illectrility

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[–] illectrility 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I understand the possible applications and they do sound quite useful. Scheduled posting, for example, is really cool. The word "bot" just doesn't make it sound like client features to me but that's most likely a me issue. It looks very promising, keep up the good work

[–] illectrility 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So wait, this is basically just a Bluesky client that allows you to alter the text you're about to post in some way or another?

Then I don't get why you would call that a bot. The way it's phrased I imagined everyone posting from bot accounts

[–] illectrility 32 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Okay... why?

[–] illectrility 9 points 2 weeks ago

You mean the absolute fuckwaffel, I presume. The fuckwaffel is located near the heart and makes you feel like something's wrong with your heart every other day

[–] illectrility 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably his phone

[–] illectrility 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When it comes to decisions like this, I usually make a list with my options, create some categories (e.g. durability, longevity, performance, ...), rate each option for each category and then divide each option's points by its price to see its value. If they're fairly similar, I would take the time I'd need to save up for them into account.

In general, I would always want to go for A) upgrading what I already have or B) getting something used for the sake of sustainability.

You could look at some more used ThinkPad options like a T470 or a T480. They can often be found for cheap refurbished on eBay. I would also take a look at online benchmarks to see what fits your requirements. In my experience, that works better than looking at spec sheets.

[–] illectrility 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've used phyphox for lots of stuff. It's great for looking at raw data from your phone's sensors but there are also a lot of great experiments built in to the app. The university that develops it has a playlist showcasing them all, it's a great way to spend a weekend.

[–] illectrility 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, yeah. If your requirement is "no corporate", then Pop doesn't fit. However, if you don't want to use Ubuntu because it's a product of Canonical, I would still go ahead and recommend Pop, since it's A) not by Canonical and B) a wholly different kind of corporate backing

[–] illectrility 8 points 4 weeks ago

Okay, so you can have intuitive and easy to use mouse gestures to speed up your browsing experience... But why wouldn't you use Vimium and use your keyboard with 32697 ~~un~~intuitive keybindings instead?

[–] illectrility 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Technically, yeah. However, Pop isn't their product, their hardware is.

They do their absolute best to create great software like coreboot and Pop and keep it all truly open source. They also innovate the space with things like COSMIC DE (which imo is phenomenal already, even in its early alpha state).

They only offer software support and help for customers of their hardware but that seems reasonable to me. The community is big and helpful so it makes sense for S76 to refer non-customers there.

I've been using Pop as a daily driver for more than 3 years now and a few months ago, I started to think about switching. Until recently, it was stuck on 22.04 with no clear indicator as to when 24.04 would be released. I decide that I was gonna wait for October and if i still felt that way, I was gonna switch. As of today, I haven't switched and since the first alpha release of COSMIC and the recent alpha release of Pop 24.04, I've never even thought about it.

24.04 is fast, stable and works incredibly well with COSMIC. COSMIC is insane for productivity and has fixed almost all UX gripes I've ever had with GNOME and KDE. It's truly amazing and a must-try imo.

[–] illectrility 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

On average? So you just take all bombs dropped by the USA and divide it by the number of days the US has been a thing? Then you compare that to the amount of days China hasn't dropped a bomb?

This makes no sense...

[–] illectrility 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's "today I learned"/"TIL" but that's usually factoids, I think

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/e/OS v2.4.1 & Murena outage (community.e.foundation)
 

2.4.1 is a re-publication of the 2.4 version which became unavailable following the critical outage which is happening since October, 6th. Please install it even if you had already installed 2.4 to be able to get 2.5 later on.

OTA Updates, App Lounge and Murena Services have been affected by the Murena server outage.

It appears that Murena has been taking the necessary steps to resume operation.

For more information and current updates, please visit the link.

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/e/OS v2.3 released! (gitlab.e.foundation)
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Atheism Pamphlet (archive.org)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by illectrility to c/[email protected]
 

Found this pamphlet in my mailbox this morning. I pretty much agree with it and I think I'll keep it for the next time Jehovah's Witnesses decide to show up way too early in the morning.

Edit: I linked the digital mirror that was printed on the back of the pamphlet. Also, it's CC0 which I think is cool

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/e/OS V2.1 released! (gitlab.e.foundation)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by illectrility to c/[email protected]
 

Please welcome /e/OS 2.1! We are proud to deliver the /e/OS 2.1. Enjoy all the new features and improvements it embeds!

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/e/OS V2.0 released! (gitlab.e.foundation)
 

After the incredible success of /e/OS V1.0, the /e/OS team is proud to deliver its successor, e/OS V2.0. Enjoy!

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by illectrility to c/[email protected]
 

So, recently I was talking to a friend and somehow we got to talking about religion and stuff. When I complained that religion is often put on a huge pedestal and that it's really just a glorified opinion and should be subject to the same criticism as any other opinion, they told me that that was a really hot take.

According to them, belief and religion is more than just an opinion since it's such a big part of people's lives. I countered that opinions are also big parts of people's lives and personalities. I mean, a huge chunk of your personality is based on your opinions, right?

We agreed to disagree but I kept thinking about it. I don't get why religion shouldn't just be treated like any other opinion just because people tend to cling to it. I get that ~~it~~ people are emotionally invested but that's not just the case with religion but other opinions too. I would appreciate your thoughts to help me understand better, is it really a hot take?

 

I'm sorry if this isn't the place to ask this, I also asked over at [email protected].

So what I want to do is this: Two RasPis are at different locations. They're on different networks but have internet access. Pressing a button on one of the Pis turns on an LED over at the other Pi via GPIO. How can I make the communication work? My first thought was Telegram bots as I'm familiar with those for notifications but you can't have Telegram bots communicate with each other, sadly. Is there a good (and secure) solution to this? Preferably using Python code and without continuous costs like server hosting, etc?

Thanks!

 

I'm sorry if this isn't the place to ask this, I also asked over at [email protected].

So what I want to do is this: Two RasPis are at different locations. They're on different networks but have internet access. Pressing a button on one of the Pis turns on an LED over at the other Pi via GPIO. How can I make the communication work? My first thought was Telegram bots as I'm familiar with those for notifications but you can't have Telegram bots communicate with each other, sadly. Is there a good (and secure) solution to this? Preferably using Python code and without continuous costs like server hosting, etc?

Thanks!

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I'm dune good (sh.itjust.works)
 
 
 
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