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thepete2··on Fedora on the PinePhone: Pipewire Calling
It's a handy portable linux device. A phone that lets you treat it like a real computer, not a locked down consumer device.
thepete2··on Fedora on the PinePhone: Pipewire Calling
Once you separate the phone into its parts you can only improve the parts, not the whole phone. I would think that's the problem from the manufacturer's side.
thepete2··on Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
Only if you assume that demand cannot go down.
thepete2··on Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin
Why not just use proof of stake and get it of all the useless nonce-calculations?
thepete2··on [dead]
and it doesn't even fulfill its purpose if it's as volatile as bitcoin
thepete2··on A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime
Improper input sanitation, you can potentially add raw html to other people's pages (XSS).
thepete2··on How hard should I push myself?
*food insecure, the calory defiency number (undernourished) is given as 820M people.
thepete2··on Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
who knows, maybe they come up with something better
thepete2··on PINE64 December Update
Thanks for bringing my attention to this. A blob-free wifi and ble risc-v chip? Hell yeah!
thepete2··on CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)
Maybe lying is the wrong word. But the conclusion that "the longer you play the more you enjoy the game" is very misleading.
thepete2··on CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)
"we started with a score of 70, but now it’s 79. If you filter those who have played 10 hours or more, the score is 85 –so the more you play the more enjoyment you feel."

Lying with statistics 101. It's obviously impossible that people who didn't enjoy the game played less than 10 hours

thepete2··on PINE64 December Update
Oh and btw. for the price of an iPhone charger [0] you can literally buy 3 extra batteries plus charger ... [1]

[0] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MHXH3AM/A/magsafe-charger

[1] https://pine64.com/product-category/smartphone-spare-parts

thepete2··on PINE64 December Update
They plan on making a keyboard for the Pinephone which effectively gives you a ~$250 phone-sized linux computer with a cell phone modem. That's seriously cool
thepete2··on SpaceX launches and nearly lands starship on its first suborbital flight
Oh yes, today I learned that RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly) is apparently an established term, but I didn't get what "engine rich" means until now.
thepete2··on Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
There is Syncthing of course [0], which is quite easy to set up. Also if you need your storage to be always online, there's rclone [1].

Some privacy focused mail providers (like mailbox.org) have cloud capabilities too.

[0] https://syncthing.net/

[1] https://rclone.org/

thepete2··on The case for building a SETI observatory on the moon
It runs in the browser? Archive.org is awesome :)
thepete2··on Google says its carbon footprint is now zero
I bet Google is really glad there are reckless, cheaply preventable greenhouse-gas emissions like that. And thank god no one has regulated it yet.

Otherwise you'd have to look at your OWN emissions, who wants to do that?

thepete2··on Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
we're getting there [0]

[0] https://xkcd.com/2105/

thepete2··on Oatly: The New Coke?
Why berries? Any coffee-like effects that they have? Or just because they're unprocessed fruit?
thepete2··on Oatly: The New Coke?
Personally I use nothing™
thepete2··on Oatly: The New Coke?
I think "the new coke" just refers to the misleading marketing, no? But you're right of course.
thepete2··on Oatly: The New Coke?
Do you rely on traditional Chinese medicine? Why would you do that?
thepete2··on Oatly: The New Coke?
> The article doesn't mention the packaging

Every time I go to the grocery store I wonder why we haven't come up with standardized food boxes that you can just refill. Probably has to do with hygiene, but god I hate buying so much packaging...

thepete2··on Cloudflare was down
same here. I tried if hacker news still works and saw this
thepete2··on Ask HN: If given freedom to choose, what full-time job would you choose and why?
That sounds like fun. I often wish I could spend more time in nature.
thepete2··on Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?
Hmm, I can design a wall, analyze a diaper and butcher a sonnet.
thepete2··on Ask HN: Has anybody else had issues playing YouTube videos in Firefox?
The only minor annoyance I have is that I put a video on fullscreen, it takes a second or so. First the frame resizes and then the picture, doesn't happen with chromium/chrome.
thepete2··on Ask HN: A simple solution to limit surveillance capitalism?
My understanding is that the most important data is the data you don't share actively. Instead your browser / app sends it unbeknownst to you. You don't "tell" facebook where you click and how you scroll, but they have that data anyway. The only choice you have is not to use the products.
thepete2··on The relationship between mindset and age (2017)
I wish it would be normal and accepted for adults to play too. You can still be a responsible and grown-up person.
thepete2··on Show HN: Street View Simple – Explore Street View Data in a Browser
np, I've got to stop using esr, but debian comes with it :)
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