I guess we really need some law that makes it possible to buy a car and opt-out completely for any data transmission from the car to anybody. This is what happens if the data once is collected:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b00.DzhQ.GXkvg-kgWebx&smid=url-share

I'd wish that @noybeu@mastodon.social would look into this. Transformation to electric driving (if driving cars is needed at all) is important, but all the electric cars I looked at seem to inevitably send data to their manufacturer.

When doing the #deskhop to share keyboard/mouse between my #Librem5 and my notebook on the Librem5 still the on-screen keyboard (#osk) keeps popping up and takes away part of the small screen.

This can be disabled through gsettings but doing so each time when I place the phone beside my notebook is tiresome.

So I recovered some old proof of concept I had made, tested it and packaged it:

switch-keyboard installs an #udev rule that triggers when an external keyboard is connected and disables the osk. On disconnect it re-enables the osk and there is an entry for the menu included to just toggle the keyboard on and off just in case you're left without #osk after disconnecting an external keyboard.

@white_gecko@chaos.social guessed it already: It's a really cute hardware hack called the #deskhop.

Everything you need to know to build a #deskhop can be found in its repository.

The parts you'll need are easily found and the pcb can be manufactured using the provided files.

Or you could look for a complete set of parts on flohmarkt.

#Librem5 and notebook sharing the same keyboard and mouse.

Moving the mouse over the edge of the screen into the direction of the other device brings the mouse focus to the other device - just like moving the mouse between displays in a dual screen setup.

The keyboard focus follows. It is like a kvm that is controlled by the mouse position.

Let's #deskhop!

Let's practice some #smd #soldering. #pcb​s still missing, but on their way.

Looking for a #USBc #hub #OpenHardware design with the following features:

• 1 usb-c power in for a usb-c pd power supply
• 1 usb-c connector to connect to a device
  • that consumes pd power (5V / 3A)
  • that connects to the other ports of the hub
• 2 usb-a ports powered from the hub to connect keyboard, mouse or a memory stick

If possible (would be extremely nice):

• a third usb-c connection to connect some usb-c device like a smartcard reader, simple memory stick, etc. (wouldn't need pd)

Any suggestions?

Note to myself: to regenerate a config file in #packetfence use

pfcmd service <service> generateconfig

afterwards it could be restarted by

pfcmd service <service> restarting

Restarting a service using pfcmd service always recreates the configuration from the templates.

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