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  • Its been in testing for a bit. It got bumped from the last major desktop Thunderbird release and since Thunderbird releases used to be synced to firefox ESR releases its been a slow turnaround to get their schedule moving faster.

  • What is the best caller ID app for Android?
  • For an open source solution, DivestOS's Carrion is probably the best bet. There are a few others kicking around f-droid as well.

    https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/carrion

    I haven't used it, but I've heard good things about it and I enjoy many of their other apps. I too just use the google pixel blocker because its way too good.

  • How to use the new Private Space feature in Android 15
  • Anyone know if this works fine alongside work profiles (seems like it doesnt conflict) and if apps like insular/shelter are going to be able to configure the private space?

    Edit: partially answered my question. Set up a private space just fine (though I can't access it since I'm not using the OS launcher) and it doesnt conflict with the work profile.

    You also don't need to create another google account for it.

  • Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn
  • You could argue the rationality of an effort before any major technology or cultural breakthrough for all of human history, yet the reason those breakthroughs happened was due to humans acting irrationally by accident or on purpose.

  • Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn
  • There are many tipping points, and we dont always know if we've hit one yet or not. The drastic increase in sea temperature the last two years is possibly a tipping point we've passed, esp since the warmer the water is, the less co2 its able to absorb. OMAC shut down (if it happens) is possibly a tipping point, which will only feedback loop into warming waters.

    Honestly, the permafrost melt is more likely to be the KO punch after one or more other tipping points accelerate it.

  • The Magic Keyboard, Trackpad and Mouse now use USB-C!
  • Meh. I got one for free from a job's tech allowance, and it's never really a problem. It charges fast and the OS warns you early enough to plug it in on a lunch break or at the end of the day well before it runs out. Not ideal but def not garbage. Honestly, I get more frustrated with noise canceling headphones and keyboards dying at inconvenient times than I ever do the mouse.

    I dont use it daily, but it is a pretty good mouse for my laptop bag. Charge holds a long time for once/week use. If it's dead when I get to the coffee shop or wherever I'm working, itll be usable in 15 mins or less anyway. It also works nicely with Linux out of the box, which is a rarity among Bluetooth mice (in my experience).

    The other elephant in the room: not having multitasking gestures on a mouse when using macOS is a serious drawback for any other mouse out there, so there is a reason people are willing to put up with the annoyance (if they ever get annoyed in the first place)

  • #Firefox doesn't need any new features to be more attractive for users, it just needs to make CSS theming more accessible
  • Idk for sure, but if excalidraw uses canvas then there are a lot more possible machine/OS specific problems that come up. Web browser features that hand tasks off to the GPU have gotten a lot better over recent years but there are still oddities like max shaders for a specific browser/OS/GPU combo that'll lead to some funny behavior.

  • I have an Nvidia GPU, should I get an Intel or AMD CPU?
  • I mean, the issues were present and widely reported for several months before Intel even acknowledged the problems. And it wasn't just media reporting this, it was also game server hosts who were seeing massive deployments failing at unprecedented rates. Even those customers, who get way better support than the average home user, were largely dismissed by intel for a long time. It then took several more months to ship a fix. The widespread nature of the issues points to a major failure on the companies part to properly QA and ensure their partners were given accurate guidance for motherboard specs. Even so, the patches only prevent further harm to the processor, it doesnt fix any damage that has already been incurred that could amount to years off of its lifespan. Sure they are doing an extended warranty, but thats still a band-aid.

    I agree it doesnt mean one should completely dismiss the possibility of buying an Intel chip, but it certinally doesn't inspire confidence.

    Even if this was all an oversight or process failure, it still looks a lot like Intel as a whole deciding to ship chips that had a nice looking set of numbers despite those numbers being achieved through a degraded lifespan.

  • Removed
    Linux note taking tablets.
  • Yup, unfortunately there is still a premium on linux-specific manufacturers. You get better driver support, but without scale things will stay a bit pricey.

    The other longterm solution is postmarketOS, but there aren't a ton of android tablets out there right now that can really compete on the drawing front so the supported devices aren't very compelling.

  • Removed
    Linux note taking tablets.
  • Star labs starlite is very compelling. Its certinally not going to compete woth new iPads or pen tech, but its comparable ro a few generations back iPad pro feature set and is from a Linux-specific manufacturer. I haven't used it but am thinking about picking one up.

    https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

  • TV that doesn't require 'on-line activation' to set up.
  • I was a roku fan for s long time until they really enshittified (which sucks, since their UI overall is superior and their products are supported for a really, really long time)

    I dont see moving away from android any time soon, and i'm not quite ready/willing to take the plunge into alternate ROM's (the pixel festures are really nice!) so I figure google TV at least isnt going to learn much about me that google doesnt already know. The newer OS iteration isnt that bad a UI, either.

    I do think all this will motivate me to get a kodi device set up and use the smart TV stuff a lot less, though, and I dont think I'll be in a rush to replace my existing roku TV's/boxes for secondary room use. I can tell they have a bit of targeted ads, but it mostly seems based on content I watch on the TV itself. Probably helps that most of my online life on home-based internet usage is very filtered of tracking through my router, though i haven't put a ton of effort into blocking roku specifically.

  • What's your prediction for the 2024 US election?
  • I'm in a swing state with an abortion measure on the ballot, and while all the polls claim it's close, I'm not really sure they are properly accounting for the number of voters that have been activated by the possibility of enshrining pro-choice into the state constitution.

    These polling strategies are complex and a lot of thought goes into them, but they rarely can account for uncommon circumstances that increase voter turnout in local or state elections and how that will effect the national election.

    While this is entirely personal reexperience bias, I also wonder how effective these polls are at reaching a representative survey group. I know at least on my phone basically all survey calls and texts go to spam and I wonder if older, more conservative voters are getting overrepresented due to their likelihood of not having those kinds of spam filters in place.

  • SpaceX launches starship Mega-Rocket and catches its booster in midair on first try.
  • NASA does a hell of a lot more work than just build rockets lol. SpaceX and all the other private space companies focus on a few of the wide array of programs and services NASA does. They certinally have some poor decisions in their history (as does every space program of the 20th century) but comparing SpaceX's spending with an appropriate context of NASA's spending is ludicrous. Its not something you can just put into numbers and any comparisons I've seen thus far have been wildly skewed in SpaceX's favor for marketing reasons.

    NASA (and ESA, RosCosmos, others) funding provided decades of R&D SpaceX uses to build its products with and the university curriculums all the engineers at SpaceX learned at.

    Also, we dont know how a NASA that wasnt so de-funded since the 80s would have operated, but it's well established that the budget cuts and uncertainty those created have been a major factor in its ability to build new programs like Artemis, Orion, SLS, etc. in a manner that would be efficient. SLS was bogged down for years waiting for congressional approval that was repeatedly blocked or maliciously modified last minute by congressional and senate republicans, a form of efficiency knee-capping that the agency never faced in the Apollo or Space Shuttle days.

    have you seen the plastics industry? Let alone consumer packaging

    Not an apples to apples comparison. Check out the many lawsuits and reported criticism of the more careless Starship test flights

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