re: Long, phones, privacy, freedom, work
@requiem @pluralistic I've been using the Pinephone as a second phone, and really the problem is more the quality of the thing. SXMO is reasonably usable, but the speaker quality, mic quality, the way the modem randomly crashes while it's in sleep mode, etc makes it a poor experience.
@ademalsasa The nice thing about the toughbook I have is that it's 1600x1200 resolution. It is a fairly old one though, i5-2540.
@ademalsasa I have a Panasonic Toughbook, fairly compatible. A Dell laptop, which is also reasonably compatible. Another older Dell which has even better compatibility, and supports OpenIndiana as well, and a Steamdeck, which was made for linux. I want to get a Frame.work laptop though.
@ifixcoinops Every time I cash one of my paychecks at the bank, I ask them for a roll of dollar coins, then I will use them in whatever parking meters or coin op machines I encounter. Usually they either have one already made or they can get one in a few minutes.
@gamingonlinux I've tried that before, removing someone from the tag list that is, and they still got notified of the reply.
@gemlog True, Their intention is definitely to attrack medium to small business rather than us hobby users, so they focus a lot of their effort on customer relations management and other similar tools. I'd in general lean towards reasonably priced business tools with consumer uses instead of ad-riddled consumer tools turned towards businesses. @keithzg @requiem @VeilidNetwork @MMRnmd
@gemlog I used to do that a long time ago, I think I stopped self-hosting in 2008ish. Zoho costs a bit, but it's better than hosting on google themselves, and the interface is almost as good. No ads. One thing I ended up doing was switching my sending domain to not match my receiving domain. I get constant notices and bounces from people sending spam spoofing my receiving domain. @MMRnmd @keithzg @requiem @VeilidNetwork
@requiem @gemlog @VeilidNetwork @keithzg I wouldn't want to build an entire new system. So google defederated you, that doesn't mean you have to move to a different protocol. Just use the same protocol with other people who aren't on google. I pay a non-google email service to maintain my domain for me still.
@requiem I don't see any examples of people trying it, and I don't have a latte panda to try it on. Does it only support UEFI or something?
@requiem I mean, any cheap x64 board should work for Haiku. You probably won't see them at Raspberry Pi prices most of the time though, so plan for the $100-200 range.
@psykose @developing_agent @marcan I was Extremely disappointed when I took that thing apart and found that it was cobbled together from cheap consumer-grade wall sockets and aluminum wiring. It made me want to get commercial grade wall sockets and copper wire and rebuild the whole thing, just keeping the outer shell of the rack power distribution box..
@psykose @developing_agent @marcan Mostly because it's a sign that something is being made super cheaply, especially when it only has maybe a meter of wires, and it's a multi-hundred dollar power distribution bar...
@marcan @developing_agent Aluminum wiring is still a really bad idea, they used to be used in cheap mobile homes before 1974 before they were banned, mostly because they have high resistance and overheat.
@hotdogsladies Ohh, KFC, one of the other 3 that were once owned by pepsi. I didn't think that KFC was given access to the Baja Blast though.
@developing_agent @marcan Hah! I hadn't even watched the video by the time I said that, and what do you know, ALUMINUM WIRING IN THE TRANSFORMER!
@TechConnectify @immibis @smokku We need more nuclear plants, obviously, if we're going heatpump in the winter. :D
@TechConnectify @theotherlinh My house is way too insulated, and retains the heat from my computers in the summer way too well... Even in the winter sometimes I have to open the window to get it below 80 in my room.
@TechConnectify @irina The first house I lived in was on Propane for 7-8 years before they finally built the natural gas network out to us. My aunt is still on propane here. I don't think we had to change our two gas-based appliances out when we made the switch, might have just been some nozzle adjustments or something.