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  • “Joe Biden has the most progressive policies of the last decade” - incredible.

    I can think of zero politicians with a further left policy platform than Joe Biden. Think of all his progressive moves, like allowing the overturn of roe vs wade, Joe Biden who railed against school racial integration policies, Joe Biden author of the 94 crime bill, Joe Biden who continued building the wall, pro union Joe Biden who compelled the train unions to accept the companies deal. Joe Biden who lends his support both materially and in influence to right wing governments in Ukraine and Israel, supporting genocide in the latter. Etc etc. A real hero of the people this guy, fly out the red flag.





  • Agree with all of this, however there isn’t any need to tone down release schedules. There being a new product doesn’t force you to buy it, however it does mean that when you do come to buy it there is a fresh model available. For example imagine if they adopt a 3 year release cycle and you break your phone on year 2.9, now you’re forced to buy a model with a 3 year out of date feature that will itself be obsolete faster, especially since a new model is round the corner. This isn’t the best system. Better the phone companies keep making the latest tech available, so when you do need to buy you can get the phone with the longest life ahead of it.


  • Yeah the prospect of throwing down a couple of months rent… for precisely what value add (?) is going to be a hard sell for Apple.

    Yeah you can watch a film, on your own, on a big virtual screen for $3500 rather than watch the tv that you already own in the company of your friends and family for free.

    Or you can use your computer, but with a big floating virtual screen, which is a good thing I guess for $3500, or buy a large real monitor for $100+ dependant on demands, and not wear a heavy dorky headset with limited battery life.

    There is nothing that other tech doesn’t do for cheaper (and often better) even when you combine the price of the multiple products you would have to buy to cover all use cases. Except maybe viewing weird 3D photos… great.

    This product is isolating and antisocial with limited battery and it’s hugely expensive with no good usp. Looks to me like a rare Apple L.



  • I’m not saying you’re wrong, you can want whatever you want, but out of curiosity, why physical navigation buttons? They’re a point of failure over time, make dust and water ingress more of a problem. While I like physical buttons for some things; power, volume and physical mute switch are all great (I wouldn’t hate a shutter button too) but at least they have the virtue of living round the sides and top of the phone, not the front of the phone like nav buttons, which take up space that could be screen (or just a smaller phone). It’s not like a physical home or back button is actually any more responsive than a gesture based nav. What’s the attraction to them?


  • For what it’s worth, I have an Apple TV, I love it. Really smooth, fast interface. Works really well. Voice search isn’t even terrible! For an Apple product. It really improves the TV experience. My only frustration is mixed app support, e.g. Netflix has an app that works fine but it doesn’t integrate into the rest of Apple TV which sucks. Also… apples walled garden can be annoying at times, so I also have a chromecast for the rare case I need to go around one of apples arbitrary restrictions.



  • Asahi: Successfully reverse engineers undocumented silicon and releases first of its kind firmware upstream where possible. You: (of the Asahi devs) “demonstrated sheer technical incompetence.”

    Asahi devs: receive abuse, harassment and discrimination from a website, often personally directed at minority team members. Ask the websites mods to do something about it, get ignored. Asahi devs: Block traffic from said website (and some collateral traffic) to do what they can to protect their team from harassment. You: “childish pettiness … not worthy of being relied on”

    Maaaateee… you got blocked from looking at a website, it’s at most a mild inconvenience to you. Maybe recalibrate your outrage. I’m sure someone of your technical competence can find a way to circumvent the pop up, if you care even a little.




  • I’ve only ever used one keyboard off Amazon, and it was a Durgod TKL board with cherry mx browns which was very nice. Still use it from time to time. They do have some full boards (with num pad) if that’s your thing.

    But to be honest the keyboard landscape has changed a lot since I bought that durgod board though and I think it’s now overpriced compared to the competition.

    My advice would be if you know what kind of switches you like (linear, tactile clicky etc) find a cheap ish keyboard you like the look of with those switches. As a beginner cherry switches are a good bet, they’re not the best, but they’re far from the worst and a good starting point and a lot of other switches and keycaps are compatible with them. It would be good idea if the keyboard is hot swap enabled so you can swap the switches out to try other types of switches or even convert the whole board in the future if you like without soldering. But most importantly start cheap, don’t buy something expensive when you’ve never tried mechanical keyboards before and don’t know what you do and don’t like.


  • The boring answer is that you should always be cautious about any device that you use with your computer.

    Any device you plug into your computer, if malicious, can cause all manner of issues. From outright bricking your mobo to injecting malware. This is why you should never plug an unknown usb drive you find into your computer. Any keyboard is vulnerable to keyloggers and other snooping techniques.

    With that said, is it likely? No, not really. It’s quite difficult for a keyboard to phone home unless it’s quite sophisticated, also you’re on Linux, most malware is for windows anyway. I’ve not really heard of this type of attack being used against individuals.

    To be honest you’re probably not a target! If you work somewhere that a bad actor may want to target (the government, the power grid, military, a bank etc) and you want to use the keyboard with a work device or on the same network, then yes you should only use devices your IT team have approved to be safe. Otherwise for you at home, who isn’t being targeted by state level adversaries, a keyboard off the internet is probably fine.



  • Short version: no they didn’t.

    Long version: maybe. Fedora is no longer compiling rpm versions of libreoffice. This is a good thing. There is already a flatpack available, and this is the recommended route to getting the latest and greatest version. Additional this saved dev time from pointlessly compiling packages that are already available as flatpacks. However they are also taking people off libreoffice development and onto other things like HDR support and wayland issues. This will in the long term hurt libreoffice. To be honest, on balance this is probably a good thing.

    Libreoffice is a great personal office environment, however it’s sorely lacking for enterprise use, where MS office compatability, multi user simultaneous collaboration and power user features (powerquery etc) are king. Things that libreoffice, with the greatest respect, sucks at.

    Given this and that fedora is an upstream for RHEL, it doesn’t make sense for Redhat to put effort into an office suite its consumers won’t use, in favour of making other desktop features that users will use better instead.