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bluetooth earbuds - privacy? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] take6056 1 points 16 hours ago

I think there's 2 potential issues with earbuds, the Bluetooth connection itself and/or a pairing app for the buds.

As for the Bluetooth connection, I've never read about security concerns. I don't think recent versions of Bluetooth are at risk of leaking data. They might be somewhat leaky in metadata (which devices are sending signals at all).

The pairing app poses imo a larger risk. These apps are usually proprietary and might be trying hard to get information. That's a risk with any app that requests many permissions, though. A simple solution would be to not use the pairing app. Or you might look into compatibility of your device with Gadgetbridge, which is open source. https://gadgetbridge.org/

Redirect on mobile in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] take6056 3 points 1 week ago

Not sure if this fits your usecase exactly, but LinkSheet can make redirection on android more configurable.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/fe.linksheet

Photons in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] take6056 8 points 1 month ago

For photons, their moving relatively slow from the inside to the outside of the sun. Although, I think, it's technically a bunch of photons bumping each other into existence.

Open source phone in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] take6056 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wikipedia is financially pretty stable, afaik. Not saying you shouldn't donate, but you might want to look into what happens with it. It won't necessarily be used to cover costs of running the website.

GPD G1 Review: Compact AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT GPU gives your PC a graphics boost - Liliputing in c/hardware@lemmy.world
[–] take6056 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

For $600, you might as well build a PC with an RX 7600 XT.

Happy anniversary in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] take6056 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There's really only one way to make sure no new ones come to be...

What's your favourite it's all in the gameplay game? in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] take6056 5 points 3 months ago

Found out a year ago OpenRCT adds multiplayer support. Started a campaign with my sister as we've played it a lot as kids. Great fun for a Sunday every once in a while.

AMD & HDMI 2.1 in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] take6056 1 points 3 months ago

In retrospect, I have noticed. Thought it was badly compressed content.

AMD & HDMI 2.1 in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] take6056 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's not the adapter I bought, but also seems VRR is lacking:

"VRR/G-Sync/FreeSync are not supported."

Have you experienced otherwise?

AMD & HDMI 2.1 in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] take6056 3 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I would kindly ask the HDMI forum to point me in the direction of a DP to HDMI adapter that supports VRR or FreeSync. They seem so motivated to gain more funds from royalties, surely they know how to persuade me.

AMD & HDMI 2.1 in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] take6056 1 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Thanks for the tip. It says YCbCr420. Anything I can do to improve that?

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AMD & HDMI 2.1 (self.linux_gaming)
 

So, I bought an RX 7600 XT, when I was still using my 10 year old TV. Recently upgraded to an LG C4, reading the news about AMD support for HDMI 2.1 on Linux, I also went looking for a DP->HDMI adapter and found one that claims to even support VRR. After a week of getting random audio cuts, suspecting the adapter was at fault, I went pure HDMI...

To my surprise, I could run at 4K 120hz with VRR and HDR. Doesn't that require HDMI 2.1?

Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? in c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
[–] take6056 2 points 4 months ago

I've read about the lightning reversal before I knew he would use it, so I know what to try. The one time I had the opportunity, I timed it completely wrong, jumped too early and was on the ground again by the time it struck.

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Question about WiFi speeds (self.homenetworking)
 

TLDR: Why do so many routers support >1Gbit/s on their WiFi while only having 1Gbit/s ethernet interfaces?

So, I've been upgrading parts of my home setup and have a router (without AP) that has 2.5G interfaces. My PC also has a 2.5G interface, but that only going to the router is kinda useless (the ISP offers 1G).

The place my PC is at is also a good position for an AP. So, I went looking for a cheap second hand wifi router and stumbled upon quite a few that were boasting >1G connection speeds, not only AX but also AC. Now I know this is often a combined theoretical Max, but still a lot offer >1G for the single band.

The vast majority of these routers, though, have 1G Ethernet ports. Putting that between my PC and router reduces that linkspeed and I can't actually reach over 1G for the WiFi devices as well. Why would you sell a product like that. Undoubtedly those radio's were more expensive but their in a package that can't fully utilize them. I can think of some reasons: marketing, radio's are mostly not fully utilized anyways, helps with latency, maybe?

Does anyone know why it's done like this?

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RL update frequency and size on linux (self.rocketleague)
 

I recently reinstalled RL after not playing for 2 years, running Linux for my gaming pc these days. Almost every time I open up steam, there's a multi gigabyte rocket league update. Is that normal? Can I play without updating every time?

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I don't own a Steam Deck (feddit.nl)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by take6056 to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
9 comments fedilink
 

Apparently my setup, running the steam deck UI for gaming on my TV, is registering as an actual steam deck. Also unfortunate that the non steam games don't count, but hopefully next year this will be all purple/blue.

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Download PDF with browser provided pdf renderer (self.webdev)
 

TLDR; Does anyone know if there's an initiative to use the pdf rendering engines built into most browsers and used while printing a web page in more flexible ways? Ideally from javascript being able to get the pdf as a File.

I've been looking into download as pdf functionality we implemented at work. It's for a single project, relatively small, so we implemented it with html2pdf.js. There seems to be no better way than rendering the webpage as canvas and saving as an image inside PDF. Although I'm thankful that the project exists, with the lack of text selection, poor image quality and/or large file sizes, it feels bad serving it to the customer. Then I started to look into the printed version and I loved it. Learned some new stuff about css, being able to break a page before a specific element. Tables automatically repeat their header across a page break. I can also save this as pdf, better quality, 40x reduction in file size, yay! However, web api to start this is print(), no arguments, no alternatives. Putting this behind a "Download" buttons seems confusing for the end user. I'm amazed we can't use this built in pdf rendering engine in more flexible ways. (See TLDR for question)

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