emotional_soup_88

Do you have experience with any of these?

https://github.com/DavidHavoc/ToS-Reader-Summarizer

https://github.com/skamal23/ToS-Summarizer

I'm interested in tools that highlight privacy invasive terms and conditions that are often hidden behind legal jargon or wrapped up in so much text that the end user is discouraged to actually read through the terms of service and/or the privacy policy.

I have installed noto-fonts-cjk but the Linux kernel terminal won't display Japanese/Chinese characters.

Environment:
ThinkPad T480
Arch Linux

Edit: I managed to track down this page https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console and realize that I need to setfont. Now I just need to find which one in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts can display Japanese, I suppose.

Edit2: looked through https://adeverteuil.github.io/linux-console-fonts-screenshots/ to no avail.

Edit3: this thread https://askubuntu.com/questions/193391/how-do-i-display-chinese-japanese-characters-in-a-linux-vt-console hints at this not being a possibility, because - paraphrased - the framebuffer can't hold 2000 characters, which is what I would like it to be able to display.

Edit4: as pointed out in the above askubuntu thread, and as @mina86@lemmy.wtf secondarily recommends, fbterm seems to be the solution: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fbterm

Edit5: kmscon also seems to be able to display CJK: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KMSCON

Marking as SOLVED, but I have not yet tried replacing the Linux kernel terminal. That'll have to wait until next weekend.

I frequently share stuff with friends by encrypting both contents and file headers with 7-zip, uploading it to my cloud and letting them download it. However, my cloud provider, Internxt, doesn't let them download beyond 10GB.

Do you know of any cloud provider that doesn't have such limitations?

Edit: I'm already using qbittorrent-nox which to my knowledge doesn't have the ability to create torrents. I'm reading up on seedboxes now.

Good day! Let me know if this post is not relevant to this community and I'll take it down.

I am using a VPN provider whose IP addresses are mostly blocked by streaming services and YouTube. This is not a problem for me, since I can often just obfuscate the address with some of their proxy solutions.

Without having any real understanding of how third party VPN providers work under the hood, my questions is, would it be possible for the VPN provider to implement an end user function, like a "vote button" or the likes, that reports when a certain address is blocked by a certain web service and then - for instance, when enough end users have reported a specific IP address as blocked - simply rotate/exchange that IP address to circumvent the blockage?

I'd like to suggest this to my provider if it's viable at all.

I saw one example

int x = 10;
int y = 5;

bool isGreater = x > y;

printf("%d", isGreater);

But I could write this

int x = 10;
int y = 5;

printf("%d", x > y);

I am a complete beginner and I have no real reason why I would or would not want to deal with boolean variables, but I want to understand their raison d'être.

Edit: typo city

Playing with mpv.

They appear mostly on curvatures when the screen is "moving" vertically.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/47186720

Edit: this guide doesn't seem to mention it https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-t-series-laptops/thinkpad-t480-type-20l5-20l6/20l6/20l6s01q2y/document-userguide

I was flashing Libreboot on to my ThinkPad T480, when I noticed this little button. Sorry for the poor images!

Edit: this guide doesn’t seem to mention it https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-t-series-laptops/thinkpad-t480-type-20l5-20l6/20l6/20l6s01q2y/document-userguide

I was flashing Libreboot on to my ThinkPad T480, when I noticed this little button. Sorry for the poor images!

Edit: I'm on Linux Edit 2: B550 AMD chipset

I am seeding from an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G system and with all the peripherals turned off and disconnected, instantaneous load was about 65 watts, until I undervolted it (negative 30, all cores), after which it has been fluctuating around 60 watts.

I'd like to keep seeding indefinitely - of course, my all time share ratio is at around 12 for now - but I'd like to use less energy and spend less money on it - even though the cost difference will be negligible, I guess.

Questions

1. Do you have any recommendations on what hardware to switch to?
2. Or any suggestions on further tweaking the power setting's in the BIOS? For now, I'm using AMD's AI solution for undervolting (PBO or Curve Optimizer or whatever it's called?), but there is for instance also the actual overclocking menu, which would force settings on the CPU.
3. What do you think about putting a single board computer inside my desktop (the chassi is HUGE) and somehow hooking up my four 4TB 2.5 inch torrenting SSDs to it? Possibly still powering them with my desktop's PSU? And running the client (qBittorrent) on the SBC?

We all need some laughter in this darkness

Invidious link

Background

Rooting disables OEM updates and makes your device unofficial, so you will probably still be able to sideload apps. Depending on how this shitstorm turns out though, and if there will ever be a need for it, I would love to help people root their smartphones.

Another idea is to collaborate on a wiki that aggregates and documents all rootable versus non rootable smartphones and the methods that work.

Rooting services

We could setup a chatroom on Signal or any other platform that enables voice and/or video chat. People would also be able to send their smartphones to another person that roots it. Or like street vendors, setup a pipe chair and table and do it on scene at festivals and other gatherings.

The wiki

I could host something fresh from my desktop or create a community on some fedi instance. The wiki would aggregate preexisting information but also be open for continuous updates by the community.

Edit: thank you @ChanchoManco@lemmy.zip for posting the repo Bootloader Unlock: Wall of Shame

Question

What does the community think of such an idea? I'm just spitballing here, trying to add something to the opposition.

For those that can relate:

How do you cope?

As for me:

I either go to bed crazy early - around 7 PM when the anxiety is at its worst - taking a sleeping pill, hoping I don't wake up until morning comes OR I eat until I hate myself.