user224

user224, 4 miesiące temu

I was hoping that eventually smartphones would evolve to do everything. Especially when things like Samsung Dex were intorduced, it looked to me like maybe in the future phones could replace desktops, running a full desktop OS when docked and some simplified mobile UI + power saving when in mobile mode.

But no, I only have a locked-down computer.

user224, 4 miesiące temu

Linux vm

Or just something like Termux, a terminal emulator for Android. Example screenshot (XFCE desktop over VNC server), I didn’t know what to fit in there:
https://files.catbox.moe/zr7kem.png

Full desktop apps, running natively under Android. For better compatibility Termux also has proot-distro (similar to chroot) where you can have… let me copy-paste

<span style="color:#323232;">Supported distributions (format: name < alias >):
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  * Alpine Linux < alpine >
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  * Arch Linux < archlinux >
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  * Artix Linux < artix >
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  * Chimera Linux < chimera >
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  * Debian (bookworm) < debian >
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  * deepin < deepin >
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  * Fedora < fedora >
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  * Manjaro < manjaro >
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  * openKylin < openkylin >
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  * OpenSUSE < opensuse >
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  * Pardus < pardus >
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  * Ubuntu (24.04) < ubuntu >
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  * Void Linux < void >
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Install selected one with: proot-distro install <alias>
</span>

Though there is apparently some performance hit. I just prefer Android, but maybe you could run even full LibreOffice under some distro this way.

If it can be done by Termux, then someone like Samsung could definitely make something like that too, but integrated with the system and with more software available in their repos.

What’s missing from the picture but is interesting too is NGINX server (reverse proxy, lazy file sharing, wget mirrored static website serving), kiwix-serve (serving ZIM files including the entire Wikipedia from SD card) and Navidrome (music server).
And brought to any internet-connected computer via Cloudflare QuickTunnel (because it doesn’t need account nor domain name). The mobile data upload speed will finally matter, a lot.

You get the idea, GNU+Linux. And Android already has the Linux kernel part.

user224, rok temu

Indeed. Instead be that guy saying “Oh, man… I forgot to check the caps… the motherboard is absolutely corroded and ruined beyond repair!”

Just reminding you if you have any old consoles or other such old electronics. Remember the capacitors.

user224, rok temu

flac format from YouTube

WHY? YouTube doesn’t have lossless audio. Best you can do is get the 160k Opus without re-encoding.

user224, rok temu

free-mp3-download.net is the best. It rips FLACs directly from Deezer.

user224, rok temu

Look, I was new to GNU+Linux computers. But it seems I was lucky not to get redirected to that malicious repo.

user224, rok temu

This article looks better: securelist.com/…/110465/

user224, rok temu

I wonder what they’ll name it if they ever come to Slovakia or Czech republic. “Z-Points” are personal pick-up points of the Packeta delivery service.

user224, rok temu

How about Microsoft pirating Windows for you?

user224, rok temu

I wanted to link to it, but I just noticed this comment from admin. Seems like even base64-encoded links are out of question then.

Maybe this could do: pastebin.com/immXsYpF

user224, rok temu

I am not sure, but it might be unsafe to post direct links like this for the admin running this instance: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18438

user224, rok temu

echo ‘aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZpbGUvUnp0VlhDYksjNGZGQkJNQ2FwMFJaeGVnbC1Kc0ZzWUkwYndSQzVucEZfTXhHMl9PNzNnTQ==’ | base64 -d to decode it.

user224, rok temu

My school is running Windows XP on many computers. Only this year they finally got rid of 32-bit machines.

user224, rok temu

I’d also recommend Kid3: kid3.kde.org

user224, rok temu

Some people are just being followed by downvoting bots. This seems to be their case when you check their profile. Not the first time I see it.