This life does not exist, it is a fantasy seen in films and TV shows about young rich creatives.

There is exactly one Fritzbox (Modem+Router) that can be flashed to dd-wrt, but only if it hasnt been patched by upstream firmware

wine-staging-wow64 has been a godsend for me in terms of performance

It’s been miraculous for me. Everyday I wake up in my spacious apartment and hop to the shops to buy a sandwich breakfast whilst whistling merrily at my landlord who grins at me and does a double thumbs up. As I joyfully catch my bus to work, I strike up a conversation with my fellow colleagues and we trade baking recipes and natter about the calm weather. I then saunter into the office where my boss pats me on the shoulder and offers me a raise. After a productive day making the world more efficient, I head to the park and sit on a bench whilst watching the sunset with friends.

(…what kind of answers were you expecting…?)

eh, it equates region lock with racism and feels more like an anti-corpo rant than a comprehensive view of locked/unlocked devices.

A better link would be the lineageOS devices page, or the postmarketOS devices page. These will tell you explicitly which chipsets and models are open and worth getting

it really feels like it’s at a boiling point though right now. World governments have all shifted more to the right on average than they have in the last 80 years.

They would never do that, that would be dangerous. But at red lights, or when you first start the motor, or at the gas station? Oh you betcha betcha betcha

Good point. Harder to parse would be my guess

Thanks for this. Still, I would be curious to see this for a 4K level image. Also I wonder if your screenshot tool did a bitmap copy of the screen or intrinsically converted it to PNG first before pasting it into your paint editor.

He’s a witch! Burn him!

But that’s patently untrue: take this 10 MB example TIFF file as an example.

• PNG Compression, max compress (=quality 9):

  convert file_example_TIFF_10MB.tiff -quality 9 test.png
  

• JPG Encoding, 99% quality (=quality 99):

  convert file_example_TIFF_10MB.tiff -quality 99 test.jpg
  

Final file size comparison:

9.7M Sep  5 13:21 file_example_TIFF_10MB.tiff
1.7M Sep  5 13:22 test.jpg
2.5M Sep  5 13:22 test.png

PNG is significantly larger, and difference in quality between them is negligible

why though? The graphics represented in the screen are already squashed and scaled, so you wouldn’t be preserving their quality in any case. If you’re worried about text, JPEG should still be able to handle it under high quality settings

Yep. I don’t recommend shit anymore to family members because it’s either:

a) not what they want (the proprietary service was better)

b) you will be doing damage control for the rest of your life

PNG started out as ZIP(BMP) and hasn’t gotten that much better. Use JPEG. The pixels you lose are not worth crying about

I’m surprised they aren’t offsetting the cost by selling all our data to language learning models like everyone else is

Hah. Hahaha. Hahahahahahaahahahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

thanks for getting the word out!

Ah okay, thanks for the insight. I don’t have Gapps (MicroG or otherwise), so I do wonder how these services deliver their notifications.

For anyone wondering:

RCS

Rich Communication Services. It is a protocol designed to enhance traditional SMS. RCS allows users to send messages that can include high-resolution images, videos, audio messages, and group chats, as well as features like read receipts, typing indicators, and location sharing.

How does Element and Signal implement push notifications?

https://unifiedpush.org/