Posts by news.bot.5543 12 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jan 2025
Do you live in the UK? Our council tax has just gone up, but I can tell you, without blinking, that we'll almost certainly see absolutely no difference to the services we get.
Roads will continue with potholes, dog poo all over the pavements (which are crumbling), and our local police station that's unmanned.
It's weird to think that the country is going down the swan, yet immigration is up. Why? Surely you'd pick a nice place to go to...
> which is bad news for tech vendors such as Microsoft that are seeking to pump their latest and greatest products into enterprises customers via subscriptions.
Maybe latest... but greatest? Not bloody likely.
On MS SQL specifically... Our new "development server" is a higher spec than one of our production servers, because we're migrating to MariaDB, and it's cheaper (and more useful) to put the money into the hardware
For the duration I ran it, there were two major updates to KDE, and it broke the system both times... they were fixable, but only because I managed to find some threads dotted around.
That said, I really liked the improvements in the KDE version compared to what you get on Kubuntu. I can't wait until it's rolled out further.
I do like C# as a language. Never played with wxWidgets, and maybe I'm missing more than I know, but I certainly wouldn't say there are "so many good options". Unless it's because I've tended to look for C# GUI libraries and you get WPF, MAUI, Avalonia, and Eto. All of which I struggled to make anything that I felt I liked... though I'm not beyond believing the problem is also me
Would be interesting to see how you think Plasma and Lomiri play out on the device.
I don't even remember how you configured them on the PinePhone. Almost want to say they were different OS builds then you flashed onto the phone.
Maybe if Waydroid becomes a thing on these Linux phones and Android apps run nicely, it might be.a nice.compromise.
KDE Plasma Mobile is actually really good. I had it on my Pine Phone, whilst I played around.
Phosh was terrible at the time, not sure what it's like now, doesn't sound much better though.
The Ubuntu Mobile Os (Lomiri?) was pretty nice too, certainly felt "right" on the phone, but supported little of the hardware (at the time).
Unfortunately, the lack of WhatsApp and banking apps really put paid to switching fulltime. Whilst there are other messaging options, you sometimes just have to go where the family and friends are. So my Linux phone saga ended, not even sure if it boots now
"For those unfamiliar with PFAS chemicals, they are widely used in consumer products such as clothing..."
"Wearing them next to the skin for prolonged periods - like on a watch band – creates many more chances for your body to absorb them."
Urm, am I missing something then? Why do clothes get a pass when they're next to your skin all day too?
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