Me and my Steam Deck

Mostly used it in 2023 or so when I was sick on the couch. And yeah some hours on the trip I’m currently on. But it would just have been fine without.

Sometimes I see people post pictures use it in the most scenic locations, similar to the promotional video. And all I can think of is that if you want to play game so badly, you can just stay home. Much easier and also probably safer for the deck.

To each their own. Just hard to understand for me

Yeah, this one is on Kent… again.

He posted on Patreon that there’ll be a DKMS module. In my opinion, this should have been the option from the very beginning and upstreaming at a later point in time. It would have avoided a lot of drama. And now bcachefs is kind of tainted. The only way I ever see it back in mainline is there is an independent downstream of Kent’s kernel that has no connection to him whatsoever.

Shame because I had very good experience with the filesystem. Definitely better than when btrfs was new. But Linus is unfortunately right; Kent is unable to follow agreed collaboration rules.

Unfortunate situation that could have been avoided entirely. Though I don’t want to be too harsh on Kent. He spent a lot of time and work on bcachefs and it’s his most important project. As such, he’s more passionate about all of this. But the same can be said for Linus and the kernel on the other side.

PipeWire my beloved 😍

I can use WIFI with Airplane mode, is my IMEI being transferred to any place in this situation?

No

Can you elaborate how it is compared with MAC? What might happen to how cell tower compares IMEI and MAC when I spoof MAC?

A cell tower doesn’t care about your MAC. In fact you can have devices without a MAC in a mobile network (like dumbphones). However, a malicious entity might be able to correlate these two with a setup where he controls both cellular and Wi-Fi equipment.

Radio here refers to your mobile (non-wifi) wireless connection, though technically, Wi-Fi is also radio and can be used for triangulation purposes by access points. Technically speaking, any communications method that uses electromagnetic waves is radio, regardless of modulation and data encoding.

Does this mean our IMEI is identified by cell tower as long as the airplane mode is off?

The IMEI is how the cell tower differentiates the individual network participants. It can be compared to a MAC address.

These statements come a lot easier as a former diplomat. Let’s see if any of the current bunch have the balls to say it

Fair, though the fact doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

If you want easily replaceable parts and a system that can unlock the bootloader for example, your argument can be made for 99% of phones on the market. The more requirements you add, the smaller the scope gets until there are no devices left to choose from.

The reason for not using a headphone jack is making it simpler for the manufacturer, one less connector to handle which also limits how slim a phone can be.

I’m not saying this is good for the consumer, but there are reasons for integrating the functionality into the USB-C port.

Think I’m getting it, my Redmi Note 8 is aging and I’m pretty sure the current batch of custom ROMs is basically the last apart from the fact that the kernel is no longer supported, and Xiaomi is closing the doors on custom ROMs more and more it seems. Yeah, the new FP isn’t perfect but it seems good enough to pull the trigger, and while the Pixels seemed like a good alternative in some aspects, Google recently made it very clear where they see Android’s future, and it’s not more open.

An issue shared with the headphones themselves

Replaceable battery

40€

Replaceable usb charging port

20€

120 watt cahrging

33W

I had a phone without before, that one came with a simple cheap passive adapter for USB-C to 3.5mm headset. You lose out on using headphones while charging, but other than that I was never really inconvenienced…

Can’t blame them honestly.

I live comfortably here, but that’s because my income is rather good. Is nice here if you make little or a lot. Anyone else is under huge pressure from taxes and other financial obligations like health insurance, retirement insurance and unemployment insurance. Around 60k - 65k gross income per year is where it hurts the most, where parts of your income are in the 40% tax bracket but you’re still in public health insurance. As a single, you’ll get a little less than 40k net out of that (2022 numbers, now probably worse because health insurance got more expensive). Rent close to the big cities is often over 1000 per month, buying at the moment out of the question.

All of this gets you… Germany, which isn’t bad but also not Spain for example (where I live / spent time both in bigger cities as well as in a village). Hell, even the Dutch at least have bikable cities. So… it’s not terrible, but it also doesn’t really excel…

It’s obvious in English, but the conversation was in German (we’re both German) and the literal translation is barely used (Petrolat or Petrolatum). My point wasn’t that Vaseline is also made from petrol, but that a lot of stuff is, and Vaseline was barely the topic where the fact was dropped.

We have a former chemist working in our department and I talked to him about skin care etc and I mentioned Vaseline and said that it’s made from or is a byproduct of refining oil. He said something along the lines of “yeah, basically everything is”.

His view was probably warped, but still an interesting point

It gave them weapons they can’t manufacture themselves and kept them afloat financially despite frankly brutal Western sanctions.

It’s mostly the other way around with Iran manufacturing Shahed drones for Russia and licensing production to them.

Since they’re still able to be a thorn in the West’s side, I’d say they’re doing something right.

Most Gulf states are probably happy that Iran is getting attacked, they just don’t like that it’s Israel doing (and possibly benefiting from) it. Realistically, Iran has no allies, only business partners.

I don’t think anyone is expecting Russia to go to war on their behalf, but a more or less reliable non-Western trade and defense partner is a pretty attractive proposition.

Not in the Iran case, but CSTO is such an agreement that nobody honored, which is why Armenia froze its membership. Also Russia is years behind on their agreed weapon sales because of their own huge demand in Ukraine.

Iran has this kind of relationship with Russia as well, I don’t see how it helped them the tiniest bit. This also isn’t a West vs East things, Armenia also got fuck all despite being a CSTO member when Azerbaijan attacked them. Or remember Russia’s ally Syria?

Russia is always posturing as that powerful force that could go to war against NATO, but they can’t even help their allies against a small country that gets propped up by a single NATO member.

Every country can choose its own destiny of course, but if you think Russia will do more than send militia to oppress your population (like in Africa), you’re not paying attention.

I think the Spanish just need to get more creative with their spending or rather the accounting of their spending.

Edit: I’m more forgiving towards Spain for not meeting their goals than other nations because they seem to actually be improving the lives of their citizens, not just austerity bullshit.

Good, I wish NATO would disintegrate and European defence return to the competences of the European Union.

“Return”? It was never really there.

I don’t want my taxes to benefit the United States neither economically nor strategically.

The 5% are not a membership fee that goes to the US. What the US most often got out of NATO was that they defined the standards and requirements, which at some point required American IP and American products to fulfill those. But in the end, the leverage they had was their huge investment in NATO that also benefited other nations; once the American investments end, other nations will fill that void (hopefully).

Restricting such an alliance to the EU would rule out members like Canada, for example

The problem in the US isn’t lack of jobs, it’s lack of pay, crippling debt and rising cost of living. People have trouble fitting all those jobs into their lives. Normal people are getting squeezed and social protections are weak. More jobs won’t fix it