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  • CBC's ideas: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas

    It isn't always about politics, and when it is it's usually wider reaching things in retrospect or debates with intelligent people, but it's quintessentially Canadian and always interesting and educational.

  • We are excited to announce pixelfed.ca, a new Pixelfed instance run by Canadians and hosted in Canada

  • A bit too late to vote (pixelfed.ca would have been mine anyway), but I love how something like this can happen on the fediverse. Other types of services (eg: x.com) are all about competition and screwing over the other guy, and then here you have one instance handing over a perfect domain to another so they can have a better presence.

    Huge props to Dan for giving up his domain, as well as to the lemmy.ca team for expanding the fediverse.

  • I have an old phone with microg, slack, tasker and termux running on it. When slack receives a push notification, tasker pulls it out and sends it to a script in termux that forwards it to my gotify server, which my main phone is listening for notifications on.

    I've emailed Slack a bunch of times asking for unified push or even just an API route I can listen on, but so far I've had no luck.

  • Steam Deck compatibility has a much higher standard since it requires the performance being good, gamepad support, etc, and even that's at 40%. General Linux can't be less than 95% for games that don't require kernel level anticheat. Try checking a random sampling on https://www.protondb.com/.

  • To add to this, if the phantom clicks are indeed primarily happening while typing or otherwise moving your hands near the touchpad, you should check to see if tap to click is enabled. The unintentional clicks that feature produces drives me crazy and I have no idea why it's always on by default when a physical click or button is always available.

  • I've been using gimp's 3.x branch since 2016 or so (after getting a hidpi display) and gimp itself since the early 2000s, both for personal stuff and for work. I'm typically editing existing photos and images to clean them up, apply effects, make new clean images from pieces of existing ones, etc, and for my uses it's great. Also, having been using it for so long, I actually really prefer the ux to Photoshop (especially since they added an option to use it in single window mode).

    I've seen videos showing some of the features it's missing for certain types of things though, and while there are hacky scripted ways to emulate them, you might find it lacking if you're expecting those particular features.

    I'd recommend looking up tutorials on YouTube for things you frequently do and see how much work it is and what the final product looks like. You could up the playback speed to save time since you won't be following along with gimp yourself.

  • You can also use weechat as a bouncer, and it works even better with its own clients which can sync chat history rather than receiving it in a dump. The android client is fantastic in that respect.

    The plugin ecosystem is also great. I have a plugin that pushes notifications for PMs and mentions to my gotify server, alerting me on my phone without having to drain its batteries staying connected.

  • I'm curious what about Graphene you think would prevent certain demographics from using it as a daily driver? There are pretty well no downsides to using it compared to a first party ROM aside from not having certain things like Google Assistant baked in. It has automatic updates, you get the play store and services if you want them, it even has android auto. It's also the most rock solid android experience I've had since I switched from iOS in 2012 or so.

    Obviously a stereotypical grandparent would need someone who knows computers to do the initial install and setup, but after that it's pretty well just set and forget.

  • The Lenovo Yoga 6 works surprisingly well. I got it to replace a surface book for my daughter and wasn't really sure what parts of the hardware would be supported, but literally everything I tested works (the only thing I haven't tried is the fingerprint reader) and the included stylus is amazing in krita as well as just generally. The tablet mode works well, and tent mode is more convenient when it's on a desk (screen rotation requires the iio-sensor-proxy package). Battery life is decent; it gets around 6-7 hours with moderate use. I'd recommend using it with KDE.

    https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/p/laptops/yoga/yoga-2-in-1-series/yoga-6-gen-8-(13-inch-amd)/len101y0027

  • You should put your foot down and tell them it's all about free software while they're under your roof; they can push open source once they're 18 and have their own place.