It replaced KDE connect for me. It is KDE connect but “intentional” sharing/no link

• Share between windows work computer and phone but only files and not the persistent link
• share between computer and android TV
• share with partner at home without a server (especially scanned documents)
• transfer large files locally between phones (e.g. new phone)

There are definitely more too, but that is quick off the top of my head. It is also much easier for non-tech people to wrap their heads around.

I have a Fairphone 6 with CalyxOS. It is literally the largest phone I have ever had. Definitely not a small phone… Very happy with the phone except for its large size. It literally doesn’t fit into my bike phone holder or almost any I can find online. Other than that, great phone with built in work profile, unlockable and relockable bootloader, etc… Switch is handy too for vibrate switch (it has a variety of options for functions) like the old iphones.

The only recent phone that is a similar form factor as the S10e is the Sony Xperia 10 VI from 2024 (and I guess Oukitel minis but I don’t think you can get those) maybe the 10VIII that is one full centimeter taller. 168g vs 150g (S10e). The fairphone is 193g, almost 30% heavier that your current phone.

Pixel 10a might be a compromise in between the Sony 10VIII and the fairphone and runs GrapheneOS or calyxOS.

That’s what a static forum with comments is for 😂

Using discord/matrix for this means that to get to a recipe, you have to scroll through 100 comments.about recipes not linked to the recipes, and you can’t browse the recipes. You just have to be there or never know it happened pretty much.

Also why support “found” using discord like zephyr have almost 0 help on them at all.

Did IT on the side at my last job.

The Microsoft authenticator push notifications are the thing that they have integrated into other products (for us it was the VPN) so we were forced to use authenticator instead of TOTO because otherwise the VPN wouldn’t authenticate with how they set it up…

I am just happy I pushed for bitwarden for so long so people can stop using Name2026! Format and other crap.

In efficiency? Because high power draw for better performance is a major downside for a phone… Just like how Nvidia GPU performance has pretty much just scaled a bit above their wattage. I would much rather have previous gen performance at half the power draw…

Love new Vegas! I am going to see if I can get this running for Bazzite!

Vibe coded?

If you are a power user, much better.

Pretty much all of the functions are available, but less automatic (one click) graphing.

But you can directly integrate python scripts so the sky in the limit, you can use Pandas, numpy, matplotlib to make much better figures and do in-sheet data analysis that sheets could only dream of.

Red plus should be safe from that. The drives they are talking about are bottom of the barrel external HDDs.

The standard nternal WD blues were used as an actual 5400rpm reference.

Red plus’s are the helium-fille (higher drives)d upgrade for reds, so they would general be safe too.

I should measure my 2 4TB and 1 10TB red plus. Might be too quiet to actually get a good reading though. Those things spinning are crazy quiet.

Eh, I see every 4th project post in open source communities being a cool looking project with no Claude contributed, no AI disclaimer, no agents.md, however when you look at the user’s commit history on the git service, it is

• 10-20 contributions (mostly issues) before 2025
• maybe a couple readme or documentation commits in total
• mid to late 2025, user starts committing 500-5k lines per day, every 3-5 days, evolving from large commits to broken up 100 commits today (following the 2025-2026 timeline where AI started doing the same)
• exact same commit structure that AI uses, and filled with jargon
• no comments at all on the post, or few comments but never responding to anything technical about how the program works.

Probably some confirmation bias going on on both our sides.

They why try to hide it? If AI is not problematic at all, why do 90% of AI bros hide it and refuse to disclose and when they do are often extremely cagey about it?

For these types of projects, it is standardized what compiler they are building against, kernel /proc allows you to see what compiler was used.

Why does AI, which Linus himself has compared to compilers numerous times, get a complete pass and absolutely nothing has to be specified about them whatsoever (in the anti-AI-Disclosure advocation space of course)?

I moved and had my computer shipped via sea. Literally 8 months with no update, update was massive, no issue at all (arch BTW).

Most of my update problems were either a keyring or a problem with an AUR package that had to be uninstalled, update ran, and reinstalled again because of a dependency loop.

I run bazzite now just because I literally don’t have to remember to update, but arch-based is completely fine.

The only major problems I every had were on Mint and Opensuse, 12 and 5 years ago respectively. All distros are pretty care-free nowadays I think (except manjaro).

Honestly fairphone would also be a good option. One of the most repairable phones, swappable modules (well, replaceable since nobody makes aftermarket modules), and they already have a history of working with 3rd party OS providers.

Do you operate a webserver on them with software service(s)?

I would consider WRT management self hosting, personally. Pi-hole also, but you aren’t running paperless-ngx, pihole, or HomeAssistant on your lightbulb/Shelby switch.

I just got a fairphone 6. Removable battery!

Smart watch:

ZsWatch. They are developing the PPG sensor and I have used their PPG sensor hub driver for my own smart watch project. The guy heading it up is super knowledgable.

Healthy Pi Move this one seems interesting but maybe less open.

Also with GadgerBridge, you can have complete local control of many smart watches like Amazfit (Helio strap is my choice there for accuracy and whoop alternative. Bip3 is also very accurate) and a lot of Garmins and xiaomi.

Huh, interesting. I had the opposite experience.

I mean the tabs are nice, but then everything is just a clusterfuck of randomly made pages, no tags, bad search, and pretty much only a filesystem of organization (especially in a team). Liked the hand-written to OCR feature though.

I only found obsidian a bit ago, but getting into wikilinks with every association to another note makes everything very findable, which is the most important if you are looking for a note you made 6 months ago but only know tertiary info about it.

To each their own!

Wasn’t google DARPA tech that was given to PhD students for a PhD project?

Difference in scale. Very common in new electronics.

If you produce <10k units per year, you are in the “fuck you” category of customers where most companies won’t even give you the time of day, much less data sheets under NDAs, design tools, or actual access to their chips at somewhat reasonable prices. Chips that are 5 years old are often fully open. This is especially egregious in the wearables space… (Not saying it is for this phone, per se)

Also older chips use RAM that can actually still be bought because smartphone companies + AI bullshit haven’t bought all of the stock for the next 2 years.

To be honest, handy is pretty much the best out there, also for multi language STT