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A group of international activists, including Sweden’s Greta Thunburg, attempted to reach Gaza by boat this week to deliver humanitarian supplies on a vessel named the Madleen before being stopped, rerouted, and then deported by Israeli authorities.
I've seen some criticism that the Freedom Flotilla initiative was "silencing Palestinian voices" but she☝️doesn't seem to feel that way--she says it gave her hope. (Also keep in mind that there were Palestinians involved in organizing this, including Rima Hassan, the French-Palestinian MEP who is still being held by Israel after being kidnapped off the boat)
On this day in 1967, Loving v Virginia was decided and rendered all US laws banning interracial marriage as unconstitutional. I'm over a decade into a marriage that could not have existed before then, and I remain grateful to the Lovings for standing up for what's right.
One of the first heretical thoughts I entertained—the first time I realized young women like the young woman I was at the time were transitioning—was that we were seeing the next iteration of anorexia, a new and improved escape route for girls and yo…
NASA is launching rockets from a remote Pacific island to study mysterious, high-altitude cloud-like structures that can disrupt critical communication systems. The mission, called Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics, or SEED, opens its three-week launch window from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Friday, June 13. The atmospheric features SEED is studying are known as Sporadic-E layers, […]
Current setup is PMS running on a Synology 5-bay, and another PMS running on a Shield Pro. The NAS server is primarily used for remote streaming, while the Shield serves to my home LAN (AppleTVs mainly).
I've been seeing stuttering on larger files, either using the Plex app or Infuse, and I'm fairly certain the Synology is the weak link. Network performance in the house has pretty solid, though admittedly I could stand to test it more thoroughly. I've been looking at moving my library to a standalone system. I've been looking at the Beelink ME Mini (which happens to be on sale!). What I don't know is the best way to build this out.
I don't want to have to buy all 6 SSDs (ar at least 6x4TB ones!) at once, so I'd be looking at either a stock Linux (Ubuntu or Rocky) install w/ I guess a BTRFS pool for the SSDs (I'm guessing I can use the eMMC for OS depending on how big the install is - that or use the SSD in slot 4). Alternatively, i could possibly set up TruNAS w/ the Plex pp to manage the storage.
As for populating the media, I plan to keep the Synology as the central repo of my data. I have it replicating to another NAS at my dad's house, with movies/music/tv replicating using Syncthing. I plan to also use Syncthing to populate the Beelink.
Anyway, please poke holes in this plan and/or suggest a better one. My main goals are to get the media I'm streaming off spinning disk w/ minimal power draw (didn't mention that above) in a way that I can expand storage as necessary to accommodate the media library. Nothing's purchased yet, so I'm not married to the hardware. I would ideally like to convert the library to h.265 or even AV1 if I can make it work.
ETA: For clarity: I'm not transcoding AFAIK. My Shield mounts the Synology over SMB and mostly works fine, until I try to play anything 4k - then I get stuttering. On the surface, this sounded like a network issue, but I can't find a problem w/ the LAN. My thought was to move the PMS to a single location w/ local storage, and use the Synology just as an archive.
ETA2: FWIW, I have not expanded the memory on the Synology or installed any cache drives.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hawkish speech at Shangri-La Dialogue 2025 demonized China as "threat", said, "We are preparing for war" in Asia-Pacific
Russian troops have broken through Ukrainian defensive lines and advanced into the Dnepropetrovsk region, marking a significant expansion of Moscow’s....
The meeting between President Putin and participants in Russia's program for Special Military Operation veterans is taking place in the Kremlin on Russia Day, celebrated annually June 12. According to the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov...
I finally had time to play with the Pinephone! It was a hard video to make: the Pinephone is nos by any means ready to be shipped to the general public, but it’s still a very interesting device.
The Pinephone is, for now, mostly aimed at developers. It’s a device that will run Linux based OSes. Not Android, but full blown Linux. I’m talking Ubuntu touch or Plasma Mobile, and why not the same OS as the Librem 5, Pure OS.
The PinePhone is made by ThePine64, a company that produces a bunch of Linux hardware, such as the PineBook and Pinebook Pro, the PineTime (a prototype smartwatch running Linux), and the PineTab, a tablet, running, you guessed it, Linux.
The phone comes in a nice white box, with minimal branding, very reminiscent of Apple packaging. Once you open it, you get a little warning card thanking you and letting you know it’s not a consumer-ready device yet, and you get the phone itself, with a charging cable. It doesn’t come with a charging brick, but that’s not really an issue, since I don’t think anyone needs another one of these.
The PinePhone itself is a big device, with a 5.95 inches display It’s not the crispest, at 1140 by 720p, but it’s bright, colors look good, and it doesn’t detract from the experience of using the phone. It weighs in at 190 grams, and it feels pretty nice in the hand, although I’m not a fan of such big phones. The screen is protected by glass, and the back plate is made of black plastic. You get a power button and volume rocker on the right side, the audio jack on the top, a usb-C port on the botton, and a frontal camera and speaker at the top, with an RGB LED.
The back of the device is very simple as well, with the camera and its flash, inlaid with a little “Pine” Logo, which is a nice touch.
All in all, the phone feels pretty good for a device that costs less than 200$, it definitely punches above its weight in terms of look and feel.
Now, in terms of specs, the PinePhone is definitely on the low end of the spectrum, as far as phones go. It uses an AllWinner Quad Core CPU with a Mali 400 graphics chip, 2Gb of RAM and has a 5Mpx camera on the back, and a 2mpx one on the front. It’s not far off from what the Librem 5 offers, but it’s definitely no flagship device either. Still, for the price, it’s a pretty good value.
Connectivity wise, the modem should support 4G and LTE networks from most carriers in the world, and the phone also has support for Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and GLONASS, and WIfi, although it’s only single band.
The back cover is removable easily, just by popping out the lower right corner. It gives you access to a 3000Mah battery. Once you get the battery out, you can insert your Sim card, which is a micro sim format.
Now, even more interesting, is a set of switches on the back. These are hardware kill switches for the Modem, Wifi and Bluetooth, The Microphone, the Rear and front cameras and the headphone jack.
In terms of software, the PinePhone doesn’t come with any OS preinstalled. It does have PostMarket OS running a series of hardware tests.
It was a bit underwhelming, although I’ll still give UBPorts a fair shake in the future. The cameras and the speaker don’t seem to work yet, and you shouldn’t let the phone go to sleep unless you know the default passphrase is “phablet”. The OS runs… alright, even though it exhibits problems when scrolling and navigating; it’s definitely not quite optimized yet for that hardware yet, and you can tell that performance wise, there is still some work to do.
Now, while the OS itself works pretty well apart from some slowdowns in animations, the application situation is still problematic, and will probably be the main issue for most users. A lot of webapps are available, but nothing official. Still, judging from the interest the Pinephone and Librem 5 are gathering, and seeing the progress of libhandy, I’d be surprised if a lot of open source apps didn’t make the switch to the smartphone form factor.
Battery life wasn’t fantastic, but I won’t judge that too harshly yet, since it’s very early days for this combination of hardware and software.
I obviously didn’t find the apps I use everyday, like Spotify or Freeletics, or my bank’s applications, but these are probably a long way off, if they ever come. The Anbox project seems to let people run Android apps on Linux based systems , though, so it could be a nice path to try and explore later.
Other software initiatives are also available, such as Plasma mobile, or postmarket OS running Phosh, the phone optimized gnome shell developed by Purism for the Librem 5. I tried both, and found them less advanced than UB Ports.
More operating systems are also supported, like Sailfish OS, LuneOS, Alpine OS, or even Manjaro ARM running Plasma Mobile. I’ll need to take some more time to explore each one of these and see how they fare.
„Never before have so many Spanish companies or companies based in Spain developed so many joint projects with Israeli companies, and never before has Israeli industry managed to win so many contracts from the Spanish Ministry of Defense.“
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Nunca antes tantas empresas españolas o asentadas en España habían desarrollado tantos proyectos conjuntos con empresas israelíes, y nunca antes la industria israelí había conseguido adjudicarse tantos contratos del Ministerio de D…
Consider joining with others and praying at these locations. One such organization planning several of these prayer gatherings is http://nokingbutjesus.us/Th...
"Mit den Stimmen der „Ampel“ und der CDU hat der Bundestag nun einen „nationalen Veteranentag“ beschlossen, mit dem der besondere Einsatz des Personals in Uniform gewürdigt werden soll: Künftig soll jedes Jahr am oder um den 15.
Norway is transferring twice as many F-16s to Ukraine as planned, the mass media quoted the annual report on imports and exports of conventional arms as saying en.news-front.su/2025/06/11/no…
The document said that Norway planned to transfer 14 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. Earlier, it was officially announced about the delivery of six aircraft. However, the report did not specify the condition of the eight aircraft.
The Archdiocese of Hamburg’s radical new guidelines, which will be binding for all Catholic schools, contradict the Catholic faith and promote homosexuality and gender confusion to children.
We return to the Digital Autonomy series to take a close look at our role in participating in today's information landscape. It is an honor and a pleasure to be joined by James Corbett of the Corbett Report to dig into this topic in detail. James brings his vast experience as an independent researcher and alternative media voice. We discuss the evolving digital landscape as well as the pressing concerns around artificial intelligence tools. Independent voices and audiences themselves face unprecedented challenges to make the most of the opportunities of our time.
“I think in a lot of ways, under the Biden administration, people weren’t paying attention. People thought things were fine, and actually so much of what happened during those years set us up for where we are now,” —@silky13. truthout.org/audio/the-authori…
The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on Addameer, a leading Palestinian prisoner rights group, and five other charities for alleged links to Palestinian political factions deemed by the U.S. and Israel as “terrorist organizations.”
A funky effect Einstein predicted, known as gravitational lensing — when a foreground galaxy magnifies more distant galaxies behind it — will soon become common when NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope begins science operations in 2027 and produces vast surveys of the cosmos. A particular subset of gravitational lenses, known as strong lenses, is […]
The US is now evacuating non-essential personnel from embassies across the Gulf, has deployed bombers to Diego Garcia and Qatar, and the Pentagon’s pizza index is rising, preparing for possible military action.
@Aethelstan I expect that it will be Israel that initiates the attack, but there's expectation that Iran will do a massive retaliation which will force the US to become involved
Huge irony ACLU supported Covid mandates ACLU never showed up at No-Mandate protests & seem to miss the fact that knowing your rights will not protect against cell phone data capture. RT: mastodon.social/users/indivisi…
Get ready for Saturday by watching the ACLU’s “Know Your Rights” training to help keep all of our #NoKings Day events safe and non-violent: youtube.com/watch?v=AvNnqbxG4b…
Este taller lo preparará para participar en esta acción pacífica de una manera segura y con confianza. Ya sea que planee protestar, apoyar a distancia o simp...
WASHINTGTON, June 12 (YPA) - In shocking and new remarks, the Commander of the United States Central Command (Centcom), General Michael Kurilla, acknowledged that American and Israeli forces have failed to neutralize Yemen’s military capabilities.Spe
Get ready for Saturday by watching the ACLU’s “Know Your Rights” training to help keep all of our #NoKings Day events safe and non-violent: youtube.com/watch?v=AvNnqbxG4b…
Este taller lo preparará para participar en esta acción pacífica de una manera segura y con confianza. Ya sea que planee protestar, apoyar a distancia o simp...
»Menschen, die Israel seit Merz' Kritik getötet hat: 1.268 Maßnahmen, die Merz seit seiner Kritik ergriffen hat, um das Morden zu beenden: 0« bsky.app/profile/goldi.bsky.so…
“Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.”
~ Robert M. Hutchins (1899-1977) American educational philosopher, president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929) Time magazine, 8 December 1952
“Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.”
~ Pope John Paul II [Karol Józef Wojtyła] (1920-2005) Polish-born Roman Catholic Pope (1978-2005)
"Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable." ~ Pope John Paul II
A ceremony in honor of the martyred journalists of Gaza was held at the House of Journalists in Tehran, attended by members of the cultural and artistic community.
The White House maintains a list of US President Donald Trump's investment deals, claiming over $10tn in commitments.
However, the lack of clarity over tariffs and other limiting factors significantly reduces the chances of successfully pulling off new building plans or hiring sprees. Even if projects do occur, they may not deliver the desired results.
For now, Trump's investment deals are largely a mirage.
A British passenger miraculously survived the deadly Air India plane crash that killed more than 200 people Thursday, according to local officials and video.
China is putting a six-month limit on rare-earth export licenses for U.S. automakers and manufacturers, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter.
Some liberal Democrat governors are starting to roll back state (taxpayer) funded healthcare for people who are in the country illegally. Why is the left not protesting them? Could it be simply because the left gives Democrats a pass? Do they even know this is happening?
The CIA released 1,450 additional pages of documents related to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy on Thursday, including 54 previously classified documents.
The recent friction in Russian-Algerian ties over this conflict might be alleviated while Mali could consider offering the Tuaregs broad autonomy in exchange for joining forces against radical Islamists.
Ce que font les Houthis en Mer Rouge est sidérant. Voilà des types en sandale, armés de kalachnikov, de missiles balistiques, qui arrivent à perturber gravement le commerce international en bloquant des navires marchands et en mettant en échec les bâtiments de guerre occidentaux
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Is schön da! Ein paar km haben wir gemacht, leider war das #Wetter am #Sonntag doch so feucht, dass wir nur eine kleine Runde gedreht haben und klatschnass und mit einem #Sattelrohrbruch bei meiner #Herzallerliebsten nach Hause gekommen sind. Dies hat die #Laune ein wenig getrübt.
Nun aber auf, in die neue wunderbar kurze Woche. 11°C, geschlossene #Wolkendecke, kaum #Wind. Prima Voraussetzungen zum #Radeln.
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