Cris_Citrus

If it makes you feel any better, we were on a very bad course and if theres hope it’s gonna meaningfully change, this kind of catastrophic moment might be the only realistic way that actually happens

Sending love and hugs from a neighbor, take care of youself :)

I’m just using fedora with gnome at the moment. And I control it with antimicro x. Though the gnome extension I liked best for typing on screen with the mouse isn’t available on the latest version of gnome. A Bluetooth keyboard would be nice.

(Technically right now I more often just use it as a second display for my laptop with an HDMI cable running across the living room and don’t bother with the controller, using the trackpad and keyboard. But it was working nice also when I left my laptop plugged in sitting below the TV :)

I appreciate you sitting through all of this for our benefit :)

I wanna see mamdani be successful but I’m wary of putting politicians up on a pedestal as our saviors and hope, as I’m learning from my elder leftists that thats gone wrong a lot of times before 😅

Still rooting for him though :)

Interesting, I was sometimes kinda curious how they compared in that regard!

If you wanted to expand on that I’d be curious to hear your thought and experience on how things compare, but I appreciate you sharing that take ☺️

I’m not sure their like bananapi based router would be considered professional. More home tinkerer

I’m not sure what that’ll mean for the impact of this change, but I guess we’ll see 🤷🏻‍♂️

It sounds like you should still be able to buy stuff, I don’t believe it takes active effect immediately

I hope things like hardware made by/for openwrt remain available, but it sounds like they will cease to be?

My first thought was the risk of the us demanding us manufacturers include a backdoor

It sounds like the exemption for foreign companies is an option while they create plans for american manufacturing

I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t immediately register the joke. But at least from the slew of down votes I can tell I’m not alone in being a little bit dumb 😅

Neither of those sources really disagree with what I said, though I do appreciate you adding the additional context because those things are worth knowing about

Smart speaker research: Security researchers have documented potential vulnerabilities in smart speakers and voice assistants.

• Mobile security: Documented cases of spyware accessing device microphones have been reported.

• Enterprise security: Organizations have reported incidents involving unauthorized audio access.

• Application permissions: Studies have shown some applications requesting unnecessary microphone access.

None of those are really the widespread, passive, undisclosed listening for advertising data that people imagine there to be and that OP appeared to be asking about. The google and apple lawsuit is about google assistant and siri triggering unintentionally, which is a feature that discloses its always listening which I mentioned at the very beginning

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/facebook-doesnt-need-listen-through-your-microphone-serve-you-creepy-ads old article but the eff is pretty reputable

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/features/no-your-iphone-isnt-listening-to-you-heres-but-the-truth-is-even-worse/ from 2025

Aside from devices that acknowledge theyre listening all the time there actually isnt any, for undisclosed data collection via microphone specifically. Research has, to my knowledge, never found that to be the case

Researchers have generally explained that they dont need to listen to what you say with a microphone- they collect so much data about you they can accurately model what you’re likely to have any interest in, and when that happens frequently enough confirmation bias takes over.

That being said, yes, that person is having all of their data collected, by meta directly and through cookies tracking them around the web. By google and android. By ai, and other companies. By the tracking images in the emails they open. Etc. Theres lots of evidence for all of those things

And there is evidence for companies having collected data that people didnt concent to, like when google tracked location data that people opted out of sharing (there was a lawsuit) or meta recently ended up in the news for circumventing the sandboxing around the Facebook app to collect mobile web activity in a way they’re not supposed to be able to.

What are fedora and opensuse based on?

I was trying to contribute some other options since the entire thread is like 50 people saying “some electrical tape will fix it” 😅

If the setting is saved by the drive you could set it on a windows machine and then switch it back to linux.

I’m not sure if wine for running whatever the window utility youre thinking of is would work for controlling an external device like that

Any chance you might publish it for firefox? I feel like I might prefer this over what I use now

Either way, super cool and thanks for sharing what you make with us ☺️

If I’m not mistaken that guy completely left the project like a while back now. Hasnt been involved in any way for a hot minute

Hi, I have a lot of experience dealing with sleep issues (in treatment for a severe circadian rhythm disorder for 10 years and used to have insomnia additonally)

If you haven’t also made changes to improve sleep hygiene, its like the absolute #1 most important thing with insomnia (having a consistent bedtime is an excellent start. If not the case already, try to create a consistent routine around sleep. Dont spend any time in bed not asleep- don’t do any of your daytime activities in bed, sex usually being considered an exception, don’t get into bed until sleepy, if you can’t fall asleep within ~30min, get up and do something to wind down again and try again once sleepy. If you wake up and can’t fall back asleep, do the same. When you wake up in the morning get out of bed as quickly as you can rather than relaxing in bed, a comfortable chair and blankets close to bed that you can move to help make that easier)

Sleep hygiene is a term you can look up for more info, its the most important starting place for insomnia if you’re not already attending to it.

Also, you should know that the correct dosage for melatonin is generally considered about .5mg taken (I believe) 3h before you want to sleep. I currently take .3mg/300mcg from Carlyle medicine on amazon, they’ve seemed to be the lowest cost option for low dose when I’ve looked

I say I believe because for my sleep disorder research now points to taking it even earlier, 5-8h before sleep, but I don’t think thats applicable to insomnia, just circadian rhythm disorders

Something I’ve been finding a lot of success with lately is a warm shower before bed. Your circadian rhythm is primarily regulated by light, but temperature also plays a big role, both internal and external temp. In the evening your internal body temp will peak a couple hours before bedtime and then start to decrease. This is a que that its time for you to sleep. When you take a warm shower it increases bloodflow to your extremities and once you get out that bloodflow to the outer edges of your body actually causes you to shed heat, helping your body temperature decrease. It seems like research generally points to 1-2h before bed for maybe like 15min, but research on specifics of how and when is most helpful is still ongoing and not totally concrete. And I saw the comment from a doctor somewhere that wearing socks would hinder your ability to cool down this way which makes sense so I try not to cover my hands or feet when I get out. I find it doesn’t need to be that far in advance of bedtime to be helpful for me

The last thing I’ll mention is that in some cases the circadian rhythm disorder “Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder/Syndrome” (DSPD/DSPS) can look like insomnia, and will generally be different in that if you try to maintain a delayed scheduled sleep will get easier, as the problem is actually that your body’s circadian rhythm is delayed, so its hard to get to bed when you expect to be able to. Sleep apnea can also sometimes look like insomnia. Seeing a good sleep provider to rule out other explanations or identify if there’s more going on there may be a good idea if the issue persists.

Sending love and hugs my friend, sleep issues are fucking miserable 🫂 I’m rooting for you, good luck. If you have any questions about things I’ve said feel free to ask

Well thats sickening

Jesus Christ. Thank you for the context, I completely missed rhat

Someone used Nintendo IP to advertise fascism?

That was fantastic