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  • Ah yeah, it’s just a translucent overlay slapped on top of everything. It’s the fallback option when nothing else works.

    Lots of apps that advertise lowering screen brightness below 0% just do that, so I thought that’s what you mean.

    There is also a way to properly filter the colors, which doesn’t discolor things as badly, but I believe you need root for that, or for it to be built into the OS, like the “Extra Dim” option that various ROMs have.

    I guess, there might also be ROMs where the manufacturer decided to limit how low you can set the brightness via the UI, even though the hardware would accept lower values. In that case, yeah, try what @hexagonwin@lemmy.today posted with writing to that file via ADB.
    Maybe you can also do that via Termux somehow, if you’ve got root on your device.





  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Quality Software
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    Anyone using the national domain registrar? Does it only resolve nationally, if you buy from there, as the article implies…?

    But you want your domain over the world. Cool, do you have enough clients to need this? Then you can hire a person in each country to buy you a domain from the local registry.

    I’ve been interested in getting a domain name, but it always just felt like a scam to pay a monthly fee for an entry in a database. If the national registrar is good enough, that would be cool.

    Although, I guess, if it is not, I’d at least still be somewhat more at peace with that, since it would mean the intermediate company actually does something…





  • Well, politics isn’t about finding the one principle to rule them all. The folks/companies that find restricting access to children important, probably don’t particularly care about some Linux devices being excluded. And other folks/companies find not restricting their Linux server really important, so that’s a compromise that can be made.

    I imagine, they landed on specifically open-source being excluded as the more abstract rule, because open-source in particular has a problem here.
    Anyone can download open-source software and run it. In most cases, there is no central backend, which could handle age verification.

    And even if there is, it’s not really financially viable to offer that for anyone who downloads the software for free. Requiring payment to access the binaries or the source code would also effectively kill the open-source ecosystem, which is also not in the interest of most people.






  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Plasma 6.7
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, it should come with the next Fedora release, which is scheduled for October 20th.

    Feature updates, like this new Plasma version, get shipped every half year on Fedora. In between, you mostly just get security and bug fixes…




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    4 months ago

    Lots of folks also like the unmarketable names, because you know that it’s not a corporate project. You’re hearing about it, because it’s actually good, and not just because some startup got VC money to do marketing.

    Heck, the reverse is true as well. This project is better specifically because it has that name. You just know some transfemmes are tirelessly hacking away at it, because they enjoy the silly name.



  • AGPL is specifically for web services. For example, if Nextcloud were provided under the GPL, Amazon or the like could serve a modified version of Nextcloud without having to hand out their modifications. As far as the GPL is concerned, Amazon is the user and the software just happens to accept requests from the network.
    With AGPL, those who use the software over the network are also deemed users and therefore have the right to access the source code.