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talhah

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About talhah

I'm Talhah, a senior studying CS at Carnegie Mellon University. You can email me via talhah@cmu.edu

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Socials: - linkedin.com/in/talhah-peerbhai - github.com/tvlpirb

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    Comment #41605474

    You can disable the deb check by putting "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true in your configuration file and just let your package manager update it

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    Comment #41327230

    Everyone has different threat models, vulnerable people don't need to use such a feature, assuming that it's all local and implemented perfectly. It should also be opt out by defau…

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    Comment #40606628

    I can see the guys at System76 filling in this gap. They have excellent hardware and their own PopOS is really user friendly for newcomers. Gaming support is also pretty decent pai…

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    Comment #39985989

    They actually reverse engineered Apple's iMessage and released a POC. At the time it worked and demonstrated on device bridges being a possibility. The runs locally and then encryp…

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    Comment #39805625

    There's a setting to disable it actually. This should do the trick. misc { disable_hyprland_logo = true }

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    Comment #39790433

    This is quite a basic feature which should be inbuilt to the Immich mobile app. It's a common use case to want your screenshots, WhatsApp media album to not be displayed on the mai…

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    Comment #39785051

    Immich on mobile doesn't give you much flexibility with where each local folder gets uploaded to yet so it doesn't preserve folder structure. If you're using the CLI you can progra…

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    Comment #39784729

    > This is moot. Immich fully supports external libraries. You're correct, Immich does support external libraries. To be more elaborate with my original comment, I meant inbuilt app…

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    Comment #39784439

    As easy as downloading an app from the store and telling it which directory to work with. If you need the AI features those require separate apps and depending on your deployment i…

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    Comment #39784383

    The main thing to me was that since this runs on Nextcloud its more extensible as the photos are just stored under the files and you can use various other apps to do what your hear…

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    Comment #39713347

    If you're on a Pixel 7 and upwards or the latest Samsung phones there's also circle to search by holding the home button down. The OCR works quite well including English, Russian, …

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    Comment #39669666

    Do things such as Gcam and Google Pay work? The two major things I need from my phone is good camera quality and being able to use Google Pay which is useful where I'm at.

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    Comment #39663004

    While your point is understandable there are various types of people. An important aspect about user experience is aesthetic and ease of use. Some people care purely about function…

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    Comment #39168231

    I've found that Anki is better for my needs since I'm usually on the go and use my mobile significantly more to consume any content. I think there's a lot of other users in a simil…

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    Comment #39077582

    And if you're using fish shell, you can start a private session with fish --private or fish -P for short

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    Comment #39004369

    Is this algorithm also available on mobile?

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    Comment #38851605

    I'd recommend you to look at Fever API since alot of different aggregators support it and its well documented. Best way to reach as many people as possible as well.

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    Comment #36297770

    In addition to this site, I'd also highly recommend this resource. https://theprivacyguide1.github.io/linux_hardening_guide

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    Comment #36296944

    Would also like to add in this resource which is pretty in-depth. https://theprivacyguide1.github.io/linux_hardening_guide

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    Comment #36283244

    My personal gripe with lemmy is the lack of decent mobile clients.

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    Comment #36115246

    Bleeding edge arch linux user here, I've barely come across any major bugs in the last couple of years. Whenever I find something I do report it and it usually gets fixed really qu…

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    Comment #36093497

    Does anyone here actually use SML for production or know of big projects (outside of academia) which uses it? Compared to other functional langauges, it doesn't seem as popular.