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The Devuan guys are also maintaining a bunch of the non systemd packages in Debian. And Debian says they’re fine having non systemd but any work needed to make openrc etc viable fa…

Taxes are paid through an extra registration fee. Cost saving comes from lower running costs. https://electrek.co/2020/07/10/california-starts-charging-ev...

Here’s direct link to pre launch page: https://www.crowdsupply.com/milkv/milk-v-pioneer Specs are easier to read than article and there’s links to source code

Looks like Coreboot support for 5000 series landed recently: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Open-Source-FW-2023

Firmware updates for the BIOS, Embedded Controller and SSD are just a click away with the power of the LVFS. Pretty awesome to see this become more common.

Interesting… How will I make a return on my investment, and when? Under the terms of our Series B, our (pre-money) valuation is $585M. If we have a successful exit in the future (l…

You’ll find people frustrated with Prusa too. There was a whole discord dedicated to trying to fix all issues. People act like having the power supply die, bed probe not being reli…

Also have maps for au, ca and mx. Maps for this month just got posted.

It’s a mismatch between OSM’s address format and the normal address format. Osmand does basic string matching for search so it only finds exact matches. You search for 108 1st st P…

You’re looking for wine https://www.winehq.org/ . Proton is built on top of wine.

Some context I found: https://library.oregonstate.edu/osu-psu-and-uo-libraries-ini... >To this end, all three institutions would like to reduce our spend with Elsevier by half of t…

Almost everything is manual unless an import for an area is happening. Imports require a bunch of documentation and notifications before the data gets pulled in. The data is typica…

I’m sure what you’re saying happens. There’s 1000s of packages with maintainers of varying skill. That said the track record speaks for itself. I can only remember one time a maint…

Generally, distros supply security updates. For example, Debian picks a version for a release and makes sure it has security updates for the entire release. Sometimes this requires…

Addresses in OSM are in expanded format eg 100 south 35th street. What you’re entering is likely 100 s 35th st. Osmand looks for exact string matches so it won’t find the address.

For maps, You should add Organic maps. People tend to like the UI more than OsmAnd. Personally, I use OsmAnd with custom map files for better address coverage: https://github.com/p…

FYI startpage got bought by an ad tech company.

First thing I get is 2 pop ups. An ad for the app at the top and a second covering the page in Czech. All the comments are positive for an ad riddled czech maps site?

Use better map files. https://github.com/pnoll1/osmand_map_creation