shortwavesurfer

joined 2 years ago
[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 19 hours ago

I've been slowly making my way into the smart home ecosystem and was incredibly concerned about these not because of paperweight necessarily but because of needing to send data to a company over the internet which might not be available when it's needed.

So I ended up going with Home Assistant and I'm really happy about the launch of the Works with Home Assistant program with the logo on devices.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Have a look at meshtastic. Yes, you do have to get a separate device, but range on it can be several tens to hundreds of miles depending on the mesh density.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago

I don't have a significant need to use a laptop or desktop as my phone is my primary computing device. With that said, I run Mint Debian Edition on my laptop. Just because I want my computer to work when I go to use it, even if it has been six months.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Haven't had a reddit account since API Gate.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I don't use a PC for very much anymore, so I have little need to use my laptop. But when I do, I've honestly just gone with Linux Mint just because it works. And I have Lineage OS on my phone, which is my primary computing device.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And i no longer use Ubuntu. I remember that too. I also remember such large push back that it was removed

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

I think it was a great idea, but poorly executed. I prefer using simpleX, personally.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If my Linux distro searched the internet, when I opened my launcher, I'd be finding a new Linux distro.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago

Yep, just set your Wi-Fi routers to use 6GHD and trample all over the other people in the band until they figure out that they can't control it.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

I said nothing about the agency whatsoever. I don't give a shit what they see as compliant or not. If it's not open source, I won't fucking use it.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

As long as the wearable contains open source software and preferably open source hardware, then sure, I'd be willing to do so. Because then I could know that I could control where the data went.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago

Imbezzled. Money was used to pay for somebody's vacation.

 

So recently I've been seeing the trend where Android OEMs such as Google, Samsung, etc. have been extending their software release times up to like five, six, and seven years after device release. Clearly, phone hardware has gotten to the point where it can support software for that long, and computers have been in that stage for a very long time. From what I can tell, the only OEM that does this currently might be Fairphone.

Edit: The battery is the thing that goes the fastest so manufacturers could just offer new batteries and that would solve a lot of the problem.

 

This right here is just part of why amateur radio is such a necessary vital service.

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