the war on computation
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I mean it didn't really change much? The few things it did, like the notification/action panel being separate you can undo
It's more to do with AI integration of certain things, a downgrade in the capture tools, and the utter idiotic change of the grid system so I can no longer center anything. Aesthetically, this is the dumbest update.
Functionally, many of the things I used often have been borked by bullshit AI integration.
I've tried to change and fix and adjust, but there's only so much to be done
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Yep, updated Sunday night after I pushed off the notifications for months. I feel like they punish you for making them do it too, because it turned my alarm off and I was late to work because of it. Funny how my last phone, an S8 never had the issue of me having to unlock my phone to initialize start up after restart.
Did you have encryption enabled? I just upgraded from my s8 3 months ago, if you have the encryption turned on then you need to put in the password after every reboot for it to decrypt the phone. I he that its not 'initializing' and the device encryption is optional and you might not have had it on
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My recent (unwanted) update changed the lock screen to this weird format where the two-digit hour is above the two-digit minute instead of next to it separated by a colon like normal people use. I keep setting it back to what I want but this weird over/under format keeps coming back. Some fucking douchebag of a UX/UI designer thought this was a genius new way of showing the time and now it's being jammed down my throat.
I always keep at least one notification so I don't have to see that stupid format on my lock screen.
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Why can’t shit that has worked just continue to work the same way?
Line must go up.
At the top of the world, we're all just the bottom line.
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GrapheneOS is at least better than Google android.
wrote last edited by [email protected]GOS by all its strenghts, is following the paths treat by Google and Apple on defining what a smartphone has to be and how its security model has to look like, where only the OS distributor has full privileges, and you are just allowed to use it.
If you have the same requirements for your system as the people who designed these phones assumes you have, then GOS is great for you.
But if you want to tinker and customize, like we can with Linux systems, then Android and especially locked down systems like GOS aren't for you.
I am using GOS myself, because it is good, but I also have a separate device of tinkering.
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Did magisk become a lot better at hiding from banking apps? Because people have been saying "it's fine, just install magisk and use the option to hide it" but my experience is "it only works sometimes for some apps, otherwise you're fucked or you will be fucked next time the app updates its countermeasures". But that was a few years ago.
It's an absolute dealbreaker though. Without reliable mobile banking and eID it's very painful to do any kind of online payment or admin work.
No idea, I don't use magisk. I have lineageOS installed and mobile banking set up and never had to do anything funky...
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You know you're on the right track when you click something, and suddenly the Fisher-Price interface goes away and it opens a dialog box that hasn't changed since Windows 2000.
I've been writing software synthesizers for Windows since the Windows 95 era. The low-level audio API for that (sometimes called "waveOutX" and "waveInX" was a pain in the ass to deal with programmatically but once you figured it out it worked very well and totally reliable. I've been continuously amazed (and secretly happy) that for the last 30 fucking years they've just kept bringing that same exact API forward. Even Windows CE/Windows Mobile had that shit in it in the early '00s, which let me get my code working on PDAs and the earliest smartphones. Every attempt Microsoft has made to replace this API has somehow managed to be much more difficult to work with and simultaneously buggy as hell.
I think MS actually used to have some capable engineers (one of them who helped develop the waveOutX API I actually know by name, Larry Osterman) but they all fucked off with their tens of millions of dollars in stock options decades ago and what's left is a disasterclass.
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Did you have encryption enabled? I just upgraded from my s8 3 months ago, if you have the encryption turned on then you need to put in the password after every reboot for it to decrypt the phone. I he that its not 'initializing' and the device encryption is optional and you might not have had it on
wrote last edited by [email protected]Not the guy you're asking but I don't think it's related to encryption. I've had the same thing happen on my S24 with nothing encrypted
Edit: I am wrong, see below
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I always keep at least one notification so I don't have to see that stupid format on my lock screen.
Huh, I'll have to try that.
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It's really a more general problem with Western culture around engineering. Restriction maximizing engineering makes the world shitty. Engineers think they have an obligation to make any product do the absolute minimum that stat still meet spec. That is not to reduce cost or design difficulty by coming in just at spec, but to actively try to make things as shitty as possible using significant effort to do so just so the thing can do only the minimum thing that can be said to do the thing at all. It actually takes effort to make this happen.
The end result really sucks. Because this is so costly and everything is layered maximal minimalism this means that if you want to scale anything up at all the cost to do so is insane if western engineers are involved. This is a significant reason why China gets the manufacturing work and western engineers don't. They are yes men. Yes we can build that. And they have a network of yes men behind them that can help them execute on anything. And because they don't waste time engineering restriction every product and sub-product is adaptable.
But the western engineer only knows one mode of thinking. "We need to isolate the regimes that this product may operate in." Sometimes that's true but it shouldn't be everything we think about.
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if you wanna switch to the pro version, which should also be better in this regard, here's a handy link:
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
turns out the windows activation is extremely insecure and easy to fool
wrote last edited by [email protected]i've read somewhere that the microsoft activation support, if you have strange issues with activating your product, at times referred you to that page lol
edit: found it: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-support-cracks-windows-for-customer-after-activation-fails/
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We really do need more viable open phone options. We are well past the point in hardware capability that we could have a linux phone that turns into a desktop when you plug it into a docking station. USB-c connections handle everything for my work laptop.
I have reverted back to using my Linux PC for most screwing around online. My phone, for the technological wonder that it is, is for communicating with family, listening to music, GPSing, and then occasionally computer stuff, looking things up, etc.
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GOS by all its strenghts, is following the paths treat by Google and Apple on defining what a smartphone has to be and how its security model has to look like, where only the OS distributor has full privileges, and you are just allowed to use it.
If you have the same requirements for your system as the people who designed these phones assumes you have, then GOS is great for you.
But if you want to tinker and customize, like we can with Linux systems, then Android and especially locked down systems like GOS aren't for you.
I am using GOS myself, because it is good, but I also have a separate device of tinkering.
wrote last edited by [email protected]For me it's a necessary compromise.
I'm a Linux user on my other devices and I'd love to have a fully libre and open phone, but the most important thing for getting my life tasks done is that apps work, so I'm somewhat hostage to where the apps are available and will run.
Graphene is me trying to achieve that in the least-bad way I can.
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Here is my list of what any device really should have:
- Make me able to use my device as I want to.
If the Operating System don't agree - there MUST be a way to install alternative OS with a SINGLE BUTTON CLICK.
Oh, god. Think of what kind of world that would open up with this simple rule. The device could be a smartphone, Windows machine, termostat, or a dishwasher. Anything would never be obsolete anymore and all users can be happy - a machine obeying the user. Wonderful.
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I switched to Linux and it is "too complicated." Imo. There are a lot of compromises you have to make when you switch. I couldn't even get my first couple distros to work because they don't play nice with Nvidia.
I switched to bazzite because it would actually work graphically and I mostly only use steam anyway, but it isn't all rainbows. I feel like I'm always switching Proton versions to get a game to load. I use Proton db, but idk I still have issues. GoG I use heroic and have the same problems. Also, installing software is a pain. It's not that hard to use CLI but I get sick of it when I just want my shit to work with 2 clicks. Ive tried to run windows apps wlbut just gave that up. Also getting used to the folder structure and placements take time.
Plus, I can't seem to Google (or whatever) my problems. The help you get in Linux forums is usually " just switch to insert distro".
I've worked IT jobs for about 10 years so I feel like I have some knowledge, but Linux has stumped me a couple times already. How is an non-tech person supposed to just switch?
I'll never go back to Windows but you can't expect people to leave something that works for something that they have to fumble with to get working.
I think setting up linux as a gaming machine is more advanced than most people would be able to handle right now, but I was referring more to just general computer usage. I was able to install PopOS on a 13 year old MacBook the other day and the most difficult part was getting the iso setup as a bootable USB drive - and even that wasn't too hard. Although, to be fair, I think anyone who has problems doing an install of linux would also have a problem doing an install of Windows.
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That is a way to steal it(I ain’t no snitch, though) but it doesn’t actually refute my point.
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When using bazzite you can use fedora instead as that's the basis. It should help with hitting more results.
What exactly are you installing through the CLI? They have an app store where you can find ( most? Probably? ) of the stuff you're looking for.
You can use the CLI to find flatpacks and install them. And as a power user, sure why not. But if you're not comfortable with it, why not use the GUI?
What games are you playing that are causing you issues? I don't think I've had any game issues using the latest proton version , but most of the games I've played recently arent very old.
Yup. I usually search fedora when I'm looking stuff up. Usually, that helps but only so much.
I was installing mullvad. I didn't see it listed in any store repo I had so I used cli. It's not hard to do, but it was annoying getting the syntax correct because the instructions were for fedora but they didn't completely translate to bazzite. Probably because bazzite is half locked down or something.
Games causing me issues were Elden Ring, Resident evil 4 Remake, and Black Mesa (I thought this would work right out the box, but it didn't). They would usually launch then just close immediately. Eventually, I got the right Proton version that seems to work, but then I had issues downloading my cloud saves.
I see a lot of people are still giving me the "it just works out the box" talk, so idk. Maybe I shouldn't have reformatted my ntfs drive and just got a new one, but I didn't want to give up a 1tb ssd for no reason.
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Hmm... The tech industry looking a little rape-y...
The new Android RapeOS!
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The post was about someone losing root access via an auto-update which they disabled because it might remove their root access.
Your post was about GrapheneOS. If you rooted it, for whatever reason (maybe you need it to have privileged access to the apps on the hardware that you own), you will lose root access when you update it.
How does that not make sense?
I would rather think your post doesn't make so much sense, because GOS doesn't solve the root access issue when auto-updating, but it might honor the disablement of updates, I guess.
I am using GOS as well, but I wouldn't suggest it to someone needing root access for whatever reason.
wrote last edited by [email protected]If i wanted root i wouldnt be using GOS, but its been years since root was needed for much other than than debloating devices without custom roms. There are custom roms that have root if its really what you want.
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I have a desktop I built in 2019 with no TPM running. Windows 10.
Starting a couple of months ago, occasionally when it boots it will automatically open a full-screen ad for Windows 11.
It's extremely disruptive because of my setup. I use my monitors and keyboard for my work laptop and have a KVM to switch between the two, and since I use that space for work I don't like to spend much time there for recreation. So I often turn my desktop on and run it headless whenever I'm done with work, and don't see the ad, which then messes up my attempts at streaming. So I need to walk back upstairs to switch the KVM and close out of it manually.
No matter how many different "permanent" solutions I can find on the internet it keeps finding a way to do it again every couple of weeks. I've moved to Linux on most of the rest of my personal machines, but this desktop has all my old music production software that needs Windows. I'm getting pretty close to just investing in a different music production platform that works with Mint though.
idk what you are using but bitwig runs well on linux and is pretty modern and good, reaper is a little uncomfortable to use but extremly powerful
