JoeyJoeJoeJr

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[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, gadgetbtidge was my first thought as well. I've never used it, but in theory it would allow you to control devices without the proprietary app. See the link below for supported devices:

https://gadgetbridge.org/

[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

According to the license, it is better than source available. You can modify and redistribute, you just can't sell it. Other than that caveat, as far as I can tell, your rights are basically the same as with other open source licenses. (Feel free to correct me if I've missed something.)

[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you describe your use case more?

I don't think format matters - if you've got multiple processes writing simultaneously, you'll have a potential for corruption. What you want is a lock file. Basically, you just create a separate file called something like my process.lock. When a process wants to write to the other file, you check if the lock file exists - if yes, wait until it doesn't; if no, create it. In the lock file, store just the process id of the file that has the lock, so you can also add logic to check if the process exists (if it doesn't, it probably died - you may have to check the file you're writing to for corruption/recover). When done writing, delete the file to release the lock.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking, and specifically the section on lock files.

This is a common enough pattern there are probably libraries to handle a lot of the logic for you, though it's also simple enough to handle yourself.

[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When you install, whatever you install, partition your drive so that /home is it's own partition. Then if/when you reinstall, distrohop, whatever, you don't have to worry about copying over your data. Just use the same /home partition, and format the others. You can actually use this to try multiple distros at the same time - you can install them in different partitions, but have every install use the same /home partition. This is a nice way to test new distros without blowing away your stable install.

Now, for my distro recommendation - Ubuntu gets a lot of hate, but honestly, after 15+ years of Linux, and having tried Mint, Fedora, Arch, Manjaro, and many others, I always end up back on Ubuntu. It's easy, it's stable, and it stays out of my way.

The defaults are good, but you can customize as much as you want, and they offer a minimal install (as of 23.10, it is the default) which comes with very few applications, so you can start clean and choose all the applications you want.

Unless you are excited to tinker, I'd really recommend starting simple. Personality, I just want the OS to facilitate my other activities, and I otherwise want to forget about it. Ubuntu is pretty good for that.

[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm, strange. The last comment from Dan (second to last comment on the thread) makes it sound like their is another thread, and other users with the same problem:

Whew, I found the other thread and am happy to see that others are encountering this too, and it's not some super duper weird thing with just my computer...

I tried searching a bit to see if I could find it quickly, but didn't turn anything up. Maybe if you comment there, though, they could link you to the other thread, and they might have more info.

[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That sounds like a threading issue. If the app tries to run a task on its main thread, and that task takes a long time (in particular, longer than expected), it could cause the UI to lock up.

Do mouse interactions still work? Does anything on the UI update at all? If not, I'd bet on a task getting stuck on the main thread.

Note that this doesn't have to be an intense task - you may not see a CPU/network/disk spike. It could be a deadlock scenario, where multiple threads are waiting for the same resources, and each locks some, but not all of the resources. None can move forward, no work is done, everything just hangs waiting for resources locked by other threads.

[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use several of the Simple Mobile Tools apps, e.g. the file manager, gallery, and voice recorder: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools

AntennaPod for pod casts: https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod

Pass for password management: https://www.passwordstore.org/

Exercise Reminders is new, but I like it so far: https://github.com/ChristopherRogers1991/ExerciseReminders

And of course Liftoff for lemmy: https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff

[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

They do care. They're trying to find a way to stop it. That's the point of the article. It's the first sentence:

The Danish government will seek to "find a legal tool" that would enable authorities to prevent the burning of copies of the Koran in front of other countries' embassies in Denmark, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told the national broadcaster DR on Sunday.

[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

If you'd like them out of Google, but still on your phone:

You can use Google takeout to download all of your photos. Then delete them from Google, and copy the images you downloaded back to your phone manually. Finally, use a gallery app that can access files stored anywhere on the file system to view them (Simple Gallery seems to work pretty well - it should automatically find the images regardless of which folder you stick them in).

[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

This kind of reminds me of tldr pages: https://tldr.sh/

[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I switched to Liftoff because is this.

[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

We can measure it in the release of hormones and watch our minds react to it in MRI. We can see it in our behavior and in the behavior of those who love us. A dozen different people can look at a couple in love and agree, "yup. That's love."

These are all true with respect to deities as well. We can watch brains light up on an MRI when someone prays/meditates/reads scripture; religions (purposefully) influence the way people live their lives; multiple people can credit a deity for something they see or experience.

"I know it when I see it" isn't a good evidential standard, but it's the best one we have for abstract concepts.

I think it's a mistake to allow people claiming the existence of a deity to call it an "abstract concept." At best, they could claim the way you "feel" (experience) a deity is abstract (as are all feelings, hence the question about love), but the deity itself is not. Religions, in general, insist on a specific deity with a specific feature set be worshipped in a specific way, to attain specific benefits and avoid specific punishment. Calling that abstract is a cover, a tactic, a bad faith argument designed to trip people up. It's akin to a strawman, in that it gets people attacking the wrong thing - defining or failing to define love doesn't get anyone any closer to proving or disproving the existence of a deity.

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