Tell that to my gardener I'm communicating with over WhatsApp regarding lawn. Or to general contractors ; we're discussing some remodeling there too. Or to a hair stylist, doing her business (managing appointments, collecting feedback etc) over the same WhatsApp for the last three years. Sometimes I wonder if privacy crowd is living in some kind of an impenetrable bubble, separating them from the real life and real people. Sometimes I'm very much convinced they are .

Have you tried telling them that you prefer to use Signal for safety reasons or do you just silently go along with the crowd even though their ignorance puts you both at risk?

And what would increasing the income do for changing the state of mind, or for better time management ?

Are you suggesting people are poor because they don't have good time management?

There are certainly “innocent” poor if you want to use the term - those who are disadvantaged through no fault of their own and are working hard to get out of it.

And just as certainly being poor can be a result of bad choices and other things. Denying that either is possible is a recipe for disaster.

What we should do is work on the things that will work for those who need help and help them improve their skills or provide them a structured environment where are those skills are not necessary.

Many of them, yes. And a plethora of other complex problems. Severe trauma, drug and alcohol addiction, low executive function are all in the mix.

This isn't an attempt at blaming, just a statement that there are significant hurdles.

Yes , please, yes ! Having the world on your fingertips under the dial knob (ok, I'll settle for synthesized frequency receiver) is a feeling of discovering something not polluted by a countless hordes of opinionated ..persons of no interest. Many teenage nights spent catching voices from the other side of the planet.

They are doing that by polling private servers, which is sometimes less efficient power-wise, and sometimes notifications are being delivered slower than in case of using Google-provided mechanism (FCM). We've been using ntfy for alerting, using our private server and running ntfy client in polling mode, and I do not see significantly increased battery usage by the ntfy client; Android 15.

So ntfy Android app polls a ntfy service. (Which is more efficient than each app polling separately) What does Google's Android library do if not also poll? Does it run a server on the phone? Does it get special signals from cell towers that most apps don't have access to?

It also polls, it just does it as part of the OS. Power saving by the OS can often interfere with apps like nfty that want a long-running background process, especially if they haven’t been opened in a while.

Okay, thank you.

From what you're saying, it doesn't sound like the OS-based polling would be more power efficient, as someone in this chain suggested, just more reliable. Though, I think you can just turn off battery optimization for the ntfy app, in which case I'd expect them to be on par.

If that's right, it seems like ntfy with battery optimization turned off is effectively a "real" push notification system.

What monitor do you use ? 24" 4K is such a rare thing these days ; I'm using cheapo LG , but I always look out if there's something better

I'm using that cheapo LG 24UD58 :) unfortunately they only make 27" now. I really wish they would start making them again. 27" @ 4K is a little bit too low res for me.

Biggest advancements ? Give me a break. Voyagers, Hubble, ISS, James Webb, upcoming Europa mission - SpaceX has nothing on that level of sophistication and cooperation between dozens of countries. I'm very much fond of SpaceX, but giving Elon too much credit does not feel right .

Biggest advancements in launch technology would surely be correct. Scientific research isn’t in their domain and should never be. There’s just too much political influence there.

Or using Russian Soyuz craft. Not politically viable, but a choice nonetheless

Perfect line spacing, other fonts have it way too wide between lines, screen feels half-empty. Great font, switching to it . Medium weight would be lovely, though

Just wait until Lennart pushes his idea of doing linking entirely via dlopen() in systemd (see the story from a few days ago). Last bits of sane and efficient means to track dependencies will be gone forever after that. Good luck creating any lean Docker/k8s images without pulling in systemd-based stack after that.

> see the story from a few days ago

I missed it, can you add a link or at least the post title I can search for?

I'm impatiently waiting for the systemd shell and editor /jk (and to be clear I hope this is a joke but I worry sometimes)

> Just wait until Lennart pushes his idea of doing linking entirely via dlopen() in systemd (see the story from a few days ago)

Could you paste a link to the story? I haven't been able to find it through search engines, and I'd love to read the rationale of such idea...

Looks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40014724.

Wait until /lib is split into /lib.d with /lib.d/default and /lib.d/available and....

Bunch of bu... rather unsubstantial claims. Just installed fresh KDE 5 + Plasma , running Wayland session, with two displays having different DPIs (96 and 185), and Plasma menus on HiDPI display are blurry until I'm moving a mouse over them, then they magically are getting refreshed with proper resolution. Tell me about how Wayland is great and works out of the box, sure

Plasma 6 was released recently with man fixes and improvements for the Wayland session, which is now the default. So it may be worth to try it again.