The few times I’ve needed to man [app name] on a system without internet access or on an obscure utility, I’ve always been able to find what I need in the included docs

I hope the dev eventually gets sponsored, this is one of those utilities that you don’t think you need until --help doesn’t cut it

The car full of hammer and sickles in the background though 😂😂 that’s metaphorical gold

banning the import of all gas-powered passenger vehicles

They definitely put their money where their mouth is, unlike a lot of other places around the world that are all bark but no bite where phasing out combustion engines is concerned.

From the article…

It also effectively slashed the customs tax on imported cars: The tax on gas vehicles was up to 200% before they were banned, while the import tax for fully assembled EVs is just 15%, according to the country’s finance ministry.

Wow, they weren’t playing around… 200% tax on gas vehicles? In addition to fuel shortages mentioned in the article too

The lower rates are also spurring more local EV manufacturing. Hundreds of the vehicles were assembled by Ethiopia-based Belayneh Kindie Group using parts imported from China

Ethiopia is leaning hard into EVs in part because importing fuel is expensive, and 96% of the country’s electricity comes from clean hydropower – a dual win for the country’s finances and the environment.

Seems pretty sustainable, and glad to hear that they’re able to do some of the manufacturing locally, somewhat ensuring there’s local knowledge on building and maintaining these computers on wheels.

Hope the transition goes smoothly for them, looks like they know what they’re doing 👌

Haven’t watched the video - just my thoughts…

Minetest (specifically Mineclone2) is an impressive feat, and a very faithful reproduction of the original. I pretty much used the Minecraft fandom wiki to progress through the game. Hours of fun was had without handing money to M$.

I only really stopped because the redstone functionality wasn’t fully implemented.

Hats off to the devs on that project regardless

Looking forward to this. I don’t run a custom ROM myself but I am rooted, primarily to revoke permissions from Google apps and to back up my OS and app data as I desire.

However I’d much prefer to be able to run something like GrapheneOS on a Pixel if it meant I could run apps that are picky about Safetynet/Play Integrity, such as banking apps and the like

Something about that channel feels “off”, don’t know what it is. Maybe all the rants and abundance of negative opinions?? Perhaps it’s the culture difference in how he communicates on camera?

The only positive videos I’ve seen are him moving to macOS, the dell laptop one, and i guess the keyboard one, the other ones seem to be mostly opinion pieces & rants. There are other channels that do a better, more balanced job of this I think

Got to really wonder what’s going on at Mozilla. Between the previous CEO milking it for cash, the purchase of an ad company, and now this?

Are you planning to make your own OS for the watch? If so, there’s another smartwatch project called the “SQFMI Watchy” which is an esp32 combined with an e-ink display, RTC and some other sensors.

While I would highly suggest supporting the creators, there are clones on Aliexpress that may more readily ship out to your country

No idea what this is, but it’s crashing my Lemmy client 🤷‍♂️

I’m not planning to move anywhere tbh.

Mozilla is almost 100% financially dependent on Google right now, if that funding goes away then so will Firefox, the Gecko engine, and likely all the forks. With all the layoffs happening in the industry, we can’t rule out Google shareholders looking elsewhere to cut costs too, such as the massive subsidization of Mozilla. The little we can do is allow Mozilla to find other sources of funding that are optional for users IMO

Yes, stuff like pocket is garbage. But at least Mozilla allow you to turn it off, which is more than can be said for Google: on Android devices manufacturers have to pay a hefty “fee” just to allow users to remove the Google search bar from the launcher. As a user you can get around this by installing a custom launcher, but as a manufacturer, you will not get Google certification: no SafetyNet (Play Integrity DRM, required by Banking apps), no Widevine, and Google will block GMS & their other apps on your product.

Regarding AI, mozilla’s memorycache is completely local (runs on the user’s machine) and does not call out to any servers. The new translation feature is the same. The only exception to this that I’m aware of is the AI helper on MDN, but the target audience of that site is already in a position to determine whether that is a useful feature or not.

Mine was fine with me using a rooted Android after an in person meeting - they just provided me a hardware 2FA device to use instead.

As long as your bank is as understanding, you could use Waydroid or their PWA on a GNU/Linux device

What install method did you use? Aur/Flatpak/Binary (DDL)?

Seems to do so on stock Android (FP3)

Mute and vibration sound profiles are independent: I can enable DnD on my device and set it to loud, and it’ll still make noise on incoming calls and notifications. DnD just allows fine tuning of a lot of things related to those sound profiles, e.g. exempted apps, hiding notifications, illumimating the notification LED, toggling DnD on a schedule, emergency call bypass for certain contacts, what system sounds are permitted etc.

Persistent notifcation behavior is a bit different, but FB Messenger shouldn’t be using those… so I’m making the assumption that OP’s issue is due to the manufacturer modifying the DnD behavior on that android rom

Maybe iOS is different in this way

Pocket was really useful a ~decade ago, when it was still an add-on that did its one job: saving webpages in a “reader mode” to read offline. Now it’s just sponsored spam IMO

A few of the main instances are subscribed to Fediseer lists, probably wouldn’t take long for a rogue instance like that to be defederated lol

Wishlisted, this looks like it’ll be some cheap fun for my deck. Thanks for sharing 😁

Ouch, that must have been a pain to recover from…

I’ve had almost the opposite experience to yours funnily. Several years ago my HDDs would drop out at random during heavy write loads, after a while I narrowed down the cause to some dodgy SATA power cables, which sadly I could not replace at the time. Due to the hardware issue I could not scrub the filesystem successfully either. However I managed to recover all my data to a separate BTRFS filesystem, using some “restore” utility that was mentioned in the docs, and to the best of my knowledge all the recovered data was intact.

While that past error required a separate filesystem to perform the recovery, my most recent hardware issue with drives dropping out didn’t need any recovery at all - after resolving the hardware issue (a loose power connection) BTRFS pretty much fixed itself during a scheduled scrub and spat out all the repairs in dmesg.

I would suggest enabling some kind of monitoring on BTRFS’s counters if you haven’t, because the fs will do whatever it can to prevent interruption to operations. In my previous two cases, performance was pretty much unaffected, and I only noticed the hardware problems due to the scheduled scrub & balance taking longer or failing.

Don’t run a fsck - BTRFS essentially does this to itself during filesystem operations, such as a scrub or a file read. The provided btrfs check tool (fsck) is for the internal B-tree structure specifically AFAIK, and irreversably modifies the filesystem internally in a way that can cause unrecoverable data loss if the user does not know what they are doing. Instead of running fsck, run a scrub - it’s an online operation that can be done while the filesystem is still mounted

Love the look of this, thank you for sharing! Surprised I haven’t heard about this before and I’ve been Linux HTPC’ing for years

A direct link to the MP4 in the URL field IMO, however videos in general typically aren’t well supported by all the client apps.

The ex-reddit apps like Eternity (FOSS), and Sync (proprietary) IME are generally good at handling multimedia files like mp4, webm, webp and gifs on Lemmy

For users on other apps missing support, something like ImgurViewer from F-Droid works great - it will intercept the mp4 links and open a video player overlay (yes, even for stuff posted outside of Imgur)

We do, however they’re usually assigned to devs that are not familiar with the work carried out, thus these kinds of things end up slipping into the main branch…

Looking at the other responses though this is something that I’ll need to raise with the team, some here have pointed out some pretty insightful stuff.