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nottheengineer, to linuxmemes in ***buntu

Mint gets rid of snaps, distros that don’t are just bad imo.

nottheengineer, to asklemmy in Is there a way to find a local server with reliable uptime?

lemmy.sdf.org is rock solid. I have an account there for when feddit.de has issues.

nottheengineer, to privacy in Deciding between Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8

Thanks, I’ve been looking for a comparison like that but search engines have just gotten ridiculously bad. /e/ slacking on the webview updates is interesting and steers me away from it.

I’m leaning towards the fairphone right now because it’s cheaper at 256GB and not smaller than my current phone. DivestOS looks like it does most of what grapheneOS would do for me.

nottheengineer, to privacy in Deciding between Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8

Yes and it isn’t rated IPX7 for that reason, just IP55. I wouldn’t hold it under the faucet but it should be perfectly fine for daily use.

Fun fact: It’s still entirely possible to make a phone water resistant even if it has a removable back. Samsung did it in 2014 with the S5. Glass backs are just there to make it easier to break a phone, not for any technical reason.

nottheengineer, to privacy in Deciding between Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8

I already have Osmand and while it’s a great offline map, it can’t pick the fastest route for me every single day.

nottheengineer, to linuxmemes in Useless messenger

Isn’t the web version a full client that works without a phone nearby nowadays?

nottheengineer, to memes in The trickster letters

Just use monospace fonts for everything. As a bonus you can feel like a haxxor

nottheengineer, to linuxmemes in If linux distributions were tools.

But what makes ubuntu better as a first distro than mint or fedora? It installs snaps even when you specifically invoke apt, a new user who doesn’t understand the messages will press yes, see that it seemed to work and have issues later that can scare them away from linux.

What I’m trying to say is that we should bash the people still recommending ubuntu.

nottheengineer, to memes in Guten Tag Everybody

ich_iel is the worst place to learn german, the running gag is to translate stuff from english literally while actively ignoring the context.

nottheengineer, to memes in You can choose normal, fancy, or wildcard.

Yes, there’s !deutsch_lernen .

nottheengineer, to linux in Comparison between NixOS vs blendOS vs Vanilla OS: what to pick and why?

Not bad packages

I’ve made the opposite experience. There were loads of snap-specific issues when I used ubuntu. So many that I now recommend not using ubuntu just because of snaps.

nottheengineer, to asklemmy in What news source or sources are you go tos

I just use hacker news for tech stuff. If an article on there is BS, you can be sure that someone will call that out in the comments after about 5 minutes. And if not, there’s almost always a good discussion with very few insults.

nottheengineer, to risa in People who downvote memes on Risa

You don’t need an exhaust manifold, you need an intimidator!

nottheengineer, to piracy in Ripping spotify

Looks great, but I get a lot of SSL errors without real tine downloading and one every 5 or so songs with it.

It’ll take a week or two to download 3000 songs, but running it periodically after that should be fine.

nottheengineer, to piracy in Ripping spotify

Sounds like a good idea. Zotify keeps throwing meter-long stacktraces at me about SSL errors that I assume are API rate limits because there’s less of them when I use real-time downloading.

Maybe it’s even a nice project for an android app because zotify doesn’t run there yet.

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