ISMETA

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This truly is the year of the linux desktop in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
Need a rust version too. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] ISMETA@lemmy.zip 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

PHP 8 makes it possible to rescue the princess but your 83 legacy princesses are all still PHP 5.

FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] ISMETA@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sounds good but there isn't any consumer equipment that can handle 2GB/s. Even 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches are super expensive and I don't think we have anything that can do more than 10Gb/s in the consumer Networking space at all .

What are the main challenges in Linux adoption for New users, and how can it be addressed? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] ISMETA@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

As somebody who likes using the terminal I too have mostly stopped using dd and use gnome disks instead. Getting the rightdd flags to get the best performance and progress indicators is a challenge to Google every time.

Street­Complete "promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service" in c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
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Street­Complete "promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service" (lemmy.zip)
 

I downloaded Street­Complete to contribute to OSM and on https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/ it warns you that "This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service". I'm not super concerned about that and will still try out Street­Complete but i was just wondering what non-free network service this is. Does anybody here know?

Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] ISMETA@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey I have never contributed to OSM and I just looked at https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/ on fdroid and there is a warning about "This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service". Do you know which non-free network this is referring to?

Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] ISMETA@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

GPT3 is 800GB while the entirety of the English Wikipedia is around 10GB compressed. So yeah it doesn't store evey detail of everything but LLMs do memorize a lot of things verbatim. Also see https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2020/12/20/lmmem/

Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote DEBs (Apparently) in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] ISMETA@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A big issue for me with snap is, that the server side software is proprietary. So it really really does feel like they are trying for lock-in

YSK: Pixelfed replaced Instagram for me, the same way Lemmy replaced reddit. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] ISMETA@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BuT tHE mEssAGEs DiSaPPEar! So it has to be secure, who needs encryption anyways?

The Pixel 4A will stop receiving security updates in August. New phone suggestions? in c/android@lemmy.world
[–] ISMETA@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I like the idea of a Linux Phone. I don't know much about it. My bank's 2FA probably wouldn't be supported on that and i do need to have WhatsApp because it's the default mode of communication for everybody that's not deeply into privacy, right? What DE would you recommend?

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The Pixel 4A will stop receiving security updates in August. New phone suggestions? (lemmy.zip)
 

After only 3 short years my Google Pixel 4A is EOL. It still works perfectly fine, but since our entire lives run through our phones I don't feel safe trusting my bank accounts and so on to a phone without security updates. I feel like I wasn't quite aware how short the supported time would be when i bought it.

So I gotta get a new one. I don't really have a lot of requirements. I just need the basics: A camera, headphone jack, USB-C charging and F-Droid (so app side loading). I just watch some YouTube, use lemmy and messaging apps, 3fa, email and so on and if there is something to take a video of photo of I like doing that too. I don't need NFC or high refresh rate or 3 cameras or wireless charging and I don't play any phone games so pretty much any phone should work, right?

I was thinking of getting something a bit sustainable and long lasting so I looked at Fairphone but the Fairphone 4 is only supported until 2026 which is not really long and also it's really expensive for just another 3 years. Looks like there will be a Fairphone 5 soonish? But since the 4 didn't have a headphone jack the 5 probably won't either?

So since it looks like a ~6 or 7 year lifespan is just not something that's available I've been thinking why not go cheap? Thus I've considered getting the Samsung Galaxy A14 (non-5G). Are there any significant differences with the 5G version? The 5G version has good reviews as far as i can see. Feels a little bad to downgrade to a phone that cannot even record 1080p@60 and to go back to USB 2.0 and 15W charging but whatever.

So I'm open to suggestions, either on the longer lasting side or something cheap yet secure for a couple of years.

POV: you have to post everything 3 times because of lag (but you care about the growth of the lemmy community) in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] ISMETA@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Bean work?

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