If you knew/remember the first days of KDE 5, it was the buggiest DE ever invented at that time. However nowadays I barely even see any bug in KDE, at least for my use cases. And I’m a WM guy who use KDE out of laziness.

Yup. Couldn’t find any FOSS launcher to replace it. However I have an apk from before the times they got bought, though I also blocked it on the firewall and always used like that anyway. It doesn’t get update from Aurora Store too because it’s in the blacklist.

— Yo, comrade, which launcher are you using?

— Eblan.

— ???, I just asked a question.

— The launcher is Eblan.

— Ohh!

Currently it’s quite buggy but I can see this replacing Nova Launcher for me in the future.

Assuming 1:1 aspect ratio is for the physical screen, the resolution most likely won’t be a square because of the rectangular shape of pixels. So you’ll need to calculate the resolution of visible part of the screen first. After you have found your resolution, you’ll probably need to add that resolution config under /etc/x11/xorg.conf.d/.

For distros, not desktop environments. You can choose DEs for distros though. But there it is: https://distrosea.com/

I hope they can pull this off because we really need this.

Thanks for the reply!

Yeah, I saw some people recommended USB adapters. Luckily I got it working with blacklisting (still testing for possible issues though), without that it indeed had ridiculous speeds.

Thanks, that’s good to know. Even though I currently fixed the problem, I’ll keep this in mind.

Thanks!

Well, the problem is no distro ever came with this driver pre-installed, at least the ones I have tried, including Ubuntu. I’m used to trade-offs too but this machine will be for someone else so it should work without problems. Later I have found about blacklisting and luckily that worked, and seems to be working fine so far. Since it’s driver related, distro choice won’t matter here. Unless I could have found a one that comes with that driver.

I wanted PinePhone to work decently so I could daily drive it but when I got it it was already far behind from my old phone hardware-wise. PostmarketOS had run roughly. It was kinda usable but I couldn’t manage to use Signal on it (it was a desktop app that time). GPS wasn’t working either. 2 most important things for me. Battery life was also abysmal.

This was years ago though, PostmarketOS is probably much much better now. I sold that PinePhone so I don’t know its current state. I wouldn’t expect more from what I tried.

If I’m gonna get a Linux phone now, I want to see a good Android app emulation. At least until we get real alternatives. I still need a couple apps from Aurora Store. F-Droid apps have a better chance to be ported to Linux from Google Play ones anyway.

Just so let you know, if someone operates an ISP their staff is tech-savvy. Even if they are not, they still know what you download. They have logs and they are bound by law if some government agency wants your data. They will provide it.

That’s okay though. Sometimes I do the same and don’t even notice it already exists.

Is you is or is you ain’t my baby?

No need. If that happens, you’ll surely have no chance to miss that video on Lemmy. :)

Sure, but they’re asking for Windows 7 specifically which is already not supported for a while.

For old software that don’t work on modern OSes.

It’s actually fine if it doesn’t have internet connection.

I think this started with Windows 10, don’t know which version though. A couple examples from the net:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2383173/why-cant-i-run-the-firefox-installer

• https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/tjxo0e/to_stop_me_from_downloading_a_new_browser/

• 

There is no end on Microsoft nagging:

• Trying to install Firefox.
• Windows: Why would you need another browser? You already have a browser. Use Microsoft Edge.