AnExerciseInFalling

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The pinebook's privacy switches (for WiFi/BT, camera, and microphone) operate at the firmware level, the operating system has no control over them

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_Pro#Privacy_Switches

The keyboard operates on firmware independent of the operating system. It detects if one of the F10, F11 or F12 keys is pressed in combination with the Pine key for 3 seconds. Doing so disables power to the appropriate peripheral, thereby disabling it. This has the same effect as cutting off the power to each peripheral with a physical switch. This implementation is very secure, since the firmware that determines whether a peripheral gets power is not part of the Pinebook Pro’s operating system. So the power state value for each peripheral cannot be overridden or accessed from the operating system. The power state setting for each peripheral is stored across reboots inside the keyboard's firmware flash memory.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I could be completely wrong, but I think one of the first anomaly detection games was called "I'm on observation duty" which came out in 2018, but didn't really get popular until late 2021 (when the fourth game in the series same out), about the same time "The exit 8" released funny enough.

That game is a little different where the player flips around security cameras and reports anomalies as they come up, but I think exit 8 was the first anomaly detection games that is "looping" and you have to decide whether to go forward or back depending on if there's an anomaly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I also highly recommend libby, which lets you check out ebooks and audiobooks from your library. I don't have a kindle myself, but this help article says it's supported "Reading Kindle Books on a Kindle ereader"

You can also add multiple library cards, so if you wanted to go crazy you can find libraries that let you sign up for a card even if you don't have a local address and get access to both library's collections to read on your Kindle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Just waiting for the achievement reenabling mod so I can play with some of the real nice QoL tweaks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Currently on season 3 of a rewatch haha

Such an awesome show

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would love a source for this to pull up in future discussions

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

I also highly recommend the movie, one of my all time favorites (and not because of this scene)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Still very cool to think about

And thank you for the app link, if I ever get flexible enough hours I wonder if that sleep schedule would help my somewhat unhealthy relationship with sleep

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I definitely agree some of the issues they cite are more complicated than they need to be

It would be awesome to base schedules around sunrise (especially sleep, your routine sounds very nice), but the wild variance the further you go from the equator might make that unruly.

Depending on the time of year my schedule would "shift" around multiple hours due to latitude, people in (southern) Norway would have to shift around 6ish hours, all the way to the extreme arctic circle where the sun doesn't rise/set depending on season

I think I could adapt where I live, but I feel like "time of day" would lose all meaning without also knowing time of sunrise, whereas right now I can be reasonably certain how "active" the world is in any given timezone at 9:00 or 23:00

It is definitely interesting to think how different it would be to base everything around sunrise (you'd never really say let's meet at x time, it would always be relative to sunrise), I just struggle in thinking people would be able to break the routine of relying on nice round numbers for time

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (7 children)

As much as timezones are a pain (I'm a programmer who recently finished working on an international calendar for an app), I don't think getting rid of timezones is a great idea. https://qntm.org/abolish

I think a much better goal would be getting rid of daylight savings. THAT causes so much headache for little reason nowadays

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Ack librefm completely slipped my mind

AFAIK they're two separate projects for the same/similar goal. I know ListenBrainz has a recommendation system, but it might still be in it's early days

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There's ListenBrainz, the open MusicBrainz version of last.fm

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