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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Probably gets off on telling those "suckers and losers" what to do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Gentoo is a little easier nowadays. It has binary packages and you can use any old Linux live CD you prefer to do the install :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's nice to see what could have been... Mine suffers from a lack of connectivity, can't even use it on Wi-Fi without constant disconnects.

My previous keyboard phone was Nokia N900 which was incredible, if a bit small. I find the Pro1x to be too large for my hands, a phone about 4.5 or 5" would be ideal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There are no mass produced cases as I know. A couple people have released files to 3D print your own. I tried using a couple different materials, TPU feels the best but does add extra bulk to an already bulky device.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

They were in Wisconsin and he was pandering to the locals by wearing a cheese hat and giving away millions of dollars to bribe voters. It didn't work - the candidate he was supporting lost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Cognex Barcode Scanner is not open source but it is the best. It's basically just a demo frontend for a commercial barcode programming library so they are not trying to monetize the app itself. It supports everything! Not just QR code but every kind of barcode. I used to work in logistics and I used it to scan all the different barcodes on shipping labels.

When you scan a barcode you can choose to open, copy, share. Open launches your default web browser. If the barcode isn't a URL, it all give a search option and you can configure your preferred search engine. It can scan images from your gallery or use your camera. But the important part is it won't do anything with the scanned data until you tell it to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

It makes more sense when you realize he's negotiating not on behalf of the best interests of Ukraine or the USA but on behalf of Putin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Jammie Thomas had to pay over $9000 per song she shared on Kazaa and that was like 15 years ago. Inflation + millions of shares should mean billions of dollars owed to the publishers... Plus obviously deleting or forfeiting ownership of all the models trained on that data, naturally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I once fully updated a Gentoo system that hadn't been touched in 4 years. That was an adventure in troubleshooting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nice! I'm jealous.

Even using Wi-Fi in my house, it constantly drops connections. I was hoping to use it to basically VNC to my desktop but it is so slow and disconnects constantly. There's some speculation that some of the antennas were not soldered properly or something like that.

Mine also has large black dead spots in the bottom corners of the screen, seems like it was over tightened during manufacturing. Maybe that's also what broke the antenna!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Mine has been collecting dust. The signal is so bad, even on Wi-Fi, it's nearly useless. I'd feel guilty selling it. And i paid around $800 USD...

The keyboard's the star here, and it has all the important keys for terminal use (though it's a little too wide for my hands, I'd prefer a 4 or 5 inch screen version)

Aside from the keyboard it is like a 2018 era generic Chinese android phone with no support or updates.

Physically I feel the balance of the phone is a bit top heavy, with the curves it's very slippery to hold onto especially using while lying in bed etc.

Sadly the phone's mother (fxtec) died in childbirth, so to speak. And the whole "XDA phone" thing was a dud, XDA was a ghost town by the time this thing was in our hands.

Big thanks to the guy keeping lineage working on it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Despite all that i said, the OLED special editions were very tempting!

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