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> For me a board-game is offline time.

That's fair but not universal. Plenty of communities exist around playing board games online and often that's the only way to meet players of equal strength or run large tournaments.


Sure, but then maybe it should be two models; one with WiFi for adult gaming, and one that is 100% offline safe model for kids to play with. With the added advantage that the SD card based games can be managed by parents to help manage 'game time'.


I was just going to recommend boardspace.net here! It also somewhat recently went open source: https://github.com/ddyer0/boardspace.net

It clearly is stuck in the Java Applet era where it started but Dave eventually made an Android port and modern Java has no issues running it!


For me Tectonic[1] solved many of the issues I had with LaTeX, so that's what I'd recommend if you still depend on LaTeX as a language. Make sure to use the V2 CLI (`tectonic -X`) which comes with convenient features like watch mode. With vim and evince (or any PDF viewer that auto refreshes) open I get a similar real-time experience to popular online editors like Overleaf, but in the comfort of my own editor.

[1] https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/


"USB-C 2.0" in the specs reveals that. DisplayPort Alt Mode requires at least USB 3.0, the PinePhone Pro would be a Linux phone supporting that.

On another note, I've successfully connected to wireless displays (Miracast) on Linux using https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-network-displays


> "USB-C 2.0" in the specs reveals that. DisplayPort Alt Mode requires at least USB 3.0, the PinePhone Pro would be a Linux phone supporting that.

That's not quite accurate IMHO, as the OG PinePhone also supports the feature, despite being USB 2.0. The fact that PINE64 only got it working in PinePhone hardware revision 1.2a maybe also reveals why few phones (whether they support USB 2 or 3.*, e.g., the Pixel 8 was the first Pixel phone to support the feature) actually support DisplayPort Alt Mode: It does not just add cost for parts, but also makes the design more complicated (and may require multiple design iterations to get right, which are expensive).

So: If DisplayPort Alt Mode or somthing like "USB-C video out" is not mentioned, you can usually safely assume that the device does not support it.


KDE connect lets you disable/configure individual plugins, just disable the "Clipboard sync". I don't think it can by itself figure out that you're copying a password, at least across UI toolkits. FWIW most toolkits and browsers don't actually copy from a password input anyway.


When you talk about images over HTTP, you need to consider most web servers and browsers already support zstd compression on the transport, so the potential bandwidth win provided by zstd is already being made use of today.


I'm not sure how that's relevant for a new "ZPNG" format vs. lossless WebP?


Given how many platforms these have been ported to, this really is the DOOM of puzzle apps. I've been using this PocketBook port on my e-reader for years: https://github.com/SteffenBauer/PocketPuzzles


Nice, I’d love to get one just to play it.and I guess battery life must be great.


I gave up on finding a <6" with my requirements (audio jack, microSD, USB-C display) and can use my 6.1" Xperia 5 III reasonably well with one hand using a MomoStick. Other smartphone ring attachments exist but this one acts as a stand as well.


Right? It would be the single most useful feature for me. Unfortunately my device doesn't have libavf which seems to be needed for this to work. I don't even need 3d acceleration, a simple debian VM with docker would make me happy already.


I recently set up an arm64 VPS at netcup: https://www.netcup.com/en/server/arm-server Got it with no location fee (and 2x storage) during the easter sale but normally US is the cheapest.


That's pretty cheap. I have 4 vCPUs, 8GB RAM, 80GB disk, and 20TB traffic for €6. NetCup looks like it has 6VCPU, 8GB RAM, 256 GB, and what looks like maybe unlimited traffic for €5.26. That's really good. And it's in the US, where I am, so SSH would be less painful. I'll have to think about possibly switching. Thanks for the heads up.


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