Captain Aggravated

After about a decade on Mint I ended up on Fedora.

Which is why I said “or endorsed by”. Fedora’s Discover points to their own .rpm repo, their own flatpak repo, and Flathub. Including Flathub out of the box says “We the distro maintainers trust Flathub.”

I look at it this way: The repository is hosted by, or endorsed by, the developers of the distro. If you don’t trust their software repository, why would you trust the distro itself?

Give Rayforge a try.

What…is this shit? What’s the real reason behind this? What senator or governor has a brother in law in the age verification business that got this corruptioned into being a thing all of a sudden?

GPS itself is a one-way technology. On a basic level, the GPS satellites broadcast their precise location in space, and a very accurate timestamp from an onboard atomic clock. By comparing the difference in timestamps from a few satellites, you can determine how far away you are from each, thus deducing your own position. User devices only receive broadcasts from the GPS constellation; they don’t transmit. This is by design; GPS originated with the US military who wanted a navigation system usable anywhere in the world passively. You can use GPS without giving away your position by transmitting radio waves.

The privacy nightmare is when you mix a GPS receiver in with all the other sensors, storage and radios found in a smart phone. How many apps on your phone have GPS privileges? Why does it want that?

There are entire youtube channels about unclogging culverts and storm drains. It’s genuinely a thing someone would just do, because people just do it.

They are no longer as open source as can be. The Buddy Board, Nextruder, their nozzles, all closed source.

That’s been around for a long time now. Remember Dollar Shave Club?

“That you can self-host” Does a budgeting tool need to be a service that’s constantly running and not an application? I struggle to see how having it running as a service on some box somewhere is going to help. “It’s so you can access it on your phone elsewhere.” Oh great. It’ll have a garbagepuke mobile UI.