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I got it last week and I absolutely love it. There are just a two devices I've got in my life that I think are perfect. This is one of them, other being my Steam Deck. It is so small that I can actually carry it in my pocket all the time and read a few paragraphs whenever I have a minute or two. My scrolling time went down dramatically.
I tried it on my Samsung phone. Keeps crashing, "recovery" just deletes everything and you start over from scratch. No session lasted more than 5 minutes.
I've been a Kagi user for months now and was really looking forward to testing this. However, I cannot find the download link. The page does not really contain any information on an actual release.
EDIT: I found this in the docs:
The alpha version of Orion for Linux is currently only available to [Orion+ supporters](../orion-plus/orion-plus.md) and can be downloaded from the [Billing Dashboard](https://kagi.com/settings/billing) under the Orion browser section.
So I still can't test this. Only for Orion+ supporters.
Thank you! I'll use it.
YouTube Row Fixer
It is incredible how many addons I need to make YouTube usable. Here's my list (all Firefox):
- uBlock Origin - ad block
- SponsorBlock - to skip in video ads (some other nice features like highlights too)
- YouTube Row Fixer - for the tiles to adjust to the window
- Return YouTube Dislike - self explanatory
- YouTube No Translation - thanks for the suggestion!
True, longer would be better. And if the platform was truly open, we could just treat phone like PCs. You can still install Linux on a 20 year old machine and it will work.
At least this is 5 years from "the end of placement on the market". So more realistically it should be around 7 years from release.
I agree that the platform should be open. I played with PostmarketOS on one of my old devices and I really wish I could just install Linux on my other devices to make it really usable for the years to come.
They should switch to an SOC with mainline Linux support so you don't have to throw it out in three years.
Starting 20th of June this year (so 3 days ago) every new phone released in European Union will need to have software updates for at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market. This might be the first one released under new regulations. Also looking at Fairphone's history it looks like they really support their phones for a long time.
It's right there in the article:
An important note: We are enabling the Assistant for all users in phases, based on regions, starting with USA today. The full rollout for ‘Assistant for All’ is scheduled to be completed by Sunday, 23:59 UTC.
I would absolutely pay for the development of an independent, open source, privacy oriented and user friendly browser. I would never pay for the shitshow the Mozilla Corporation is.
I would find $5-$10 per month perfectly acceptable.
For now maybe donating to Ladybird [1] and Servo [2] makes more sense?
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[1] https://ladybird.org/ [2] https://servo.org/sponsorship/
Let's not forget https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube for Android TV/Fire TV.
NewPipe/PipePipe are Android alternatives with background play.
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube is an option for Android TV/Fire TV. Even SponsorBlock is included.
I love the idea as I listen to a lot of podcasts and an occasional audiobook.
The first impression is not that great. There's nothing natural about the voice. While individual words and phrases sound good, there's still no decent cadence and intonation. Feels flat and robotic.
However, I will definitely experiment some more.
I had a look at COSMIC on Fedora [1]. It is fast, stable and usable, but feels little unfinished (it is an early version after all). It is not my cup of tea (maybe I am too comfortable with KDE Plasma 6), but I am glad that there's a new solid option for a desktop environment. And unlike other with DEs, where interest and development quickly fizzles out, this will probably last as it has the System76 backing.
One issue that I had is fractional scaling for Electron (and older X11) apps on Wayland (same issue with Gnome and most DEs). Apps are blurry. It seems that only KDE Plasma figured it out. Plasma has an option "Apply scaling themselves", which just works.
[1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ryanabx/cosmic-epoch...
I would love to try it out on my Android tablet. Being able to run Linux with a real desktop browser and development environment would be really amazing.
I use KDE Plasma 5.27 (6 with many improvements is around the corner) on Wayland and fractional scaling is handled very well, nothing is blurry, no hacks required. If KDE recognizes an app that is not Wayland compatible (like most Electron apps), it will just run it in X11 mode (there's a setting for that, enabled by default).
See the screenshot of my settings: https://imgur.com/a/VQHD5vT
That's not the first story like this. It seems like more and more often the QA is done by users who have not signed up for it. Why can't a multibillion company do a proper QA?
Alphabet (Google) publishes revenue for YT, but profits only for the whole company.
"Charity" made me chuckle. YouTube by itself had an exponentially growing revenue since first introducing ads. In 2022 the revenue was at almost $30 billion (maybe this will better show that amount: $30,000,000,000) [1]. So yeah, go ahead and defend a monopolistic corporation that came to that position by basically doing bait and switch, and ridicule a small minority of people who just want to decide what they run and don't on their own devices.
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[1] https://www.usesignhouse.com/blog/youtube-stats#youtube-reve...
Berlin and Brandenburg in Germany: https://www.vbb.de/fahrinfo/ (need to enable it in the top right corner). Includes ICE, regional, suburban trains, subway, trams, buses and ferries.
My personal opinion here.
For a long time GDP and standard of living/well-being of a society have been correlated that people started to think that these are the same. These two are becoming more and more detached each year with progressing inequality. To the point that GDP now tells us very little about a country.
For example Bermuda. The high GDP per capita incomes is fueled by offshore financial services, but that does not translate to personal wealth of the citizens. And Qatar. More than 50% of population are immigrants working mostly in low-paying jobs often in terrible conditions. They generate wealth, but they are not considered citizens. Finally the elephant in the room - USA. GDP per capita means jack shit if half of the wealth belongs to a few people.
Small bug: The signup form didn't like when my password had special characters. Kept saying "invalid data".
I tried Yuzu too and was very impressed. Some useful instructions on how to use it: https://github.com/Abd-007/Switch-Emulators-Guide/blob/main/...
You need to use Wayland instead of X11 for fractional scaling. On Gnome, you need to enable it first.
I am so grateful to KDE developers and developers who work on the whole ecosystem around it.
After years of using Gnome, I got fed up with problems at every upgrade, and switched to KDE Plasma. Suddenly everything just works as expected. Including fractional scaling, which still can be pain in the neck on Linux.
I recently donated to KDE and would encourage you to do the same [1]. I'll keep doing that occasionally.
I had exactly the same experience. I've been using Gnome for the last 7 years, with few extensions that were essential. The latest upgrade to Fedora 38 broke everything. Extensions, fractional scaling, Gnome and apps were crashing.
I tried KDE after many years. Other than some UI choices that I find not that great, it has been an amazing experience. Everything works out of the box. No hacks are needed for electron apps, fractional scaling, no extensions necessary.
Thinkpad X1 Nano. I think you can even order with Linux preinstalled.