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[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 3 points 2 months ago

Started using Linux in 2010 on a virtual machine on a Windows XP machine that was really not meant to run it and it was God awful. But I knew that it was the virtual machine not Linux itself. After that I was using my laptop for school and a Windows update completely broke it and I absolutely had to use it for the next class that I was going to in like five minutes and I had a flash drive with a live Linux environment already on it and so I just used that. However, once I was done with class that day, my first thought was why should I even go in and attempt to fix this Windows machine when Linux has been working fine for me all day. And so I just went ahead and wiped the disk and ran the installer. And I've been using Linux ever since. I do generally keep a Windows virtual machine around, just in case, but it's extremely rare that I've ever needed to use it.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town -1 points 2 months ago

I personally don't have a PDF reader since Firefox can open them and so can Fossify Files

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

None that I'm aware of. I guess it's possible, but I have not seen it be the case yet.

Edit: I can tell you for a fact that the ones I'm listing are legitimate. And if you don't believe me, try purchasing one with the multi-signature escrow.

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/shortwavesurfer2009

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's also used to buy baking pans, dove soap, coffee makers, and toasters. Xmrbazaar.com

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 14 points 2 months ago

Firefox gets tons of funding from Google, and their code is quite frankly humongous. From what I understand, it's extremely hard to get the gecko web view engine to work. In another browser, unless it's a fork of Firefox, unlike Chromium where you can just redesign an entire browser around it.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 3 points 2 months ago

Fair enough, there's some really golden information in this thread.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 2 points 2 months ago

What about those military things that they use to disperse crowds? Where it makes you feel like your skin is cooking, but it's actually not. I feel like that uses high power and high frequency radio waves to accomplish that.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 5 points 2 months ago

The higher the frequency, the worse that is. So standing very close to an HF antenna that only broadcasts up to like say 30 megahertz is different than standing next to a 700 megahertz cell phone antenna, which is different from standing next to a 2.5 gigahertz cell phone antenna. The reasoning for that is due to power levels and wavelength of the radio signal itself.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 8 points 2 months ago

You know, that's a good point. I didn't even think of that. But you're right.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 28 points 2 months ago

Mind crossposting this to !t_mobile@lemmy.ml?

Also, they will lose. The FCC has said that the companies can build towers where they are needed for coverage. They might have to make it look like a tree or something, but they cannot be rejected from building it.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I actually prefer to buy mid range phones that are brand new instead of buying phones that are a few generations old just because I know that with a new device the battery is new and I treat my batteries very well like only charging to 80% and so on. So I'm a lot more likely to buy like the Pixel A series or like the Motorola G series and such than I am to buy the latest Pixel flagship or whatever.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, definitely Earthbending for sure.

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Title. I use Firefox Focus because it's easy to clear history by just hitting the Delete button and it saves very little to no information on app exit. I know the Duck Duck Go privacy browser does this as well, but it's more of a full-fledged browser with bookmarks and everything else. Where I'm just looking for something super lightweight and quick.

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Flicky Bee (monero.town)

So i saw TWIF And a new game was added called Flicky Bee. It caught my attention so I decided to test it out and it's disturbingly more entertaining than it has any right to be. Lol

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by shortwavesurfer@monero.town to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

I want to like it, but it is not sending me push notifications, and that is a deal breaker. I run lineage OS and have ntfy as a unified push provider but expected that the app would be able to have a check interval at which time it would send me notifications if anything was new. The description says it's capable of doing notifications, but I did not see them in several hours of using it with notifications turned on. This is probably one I will revisit in the future to see if there's any progress on it.

Edit: I just realized in filing a comment on a bug report with my experience this morning that the system never did prompt me to allow notifications for the app. So I manually went in and allowed notifications and so we will see if that works.

Edit 2: that worked. Add a new feed, swipe up to go to app switcher, tap read you icon, tap app info, tap notifications, and turn them on. Switch back to read you, long press a feed, and tap allow notification (it doesnt respect the setting when you add the feed for some reason)

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Fossify Notes Is the replacement for the simple notes that was acquired by an Ad tech company. And further updates were closed source.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by shortwavesurfer@monero.town to c/technology@lemmy.world

2.4GHz wifi is not suitable for two big reasons, interference and low bandwidth. 2.4GHz wifi in any kind of suburban or city environment and sometimes even in rural will be congested with other networks, microwaves, other appliances, etc causing massive speed degradation or fluctuations. The range of 2.4GHz is just too large for all the equipment that uses it in today's world. In my previous apartment complex for example my phone could see 35 distinct 2.4GHz wifi networks while only 3 at max can operate without interfering with each other. In that same building i could only see 13 5GHz networks. Which brings me to the second issue of bandwidth

2.4GHz at least here in the US only has channels 1, 6, and 11 that will not interfere with each other. if anyone puts their network between these three channels it will knock out both the one below and the one above. Channel 3 would interfere with both channels 1 and 6 for example. By going up to 5GHz you have many more free channels, fewer networks competing for those channels, and higher bandwidth channels allowing for much higher throughput. 2.4GHz allows 40MHz wide channels which in isolation would offer ~400mbps, but you will never see that in the real world.

Personally, i think OEMs should just stop including it or have it disabled by default and only enable it in an "advanced settings" area.

Edit: I am actually really surprised at how unpopular this opinion appears to be.

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If you turn on the use tor setting and 127.0.0.1:9050 is open fdroid works fine, but if only [::1]:9050 is open fdroid fails.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by shortwavesurfer@monero.town to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

I am after an app similar to Ning that is still being updated and supports ipv6 if possible.

Edit: Ning is a network scanner to find IPs of other machines on your local network.

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submitted 10 months ago by shortwavesurfer@monero.town to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

Does not actually require orbot. InviZible Pro works as well. That setting just expects a proxy host of 127.0.0.1 port 9050

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by shortwavesurfer@monero.town to c/programming@beehaw.org

Any ideas? I am attempting to write a script that uses sed.

If done this way it fails

  • rmdec="sed 's/..................$//'"
  • i1xmr=$(echo "$i1p/$apiresponse*1000" |bc -l |$rmdec)

But if i do it this way it works

  • i1xmr=$(echo "$i1p/$apiresponse*1000" |bc -l | sed 's/..................$//')
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As an example, Infinity for Reddit is likely no longer viable due to the Reddit API changes. This version of Talkback has not been updated since 2013 while this version says it is deprecated. The only viable one at the moment is this one since it has the most recent update.

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I just downloaded the new infinity for lemmy client to kick the tires and found quite a few unlabeled buttons within seconds of loading my feed. Some SemanticLabel(s) would go a long way here.

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Title. Key management is so not intuitive at all. You have your session verification key in case you have no access to another session. Fine, i totally understand. Then you have E2E room keys you can either backup on your homeserver or in a file. Fine, except not so much. I exported my room keys to a backup file and deleted them from my homeserver. I signed out of element completely. I sign back in just fine, i verify my session with my session verification key just fine. I import my E2E room keys and see 32/32 keys imported success. Great. One encrypted room shows my historyperfect, the other "Waiting for this message, this may take a while". Exactly why is this? Every key imported fine so why arent all messages in all rooms decrypted?

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