I installed Linux mint on my Framework laptop because fuck windows.

I had to move back to windows, it didn’t feel ready and couldn’t get it working easily how I like.

Heres some of the issues(any pointers would be great)

• 120hz just wouldn’t work on one monitor, it detects it but won’t apply. (Works fine in W10 and Ubuntu).
• Scrolling on the touchpad is unbelievably fast and makes it unusable.
• Fractional scaling is a joke, my laptop screen needs around 125% but everything becomes a blurred mess.
• The mouse is a bit jittery and can’t explain why (usually using a Logitech gaming mouse when docked).
• Governor cannot be different on battery and AC. Defaults to max turbo.
• Fingerprint sensor doesn’t work (works fine on Ubuntu and w10).
• Unsure how to get hardware accelerated disk encryption working?

Some stuff is better but a combination of these just brings me back to windows. It just loads and works?

You could probably sell a 1gig service to 200 users on a 50gbps line. That’s how GPON works and mostly people don’t have issues.

Not that it’s feasible, but they themselves won’t have the bandwidth for a few 50gbps users 24/7.

My 1gbps service is a 2.5gbps GPON split between 32 other users, i’ve always seen 1gbps. But theoretically it would only take 3 of us to max the connection out

No, I can’t use my yubikeys in fennec or Mull.

Does some of the payouts need normalising? Some of the bigger content creators make absolutely bank for hardly doing anything with little overheads.

Does it? It’s a fantastic service that works really well, whether it’s worth the price or privacy is a slightly different conversation

Yeah but that’s slower and not using the sites specific search

I’ve started using Duckduckgo, less specifically for the search and more for the bangs. Fed up of search surfacing sites they care about. I can now quickly search wikipedia with !w etc.

I switched my parents group chat to RCS from whatsapp after pestering them for ages.

Over the span of 2 months we had 4-5 inconsistencies where I would recieve a message from my mum or dad in the group that would be in another language or clearly not be written by them. It wouldn’t show up on her phone but my brother and dad would see it.

Here’s the proof of the last occassion it happened. They’re never going to switch now…

Even if you selfhost, having a cloud provider can still be a good option to maintain 3-2-1 without hosting a second server offsite (at parents or friends etc).

I backup to backblaze b2

It’s a jpeg

Then encoded in the metadata is a map of brightness.

If your website/app/phone doesn’t support it, the metadata just sits there with info about the lens, shutter speed etc.

If it does support it, the JPEG is automatically processed with the metadata to increase brightness in the original jpeg.

People need to stop “pretending” they can afford all this shit, it’s not needed and noone cares, who are people showing off too?

New iphone? Don’t need it

Maybe if we stop buying shit these companies will actually try

Yeah it’s insane. I bought a 1 year old Hyundai and knocked tons of depreciation off an already cheaper brand.

At my work people be driving around in leased Range Rovers/AMG Mercs. Then they will take the piss out of my car.

Seriously? I now have more disposable income because i’m not wasting it renting a car and also I own my car… It should be me bragging

Subscriptions need to fuck off. I made a stand a few months ago. I will not subscribe to anything at all unless i’m getting INSANE value.

Cancelled streaming, random apps, patreon etc. I now have usenet and backblaze b2 for about £3 a month each. Saving me a fortune 🏴‍☠️🦜

I have mint dual booted on my laptop with Win 11. I find myself using Win11 more.

Idk why, linux mint doesn’t feel finished to me:

• 120hz won’t work with my dock (works fine in ubuntu and w11)
• Touchpad scrolling is insanely quick and almost unusable
• My mouse jitters allover, accelleration or something seems wrong.
• Can’t seem to set different governors depending on battery or power.
• Fingerprint doesn’t have a driver (works in Ubuntu ok though).
• Scaling 125% seems janky, everything is blurry as shit

It does work mostly ok though and is quick, but it doesn’t feel polished. Ubuntu was great but fuck snap packages.

They released the rewrite as a beta apk at the weekend for testers. So it’s definitely going somewhere.

It’s faster and has conversations on the app too.

https://proton.me/support/mail-android-beta

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/16veha9/join_the_new_proton_mail_beta_on_android/

No.

I meant the article and writing the article as if apple are considering when it’s not even true.

“May” = some possible outcome written as the company are considering it.

Many countries like the UK charge 35p for an MMS. So to send pictures to anyone you needed an internet connected messenger.

SMS/MMS effectively died here.

So if I want to communicate everyone uses WhatsApp or iMessage

I can see my phone getting that if I let every app just push whatever they want. I purposefully and carefully go through and ensure I’m only getting notifications for what I need them for.

I average 250 a day. With 3/4 of those being messaging apps.