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may_pretender

@ may_pretender @feddit.ro

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  • [AskEurope] Europeans, what is your favorite country of Europe other than your own?

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  • It's hard for me to say because I haven't lived in another country other than my own for any amount of time. It's funny though how all the answers are countries in the west :)) Send some love to the balkans please.

  • Russia rewrites history with new textbooks urging children to seize 'opportunity' of war

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  • 1984 much?

  • Looking to buy some ram chips to solder

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  • Hardware @lemmy.ml
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    Hardware ideas

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  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    I made a bitwarden-cli wrapper so it's actually usable - Feddit.ro

    feddit.ro /post/70326

  • Hardware ideas

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  • Haha, this unfortunately falls way out of my area of expertise :)

  • Hardware ideas

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  • this sounds cool, and not too complicated to implement :)

  • Hardware ideas

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  • To give some ideas as well, maybe there could be some addons powered from the electric longboard, but I can't really see how they could be useful. The main problem I see is that you'd need a wire coming from the longboard to the user / addon. this seems dangerous.

    Maybe you can have the longboard battery be detachable, or have a smaller detachable batterry different from the main one that you could use for other tasks? (both being chardged either externally or through regenerative braking)

    But tbh, I think such a project would overcomplicate and miss the point of the longboard.

  • Hardware ideas

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  • Interesting ideas! I'm don't do mobile dev either, but regarding your first point, I think the idea is very cool, but taking that direction would be very difficult. Achieving what you suggest the easy way is through a mobile app. The problem is that the if we're looking at older phones that are not supported anymore, they aren't secure, so we could run into problems there. The second option you suggested, which is a single purpose ROM seems very cool, but it also seems very daunting, as it is hardware specific from my understanding.

    I'm not familiar with the animal prosthetic field too much, but could be an idea.

    thank you, and please share more ideas if you can :)

  • Hardware ideas

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  • this could be interesting. unfortunately I am not at all familiar with composting so don't understand why this would be useful. could you please explain why temperature monitoring is important for composting, or direct me to somewhere I could read more for myself? I want to learn, thanks :)

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
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  • What terminal file manager that you use, if any?

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  • I mostly use a gui file manager, but when I do use a terminal based one I use ranger. Haven't tried others, I just like this one.

  • Privacy Guides @lemmy.one
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    Has anyone used Kagi Search (search engine)?

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  • Neovim @sopuli.xyz
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    Should I switch my Neovim config from VimScript to Lua?

  • Just finished cs50 need some guidance.

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  • As other poster recommended, you should by all means install Linux and learn by using it as a daily driver.

  • Just finished cs50 need some guidance.

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  • What is your end goal with this? Going for BSc in Computer Science / Engineering would enable you to become a developer / computer scientist.

    Photo/video/vector editing seems very out of place in your plan. That's just another domain. If you're passionate about those visual arts, that's great and more power to you, but know they're not relevant for a computer scientist. Src: I've been there.

    Regarding everything else you've said, it seems to me that you're learning stuff without a direction and just because you've heard those things (cs50 / linux), are important. I suggest you choose a moderately difficult task (game, app, tool, website, ehatever) that seems interesting for you to create, (install linux) and start working on it, and focus on finishing it. You'll learn a lot on the way and gain a broader understanding of how a project is pieced together. Most importantly, you'll figure out what you don't know, and thus eill have a direction going forward.

    And don't get me wrong, you're right, you can gain a lot of valuable knowledge by going through cs50 or learning to use the linux terminal, but it's not really useful unless information, unless you apply it to a project.

  • What are your recommended FOSS Android apps?

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  • very interesting. I honestly never considered going without microG. I wonder if it's viable for my usecase.

  • What are your recommended FOSS Android apps?

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  • It's very interesting that OP doesn't use microG. How do you deal with no notifications? Do you use apps with custom (non-google) notification support? What are the disadvantages?

    Here's a list of apps I use that are not on OP's list:

    Compared to OP, I do use MicroG with LineageOS. I also use quite a few closed source apps (banking apps, uber-like, car/bike sharing, some local apps for public transport, chatting apps, navigation, etc) but I do try my best to avoid them if I can. From time to time I log into Facebook / Instagram or use Google Maps in the browser, but don't have the apps installed.

  • FOSS for Android @social.fossware.space
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    Document Scanner recommendations

  • Best Laptop for Linux

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  • Mint is a very good start! If you don't like it you can always switch later

  • Best Laptop for Linux

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  • With that budget you should be able to get your hands on a machine with plenty of power. My recomendation would go to a lenovo t480/t480s. I was planning to buy one of those for myself but my current laptop is still good enough. Regardless of the device you choose, I would recomend portability over power: power efficient i5 4 cores, 8gb (idealy 16gb) ram, ssd storage, lightweight and good battery.

    To answer your last question, you shouldn't be concerned about performance. Linux can give life to old hardware, but you're not really looking at old hardware.

    As a cybersec student myself, I would suggest starting out with a generic linux distro and just install the tools you need as you go. If you really need kali, install it in a vm. I say this because I expect you'll use Linux as your daily driver, and Kali is NOT mean to be a daily driver, but a tool for when you need it. And "when you need it" will come with experience I guess.