expired SSL cert

I think it’s interesting that the phrase “ARM-free” roadmap is being used. I had no idea there had been so much market penetration of RISC-V already

When I think of dotfile management, I think it means handling standalone config files that are a few KB, intended to be user-editable, and are probably not changed by the running program itself.

I don’t think the Firefox config files meet those criteria. I don’t know, because I just leave them alone. I think a better tool for managing Firefox config would be to sync your profile, either through their servers or by self-hosting a sync server

I’m really grateful for the introduction to deceptive patterns here.
I was not aware of it, and I think it’s important to have language that can describe specifically how tech companies are trying to coerce people.

There’s a 1920 x 1200 non-touch display option, which will surely get you better battery life than OLED. But what’s most interesting about it is the 1-120 Hz variable refresh rate, which Dell says is a first to for this model. That extremely low refresh should help save power when static images or text is on the screen.

Ah yeah, I should have read the rest of the article. I didn’t know about that feature though, that’s cool

1 Hz display option: like an e-Ink display?

(it says 120Hz in the article)

I’m working towards something like that. I’m hoping to ultimately drop the smartphone altogether, and I’ve set my current phone’s end of life (2027ish?) as the goal.
I think the other thing that’s necessary to keep the same sense of connectedness is a device to receive notifications, and I have an open source smartwatch I want to program for that. I’ve been working on a notification server too (kind of like Gotify), but at the moment it’s a work in progress

By layers I mean image layers when manipulating an image in an image editor. So I guess what you’re saying is an image would be flattened before being passed to a compression algorithm?

I wonder if hypothetically, AI could do the same with a box over text, even if it was 100% opaque. For example, if the data from the layer containing text was part of the image data passed to an image compression algorithm, and that data was somehow reflected in the output

Misread as Pelletburo, now sad there’s no pet feeder called that

I think they had a RISC-V CPU as an experimental option for a while, but I couldn’t see it on their site recently.
Not sure what happened with that

EDIT: my mistake, it was an emulated RISC-V CPU, running on an FPGA (source)

I might never get around to flipping whatever kill switch they claim to be working on, so I’m turning off as much as I can now

For the record a quick web search for how to disable AI in firefox gave me this list of items to set to false in about:config :

browser.ml.enable
browser.ml.chat.enabled
browser.ml.chat.sidebar
browser.ml.chat.shortcuts
browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
extensions.ml.enabled

Bananas Galore!

I see the camera has PoE, will you use that and connect to the camera over a local network? If so you could just record the stream with ffmpeg

Wow it generates postal barcodes as well, that’s cool

How about a utility for generating and/or handling QR codes?

EDIT: as there are tools to generate QR codes, how about a tool to handle them? Scan and present the option to open any associated links/display data

Brother QL-550 here. I think it might be smaller than you need but judging by this and the other comments the Brother QL series looks good. Can’t remember what setup it needed (I don’t think there was much) but if the information is helpful to you I can take a look

The brain cells presumably have a life span… if this technology ever gets used in consumer devices, I’d like to know how people will try and squeeze extra life out of a failing component.
Take it out and warm it in their hands like an alkaline battery?
Give it a shake?
Sing to it?
Some kind of stimulant drug?

There’s an Android app with firmware for the watch that supports notifications, so the watch has the potential for smart features

But it looks like there’s no equivalent app for Graphene OS, so in effect, you’re right, no smart features