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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

AFAIK the main difference is that on F-Droid (at least the main repo), all apps are signed by F-Droid. On Accrescent however, each app is signed by its developer. This can be seen as it being more secure.

If you're further interested in the topic, there's at least one discussion thread about the 'insecurity of F-Droid', I believe also directly comparing it to Accrescent, on the GrapheneOS forum.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not OP, but this instantly made me think of the worst-case scenario PDFs I stumbled upon on Lemmy recently.

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

TVHeadend is the way, I've been running it with a USB satellite tuner for 5+ years. Setting it up can be a little confusing, but once it's running you pretty much never have to touch it again.

As for clients, there's a Jellyfin plugin, however it seems to not work for me right now.

My client of choice is Kodi with the TVHeadend plugin, and that works great. If you still want Jellyfin integration, you could just add your recordings folder as a library in Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Could I purchase two different brand drives and use them with btrfs?

I don't quite remember the source for this, but I believe I read some time ago that it's actually a good thing to have separate drives. The reasoning is, if you buy two identical drives (at the same time), the likelyhood of both drives failing around the same time is severely higher.

This is then amplified by the fact that rebuilding a RAID puts a lot of strain on the non-dead drive, so if ie. drive 1 dies and drive 2 is about to die, the strain you put on drive 2 in order to rebuild your RAID onto drive 3 might kill drive 2 before you even finish rebuilding your RAID.

Again, this is just from my memory, it might be worth doing some more research on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

+1 on the mobile draggging issue

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

If you can't see any buttons etc. either, this is because you have WebGL disabled. I use Cromite to access canvas on mobile, with WebGL specifically enabled for the canvas website.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Rechts von Gandalf verewigt sich derzeit sogar auch noch die Nudel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

One drawback of the steamdeck is its size and weight though, it's significantly bulkier than a switch. Still well worth the tradeoff though imo.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The reason Signal does this is that they consider your deivce storage 'unsafe', as it can be more easily accessible by other apps. AFAIK not providing the option to let you do it anyway is purely because the Signal devs don't want to.

Threema for example has an option to save all received media to normal storage, similar to WhatsApp.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The Pixel 8 and onwards technically support DP alt mode again. I'm not sure about stock, but I believe I read about some people having it just work in Graphene OS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Incase you're still searching, chech my other comment here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Slightly old post, but hopefully still helpful to someone:

I managed to read out my analog water meter using the following ESP32 image: https://github.com/jomjol/AI-on-the-edge-device

It uses an ESP32-CAM module that actively reads your meter, using machine vision. The data is then published via MQTT. There are even some stl files for cases/mounts for common energy meters.

Once setup properly (with a 3D printed case from the provided stl files), I found it to work quite well. I have a pretty clean standard German water meter though.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/android
 

Hey everyone, I'm looking for a driving journal app, to track when, to/from where and which distance I drive.

Ideally I'd like for it to be FOSS, but if there are decent Closed Source apps I'm ok with it too (I'd just block Network Access in Graphene OS then).

This post (not mine) has pretty much my ideal criteria, but sadly didn't get any answers: https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/88349/drivers-logbook-app-for-android-foss

Unlike the above post, I don't want this for tax purposes etc., but rather just to understand where all my distance driven comes from.

Edit: I've done some more research and haven't found anything, for now I'll just use an OnlyOffice spreadsheet. If I find the time, I might try developing an app for this at some point.

Edit 2: After developing my app for a week and then showing it to a friend, he instantly found exactly what I was working on...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.liefers.driverslogpro

 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/13702771

Beware of used Pixels with a replaced screen

I very recently bought a used Pixel 6 with a replacement screen, not thinking too much of it. I even made sure that the screen looked good during pickup.

One thing I missed though, was that apparently my Pixel doesn't have a fingerprint sensor anymore. I did some research, apparently it's quite easy to break the fingerprint sensor (or some places simply just don't include a sensor in the repair?) when replacing the screen.

Today I also noticed (through Show refresh rate in developer options) that my screen will only do 60 Hz as well.

Also I have stupidly high battery drain, I'm not 100% if that's related though.

Long story short, learn from my mistakes and either don't buy a used phone with a replacement screen or carefully test all functionalities associated with the screen, mainly high refresh rate and the fingerprint sensor.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I very recently bought a used Pixel 6 with a replacement screen, not thinking too much of it. I even made sure that the screen looked good during pickup.

One thing I missed though, was that apparently my Pixel doesn't have a fingerprint sensor anymore. I did some research, apparently it's quite easy to break the fingerprint sensor (or some places simply just don't include a sensor in the repair?) when replacing the screen.

Today I also noticed (through Show refresh rate in developer options) that my screen will only do 60 Hz as well.

Also I have stupidly high battery drain, I'm not 100% if that's related though.

Long story short, learn from my mistakes and either don't buy a used phone with a replacement screen or carefully test all functionalities associated with the screen, mainly high refresh rate and the fingerprint sensor.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

As the Oculus store is officially dead, it may be a bit harder to come by Gear VR apps and games. This website (the gearvr.net vault) aims to provide an archive of many Gear VR apps.

 

If you have a Galaxy S10 (or S10e / S10+) with Android 12, it won't work with Gear VR. There is a small chance that you're still able to downgrade to Android 11, but sadly it's very unlikely.

To check if your device can be downgraded, find its BIT / BINARY value.

From my research looking at the ROMs on samfw.com, it seems that your BIT has to be E or lower. In other words, if your S10 has been updated in any way since May 2022, it will have a too high BIT value to downgrade to Android 11.

 
 

Even though the Oculus Login doesn't work anymore, you can still use and "initialiize" Gear VR in 2024.

Prerequisites:

  • a phone capable of Gear VR and a matching Gear VR HMD (Compatibility Guide)
  • your phone has to running Android 11 or below
  • (a working internet connection)

Guide:

Start by inserting your phone into your Gear VR. It should launch first time setup and prompt you to take it out again. Go through the first time setup and let it download all the necessary Oculus services.

After downloading, you should get prompted to login. From my attempts there isn't really a way to login, unless you have certain legacy accounts linked to a Meta account properly. But don't worry - there's another way.

Go into your phone settings -> apps -> Gear VR Service -> Storage -> Manage Storage. Now tap "VR Service Version" multiple times, until you get a message telling you that Developer mode is now enabled.

You should now see the following settings:

  1. Developer mode
  2. Add icon to app list
  3. Allow VR API without OSIG
  4. Mirroring mode

If they aren't enabled already, enable the second and third settings. You should now see "Gear VR Service" in your app drawer. You can use this to launch any installed Gear VR app. Simply install APKs and the apps will show up here.

To launch an app, select it in the Gear VR Service app, and you should be prompted to insert your phone into your Gear VR.

As you aren't logged into Oculus, Oculus Home won't work properly. This means you will have to take your phone out of your Gear VR to switch apps.

 

One of my first hurdles with Gear VR was trying to cast my (Pop! OS) laptop screen to my Gear. There are some low latency solutions using a proprietary Nvidia app or Moonlight, but as the S7 in my Gear VR isn't capable of running non-VR apps in VR, that was a no go.

The solution is very simple. As long as your computer and Gear VR phone are on the same network (also works if your laptop is on your phone's hotspot or vice versa), you can use the FOSS software Deskreen on your computer (Mac, Windows, Linux) to stream your screen to other network devices.

After installing Deskreen, simply open the Oculus Browser on your phone (for me on my S7 it doesn't work with Samsung Internet) and navigate to the URL given to you by Deskreen. After then accepting the connection on your PC, you can fullscreen the stream on your Gear VR.

Done! Now you have a reasonably low-latency stream of your computer in your Gear VR.

 

I recently got a Samsung Gear VR and noticed that even though there is a moderately sized subreddit for it, it doesn't have a lemmy presence, so I decided to fix that:

Gear VR

[email protected] https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/gearvr

The community is for anything regarding Gear VR, be it asking questions, guides for making stuff work, maybe showing off a good deal you got, ...

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First post (discuss.tchncs.de)
 

Hello fellow Gear VR enthusiasts,

I recently found a very cheap used Gear VR (SM-R322), and as I had an S7 sitting in a drawer collecting dust, I thought I'd try it out.

Even though it's been discontinued for over 3 years, the platform is still surprisingly usable. The only major drawback is that you can't login to the Oculus app anymore, which means (at least according to my current research) you need to take the phone out of the Gear VR whenever you want to switch apps. (As Oculus Home doesn't work without being logged in).

During my search for stuff to do with Gear VR, I noticed that it has a decently sized subreddit, but no lemmy presence, so I decided to fix that!

If you have questions about the platform, want to show off a cheap find, or anything else, feel free to post here!

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm trying to find a way to stream my monitor to Apple TVs in my school via AirPlay. I've already done some research and it seems like there are currently no software solutions, with the closest one being openairplay, however it seems to be pretty dead.

I "need" AirPlay, as my school only uses Apple TVs, and it's quite inconvenient to always bring my HDMI cable and have to hook up to projectors that way.

I'm also open to more scuffed solutions, as I won't be going to that school for much longer. Some things I have thought of so far are:

  1. Using my old iPhone 6 (maybe jailbreak it, I don't think that matters here though) and something like deskreen to first cast my laptop screen to the iPhone and then AirPlay from there. I'd expect this to work, but it wouldn't be much less cumbersome than just using HDMI directly, and it would also mean having to carry that iPhone and a charging cable for it with me all the time.
  2. Using a Mac OS virtual machine with something like OSX-KVM, then possibly buying a WiFi card with AirPlay support and passing it through to the VM in combination with a similar deskreen solution as in 1. This also seems pretty complicated, and I'm not even sure if it would work at all.

Does anyone here have any experience with this, know of any better solutions (I'm also open to more scuffed solutions), or maybe even tried one of my scuffed methods already?

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/techsupport
 

This isn't a question but rather a solution to a problem I couldn't find anywhere online, apologies if this is the wrong community.


If you have a Lenovo laptop (in my case a T14 thinkpad) and your display dims after about 30 seconds, no matter what you specify in Windows settings, you might have to disable the "Zero-Touch-Lock". You can do this in the Lenovo Vantage Software (in my case called "Lenovo Commercial Vantage") in the menu "Smart Assist".

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