A sort of related question, is the user able to actually power-off the baseband carrier chip and still keep the phone powered on? I seem to recall there being some 911 regulations around that topic. But it might be a way to enable the user to at least disable that tracking vector, while still using the phone offline or via wifi?
Additionally to what others have said LineageOS (Android open source OS) allows you to selectively turn on/off carrier modem and radio in quick settings just like you do for wifi, bluetooth, gps etc. You can use airplane mode which will by default turn off the carrier radio and wifi, of your can manually do this selectively.
This feature is called Flight Mode or Airplane Mode on most phones. You'll know if your phone implemented it this way because your battery life will go wayyyy up while in the mode.
You don't need an ID to buy a SIM in UK? I remember not needing one a long time ago but in recent years was asked for one.. maybe not a law? irregularly applied?
I think the regulations have some loopholes for domestic use, but one I don't know how they can really get around is for international roaming, as other countries have far stricter KYC laws.
Domestically you can buy a Tmobile or Cricket with a pre-paid visa cash card and a gmail address (no ID required), but they won't work outside the US.
Good luck! It's a tough sell and some people won't accept that there are people from the defense sector that really care about the Constitution. Transparency is proly your best friend. But once you sign a Qualcom or carrier NDA, you are pretty tied-up as far as open-sourcing things or transparency, I'd imagine. Still, keep up the good fight!
This is an very user-powerful feature. WHY the fuck would they disable it? It basically gives you two buffers, middle click for dynamic selection-paste. repetitive-chunks of text can use the more cumbersome ctl-c/v. I've been using this feature since before linux was a thing. When I teach it to young engineers now they find it quite useful. STOP trying to turn everything into a mimic of a damn smart phone OS!
Because it's one of the most annoying and unintuitive things the GNOME desktop has for anyone that isn't a power user. Almost every single user I've shown GNOME to was surprised or bothered by this being the default instead of the usual scrolling you'd see in Windows.
I personally dislike this feature a lot, and it's very common for me to middle-click paste accidentally, even after years of using Fedora Linux as my one and only operating system across all of my machines. I've previously used a Firefox extension to override this default, but was bothered by the fact that other applications would still just middle-click paste.
Not everyone is a power user. Not everyone has the same workflow as you. Decisions like these have to be taken based on what the target audience for a desktop wishes. Arguably, GNOME is absolutely not for power users (just take a look at how similar it is to the macOS desktop environment to notice that).
> Almost every single user I've shown GNOME to was surprised or bothered by this being the default instead of the usual scrolling you'd see in Windows.
Would be good to see a well designed survey on this.
To me, middle click for pasting is not a power feature, but something I thought most Linux/UNIX users knew. It was one of the first things I learned on a UNIX DE.
Second, who cares what the Windows default behavior is? Why is GNOME changing a mainstay of UNIX to be more like Windows? For the last 15 years, I've used Linux and Windows both - very heavily. I've never used middle click for scrolling. Seems like an eye candy feature and not intended to be useful.
I'm on a MacOS right now, and middle clicking to scroll is absent.
Also, power users are the ones who will find and change the setting - that's pretty much what being a power user means. Picking defaults that work for novices makes sense, even if that's slightly more inconvenient for me.
I think this whole discussion is based on an assumption that changing the default is part of an agenda to get rid of middle-click-paste entirely. I don't think it is.
A poll done by GNOME devs will largely be answered by people who are power users. Knowing your target audience is harder than just polling your users or taking telemetry (in this case, because telemetry normally excludes power users, since they will disable it).
I think it's just clear that the proposal of the GNOME desktop is to be pretty democratic, both in types of devices it can run on and the variety of users. The project gets a lot of shit for many decisions it takes (some of which I also disagree with), but I think changing this default is absolutely justified.
> Almost every single user I've shown GNOME to was surprised or bothered by this being the default instead of the usual scrolling you'd see in Windows.
Last time I played with Moremicro they didn't work with real 802.11s and had some hokey proprietary hierarchal tree topology that required a main basestation gateway. ad-hoc, peer-to-peer was broken. They finally fixed their driver?
I live in Chicago and it is a BIG city. I've seen, in real life, none of this. But the online reports are legion. I think, like a lot of things, you can choose what reality you want to inhabit and find anecdata online to support any of it. During the Obama adminstration the right wing whackos came up with theories about black helicopters and UN camps and the rest. This may be _slightly_ more factual as the Orange Troll is more purposefully playing a media game, but I'd still take these reports with a grain of salt.
I'm confused, is the assertion here that this is the first time silicon valley tech people and their companies got involved in partisan politics? Is it really short memory or selective memory?
The easiest, fastest way to hack this together would be a raspberry pi zero with a display hat. It'd be chunky, but it would keep all the TOTP shared secrets off of other less reliable devices.
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