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A new vulnerability can brick your Android phone when receiving the SMS of Death in c/android@lemdro.id
[–] 82 points 1 week ago* (6 children)

Classic Google ignoring devices people still use that are bootloader locked meaning you can't even update them to a secure OS even if you wanted to. And allowing vendors to prevent phones from getting security updates. The phone industry is a total scam.

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    Y'all are talking about powdered milk. Why isn't anyone talking about powdered water? in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
    [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You would need to use distilled water for powdered water, which is doable, but inconvenient in many situations. Unless you want double strength water, then any water is fine.

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    Oof in c/memes@sopuli.xyz
    Steam Client Is Now Faster Than Epic's New Vibe Coded Launcher in c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
    [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    It seems plausible they just didn't care enough and the fix actually was easy. After this long of it being slow, I don't understand why it would coincidentally happen now other than a complacent blindspot being awoken.

    I updated my client and startup still takes 15 seconds. Granted, my boot drive is a SATA3 Samsung 850 EVO, but 15 seconds is still much slower than any other program I have, even Adobe programs. So I don't know if the update works universally for everyone or something went wrong.

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    Cruel and abusive behavior in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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    Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment in c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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    Poor experience trying Linux again thinking I'd be switching after W10 support ends in c/linux@lemmy.world
    [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago*

    I found Kubuntu has the same two problems I detailed but I made slightly more progress this time. The USB DAC would've likely also worked at 100% volume in CashyOS I just didn't think to try it because of my ears. I'm sure some manual config edit can fix that but I expect something basic like sound to work by default and knowing it doesn't makes me assume other basic things will be a pain in the future.

    Then I actually tried subsampling in an X11 session this time, but the problem is the Night Light hue becomes green. But 4k120 at ycbcr 4:2:0 does work in principle. And the fact that this is in xorg config rather than a settings GUI, all this config text editing is so slow and sketchy for me.

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    My W11 StartAllBack setup (lemmy.zip)
     

    Notice how all the useful system tools get their own menu and every right side panel tool has a label and is laid out for a mouse, unlike the nearly useless stock start menu that employs the "removed features and designed for touch screens rather than actual users" philosophy that started with Win8.

    StartAllBack also has fixed right click menu built in. It also lets you change the explorer control bar into W7 or W10 style. It's basically all you need to fix W11. This developer is really good with updates and I highly recommend them.

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    Poor experience trying Linux again thinking I'd be switching after W10 support ends (lemmy.zip)
     

    When Windows 10 support ends I was planning on transitioning to Linux on my desktop. I just tried CachyOS KDE Plasma and immediately ran into two serious issues:

    1. I could not figure out how to get audio to come out of my headphones. Everything is connected, and sound totally works on Windows 10 with my Audioengine D3 USB DAC, but not in CachyOS. I messed with all the system audio settings, profiles, and mute control, and nothing worked. No audio at all, not from test sound, not from browser.

    2. Apparently Wayland is the name of the default/best video compositor for Linux, but it doesn't seem to support ycbcr subsampling modes. In Windows 10, I use the Nvidia-provided 4:2:0 subsampling mode with my RTX 2060 Super to get 4K120 support over HDMI to my LG C1 (genuinely hard to see the difference unless you're running a test pattern). It seems you have to use the X11 compositor in Linux to get that feature, but I've read that X11 provides a poor experience compared to Wayland.

    Not to mention, my first CachyOS install attempt bugged midway through (installing from DVD disc) and I spent a lot of time unsuccessfully trying to restart the install process not realizing something was borked in that session that was preventing partitions from being formatted for the installer. So I rebooted and manually set to load the installer into RAM, and finally was able to get it to install.

    Seeing my experience hasn't improved since the last time I tried Linux (Mint, a few years ago - really bad audio stuttering), now the plan has switched to sticking to W10 until software inevitably stops supporting it (Nvidia is already ending W10 game ready support this year), and then switching to W11. I'll just have to use mods to improve the usability, specifically for start menu and right click menu.

    I would like to use Linux but it really disappointed me seeing all the hype on LTT's channel, only to see that it's still user experience hell. It's either "works but evil" (Windows) or "doesn't work but not evil" (Linux) and that's unfortunate.

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