3arn0wl

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3arn0wl,

Another failed author turned librarian? :/

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It struck me as crap, frankly. “Please don’t eat in the library” is enough.

3arn0wl,

If homework is set with the expectation that it is to be done, then the counter-expectation is that it’s marked promptly and returned.

However, “You Must, You Could, and You Might Enjoy” might also be made use of.

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No idea why you’d come to that conclusion.

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And you appear to be fairly rude to someone you don’t know.

3arn0wl,

OnionShare is available for Android.

3arn0wl,

You know what they say : Trombonists do it in 7 positions.

3arn0wl,

Is there a fork of MuseScore too (the same devs, I think)?

3arn0wl,

Hi

github.com/musescore/MuseScore

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Gary Anthony James Webb, aka Gary Numan, born 8 March 1958 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Numan

Gary Leonard Oldman. born 21 March 1958 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Oldman

3arn0wl,

I guess it depends on what operating system you decide to use…

(There’s also Shift who make a similar product : www.shiftphones.com/en/)

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67% of phones are made in China.* Many for Western companies. Using parts and materials sourced from around the world.

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Buying a used phone does save resources and stops potential e-waste though.

Plus with an older phone there’s more likelihood that an alternative OS is available.

ruleigion (files.mastodonapp.uk)

alt textIt’s hard to imagine a more extraordinary claim than that some hidden intelligence created a universe of more than a hundred billion galaxies, each containing more than a hundred billion stars, and then waited more than 13.7 billion years until a planet in a remote corner of a single galaxy evolved an atmosphere...

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Responding as a faithless person :

… and yet the grit in the oyster persists : in humanity’s frame of reference, something has never been created out of nothing.

3arn0wl,

Nothing more than that, in humanity’s frame of reference, things come into being, exist, and deteriorate. I have no reason to think the Universe is any different, since it seems to be made of the same stuff.

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Religion, phylosophy and science have all been seeking the answer to this question for so many centuries. It won’t surprise anyone when I admit that I don’t have the answer!

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FWIW I’m still very much an advocate of the Mark Shuttleworth Convergence vision. It’s the Holy Grail that makes sense to me.

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I got about 5 minutes of moonrise, before it clouded over and started raining. :( Oh well.

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Hehe You’re the second person to convey that thought to me. So true though.

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It would put me off using it.

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I’ve wondered before now about an e-mail system which hosts the emails on one’s own device, and uses the activity-pub protocol : decentralised email, I guess…

The closest I’ve seen is Tox.

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They’re kept on other people’s servers, is what I meant.

3arn0wl,

Yes… I guess if someone were to only use Tox, the device they were using it on would have to be on all the time, with one of the Tox clients running at least in the background.

Addendum At least you know when the other person is online… There’s some advantage to that.

3arn0wl,

Hehe You answered your own statement! If it were ever to become non-trivial : I’d certainly do it (even though I know people who do, are bombarded with spam).

3arn0wl,

:) Thank you. Yes Mail in a box has been around for a while. Still not straightforward, though.

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My favourite calendar is the UBPorts offering, but I don’t think it’s available as a standalone app.

The GNOME calendar is okay though : wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calendar

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I read recently that RPiOS has a Micro$oft key pre-installed (so that your RPi phones home to Microsoft)… It totally puts me off what is an excellent lightweight OS.

reddit.com/…/microsoft_repo_installed_on_all_rasp…

3arn0wl,

I think UBPorts’ calendar is excellent… I don’t think it’s generally available as a standalone Linux app though, sadly.

3arn0wl, (edited )

I really like the Lichee Pi 4A, and I hope to get one when I next need to buy a computer. My computing needs are relatively light, and I think the Lichee Pi would be perfectly sufficient.

I check the Alpine repository from time to time - pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages - just to see what apps are available for RISC-V : and actually, it’s impressive to see the amount of work that has gone into rebasing apps. Godot doesn’t appear to be there for RISC-V though, sorry.

So my advice would be to realise what apps you really need, and check if they’re available yet. And if they aren’t it’s always worth contacting the app maintainer.

3arn0wl, (edited )

What are your predictions on consumer hardware for the next decade in relation to RISC-V?

I had 2023 marked as the Year of the RISC-V SBC. But I think it’s more than that : with the Lichee Pi coming with Debian pre-installed, and looking stable, RISC-V is on the verge of consumer-grade hardware. There are other devices from Sipeed, Pine64 and others too, of course, including laptops and tablets.

I think the real watershed will come in 2025/26 though. It’s widely predicted that more powerful RISC-V processors will be ready by then.

We know that some Chinese tech organisations are working tirelessly on RISC-V, and I think we can expect to see them really pushing the technology. But Qualcomm, Broadcom, NXP etc. are going for it too. Qualcomm (feat. Nuvia) have real design prowess, and also have every reason to go RISC-V.

3arn0wl,

There’s a community effort, porting KDE: liliputing.com/pinetab-v-tablet-with-a-risc-v-chi…

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How about, (counterclockwise)

Small Hairy Orangutan Eyed Me?

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D’oh! 🤔 Yeah!

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That’s genuinely shocking.

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I wouldn’t know : I never support them.

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This is sad news. Condolences to his family and friends.

3arn0wl, (edited )

No open sourced RISC-V processor? Not interested.

And courting Micro$oft…??

He’s lost the plot

3arn0wl,

To quote a Linux tech writer:

"You literally cannot boot a raspberry pi zero, one, two, three or four without running ThreadX which is a Microsoft product.

“So whether the OS pings a repo or not is moot. The whole damn computer is run by a proprietary sealed Microsoft binary.”

3arn0wl,

One can only hope.

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Is this technology open source?

What do you think of framework and their methods? (frame.work)

We are not sustainableAnd neither is any other device maker. This industry is full of “feel good” messaging, but generates 50 million metric tons of e-waste each year. We believe the best way to reduce environmental impact is to create products that last longer, meaning fewer new ones need to be made. Instead of operating on...

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I contacted them about putting the Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A RISC-V SoM in… but they seemed unenthusiastic…

Not everyone is riding the hyperbole in tech.

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I use Tox P2P.

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What a remarkable bolt! Can it come and do my place when it’s finished?

3arn0wl,

… so not much has changed in a hundred years then.

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