Generally no. I feel like I’m always getting screwed. High price, rushed job because they don’t care/have to get to the next job.

One house emergency I’m dealing with right now (I have several) is that the contractor who installed a toilet and tile (paid by previous owner) half assed it and didn’t seat the toilet properly and didn’t install the tiles properly. So water leaked from underneath the toilet, traveled through hollow tiles, and reached my drywall. I got a mold problem now.

This is why I generally try to do things myself. I don’t trust people.

I just started experimenting with SailfishOS, a Linux (non-Android) OS for phones. It’s got an app store, but since it’s not Android the app selection is pretty limited. I was actually wondering if this could be a compromise between full smartphone and full dumbphone.

I am able to run some Android apps, by installing them through F-Droid, like Bitwarden, but it seems like I wouldn’t be able to install Facebook I think? Idk. Literally just got this SailfishOS phone from Jolla Devices yesterday.

Recommendations only appear in the mobile app.

Holy moly! There they are! Thank you!!!

I’ve been mostly using the website!

I recently signed up for Qobuz as well… The plan is to stream for a while, but buy music along the way so I’m not left with nothing at the end like Spotify.

I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong but… Do recommendations not work at all? It seems like the recommendations are some global list for everyone, not a personalized list based on what I’m listening to. I’ve been trying to click the heart icon for stuff I like, but it doesn’t seem to change the recommendations…

Someone needs to make: buenus - clean room proprietary software to AGPLv3

It’s satire, but also fully functional. And they take money.

So, it’s a bit like your boss saying: you’re fired! LOL. Hahahaha. It’s a joke! Laugh! But, also you are really fired.

HiDPI has been an issue on Linux for decades. If you’re new to Linux, I’d highly recommend you do not get a HiDPI display. You’re gonna have to apply workarounds to get your apps looking normal and for some apps you might just be stuck with blurry fonts.

If you’re new to Linux and want less problems, avoid HiDPI.

Just look at how big this thread got: https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-state-of-hidpi-on-linux/8301

doesn’t mean every customer that wants high resolution has to suffer.

There’s no possible solution to this problem. Oh, no. If only someone could invent some way where customers that want to deal with bugs could buy a HiDPI display and customers who just want their software to work could chose a regular DPI display. Like, if 2 options were available or something crazy like that… Idk.

Also yeah, I’m on a super niche DE nobody has ever heard of: GNOME.

I’ve dealt with this first hand. It was so bad I returned my old Framework. Not doing that again. Anyway, looks like nothing has changed. Have fun dealing with scaling issues. ✌️

It better not have a HiDPI display… It’s not “fully Linux compatible” if they ship it with a buggy, non-compatible HiDPI display.

“Full Linux support” should mean I don’t have blurry fonts, oddly shaped windows, stuck using only certain DEs, stuck using only certain apps.

Fuck this ad for AI. It’s trying to make it seem like workers don’t use AI because they’re scared. It’s only 8% that said they were scared. The rest of us 92% workers aren’t scared we’re going to be replaced by AI. We see how shitty AI is and we don’t like it because it sucks and makes things slower, not faster.

The super-users we surveyed were around 3x more likely to have received both a promotion and pay raise in the past year, compared to employees who have been slow to adopt these tools

I do agree with this point. One of my team members recently got a lot of brownie points because he’s been doing AI demos. The execs love him because he’s visibly following orders. Does he generate way more code than everyone else? YES, this is actually a horrible thing, but execs are clueless and think more code == more better. Is he more productive than others? Definitely not. The hot garbage he’s generating is just bug-ridden tech debt.

I guess I’m sabotaging our AI rollout by getting out of the way. You wanna inject AI everywhere? Fine, do it. I’m not gonna review it though. If you can’t take the time to write something, I’m not going to spend my time reading it.

Ooh! And you can add an F-Droid repo!
https://molly.im/fdroid/

What’s your alternative?

TIL, thanks!

Stop it, Patrick! You’re scaring him! Fairphone, Jolla, SailfishOS, GrapheneOS! 👻

Today, AI can be pointed at an open source codebase and systematically scan it for vulnerabilities.

Well, then do that.

iknowrite? If these magical scanners can find all the bugs in your code… then why don’t they use these magical scanners to find all their bugs in their code!!! 😂

LOL.

Before, the whole world operated on “security through obscurity”…

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. 😂 🤡

Relevant, Qobuz AI policy: https://community.qobuz.com/ai-charter

Yeah… I’m gonna wait for 15.1…

Damn it, nutbutter. I was supposed to go to sleep, but I watched most of the video for you.

tl;dw -> Some random dude in Arizona ordered some coffee from cafe where all the baristas are girls wearing bikinis. When he pulled up to the drive thru window, the barista was shocked to see the man wasn’t wearing pants. She recorded him and posted the video online. The man panicked and killed himself.

Also known as dynamic or personalized pricing, surveillance pricing is when a store charges different shoppers different prices for the same item at the same time, based on something the store “knows” about them as an individual. … American consumers are subject to dynamic pricing millions of times every day when they are buying airline tickets online, using Uber, or ordering anything on Amazon.com.

Airplane tickets and Uber I was familiar with. I wasn’t totally aware Amazon did that too.