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Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/phone-link-requirements-and-setup-cd2a1ee7-75a7-66a6-9d4e-bf22e735f9e3

This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.

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It works on all platforms, I work on mobile apps so I have quite a few Androids and iPhones, as well as a linux laptop and a Mac mini. It works seamlessly between all of those.

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How so? The devices page on the wiki lists 171 officially supported devices. I'm writing this comment on a Poco F3 running the official LineageOS 21 release...

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The "wealthy elite" in this case are Indian. Goes on to show that it's not a matter of race/origin but of class, the sooner we collectively realize this the better off we'll be.

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Not trying to erase anything, I just think it's the main issue we're facing right now, and that we'd be better off on many of these other issues if we did something about that one.

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If you've got a switch gathering dust and have no interest in using it for gaming again (e.g. if you've got a steam deck), it's nice to have the option to convert it to an Android tablet for the multitude of use cases the stock OS doesn't support: streaming, a proper web browser, chat apps, ...

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Didn't pay off for Chirac but it was the left that took power, let's hope we don't have as many fascists as yesterday's results seem to indicate.

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Every supergiant game has a wonderful soundtrack. Darren Korb is the composer.

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Yeah but for a publicly traded company, quarterly growth is the name of the game. If the numbers go down long enough, it's game over for them.

streaming or torrenting today vs. 5 years ago

I've been a good boy for 5 years or so but the seas call to me. Are streaming sites the way to go now or is torrenting still a better bet for mainstream movies and tv? I'd imagine all of my accounts have been deleted on those sites so I'd be starting over.

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I used a compose file from reddit and made a couple of adjustments, it was pretty quick and works great. I dont have a VPN though.

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I recently... acquired Scavengers Reign. It's one of last year's best TV shows, but there's simply no way to watch it legally in my country.

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Same, stopped pirating when Netflix became available here. By 2024 I was subscribed to 4 different services, and was still missing out on a lot of cool stuff. So when I got my first Prime video ad I just said fuck them, bought a NUC, set up jellyseerr+Jellyfin+a bunch of *arrs, and canceled all my subscriptions. Now I can watch anything I want, and the experience is so much better than any of the legal services.

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Nope, France. I checked because I wanted to pay for it after pirating it.

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It's "funny" how this was a complete non-issue here in France, but when the American right made trans people their next target after their abortion win, it suddenly became a huge problem for the French right as well.

These people constantly complain about American cultural hegemony, but they still make an exception for Trump and this kind of shit. Out of all the cool things coming out of the US, this is what you tolerate? I'm so sick of these spiteful assholes...

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Sure, but from where I am it sure seems like they became the main target. Anti-trans rethoric picked up a lot in the last few months.

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Come on that's not fair, it's very good* at drawing album covers and video game assets, which gives more time to artists to go work for Starbucks or Amazon instead of doing something they actually enjoy.

* passable actually, but much cheaper.

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Well yeah, that's why Russia is under sanctions, and why we're helping Ukraine.

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It's a pretty popular GIF taken from the 2007 movie Hot Fuzz.

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Wireguard, like all VPNs, definitely does E2E encryption. What would be the point of an unencrypted VPN?

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It's not new, it started when they released GNOME 3.

All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week ( arstechnica.com )

Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced....

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That's the spirit! If you know your way around Linux admin, docker and such, don't hesitate to dive into jellyseerr + *arr + Jellyfin, it was much simpler to set up than I expected. Once everything's up and running, the experience is far superior to any commercial streaming service.

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As it seems nobody's linked it yet, have you read Jellyfin's hardware selection page? They go into great details about which HW features are required/desired.

In my case I'm running it on a NUC with an i3 8109U + 16GB RAM, it runs great with 2 or 3 transcoding jobs at once. Media are stored on 5400-RPM HDDs.

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It would be nice, but this kind of tour means several truckloads of equipment and people, not really feasible by train I'm afraid.

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