Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649016

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[0] https://droidian.org/ [1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPhone-by-Motorola-...

Further reading: https://eyewiki.org/Dry_Eye_Syndrome

[0] https://www.lifewire.com/psp-games-with-gameshare-2792549

It takes around 1 to 2 years for the kernel to catch up on more stable distros, but I can wholeheartedly recommend Asus laptops for Linux use.

[0] minimalcompany.com/

Even though you are against all forms of advertising, some really privacy oriented form of it may be acceptable by your intended users. Some thoughts:

- Users need to disclose some topics/subtopics (either broad or even very niche interests)

- The ads need to be conformant to some predefined, non-intrusive style guide: maybe black-and-white or a limited color palette and font selection. This could lead to interesting and even creative ads on the platform

- Advertisers could get anonymized click-counts for their specific categories, and maybe some other category-based info, but user data would be immediately aggregated and not used for specific targeting

- Base users would see 1/3 ads in their feeds, but some payments could reduce this to 1/5, 1/8, all the way to zero.

This approach might provide the intended privacy benefits with much less noise, but also not alienate the average user that expects social to be free of any cost.

In this sense, GNOME is too strict and inflexible. Plasma, on the other hand, lets me create the look I'm used to without adding extensions, but also feels "wobbly." This wobbliness comes from the overwhelming amount of tickboxes, radio buttons and whatelse almost calling for interaction to change stuff. COSMIC fixed my problems of the duopoly and feels stable enough for daily use even in its alpha state.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1940/

At analysis, files were containing multiple sweeps were averaged to reduce random noise (YYMMDDXX.Ann files), then these files were exported as a CSV-like series of time-voltage paires (YYMMDDXX.Tnn files). Tables containing the calculated variables were also generated, and exported (YYMMDD.Nnn files). The fun part is that these files had to be named MANUALLY. Each and every one of them. I can't stress hard enough how repetitive this got... We generated double-digit number of files every day, and analyzing each file thorougly required around 30-50 keypresses to move around in the menu and to name the files. Lucky for me, no mouse use was required, and keypresses could at least be automated.

I used DOSBox on Debian to do the analysis, and I ended up creating a bash script that could automatically analyze whole folders of these files in a few minutes. To achieve this, I generated xmacro files that would be played back while the DOSBox window was opened. Opening the file was also put in these xmacro files. The generation of the files was wrapped inside a bash script that kept track both of the files in the folder and of the files generated by the analysis. If a file was supposed to be there but some something broke inside DOSBox, it would just stop playing the macro for the next file, so it could be restarted relatively easily.

A few months later, I met the guy who wrote the software for our team, and asked him if he could write us a script to unpack the binaries into CSVs. From there, I could come up with my own completely automated solution for analysis, and everything was much-much faster. I also showed him the macro-monster I created. I'm still not sure if he was amazed or he just thought that I was impatient.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evitable_Conflict