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unicornpornon What Is the Most Free TLD?

Thank EFF.

https://www.eff.org/sv/deeplinks/2020/12/how-we-saved-org-20...

unicornpornon Opal Camera

7.8mm sensor and "DSLR technology"?

unicornpornon Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse

Matrix, Mastodon and PeerTube.

unicornpornon Google introduces $50 4G smartphone

"Google introduces $50 4G smartphone to be able to rob billions of poor people of their personal data".

Actually, if you're a surveillance capitalist, it's a very clever move to focus on a markets with users that can't afford to vote with their wallet.

unicornpornon System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals now in stock

Same here. Saw the lead image with and immediately thought: no buy. No fancy specs in the world can make me accept bad ergonomics.

unicornpornon Darktable: An open source photography workflow application

Since darktable introduced the scene referred workflow I would argue it's an extremely steep learning curve for anyone coming from display referred software (Lightroom, Capture One etc).

Scene referred is very much a cine-thing and I know of no other still image software that uses it. dt v3.6 made scene referred default.

Aurélien has been one of the driving forces behind the switch to scene referred and his hour long explanations of the new modules can be found on his YouTube channel[1]. Boris has a YouTube channel[2] which is quite the opposite. You watch him edit in silence and you will pick up the craft.

darktable is made up of modules. The Filmic RGB module takes a central part of the editing workflow in scene referred. This is where to go if you need help getting started: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/lets-learn-filmic-rgb-your-one-st...

RawTherapee has a more traditional, display referred, approach. If you want local adjustments (which you will want), you need to use nightlies until 5.9 is released.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmsSn3fujI81EKEr4NLxrcg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMbDlOwmmQnkRmcb2_5WERg

unicornpornon Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 are discontinued, says Google

I've run Android Degoogled for many years. Gmail can be accessed via K-9 Mail or another mail client via IMAP. Google Drive can be accessed via a browser such as Kiwi or Firefox.

unicornpornon Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 are discontinued, says Google

In theory I wanted a Pinephone. That's until I saw it run GloDroid. So choppy it's unusable.

My next phone will be a Fairphone with LineageOS[1]. At least they're trying[2].

[1] https://forum.fairphone.com/t/official-lineageos-18-1-for-fa...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/the-fairphone-2-hits...

unicornpornon Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style

Haven't seen the regular tab bar in ages. Just install the Tree Style Tab extension and never look back. :)

unicornpornon I closed a lot of browser tabs

OK, you're one of those noble devs working hard to further entrench the Blink/WebKit monopoly situation. I'm sure its practical right now, but try not to be too short sighted. Sorry for the bitterness, but this infuriates me.

unicornpornon Elementary OS 6 Odin

I've been running KDE Neon and they don't look out of place.

unicornpornon Elementary OS 6 Odin

As long as you only use GTK apps that is... Half (?) Of the apps I need are Qt and they will look out of place.

unicornpornon I closed a lot of browser tabs

» It's still not as good as Firefox's nested Tree Style Tab once was (and might be again?) but I'm kind of locked into Chrome at this point.

What terrible being is locking people into Chrome?

unicornpornon I closed a lot of browser tabs

This. The Vivaldi implementation sucks because: not a tree.

unicornpornon 300 Megawatt Tesla battery catches fire

A friend of mine living in an apartment complex with parking facilities at basement level recently told me that firefighters having inspected the area had come to the conclusion that they will make no attempts to go down and put out a fire if there are EVs parked. There will be fire until there is nothing more to burn, house still standing or not.

Seeing a car battery burn kind of makes me understand why.

unicornpornon The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs

Thanks!

unicornpornon The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs

> But I'm sure 2022 will be "the year of Linux on the desktop", finally :)

With the Steamdeck running Arch Linux, I'm sure you're right. :)

unicornpornon The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs

Very cool, had no idea this was even possible. Is there anything like this for Linux?

unicornpornon PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Linux Phone Projects

Hope so!

Found the page I was thinking of: https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Pinepho...

Very much "not supported".

unicornpornon PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Linux Phone Projects

Oh, I'm pretty darn sure I saw it on the supported devices page yesterday. Can't see it now. Hallucinations? :) It's very strange to me that no Android ROM has made it to the PinePhone yet.

unicornpornon PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Linux Phone Projects

I'd would not like to run "other operating systems", but rather Android/Replicant[1]. The PinePhone is listed as a supported device[2], but I'm finding next to no reports on how it is actually working.

[1] https://replicant.us/

[2] https://replicant.us/supported-devices.php

unicornpornon BBEdit 14

This is the main reason BBEdit has been with me for a decade. I have NEVER lost an unsaved document during that whole time. You quit BBEdit or restart or crash macOS but they're always there when you're back in. Insanely robust.

Is there anything like it on Linux?

unicornpornon Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021

> it has no IP rating at all

Just wtf. I had a $130 phone with Lineage die on me the same way recently. No IP on that machine, but if you pay for a Pixel you should definitely have it.

unicornpornon Valve Steam Deck

> Manjaro Linux provides a nice, easy installer for Arch. With different editions based on your preferred DE.

It's more than an installer. Manjaro and Arch don't even share repositories.

unicornpornon Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner

> If you are under 13 years old, please do not use the App[1].

Is this the future of FOSS? So dystopian.

[1] https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/

unicornpornon Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat

The feedback cancelling the was the major gripe last time I ran a server. Otherwise very functional software.

unicornpornon A bear case for social audio

Could someone edit the URL? It's linking to the full TiddlyWiki. Here's the permalink for the post: https://elevis.io/#A%20Bear%20Case%20for%20Social%20Audio

unicornpornon Brave Search beta

> that's also 100% reliant on google though. what would happen if that became a lot more popular than it is now? would google try to sabotage it in any way?

Yes, same applies to DDG/Bing though.

unicornpornon Introducing Windows 11

Thanks for the read. Actually, I have no problem with Win95 (and previous) era UI components, it's the layers of inconsistencies on top of that bothers me. The Windows 95 is still the best Windows UI of all times.

unicornpornon Introducing Windows 11

> will I still be able to get to the Network card configuration page that's been the same for the last 15-20 years

Just pull the band aid fast. Can't adjust the UI for inconsistencies in long time users muscle memory. They will adjust to a consistent UX.