Wow, I had no idea about the green button info, thanks! I am not too bothered about VRR (it seems totally broken on Wayland for my GPU at the moment anyways, and I have been fine without it so far), but I bought this TV for the 120Hz and good colors, which so far have been mutually exclusive :P

I bought this one: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/B094XR43M5

Good to hear. Yeah, I am starting to have my doubts about this cable…

My understanding is that it doesn’t have VRR for people (at least without the special firmware, which indeed only works for some). Not seen anything about it not supporting 4k@120Hz, though maybe I missed it as I read so many different threads about this topic…

Ohh neat, thanks for sharing! Maybe I will bite the bullet and buy that one… it’s a shame that the recommended one doesn’t work, but ah well :)

Right, I should have mentioned despite being French I live in Germany. Still, can’t hurt to join any demonstrations against this.

This is good… but partially admits defeat. It’s a good fallback though.

Money: yes Bodies: no thank you

How could I most effectively monetarily hurt politicians, who are specifically voting for chat control? I am already boycotting the US, but that’s a much bigger/easier target than specific parts of the French government.

Typo, meant to write “party” The French party against it that replied to me is le groupe des Verts/ALE. They will have my vote on the next election.

What can I, as a EU citizen, do to stop this? I already sent (handwritten) emails to my French representatives several times, but only got one response from a minority part^ that agrees.

What makes a flake config a flake config is simply the flake.nix entry point. So, technically if you read that file to see what file it loads for the nixosConfiguration you want to “port”, you should be able to just go directly from that file and bypass the flake.nix. For the longest time, my own flake simply forwarded to my configuration.nix.

However, depending on your needs of course, but using flakes even at a basic level can be very useful and I’d 100% encourage doing a basic setup for someone starting out. The main feature here is being able to lock your dependencies (including nixpkgs) to a specific commit, which means you will always get the same resulting setup (not depending on when you installed it, like it does without flakes). But, you know better than me the requirements of your own setup :)

This will be my first christmas since moving to Aachen, looking forward to it! Hope it’s not too crowded :)

The navigation app Öffi, which shows public transport times and journeys, has a whole map feature where it renders the journey if you turn your phone to landscape! I’d been using it for months when I found out by accident, made it even more useful.

Thank you so much for the kind words! It’s indeed a bad time to be an app delevoper. At least the framework I use is portable-ish, so the work won’t be fully lost.

I’m going to look into adding this to my app https://git.allpurposem.at/mat/Sudoku Indeed I do not agree with this, so it will become unavailable when the terms go into effect. I will look into making it available for Linux Mobile.

It seems I didn’t communicate my reason for having Instagram well enough. I don’t have access to the “feed” or following people (it won’t load unless I accept some terms, which I won’t). I have an account with the messaging function bridged to my Matrix account, which lets me receive messages and (when it works) reply to them to organize moving to a better platform.

It’s the best solution I found if I want to keep contact with people I meet when going out or traveling. Phone numbers barely work (I still can’t call or message any German numbers, never found out why), and everyone I meet has Instagram. I just give them my username, they can add me easily, and then later over Instagram direct messages we figure out how to get them signed up for Matrix or Signal.

I’m personally trapped on Discord and Instagram.

Discord is required by my workplace, so no way of getting rid of it until everyone decides to move to something better. I have some friends on it too, but most of them also made Matrix accounts when I explained I won’t be very reachable on Discord (I only open it when necessary; and it doesn’r run on my phone since they rewrote the app in JS). I have Instagram as a way to people I meet during travel or events to “add me” easily, and then we can figure out a good way to communicate afterward. I’m not too bothered by having it as I don’t use it daily or anything.

Interesting! Maybe it’s worth switching banks, at least once I get the courage to move to Linux mobile.

None of my banks (a couple French and Belgian ones) seem to support anything but auth via app. Can’t log in on my computer without my phone.

I’m personally really excited for Linux phones and want to move to one relatively soon. They’ve done amazing work on the experience of using them. What I’d really miss, based off of talking to folks and trying them at conventions, is:

• battery life. My Pixel 3a lasts over a day on Android, likely much less on pmOS
• UnifiedPush for notifications. I only see a Matrix client listed as WIP. Every other app (Fediverse, Signal) I would have to keep running in the background
• Notifications while in sleep mode. Looks like we don’t have “Doze Mode” from Android, so only calls & SMS work while asleep
• Fingerprint sensor. More of a QoL but I kept my phone model specifically for the ergonomics of the sensor on the back, and being able to scroll with it. Communication with the sensor is not yet figured out