Kevin

I wrote a little script a while back that would save a temp file with fswebcam, run zbarimg on it to decode the qr, delete the temp file and if it worked it would pipe the output into xclip/wl-copy, otherwise it would try again (up to 8 times).

I hooked it up to a keyboard shortcut and I’ll see the webcam light flash one or two times when I hit it, then know it’s good.

It wouldn’t be a ton of work to also have a popup with the qr value using zenity or something, maybe use the --question and pass it “copy $output to clipboard?”. You could have an --error if all the scan attempts failed.

Feel free to shoot me a pm if you want help.

Syncthing desktop in termux and handle triggers like battery + wifi via tasker?

You could rent a VPS in a neutral country and use ssh to create a SOCKS proxy to it, then use foxyproxy to add the proxy to firefox/librewolf/whatever and either allowlist certain sites you don’t want your country knowing about or denylist websites you don’t care if your country knows about (especially higher bandwidth sites that aren’t controversial like YouTube).

At that point you’d have plenty of “real” traffic from the unproxied websites and any traffic the rest of your OS is using, and when you access the proxied sites you want to hide it’ll look like you’re using ssh and/or scp.

You could also create a proxy server with a tor connection on the server and use ssh port forwarding to access it locally. The Mullvad browser + foxyproxy would probably be your best bet for using that since it’s basically tor browser without tor.

EDIT: Additionally, if you wanted to proxy an application that doesn’t support SOCKS internally, you can configure proxychains with the proxy and then launch proxychains applicationname.

There’s a lot to like about the pine time, and it’s really cool that you can adjust things and recompile. The reason it ultimately didn’t work for me was because the vibration motor isn’t strong enough for me to notice if I’m actively doing something. Your mileage may vary, but it’s worth keeping in mind.

The original pebble and garmin watches have all been great in that respect.

Oh I see, so these are the same ads you’d see on the official broadcast too?

That’s crazy, it sounds like a whole business! I guess there are probably more costs and risks associated with live streaming that warrant the income stream, compared to uploading a movie to some torrent tracker.

Where are you seeing ads in pirated content?

KDE let’s you do that first one, though it’s ctrl+super. It’s one of my favourite lesser known features.

To add to this, if the phantom clicks are indeed primarily happening while typing or otherwise moving your hands near the touchpad, you should check to see if tap to click is enabled. The unintentional clicks that feature produces drives me crazy and I have no idea why it’s always on by default when a physical click or button is always available.

I’ve been using gimp’s 3.x branch since 2016 or so (after getting a hidpi display) and gimp itself since the early 2000s, both for personal stuff and for work. I’m typically editing existing photos and images to clean them up, apply effects, make new clean images from pieces of existing ones, etc, and for my uses it’s great. Also, having been using it for so long, I actually really prefer the ux to Photoshop (especially since they added an option to use it in single window mode).

I’ve seen videos showing some of the features it’s missing for certain types of things though, and while there are hacky scripted ways to emulate them, you might find it lacking if you’re expecting those particular features.

I’d recommend looking up tutorials on YouTube for things you frequently do and see how much work it is and what the final product looks like. You could up the playback speed to save time since you won’t be following along with gimp yourself.

You can also use weechat as a bouncer, and it works even better with its own clients which can sync chat history rather than receiving it in a dump. The android client is fantastic in that respect.

The plugin ecosystem is also great. I have a plugin that pushes notifications for PMs and mentions to my gotify server, alerting me on my phone without having to drain its batteries staying connected.

konsole does support sixel images

The Lenovo Yoga 6 works surprisingly well. I got it to replace a surface book for my daughter and wasn’t really sure what parts of the hardware would be supported, but literally everything I tested works (the only thing I haven’t tried is the fingerprint reader) and the included stylus is amazing in krita as well as just generally. The tablet mode works well, and tent mode is more convenient when it’s on a desk (screen rotation requires the iio-sensor-proxy package). Battery life is decent; it gets around 6-7 hours with moderate use. I’d recommend using it with KDE.

https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/p/laptops/yoga/yoga-2-in-1-series/yoga-6-gen-8-(13-inch-amd)/len101y0027

You should put your foot down and tell them it’s all about free software while they’re under your roof; they can push open source once they’re 18 and have their own place.

Hah, I feel like they might not approve of a Microsoft laptop? I could be wrong though :)

I got my daughter a surface book with Archlinux on it when she turned four. She’d previously been using an ipad so I wanted something that had a touchscreen, and I installed KDE as the desktop. She learned how to use it extremely quickly, and has even started in on the commandline now that she’s 5 and knows how to read. GCompris is great too.

Me and my wife haven’t bothered with parental controls and instead just keep an eye on her usage, but I agree with other commenters that controlling things at the router level seems like a better bet.

In X11 it’s server side, and in gnome wayland it’s of course client side, but they look exactly the same as the SSD ones. I doubt they’ll change that between the current beta and the 3.x release.

That’s pretty much where I’m at too, and I find it easier to get to the file(s) I want to send through the cli. No judgement to anyone who prefers the gui though!

As far as I know the relay just NAT busts, after that it’s encrypted p2p.

The main advantages for me are:

1. You don’t need to swap ssh keys, which makes it great for setting up new systems I haven’t connected to everything else yet (or don’t plan to)
2. It’s cross platform
3. The devices don’t need to be on the same network (it NAT busts too)