For anyone who wants an open source alternative GNOME Mahjongg is actually pretty good.

The council of The Three Meows will decide your fate.

There is a 16GB one too. It sells for like $300 right now though. As for what you can do with it, one use case would be running something like Proxmox with a few VMs. Myself though I’d rather stick with my N100 system which is also x86.

I would go for a simple humidity sensor. You just need to do a bit of data collection first to get a baseline of “what taking a shower usually looks like” and then based on that create the automation.

The only problem with that is that depending on how accurate you want it to be, you may have to wait a while to take a few measurements until it triggers the automation.

For something like mood lights I would just use a ZigBee switch if I’m being honest though.

“I don’t need to, I have it stored all in my head.”

Famous last words.

If you want to have a look at the video that converted me here you go https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=8K4NA5a0D8c

The answer is to get a used Pixel. With a bit of looking around you may be able to find some pretty good deals. The Pixel 8a is the sweetspot is my opinion. OEM minimum support until May 2031 and old enough to find at a very good price. But not that old for its battery to very likely be busted.

Same here, Debian since Squeeze. A couple of years ago I just decided to go a step further and go with Kicksecure. Which is basically just hardened Debian.

You mean create a new user profile? Just follow the instructions here, that is how it works on AOSP and all ROMs that don’t diverge too much from it. Then just keep TikTok and only TikTok there, so it doesn’t have access to the rest of your data.

Ike’s solution is to leverage blockchain technology in the chip on the e-cig cartridge. It would use a camera to scan some form of ID and then also take a video of the user’s face. Once it verifies your identity and determines you’re old enough to vape, it translates that information into anonymized tokens. That info goes to an identity service like ID.me or Clear. If approved, it bounces back to the app, which then uses a Bluetooth signal to give the vape the OK to turn on.

I just cannot begin to describe how stupid this is. You know what? I’m not going to even try.

We all have a little bit of dinosaur inside us now! 🦕

Hey, do you have one of those VR ones? What do you mean they’ve been retired?

The DLC will introduce the new Xenolith: The Alien Crystal plague

Green glowing alien crystals that kill you. Hmm, where have I heard this before?

If you don’t want to use a VPN like Tailscale (or ZeroTier) then this is exactly what the Home Assistant Cloud is for. And it even has an 1-month trial.

SimpleLogin, Mullvad, Ente, Notesnook, Aegis, Bitwarden, ProtonMail… and fucking TikTok. Come on man, all that effort to improve your privacy and then you go and install literal spyware on your phone? At least isolate it on its own user profile if you really have to.

You can run — but you cannot hide. Eventually you will get tired — we need no rest. There is no escape — you will be integrated!

The question is why death looks like a marathon runner.

I just want Skyrim where I can have actual conversations with NPC, instead of them repeating the same lines over and over again.

I do however want this to be powered by a local LLM running on my machine. Especially single player games like this need to be self contained, and not have to rely on a server for basic gameplay features like this.

If you expect regular users to go through with this ridiculous process you are just naive. Anyone who distributes their app through something like F-Droid will either, have to choose between going through with giving Google their ID or lose 85% of their users, if they are lucky.

Yes, you do. Unless you are developing an app just for your friends, or you expect everyone not on a custom ROM to go through the ridiculous “advanced flow”.

In addition to the advanced flow we’re building free, limited distribution accounts for students and hobbyists. This allows you to share apps with a small group (up to 20 devices) without needing to provide a government-issued ID or pay a registration fee. This ensures Android remains an open platform for learning and experimentation while maintaining robust protections for the broader community.

The above is from the official update by Google.