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Finished Fallout 4 earlier this week (after my Steam Controller arrived, hehe) and started Halo: MCC now. This will keep me occupied for a while.

Mine is sitting in a nearby delivery depot since Saturday 1am. And GLS doesn't deliver on Saturdays. :(

I’ve given up Android some years ago. Had a brief time with a BlackBerry and am now enjoying the comforts of the Apple ecosystem. But I’m contemplating going the dumb phone + Palm Pilot (or Psion) route. That being said, that FLX1s seems very interesting…

You do realise that GrapheneOS is based on AOSP which is still mostly under control of Google?

one of the biggest problems is the gatekeeping role that Google plays with AOSP. No patches that the company dislikes get into AOSP, regardless of what a wider community might think of them.

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Yeah, also thanks to scalpers. (Also, since when is it legal to offer an item on ebay you don't even have in your possession?)

I’ve converted an old Kindle into a TRMNL and connected it to their Laravel server running in a Docker container.

It’s okay-ish, but the use is limited. Either it switches between different screens every few minutes and you never see the thing you’d like to see in the moment. Or, you can put 4 different things onto one screen but they’ll be tiny.

I seem to be more of a push-based kind of person who prefers information to come in the right moment via an alarm or notification.

What I did when starting out with Python: I've bought a book similar to the O'Reilly Pocket Reference and read it cover to cover to get an overview of the structure, syntax, and available objects and methods. Then started piecing my tools together by looking at other people's code and copying the bits I could use. If you want some inspiration, have a look at my Python projects.

I was merely explaining why using a different term for the same procedure makes sense in some cases. My post was not about the general practice of manufacturers trying to prevent people from installing non-sanctioned apps.

Not much to expand. Some German left-wing politicians "ordered" a report on the German right-wing party. That report was deemed "secret", so nobody was supposed to see it. Left-wing politicians told everyone that this secret report is the ultimate proof the right-wing party is extremist and can finally be forbidden and banned. Which is the part I said I doubt until there's a way for everyone to see the actual report and verify the findings. (I've compared that to "Sure, I did my homework. But then my dog ate it.")

Someone reported me with the note "supports <name of Germany's right-wing party>". And that's that. Shadowban for life. No way to contest it or explain myself as support auto-responds with "we only answer to actual members of ".

(And yes, that "report" leaked later and turned out to be just a collection of quotes from social media from party members. Nothing against the law and lots of quotes were taken far out of context. It was great stuff for the media for a week or two but that's it. Nothing ever came out of it.)

I'd use ImageMagick, but if you want to do it in plain* Python, here's an example: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79683407

* Well, you'll need pyAPNG.