EdlritchEconomics [he/him, comrade/them]

First few questions have been answered adequately already, and I can’t answer the third, but regarding uptime vs. distance; consider using more than one machine. Depending on your budget it might be worth it to have a couple or more lower-spec machines behind a load balancing / failover proxy. That would give you a fair bit of leeway to get out to the location while maintaining uptime. Also you can use one to troubleshoot the other remotely.

URL as written is 404 for me, but this link works for anyone else who’s interested.

Thanks for the list, it’s a useful resource. Unfortunately confirms that the phone won’t work for me.

Prolly gonna dox myself a bit here but it’s a peculiar quirk of my country’s emergency call regulations. All phones are required to be able to make an emergency call on any carrier, via roaming if necessary. This is to avoid a situation where you -think- you can call, say, an ambulance, because you can when you’re in your carrier’s coverage. But one day you end up out in the boonies where your phone has to roam onto another carrier to do it. That carrier -doesn’t- support your phone, so you’re fucked. Seems like a good idea, but the implementation is absolutely jacked, as is most tech regulation here. Functionally, it means that if -one- carrier doesn’t support a phone, -no- carrier can legally support it. This kind of creates a situation where any carrier can stop another carrier from selling a phone just by blacklisting it on their own network.

I’m sure this absolutely never gets abused /s.

I’ve done this on a touch and a DX. It is indeed worth it, especially for the older firmwares that still have features that have been dropped (e.g. TTS got dropped after the DX I think, because Bezos wanted to sell more audiobooks).

You may need to make use of archive.org for some devices, link rot is a real problem.

Not sure I understand how this works. Dev signups are just “open”? So you can register any package name so long as you get to it first and lock out the actual dev? That’s, um … yeah. Nice “security” solution there.

At this point I’d import a Linux phone but I can’t even guarantee it’d work in my country because of carriers doing IMEI black / whitelisting.

New level of Schroedinger posting unlocked. It’s simultaneously intentional and a bot fuckup until someone calls it out.

the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart.

Even if that’s true, wasn’t he president at the time?

Some of the quotes from the article even imply that the providers themselves understand this.

Dug out my old gen 1 Meta (ew) Quest that I haven’t used since they functionally turned it into a paperweight (~2021?). Between Oculess (to disable meta bloatware), NetGuard (to firewall the rest of the shit), WiVRn (wireless PCVR on linux) and wayVR (overlay), it’s surprisingly viable as a headset for VR games on Steam via Proton. Was a lot easier to set up than I expected too, hardest part was running the cat6 from my PC to the router to deal with the lag spikes. Been getting back into Pistol Whip and Synth Riders. It’s a surprisingly enjoyable workout, especially for a nerd like me who doesn’t like team sports and thinks gyms are mostly a scam.

I remember reading somewhere that this is a known issue, the air scrubbers never quite get rid of the smell.

Had an interview this week for a position closer to my field. Interview went well, was told I’d hear back by Monday. I’m still pretty optimistic about it, but we’ll see.

Listenbrainz might do at least some of what you want, but I must confess I haven’t made heavy enough use of it to actually vouch for it.

Personally whenever I get a craving for new music I load up either gnoosic or music-map and poke around. I think they both use the same database though, so it just depends which interface you like better.

For actually sourcing music, soulseek still exists (unsure if I’m allowed to link that here, but it’s not hard to find) and has a mobile client on f-droid. It’s also half decent for discovery too, since you can browse folders of people who show up in searches.

Fuckin classic. This and Voodoo People got so many of my grunge and metalhead friends to stop hating electronic music.

he has been locked out of his Microsoft developer account, and as a result cannot sign drivers or ship updates for WireGuard for Windows users

Windows users, specifically. Doesn’t sound like this is impacting the WireGuard codebase in general.

Somewhat telling that all the affected devs mentioned are security-related tho.

I can’t really speak to industry in the traditional “manufacturing” sense, but I know their food industry regulation is pretty tight. I view this as mostly good thing though, especially when compared with the shit that passes for food in the 'states.