This device looks really interesting, but I don’t see anything on their site about how I can write software for Light Phone, or install anything except what they provide through their app.

How is that any different from what Google plans to do to Android?

There’s a similar bill working it’s way through the Senate here in the US.

The Kid’s Online Safety Act has the same problems as the one in the UK, and people here like the EFF have been sounding the alarm. I’ve written to my Congresscritter about it, but sadly, they’re a bloody co-sponsor of the bill. Like the article said, they think the internet is made up of Facebook and Google, and they’re ignoring the impact it will have on the small players, like Lemmy server operators.

In this case, I don’t think just a VPN will help – I think Tor might, as long as the small operators don’t mind being borderline outlaws.

Meh, if that happens I’ll just replace the cheap commodity printer… I’m not fixing anything, except the cats.

Yes, it’s an accident - the power button is just a touch sensitive spot on the printer - but they do like to play witn paper, so this would invariably lead to more shenanigans.

I just spit out my coffee reading that, and I wasn’t drinking coffee at the time…

Which is why I don’t mind if they break it - it would let me justify getting a decent laser jet printer.

W. T. F.

I will repeat my earlier statement: I hate printers.

I appreciate the info, but I wasn’t looking for a solution - I just wanted to vent a little…

the idea that these webs of laws or these models of “how things should work” mean anything tho the people with power are complete nonsense.

Kinda ironic that you are discussing the nonsense of “how things should work” on a federated service where you control the intermediaries you work with and through, which is, IMO, the way things should work.

I’ve seen music books for recorders on ZLib - maybe there is stuff for ocarina as well.

I tried KMail and Organizer for a few weeks, but they kept losing connection with Gmail. My calendar would get out of sync, and they only way to fix it was to reset the connection and redo all the appointments.

I’m sure it was user error, since I couldn’t figure it out after spending a couple hours on it, so I just dropped back to webmail and not leaving the mail tab open all day.

I like Antenna Pod for this - my BT connections let me use the Forward 30 Seconds feature when m driving or running. Since most ads are 30 seconds long, I can cruise through them easily.

Me too - I’ll use Konsole if I need to have the results up all the time, but Yakuake is my main terminal.

My first reaction would be to acknowledge them as a fellow geek, but that’s because most of the people who live near me would hurt themselves trying to open Notepad. Anyone who knows enough to start hacking my config files would be a welcome guest in my house.

Then I’d kill them with a hammer. :-)

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains.

The stains become a warning.

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion

My EndeavourOS (and the prior Manjaro distro) had all of them installed.

All. Of. Them.

I am so tired of having to scroll through hundreds of Noto fonts to get to the later ones, but I’m afraid, if I uninstall one, something will break on reboot.

I use these too, and Fira Code and Hack for coding.

Define “buggy”. I’ve still got a problem where occasionally when I mouse over the dock, it redraws the icons, but I’m living with that until it hurts enough for me to figure out why.

I moved from a major metro area to middle of forking nowhere several years ago. I kept my library cards from the metro area, which still work for Libby ebook and magazine downloads, while the local rural library is tied into a regional system for the occasional dead tree book.

Not sure if it counts, but obsidian for notes and my daily journal, and latte-dock to replace the stock KDE app bar.

Oh, and emacs with doom for general text editing and most coding tasks.