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  • Mountaineer@aussie.zonetoLinux@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    5 months ago

    I can’t think of a standalone gui app that does this (and a simple google search didn’t find one).
    If you have a gui desktop (gnome,kde,xfce,lxqt,enlightenment,budgie…) it will have a built in function in it’s settings to do this, or leverage one of the parent ones (ie budgie is based on gnome, lxqt on kde).
    If your custom environment is pared down to the point where you don’t have an equivalent to gnome-system-tools and don’t want to install it, you might have to just use date at the command line.





  • I agree and use Signal myself.
    But people like the extra features of WhatsApp like desktop/web clients with seamless history sync and all the other little things that WhatsApp provides.
    The average Joe doesn’t even think about security or privacy, they just know that the results of using WhatsApp are superior than using SMS.
    iMessage is a non starter everywhere out of the US, it just doesn’t have the market penetration.
    As an Australian, no one I know (many of whom own iPhones) talk about the blue-green bubble stuff.
    They recognise where the fault lies and simply don’t use the app.




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    10 months ago

    Funnily enough, I’ve got a few friends who are long time iPhone users, who actually point this stuff out themselves:

    “OMG! Have you seen the eye watering price of the new one?”
    “Yay, I finally get stuff you’ve had for years.”

    Neither party would ever consider anything else, and they both buy the new model every year. 🤷

    At this point I admit that my reasons for choosing Android all those years ago no longer exist or matter, but I can’t imagine changing ecosystem either.




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    1 year ago

    If you need to use windows because of a software issue, not a hardware issue, you’re probably best off running windows in a VM.
    That way your linux install is making the WPA3 connection, and as far as the Windows install is concerned, it’s on a wired lan.
    This has the added benefit of not having to reboot, you just always start linux and turn the windows VM on and off as required.








  • I don’t think it’s strictly compliant, although they claim to have based it’s syntax on Korn shell, which is the strictest definition of POSIX shells.

    You can do pretty much everything in powershell that you can do in something like bash BUT, it will be done slightly differently, so trying to make a script cross compatible is pointless (you might as well just write it natively in powershell etc).

    Powershell isn’t inherently bad, unlike bash for instance which just allows piping out text output, Powershell can pass around true .net objects.
    But if what you’re looking for is cross OS compatability, you’re pushing shit uphill.

    99.9% of the time, I open powershell and just ssh into a “real” linux box.