Less battery on pixel fold is pretty horrible, considering the Razr Fold now has 6000 mah.

I started using Linux for science. I was using a Raspberry Pi for a study and got to learn some basic stuff as part of that. Then I started to deploy my own Pis at home for self-hosting different apps I like, like Pihole. I also have an ancient desktop I bought on clearance that was running terribly, so I put Ubuntu on it and that solved a lot of performance issues! I host some stuff on there too.

Maybe in another life I am!

There is still plenty of selection pressure. However, there has been even more artificial selection. Darwin was actually fascinated by domestic pigeons and studied them intensively https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3288640/

Hehe I posted that 🕊️

Pigeons are actually fairly intelligent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_intelligence

The original paper is also open access and a fairly accessible read! https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-47688-001

Eeeexcellent

The FCC already regulates the volume of ads on TV and other over the air providers. However, streaming is somewhat of a loophole, and this helps close it

Gotta add a “Opposes/supports fascism” column with the recent Mullvad news

Yep, that’s what I’m doing with my door sensors. Just bought the adapter

Closed APIs really suck for consumers. It’s the leverage these companies try to hold over our heads. Sooner or later, shareholders’ demand for forever growth inevitably causes corporate executives to notice the attractive lever of profit that comes from a closed ecosystem. Every for-profit company will inevitably close every API that they can (while still maintaining a functioning product). Sometimes they don’t even let the function part stop them!

Yes, there were things that have been free for a long time that seem like it’s inevitable to charge for. Smartthings was great for my first years of smart home use, helped me automate a lot of stuff, keep track of a sketchy landlord, etc. But it’s time to move on

How is it clickbait? This will cause problems for people. I’m going to have to reset all my old Smartthings zigbee gear to connect to HA directly, which is a solution and alternative I’m glad is available (and I’ve been procrastinating on doing) but is going to take me at least a couple hours to set up. So it is annoying that Samsung is doing this

I’m enjoying the pen support on Razr Fold! Motorola carrying the torch. I find it more useful than on my S24 ultra due to the extra screen real estate

Yes, a team of ecologists and ethicists got together and concluded the same thing. The world would literally be better off without them

Inspires reflection for sure

I have it; got it as a trade in for my S24 ultra. I have been on Samsung for a decade and was getting a little bored. The phone is great so far. Folding is a revelation. The phone feels more comfortable in my hand than the S24U, which is kind of a small tablet and just not as reasonable to hold to my face. Then you unfold it and the screen is glorious for multitasking and opening apps like Voyager for Lemmy, Thunderbird, Google Calendar in tablet mode. I got the pen and can see myself actually taking notes and annotating PDFs on this thing, where that was not feasible on the S24U. The cameras are pretty good, though I do miss the 5x telephoto from my Samsung and I have had to find ways to tamp down the overprocessing of photos. Impressed with the macro capability! I do find myself missing some things about Samsung, like the excellent Good Lock suite, and it is remarkable how much of the functionality of my Galaxy Watch is tied to Samsung, but overall no regrets so far.

I do something similar, except on the Kobo I run KOReader which can interface with Calibre-Web over OPDS

Yes, Jeff Vandermeer directly cites it as an inspiration! https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/jeffvandermeer