Nice, I have a similar one. Things I also do there:

• flatpak update
• tldr -u to update tldr pages
• Check if reboot needed after kernel update, and display a notification about it

The announcement comes after Twitter announced across-the-board job cuts earlier on Thursday, with plans to lay off 9 percent of its workforce, which equals about 350 people. The company also said in a letter to shareholders that it was going to prioritize some parts of its business, while deprioritizing others.

Source

Twitter was financially in a bad shape for a long time, the first year they generated some profit was 2018. Source Vine existed 2012-2017, I think they couldn’t figure out how to monetize it. Twitter was a text based platform, tiktok was designed for video from conception.

But I still don’t know why they didn’t try to sell it instead of shutting it down.

Coub was also nearly shut down in 2022, it seems like it’s hard to profitably maintain a short video service.

One more thing could have an important impact was music rights. Tiktok has special deals with record labels for background music, Coub was Russian, so they could just pirate music. Streaming wasn’t big back than, only spotify existed, labels couldn’t figure yet out how to milk internet users, so I guess Vine couldn’t get as good deals as it would now. Too early, too legal.

IIRC Vine and Coub made it mainstream more than 12 years ago, it’s not something new. Gifs ate basically a prequel of the format.

If people wouldn’t like it, it wouldn’t survive this long, and wouldn’t be copied by every other company and requested in threads like this. It’s alright if you don’t like them but please let other people have fun. You don’t have to “learn” from everything, it’s just jokes and light entertainment.

How would it otherwise? Network based location?

Yes. Your phone could triangulate its location from nearby celltowers ane wifi networks. Google has a database of wifi routers (actually that was the point of google streetview, they collected wifi bssids alongside taking photos, they also collect this data from android devices).

With microg you can select from different dbs for this, they are called ‘UnifiedNlp backends’: apple has a similar db from iphones, mozilla used to collect this data with a separate app for MLS (they shut down the project in 2024 march). Microg builds an on device private db as well, it will remembers the wifi networks and celltowers you were close to, and next time you are there it won’t need gps, saves a ton of battery life. This was called Deja Vu, I love this name. Search for UnifiedNlp on fdroid you can find some more options.

Since MicroG 0.3 you don’t have to install these separately, Mozilla and Deja Vu are builtin, and they are more than enough

Huh? Which rom asks this? Usually you have to go through hoops to get microg, and only a handful of roms have it builtin. It can only ask if you want to enable microg not installing it or not, microg to correctly work it should be installed in /system/priv-app, to do that after boot on device, you have to be root.

Do you use any app from aurora or outside fdroid? If your answer is no, than you can use android without a GMS package.

Also as I wrote, location won’t work for you underground or inside concrete buildings. If you are fine with these kind of limitations than you can obviously.

Marwin (the main developer of microg) said in some interview that he doesn’t want microg to exist, and in a perfect world we shouldn’t need such workaround. I would be also happy if android wouldn’t depend this muhc on google

(I reread ops question and I can only see the term open source 2 times, but whatever, I understand what you say, and I don’t want to debate about semantics.)

The point with microG is it’s still the best way if you want to use android. The other options are:

• Play services (GMS), or Huawei has some similar solution because of US trade embragoes.
• You can use android without play services but notifications won’t work for most apps, even if you can open them. (UnifiedPush tries to solve notification part) Wifi and cell based location won’t work
• I see microG as an acceptable middle ground. I still have to give up something to goog, but it’s not much compared to GMS, and I can use all available apps

OP asked about Open Source not about privacy.

MicroG minimises connections to google servers, here you can read what addresses it still connects to and why: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Google-Network-Connections

MicroG works really well

A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries.

What is your attack vector, what type of tracking or privacy violations are you afraid of? I’m really curious.

The number of osm contributors are too small to someone start to track your edits for some nefarious reasons, targeted advertizing.

Email aliases are usually more convinient for this type of usage, basically it will be a read only address, you won’t have to send anything from there.

Yes, changeset comments are more common than messages though. They are public comments. You can see all of them worldwide here: https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussions You can see in the last week 1300+ comments were made

I review edits in my area made by new contributors frequently, write to them if their was some error, help them fix it, or if it’s too complex for them I fix it etc. There are tools for that, e.g. osmcha flags suspicious edits.

Please also sign up with an email address you actually read. If you don’t answer to changeset comments for a long time DWG (Data WorkingGroup) will block you.

Changeing username frequently doesn’t help anything. You have a hidden user id you can’t change, so tools can list all your previous usernames, even though it’s not visible on the main UI.

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My general recommendation with relations: If you can do something without a relation, do it that way. A lot of people don’t understand them and some editor software can’t manage relations well, so there is a big chance that someone will mess it up accidentally in the future.

Maybe you can tag on the restaurant that outdoor seating is mapped as a separate element with outdoor_seating=separate. It’s not used frequently, but separate means that something is mapped as a separate element.

If you still want to do a relation you can use a site relation. You can use that for any kind of POIs. I don’t recommend this though for 2 members. Example. Overpass query for all site=restaurant: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1QjJ

If you afraid someone will forget to change the operator, the same editor can forget to update the relation as well, so I think you can’t win this battle.

Yes, this is the way(s). You can map nicely where the bus (or any other) route enters and exits the roundabout: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2453566#map=18/33.789672/-118.143028

It’s not compulsory, it’s fine if you leave it as single circular road. But if you edit a bus route with Relatify it will automatically split the roundabouts to segments like this.

Note that route relation such as bus relations are added sometimes with entire roundabout without splitting it, that is also fine but splitting it is also fine and there is no consensus which is preferable

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Droundabout

Iphone 4 had a shitty antenna design. This was the first iphone with a metal frame around, on the sides of the phone. If you holded it with your left hand you could easily accidentally short the two parts of the antenna, basically cutting all signals.

This was definetily a design fault, there was even class action lawsuit against Apple. When they asked Steve Jobs about this, he replied:

“You are holding it wrong.”

Antennagate happened 14 years ago. A lot users are too young to remember that

Wiki examples show added to multiple tags:

disused:amenity=pub
disused:operator=The Oxford Pub Company
name=Fox & Hounds

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lifecycle_prefix#Examples

disused:amenity=parking
disused:capacity=20

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:disused#Comparison_of_disused=yes_vs_disused:key=*_namespace

My habit is to add it to main tags only, if there are more main tags add it to all of them, but nothing else. Renderer should get from this it’s disused, adding it to operator or capacity shouldn’t matter, but it will be more work to change them back when it becomes used again. Changing more tags are more error prone.

I would tag a disused bus stop this way:

disused:public_transport=platform
disused:highway=bus_stop
name=*
operator=*
shelter=*
...

It’s true what you write, but it’s not related to Wayland/X11.

But this is the reason CAD software can’t use multiple cpu cores for geometry calculations. The next calculation needs the result of the previous one, it can’t be parallelized.

Buy a better case for the mobo. I modded once an mITX motherboard to an ancient HP Proliant microserver case, it’s not that hard. Mobos like this doesn’t have standard screw distances, but you don’t have to secure all screws in a ghetto server. 2 screws and some padding is enough, with 3 screws you are overengineering.

It’s a Fujitsu W26361 There isn’t a lot of info about it on the net, all the links are rotten.

You have a sata port. You have to use an external power supply for that. Or maybe one of the pins next to it can supply the required voltage, you can use a multimeter to figure it out if you are brave. I guess the white one labeled PWR should be supply some volts. To be safe you can split the power of the other sata ssd or buy something like this:

You also have 2 an mPCIe or mSATA port. It’s impossible to tell the difference from a photo, because they use the same connector.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#Mini-SATA_(mSATA)_variant

Without any more knowledge I would guess at least one of them is an mPCIe. Having 2 sata ports and an 2 mSATA next to it would be strange, they could use the mPCIe for a 3G modem or wifi, it would make more sense in a thin client like this.

If it’s an mPCIe you can buy a sata expansion there and even connect up to 4 sata drives. Looks like something like this:

You can convert it to normal PCIe or m.2, the possibilities are endless:

If it’s not mPCIe but mSATA, you can buy mSATA SSD there, they are really rare nowadays. Or you can buy an mSATA to SATA adapter:

I’m not familiar with linux mint, why?

Also they can switch to debian base relatively easily