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The Future

Translation:

今天我们吃鸡腿 - We are eating drumsticks ("The Future") today

dog furiously eats broccoli (Wayland icon)

等下 - Wait a minute

味不对劲啊 - That doesn't taste right

你是不是又坑我了 - You are not tricking me, are you?

我看看 - Let me see

我就知道吗 - I knew it! (⁠ノ⁠´⁠・⁠ω⁠・⁠)⁠ノ⁠ ⁠ミ⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

你是真狗啊 - You are the real dog You are such a dog

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Got two shit tablets for free, want to install mobile linux distros on them. Any reccomendations?

From what I can find it has a quad-core Cortex-A7 ARM32 chip, a.k.a Mediatek MT8321, with 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of storage, which is not plenty for a device running Android 8.

Your best bet for running "Linux OS" is postmarketOS. But the ARM world is a lot different than the x86 world that you might be familiar with: you can't just "install" any OS on an ARM platform, you need to port it (write code & tweak config) for each device. And the only device that has the same SoC does not look good.

So you next best choice is probably Termux. It could be installed on any Android devices, and provides a decent "Linux" environment that are pretty close to a real Linux console. Of course, it's really difficult to run GUI applications, and running things like Docker would probably be out of the questions (ARM32 already had pretty rough Docker support as-is). But still, it's a good way to get your hands dirty with Linux, and you can definitely use them for quite a few things: writing C or Python code on the go, get familiar with command line, or just run a few small services (e.g. SSH for remote connection, NginX for web server). The possibilities are still endless.

Now, as for the de-googling part, you will still need a custom ROM for this, and I'm not even sure if your device even support flashing third-party ROMs (some carriers would lock it down), so it might not be possible to flash an entire new OS, but someone else seemed to have already posted a potential ROM you could try. Still, you can still find some tutorials that can help you disable as much Google as possible with ADB command, which you might need to adapt to your specific device.

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use linux, become femboy

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You can express that you are sick of their showcase of their lifestyle just as much as they can showcase them. However, saying that the entire subculture is nothing but shoving their lifestyle at everyone's face is neither cool nor is it largely the truth. Sure, maybe some of them are annoying, but that's not the basis to dismiss the entire subculture.

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Got Mobian (almost) ported to Pixel 3a / 3a XL

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A64 (the SoC for PinePhone) is mostly intended for set-top boxes (i.e. smart TV), so it is really not designed for power efficiency.

It's really a bummer that most "smartphone" SoCs cannot easily be purchased, and have no proper documentations. Thinkers and smaller manufacturers are stuck with mostly Allwinner and Rockchip SoCs (most of which are engineered as embedded processors) if they want to design something from starch at all.

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DNA companies should receive the death penalty for getting hacked | TechCrunch

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The first link is basically an "advertisment hidden in a normal, professional-looking article". All they're saying is how these ways are not secure, but most importanly, how their solution is more secure, published under their own site.

When you take this into account, their claims start to break down: while yes, email and SMS MFA might be inherently less secure since the code could be transmitted via an insecure channel, saying TOTP is not not secure because "you device can be hacked" is a kinda bad take: if your device is already hacked, you'd have a much bigger problem: even if you are using security keys, the hacker would already have access to whatever service you might be trying to protect. As for the lost/stolen case mentioned in the article, if you put TOTP code in a password manager (as most would probably do if they're doing this), that shouldn't be a problem. The only way this would be a problem is that the TOTP secret is stored in plain text, which would be the same for any authentication methods.

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Caps lock is slow on linux

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If you are on Plasma 6, it should be "System Settings" - Keyboard - Advanced, select "Configure keyboard options", and you'll find the "Caps Lock behavior" - maybe even two, but one of them have a lot of options as to what you want to do with your Caps Lock key.

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KDE Plasma Mobile — The Dev Log: April 2024 - June 2025

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FWIW some of the Plasma Mobile apps are available as Android apps, but I my experience most of them are not really stable enough for daily usage.

If you are looking to run the whole Plasma Mobile stack, you could use Termux and proot to run it "natively", although I imagine it would likely be a huge pain to get anything working reliabilly, if at all.

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Do the research

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To quote from Wiktionary:

夫有以饐死者,欲禁天下之食,悖;有以乘舟死者,欲禁天下之船,悖;有以用兵喪其國者,欲偃天下之兵,悖。

It is nonsense to forbid the world’s people to eat just because one person has choked to death when eating; it is nonsense to put the world's boats in disuse just because someone has drowned while sailing; it is also nonsense to eliminate the world's military forces just because one sovereign has lost his state due to his military action

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pumping elephant

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Kinda late by now, but I think this was because someone first machine-translated Abstract to Chinese, which typically means 抽象 (thus being the pick for the machine-translator program). This was then machine-translated (badly) again to English, causing the pumping elephant nonsense.

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Formatting PHP/js in Kate

The easiest way to do this would be to first select the whole documents, then go to Tools - Filter Through Command, and put PATH/YO/phpcbf.phar - (note the ending - - this is necessary), and click OK. Your document should now be formatted.

If you need to run this a lot and want to be quicker, you can set up an external tool through Tools - External Tools - Configure..., and add a new tool there. Here's an example setup:

The "best" and "official" way to do this would be to install phpactor LSP server with PHP-CS-Fixer integration, however this does not work on remote files.

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I'm thinking of buying a Lenovo Duet 3 for running linux. Which device would have better compatibility?

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I have a Samsung Chromebook that also has ARM SoC, 4 GB of soldered RAM and eMMC storage. I installed postmarketOS on it, with desktop KDE Plasma 6, and with 4 GB of ZRAM, it is definitely usable - I could run Xournal++ without much problem. It's not butter smooth, the scrolling can be stuttery, but it should be enough for light notetaking. Granted, my SoC is older and weaker (RK3399), so your mileage may vary.