amju_wolf

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[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

...and that's how it still works.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Considering those scanners usually register as keyboards and just do a dumb input "typing" it shouldn't even be hard, lol.

The worst part would probably be picking a barcode scheme where the inputs make sense...

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The startup is absolutely more stressful for the motor. It's a period of high current that also creates hotspots in the windings and such. It's certainly not great for the motor.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago

Also, this isn't even compatible with copyright law in some countries. I.e here you can't give up authorship at all; you can only grant an irrevocable, perpetual license (that might even prohibit you from distribution yourself and such) but you'll always be able to say "I made this" no matter what their license says.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

PayPal did their due diligence and then unfroze the account. Completely normal.

Sorry, no, it's not "completely normal" to freeze an account for weeks without any recourse or communication and then be like "all good I guess".

You could easily break a company doing just that. It really fucking sucks and should never happen.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Regular Fedora is more than stable enough for day to day use. I'd start there and then with use see if it's a good fit.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

I may understand "opinionated" differently from you, but the main issue is that when you do want to change something, you can't. Or it's some unsupported hack, or (best case) you flip some hidden configuration variable (that will probably break with the next release).

KDE is well configured from the get go as well, you don't have to change anything and it will work well. But if you do decide that you don't like some of their defaults, you can tweak many aspects of it.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It wouldn't really be an issue if you didn't need an extension for every single basic functionality...

Because of how stupidly opinionated Gnome is I switched to KDE a year or so ago and have been extremely happy with it. And what do you know I don't even need any extensions, because sane stuff like tray icons are builtin.

I do use an extension for distributing windows in custom areas though, and it didn't even break throughout the (I believe) 2 large updates there were since I started using it.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's what PieFed changes though. You can still track how someone votes, but you can't tie it to a specific profile (without doing some extra analysis and even then you can't be completely sure).

Or, with my suggestion, you could track how that specific account votes, but it would be easy to obfuscate who exactly it is and (hopefully) impossible to track to the user's other identities.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

They ask you for all sorts of personal information, which I guess is industry standard, but it’s a third party service

The reason is money laundering / tax evasion laws. There is not really a way to buy crypto anonymously without breaking laws.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

To be fair, why not just drop the other provider and use Proton? Should be cheaper that way. I also didn't ask for any of this, and use email almost exclusively, but the VPN has come in handy a few times.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 9 points 2 months ago

Do you have a tl;d...l?

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