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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Just to clarify since it barely came up: NFC can be used for a lot of things, digital payment just being one use case. You can also have “tags” that trigger some sort of automation when the phone is placed there (like on the phone holder in your car, on your desk, on your night stand). You can use it as a key to open doors or locks (bikes). You can transfer your contact information to someone by touching phones together. And so much more.

    It’s a universal way to communicate (very) short distances, with the unique property that the reading device can provide power to the item being read if needed. Not a lot of power, but no batteries needed at all for the passive side in many cases.


  • Doable, not practical. Another major concern is the induced dizziness and general discomfort from such a small circumference. If you stand up straight, your head moves significantly slower than your feet. There are more effects that humans don’t do well with.

    In addition keep in mind that this implies significant mechanical complexity the moment you don’t rotate the whole craft, but only a section or ring. If you do rotate all of it, simple tasks like taking a photo become… cumbersome.

    Also like others have said, it’s not a permanent residence for anyone, and the main goal of the ISS is the study of low- or micro-gravity.








  • If you’re using a keepass database, Keepass2Android can natively sync with many cloud options including self hosted and generic ones, even without specific “companion” apps. That’s what I use. In my case, it’s backed by my NextCloud, but it used to be Google drive before.

    Just also sync the file on your PC, merging changes from different clients is part of the keepass database format and “just works”.

    Also VaultWarden works great if your can self host it, but I prefer keepass for a variety of features and integrations.


  • Yeah, they do need to clean up the installer a bit. It’s also not quite turnkey for a Windows dual-boot.

    Mind letting us know why or how? When I installed it almost a year ago on my desktop, I did install it as a dual boot option with no issues. Of course this doesn’t mean there aren’t issues I just didn’t run into. I’m also not new to Linux and didn’t pick a fully default install, if that makes a difference. So I could’ve probably fixed it if it did break, but it never gave me any issues.

    The only thing that I dislike, and that could probably cause issues, is that for my installation the mount point for the efi/boot partition isn’t specified in fstab using a uuid, but using the device name (which isn’t fixed and can change with hardware changes). That is a very weird (and unnecessary) decision IMHO.




  • No because that’s not how Android works. If the app is updated, it is also closed and from that point on you’ll have the new version. If you’re using it while it is updating in the background, it’ll literally just disappear.

    But i did check in the store to make sure it’s updated. I also manually force closed it just to convince you. Option is still there.

    To be clear it’s in the tab overview, where you see all your open tabs. For me there’s the ‘…’ menu in the top right, and it’s in there, as it always has been. But it looks different from your screenshot, I dunno where that was taken.