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Deezer is the same: set it and forget it once at a platform level.

I'm not sure that comparison makes the point you want, here in the UK you already get IDed to buy knives: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sale-of-knives-vo...

And Humble Bundle book collections are DRM free too.

Not all of them. I've had at least one bundle where you redeem it via the Kobo store for DRMed ePubs. Most I've got via Humble Bundle have been DRM-free though.

On GrapheneOS, I have one banking app that works, and one that doesn't because of the linked issue.

Hilariously the message in the app says I can't be signed in because it's detected the phone is "jailbroken/rooted" and I "can still use our mobile site". The phone is not jailbroken or rooted, and using the mobile site on the same "untrustworthy" device is just as risky...

That's not the same as consenting to Facebook using their data for whatever Facebook wants.

In the UK, the presumption was actually that a machine is operating correctly, which was then reversed in law in 1984 but that was then repealed in 1999. Source: https://davidallengreen.com/2023/09/computer-says-guilty-an-...

Yeah, I think some headsets issue Play when connecting. I had a frustrating moment yesterday on a Macbook:

- I was connected to a video call with Bluetooth headphones.

- It turns out the headphones were also connected to my phone at the same time, because it started ringing via the headphones and I couldn't hear anything on the video call.

- I rejected the call.

- The headphones attempted to resume what I was doing by sending the Play command to the Macbook.

- iTunes then opened covering up my video call window.

- I tried to close with CMD+W, iTunes didn't let me because I wasn't logged in and apparently the login window isn't allowed to be closed by itself.

- I manage to close the iTunes window and try to remember what I was saying on the call.

This was all due to terrible decisions by both Apple and Sennheiser imo.

I've set the following in Miniflux to stop it deleting things:

CLEANUP_ARCHIVE_READ_DAYS=-1 CLEANUP_ARCHIVE_UNREAD_DAYS=-1

Yeah, similarly I use Adguard Home and have this in my upstream config, so I'm hoping I'm safe from this: [/fritz.box/]192.168.178.1

DMARC: Tells other mailservers what to do when the SPF and/or DKIM check fails

It's only "and" in this statement. You can't use DMARC to tell mailservers what to do when only one of them fails, as DMARC passes if at least one passes. The report will say which ones pass or not though.

FWIW I also use Fennec from F-Droid and I'm getting very slow behaviour and crashes with lots of tabs open (between 10-30). I don't have the theme change or tabs missing though.

I've been meaning to try different Firefox distributions though because switching away from Firefox isn't really an option for the reasons you've stated.

Environmentalists have been some of the more effective lobby groups for locking in fossil fuel use through 1980-2020 when we really should have been transitioning to nuclear power.

If environmentalists are so effective, climate change would have been a higher priority over those decades. It seems likelier to me that there's other, more convincing reasons we haven't rolled out nuclear at a huge scale. For example the following are typically more convincing and applicable to nuclear as well: high costs, high political risk, fossil fuel lobbying.

Thanks! I'll give those a go next time I'm on my work machine.

...until you need to close a Finder window and you need to remember to use ⌘W because that can't be quit. Then you need to make sure to ⌘-tab past Finder because it will hang around near the top of recent apps until you've switched to enough other apps to push it to the bottom of the list.

If anyone has a way around this I'd love to hear it, but I think it's basically a side effect of apps being allowed to be open without a window and Finder always needing to run, so seems like an inherent part of the MacOS experience.

DMARC only requires SPF or DKIM to pass, so the mail will pass of it's DKIM signed.

It's a pretty standard word used in quantum physics.

Source: I did a masters in the subject and remember reading it a lot.

Might be a good guess, there's precedent of them changing fundamental techology in a similar timeframe...

2013: "Migrating Uber from MySQL to PostgreSQL"[1]

2016: "Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL"[2]

[1] https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/53683323/migrating-ub...

[2] https://www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/postgres-to-mysql-migration/

Hey, thanks for the suggestion. I've tried all sorts, from compressed air (useless) to toothpicks (not quite small enough) to thumbtacks (really hard to do carefully). You've reminded me that the other successful tool was a SIM eject tool I found lying around, but even then it's still not reliably charging. It's better with the USB cable one way round compared to the other, which makes me wonder if I've managed to scratch it with the thumbtack.

The irony is one of the main reasons for buying this phone was I didn't want to have to get a new one and transfer everything due to some tiny problem with it. The latest ETA is end of October so I guess I'll wait at least that long before giving up...

The bottom module has been out of stock for a while[1], and is also the part that's probably going to break first due to the amount of use it gets when charging daily. As someone who needs to put their FP3+ in _just_ the right position for it to charge, I'm very tempted to buy a new phone so I don't have to deal with the anxiety of wondering if it's properly charging when I go to bed.

Before anyone says: yes, I have cleaned the USB port out. Cutting a triangle off a credit card and using the corner worked the best in my experience.

I still would pay for the other "fair" aspects of the Fairphone, but until I can actually repair it I'm not going to consider it a repairable phone.

[1] https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fairphone-3-bottom-module-avai...

Public transportation still requires you to go to the bus stop in the rain.

An umbrella solves that at minimal cost.

For the record, I don't think all car use is wrong, but the example of visiting a friend 10 miles away isn't a very good one. Someone shouldn't be expected to buy a car and its associated maintenance, tax, and externalities, just to visit someone that nearby.

Every time I update to a new GNOME version, the Power menu shifts around. I keep having to relearn where things like the Lock Screen button is. I don't understand who keeps remaking these decisions or why...

The number of popular websites that now notify that they're tracking you across the Internet is more than 1 in 10 million. They don't have to show any banner if they're not tracking you.

The difference in your analogy is you know what your friend is doing. If you went to your friend's house and they secretly spied on you, you'd surely think less of them when/if you found out.

One way sync would stop your server syncing back to the phone, but wouldn't you still need the ignoreDelete option to stop deletions on your phone syncing to your server?

I agree it's very good, and I use it for a lot of other folders eg notes, but I don't see how to use it as a backup tool for photos, without either using the option linked above or copying/hardlinking elsewhere on the NAS end. Unless there's a setting I'm missing that stops it from deleting on the NAS end?

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, it's my favourite file syncing tool, especially as one of the few open source syncing solutions. But I worry it always gets recommended as a backup tool and people don't realise it'll also sync deletions, so they'd suffer data loss.

Syncthing is an option, but it's typically for a different use case. Most people will want their photos backed up in a way that means they can delete the photos on their phone and still have a copy, but Syncthing would delete it on the NAS end as well.

There's an ignoreDelete option but the docs advise against using it[0] and IIRC the developers want to remove it.

[0] https://docs.syncthing.net/advanced/folder-ignoredelete.html

1) I want to live in a world where people can fly. I want my children to see the world and experience different cultures.

If you're worried about future generations you'd want to limit the effects of climate change, which means reducing carbon output. Sending more carbon into the atmosphere now means our descendants will experience more dramatic climate change impacts, and also need to reduce their output even more. Or to put it another way, the more flights avoided now the more flights can potentially be taken in the future.

The icing on the cake is you have to give them a prepaid envelope to send the certificate back to you. As if the $2350 isn't enough to cover postage...

Just renounced last month so I feel your pain. I've made peace with it by, in my head, amortising the cost over the rest of my life, but it sure would've been nice to do that with the lower fee!

The UK embassy at least was closed for renunciations most of 2020 due to COVID. They didn't reopen until halfway through last year, so maybe that year wasn't the best data point.

Incidentally I know this because I paid the $2350 last month, so timing couldn't be more annoying. I hadn't been in the US since being 1 year old and yet financial institutions refused to take my money due to the whims of another country.

If there's anything unique, it's the US doing this to people. It's an insane amount to charge just to declare you have no ties to somewhere.

Ah yeah, that could be the difference between us. The only difference GDPR really made here is companies went from a single "Confirm" button to dozens of complicationed options plus an opt out.