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  • The state of Linux phones in 2025

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  • I had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn't 1 April... seriously, it's called the furry phone furiphone?...

  • A look at search engines with their own indexes

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  • Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment

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  • One employee posted that the AI assistant started telling people that the restaurant was out of everything but drinks and sauce packets. A person attempting to order a Chalupa Supreme with onions from the AI assistant ended up with three chalupas, and when they tried to replace meat with beans, the AI simply refused.

    So things are not going great, but that is not stopping Taco Bell from pushing forward with its AI embrace in one way or another.

    Taco Bell: No, ¡más! 😂

  • Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment

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  • 😭 Daaaammnnn... this is gonna be the answer... 😭

  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • The question wasn’t how to switch OSs without losing current capabilities

    This is exactly the question. The article is about Google taking away software freedom, forcing developers to dox themselves, and forcing users to only install software from Google's approved list.

    Apple is already there. How would that help anyone?

  • Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine (Kagi)

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  • one detail that’s often glossed over is that Kagi primarily functions as a middleman between you and other search engines, like Google. In other words, it’s what we call a metasearch engine.

    Yeah, I've known this. I'm... ajdlfjk about it.

    What it can do, however, is make content less visible or harder to find, based on the criteria it uses to filter and rank results from its sources.

    Aaaand this is kinda the secret sauce. While the starting material is what you get in other places, Kagi allows you to improve it with your own rankings and filters on top. For example, every time I find an AI slop review website, I immediately downrank it in my results. I also uprank trusted sites. This at least tilts the scales in my favor when searching, instead of accepting what Google wants me to see.

    But, yeah, I agree Kagi is not discovering new material not known to Google, but it does have a higher chance of surfacing it.

    it’s not fundamentally different from what other search providers are already doing.

    I haven't compared search engine features in a bit. Maybe it's time.

    I encourage you to try SearXNG

    OK, I will.

  • Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine (Kagi)

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  • So, you monolingual? 🙂

  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • Oh, thank god Apple lets users install whatever software they want—hey, wait a minute...

  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • Nextcloud definitely seems solid... but let's be honest, it is definitely a resource hog. I tried deploying NextCloud on a VPS with 2GB of RAM, with most features turned off. The instance was empty. After a few minutes, I started getting alerts that I was using 100% of my memory.

    Nextcloud isn't gonna work the way you expect it to with 2GB of RAM. It doesn't seem like you'd be able to run this on some cheap, low powered device.

    Someone rewrite it in Rust! 😅

  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • Uhh... how do we stop using Android? I mean, these recent attacks by Google seem like they're going to break GrapheneOS and friends, no?

  • Review of the Star Labs Starbook7: thanks i hate it

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  • most things work out of the box now, especially on GNOME/Plasma

    I don't want my system to work 67% of the time. If my wifi card worked most of the time, I wouldn't be happy. I'd like a 100% working system. This isn't my first experience with HiDPI. I owned a Framework and returned it because it required fractional scaling and too many of the apps I use were either blurry or tiny. For me personally, that's a dealbreaker. I understand other people would make that trade off though.

    I 100% always attribute hidpi experience to the hardware. It's a bad choice hardware manufacturers make.

    • Should we only include a hidpi display? Something that we know before hand will definitely cause issues?
    • Should the hidpi display be some weird resolution that will require fractional scaling? Something that again has a huge and well known history of not working well?

    It's easier for 1 hardware manufacturer to pick a Linux-compatible display, rather than expecting millions of individual devs around the world to update their apps to the latest GTK/QT/Wayland frameworks.

    Even if you're pro-HiDPI displays, you should totally blame the laptop manufacturers for not picking a display resolution that allows integer scaling. You're missing out. It's a way better experience.

    what prompted you to buy this laptop in the first place

    I wanted to buy a Linux laptop because I thought it would be more compatible with Linux. I tried System76, but didn't like the build quality. I've previously used Dell XPS 13 and Lenovo X1 Carbon, both of which I like (and have excellent Linux support (and offer standard dpi displays)). Coreboot was another reason, I like that it's open source. I also thought Coreboot would boot the laptop faster since it has less bloat, but that didn't really pan out.

  • I have some questions about soulseek. (Hopefully this fits here)

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  • Obviously i can’t be online and have my pc powered on 24/7 as i have a life outside the web

    You... don't have to sit in front of your computer while it's on... leave it on and go to work/school/sleep. Sharing is caring. 🙂

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    paequ2 @lemmy.today

    Review of the Star Labs Starbook7: thanks i hate it

  • Hate Systemd? A New Init System(Nitro) Debuts as a Minimalist Process Supervisor for Linux

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  • More like system deeznuts!

    (Sorry, I just wanted to say that. 😅)

  • Germany's Ecosia proposes stewardship to run Google Chrome

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  • Google would legally separate Chrome into a foundation, retaining ultimate ownership and intellectual property rights and give Ecosia operational responsibility for 10 years, Ecosia said.

    Eh... uhh... does Ecosia even have the ability to maintain such a large and complicated code base?

  • Office workers - Has anyone here convinced their boss to let them install a Linux distro on their work desktop?

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  • Not currently... 😢 Our final product only runs on Linux, yet we develop on macOS. Even that is super annoying because we basically have 2 different buildchains we have to maintain. I was told "the tooling works" to develop on Linux... except the tooling is slow as hell and doesn't work all the time because we have bugs (I end up debugging the tooling). If we were on Linux, we could delete all this unnecessary tooling.

  • Syncthing 2.0 Launches With Major Database Overhaul

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    • One of the biggest shifts is the move from the LevelDB database backend to SQLite
    • The command-line interface ... old single-dash long options removed, some options renamed, and others reorganized into subcommands.

  • Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?

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  • first time using linux, how screwed am I?

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  • Linux Mint, Ubuntu, or Fedora

    I recently tried Fedora for the first time last week... and was pleasantly surprised! Out of these 3, I feel like Fedora looks the nicest. Fedora Workstation's installer is a little nicer than Ubuntu's. I also think the update screen during reboot is a nice touch.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    paequ2 @lemmy.today

    Installing Guix as a Complete GNU/Linux System - System Crafters

    systemcrafters.net /craft-your-system-with-guix/full-system-install/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    paequ2 @lemmy.today

    Google Drive alternative?

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    paequ2 @lemmy.today

    Guides for downloading streams?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    paequ2 @lemmy.today

    PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    paequ2 @lemmy.today

    So apparently we have to watch out for AI-powered descriptions of food when ordering online (doordash) now.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    paequ2 @lemmy.today

    Star Wars' Showcase of AI Special Effects Was a Complete Disaster

    futurism.com /star-wars-showcase-ai-special-effects-disaster
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    paequ2 @lemmy.today

    App recommendations for CalDAV VJOURNAL?

  • Flatpak @lemmy.ml
    paequ2 @lemmy.today

    Flathub: A paradigm shift for distributing applications | Jordan Petridis @ LAS 2025

  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source

    www.cncf.io /blog/2025/04/24/protecting-nats-and-the-integrity-of-open-source-cncfs-commitment-to-the-community/
  • Flatpak @lemmy.ml
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    Hiring for Flatpak Automation – Brno Hat

    enblog.eischmann.cz /2025/04/25/hiring-for-flatpak-automation/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    paequ2 @lemmy.today

    Slate, a customizable EV pickup for $20k

    electrek.co /2025/04/24/slate-emerges-modular-2-seat-ev-pickup-available-under-20k-video/
  • Flatpak @lemmy.ml
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    Vote to publish Actual Budget on Flathub

    github.com /actualbudget/actual/issues/2213
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    paequ2 @lemmy.today

    How to install Tailscale on VanillaOS?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    paequ2 @lemmy.today

    Is there a way to force update VanillaOS 2.0 Orchid?