I’ve been using netbird for couple of months now.

The good:

• I was able to do everything using the free version (exit node, DNS)
• in theory you can self-host it (haven’t tried)
• it has an Android client app in f-droid
• stable, everything works really nice

The bad:

• it eats up a lot of battery on Android. There’s a bug open for it for months now. After playing around with some settings I got it to the point where the battery usage goes up on mobile data only. Once I’m back to WiFi it’s ok. I have deployed netmaker locally and testing it is on my to do list but as things are now I can go through the day without issues with netbird and I’m kind of hoping they will fix it before I’ll have the time to test netmaker

Netmaker was easy to setup locally but I don’t know if it can fully replace netbird.

I tried headscale and it wasn’t easy to set up. From what I read tailscale apps treat self-hosted solutions as an afterthought so it’s not as easy to set up. I would be worried they will drop it and force you to use their servers at some point. Netbird at least is marketed as a self-hosted solution.

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I once saw a story about a guy who learned how to play on a paper piano…

Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEgjamDo9q8

“I smelled weed” killed it couple of decades ago.

My guess would be that the more instructors you have the more troops you can properly train. It’s not enough to have couple of Spetznaz guys to train an army. You need a lot of them but you also need them actually fighting on the front.

This looks exactly like any other Apple Watch. I don’t think people will hate on all Apple Watches now. This is exactly how this technology will make its way into our lives and get normalized. Soon every phone will be able to do this and to avoid it you will have to pretty much just avoid all people.

So Lech Wałęsa, during first democratic elections in Poland after the fall of communism in 1990, promised that if he wins every citizen will get 100.000.000PLN ($2.5k, lots of money in Poland in 1990). People laughed, there were songs about it but he did win the elections. Of course no one got 100M PLN.

Years later I saw some documentary about rural regions in Poland and they were talking with some farmer from a tiny village. He looked and talked like he could barely read…

Farmer: Wałęsa was not my President.

Reporter: So you didn’t vote for him?

Farmer: I did because he promised me 100M PLN…

So yes, people can be that stupid. MAGA definitively is stupid enough to buy it.

Why the urgency? You’re linking to a normal, patch release. Did GIMP devs say something? Are you a GIMP dev?

I’ve been using the paid version for couple of years and it’s working great. There are alternatives but I think it’s a good way to support good company.

This is what my grandfather did for 40 years until he was hit by a train, found Jesus and formed mariachi band with him.

What’s with the grade scale for reading? Is 1st grade like 7 years old? So 8th grade level is how a 15 years old should be able to read?

Polish enters the room…

Back in the day kids younger than this were mature enough to hold a job. Now they can’t even walk by themselves.

But seriously, times have changed and society has completely different idea of what acceptable risk for a child is than 30 years ago. They will also prosecute you for letting your kids do things that go beyond the limits they established. Not for actually letting your kid get harmed but just for risking it which will always be subjective. Everyone is scared now (even though crime is going down) and you have to be too or they will treat like you’re crazy. For me it’s just another reason not to have kids.

“I did it for 100% free”.

5 minutes later…

“Hosting is not cheap and I only have fraction of the library big companies have. Donate to support this project”.

Looks like a cool project but if significant number of people started using this he would have to start charging his users. He’s creating a website that one day could compete with getty, not killed their business model.

They way I see it this is the less important part of the regulation so saying that manufactures are just ignoring the rules set by EU is alarmist and clibaity. Same thing happened with GDPR: there was a mess with consent popups, some companies ignored the requirements, EU started giving out fines and things improved. I wouldn’t expect anything different here. So far we’re talking about sticker requirements. Now that the law requires manufacturers to actually provide replacement parts we have to let EU enforce them and things should improve.

I don’t think politicians set this law to fail on purpose. The alternative would be to create some certification authority which would add a lot of red tape. This could turn out to be a good compromise. We’ll see.

Looks delicious. And I like how the coke offsets the calories in chips. Nice, balanced diet.

First, if they ever elect a Democrat again he will be all for peace and bi-partisanship again and will say you have to respect the office and be careful about how to treat Trump’s legacy.

Second, if he doesn’t Supreme Court will change their mind about everything in 5 seconds and start blocking him on every step.

From NYC? No such video exists.

Android Auto integration

https://doc.e.foundation/os/how-to/android-auto/

But I hate how many notifications Android Auto creates and how many Google apps you have to install to get it to work. I have it set up under separate user on Graphene OS not to pollute my main profile.

I see no one bothered to read the article…

It complains about requirement to list prices or spare parts on a website. 80% of phone labels don’t include a URL to that websites. Looks like they are meeting other requirements and the article only complains about the missing URL. So saying that “makers don’t bother to comply” is a misleading clickbait.

The requirement was only to include this URL but since most of those manufacturers most likely don’t offer replacement parts they didn’t set up websites that list them.

Now, starting July 2026 they actually do have to sell replacement parts. As a consumer you have the right to request them and if those are not provided you can file a complaint. My guess is this will be rolled out slowly and will take some complaining and fining to reach 100% compliance. So… familiarize yourself with your rights and file complaints when needed.