So when people talk about napping like this, do they ever actually "fall asleep"? I cannot possibly imagine falling asleep in 15m in the middle of my work day or whatever.
I don't fall asleep. But just lying in bed, eyes closed, sleepmask on and low Binaural Beats on the ears helps me when i feel a slump. When i set a timer to 12 minutes i usually feel the urge to get up after roughly ten minutes.
Yeah. Quite sad the Mini didn't sell too well. For me the current regular size is about as big as I feel comfortable with. I just hope these models keep getting the same features as the larger ones (Max, Ultra, whatever).
You could try giving it to them and blurring the passport number. They're not doing anything extreme with it and I doubt they're even checking it against any database - they just want to stop fraud and disincentivize bad actors from using their network. I'm sure if you asked they would be fine with a blurred passport number and a recorded Skype call to verify you're the same person as in your passport photo.
toy phones are mostly the Google pixel, and Fairphones
- You can flash anything on these.
- You have 5-10 years of update on the android out of the box
- huge communities.
- consistent VoLTE and VoWIFI support
- lines are easy to understand (only a few models in each generation)
Samsung offers no long term support of phone, do hardly any publication to help open source communities to make a new image of android, and have the knox thing that makes it harder that it could be to flash. They just poop billions of different models every year without further support.
Xiaomi is like Porsche with the 911, which means they brand all of their phones the same, even when they have very different processors, vowifi support or not,... So pay attention to your exact model (the "pro" keyword isn't marketing, it can make the difference between a locked in Mediatek processor and a open source snapdragon)
I'm annoyed to have got the only flavour of Mi10-something without Vowifi support, for example, because I didn't read properly.
Sony has some OK phones to hack as well. And they look good ! But I think there was an article on HN a few days ago, about the hardware of the XA2 that called home to send analytics even with a custom ROM.
I'm also annoyed because I have had that exact model with iodéOS.
So yeah, I'd recommend to just get a Pixel phone if you want something compact (the 6A is pretty narrow), or the Fairphone if you want something large that you can physically repair, and update for the longest even if you don't hack it.
(I now have a Mi10 Lite and a Pixel 6A. I just had the latter, so that I can use one of these to hack a bit.)
Samsung community support is pretty good if you stick to the flagships, it's true that you lose Knox in the process but Knox is pretty much useless in my opinion anyways.
for a toy project, the pinephone is on my shopping list.
for serious use i stick to /e/OS supported phones. /e/OS has its own store that also gets apps from google play using their API. i wonder if that will be affected too. so far it's still working
how bad is the performance really? the pinephone pro is twice as expensive. is it really worth the price difference? it certainly is beyond my budget for toys, and at that pricepoint i'd rather invest into a fairphone.
interesting, but even if they did update it more frequently, i think most people don't update their phone that often either. divestOS approach to update webview independent of the phone is actually a clever way to make it easier to update
I tried to dig into the legal entities behind that company as part of DD and it's pretty shady: multiple different company renames, offshore companies on far away islands, founders being involved in other questionable companies, no company/CoC information on the website (illegal in at least a few countries the do business in that I know), ToS mentioning unknown offshore companies and having points that are, again, illegal. How seems pretty trivial. As for why, your guess is as good as mine.
Is it possible to have an i3-like experience on a modern GNOME desktop? I just really like the keyboard-based and predictable navigation between windows (no alt-tab hell). What can I do here?
I am pretty used to Debian+i3 minimal installs (arandr, pavucontrol, etc) but some things will always be a pain in the ass
> Is it possible to have an i3-like experience on a modern GNOME desktop?
Unfortunately GNOME doesn't care about customisability or power user needs. They meticulously remove features they deem unnecessary, while actual people who rely on those features kick and scream "no".
In the old days, you used to be able to use a different window manager with your desktop environment, which meant you could just substitute Metacity for the actual i3. I think it's (maybe) still possible with X11/Mutter, but most likely no chance under Wayland, as the compositor combines several other roles in the stack, and the resulting desktop is much less modular.
If you're used to i3, stick to i3 (or Sway). If you need bits and pieces of another desktop environment, you can probably run GNOME or KDE apps just fine; or maybe you can try running the XFCE panel or similar. Also have a look at XFCE, LXQt or Lumina. They all start off with an integrated UX, but should be easier to replace whichever bits you don't like.
Or did you mean just GNOME but with more keyboard driven window management? If so there is tiling assistant extension for GNOME that isn’t bad from what I’ve heard.
One of my best friends uses the Pop Shell [1] GNOME extension to bring in an i3-like experience. It seems to lag behind a few GNOME versions, but system76 has instructions on how to use it on other distributions if you don't want to use Pop!_OS [2]
- I recently bought a monitor and plugged it in. Sound stopped working until I rebooted. Figured it out easily with pavucontrol of course (just toggling things) but only after reboot. Annoying but fair enough.
- Connecting/disconnecting monitors is flaky, sometimes it requires a few toggles in arandr (which already helps a lot). Maybe there is a better tool I could use?
- Some wifi networks sometimes dont' work out of the box even though I'm just using the easy nm-applet.
- Like one friend's hotspot that I needed to use one time, didn't work and I gave up
- Some "exotic" public wifi networks like libraries require more effort.
- or even simple public wifi networks that simply require a web portal login (I've learned to just open nmcheck.gnome.org to access the portal easily, since accessing the default gateway IP address doesn't always work)
Obviously it's all a question of how much effort you put into it. I try to keep things as simple as possible to avoid spending time on this stuff. Would love to get any suggestions or ideas :)
Well I kinda asked about i3 related problems not just generic linux desktop voes but I'll try my best.
> - I recently bought a monitor and plugged it in. Sound stopped working until I rebooted. Figured it out easily with pavucontrol of course (just toggling things) but only after reboot. Annoying but fair enough.
And that isn't a problem under GNOME ? Both use Pulseaudio...
Anyway I ended up resorting to writing some custom udev rules and some horrible hacks [0] to get my sound interface to work correctly; the interface was 2 in/4 out but it showed up as stereo in/4.0 out, and I needed dual mono + dual stereo outs. But as pulseaudio have no memory whatsoever on plugin config, it needs to be reapplied any time device is plugged in...
...and after upgrade ALSA of all things horribly broke it in different way [1], where someone added 500ms latency to default profile used to split device into sub-channels to"fix cracking" (that happened to only some users), and the interface I used was assigned that profile
Linux Sound story is by far my least liked part of it. And the new modern pipewire just hangs on my machine, not accepting any commands...
> Connecting/disconnecting monitors is flaky, sometimes it requires a few toggles in arandr (which already helps a lot). Maybe there is a better tool I could use?
I so far only experienced it with one flaky monitor at work, it looks like some deeply rooted problem. I guess if I had to solve it I'd just make some script trying to apply the profile and bind it to keys to quickly fix it. I don't think arandr is the culprit here, rather something between graphics server, driver, and monitor.
> Some wifi networks sometimes dont' work out of the box even though I'm just using the easy nm-applet.
I didn't had that problem in particular on laptop at least (also using nm-applet), but same thing works under GNOME ? IIRC it also uses network manager. We had some problems with users trying to use networkmanager for VPN and it not supporting all options plain OpenVPN did.
The most grief that networking gave me is actually systemd-resolved [2] but no good fix for that so far.
Compared to which other industries? Not aware of any other industries pushing for remote
Yes some bigger tech companies are pushing back, but others are going all in. This industry is the prime example of remote working, even if some are going back
>Yes some bigger tech companies are pushing back, but others are going all in.
Google, Meta, Amazon, Netflix, Apple, Salesforce, Twitter, Lyft, Spotify, Doordash, Snap, Uber and Ebay are hybrid or in-office.
Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase and Airbnb are remote. Slack is as well but it's own by Salesforce so probably not for long.
So I think it's safe to say that overall tech is pushing for return to office. It's probably even more stark if you take the number of employees in these companies into account.
Even hybrid working can reduce the need for office space significantly.
Companies that spread their employee office visits evenly through the week could achieve a reduction in office space of 20% / 40% by moving from full time office to 1 / 2 days a week remote.
It would make sense that the companies pushing for a return to office either own their buildings (ouch) or otherwise have financials (corporate or executive) coupled with the value of real estate. It’s not at all surprising or irrational.
