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  • Metz@lemmy.worldtoNonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksTrust nothing
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    2 days ago

    Well, you can’t see the stars from a lot of places. I live in a small town here, but I’m surrounded by large industrial cities that are always very well lit. It’s very rare to see the stars because the bright city lights outglow them. Unfortunately, light pollution is a real problem.

    I think the first time I actually saw a full starry sky was on vacation in an area far away from any cities. I was almost 20.


  • Metz@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldDealing with health insurers
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    10 days ago

    That sounds like some “i just followed orders” bullshit. You have always a choice. There is always a different job. If you throw other people under the bus to keep your own ass in the warm you are no better than the asshole sitting at the top. You are part of the problem and will be treated the same way.

    Those people are not “like you and me”, they are collaborators.




  • Is VoLTE not supported by default on GOS?

    Yes and no. e.g. see https://grapheneos.org/usage#carrier-functionality

    Wi-Fi Calling, VoLTE, Visual Voicemail, MMS, SMS, Calling and 5G (SA and NSA) all are supported, however some functionality may not be usable due to Google not supporting carriers on the stock OS officially or due to GrapheneOS not shipping proprietary apps required in order for this functionality to work on some carriers.

    Generally 5G, SMS, MMS, Calls and VoLTE will work fine on GrapheneOS with officially supported carriers by Google.

    Some carriers may restrict functionality, such as VoLTE, on imported Pixel devices as they only whitelist the IMEI ranges of Pixel device SKUs which were sold locally.

    And https://grapheneos.org/usage#lte-only-mode

    VoLTE / VoWi-Fi works on GrapheneOS for most carriers unless they restrict it to carrier phones.

    So… it depends

    If your carrier is official supported by google, your carrier itself supports it and your device is not imported, it is likely to work.














  • It really does feel like a lot sometimes with the updates. I’m also thinking about looking for something that is also quite close to the edge / rolling but maybe a bit slower.

    I was on Manjaro before for a couple of years. They clone the arch repos but then hold back the updates usually a week or so for testing. And it feels in general a bit more “stable” in that concern. But unfortunately over the years i noticed some problems with it like holding back important security updates for way too long for my taste or rewrites of some arch-tools which then not worked in a expected way.

    And Endeavour felt right from the first second on noticeable more mature and professional with settings and tools that made sense.

    The one big distro family i never looked into is Fedora. As far i see they have some kind of semi-rolling release which could fit the bill quite nicely. Major releases which then kept fairly up-to-date but not so fast and overwhelming as with Arch.

    Maybe i will check it out. But yeah, i would probably miss the AUR. It is just so damn convenient.


  • One can like multiple distros. e.g. i run Debian on my media center because i have no need for bleeding edge software and want just a stable system that changes as rarely as possible and only receives security patches. Its a perfect OS for shit that just needs to be setup once and then runs in that configuration forever.

    If you try that with e.g. Arch, it is very possible that after a week you have suddenly a different theme installed for your frontend and your plugins stopped working.

    For my webservers i tend more to ubuntu because of newer packages as Debian but being still relative stable in terms of versions. (but looking into others. i’m just an lazy fuck right now)

    And on my desktop system i run EndeavourOS (Arch) because i like to have the newest shit for gaming and i like some of the design decisions the dev made like the early merge of /bin.

    And on some of my ancient android phones i got Alpine to run very nicely in a chroot. Primarily because it is very very lightweight / compact and uses OpenRC as init system because Systemd gets very pissy when its not running as PID 1 / detecting it is in a chroot and then refuses to start services (there are hackarounds, but why bother?)

    And then there is of course things like Raspian, etc.

    Use the right tool for the job.