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How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik') in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You needed: kernel driver, closed source userspace driver, GStreamer plugin, v4l2 loopback driver, v4l2 relay daemon copying frames from the GStreamer source into v4l2 loopback. Technically I could have made it work, I just decided not to.

https://launchpad.net/~oem-solutions-group/+archive/ubuntu/intel-ipu6 https://github.com/intel/ipu6-camera-bins

How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik') in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Earlier this year I was given one of those XPS machines with Ubuntu and decided to install Debian on it. The camera driver was so bad - I can't remember technical details but you can't simply get it to run on another kernel, it was a mess of hacks to get it to work. I decided I won't get a camera driver. "We ship a laptop with Ubuntu" does not necessarily mean working Linux drivers.

EDIT: To add insult to injury, the touch bar suddenly decided to stop responding to input. It's already bad enough to not have tactile feedback for Esc / Fn keys / Delete / Print Screen.

Fashion is a weird thing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No, I commute in jeans. Makes it super hard to find high-waist jeans that are narrow at the bottom and also have a certain degree of elasticity, so when I find them I buy a lot.

Fashion is a weird thing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I cycle, so I'm definitely not a fan of low waist jeans. I want my lower back to feel warm and covered.

[@privacyguides](https://mastodon.neat.computer/@privacyguides) [@privacy](https://lemmy.ml/c/privacy) would really love to ditch my smartphone for a dumb phone. I’m skeptical that my calls would no l in c/[email protected]
[@privacyguides](https://mastodon.neat.computer/@privacyguides) [@privacy](https://lemmy.ml/c/privacy) would really love to ditch my smartphone for a dumb phone. I’m skeptical that my calls would no l in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Get a Pinephone, or a Fairphone with Ubuntu. More privacy and more features than dumb phones.

Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well, maybe you are:

  • Planning a surprise party
  • Leaving a job
  • Trying to escape an abusive relationship
  • Famous
  • Writing a detective novel
  • A writer without a publisher
  • Searching about an embarrassing medical condition
  • Having a crush in someone
  • In the closet
  • A teenager with controlling parents
  • Having a hobby that's considered embarrassing or childish
  • Having a psycho stalker
  • Buying a present from Santa
  • A reporter who doesn't want to reveal their sources
  • Buying a toilet and you don't want toilet recommendations for the rest of your life
  • Lending your computer to someone, and you don't want your recommended videos to change
  • Under an NDA

... Or maybe you're talking with someone who's in one of those categories.

We have to normalise privacy in order to keep these people safe. For instance, it's a stupid example but it works, if I always use private browser windows, my husband won't suspect anything when I'm looking for a gift for him.

That's only the tip of the iceberg and it's not even touching some bigger problems:

  • You can be profiled based on your likes, social media posts, purchase history, etc, and maybe used for election results manipulation, or who knows what else. That's not a conspiracy theory, it has happened, see for instance Cambridge Analytica.
  • Maybe the political situation will change in the future. Oops, now your data is suddenly in the hands of a malicious dictator.
  • If you keep a backdoor open to let the "good and trusted" actors in, there's no way to not let malicious actors in as well.
Any open source wrapper for Facebook Messenger? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

SlimSocial for Facebook works, it's just slow.

Workspaces / Virtual Desktops – do you use them on your laptop, desktop, or both? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I also use them on both, KDE has default bindings.

My wife always wanted a child with an unusual spelling of a popular name in c/[email protected]
Privacy respecting location sharing?(find my friends) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use this and you can preemptively create some groups you can share your location to, then turn those on. If this works for you.

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Camping-style cold brew tea (sh.itjust.works)
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Camping-style cold brew (toot.cat)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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We used a sencha flavoured with banana, mango, melon, etc: https://tea.gr/eshop/caribbean-cocktail/

We left about two tablespoons of tea in 300ml of room temperature water for maybe an hour, then bought a bottle of cold water, emptied 300ml from it, and put the concentrate in. Very tasty and refreshing.

Our plastic jug is old and has a lot of salt stains unfortunately, sorry for this.

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Throwback to when we got ~45mm of rain in 30min when camping (sh.itjust.works)
 

Fortunately everything was safe. We just barely managed to collect all our things from outside (apart from the jug, which we left on purpose), and the tent took absolutely no water inside.

Couldn't get this wrong because there was only one option in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, apparently you're right! I just made a quick search. I was speaking based on what a Japanese friend had told me long ago, but maybe he had misunderstood it too.

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Finally managed to combine cold tea with gong fu brewing (sh.itjust.works)
 

Normally it takes two gaiwan-fuls to fill my mug. This time I brewed it both times with a bit less water, then cooled it down a bit by using another mug (pour it from one mug into the other, rinse the now empty mug with tap water, repeat), and at the end I topped it up with ice cubes.

Using this oolong: https://yunnansourcing.com/products/imperial-jin-guan-yin-aaa-grade-anxi-oolong-tea

As is the case for every cold tea, it tends to conceal a bit its more delicate flavours. However, this tea's aftertaste is thick and sweet with some milky flavours, so this is retained very well in the end result. The astringency is a bit more pronounced in the cold version, but it essentially goes from non-existent to very mild, so that's not a problem.

Unfortunately I have to use a Mighty Mug when drinking next to the computer, in order to prevent spilling (I've had to change a laptop keyboard because of this), so you can't see the colour of the tea.

I tried uploading pictures, but the server is giving out errors, so you can view them here: https://toot.cat/@vivia/110666587179203337

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How do I subscribe to a community on a different server? (sh.itjust.works)
 

I found an interesting community on another server. When I search for it in the Communities page, I get on Subscribe link. When I click into it from the search results, the Subscribe button is not a button but just plain text. In the past both these options worked for subscribing to a new community, but what do I do now that they're both broken?

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What those sayings actually mean (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Saw this one flying by on Discord.

Image description: A 3x3 collage of literal versions of some popular sayings:

Butterflies [drawing of a flying piece of butter]

Hold your horses [photo of a farmer lifting a whole horse]

Well in that case [drawing of a well inside an empty suitcase]

Well said [picture of a hand holding a microphone to a well]

Holy shit [picture of a hand pointing towards a toilet bowl with light emerging from it]

No way [picture of a road that's suddenly getting cut off]

Let that sink in [picture of a bathroom sink standing outside an open door]

Well that sucks [picture of a vacuum cleaner poking out of a well]

Okay this is crazy [drawing of 3 humans, the left one is named Okay, the right one is named Crazy, and the middle one is introducing them to each other]

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Our summer home (sh.itjust.works)
 

Chalkidiki, Greece. We don't spend the whole summer there, but go back and forth quite often.

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A modest proposal (sh.itjust.works)
 

Source: https://twitter.com/ScriptingJapan/status/1673932232036319232

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ナース (sh.itjust.works)
 

Source: https://twitter.com/kudo_70/status/1447140179504939016

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Has anyone else become super sensitive to cigarette smoke since the lockdowns? (sh.itjust.works)
 

In the distant past, I used to be able to sit down at a bar where people would smoke, and not mind at all. Then came the smoking ban, which made me find it unpleasant, but not a big deal. Then came the lockdowns, and I got used to breathing super fresh air all the time. Now I start coughing if someone outdoors smokes 5m away from me and the wind blows it in my direction. Does this happen to anyone else or is it just me?

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New kanji just dropped (sh.itjust.works)
 

Source: https://twitter.com/tsudashin/status/1413733451488919555

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Best replies to「日本語、上手ですね」 (sh.itjust.works)
 
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