Giver of skulls
I’ve seen a coworker use one of those Remarkable tablets and they’re easily the best device I know of for taking notes. It won’t show you Netflix or Youtube, but the e-ink makes its battery last ages, the texture on the screen is excellent, and the responsiveness is pretty great.
I find them a bit expensive, though. I think there are a few Remarkable knock-offs around these days, maybe those will deliver a better bang-for-the-buck, you’l have to look for reviews.
That’s the trouble with bringing federated service to normal people, except for maybe email they all equate 1 app/website to 1 owner/company. With Lemmy.ml being the default (they’re the people who maintain Lemmy, after all) and being quite ban-happy and perhaps even propagandistic, I bet a large amount of would-be Lemmy users get turned off pretty quickly. Probably also doesn’t help that some people will tell people “it doesn’t matter, just pick any random server” when it comes to getting people over their reservations regarding federated services. They might up thinking that criticising China is banned all across the Lemmyverse.
Welcome to Lemmy, also known as “reddit for communists and people with a favorite Linux distro”!
Any comment regarding Windows or macOS will inevitably bring out the Linux fanboys. Even as someone who runs Linux everywhere I can, it’s kind of exhausting.
Notepad is little more than a wrapper around Microsoft’s text box control (and I suppose some AI API these days). It’s not part of notepad, it’s part of Windows itself. A great feature for most users, in my opinion.
The corrective part is in Settings > Time & Language > Typing > Highlight/Autocorrect misspelled words. You can download an alternative to Notepad and hope that it doesn’t integrate with the spelling API, but any update to that software might bring back autocorrect.
You might want to leave the highlight feature on so you get instant feedback on what words you misspell.
As for learning a language, there is scientific evidence that information sticks better in your brain when writing down things on physical paper than when typing. If you’re learning a language through random exercise, you might want to consider going back to pens & paper.
Time for a fediverse alternative for 4chan! /s
I think this is just an implementation of the existing standard for QR code payments (https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/sites/default/files/kb/file/2024-06/EPC024-22v2.10 Standardisation of QR-codes for MSCTs.pdf), but not part of this Romanian bank. I’ve seen them used before in other online portals.
At least I hope it is. They’d be crazy to add a new, non-standard QR code when even other banks are already working on implementing a common standard anyway.
It sure does! Except that’s not what this will be. It’s what cryptocurrency should be, and how digital money should work, but it’s not that simple.
Payment processors don’t just magically take fees, they also verify and register transactions; something that will still need to be done even with cryptocurrency.
When Steam implemented cryptocurrency, they used a third party to do it. When El Salvador adopted Bitcoin nation-wide, it used a system of payment processors for most payments. Payment processors exist because having your local bank integrate directly with the payment ecosystem is not practical.
I can wire transfer money to banks for free already. The reason my grocery store isn’t letting me pay that way is because they don’t want to integrate with the bank directly. Better to pay a decimal point of a percentage on the transaction than to deal with all that crap.
The promise of the digital euro is “now the banks can’t screw you over”, but that promise is made by the people regulating the banks. This is just a bank account with the ECB, but with a ton of overhead and false promises (like promising “privacy” in a permanent ledger and accounts tied to names, lol) on top.
Out of all the cryptocurrencies, I do think one led by the ECB would be the best one, but it’s still a solution looking for a problem. Now, they’ve tied the very necessary removal of European dependence on American payment processing standards to this project. When the crypto-euro fails or doesn’t get taken up, we’re stuck with VISA/Mastercard for yet another decade.
Unfortunately they bought into this right around the bitcoin hype, so I expect the entire project to become a wasteful slog that nobody has any real use for, except for maybe gambling on exchanges, like most cryptocurrencies.
I have a lot of apps on my phone. Several government and banking apps require to be updated at least weekly or they’re locked out for security reasons. Sure I could interrupt my 2FA login flow to update the app (assuming I have fast Internet available) but why bother? Google Play should be updating those things in the background while the phone charges. Same with F-Droid, though that’s buggy and gets stuck all the time.
My Android devices are nothing compared to my Linux installs, anyway.
You can run the bridges yourself, they’re open source. Requires more work (and your own server, of course).
As for third party services, yeah they can block you but then you’ll end up in exactly the same situation as when you say “I only use Signal” anyway. The whole reason people are setting up services like this is because the people they chat with aren’t on their platforms if choice.
Having worked for a software company that needed translation services, I can confirm that translation software is indeed very necessary.
People would notice when the word “date” is interpreted as “date on a calendar” in one file and “romantic event” in another, but AI sure doesn’t.
Even Google’s apps have broken Dutch translations by reusing existing strings for different contexts that don’t mean the same elsewhere. “Search” gets translated to different words depending on if it’s used a noun or a verb, for fucks sake!
Hey, if Valve gets to wipe home directories in released software, developers should get the chance to do it in their test code.
You can use tools like Stallwart and Mailcow qnd even Mail-in-a-box to make mail hosting a LOT easier. One does not simply configure ClamAV as a milter and chaining DKIM validation too late I the process is a great recipe for random spam status issues.
You just have to accept that nobody using Google’s or Microsoft’s email servers will receive your email in their inbox ever again. All of your outgoing email will be marked as spam, unless you slowly trickle non-spam emails at rates of dozens to hundreds a day to various email servers to build up IP + domain reputation. If you’re not a marketing company, that will probably not happen. That includes almost every company, big or small, local or international, using their own domain names. Customer service will likely ignore you and email that doesn’t get delivered will be considered your fault. Of course you can fight against the system by still using an independent email server (like I do) but know that you’re a tiny drop in an ocean of The Big Three email servers.
Also, reserve four to eight hours a month for maintenance and dealing with problems. Easy to do as a student, challenging as a parent.
Futhermore, for your domain name, make sure to check the requirements. You may lose the rights to your domain when you emigrate, or when your country ceases to exist (unlikely) or leaves the economic union controlling the domain (like the British people with .eu domains). You may find the Taliban in control of your domain one day (because you chose the funny .af ccTLD). Also pick a TLD that’s not full of spam already, like .biz or the ones that used to be free (.tk).
Local folders are traditionally meant for protocols like POP3, where the standard procedure for email is to get downloaded and deleted from the server. IMAP is designed to keep email on the server, like you’d expect in most cases.
You can copy mail to local folders as a backup, but the problem you encountered is that the protocol was technically right, but you didn’t know about the details of migrating email providers. This problem should only happen in two scenarios: when your email vendor seriously fucks up, or when you migrate mail servers without first copying all the email over. As long as you keep backups for the first scenario, and remember to copy over email first during the next migration, you should be in the clear.
You can use your email in whatever method you prefer, of course. I prefer to keep email centralised around my server. If you’re going local-first, you could consider using the older POP3 protocol instead, which is more local-oriented.
This sounds like the premise of a Lower Decks episode. Just the main cast in a plot line consisting off only Jeffrey Combs characters.
I quite regularly see installation stall on older and cheaper phones. One single app install is fine, but when five or ten apps update all at once the phone becomes sluggish for minutes.
With Android consisting mostly of what, four instruction sets, this problem should’ve been prevented years ago in my opinion. Precompile for the most common platforms, leave the current slow processes for instruction sets nobody uses in practice, like MIPS and RISC-V.
Tap on an app there. There are three settings. “disabled” for basically freezing apps once they’re no longer in the foreground, "enabled“ for doing things like occasionally checking for content updates j the background and playing music while other apps are on the forefront, and “unlimited” for the setting you’re thinking off, which badly designed apps often need to not be killed when they keep hitting the CPU in the background while the user hasn’t interacted with them for ages.
Other manufacturers have even worse appp killers.
If you have your client configured for IMAP, Thunderbird will synchronise with the new server.
If you did not transfer your emails from your old server to your new server, that means the new state is “empty inbox” and synchronising means “removing everything that’s available locally”.
To fix this, either do a server-to-server transfer from the old email provider to the new one (there are tools to do that, like imapsync), or try importing emails from a backup into Thunderbird after synchronisation succeeds, so that Thunderbird will upload the messages. It’s possible that you will need to use a tool to rewrite the message IDs so that Thunderbird treats the messages as new items.
If you have already cancelled your old server provider (so a server-to-server transfer is not possible), restoring from backups may be your only solution.
If you don’t have any backups, your email may not be lost. The first thing you need to do is copy Thunderbird’s data folder to a backup location, just in case Thunderbird tries to do maintenance on the file while you’re performing recovery. Then, use a tool like Thunderbird Reset Status (I can’t quickly find a more up to date tool but they probably exist) to unmark the emails in the Thunderbird mail store as deleted. Then set up backups for your new mail server.
If you use the trick above and Thunderbird starts deleting emails again, repeat the trick but break the email account settings first. Then, set up a second connection to your email account, drag over all the undeleted emails so they get uploaded to the new server.
Mastodon is just one of many applications that uses AP for their own custom purposes. MissKey and derived software has some kind of emoji response feature to posts that’s basically unimplemented anywhere else. Lemmy’s boosting trick to make comment sync make interoperability with timeline based social media a spamfest.
Maybe I should check again, but last time I looked into it there were no commonly used ActivityPub compliant servers. Everyone does their own thing just a little different to make the protocol work for their purposes. Even similar tools (see: MissKey/Mastodon, Lemmy/Kbin) took a while to actually interoperate.
As far as I can tell, the idea behind the original design, where servers are mostly content agnostic and clients decide on rendering content in specific ways, hasn’t been executed by anyone; servers and clients have been mixed together for practical reasons and that’s why we get these issues.
Offtopic, but: what bloat is on Samsung phones these days? Last I checked they didn’t come with much, maybe a calendar or a clock app. They don’t even ship their own email app these days, that’s all Gmail and Google now.