I know what you mean. However, I can’t tell whether recommendations are ads or just very bad recommendations.
But there are plenty alternatives, so you just should switch services.
I went for Tidal, which also supports better bandwidth (HiFi and Master) and Apple Podcasts. I’m actually very happy with both services. You will find tools online to migrate your Spotify playlists to Tidal and when it comes to higher bandwidth: trust me, you will hear the difference and when you did, you will not want to switch back to lousy 320kbps MP3s.
I am so sorry for this off-topic comment, but I really need to thank you for showing me - an European - why Trey Parker and Matt Stone created Terrance and Phillip xD
I fully agree. And Wayland supports HiDPI with fractured scaling very well. Also tablet devices work better on Wayland. If you’re running Linux on a Surface, you should definitely switch to Wayland. It’s really time to ditch XServer and I wonder why Ubuntu and derivates still use it by default.
> And Wayland supports HiDPI with fractured scaling very well
Very well only for the apps that cooperate well, e.g. GTK-based apps.
Non-native apps (eg IntelliJ Idea) on my Ubuntu desktop were blurry when I used any kind of scaling - not just fractional scaling but any scaling != 100%. Reducing the display resolution by 2x resulted in much crispier rendering than full resolution with 2x scaling for those apps.
"Night mode", but nothing else. The GTK devs promised a theming interface as consolation for their libadwaita rollout, but that's trapped in limbo afaict...
nVidia is the dominant discrete GPU vendor, as well as having a fair amount of laptop market share, and their drivers haven't adequately supported it. It's rather difficult to flip the switch when a big chunk of your userbase can't make the move. I finally switched off of nVidia, in part because of the Wayland situation, but the majority of users aren't likely to do so.
Yes; the quality of such upscaling is noticeably worse than just doing proper upscaling, especially when it comes to text rendering. IIRC macOS does it this way because it historically only had integer upscaling, and when apps depend on that, changing it can be a major break.
I can certainly select fractional settings in the display settings right now (default is 2x). But as mentioned before, the fractional scaling factors are not exposed to any software.
This might be out of scope, but I dream of a general purpose programming language to develop web based applications.
I think overall web dev is kind of broken caused by the fact, that we still let web technologies evolve instead of reinventing them. To write a web based application you need several languages, which are furthermore separated in front- and backend.
NodeJs kind of tries to fill the gap, but it’s still just a technology which refers web languages.
I think of a different kind of technology that might not be based on html/css/js + backend-language.
This question really bothers me as well. I remember the time when designers came in and taught developers not to use pop ups, because pop up annoy and scare users.
I prefer browsing the web using uBlock Origin just to get rid of all the bloat. However there are several sites that are not compatible. And I’m pretty much directly closing the browser tab.
I wonder, whether it’s just me staying away from sites that annoy me to hell, because all the sites still use such pop ups. Following I wonder, whether site maintainers use all the analytics crap tools anyway. I mean, all the pop ups must have some sort of impact?
Honest question: are there any site maintainers analyzing there logs and might answer my questions?
WP is a full blown CMS. It’s very versatile and you can achieve a lot with just the core. Additionally the Gutenberg Editor is the definitive editor for building content-pages.
A few month ago I tried to find a CMS as feature-complete as WP. However, I wasn’t able to find any good alternatives.
I also asked on another forum and summed up my favorite WP features:
- Extendable admin area
- Custom post types
- Single- and archive-pages/-routes
- Taxonomy aka categories and tags
- Dynamic meta data (especially with ACF)
- Solid page editor for content
- Action-/Filter-capabilities
- Shortcodes
- Open Source
- Very compatible upgrade philosophy
- Media Library including automatic image scaling
- User Login
- API Support with custom routes
However, you need to know, that WP is higher settled than frameworks like Laravel. Especially data-management gets tedious on bigger instances. Just have a look at the DB schema and you will see, what I mean.
On our company we solved this issue by integrating Illuminate/Database btw.
Yeah, I keep coming back to Concrete5 (now Concrete CMS). We don't often do CMS-based projects but when we do I test out all the big names and Concrete wins out every time. It had a block-based page editor years before Wordpress introduced Gutenberg and theming has always been pretty straightforward.
Good question and very relative nowadays. You should have a look at ILIAS.
It’s been developed by German universities. However, it’s very versatile and pluggable.
As a company we are offering several integrations.
ILIAS is very strong when it comes to collaboration, but it doesn’t offer video conferences out of the box. Actually, I also don’t see ILIAS in that position. For such requirements you should definitely have a look at other solutions like MS Teams, Zoom etc. just because of scalability. Here in Germany mentioned solutions aren’t allowed because of privacy concerns. However, there are open source solutions followed by a system offered by the state for schools and other educational instances.
Can second that. Have worked 10 years with ILIAS (in all roles, from coding extensions up to editing content). It is a very solid platform with a rapidly moving team and an ever increasing set of features.
Is it really necessary to have a proprietary backup solution on Android OS?
Don’t get me wrong, this shall not be a buy-iPhone-be-happy-posting. But it really shocks me (well it’s also kind of amusing) to hear, that you are really talking about rooting your devices, to have a backup solution.
So, back to topic: I’m really curious, doesn’t Android really ship with a working backup/restore-solution out of the box?
What kills me about Windows Backup is that they introduced a good "disk image" backup solution in Windows 7 and they're deprecating it!
The current backup is basically just user data, and is not guaranteed to capture all of it.
The old backup protects 100% of the disk, even including recovery partitions and other special volumes.
Oh, and it produces a VHDX file that is directly bootable, either on bare metal or as a virtual machine.
I've used the disk image to recover entire machines in minutes and get back to work. I back up to an external SSD and if the main work machine dies, I just plug the SSD into another machine and use Hyper-V to boot it. I can be back up and running 100x faster than it would have taken to copy the files back.
Oh, and of course, you can take a snapshot before you start up the backup image so that you won't accidentally corrupt a known-good backup!
Ring is absolutely a shame, when it comes to privacy. Following, it comes with a monthly fee if you need video recordings.
We had critical situation at home, so we also decided to set up a recording camera.
Brand name is “Eufy”. Yes, you need to register an account to watch the streams, however recordings are stored on a sd card. They also offer door bells, which require a gateway, which then stores all the recordings. Eufy adversites it’s products for being secure and private, however… I just think everything comes with a price and Eufy offers a fair trade between privacy and comfortabity/usability.
So for me: Ring is a no-go and I’m not willing to set up and maintain a homebrew-solution.
I'm not sure whether the doorbell uses the same Tuya platform as their vacuum cleaners do, but if they do then there's a major vulnerability there - essentially all their Tuya-based devices can be accessed by knowing just a (sequential) ID.
This GitHub issue describes how the official Eufy app talks to Tuya: https://github.com/mitchellrj/eufy_robovac/issues/1 - you see that once you get your Tuya User ID from the Eufy API, the actual password to talk to Tuya is actually hardcoded and the same for every user.
I've got some code that implements the "request signature" mechanism (the missing piece of the puzzle in the above issue) that might make this more obvious - you'll notice that the TuyaAPISession class only takes a username (the aforementioned sequential ID) and country code, no password (as it's hardcoded and the same for everyone): https://gitlab.com/Rjevski/eufy-device-id-and-local-key-grab...
But there are plenty alternatives, so you just should switch services.
I went for Tidal, which also supports better bandwidth (HiFi and Master) and Apple Podcasts. I’m actually very happy with both services. You will find tools online to migrate your Spotify playlists to Tidal and when it comes to higher bandwidth: trust me, you will hear the difference and when you did, you will not want to switch back to lousy 320kbps MP3s.