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Re:Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users on Thursday June 18, 2026 @08:14AM (#48584164)
I've used a 2023 Suzuki S-Cross (manual fwiw) and this doesn't match my experience. Which model are you using?

They have an app [0] (which doesn't sync correctly for me, and their support is awful). When working it shows things like where you last parked, fuel efficiency, and allows you to remotely lock the vehicle, so it has internet access.

I sent Suzuki a Subject Access Request as a workaround to gain access to the data, and received months of extremely accurate location, speed, etc data.

There are also software updates, you just have to do them yourself [1]. They also didn't work for me.

Software aside however, they are extremely reliable cars, most of which seems down to their simplicity.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=suzuki.app.a02...

[1]: https://www.infotainment-system.com/en/device/summary

Re:I Run a Full Linux Desktop in Docker Just Because I Can on Saturday August 23, 2025 @05:22AM (#44994593)
Waypipe[0] offers a Wayland alternative for sharing windows over the network.

[0]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe

Re:Pixel 10 Phones on Thursday August 21, 2025 @04:18AM (#44970379)
It is supported on GrapheneOS. I've used it infrequently on a Pixel 8A. It's worth noting it only mirrors the screen, there's no extend option or DEX like experience.

Edit: There is a DEX-like desktop mode in beta, along with Linux VM with graphical app support.

Re:Show HN: Free, 100% in browser PDF editor on Saturday May 03, 2025 @07:03PM (#43883065)
Yes, and alongside formatting challenges, PDFs commonly only include the glyphs from the font that are actually used in the document.

So if you had PDF with "Hello World" on it, you could feasibly change it to "Hello Hello", but wouldn't be able to change it to "Goodbye World" (as the glyphs for "G", "b", "y", and "e" are not included in the PDF)

Sure, you could do a bit of detective work to figure out which font it was from the glyphs or something and lookup and insert new glyphs into the PDF, but I can't imagine a generic PDF editor being capable of doing this for you.

Some editors get around this but just straight up switching the font(s) for the whole PDF, so they'll look different after saving.

I wish more languages would aim for infix functions (like Haskell and Kotlin), rather than specifically the pipe operator.
Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @05:01PM (#43417287)
How would you do the things mentioned in the article using Guix?

You could write your own custom package definitions, extending the default to change up compile flags and allocators, but then you need to do this for every single package (and maintain them all). I'm not sure Guix gives you much here, though maybe that's fine for one or two packages.

The most pain-free option I can think of is the --tune flag (which is similar to applying -march=native), but packages have to be defined as tunable for it to work (and not many are).

Is there another option?

DNS-over-HTTPS generally works
Re:Learn Functional Programming Design from Redux on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:13PM (#24052139)
I think I'm like your co-workers, I'm really interested in Clojure, but admittably have that (probably unreasonable) JVM aversion. Do you mind sharing why I shouldn't?