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I guess even Elon has his limit in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, there have definitely been, we'll call them "prominent posters" here who fit the bill.

I guess even Elon has his limit in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Around the time of KIA, the NRA getting money from Russia, the change in T_D from laughing at trump t9 being full maga, the changes to r/conspiracy, etc?

Yeah I think that was the specific influence of a certain former superpower that has spent a few years fighting a few days worth of war, but that's my bit of conspiracy theory. Its just too coincidental (with too many known incidents) for me not to believe its all related.

I guess even Elon has his limit in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Earlier than that actually, by another 10 years, in an event called the Portland Massacre by opponents of changes which dropped the elements of the Dallas Accord. That'd when the takeover occurred, though the takeover began about 10 years before that.

So its effectively been a total shit show for about 30 years by my estimates.

How much money would it take for you to never listen to your favourite artist again? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I've definitely trimmed some artists from my personal music library over their politics.

Debate in nuclear-armed former colony fails to reassure global community in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I still think that's why Vance thinks Haitians are eating cats.

Debate in nuclear-armed former colony fails to reassure global community in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The US doesn't want that either.

Debate in nuclear-armed former colony fails to reassure global community in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be quiet, resident of "Further North Dakota".

TIL I can restore games on Steam, which I removed years ago in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Honestly don't remember the names, its been.... Quite a while. I'll have to open and check.

Iirc it was also some I stored as gifts that became unknown or something, and I wasn't able to send them.

TIL I can restore games on Steam, which I removed years ago in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The bigger issue to me are games that were removed from steam and I can no longer get.

Which is why I don't bother buying on steam anymore. If I'm buying, its DRM-free only.

My wife has an iPhone. I have a Samsung S23. Why do videos she texts me look like super low res shit?? Can iPhones not text videos? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yup, xmpp is the way to be still IMO.

My wife has an iPhone. I have a Samsung S23. Why do videos she texts me look like super low res shit?? Can iPhones not text videos? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes but it wasn't marketed that way. Which is why there is more interest.

Apple has been blatantly obvious that they want it to remain proprietary and exclusively on their hardware.

My wife has an iPhone. I have a Samsung S23. Why do videos she texts me look like super low res shit?? Can iPhones not text videos? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Because imessage is proprietary and apple is against it being publicly available and a standard.

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Touchscreens, Debian, and Having Fun - Ideas? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I got my hands on a Lenovo ThinkSmart Hub 500 - you may have seen these in conference rooms, its a small Teams Room or Zoom Room device, based off their Tiny lineup, with a built-in touch display thats about 11" in diagonal.

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkSmart/ThinkSmart_Hub_500/ThinkSmart_Hub_500_Spec.pdf

I left the 128gb nvme in there for now, and threw Debian 12 on it. Touch worked throughout the installation process, all I did was attach a keyboard, power, and network (along with the thumb drive with netinstall), now installed with KDE.

Considering the specs, the only part I'm surprised works well is the touchscreen, its otherwise just a generic lenovo tiny (which I have several of already, 6th-9th gen, as part of my tiny/mini/micro server stack). I could have chosen a different flavor, but I'm a long, long, loooonngggg time Debain user so its my go-to.

In terms of touch, tap, drag, and long press are all working. Video looks good with the UI set at 125% scaling, and to be candid its rather snappy and responsive.

I did this 100% for my own personal entertainment, so now for some thoughts for the community - what would be fun to use it for? A few of my thoughts....

I could use it as a HomeAssistant kiosk. Neat, but.... overkill compared to the tablets doing the same job.
Make it an emulation station, attach my steam controller and maybe my usb adapters for N64/GC/Sega/PS/etc.
Use it to test a series of distributions to see how well they handle touch drivers for this silly thing (EndeavorOS is probably going to happen, I may be a long time Debian guy but I should spend more regular time in other things, and not just my arch VMs).
I don't know, gcompris for my kids? They already have it though on an android tablet and an old mac mini (like, 2011ish) hooked up to the TV in the living room.
Make it another proxmox endpoint for the cluster, install a DE anyway, and then let it be an always-visible display for grafana?
Install OBS, let the hdmi capture have some purpose?

What about you folks, what would you find fun to do with this box?