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I currently run a Samsung galaxy A3 2016 and I wouldn't be trying to change if it wasn't for the 16GB of storage, the slow speed (it now takes me several minutes launch chrome to browse any webpage), the lack of security updates and the fact that more and more apps cannot run anymore on my version of android. I'm trying to find a replacement but I'm struggling to find people with the same customer profile as me. I only use my phone (and I don't intend to change my behavior) : - for basic communication (whatsapp, messenger, discord) standard phone calls and messages - for web browsing when I don't have another choice - as a 4G to wifi hotspot (I don't need 5G) - for gps navigation (maps/google earth) - sometimes as a webcam for my pc - booking trains / other administrative apps and apps that do not have a PC/browser equivalent - test apps I develop in android studio Everything else I do on my labtop/PC. I do not watch any video/photo content on my phone nor take photos with my phone (I have an "old school" camera). Based on this usage I derived the following list of features I care and don't care about : What I would like : - a phone that can run android apps from the google play store - somewhat future proof hardware (6 years form now, I would like it not to take 5min when I have to open chrome/firefox, log into my school's website and check my schedule) - a somewhat future proof software update schema (6 years from now, I would like to still be able to install all apps from the play store) - a small phone. (the smaller the better) - good battery life, especially when I'm not doing anything with it (which is most of the time) - a jack audio port - a cheap phone I don't need : - the phone to be new - a fancy screen, 720p 60fps will be more than enough - fancy cameras - water resistance I was thinking about buying something like a used Pixel 5A and put an opensource android like LineageOS but I'm not sure if it actually would give me updates to newer version of android or not, or if it is actually usable or not. Is it a good call ? Is there other options that match my needs better ? Thank you for the help

This project is unofficial! A paid Floatplane subscription is required for proper use. Was looking for a Roku client/channel, and I couldn't find one, so I wrote this small client. Supports login via Floatplane only (no legacy LTT forum, nor Discord). 2FA login is supported. I'm currently working on a few bugs/enhancements, though I work full time, so progress is sparse. Pull requests/bug reports are more than welcome! Got a question? Feedback? Poke me on Discord for a faster response! Where Can I Get It? Roku The source can be found on Github (https://github.com/bmlzootown/Hydravion), and it is available via the Roku channel store (https://my.roku.com/account/add/TCXTKHH or https://channelstore.roku.com/details/96a633034fff363b2a194509d75cb966/hydravion). Android TV This will have to be side-loaded for the time being. Feel free to submit any issues over on the Github page: https://github.com/bmlzootown/Hydravion-AndroidTV tvOS/Apple TV Still a work in progress, should I ever get the time, but it seems to work just fine in the simulator. To run it, you'll have to sideload the app, though, as I have no paid developer license. Feel free to submit any issues over on the github page: https://github.com/bmlzootown/Hydravion-tvOS Jamamp (Jman012) has been working on a tvOS app (Wasserflug) that looks much better, and has far more functionality, that is currently available on the app store (see Discord for more info). The source is available via Github as well: https://github.com/Jman012/Wasserflug-tvOS

Summary The good: voice detection is competitive with voice assistants from Nest and Amazon The bad: still a rough experience, DIY, lots of steps Only costs $35 to $50 depending on the ESP-32 box chosen but also needs the backend "inference server" code running on a PC somewhere in your home Quotes My thoughts It can't play youtube videos yet (or even just stream the audio). But once that happens Amazon Prime music gets crossed off. Sources https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/willow-is-a-faster-self-hosted-diy-voice-assistant-built-on-50-gadgets/

Before Google Chrome in 2009, we had Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera (and opera mobile) and Firefox. Then Chrome came along and people gobbled it up because it's the first thing they see when they go to that homepage. Everybody thought oh Google I know them they make the Internet or something. This should be the best ever--and it's free! Mozilla Firefox usage took a nose-dive because there wasn't equal amounts of advertising (especially on television with chromecast and then chromeboooks with that familiar chrome logo). This was and is NOT because Chrome is better, in fact many people say it eats rams for breakfast lunch dinner and a dessert with many tabs open. Firefox is open-source and Mozilla, the company producing the browser just laid off 150--that's actually 250 https://www.protocol.com/mozilla-layoffs developers and you can read the rest. On iOS devices, (which are quality software, no disrespect) the Firefox browser can not use its opensource Gecko rendering engine. It's forced to render with Apple's WebKit engine which (probably has zero firefox users on apple) *could* reduce mobile firefox use numbers. Chrome is default on android and every browser except firefox will use WebView (not to be confused with Apple's webkit) or chrome which uses Blink. Microsoft Edge also uses Blink because it's using Chromium as the code behind it instead of EdgeHTML. Why does any of this matter? Do you want to see the internet dominated by a piece of software from a company whose profit comes from mining your data to target you with relevant ads? Google doesn't care about your privacy online--they make money from the very opposite of that! To learn more, here's an EFF (Electronic Frontier) article that goes VERY deep into this rabbit hole: https://www.eff.org/wp/school-issued-devices-and-student-privacy I hope you all choose to support a clean privacy-minded web rather than one dominated by Google.

Hi everyone. So I figured I would post this here since I've seen so many aspects of my story involved in LTT videos at some point in the 5+ years I watch them that it might be an inspiration for someone for the various technological achievements. My backstory: So now to the actual challenge on hands: I decided that for the whole duration of January 2022, every single day (if not prevented by some very important occurence), I will play BOX VR for 60 minutes and stream it. I am already at 30% of that and so far I managed to stream every day, even though yesterday there was nobody in the chat and I didn't find out that my game sound was not picked up. There are several technical aspects I want to share: Audio+Video: I am using my trusty Sony IMX291-based ELP camera. I did a video about that one already, and you can grab yours on AliExpress. Thankfully, the excellent mic array on the Valve Index provides crystal clear audio for the stream, and of course I am using the sidechain trick that lowers my game volume everytime I speak so it can be loud for the rest of the time. HR monitoring: To better convey to my viewers how much physical activity I am exerting and to log the data for possible further analysis, I wanted to record my heart-rate. I have an older Fitbit Charge 2, but they pulled the plug on real-time HR monitoring, and optical sensors in wrist bands are a pretty bad solution for cardio workouts because you move a lot, shuffling the sensor around on your skin, making it ver inprecise. I did my research and bought a Polar H10+ (the large version of course, having a considerable chest diameter). I was looking for a software solution to get the HR to stream. I found Pulsoid but the free tier only gives you a very boring kind of visualization with almost no customization. So I began to poke around how the Polar actually communicated and turns out there is a specific Bluetooth GATT profile for HR monitoring. It is actually part of the Bluetooth Low Energy standard! How amazing. This allowed me to code my own tool called PolarGrabber that I have just put on GitHub for all to enjoy. Considering this is a standard, I assume it is not actually limited to Polar hardware and would work with every device that supports the HR GATT profile. There are two components to it. First is the main program, that will simply scan all BLE devices that support HR GATT, select the first one in the list (kind of assuming you don't have more of them) and initiate data retrieval. It will also open a simple web server on localhost:port (the URL is in the config file) and server javascript server-side events. Additionally, it also logs every HR point to a text file (csv, really). The second component is the file hr.htm. It is a simple webpage that connects to the local web server, receives the events with the individual HR values and uses amCharts to draw a nice plot in real-time. It also keeps track of peak HR and when the chart accumulates 10 minutes of data, it starts to delete the older measurements so it's not too crowded. You can of course edit the parameters in the htm, I put some comments there and it should be pretty transparent. In OBS, I create a Browser source, use this htm file and because I the CSS makes the background transparent, I don't have to chroma key, it just looks nice out of the box. Chat bot: To boost engagement, I have written myself a chat bot that provides stream overlay that not only renders chat, but also allows users to post GIFs, audio/video macros from my collection, YouTube videos and even Text-To-Speech engine that reads sentences out loud for those moments, when the boxing combos are too busy for me to be able to read the chat. The tech is very similar to the HR monitor - local webserver and a htm with javascript subscribing to server-side events used as OBS web browser source. I am not yet ready to release the bot, it is very much work in progress, but I will eventually, and it will be available on my github as well. It is basically just a shell that provides very stable connection to the chat and the rest of the functions is done as plugins that receive the messages and can process them in any way. There is a help available to showcase some of the features. In-VR HUD: Now problem with monitoring chat during regular gaming is easily solvable by a second monitor. I don't have the real estate on my desk to support 3 monitors, and 2 monitors setups are bad for me that it is either 1) one monitor on each side, neither perfectly centered or 2) one monitor centered, the other "aux". Since I have wall-mounted studio-grade speakers, I bought a 10" 1280x800 HDMI+USB touch screen from AliExpress, wired up the power to 12V pin in an unused 4pin connector from my PSU (through a fuse!, that's a must) and use that for "pancake games" streaming. What about VR, though? Fortunatelly, there is an excellent tool for that called OVR Toolkit. It allows you to place virtual windows in the 3D space of the VR world. For standing games, you can just place the windows around you and look at them - this is what I use for Box VR since you stand on the same spot the whole time. In games where you move inside the game world, obviously you would just walk away from these Windows. So OVR Toolkit can attach the window to your controller for example, so you can see the chat everytime you look at the underside of your wrist or something like that. A real lifesaver! So I simply have another html file that embeds the chat overlay and the hr overlay in different layout, and I have that opened in a small browser windows that I clone using OVR Toolkit. Home automation control: Constantly trying to boost engagement, my bot already started to award people with my own currency for chat activity. I was thinking about how the users could actually spend all that. And then I realized I have home automation running on OpenHAB and all my light switches have Shelly smart relays in them. I was wondering how hard would it be to allow people to control these things via the bot, like allowing them to switch lights or change color of my RGB bed. Turns out...SUPER easy using their REST API. Like 3 lines of C# code easy to call that. So now my viewers can control my home around me, while I work my ass off on camera I will check this thread from time to time to answer any technical questions. Have a good one guys

Why is glasswire, a security centric software solution, closed source? TLDR: I feel like this deserves to be a topic because of LTTs tacit recommendation of glasswire. A brief look in any textbook (I recommend Keith Martin's 'Everyday Cryptography' 978-0198788010) on security will highlight the importance of making commercial systems opensource; not just opensource for security reasons but for commercial reasons. People buy products they trust. Glasswire have created an ironic scenario where I want to use their product I feel the need for a 'Glasswire' to confirm that glasswire isn't behaving badly. TL: I can think of no legitimate real reason for glasswire to be closed source, so I will dispute some of the 'legitimate' reasons I think they may use (and other companies like them use) to justify being closed source. 1. Security. 'If our product is open source attackers will find it easier to find vulnerabilities'. Attackers will always find vulnerabilities', that's what they do and that's why cybersecurity is a multi-billion pound industry. Making software closed source offers no worthwhile protection against attackers. On the other hand, making software opensource allows the security community and 'white hat' hackers to verify that your product isn't complete trash before a nerfarious hacker gets close to it. This feeds into point two in that customers buy products they trust, and they trust products that decentralised communities agree are sound. 2. Business Companies are terrified that someone will start selling what they are selling and beat them. And to be honest, that's an understandable fear in a world dominated by marketing. But the the downfall of this arguement is right there in its defence. If you are a large company with a reasonable amount of money to spend on marketing and you have made a good product then you will succeed in selling your product regardless of what the competition are doing. And just look at the world, your competition will copy you regardless of whether or not your product is open source and they will succeed based on the quality of their product and the effectiveness of their marketing, not the IP rights of their work. More importantly, glasswire, and many companies like them, have done nothing new. They have invented no technologies, made no breakthroughs, they have simply repacked existing technologies (looking at you wireshark) in a consumer friendly manner. Don't get me wrong, glasswire have a great product that took loads of work and I'm not criticising the product or others like it, but glasswires success is built on the work of others and enabled by the fact that work is open source. So why does glasswire get to decide that no one can do the same with their work? If glasswire are confident in their ability to provide a good product then what's the harm in allowing healthy competition? If the competition comes out with a brand new amazing feature then guess what? Glasswire can copy it straight back and improve their own product. Isn't that capitalism? In summary, closed source software is inherently anti-capitalist and anti-security. Which leads into the only real reason possible for a security service to not be open source. Disclaimer, I am not saying this is glasswires motivation, or any other company, many people believe the fallacious arguments above or maybe I've missed something and that's what motivates these companies. But, if it is not these things that motivate these companies then it must be the desire to profit of the privacy they are affording you. That is the only logical conclusion for a security company to fail to disclose how their product works. Maybe such a company is selling you're information, maybe they're using it to market to you more effectively, maybe they're using it to inform one of their other products. Whatever they are doing with it, don't allow them to do it for free. Don't allow companies to simply tell you 'we don't use user data', hold companies to the same standards you'd hold any person to, if not higher. Make companies prove they are worth your trust and you will receive better products. The end. Ps. I just wrote a blog post to help me fall asleep, I really hope no one reads this lol. But if anyone does read this and wants to chat about this kind of thing please message me.

Ello mates, I've had unraid for about a year now, I feel like I got the basics down, I've been using it for SMB storage and got a app call droppy to access it externally with web UI. I'm in the need of a application that allows me to access it internally with Windows but able to access it externally on phones, tablets, ECT. But has customized directories for individual users. And would like a recycle bin too. Any suggestions or beginger tips welcome ~Pax

I just bought a Fairphone 3 with the intent of downloading /e/ to it when I got it, but I just heard about Ubuntu Touch, which seems like an equivalent operating system. Due to the fact that there is little to no media coverage for both of them, i was wondering if anybody who has used them can recommend one. I love open-source things, and my daily driver computer runs Ubuntu 20.04, but the appeal of /e/ is that you can still access the Play Store. Any Thoughts?

Dear fellow nerds and teck savy friends I have been searching for a decent free and opensource folder protections software for sometime which provides folder hider and password protections but cannot find anything useful. It is either a crappy visually hider free software which you can easily bypass or ridiculously expensive. If you guys can point me to decent software, I pray to the silicon gods that you always find best deals on modern GPUs and always on top of the order quous...... Any help would be appriciated...

Has anyone considered a giant machine like a tractor, backhoe or maybe even a combiner to be open source? If John Deere and other big machinery people need for farming is hung up, why allow this to go on. Maybe you wouldn't even need to design a completely new machine. I don't know how long a tractor warranty is but it seems that getting a "certified" technician out to your place ASAP is the problem along with supply chain issues. Like not having This controller available to be replaced. Crops are one of those things you can't really wait on. Its almost like they spoil. If someone were to take the major parts of an out of warranty but popular John Deere machine and implement a new control system, opensource it with parts you can usually find to order versus some serialized part number scheme linked to one body and charge to implement it. I know designing a tractor is a multidisciplinary. You need hydraulics, electrical, AC/DC motors, diesel engines plus knowing all the fun formulas regarding strength, material and manufacturing. I know it would be a pain in the rear to do but once a tractor or combine dies, how much is trade in value for that machine compared to retrofitting it? Also, I don't think this would break any I.P. laws since I look at this as souping up a car with aftermarket parts. Has this been tried before? What do you think the drawbacks would be?

On linux got a 2nd p106, and both are in the system, however the driver sees only one. how do i sli them? i heard of the hack for a 1060-sli, figured its applicable but cannot find the details anywhere. some help please. also im using the drivers in this ppa. https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

https://opensource.apple.com/ https://news.hitb.org/content/macos-and-ios-kernel-source-code-now-available-github As seen here Apple has released all the kernels of iOS and macOS. This is probably only a good thing, especially for the jailbreak community (although I guess that is bad for Apple). A recent jailbreak has not been out for a long time. Having easier access may influence more teams to find vulnerabilities in the code. This also has the capacity to turn in the favor of Apple if more security firms try to take a stab at iOS and report or "expose" any exploits or vulnerabilities. As stated, this could or could not affect the company in any meaningful way, only time will tell!

Having tried OpenVPN on both Linux and Windows for a bit, I am rather disappointed of its apparent lack of a killswitch or auto-connect feature. Often, when using OpenVPN, I just get disconnected from the VPN server without warning so my browsing traffic is suddenly unencrypted and it becomes a guessing game of which server to connect to instead. However, I am planning to switch to an Arch-based Linux distro that doesn't support the app for my VPN (which is only installed from a .deb file). So I wonder if anybody has ever found a way to get around the problems I mentioned - maybe program a custom killswitch or auto-connect script or something. Anyone? Thanks.

The terminal can be tested out right now and is opensource, along with the terminal a new mono-type based font is also getting developed by Microsoft which is also, once again Open Source. And you know it is awesome when there is a video showcasing a terminal. Repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal Source : https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/coming-soon-windows-terminal-finally-a-tabbed-emoji-capable-windows-command-line/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/ubuntu-support-windows-subsystem-linux-2 Devblog : https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-windows-terminal/

Hey guys, im hosting a LAN in a couple of months and I’ll be having some laptops there for hotseat gaming so that people can come even without their own computer. I have a short list here but I really want to have these things stacked with games they are capable of running but also without TOO much redundancy. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Fyi there will be no or limited internet connections, it’s meant to be a true LAN if I can help it. Also keep in mind that I don’t want to make 5 different steam accounts if I can help it which I know limits options

so hello guys, im really insterested so see a review on the plex media server, how to install and configure it and attach videos thank you very much when read greetings from switzerland

Summary After more than a year of development the open source monitoring suite openITCOCKPIT got released in version 4. With an own Monitoring Agent the system is able to monitor Windows, Linux, macOS, Docker containers and Qemu VMs out of the box. DevOps guys can use the API to automatically add or remove objects from the monitoring. The installation and future updates are done via the package manager apt. openITCOCKPIT uses the Naemon Core (a fork of the Nagios Core) but all configuration files gets generated by the web interface. Quotes My thoughts From what i see in my daily business as developer, monitoring isn't the top priority of most administrators. Having an easy to use tool, which contains all the must haves for a modern monitoring like Reporting or an Grafana integration should be a big plus for a lot of the admins out there. Sources [Gearman] https://www.heise.de/news/Monitoring-System-openITCOCKPIT-in-Version-4-0-komplett-ueberarbeitet-4850135.html https://openitcockpit.io/2020/2020/07/22/openitcockpit-4-next-generation-monitoring/

Hi everyone, I've been a subscriber to the show for a while and finally decided to check out the community. The recent Flying PC post on the Tube is what really compelled me to join. I love the show. Linus and the team are awesome. In regard to this Flying PC. I'm a bit disappointed and uncomfortable with the fact that the PC is literally dead wieght in flight. This video really set my teeth on edge. Linus, love you bro. Why the WTF did you not put a Single Board Computer such as the Beaglebone or Raspberry Pi in as the Flight Controller and run Ardupilot? This would have reduced the weight considerably and most important, the plane could fly autonomously. All of the software is completely open source. I'm currently working on an Ardupilot Quadcopter Drone built with the BeagleBone Blue. The BB Blue is the optimal solution for a project like this. It is a Linux Computer/Robotics Controller the size of an Altoids mint tin. Here's a pic of my Flying Beagle. Please take that PC out of the Plane and put in an Ardupilot compatible Flight Controller. There is still time. Linus Tech Tips is awesome! Thanks for a great show. Please consider making some content related to Open Source Single Board Computers such as Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone. I would love to see what you come up with. trent_darkside

There are rumours Github and MS are in talks for a takeover, and sadly it's not Github buying MS! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/02/microsoft_github/ It would be cheaper than 2 Minecrafts for them. I'd not really want to see MS have that much control over a repository of any type. It's rather worrying, that it could spin it out to something else. For example, lots of open source games or video/audio products use Github. Would MS have more sway on affecting those communities through ramping up costs, removing support/features to the site? Though hopefully if they ever did, a new repo would open up in its place.

Hi everybody, im searching for a new access point since i bricked my TP Link TL-WR841N by mistake. My budget is around 50-100€ (germany). If it is really neccessary to spend more i will think about it. I do want to run the access point with the Private Internet Access VPN. So some form of openvpn compatibility (open-wrt, dd-wrt, ...) is required. And realisticly im not connecting more than 2-4 devices at the same time. I already found the family of GL.iNet GL-AR... mobile access points which come preinstalled with dd-wrt and 16mb of flash memory. But they are using a Qualcomm Atheros QCA9531 - 1 core x 650 Mhz processor and i read that the VPN performance is mediocre. Although they are quite useful little things to play with. https://www.amazon.com/GL-iNet-GL-AR750-300Mbps-pre-installed-Included/dp/B07712LKJM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527500110&sr=8-1&keywords=gl-ar750 Thanks for your help

GoPro decided to open source CineForm codec. Does anyone want to join the development or just play around with the codec? https://gopro.github.io/cineform-sdk/ More details can be found here... https://gopro.com/news/gopro-open-sources-the-cineform-codec

I hope this is the right forum btw, I think this counts as software... Lightweight Java Prime Finder What is it? This is a multithreaded program I recently created in Java that can be used to find huge prime numbers. It has a strong emphasis on ease of use and performance. It is multithreaded and heavily optimised so it runs extremely quickly and can find new prime numbers with thousands of digits in just a few minutes. How to use? How to use it is relatively simple. It accepts a "starting number" in the form of x^y+c, then it checks every number greater than the starting number using a combination of the Fermat Test for Primality and Trial Division to see if it is prime. You can follow the onscreen instructions and it will give recommended settings based on your machine! I recommend starting from a 'small' number, such as 3^3000 just to see if everything is working alright for you. The exciting thing is that this can be used to find primes that haven't been discovered before! For example: the largest prime I have found using this application is: 12^15000 + 9367 (16188 digits). Which as far as I have researched has never been discovered or computed by anyone else! It took my computer (Quad Core i5 @ 3.10 GHz) running at 100% CPU for 36 hours non-stop to scan through all the numbers (starting from 12^15000) and to validate that this is a prime. I have linked the full number file below. 12^15000+9367.txt 15.81KB 0 downloads Download Link to github. (If you have any feedback on my coding please do mention it, I'm entirely self-taught!). TODO: · Replace that huge SWITCH statement that is the main menu with smaller methods. · Stop recursively calling the main menu again and again as a restart (can cause a stackoverflowerror). · Have a standard method to take input from the user rather than a bunch of smaller ones. That’s all, if anyone does find a new prime number be sure to tell me!

I'm thinking of purchasing the "Photography" edition of Creative Cloud, but since I'm planning to move away from my precious Windows 7 about 2-3 months after the Windows 10 release, it seems like a waste. Well more to the point: Can I install Creative Cloud on multiple computers? Will I be able to disable a license, in order to use it for another PC? And a side-question: What is that "ProSite Portfolio Website" feature in the next tier? If It's just a regular website hosted by Adobe for portfolios, I see no reason to use it over a SquareSpace subscription that would IMO allow me more control and freedom over my site.

Just a quick overview on what SailFish OS is, and why it's interesting, and why, frankly, you should care. http://theballofgum.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/why-you-should-care-about-sailfish-os.html P.S. This article is written by me, so feedback is always welcome, as well as shares. Especially shares.