You needed: kernel driver, closed source userspace driver, GStreamer plugin, v4l2 loopback driver, v4l2 relay daemon copying frames from the GStreamer source into v4l2 loopback. Technically I could have made it work, I just decided not to.

https://launchpad.net/~oem-solutions-group/+archive/ubuntu/intel-ipu6 https://github.com/intel/ipu6-camera-bins

Earlier this year I was given one of those XPS machines with Ubuntu and decided to install Debian on it. The camera driver was so bad - I can’t remember technical details but you can’t simply get it to run on another kernel, it was a mess of hacks to get it to work. I decided I won’t get a camera driver. “We ship a laptop with Ubuntu” does not necessarily mean working Linux drivers.

EDIT: To add insult to injury, the touch bar suddenly decided to stop responding to input. It’s already bad enough to not have tactile feedback for Esc / Fn keys / Delete / Print Screen.

No, I commute in jeans. Makes it super hard to find high-waist jeans that are narrow at the bottom and also have a certain degree of elasticity, so when I find them I buy a lot.

I cycle, so I’m definitely not a fan of low waist jeans. I want my lower back to feel warm and covered.

Yes. https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/fp4/release/focal

Get a Pinephone, or a Fairphone with Ubuntu. More privacy and more features than dumb phones.

Well, maybe you are:

• Planning a surprise party
• Leaving a job
• Trying to escape an abusive relationship
• Famous
• Writing a detective novel
• A writer without a publisher
• Searching about an embarrassing medical condition
• Having a crush in someone
• In the closet
• A teenager with controlling parents
• Having a hobby that’s considered embarrassing or childish
• Having a psycho stalker
• Buying a present from Santa
• A reporter who doesn’t want to reveal their sources
• Buying a toilet and you don’t want toilet recommendations for the rest of your life
• Lending your computer to someone, and you don’t want your recommended videos to change
• Under an NDA

… Or maybe you’re talking with someone who’s in one of those categories.

We have to normalise privacy in order to keep these people safe. For instance, it’s a stupid example but it works, if I always use private browser windows, my husband won’t suspect anything when I’m looking for a gift for him.

That’s only the tip of the iceberg and it’s not even touching some bigger problems:

• You can be profiled based on your likes, social media posts, purchase history, etc, and maybe used for election results manipulation, or who knows what else. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it has happened, see for instance Cambridge Analytica.
• Maybe the political situation will change in the future. Oops, now your data is suddenly in the hands of a malicious dictator.
• If you keep a backdoor open to let the “good and trusted” actors in, there’s no way to not let malicious actors in as well.

SlimSocial for Facebook works, it’s just slow.

I also use them on both, KDE has default bindings.

It happened in a Starbucks. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-hSdYkgHuRdU/VNuzCLxuMuI/AAAAAAAADWQ/yHeBV1XPfT4/s640/blogger-image-658967424.jpg

I use this and you can preemptively create some groups you can share your location to, then turn those on. If this works for you.

Well, it’s a Tuesday so that means I can get fresh fish in my local street market. Nothing much going on otherwise.

I use NextCloud News, it’s super convenient and also syncs between my phone and computer. I use it for reading the news (playing hide and seek with one news site after another when they inevitably disconnect their RSS/Atom support), for the webcomics I follow, and for keeping up with friends’ blogs.

Women don’t have balls, therefore they can’t store pee, and that explains the longer queues in women’s bathrooms. See you next time with a new episode of Troll Biology!

I’ve seen conferences outright ban the use of scents because of people who get irritated by them. Fair enough, if you ask me.

In my case at least, it’s not a matter of seeing a smoker in a public place, the smell starts irritating my nose and throat and then I have to play a game of “find the smoker”. I agree that car exhausts are also harmful, I agree that we should also reduce driving as much as possible, but at least I can tolerate the smell of car exhaust much more easily if I have to be next to it. Everyone else seems to be able to enjoy their (outdoor) meal or concert, and I’d love to be able to get back to the point where I can think “yeah this is harmful, I should probably not subject myself to it” instead of “I can’t breathe”.

Ah, maybe the difference is that my parents smoked when I was very small. Eventually they both quit and now they both hate the smell. But yes, I also grew up before the smoking ban.

Fair enough. I guess it was so common when I was growing up that I never realised it.

A “simply explained” kind of book, “even foxes can understand”.