I Tried Running Ubuntu on My Phone, Here's How It Went
I Tried Running Ubuntu on My Phone, Here's How It Went
Is Ubuntu Touch good enough to replace Android?Derrik Diener (How-To Geek)
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Volcano erupts in eastern Indonesia, killing 6
At least six people died after Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki in eastern Indonesia erupted late on Sunday, spewing explosive plumes of lava and forcing authorities to evacuate several nearby villages, officials said on Monday.Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, located on Flores Island in East Nusa Tenggara province, erupted on Sunday at 11.57pm local time, belching a fiery-red column of lava, volcanic ash and incandescent rocks, Hadi Wijaya, a spokesman for The Centre of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation, said on Monday.
“After the eruption, there was power outage and then it was raining and big lightning which caused panic among residents,” he said, adding that the authority had raised the status of the volcano to level IV or the highest.
The agency has recommended a 7km (4.35 miles) radius must be cleared.
The Disaster Management Agency lowered the known death toll from an earlier report of nine, saying it had received updated information from local authorities. Heronimus Lamawuran, a local official at East Flores area, said the eruption had affected seven villages.
The authorities are still gathering data on the number of evacuees and damaged buildings.
Indonesia sits on the “Pacific Ring of Fire”, an area of high seismic activity atop multiple tectonic plates.
This eruption follows a series of eruptions of different volcanoes in Indonesia. In May, a volcano on the remote island of Halmahera, Mount Ibu, caused the evacuation of people from seven villages.
“I promise you that you will never be defeated. Victory grows where blood waters it.”
With great pride and honor, the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine , announces the martyrdom of its comrade, the heroic fighter “Abdul Hadi Nazih Breish” and its comrade, the martyred heroic fighter “Mohammed Mahmoud Ali”.
And those who were martyred during their heroic confrontation with their heroic comrades and brothers against the brutal Zionist aggression on Lebanon at the Palestinian-Lebanese border on Saturday, October 26, 2024, writing with their blood the most wonderful meanings of sacrifice and redemption, and fierce defenders of our Palestinian people and the Arab nation, and victorious for the afflicted and crushed among our Palestinian and Lebanese peoples in the face of the ongoing Zionist aggression against our existence and our right to liberate Palestine from its river to its sea and all the occupied Arab lands.
Our heroic comrades were a model of a committed, resistant comrade, not a compromising one, advancing to the front lines of confrontation. Despite the great pain of losing our comrades and all our heroes who never gave in, we affirm that this affliction will only increase our determination and steadfastness to continue on the path of the martyrs in struggle and fighting until the last drop of blood for the comprehensive and complete liberation and the expulsion of the occupation from all our Palestinian national soil and the restoration of all our usurped rights by our people and the restoration of the occupied Arab lands in Lebanon and Syria and the revenge for the blood of our martyrs and leaders.
O masses of our people, our nation, and the free people of the world, our war is a war of existence. No matter how great the wounds, we fight it with an inevitable and absolute faith in a resounding victory. This is our eternal message to our steadfast peoples and to all the free people who believe in resistance as a path to salvation, liberation, and victory.
Oh, masses of our heroic people… Oh, free people of our nation and the world
We, in the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, pledge to you and to the blood of our martyrs and heroes throughout the battlefields that we will remain loyal to those who paved the path to freedom with their blood and were not satisfied with anything other than the path illuminated by blood as a path to freedom and independence.
🔻 A military identification card for the martyred comrade “Abdul Hadi Nazih Breish”:
– Born in 1985.
– He joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine early on, and joined the Phalanges since its establishment in Lebanon.
– He received several military courses and participated several times in the Almoravids, where he showed unshakable strength and was an example to be followed in steadfastness in the face of challenges.
– He was always distinguished by his courage and daring, advancing the ranks with unparalleled courage in confronting the enemy, which made him a model of a tough and dedicated fighter.
– He never wavered for a moment in his deep belief in the justice of the cause and in the right of our people to achieve their freedom.
He had a high fighting spirit and was always ready to sacrifice for the sake of the country.
– He was martyred in southern Lebanon while confronting the Zionist aggression on Lebanon on Saturday, October 26, 2024.
🔻 Military identification card for the martyred comrade “Mohamed Mahmoud Ali”:
– Born in 2005.
– A refugee originally from the town of Al-Khasas, occupied Safad District.
– He joined the ranks of the Popular Front in 2020, and then its military wing, the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades.
– He received several military courses and participated in the guards, where he showed courage and steadfastness in the face of difficulties, displaying a high fighting spirit, the ability to face challenges, and determination to move forward.
– He was always at the forefront and never lost his firm belief in victory, dedicated to performing his national duty.
– He was martyred in southern Lebanon while confronting the Zionist aggression on Lebanon on Saturday, October 26, 2024.
Our covenant is an eternal revenge that will never fade away
Glory to the martyrs, freedom to the prisoners, and healing to the wounded.
Tomorrow the fog will clear from the hills… and we will surely be victorious.
Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades
The military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
October 31, 2024
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Following a series of lethal improvised explosive devices (IEDs) ambushes in the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalia, al-Qassam Brigades has taken responsibility for executing another of these ambushes.
IEDs planted in buildings and other areas in the northern Gaza Strip continue to cut into the Zionist military’s renewed aggression on Jabalia, with the most recent case killing two soldiers and injuring another.
In a related development, a Zionist soldier was killed early Saturday morning in the northern Gaza Strip due to a grenade explosion, the Israeli military reported. Simultaneously, the Military Police have reportedly initiated an investigation into the incident, which appears to be unrelated to ongoing combat. While the Israeli army has not released the soldier’s identity, local authorities have identified him as Shneur Zalman Cohen from the occupied West Bank settlement of Yitzhar.
In a related context, the Zionist military command announced, on Saturday, that two soldiers, serving under the 162nd Armored Division’s 84th Givati Infantry Brigade, were killed in the northern Gaza Strip. Zionist broadcaster Channel 14 reported that an IED planted in a building eliminated the two soldiers.
No Palestinian faction has taken responsibility for Saturday’s operation to this point.
Al-Qassam eliminates Zionist ‘Ghosts’
Reports indicate that the two soldiers were killed in a building, which is in close proximity to another building where four elite troops were killed on October 29.
On Saturday, Hamas’ military wing, al-Qassam Brigades, took responsibility for the operation which led to the demise of the four troops. According to statements made by the Israeli military command, one officer and three soldiers, from Unit 888, an elite multidomain force known as “Ghosts”, were killed.
Later, authorities revealed that the force was tasked with clearing a building in Jabalia, which was intended to be used as a command post in the area. However, Al-Qassam Brigades fighters had booby-trapped the structure, killing the four and injuring three others who reached the top floor of the building.
401st Brigade commander falls into Jabalia trap
Yet, the most significant of these incidents is the elimination of the commander of the 162nd Division’s 401st Armored Brigade, Colonel Ehsan Daqsa, on October 20.
Daqsa was among the highest-ranking officers leading the third Israeli ground aggression on Jabalia. The Zionist commander arrived at a site, believed to be a cleared observation point, alongside several other officers.
The Israeli officers were also targeted by al-Qassam fighters, who had set up a claymore in the area, killing Daqsa and wounding several others, including his subordinate, who commands the 52nd Armored Battalion.
Operations announced on Saturday
Palestinian Resistance fighters are also engaging invading Israeli forces in direct confrontations. Al-Qassam Brigades said that its fighters, who had returned from the frontlines in the Jabalia refugee camp, reported targeting two Israeli military D9 bulldozer in one operation.
In another operation, Al-Qassam fighters targeted a D9 bulldozers and detonated an anti-personnel IED into an infantry force, in what they said was a multi-stage ambush.
As for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ) al-Quds Brigades, fighters launched a rocket attack that targeted the city settlement of Sderot and the Mefalsim settlement on Saturday.
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Israeli army claims 'clearing' north Gaza of Hamas will take 'six months'
Israeli army claims 'clearing' north Gaza of Hamas will take 'six months'
Israeli troops are unofficially implementing the Generals' Plan to ethnically cleanse northern Gazathecradle.co
The problem with all these Firefox forks is most of them are dead ends, development wise. They don't contribute upstream. Maybe Tor excluded.
Hopefully this one is different, it does seem to have some actual code behind it rather than just disabling features.
Zen Browser: A New Privacy-Focused Browser(Firefox)
Zen Browser: A New Privacy-Focused Browser Inspired by Arc - Tech Wave Arena
Explore Zen Browser, a new privacy-focused browser inspired by Arc, offering enhanced privacy features and a sleek user experience.Dhana (Tech Wave Arena)
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I’m genuinely asking. It is open source, and people can review the code on GitHub.
I'm always skeptical when something is called privacy focused and the article lists no privacy features.
Does this actually provide any new unique privacy features or is it something akin to arkenfox where it is just getting everything upstream from firefox?
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When I first heard about Zen, I've tested it with EFF like I do for all web browsers I experiment with (from most mainstream to most unknown). Unfortunately, it doesn't offer a full privacy.
Not everyone cares, but if this is something important for you, Librewolf has been the only one to come up with a full privacy protection result. Maybe you could achieve a good result if you use Arkenfox with Firefox... I didn't try it.
zen-browser.app/
I find vertical tabs to be more useful specifically when I have more tabs. Currently using vertical tabs on Vivaldi and I can see 28 and a half tabs without scrolling, which is pretty alright if you're asking me. And Workspaces are quite helpful for the same reason.
For anyone curious, I currently have 2 workspaces at 8 tabs, 1 at 20, 1 at 25 and one at 82, which comes up to 143 tabs , plus 1 more tab in the default Workspace Vivaldi creates, coming up to 144 tabs.
When developers consider their project at "alpha" stage, users should really be wary of the consequences.
So much hype around this browser and everyone touting it, but then, if something breaks and their profile is messed up, then people lose their mind and start cursing the devs.
tldr; It's an alpha build software, and users should treat it as such. Latest build is Alpha build - 1.0.1-a.17 (2024-10-31)
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When I first heard about Zen, I've tested it with EFF like I do for all web browsers I experiment with (from most mainstream to most unknown). Unfortunately, it doesn't offer a full privacy.
Not everyone cares, but if this is something important for you, Librewolf has been the only one to come up with a full privacy protection result. Maybe you could achieve a good result if you use Arkenfox with Firefox... I didn't try it.
The split view seems really useful. I was actually just fiddling with that on my laptop with two browser windows.
How does this compare to LibreWolf or other Firefox derived projects?
Been using zen for the last month or so and it has been pretty good. I went from using super locked down librewolf to using zen. It is not as private by default but can still be tighten down and with proper support for profiles you can compartmentalize it.
It does break and change a lot since it is in alpha but I used to be an arch user so honestly it doesn't bother me too much.
On top of making an effort to be less paranoid, I have also been trying to organize my ADD and having multiple workspaces with vertical tabs really helped me. I have a profile that is manually locked down like librewolf so I am still pretty secure when I need to be.
I do still have librewolf as a backup as my secure clear web browser.
There is no need to hope! Luckily all firefox based browsers can be hardened, Librewolf is just hardened by default. I recommend using Arkenfox. It can be applied to your default profile or an additional profile.
I would say Zen by default is a bit more private than default Firefox but not by a lot.
Always like to test out default installed browsers against browseraudit.com.
Score :
- Passed : 396
- Warning : 35
- Critical : 0
- Skipped : 0
Not too shabby
First I've heard of browseraudit, thanks for sharing!
EDIT: For comparison I got the same scores on Firefox (duh) and the following on Edge.
Score :
- Passed : 392
- Warning : 39
- Critical : 0
- Skipped : 0
Bonus! Browserbench.org speedometer 3.0 scores:
- Firefox; version 132.0.1 (64-bit)): 13.9
- Firefox nightly; version 134.0a1): 18.6
- Zen; version 1.0.1-a.17 (Firefox 132.0)): 17.6
- Edge; version 130.0.2849.68 (Official build) (64-bit): 19.8
So keep using Firefox with some addons unless you really really want inbuilt customization? Zen seems to be more about customisation first and privacy second.
So far I'm gonna pass. My librewolf keeps me happy.
How can we convince the city to set up a Mastodon account?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/32283041
As currently they’re only using YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.History has shown us time and time again that these corporate platforms are unreliable and untrustworthy.
•Twitter has a moderation problem.
•Facebook has been found interfering with the message delivery of crucial information during emergencies, putting people’s lives at risk.
•YouTube often takes down videos for the wildest of reasons and Google had a massive fight with the federal government over Canadian media outlet compensation. Who’s to say they won’t use their dominant position to sabotage the efforts of governments they don’t agree.
We could email the council requesting that they post on the platform.
They could set up an account on one of the larger well established Canadian instances or even better start up their own.
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Offer to help setup the account and show them how to use Mastodon in general.
Also, not necessarily applicable to you but worth keeping in mind: encourage organizations to run Mastodon instances/provide Mastodon hosting for their employees or members in addition to providing email addresses. If an org is providing email to employees or members for business correspondence they could easily provide Mastodon services as well. This enables public discussion with the org in twitter/social media format without a third party controlling the platform.
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Friend of mine used to volunteer for the local chapter of a well-known national non-profit. He tried to explain all the technical benefits of setting up a website, yada yada. The board didn't care and were bored.
He finally set up a small demo on his own. Just a few screens. Ran a small test. Presented static screenshots, along with charts and stats on viewership and engagements. Had mockups of donation pages, volunteer signup screens, newsletters, etc. That was when people saw the value and got interested.
Nobody cares about decentralized social networks, the technology, or how terrible the other outlets are. For a municipality, you may want to focus on maintaining multiple channels of communications and ways to reach and engage the most users. You could then fold the fediverse into it as one more channel. Something they should keep an eye on. They'll need a way to post the same content to all those channels with the least effort. Something easy that a trained intern or clerk can do.
Guarantee there will be questions of cost of setup, maintenance, and risks. May want to have some answers and slides ready.
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Guarantee there will be questions of cost of setup, maintenance, and risks.
And time moderating it, especially if they run their own. At least with Twitter/Facebook/YouTube, you get a lot of moderation for free whether you agree with it or not.
And if they use another instance, there's other liability questions about the particular instance to choose. If they're gonna represent an official city account, you'd expect some cybersecurity certifications to be a requirement and all kinds of stuff, even if it's a free service. The instance admins interfering, possibly steering opinions during city elections, etc.
Nobody cares about decentralized social networks, the technology, or how terrible the other outlets are. For a municipality, you may want to focus on maintaining multiple channels of communications and ways to reach and engage the most users. You could then fold the fediverse into it as one more channel. Something they should keep an eye on. They'll need a way to post the same content to all those channels with the least effort. Something easy that a trained intern or clerk can do.
In this case IMO it might even be better to use something like Wordpress with the ActivityPub plugin, or alternatives to that. I imagine a city mostly posts announcements and stuff, so a blog that serves as both an official website and you can follow and interact with it from the comfort of your preferred social service sounds a lot more appealing than just another social media without that many users. Can even use more plugins to post to Facebook and Twitter as well, all from one place. Given the age of the board, they're also more likely to know and care about Threads and Bluesky compatibility just because they have more users, and bureaucratic decisions are based on numbers. A nice graph showing if they join the fediverse they capture all the users fleeing Twitter by supporting AP and AT.
And time moderating it, especially if they run their own.
Pitch a micro instance with little more than the rfc2142-like addresses emulated on there - info, mayor, council, admin or chat master, whatever - useful for tagging, forwarding on the way in and info dissemination on the way out.
Much less work to run, since outgoing is all gonna be pre-vetted.
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They could set up an account on one of the larger well established Canadian instances or even better start up their own.
Both of these options have their pros and cons, and I think it is important to explain these well to the council if you want to have any hope of convincing them.
A line of argument that has had some success in Europe is what has become known as "Digital Sovereignty", basically a fancy term for saying government should control its own infrastructure. So you might want to sell it as an easy way to have a permanent archive of public communication and a method for it that is under their direct control, rather than as a way to find more engagement.
As others have said self hosting has a maintenance and moderation overhead, but this can be lessened by running an instance together with other cities while still retaining most of the benefits of self hosting.
Seeing from the linked cross-post that this is about Port Alberni, and considering that portalberni.ca/ returns an empty reply while portalberni.ca/ lets me know I have been geoblocked because I'm outside of Canada and the US, I'd say you have an uphill battle before you though. These people made a website (probably paid for it, too), and then killed much of its use by geoblocking most of the world.
Good luck.
Im assuming you've looped in @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca?
Former Port Alberni city council, fediverse advocate
1) There needs to be a place for them to go immediately and sign up and they need to walked through.
2) They need to be shown that there *are* people that are there.
3a) They need to be shown that the general public *can see* Mastodon posts on simple website or embedded regardless if they sign up or not.
3b) Simultaneously, they need to be reminded and shown that the public *cannot* see what happens on Twitter or Facebook or it is much harder.
3b) Simultaneously, they need to be reminded and shown that the public *cannot* see what happens on Twitter or Facebook or it is much harder.
This is a fantastic point that I know I would have left out. If you're suggesting we should be complete so that the info is there and we're spelling out the implied difference, then I think that's excellent.
Has anybody successfully linux-gamed on proxmox VE?
I'm extensively looking to setting up gaming on linux inside a VM on proxmox VE. But nothing i've tried worked.
I'm trying out bunch of games through Steam and its proton compatibility layer.
Games I tried:
* Sekiro
* Elden Ring
* Dark Souls 3
I've tried:
* Manjaro KDE
* Bazzite
on VM:
I was successfully install Windows 10 inside a VM and run games on there.
By following this reddit post
But on any linux VM attempts, games can go 'starting' but back to 'launch' in a few seconds. It just fails...
I just want to know if anybody has ever successfully done this:D
Don't know much about proxmox, but I know that Hyper-V tries to create every VM with Secure Boot turned on, and every Linux distro I've tried won't boot the installer like that.
Maybe double check the settings of the VM.
You need to pass through a GPU to your VM otherwise its all running with software 3d acceleration.
pve.proxmox.com/wiki/PCI(e)_Pa…
It may seem very complicated to configure but you should be fine if you follow the directions on the pve wiki.
that reddit post is from 6 years ago so its probably a bit out of date. Follow the pve wiki
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You need to use uefi instead of seabios per your screenshot
Are you passing through a GPU? If so, are you sure the proxmox host isn't using it?
Edit: Just saw the link in the post was to a GPU passthrough guide, so better question, do you see the GPU from within the VM?
I've admittedly never tried gaming on a linux VM or LXC in proxmox, but I've done other tasks that required GPU hardware acceleration with no issues with both.
Can a Unified Push push server see/read my notifications?
By "push server" I mean something like Ntfy.sh.
::: spoiler Cross-posts
- sh.itjust.works/post/27577324
:::
Yes, I believe all the messages are in plain text, and it's up to the server not to log it.
It is possible to e2ee the message content yourself tho.
Edit: it looks like ntfy.sh specifically keeps messages cached in memory for a few hours befor discarding them. docs.ntfy.sh/config/
Windows to Linux compatibility layer Wine 10.0 planned for mid-January 2025
Windows to Linux compatibility layer Wine 10.0 planned for mid-January 2025
Lead developer Alexandre Julliard announced that Wine 10.0 is going to be releasing in mid-January 2025.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Cop16 ends in disarray and indecision despite biodiversity breakthroughs
Cop16 ends in disarray and indecision despite biodiversity breakthroughs
Conservation summit agrees to global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promisesPatrick Greenfield (The Guardian)
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Cop is a distraction. A meeting to schedule a meeting to schedule proposing a plan for a potential framework to reduce the environmental impact of participating Nations.
Meanwhile, the planet is being killed by people with names and addresses.
Revealed: billionaires are ‘ultimate beneficiaries’ linked to €3bn of EU farming subsidies
The EU gives one-third of its entire budget to farmers through its common agricultural policy (Cap), which hands out money based on the area of land a farmer owns rather than whether they need the support.But strict privacy rules, weak transparency requirements and complex chains of company ownership mean little scrutiny has been possible of who gets the money. In a study commissioned by the European parliament’s budgetary control committee in 2021, researchers from the Centre for European Policy Studies (Ceps) found that it is “currently de facto impossible” to identify the largest ultimate beneficiaries of EU funding with full confidence.
Scientists have criticised "perverse incentives" in the Cap that push farmers to destroy nature. They estimate that 50%-80% of EU farming subsidies go toward animal agriculture rather than foods that would be better for the health of people and the planet.
"We need a rapid food transition for a healthier future and subsidies are the biggest economic lever for change," said Paul Behrens, a global change researcher at Leiden University, who was not involved in the study.
He said: "The inequality in the Cap is extreme and this work highlights again just how much the richest land-owners continue to get richer from subsidies. Although transparency in the Cap has improved over time, the amount of detective work needed to uncover how the public's tax money is spent is astonishing."
Revealed: billionaires are ‘ultimate beneficiaries’ linked to €3bn of EU farming subsidies
Thousands of small farms have closed according to analysis of official but opaque data from EU member statesAjit Niranjan (The Guardian)
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I’m frustrated that this keeps happening (aid money ending up in rich people’s pockets)
Is there any way to mitigate this?
China piles pressure on rich people and companies to cough up taxes — Financial Times
China piles pressure on rich people and companies to cough up taxes
Authorities rush to find ways to fill government coffers depleted by property sector slumpFinancial Times
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I saw someone on Twitter called "The Great Thinker" say:
This is the worst time to do so as the economy is in a recession.
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This bit is hilarious, like what China couldn't issue currency the way the US does if they really wanted to?
“China’s fiscal deficits have reached a tipping point,” said Gary Ng, a senior economist at Natixis. “There is more urgency to find alternative revenue sources . . . and taxing the wealthy and some companies creates a less direct economic impact on most residents.”
“This type of thing — local authorities levying extra fines and taxes on companies — is happening every day and it’s hurting morale,” said an economics professor in Beijing who wished to remain anonymous.
Lmfao! Cry harder plz. Muh freedums!
it’s hurting morale
So about these beatings... I didnt reliaze they can go both ways.
The US is run by the capitalist class, and from their point of view China is “authoritarian,” because the Chinese state isn’t allowing the capitalist class to run China.
That’s what Western governments and Western corporate media really mean by “authoritarian” & “totalitarian” governments: that Western capitalist neocolonization is being stymied by those governments.
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If the government is in control of anything, capitalists will claim authoritarianism.
It's more like international capital wants unfetter access to resources and labour power in China. A country doing economic or resource nationalism is the problem, not the government doing stuff. All western governments are heavily interventionists in their economies, but they do it mainly for the capitalists and especially the international capitalists, what they do for the people is for keeping social stability so that they may keep their position.
Chinese authorities are demanding wealthy individuals and companies double-check their taxes for unpaid liabilities in a move that threatens to further dent investor confidence in the world’s second-largest economy.
If rich people can't pay taxes, they shouldn't be investing.
“China’s fiscal deficits have reached a tipping point,” said Gary Ng, a senior economist at Natixis. “There is more urgency to find alternative revenue sources . . . and taxing the wealthy and some companies creates a less direct economic impact on most residents.”
Economists should be sent to Mars tbh
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There is more urgency to find alternative revenue sources
What revenue, they're a government
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enforcing the law against the wealthy is genocide actually
china's evil truly knows no bounds
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DeskThing turns Spotify’s discontinued Car Thing into a PC controller and display
DeskThing is a free and open source application that breathes new life into Spotify’s discontinued Car Thing accessory by transforming it from a Spotify controller for cars into a desktop device that controls a wide variety of applications running on your PC.
It’s one of a number of tools that have come out of the Car Thing hacking community in the wake of Spotify’s announcement that it will […]
#carthing #deskthing #openSource #spotify
In just 3 days, the state of Nintendo Alarmo hacking went from 'it loads a cat jpg' to 'it runs Doom better than a lot of PCs back in the day'
In just 3 days, the state of Nintendo Alarmo hacking went from 'it loads a cat jpg' to 'it runs Doom better than a lot of PCs back in the day'
As sure as the seasons or the tides, DIYers will make Doom run on that proprietary new device.Ted Litchfield (PC Gamer)
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in reply to tifriis • • •Wait..... did he just say that Ubuntu runs faster than Android on an Android phone?
DashboTreeFrog
in reply to NeoNachtwaechter • • •Handles
in reply to NeoNachtwaechter • • •Nope. He explicitly only praises battery life in that parapgraph. He experienced some performance issues in his (old) test device:
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in reply to tifriis • • •* Ubuntu Touch offers privacy and control, is free from Google data tracking, and is perfect for privacy-conscious users.
* Installation is straightforward with the UBports installer, even for unsupported devices, but app support can be limited.
* Ubuntu Touch provides good battery life and performance on newer devices but lacks app variety compared to Android and iOS.
Handles
in reply to tifriis • • •Ah, tech journos...
But
🤦 I don't think he fully grasps that Google is the main reason to use a more private OS than (stock) Android.
JustEnoughDucks
in reply to Handles • • •While true, in order to get Linux mobile more mainstream, you have to have great google compatibility just because of the sheer volume of people that have to use google calendar for sync with family and friends and/or have gmail as a primary email. That's just a shitty fact of life. Baby steps.
However, indeed you are completely right that at the current time there are probably a very low amount of people wanting to use it right now that are completely reliant on google.
fmstrat
in reply to Handles • • •Dariusmiles2123
in reply to tifriis • • •I hope one day we’ll find a way to get banking apps working through Waydroid or something else. And by we, I mean people who are way more techy than me😅
I feel like it’s the only thing which would prevent a lot of people from using Linux every day on their phones.
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in reply to Dariusmiles2123 • • •Flax
in reply to BudgetBandit • • •superkret
in reply to Dariusmiles2123 • • •Claim you need it for accessibility reasons.
Forcing you to use the product of one out of 2 tech corporations just to survive (for which you need a bank account) is ridiculous.
Dariusmiles2123
in reply to superkret • • •I know and I agree.
Well the other solution for some banks is to send you a card reader. My ecological side had to choose between future e-waste and evil corporations.
chaosCruiser
in reply to tifriis • • •“For instance, I often had to rely on the web browser to access services like Reddit, Telegram, and Discord since native apps weren't available. Web apps work for primary use but can't always replace dedicated apps, especially for banking or fitness tracking.”
That’s the core of the problem these days. Nowadays, there’s so much that requires an app to work.
Avoiding mobile apps was entirely realistic in the 2010s, but it’s too late for that now. The world has changed, that ship has sailed etc.
If you can isolate yourself from certain realities of the outside worlds, using a fully FOSS system can be done. The technology is there. It’s just that most people can’t isolate themselves to that degree.
xep
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in reply to TrickDacy • • •Libb
in reply to TrickDacy • • •My bank offers both an app and a website which is nice, but the app is mandatory for doing any kind of operation involving money (which is not that uncommon when logged-in in your bank accounts ;) even when connecting through their website, as the app is used for some ID-ing process.
Then, there are a few not-mandatory but such-an-effing-pain-to-not-use apps, say to ID oneself with some (public) services.
I use a dumbed down iPhone (like, really: no social, no games, no whatever not even email is configured on it) just so I can access those few apps.
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dwindling7373
in reply to TrickDacy • • •Sadly, some finance services are app only, app-that-don't-run-without-Play-Store only.
Flax
in reply to TrickDacy • • •chaosCruiser
in reply to TrickDacy • • •My bank warned that they are planning to phase out the code booklet and replace it with a mobile app. Sure, you can continue to use a web browser, but how do you verify anything without a mobile app?
Also, some apps are very picky and refuse to work properly unless your android has GAPPS and is in the in an unmodified state just like the OEM intended. That’s bad news for privacy oriented Android users, let alone anyone who wants to run something even more FOSS.
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jbd
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in reply to chaosCruiser • • •Handles
in reply to chaosCruiser • • •Here's an idea: not buying "smart devices" that turn into fancy paperweights the second they aren't connected to a WiFi network.
If they do, that's for something completely different than what you bought them to do. And if there's no FOSS app to control those extraneous features, it's a black box.
thoughtcrime
in reply to chaosCruiser • • •You can try: gadgetbridge.org/ github.com/oliexdev/openScale
(although they are android apps)
linearchaos
in reply to chaosCruiser • • •yonder
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jonne
in reply to chaosCruiser • • •It was already a challenge back in those days. I ran the Nokia N9 for a while, and within a year it went from being amazing at messaging due to its messaging app mixing different XMPP providers in one interface (Google Talk, Facebook Messenger, SMS, etc in a single interface) to everyone in the industry suddenly giving up on that and only supporting in-app messaging.
There were valiant attempts to create open source versions of popular apps, but those efforts were always intentionally sabotaged by those providers.
solrize
in reply to tifriis • • •ritchie
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in reply to tifriis • • •Handles
in reply to fin • • •It really depends on what you're looking for. I'm happy with Lineage, but others go for stricter privacy setups like Graphene. As long as you can avoid G Apps, IMHO you're fine. But that's still Android in some form.
The whole Linux phone experiment is a lovely idea that (if I understand correctly) is hampered by the tons of different mobile phone makes and models. Canonical dropped Ubuntu Touch like a hot potato, and it only survived as a community project.
oo1
in reply to Handles • • •I'd like a comparison to lineage OS.
There seems to be a very short supported device list for ubuntu, but maybe thats how they keep the install process simplified.
I recently upgraded to a (used) sony XA2.
it was a right pain to install lineage os - way harder than previous samsung s3/4/5 type phones.
It was mostly just trung every usb port on every pc in my house until ADB would actually flash the bios.
I've never bothered to researach exactly what are the security issues with lineage OS , it's something where a decent bit of journalism might help. I'm not very into many apps though so i suspect that lowers the risk.
Peasley
in reply to oo1 • • •Lineage gives you a decent app ecosystem (F-droid) with the option to set up Play Store for full Android compatibility
Ubuntu Touch has a very limited ecosystem compared to F-droid, but might be enough for someone willing to do most tasks in a browser.
Stuff like phone calls, pictures, sms, podcasts, music, and other simple tasks will work equally well on either OS assuming your device is supported
oo1
in reply to Peasley • • •Yeah interesting - I don't know how many say flatpaks will work on arm.
I guess you're basically able to run most of what a raspberry pi can or whatever is in debian's arm repos though.
On lineage you can use auroura store too for a less googley halfway house.
The article mentions waydroid - but it doesnt go into that much detail on it. I find waydroid to be very good on a decent linux pc - but does it work well enough on ubuntu touch. I'd not do anything heavy though like mobile games on waydroid - that'd seem wierd.
Is there any benefit/cost though to effectively running your apps via a lineage v.m?
I'd think if there is it might come down to some wierd security thing but probably at cost of startup time or performance, or maybe even power consumption.
oo1
in reply to Handles • • •I’d like a comparison to lineage OS. There seems to be a very short supported device list for ubuntu, but maybe thats how they keep the install process simplified. Cyanogen always relied a lot on xda-developers community i think - so many unofficial devices supported just by enthusiasts willing to risk bricking devices.
I recently upgraded to a (used) sony XA2. it was a right pain to install lineage os - way harder than previous samsung S3/4/5 type phones. It was mostly just trying every goddamn usb port on every pc in my house until finally one with which ADB would actually flash the bios.
I’ve never bothered to researach exactly what are the security issues with lineage OS , it’s something where a decent bit of journalism might help. I’m not very into many apps though so i suspect that lowers the risk to me.
I'm happy with lineage os too.
cakeistheanswer
in reply to Handles • • •Its the same problem as standardized Unix systems in the 90s. There's more ideas on how to implement hardware than there are hands to integrate driver software.
When it comes together it'll be because we either make the manufacturers warp around something like POSIX, or provide a common target on phones like the steam deck.
Otherwise every hardware generation will get the undescribable misery of supporting the last one, from the one they're on, while writing the next one. The problem tends to compound.
Handles
in reply to cakeistheanswer • • •dai
in reply to tifriis • • •I tried and bricked my S10+
Soft bricked, can probably recover but have not got the time to bring it back.
awesome_guy
in reply to dai • • •Plus, I can not afford to have those banking apps not working!
atocci
in reply to awesome_guy • • •GHiLA
in reply to awesome_guy • • •Yaky
in reply to tifriis • • •Another FYI: Ubuntu Touch does not support VoLTE at all, thus it might be more difficult to use it in some networks and countries (for example, USA shut down 3G some years ago)
However, I was pleasantly surprised by the responsive UI, the browser, and Cinny (the Matrix Client)
Peasley
in reply to tifriis • • •I wonder why test this on an 11 year old phone?
I have it running on a Pixel 3a and it's definitely smooth, but it still stutters once in a while. It feels slower than Android to me, but not much.
Battery life is indeed excellent, though mine doesnt seem to fast charge.
The camera app was the standout feature to me. The pictures i take look every bit as good as those from Android. I expected the app to be clunky or to have bad colors, but that is not the case at all.
Edit: Pixel 3a not 3
passiveaggressivesonar
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