This… Might not be as helpful as you think it is… My dad died 6 months ago, and If someone asked me what his name was and then said ‘that’s a nice name’ I’d feel like it was a superficial and bad reaction. My father was a lot of things, and for someone to sum it up in ‘that’s a nice name’ as a form of sympathy would make me pause and struggle to find a response to such a… Simple and child-like response. I feel like that’s a response you could maybe get away with people’s pets, but not a human loved one.

This is what finally got me to switch to Linux years ago. Back when Virtual machines were relatively new I was messing around with them and hated having to scrounge for windows licenses to use in the VM’s. (Back then you had to enter the CD Key to begin installing the OS, they didn’t have trial periods, or ‘activate later’ options) started using Linux in VM’s to try it out, and boom 15 years later, I’m never going back.

Yeaaah… This has to have some catch because if not, this might finally be the phone I’ve been waiting for.

“Unfortunately, WiFi isn’t yet functional due to a firmware issue.”

Well, there’s one right there I guess, hopefully they can figure out the firmware.

With 12GB of ram, that’s absolutely more than enough to have waydroid running in the background with all the android apps I would need until the Linux app ecosystem catches up, and with mainline support, hopefully the battery life and hardware support won’t be absolutely abysmal.

I’ve never heard of this company or their previous phone, so I’m a little suspicious that their “13 exchangeable modules for the phone” are gonna have some showstopper catch in there. What are the modules for? Are we talking internal modules like soc and WiFi? Or external modules like what Motorola tried to do with an external camera modules and such?

Ahh , case in point, downvoters to the rescue.

Yup, yup. Really sick of having to defend a fact that a color is red, because someone else calls it magenta and now I have to go back and explain color theory and try to have an airtight persuasive argument to ‘win’ for something as obvious as a color… Or Trump…

I’ve experiences this on Lemmy and have blocked the hexbear instance, but probably just gonna give up on Lemmy too. I think I’m over talking to people (or bots? Who knows…) on the internet. It’s all bullshit anyway, politics, memes, advertising, blah, blah that doesn’t actually provide any meaning or positive things to my life. I was a passive observer of the internet for a long time before getting more active on reddit, and then Lemmy. I’m so tired of having to defend my opinions and people trying to start arguments out of nothing, and I don’t care enough to research political shit to provide a truly airtight argument before someone tears it apart, or whatever else other fight someone is trying to start on any given day. At one point I was arguing about something with someone, and we both had the same position: “Trump is bad”, but for some reason they were really going after me, even though we’re on the same side, because i was consuming “too much conspiracy news” thinking that the 2024 election was gonna get violent from Trump’s supporters. Really just over the social aspect of the internet in general, to be honest.

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Ports are just ways for applications to communicate data amongst themselves or other computers, networks, internet etc. They’re represented by a number, and there are well known standards for certain ports, like HTTP web traffic is most commonly over port 80, HTTPS encrypted web traffic is usually over port 443, etc.

The reason for ports is it allows the ability to lock down a computer or networked device from external communication (like computers on the same network, or the internet) and only allow certain applications to have outbound or inbound traffic and data communication, thus increasing security from malware, hackers, unwanted snooping, etc.

For example, by leaving the web browsing ports open, but blocking all other ports, you can communicate over the internet, but not share all of your images from your “Pictures” or “Documents” folders on your device, thus keeping you safe.

Every computing device, phone, tablet, etc has ports that can be opened and closed, even the Operating System running on your device, or even your router. When you’re reading articles about opening or blocking ports, its usually talking about how to open ports on your router so in incoming or outgoing application connection trying to communicate from/to internet and your computer can establish a connection through your routers and not be blocked. Or how to open those same ports on your Operating System, so the connection can be established from the internet, though your router, through your OS, to the application running on your computer. Ports are usually blocked by default, and you need to open them, though the standard ones (like web traffic, port 80, 443 are usually defaulted to open for convenience sake)

A VPN, is a Virtual Private Network, it allows you to create a network of computers or devices that aren’t actually on the same physical network. For example, we could make a VPN between your computer and mine, and they would be able to see each other, transfer files between themselves, etc, just like we were in the same home, on the same network. The VPN’s are established over a port, and use a port to communicate, so you’d most likely need to open the port on your router and computer Operating System to establish the connection.

Most of remote connections for business, are done through a VPN. When you work from home, but are able to see the internal resources from your company, a lot of times its achieved with a VPN.

The word “Private” in Virtual Private Network, means that that the connection is encrypted and people can’t see the traffic going between the devices in this ‘virtual network’ traveling over the internet. People can also use this to their advantage and use a VPN in other ways, such as hiding traffic from illegal behavior, such as hiding pirating movies and music, from their internet provider. Their computer is connected to a random server connected by the VPN, they go to the pirate bay, request to download a movie, the request comes from the other computer connected in the VPN, and is sent to their computer, with their internet provider being none-the-wiser. The internet provider (for example Comcast), can’t see their customer downloaded a movie illegally

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