not sure if you are joking or not, but I’m pretty sure that only shows a default starting position of the “gauge”, and not the rating it has received so far. It’s bad design because it looks like everything is left-leaning, but I guess they wanted to uae a gauge in the neutral position as an illustration. I might be wrong though…

You can have term limits without allowing them to retire a decade ahead of the rest of the country. They would in that case just not be eligible to continue work in the parliament.

Are you talking about baloo, the file indexer?

I just wish they didn’t also constantly try to force backdoors into everything…

No no, on Windows it is not your computer, it is “This computer”. The days of “My computer” are long gone.

This is what I ended up doing. Works well, got it working both with standalone Dolphin and through Retroarch easily, and it even has this fun mouse mode that is cool for my living room PC (but that I still rarely use).

With direct Bluetooth I did get it working fine in Dolphin, but the Bluetooth range on the wireless chip was so poor that it was unreliable from my couch.

I tag all my music through MusicBrainz Picard before adding to my server. I think most of the artists are good after that (i.e. if there is a featuring artist, it becomes a separate entry), but I typically use the album artist field to browse by artist.

ETA: I have run into enough cases of Picard wrongly tagging my music that I wouldn’t want it automatic. It is not often, but enough that I would be annoyed.

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Ah no, it’s not - I have been fooled by this community-driven approach. They are in a position to enshittify, so this might not be a good long-term solution.