I could be wǎng yǒu, could yī píng OP and ask?

Yeah, oops, GOS only.

I don’t think most other OEMs have an auto reboot feature

There are very few phones where it would help because they’re BFU exploitable.

• Strangely Firefox has a bigger top app bar, instead of all the icons and tabs being on a single row, there are 2 rows (one with the tab name, and another one with the actual tabs

That’s probably the Title Bar.

Go to Firefox’s Menu > More Tools > Customize Toolbar > Uncheck “Title Bar” at the bottom left corner.

e: oops, hard_zero1@discuss.tchncs.de beat me by hours

• The fingerprint reader could be set up, but when trying to log in it always says fingerprint not recognized

This post is a bit older and it’s possible that Mint does this automatically. The post goes through the process of setting up a fingerprint reader from scratch. If your system is detecting the device and it’s a supported device* then PAM is likely misconfigured.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=408129

It is possible that Mint now has a user friendly way of doing this… I don’t really know Cinnamon (because I use Arch, btw) but whatever it is, it’s configuring PAM underneath the GUI. You can configure PAM via the terminal, it even has a little TUI (spacebar to check and uncheck boxes).

*https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html

lsusb

Then check the table against the numbers after ID in the output of lsusb. This is the VID/PID, a term you’ll probable run into again.

If you have enough time to put your phone in lockdown, just power it off. You can also set it so that the phone will automatically reboot if not unlocked in some time period (like a day).

This makes it go into BFU mode if it’s lost or stolen and kept powered.

The key to mute my mic doesn’t work, and is not recognized as a key. The other keys like disabling the trackpad work fine.

some manufacturers use a driver to handle media keys (for telemetry, mostly)

showkey -s

Will print the scan codes in the terminal, press your media keys and see if they generate scan codes. showkey is part of the kbd package if it isn’t already installed.

Don’t worry guys, no fascist regime has used a census to locate and arrest targeted populations for almost 100 years now… this should be fine.

/s because some people can’t read subtext

I xí what you did there

And AI is in everything

I don’t know, you should ask the people that are doing that.

The update has been pinned just check, mate.

The guy who’s only part of the crime was watching out for the police is also guilty of the crime.

These executives should consider that, especially given that the war crimes and genocide charges are a matter of public record so they can’t claim ignorance.

It’s DNS

It does read a bit like someone running a low parameter llm on their GPU that’s been fine tuned on social media chatter.

Don’t be evil

I’d probably play BF6 and I do enjoy Apex Legends, but not enough to run Windows. Photoshop is great, but GIMP meets my non-professional needs. I’m not an engineer so AutoCAD isn’t a professional requirement and I can fix 3d prints or plan landscaping in freecad.

But, I can’t make Micrsoft stop enabling telemetry on my computer, inserting ads in my start menu or giving AI access to my entire system. I know there are tools to disable these things, I used them. I know the workaround to make local users, I know how to remove the AI integrations, I know how to use group policy to prevent the re-enabling of some items.

I don’t want to have to fight my computer in order to use it. I want it to do exactly what I want and nothing else. Linux lets me do it and that is more important than a few FPSs

Everyone gets to make that choice. Well, except the people who can’t upgrade to Windows 11… for them it’s Linux or joining a botnet at some time in the near future.

It depends on the DE.

Even still, typing mount /dev/sda1 external isn’t exactly Cirque du Soleil

I am not interested in playing any of those games.

The trick is to always install their system using btrfs-dkms.

It’s guaranteed to break in a way that Google cannot resolve.

There are no upcoming kernel patches that will fix the problem of people being ungrateful assholes.