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boredishBoi··on Win-V combo from Windows on Ubuntu
KDE ships klipper by default which is the same thing and works fantastically. Supports multimedia and is fast, I only wish it had a cli tool instead of having to use xclip or qdbus. On windows I find ditto much more performant than the native clipboard manager.
boredishBoi··on I Have Thoughts on the iPhone Air
In Australia the price difference between an air and a 17 is only $50 which imo makes it great value.
boredishBoi··on Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him
Sorry new Toyotas have mandatory alcohol testers? Which locale are you in? I’ve heard of mandatory breathalysers for work vehicles or DUI drivers but all new cars?
boredishBoi··on Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag
Beeper is owned by Automattic (of Wordpress fame). They’re a corp but I wouldn’t call them mega and they use matrix which is an open federated protocol.

You can run your own matrix server but tbh it’s easier for someone else to do it.

Not to mention the obvious advantages of their bridges into the closed networks of WhatsApp/fb/x/instagram etc

boredishBoi··on A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp
I don’t disagree but none of the native RDP clients support oauth for non azure computers.
boredishBoi··on A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp
Not many good MFA options for native RDP/RDG. Putting it in the browser lets you wrap the whole thing with OAUTH/passkeys etc
boredishBoi··on Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since
There’s a launcher called T-UI I used to use when I had an android. One of the features it allowed was this. It would display a log of all your notification on your Home Screen and you could just click it and go straight into the conversation as if you’d clicked the actual notification. And u could always scroll up and view older notifications because they weren’t dismissed.
boredishBoi··on Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33
I think the defaults they’re referring to are for fedora desktop, not server
boredishBoi··on Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW
Automotive grade programming is a joke. There have been numerous posts here including one a couple days ago about the auto accelerating Toyota’s and it was pretty clear that the problem was with Toyota’s programming as well as their lack of testing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10437117

Not to mention the numerous ways current automotive manufacturers fail at cyber security. Stuff like OnStar and being able to shut down cars remotely.

boredishBoi··on Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
Actually MacBooks get 6/7 years from when Apple stops selling them. In contrast, the timer starts as soon as the first Chromebook with that cpu is released. It was a nasty surprise when I found that out
boredishBoi··on The Kindle is fine, but could’ve been much more
You can use Calibre to side load books without an account. It can also convert epubs to mobi’s.
boredishBoi··on Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says
What if their brother in law is an exec at an American competitor? I don’t see how your example is relevant given we’re discussing governments spying/compelling citizens to spy for them.
boredishBoi··on Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC https://blog.cloudflare.com/http3-the-past-present-and-futur... Just because it’s a public discussion doesn’t mean there’s an obligation to explain things. I didn’t know what QUIC was either so I googled it.
boredishBoi··on Australian universities are accused of trading free speech for cash
I’m a uni student in aus right now and I’m not a fan of Chinese propaganda but I wouldn’t mind a free trip to China. Do you have any links/tips on how I could get myself on one of these trips? I’m at UNSW btw.
boredishBoi··on SanDisk 1TB MicroSD Card Review
Have you seen the T series portable ssd’s by Samsung. Nowadays multiple companies make portable ssds that use the same nand in their internal ssds but in a smaller custom form factor. They’re exactly like what you described, about the size of a deck of cards and much much more reliable and cheaper than micro as cards.
boredishBoi··on Apple to include new keyboard in 2019 MacBook Air and 2020 MacBook Pro
I think they mean MicroLED rather than mini oled. MicroLEDs are meant to look and act the same as oleds but since they’re non organic, which means they don’t burn out like oleds do.
boredishBoi··on Cellebrite claims it can unlock any iPhone, many new Android phones for police
It is my understanding that under the DMCA the security measures themselves are copyrighted works and breaking them is a violation of the DMCA in and of itself. That’s why breaking DRM, even if it’s to access public domain works is still illegal.
boredishBoi··on Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI
Can you please expand on your phone? What model is it? It sounds very unusual for the user to be able to change the imei.
boredishBoi··on What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer
If this new OS is focusing on PWAs and UWPs, then it makes sense that MS would can Edge for a chromium based browser.