If you ever need a language buddy, let me know.
There is also a Learn Dutch discord that is fairly active.
Duolingo sucks ass for learning languages. Dutchpod101 is pretty good, but the best is a combination of dutch books + listening like dhtchpod101 or some simple news podcasts or so.
Maybe people have gotten Saned for network scanning working on other things than bazzite, but I can’t figure it out and the discord is never helpful.
But document signing is a technical limitation caused by flatpak. You can technically do it by installing your entire office and authentication suite on a rooted distrobox, but then that is defeating a fair amount of the point of ease of use and sandboxing. I haven’t tested that though so even that might have some bugs or not work.
There are but trackers on different upstream flatpak software for it like Firefox, but it has been completely dead for 5 years with no plans on looking at it.
Bazzite or an immutable if you do gaming and don’t need a lot of special functionality (e.g. network scanning doesn’t work, document signing doesn’t work and will never work, managing gpg keys, embedded firmware development, Belgian EID, etc…)
Mint if you don’t have a brand new system and just want an easy experience.
Arch if you want all niche software to simply be available through the package manager and never have to find rpm/deb packages.
Debian for a server (or maybe opensuse MicroOS nowadays)
Opensuse if you really want an EU OS or something very integrated with a snapshot system.
And of course, Hannah Montana Linux if you are enlightened.
Yes, but the most ecological phone is the one you already have or a second hand.
It is a good balance, AND for people from the EU who are getting big into the “Buy EU” movement instead of US companies, it is the only phone designed, engineered, and coded mostly in the EU.
Especially because virtually all high megapixel country cameras have smaller physical pixel size and use pixel binning and combining to try to recreate a better image through computation where smaller megapixel cameras can have bigger pixel sizes and absorb more light, leading to better raw images. (Of course there are great and bad implementations of both ideas)
This is literally every train in Belgium, I’m pretty sure it has been for a long time. We are anti-social
You can also look at the MKBHD 2024 smartphone camera comparison test with the FP5. I would suggest taking the test yourself if that is still possible.
I would guess that the camera will be comparable. (Everything below if FP5 assuming about the same performance with the FP6)
For me, daylight pics were after all of the pixels but before anything else. I like the more neutral not supremely over-saturated over-sharpened/smoothed pictures that many phones take nowadays.
For me, it was middle of the pack for dimly lit photos.
For the overall ELO with everyone, FP5 was on the mid-lower end (of a comparison of all flagships + pixel A series), but perfectly usable for people who aren’t doing social media as a job.
Hell, even here in Belgium, we take the green option to get all of our electricity from wind and solar (of which there is a ton) and it is slightly MORE expensive.
Plus tons and tons of people, like a significant portion of the population, have solar panels and batteries with grid feedback.
Electricity prices have only gone up, even when it gets cheaper for the company. Energy companies are universally corrupt and full of shit
Except network scanning is the furthest thing from “just works” on atomic fedora based distros. That is an essential usecase for many or most people.
I like fedora atomic and I run bazzite, but can’t break is quite different than “just works” in my opinion.
Don’t get a tablet if you already have a Linux laptop or a dedicated workspace.
Get a drawing pad. They are better, more cost-effective, have a better feel (non-display versions), have better pens, and you aren’t restricted to neutered programs offered on android/iOS.
Wacom is traditional, but expensive and their pen tech is kind of aging at this point, but they always work flawlessly.
XPPen is the great value alternative (with even better stuff on the top end). i have an XPPen Deco Pro Gen2 and it is an absolutely great pad with the texture of paper, and their little macropad with a scroll wheel works well. The downside is that you need a screen, but it is quite ergonomic.
The few actual artists I know use the XPPen Artist Pro series which is a drawing pad with a screen, and then they just plug it into their laptop and close the lid. Not as portable, but generally as good or better experience
XPpen also has good Linux drivers. They work in the kernel by default often, but the macropad and pressure sensitivity customization won’t work globally without their drivers.
XP-pen has much more cost-effective options that are just as good nowadays since wacom hasn’t innovated in like 15 years lol.
They also work out of the box in Linux, but for all of the shortcuts, they also have driver packages for every distribution and if it isn’t available, support will package the newest version for you (in my experience) in your chosen format and then send it to you and update the driver downloads.
The XP Pen Deco Pro Gen2 is an absolute beast for a drawing tablet.
XPPen also has a android drawing pad but that is normal android I think.
If OP wants the drawing tablet experience with a screen, they can also get XPPen Artist Pro display tablet series which of the few artists I know in real life, are what most of them use.
An actual drawing pad is much better than even an IPad for drawing, and you can also use whatever program you want (like Krita), not just the neutered programs that come on iOS or android.
Do you think your ISP and cell phone providers aren’t companies?? 😂 in america it was made fully legal like a decade ago for them to spy on you 24/7 and sell all of that information to the lowest bidders.
Here in the EU it is better, but still not great…
Also, privacy conscious? SMS, MMS, and cell calling is like the least private you can get IIRC.
This is similar to what I do.
I have a USB drive with the whole bootloader + decryption keyfiles on it. I remove it while it is running as everything is stored in RAM and already booted.
Downside being it has to be plugged in to update the boot partition during an upgrade.
Just a note that dry canning is pretty bad and has a much much higher chance of botulism than other canning methods. (Botulism spores must be kept at-heat at 160C dry heat for over 2 hours, not the oven temperature, but the full temperature of the medium itself)
It doesn’t matter here much because it is already powdered, shelf-stable mix, but in general.
https://extension.psu.edu/dry-canning-is-not-recommended
https://extension.sdstate.edu/why-behind-unsafe-canning-practices
https://yesicanned.com/dry-canning/
https://nchfp.uga.edu/blog/dry-canning-raw-vegetables-is-an-unsafe-practice
It’s funny, because often they aren’t prettier. Well optimized and well made games from 5 or even 10 years ago often look on par better than the majority of AAA slop pushed out now (obviously with exceptions of some really good looking games like space marine and some others) and the disk size is still 10x what it was. They are just unrefined and unoptimized and try to use computationally expensive filters, lighting, sharpening, and antialiasing to make up for the mediocre quality.
Technically you could get current live data (current step count, current heart rate, etc…), but any historical data, activities not connected to the smartphone, probably some UI features, etc… would simply not work and have no chance of working because they have an on-IC encryption module and encrypts everything into unreadable binary blobs before sending it to their cloud server to be processed. I think each of the developers sold their fitbits because it would be a bad experience, so there is nobody to develop the integration.
https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/issues/504
So this one is fitbit’s fault for being a shitty cloud SaaS company lol
London population: 8.8 million
Twin cities combined population: 3.6 million
London public transport: pretty damn good, connections everywhere, not an insane price
Twin cities public transport: almost non-existant, insane parking prices
London police: sometimes reasonable and lightly armed
Twin cities police: notoriously corrupt, heavily armed, use constant excessive force on civilians
Mystery solved.
For the low low price of 50€ for a 30g part!
KNX.
Everything is decentrally programmed, and you can do extra automations and stuff from home assistant, but KNX devices are wired (generally) and will always Just Work™. More expensive that the cheaper retrofit options, but if you factor in manual overrides or getting the “better” wireless smart devices it is comparable. They generally also have a manual override at the panel. For core functions like lights, HVAC, roll shutters or blinds, etc… That is honestly the best option (unless you want every light to be an RGB light for some reason, then you still need smart bulbs)