pelya

I guess that phone would use eSim, so no slot is needed.

This needs some simple hardware trigger, that can be queried by bootloader, but specific wnough so it won’t trigger in your pocket. If buttons are unavailable, I can propose several idead:

• Cover the proximity sensor 10 times per second. Requires good motor skills.
• Shine separated red, green, and blue lasers into three of the phone cameras. You’ll need a box with three different-colored LEDs to cover cameras module.
• There is a low-speed data channel in wireless chargers. Just add the button to the charger instead of the phone.
• Put your phone at exactly 2.5G of acceleration. Accelerometer is easy to use even from the bootloader, however you will need to put your phone in a centrifuge and reboot it while it’s rotating.
• An option ‘Reboot into recovery’ in system settings, duh. Won’t help if your ROM fails to boot.

Where’s My Water

It does not require great screen-tapping skills, characters are designed by Disney, and it’s premium.

At this point russians target whatever will make bigger news. If putin cannot make other countries respect his power, he’ll at least show everyone how unhinged he is.

Considering how the plans for the counterattack were leaked by everyone and their mom last year, this time they did the right thing with secrecy.

It’s just bots bypassing bot filter. Most platforms now restrict activity of new user accounts to combat spam, so bot farms create new accounts, create some spam posts, wait two-three months until these accounts become unrestricted, then post some political ads en masse.

“How do we make a 7-feet-long blade with a 25-foot-long edge?”

You also have CLOCK_MONOTONIC, which could or could not be the number of seconds since last reboot.

To be honest, this mess was directly inherited from POSIX C system calls.

“Lays out a girthy steaming log in the CPU performance graph”

It’s the Secret Service of Ukraine. Dissidents don’t join the Secret Service in the first place, and the people ‘purged’ got treason charges.

No one does firing squad nowadays. It’s either poison or defenestration.

Nope. They don’t care about privacy, as long as there’s no lawsuit.

TIL someone ported the collection of classic Linux screen savers to Android.

I’m in the same boat, I have (or rather had) published a few Android games which I don’t have time to update anymore, and Google had been unpublishing them one by one.

Debian 12. It just works, except for buggy Wayland, thankfully KDE still supports Xorg.

Baptise

Nah, russia used their only opportunity for a blitzkrieg in 2022. Now they have kilometers of minefields in every piece of land they try to capture. Blitzkrieg only works on unprepared opponent.

For example, don’t ever say you use Windows here lest a whole horde of people jump in to call you an idiot for not having switched to Linux

Just copy Linux Mint onto an USB stick. No need to boot it, you hang it around your neck like a cross, and display it to raging pinguinoids to pacify them.

I am using Debian, in case you were wondering.

Tasker script to turn on your screen and launch the app.

Laptop has keyboard, you can type your password with the same speed as pressing your finger and waiting for it to unlock.

Most casual users won’t even know that their laptop has a fingerprint sensor.

When a company needs a proper security, they buy every user a hardware token like Yubikey.

But most of all, it comes down to the tradition. Manufacturers won’t add fingerprint scanner because users do not demand firgerprint scanner. Users do not demand fingerprint scanner because they are used to have no fingerprint scanner. Try removing a fingerprint scanner from a phone, you’ll see your sales drop like a brick.