Canadian, Stone Mason, Ex-Pat living in the UK.
I got an Honor magic V3 just a few months ago, looking back I wish I'd looked into honor a bit more, but I'm quite happy with it despite it skimming all my info.
I wouldn't have upgraded but I gave my old backup phone(S9 Edge) to my best friend last year after his iPhone something or other bricked itself with an update 1 day after end of warranty.
If I hadn't passed on my old backup I would have just kept on using the 20fe, loved it. Mine was 3.5 years old when I bought the V3, and the battery was definitely starting to go. Still good enough for an "Oh Shit I've Smashed My Phone" phone.
Pretty sure the 20fe is the last Samsung flagship with a microSD slot, they've completely done away with it except on the budget phone/tablet lines(A and J?)
Change is good, inescapable sure, but without change there would be nothing. We have a tendency to fixate on the shitty bits. A lot of my depression always circles are fixation on shitty stuff happening around me. I'm still depressed, but looking around and counting the things that are going right helps me bring into focus how minimal the shitty stuff is. At the end of the day, I have all my fingers and toes, my heart's still ticking, and the fickle removed that is our daily circumstance can change in an instant.
What did you think of the 20FE? That was my last phone. I quite liked it in a lot of ways. My one point of major annoyance was the low volume of the ring tones. I know it can get louder because media being played on the speakers gets significantly louder, but I can't make the ringtone be audible from my pocket on a busy street?
The true sign of a dull man is one-upmanship
They're still perfectly functional. As long as you're happy not having ray tracing, and are willing to settle for not running everything on max gfx, there's no reason to buy a 50, 40 or 30 series. I'm able to play most new games that interest me on medium gfx with no issues.
At any age, with any amount of money or success, and with as many or few good people who love you in your life.
I'm still rocking my 1080ti and I paid $140 CAD when the 20 series dropped.
Is the guillotine in the room with us right now?
To be clear, I support an "Eat The Rich" global policy.
Also worth asking what the condition the roads themselves are in. Where I live in Edinburgh, and for probably a mile and a bit in all directions, the roads are more pothole than road. Add to that narrow roads to begin with, and the restrictions being done for traffic "calming." Just last week I nearly dislocated my shoulder when I hit a pothole at 10mph and the pitch cranked my front passenger side wheel way to the left...I just avoided smashing into the parked cars on the side. Normally in that stretch I would be a bit closer to the centre of the road, but with an Amazon delivery truck double parked and a bus passing it, I was only about a meter away from the parked cars. That isn't even in a stretch with a narrow road....
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Edit: to be clear, I am aware of SCP, and kinda understand what it's about. I am open to not just an explanation of this comic but a broad explanation of SCP in general.
.......what the actual fuck did I just look at? I don't really follow SCP, came here from all. I'm lost and afraid... please explain what is happening!
I mean...the cartoon has basically all kinds of coffee prep excepting french press, aeropress and the various ways to make cold brew. Are you talking about instant coffee? Because that's definitely windows....
Yeah, wow....I knew there was heavy media bias towards Israel....but this a bit fucking much
Fair play. I suppose I had meant something along the same lines as what you said.
Sure, it would also be probably one of the stupidest options available to them....
Journey into self-hosting
So, I have a rpi4b that's currently running a VPN for family abroad. I'm just finishing setting up Ubuntu server 24.04LTS(I have limited number of USB sticks, and the largest is only 8gb, so this choice was one of size, I can go into ones I had considered before) on an old laptop. For my small business I've also bought a domain for a work email, and eventually a website both are/will be hosted externally as I don't want to faff about with securing those aspects on my home network. The VPN though, that is currently pointing to no-ip dns service, and I want to migrate that to both the laptop and my own registered domain. What's best practices here? I do need the VPN to exit through to my network, so that my MiL can watch UK streaming from abroad(TV licence shenanigans).
I bought a Surface Pro 4 - Update
So I posted a few weeks ago asking for opinions on the Surface Pro 4, trying to decide if I should pick one up and slap Linux on it. Opinions were.....mixed.
I got a decent deal on one, and that's partly why it's taken me so long to post an update. It was cheap because the previous buyer had returned it to the seller claiming that there were power issues. The seller said they hadn't encountered said issues in the hour or so of testing they did, and I call fucking bullshit! Once powered off or restarted it was taking up to 48hrs before it would grace me with booting up. And usable time ranged for 15mins to an hour before system lockup resulting in either a freeze until battery run out, or immediate system shutdown, and another 12-48hrs wait to power it up again. Obviously this is suboptimal.
Part of the issue, possibly unsurprisingly, was windows and the stripped down BIOS. After turning off secure boot, turning off the "battery saver" mode(restricts charging to 50% of total capacity) and scrubbing windows off the drive like a crusty booger...things have improved. I'm still unable to restart the device, restart powers down, but no power up. Wait times to power up again went from probably 36hrs average to 2hrs average, and if I just don't turn it off, the system is stable.
My time with Nobara on the surface has been really enjoyable, everything is just stock, I've not wanted to muck around too much and get attached in case I can't figure out the actual root cause of the power issues. As such, not really much else to report other than Nobara running well, and pretty much everything running as well or better than when windows was installed. Touch functionality works slightly differently in Nobara than Windows, but that's not really a bother for me.
If any of you greybeard wizards has any ideas on what might be happening with the power cycle issues I'd appreciate some suggestions. I think it may be a battery issue, but I'm waiting on a hot air station to be able to open it up and have a proper look at it's guts. Doesn't seem to have anything to do with temps, that was my first thought but that didn't pan out.
Thinking about buying a Surface Pro 4/5
Just putting out feelers, anyone here run Linux on a surface pro 4 or 5? What distro did you use, and how did it go?
Edit: I've pulled the trigger on a Surface Pro 4. I'll make a new post in a week with my early impressions, which distro I've gone with, etc etc etc.
OpenVPN and NoIP not playing nice
I've got OpenVPN running, and the NoIP DUC running, if I setup OpenVPN to use my current IP everything works well, can connect, and more importantly can access the Internet. If I configure it to use my DynDNS through NoIP then it allows my to connect, but I then have no access outside my local network. If I was just trying to access a server that would be fine, but obviously this is supposed to be a VPN.....
Is there any interest in "Homebrew Music" Community?
I've been making tunes for 20+ years, I'd like to post some somewhere for you people to probably not enjoy much as it's a bit shit.
Slave Labour - Owl Head
Track I made a few months ago, and a picture to go with it by one of the AI generative programs.
Can't figure out how to reply to items in Inbox
Prior to 0.0.33 there were all the buttons below messages, vote arrows, show context, mark read and reply. Have they been hidden and I just don't know how to show them? Is this a bug? Am I dumb?
EDIT: Added my bug report as embedded post link.
EDIT²: Closing my bug report, solution is to long press on the username area of the message.
0.0.33 update log should mention this. It's a good feature, but frustrating if it's not mentioned in the documentation.
Edit³: I believe that the line in the changelog:
"Comment action bar improvements by @twizmwazin in #453" Refers to what is happening, I'm not entirely sure.
Hoping to drive more engagement here, sooooo....
What's everyone reading? I'm on book 10 of the Wheel of Time, and Creatures of Light and Darkness by Alan Dean Foster
I'm currently using the playstore version, should I be using the fdroid version?
The title, also here's a picture of my cat to drive engagement.