I am actually used to the company buying you a phone that you use as a personal device, but must then be enrolled in Intune or something similar. It is considered a perk of the job, and a taxable one at that. So the saving is not as obvious in this case.

Yeah, as far as I am concerned, there’s a direct conflict of interest between myself and my company when it comes the usage of a device that doubles as a personal and professional device. I understand the company’s need to take measures to control sensitive information, and when I do whatever I do on my spare time, I am unnecessarily (from the point of view of the company) endangering the information I have access to. And because of the safe-guards they put in place, they are taking an unacceptable amount of control of a device I keep my personal sensitive data.

Because of this I find it a bit baffling that BYOD ever became accepted practice, both from the employer’s side and the employee’s side.

What is FDE?

EDIT: Full-disk encryption?

I have a separate, company-issued phone that is used exclusively for work related activities and that is not even connected to my home network.

This looks really cool! Thanks for the share

I was recently introduced to this and I am very glad I found it. I was once recommended it, but then I thought they meant to attach a physical screen to my headless server…

I use this for archiving news and magazine articles as well (with snapshots), sorted on topic so that I 1) might be able to remember where I read something and easily find an article again if I discuss it with someone and 2) have a good starting point for researching something I don’t have time for or the will for now.

I have set up the file sync on a self-hosted WebDAV server as well as it quickly racks up storage space with all those snapshots and you fairly quickly reach the top tier storage plan they offer.

Zotero 7 brought some good UI improvements, but it is really resource heavy (at least on Linux). A CLI-interface as was mentioned under here would be interesting.

You should be able to achieve that with scrcpy (at least with Android). Never got around to test it myself, so I can’t vouch for how well it works though. My usecase for it died with installing a mini-PC in my living room, and now it would only be a curiosity for me.

Could you tell whether they were just offset by some value, or if the measurement response was dependent on temperature as well? I hope it will just be a linear offset and that they are otherwise fairly accurate within their specifiations.

I am about to do a test over about a day to compare a handful of sensors (BMP180, TMP117, LM35, DHT22 and the onboard sensor on the Pico) to my Netatmo station. I don’t really trust those readings either, which is why I am considering some better quality calibrated measurement device to calibrate against.

Yeah, that sounds sensible. I will need multiple sensors for this project anyway.

User replaceable batteries are a part of the new battery directive and will be in force from sometime in 2027 if I recall correctly.

I am perfectly happy with Konsole, and sleep well despite perhaps missing out on features I don’t know about.

Not sure if you are joking or not, but I’m pretty sure that only shows a default starting position of the “gauge”, and not the rating it has received so far. It’s bad design because it looks like everything is left-leaning, but I guess they wanted to uae a gauge in the neutral position as an illustration. I might be wrong though…

Are you talking about baloo, the file indexer?

Ah no, it’s not - I have been fooled by this community-driven approach. They are in a position to enshittify, so this might not be a good long-term solution.

I was actually unaware that IMDb is owned by Amazon. I will redouble my efforts to use TMDB instead.

If I had to guess, this is them meeting other Open Source contributors where they usually are, which in large part is GitHub these days.

Out of 28 projects whose release note RSS-feed I subscribe to, 25 of them are hosted on GitHub. While I’d love to see more of these projects move away from GitHub, it is understandable that they go where the largest amount of devs are. I’d love to see more of them start mirroring their repositories to Codeberg or their own Forgejo instance though, to give developers the opportunity to contribute while not alienating the devs who stay on GitHub. At least that would lessen the loss of opportunities for the devs when ditching GitHub - but I am not sure whether it is trivial or a hassle to maintain that kind of setup.

They can’t really say no to a free app

A co-worker was told (verbatim) by the head of IT that " we don’t use open source". So yeah…

tl;dr: Gradual exposure over time.

I got used to it through work, as I had to ssh into a server to run simulations. That mainly involved navigating the file system and text editing (which I used vim for) to make some basic Python and bash scripts, including sed and awk. The latter two I never got comfortable using, and haven’t really touched since.

I was using macOS at the time, and after using that for work, the terminal in macOS got at first less scary and then a preferred way of accomplishing certain tasks. On my work Windows computer I started missing having a proper terminal around, and I eventually found Cygwin and later Git Bash to give me that terminal fix in Windows as well. Especially with the latter I noticed few differences and could use it to a large extent as I would have on my then Macbook.

2-3 years ago I was in need of a new computer, and at that point a laptop with Linux on it was not a very scary prospect. That is by no way saying I went into Linux as an expert, far from it, and I am still very much a newbie - but opening the terminal to work with things is not at all a barrier, which helps a lot if you use Linux and want to be able to do some changes from the defaults. If you don’t want that, I think you can go far these days without opening the terminal, but it is certainly a good skill to have.

You also don’t have access to your fire box in that Hanoi alley.