So, I know very little and have a poor understanding of the software licenses, hence why I'm asking.

I have a 'smart' thermostat that came with the new HVAC system. It is the AprilAire 8920W. It has a touchscreen, connects to wifi, does lots of 'computer' things. I cannot imagine that this furnace company built their own OS and kernel and everything else from scratch; it seems most likely it is running linux, yea? And with that, includes libraries and other tools that are under some version of the GPL, yea?

I went down the router rabbit-hole some weeks ago and found the firmware for routers available on the Linksys website, the Linksys site has this 'GPL Code Center'. I'm finding nothing of the sort from AprilAire, though...

So, if we assume that my 'smart' thermostat is running Linux (and, say, busybox, a common GPL-ed tool on small systems, like routers), they are obligated to provide the code for at least those pieces of software, right? They need to give me a CD or have a page on their website (and include the link in the manual) and all that?

Do they need to give me access to the entire firmware as well? The router folks do, but you also sometimes need to re-install the firmware manually, so that may not be a license issue.

However, how would we know if they are violating a license if we don't know what is running on it?

I'm curious about how the GPL / copy-left licenses work, and wondering if I found someone who is violating it. I also want to hack the thermostat to control it without the motherfuckin' cloud, but that is a bit separate.

Requirements:

• S Pen support
• notes should be saved in a useraccessible folder

I am trying to slowly de-Google-ify myself by moving to open source apps, I wanna ditch google notes and evernote. I tried obsidian, standard notes, and joplin, I liked using obsidian on PC and standard notes looks nice on android but obsidian you need to pay to have sync and standard notes doesn't do markdown unless you pay (are plugins only on PC???). Joplin has most features I need but I don't like how it looks/feels on android (haven't tried in PC yet)

Basically what I want the most in a notes app is offline with sync capability for phone and PC, would be nice to make folders for notes like notepads on evernote, and md is a big plus but I can live without it. I would love if I could use something like proton drive for cloud sync and wouldn't mind paying for obsidian if it was cheaper cuz $8 per month is too much for my minimum pay and I didnt see any cheaper plans.

EDIT: If no one has any better suggestions, I am thinking of trying to setup obsidian with syncthing.

It's a great place to find alternatives (including opensource alternatives) to services and software.

Mozilla.ai seems silent 9 months on. MemoryCache is a "Mozilla Innovation Project", which seems unrelated.

@opensource #mozilla

TLDR: Companies should be required to pay developers for any open source software they use.

He imagines a simple yearly compliance process that gets companies all the rights they need to use Post-Open software. And they'd fund developers who would be encouraged to write software that's usable by the common person, as opposed to technical experts.

It's an interesting concept, but I don't really see any feasible means to get this to kick off.

What are your thoughts on it?

I was a windows user back in 2019 - 2020, and moved over to Linux in 2021. I honestly forgot how i found Linux, and when I was using Windows, I remember using this feature "Game Bar", which I used to make game clips on my PC. Although, when I got my NVIDIA Card the Game Bar Stopped working because of the HDMI cord that modern GPU's use.

The Real Question, is there a program that replicates the Xbox Game bar? I really like the functionality that the game bar provides, and would like to start using it again, but on Linux. I was hoping if anyone knew of such program, or if you know the steps for me to build it myself. I found this Repository where someone made a clone, although it's for Windows, and not what I expected.

I like to use Pinterest to save and make boards of artworks for inspiration. The thing is, the desktop experience is weird at best, clunky and slow at worst. Any suggestions?

A lightweight text editor written in Lua, adapted from lite.

Lite XL has support for high DPI display on Windows and Linux and, since 1.16.7 release, it supports retina displays on macOS

Title.

I am looking for something that is similar in functionality to this.

I'm looking to replace my portable modem with a GL.iNet router because I saw that they claim to use OpenWRT which is a open source firmware.

My question is:

Is their OpenWRT version actually reliable?

Like the title implies, I’m looking for a way to keep track of places I go. If the ratings system doesn’t exist, that’s okay. The important part is keeping track of places I’ve been, on what date and how often. I know this could be done with a spreadsheet, but that’s sounds like work, and I’m lazy. I couldn’t find anything similar, but maybe my search-fu is off given the holidays. What do you all use, or am I alone in this? Thanks!

Mapstr - https://en.mapstr.com

Most of you are familiar with Yelp, so no link for you!

Pendant la période des fêtes de fin d'année, pas de stream sur la chaîne Twitch formamac 😮

En attendant, place au montage vidéo pour YouTube avec l'application libre et open-source OpenShot Video Editor !

Disponible sur Windows, macOS et Linux 😊

➡️ https://www.openshot.org/fr/

#stream #streaming #twitch #opensource @opensource

Release Notes

v0.24.0 - 2023-12-27

✨ New Features

• Added manager for installing, updating and uninstalling scrapers and plugins. (#4242)
• Added support for enabling and disabling plugins in the UI. (#4141)
• Added support for plugin settings. (#4143)
• Added support for plugin assets, external scripts and CSP overrides. (#4260)
• Added UI plugin API to better support UI-based plugins. (#4256)
• Added Studio Code and Photographer to Galleries. (#4195)
• Added Details, Studio Code and Photographer to Images. (#4217)
• Added scene framerate filter. (#4161)
• Added option to Duplicate Checker to select all files except the highest resolution. (#4286)

🎨 Improvements

• Show Performer image in Performer select list. (#4227)
• Match Performers by alias during scraping and tagging if no Performer is found with the exact name (only if a single performer is found with the alias). (#4182)
• Show Performer disambiguation and add stash-box links to Studio in tagger results. (#4180)
• Show endpoints with stash ids. (#4216)
• Load card thumbnails and similar images lazily when a component comes into view, instead of all at once. (#4228)
• Made the random sorting more random. (#4246)
• Added more VR projection modes. (#3799)
• Improved the filtering behaviour when selecting a folder. (#4277)
• Added support for setting plugins path from the UI. (#4382)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fixed submitting to stash-box not working after switching to another scene using the queue. (#4354)
• Fixed UI crash when clearing a value from a URL or alias list. (#4344)
• Fixed panic when exporting galleries. (#4311)
• Fixed error when setting performer height with decimals. (#4283)
• Fixed Performer stash ids being overwritten instead of merged when saving a Performer in the Performer tagger. (#4215)
• Fixed organized being set to false if Mark as Organized on save is false when saving a scene in the tagger. (#4213)
• Fixed URLs not populating correctly when scraping galleries. (#4206)
• Fixed not being able to click next/previous scene if the applicable scenes had not been loaded by the queue. (#4325)
• Fixed confirmation dialog not appearing on some screens when using the delete keyboard shortcut. (#4387)
• Fixed desktop notifications not appearing on macos. (#4153)
• Fixed video sometimes pausing when clicking on the scene scrubber. (#4295)
• Fixed file paths not being shown when deleting image clips. (#4323)
• Fixed image o-counts not being included in stats page. (#4386)

Jonas Dressler from the GNOME project, who develops the GNOME Shell edition for mobile devices, has published developments that allow you to run the Aliendalvik environment (AppSupport) in regular Linux distributions. Aliendalvik is a layer for the Sailfish mobile platform that provides the launch of applications written for the Android platform. During the reverse engineering of Aliendalvik, patches for the Mutter composite server, scripts and bindings over the sound server and input system necessary to run Aliendalvik outside the Sailfish platform environment were prepared.

https://blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023/12/20/a-dive-into-jolla-appsupport/

His original post , titled I can't sleep, is some brilliant writing. When we talk about the chilling effect that criticism of Israel creates in industries everywhere (including ours) this is what that looks like.

Merry Christmas from the LabPlot team! 🎅 🎄

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