As a dev with roughly 10 years (or more depending on how you count) of experience, I would have done the same. Beyond maintaining self respect, I feel like we have a duty to each other to ensure companies that treat candidates like this have the hardest time possible finding someone willing to put up with it. I don’t even entertain companies that won’t let me use my choice of distro - especially considering I’m web UI focused.

If you tried BlueStacks and androidstudio and those don’t work, and you don’t have access to an old android device, then you could try something like BrowserStack - I’ve occasionally used them to test websites in specific combinations of OS and browser version on supposedly real devices. They have an option to test android apps, and you may be able to transfer your apk or paste in a share link to try it out there.

I think they give you 30 minutes free, but I haven’t tried the app testing (since I’m a web dev) so idk if it would be excluded from the sign up bonus. The price for a single freelancer is $19 month to month.

I mean you’re not wrong it’s true to a degree, but especially in my parents case, they hardly store anything on the computer so the disk usage hardly registers on the pros and cons. If it provides convenience then it’s whatever. They’re still on an obsolete elementaryos but flatpak is still keeping them up to date until I can get around to visiting them again. If I understand how it works on debianland once a major version goes EOL, they’d be using backports which might not have the latest version right?

I did this for my parents, context: borderline elderly, late 60s, use their laptops for checking email, reading articles, and watching youtube. I visit every year or so and usually end up doing a little maintenance.

Probably my main tips are:

• Don’t pick elementary like I did years ago, I learned there’s no upgrade path between major versions and that’s been a pain
• I’ve found it helpful to install as much as possible as flatpak, since that decouples app updates from system updates
• Set up some form of remote access, I’ve used teamviewer but in hindsight it would be nice to have WG to SSH in
• If I were doing it again today, I would probably use a universal blue spin for the atomic updates
• With my parents’ level of computer experience, as long as there’s a firefox icon in the dock then they’re right at home

Honestly there isn’t much to it, especially if they’re not tech savvy and aren’t doing anything complex. All you have to do is make sure familiar app icons are where they expect and that they know how to use the window decorations / DE. My only pain has been having to do a bunch of updates when I visit, so next time I’ll swap them to fedora and set up automatic atomic updates. Besides that, everything keeps chugging along because they’re not making any changes to the system when I’m not there.

Generic onvif/rtsp cams are a dime a dozen and work with any NVR program that supports open standards. We’re talking $30ish for stuff that’s weatherproof, wifi, some with backup batteries, pan tilt zoom, 2 way audio. Cheap indoor models are like $20. It all runs locally if you install one of the several free NVR programs on a computer on your LAN.

Some music players do this, I think jellyfin uses replaygain. I remember seeing a setting to normalize across all tracks or normalize per album (to preserve some tracks being louder than other tracks of an album while still lowering as a whole entire albums that are louder than others)

The official proprietary Nvidia drivers are just a regular Linux package I’m 99% sure, I have it installed on my laptop and it doesn’t involve a gui app at all.

The new beta timeline is sooo smooth! I finally don’t hate scrolling back to find a specific old photo. The scrolling performance feels completely native to me now.

Open webUI connected to ollama can do this. In openwebui, if you edit any one of your responses, it forks the conversation. You can flip between each branch using the arrows below any of your responses. If you click the 3 dot menu and click overview, it opens a graph view that shows the branches of the conversation visually.

Even if someone was dressing younger to get attention I don’t really see a problem with it, but maybe I’m biased because I think everyone should be able to be slutty or promiscuous as long as they’re being ethical about it.

I think you can use Immich external libraries for this, also to be extra safe you can just mount your external images folder as read only by adding :ro to the docker volume mount so that the container won’t be able to modify anything as a precaution.

*Always has bean

Nowhere did they say that those statements mean immutable to them. Just that your claims that OP “literally said they didn’t want immutable” is not based in reality.

Yes it’s already enabled, which is how I assume it’s working in Plex. Jellyfin isn’t even deciding to transcode to hevc, so it seems like more of a detection thing in jellyfin since it works fine in Plex web

So I just grabbed the nightly and it looks like it’s direct playing hevc in Plex. Jellyfin still says codec not supported for me, not sure if I have any settings wrong or of they need to change the auto detect in jellyfin.

Sadly my password stopped working like 10 years ago and I haven’t gotten a response on the forums :(

This is great to hear, dansup has been stretched across so many projects for so long so hopefully this really supercharges pixelfed (and friends) development and helps to increase the diversity of AP servers.

I once had someone open an issue in my side project repo who asked about a major release bump and whether it meant there were any breaking changes or major changes and I was just like idk I just thought I added enough and felt like bumping the major version ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Tired: knocking down corruption allegations by testifying and proving your innocence

Wired: knocking down corruption allegations by cancelling the trial

Somebody should make an api shim that proxies openapi compatible requests to this. And since Microsoft is forcing copilot on windows 10 they’re on the shit list too. Load balance all the AI workloads onto both of them through API adapters.