GenderNeutralBro

The legality is also questionable. It seems, currently, there is no law specifically forbidding changing the IMEI of a device you own, but it’s definitely a gray area.

So...in what way is this a gray area?

Awesome, thanks!

Google Pixel hardware isn’t great

This is true, but if you're coming from a Galaxy S8, a Pixel 9 will be a significant upgrade in performance. More comparable to an S21 or S22 as far as cpu performance goes.

The experience of installing and updating GPU drivers can be very different across different distros. Especially if you use secure boot. This was such a pain point for me on Tumbleweed that I just pinned my kernel.

Hi! Please consider offering downloads in epub format as well as PDF. PDF is difficult to work with, particularly when it has a hardcoded dark background like the Meteorina files. I am not able to read these comfortably on my e-reader, for example.

If you have source files in some other form you might be able to convert them easily to epub with something like Pandoc. I'd be willing to help figure out the process if you can send me a source sample to work with.

37% used is no problem.

Don't sweat it until you're at 80-90%.

The only possible silver lining to all this is that perhaps "normal" people will finally start to care about the problems techies have been screaming about for 20+ years now.

It was inevitable that a bad actor would gain access eventually, because there is no such a thing as an organization that you can trust in perpetuity. That obviously doesn't excuse the actual bad actors that now have access.

Once users have given up on comfortable single-handed use, the only limiting factor is pocket size.

For me, that means once it passes about 65mm in width, I might as well jump to ~80mm in width, which is huge even by today's standards. 70mm wide phones are just the worst of both worlds to me.

I want a small phone, but there hasn't been a serious option in over 10 years. The Xperia Z3 Compact was the last good "small" Android phone that was actually small enough to justify its existence. That was 2014.

Edit: Also, I suspect with bezels being so small now, the frame would need to be even smaller to avoid accidental edge presses with one-handed operation.

In my experience, this is more a problem if you are fully running your own mail servers, not so much if you are using an established email service. My MX record reflects my email provider, and my outgoing mail goes through their servers. So I'm as trusted as they are, in general. Your mail provider should have instructions on how to set up DNS for verification.

If you're willing to pay money for it, you can get your own domain for $2-$15 per year, then use it with pretty much any commercial email service. That way you can change email providers without changing your address.

This is my plan going forward. I'm going to suffer the inconvenience of changing my address, but only one more time, not every time I want to change providers.

Kids these days and their "Plasma". BACK IN MY DAY it was just KDE!

I'm not sure why this feels new to me. Perhaps it's because I spent a lot of time on other DEs after 2009.

But also, from that link:

We will use "KDE" exclusively in two meanings:

• KDE, the community, which creates free software for end users
• As an umbrella brand for the technology created by the KDE community

So I don't feel like it's wrong to just call it KDE, just imprecise.

Wild guess: a tool for manually shaping iron rods or rebar?