That’s something! But it doesn’t raise any money from people with other VPN providers or who don’t want to buy a VPN service.
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Counterpoint: for those who prefer split ergo keyboards, the internal keyboard on laptops is rarely used.
A tablet where you can bring your own weird keyboard to pair with it is better.
Signal does a decent job of encouraging people to make one-time or ongoing donations to the service. I’ve supported them multiple times because they gave me a prompt to do so.
I don’t recall Firefox ever asking for a donation or subscription.
Mozilla could have allowed people the option to subscribe for a modest fee in addition to giving it away for free, to diversify their income and be less dependent on Google, but they have not been trying that hard to develop other revenue streams.
3·1 day agoYou linked to How Not to Die, which is by the same author as How Not to Diet.
He advocates WFPB. I have read How Not to Die and it was more interesting and funny than I expected. It’s a good tour of the scientific studies related to the foods correlated with the most common causes of death.
Studies about longevity have reached the conclusion that WFPB is best for long life as well. The Blue Zone diet focused on longevity also emphasis a plant-based diet with less processed food.
WFPB is a vegan way of eating focused on health. It recommends minimizing processed foods, especially added sugars and oils. Stricter versions also limit fattier foods like avocados and nuts.
When following WFPB closely, it’s necessary to count calories, because you are eating so much nutrient-dense food with lots of fiber and relatively fewer calories. So you get full without a lot of calories.
1·2 days agoAlthough, If I have my own Amazon referral link in my blog post and they replace the referral code in their feed, I would not be happy about that.
They could be injecting their own ads or affiliate links into the content.
For example, if a post links to Amazon.
I have not looked at the source code.
2·4 days agoInteresting research project but it’s not Linux and doesn’t natively run Linux apps.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/21/successor_to_unix_plan_9/
41·4 days agoThe story hypes this to be a bit more than this is.
Framework sent a laptop to the lead Mint dev. He’s going to try make sure it works well with Mint, but it already does.
The more low key framing straight on the Mint blog is here:
It was not even 3%, it was a tenth of that: 0.3%
Even with 1GB of RAM, it would be 1.2%.
If the design cuts it so close that it can’t spare 1% of RAM, the system is in danger of crashing in production due to memory exhaustion.
Sure, at some point the impact of systems will matter and you should choose something else. At the point, you may also want to reconsider traditional Linux altogether in favor of a special low-memory variant or alternative.
It’s using 8 of 4,000 MB of RAM.
For a lot of projects, it’s not worth optimizing the thing that’s using 0.3% of the memory.
Surely whatever is using the other 99% is a larger concern.
Rights. Scammers were in the listing before, and AI has helped them appear more trustworthy.
Author complains systemd using 0.3% of memory is too much.
Systemd uses more memory than predecessors while current embedded systems often have more memory than predecessors.
Still, I upvoted the post because options and diversity in the Linux ecosystem are healthy.
2·11 days agoWatching history repeat itself.
Date pickers that assume you have a 5 digit birth year.
There is a small LCD in the middle. This is a different brand, but the same idea.
I noticed they choose Fuzzel as the launcher / dmenu replacement. Me, too!
WhatsApp is a Meta business unit, yes.
And it has its own rules and policies for what is shared with other Meta business units.
Google has spell out the same. Just because you provide data like location to one Google service doesn’t automatically mean every other Google service can access it.
And they can’t just change their internal data policies however they like as some of this is governed by legal regulations.
Here’s a a story about how Google is not allowed to share data across business units without user consent, at least in the EU.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/12/24036312/google-digital-markets-act-services-user-data-opt-out
I think you may be looking for a programmable keyboard.
With one, you can have arrow keys on the home row like vim, and make other universally recognized keys easy to reach including Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, App (right click), and all the modifiers. Some also build pointing devices into the keyboard as well.
I primarily use the Unicorne by Boardsource.