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solrize

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  • Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations (link to 2025 Priorities -> Focus on Reliabilty, Audi, Camera, etc)

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  • New PC hardware is mostly compatible with the old stuff or at least somewhat standardized except at the lowest end. Phone stuff is much worse about that. Idk what a Linux phone would mean anyway.

  • Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations (link to 2025 Priorities -> Focus on Reliabilty, Audi, Camera, etc)

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  • Yes the HW isn't comparable to a modern phone though.

  • Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations (link to 2025 Priorities -> Focus on Reliabilty, Audi, Camera, etc)

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  • It's worse. Linux desktop is only possible because of the relative consistency and openness of x86 PC hardware. Phones are nothing like that. At best we will have retro Linux handhelds with phone functionality.

  • Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations (link to 2025 Priorities -> Focus on Reliabilty, Audi, Camera, etc)

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  • Good luck, phone hardware changes very fast though.

  • Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.

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  • https://feddit.org/post/9959466/5697405

    [why blocked?] "a contributor made a push from a sanctioned region is what i saw. not even a main dev, and they didn’t receive any warning is my understanding. i might be way off, i’m not a final source:

  • 'An engineering masterpiece' — reviewer raves about fastest large capacity SSD ever built, but it won't be cheap

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  • With very large SSD systems, these high throughputs mostly come from parallel chip accesses and transfers. Very low latency is more interesting. I'd like to see the numbers at queue depth 1 instead of 512.

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    Is there an app/website I can talk to non-kids using my voice cords?

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  • There is also Rumble which I guess is similar.

  • LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System

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  • Nice I guess, it adds 4g to the older T-deck. I guess with a SIP client app you could use it as a voice phone. The processor is an ESP32-S3 which has wifi and BLE though the Lilygo article doesn't mention either of those. I almost bought a used T-deck last year but figured it was another thing I didn't have a real use for.

    I'd like to see a receive-only POCSAG pager built into a thing like this. I don't know to what extent 1-way pager services still exist in the US, but the idea is that it's a system that sends text messages in the SCA subcarrier of FM broadcast radio stations or sometimes other classes of transmitter. It has mostly been displaced now by cellular phones, but some people like doctors on call still use it, as it is supposed to be more reliable, plus the FM signal penetrates buildings better than cell signals do.

    For me though, the main idea is privacy. It is receive-only, so there is no always-on connection sending your location anywhere. People can send you a text and if you're in the coverage area of the FM station, you receive it and can call the person back (in the old days, by finding a landline phone) or whatever. Some of the more expensive plans had regional or nationwide coverage, by broadcasting the message on a whole network of FM stations.

    POCSAG itself is a digital protocol for which many software implementations exist, and it doesn't look too hard to write one. So the main challenge is having an RF receiver in the T-deck that gets a frequency where there is a pager service operating in your area.

    I don't understand the attraction of small slow epaper displays. I'm fine with regular displays in a thing this size. I'd like to have a 13+ inch epaper tablet but no FOSS ones exist right now afaik.

  • YAML, SQL, or something else? Looking for recommendations for making a database of stories.

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  • Python sqlite3 module for the metadata and it has some features now for full text search that can probably handle a few thousand stories. For a bigger collection like ao3, try solr.apache.org or elastic search etc.

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  • Yes they have different stuff now, but same idea.

  • Niche Cassette Player Question (Sony WM-EX631)

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  • Niche Cassette Player Question (Sony WM-EX631)

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  • Ok one of the capstans is likely to be on a pivot, to detect tape tension for auto reverse. See if it is sticky etc. Try web search for this problem?

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  • Government secure phones are special hardware made by the NSA. They are nothing like civilian phones. Obama got the NSA to lock down his Blackberry but I doubt that is doable with today's mainstream smartphones.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STU-III

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  • Military gear generally has tons of anti-moron safeguards. Unfortunately, Signal is for civilians.

  • Niche Cassette Player Question (Sony WM-EX631)

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  • Try a different tape. Maybe your tape is getting stuck.

  • Federated wiki software?

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  • I used gitit for a while. It's git backed and you can propagate it around that way.

  • What do you think might be some fun, positive ways for instances to distinguish themselves?

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  • There is no need for this.

  • Whole Architecture Weekly content is free now!

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  • Oh this is about software architecture. Looked like spam that had nothing to do with programming.

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  • I hate bagless vacs since you get exposed to all that dirt and pathogens when you empty them, plus anything sticky that gets vacuumed up will get stuck in the vac and eventually have to be scrubbed out. Get a bagged vac if you can. I'm in the US and use an upright/canister, bagged, Dirt Devil MVP.