I intentionally broke audio output of #Mozilla #Thunderbird and #Firefox:

https://chrichri.ween.de/o/e65a99d0fd024803b9cf59e0bd6da85a

Lately I found that I'd sometimes like to click on audio content people are sharing. I do and somehow expectedly I can't hear what Firefox starts playing.

Found OpenWith which allows to open an URL through its context menu with any configured external program.

Now I can open links to a lot of content by using FreeTube.

Just registered an un-official #matrix room for #packetfence.

https://matrix.to/#/!lZIzquHjbvBkogyIhq:matrix.org?via=librem.one&via=matrix.org

This #PowerSupply just broke. It stopped working one day without smoke or smell.

It has been connected to a 12V lamp which it could dim. Beside being most times switched on and off by a switchable wall socket touching the lamp a short time switched the light also. Holding the lamps case made the lamp dim down, back up, down again and so on.

I'm not an electrical engineer, but I know some very basic of the parts I can find inside the device.

How would I go about trying to figure out why this thing stopped working and maybe repair it by exchanging some of its components?

A good reason to not like #gitlab is there use of #cloudflare. With my #firefox and its cookie settings and blockers I can't log in, because cloudflare can't check the "security of my connection".

#NewZealand stopping #smokingBan - some thoughts:

• #smoking gives most governments tax income
• follow-up costs of smoking are covered by health insurances and/or individual cost for #health care
• smoking often goes along with average lower education and/or psychological problems getting off addictive substances (or not starting with them at all)

To put it together my impression is that politics are corrupted by the tax income from selling cigarettes. The additional tax money is paid by people needing help, because they do not understand how bad smoking is for there health or they are not able to get away from the #addiction by themself. For each Cent tax incoming from cigarettes politics are willing to let shareholders of cigarette companies take their share. All the bill in the end is paid by the health systems.

This all seems like a scheme to take money out of the health system and divert it to shareholders and tax.

The suffering of the people getting ill from smoking is not even part of this equation.

I bet taking a closer look at who pays most of the costs for smoking by money and lifetime and who gains from the things financed by states with the additional tax money does even paint a darker picture.

That the dividend paid to shareholders can only make the riches richer is the obvious part.

real security would mean implementing proper two factor authentication instead of running two apps on the same phone and calling that two factor authentication

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https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/discussion/2024-February/013383.html

Just to mention it:

Updated a Sony Z3c running #CarbonROM and upgraded a tablet running #LineageOS. Thanks for all the people who build these systems!

It took me about two hours to

• get the backup on the Sony working in twrp with a sdcard
• do full system backups
• update CarbonROM manually, because the reboot into recovery doesn't work
• getting a stable usb connection to the tablet by rotating ports, cables and orientations of the plugs
• install a newer version of recovery.img on the tablet
  • needed to recap how this is done in Linux using heimdall
• install the newer LineageOS via adb sideload

Looking back at the process I prefer much upgrading my #Librem5 and I need to get back to the idea of getting a #Librem11 to get rid of the dependency on the LineageOS tablet.

Note to myself:

When I want to start my Sony #z3c installed with #CarbonROM in #recovery mode I need to to switch it off, disconnect usb and then push and hold volume-down and power together until I see #twrp starting.

remember:

• disconnect usb
• shutdown / switch-off the phone
• press and hold volume-down and power button …
• …until you see twrp booting

Don't try adb, don't try rebooting from CarbonROM into twrp - you didn't get it to work the last time you tried

Note to myself to remember:

If I delete/change/add Active Directory Domains in #packetfence I need to make sure that in REALMS the changes are reflected.

Otherwise an #802dotX authentication attempt using wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/packetfence-demo.conf -D wired -i ens192 might end with EAP-TLV: TLV Result - Failure.

Uhm, I'm listening to #InternetRadio using my #Librem5 while on my #notebook at my desk. Why?

There's this bug letting pipewire-pulse fail, because too many connections are open.

I didn't find a way to have the #Shortwave #Flatpak play directly using pipewire.

Nice to have the same software stack on my mobile phone which now is connected to my usb speakers.

#flohmarkt - a lot of improvement!

It is really nice to see that during the last few days

• irc channel #flohmarkt started on Libera.Chat
• the flohmarkt repository has been re-organized to let volunteers write to the wiki
• the activity on open issues increased immensely

This would be a dream come true to have an open and decentralized small ads market place.