Whoever had the number before you likely gave it out to any service that asked.
Since you only use it for data, I recommend contacting your provider and asking for a different number.
Whoever had the number before you likely gave it out to any service that asked.
Since you only use it for data, I recommend contacting your provider and asking for a different number.
Miracast and Chromecast are different. Miracast is the open standard while Chromecast is Google’s proprietary casting protocol.
Roku supports both Miracast and AirPlay, but I don’t think it supports Chromecast.
Google has done price increases the last 2 or 3 years, so they no longer have a price advantage. Samsung also has the same 7 year support window.
Proton is still a for-profit company and has shareholders who expect to to make money. The change is that the largest shareholder of the for-profit company is now a separate non-profit organization. It is still a positive move, but not entirely what the marketing makes it seem.
openSUSE also remains one of the only distributions that have automatic Btrfs snapshots setup out of the box. I am very surprised other distributions have not done the same. Especially Fedora, since they use Btrfs already.
I use Pocket because it is compatible with my Kobo ereader.
Everyone already anticipates new Google services to fail. Expecting people to spend hundreds of dollars on content that is locked to a service run by a company that is known for canceling services after a couple of years was always going to fail.
Stadia was essentially just a demo of Google’s cloud capabilities. Even if Stadia was a massive success, it would still be a drop in the bucket compared to Google’s ad revenue and have no impact on stock price.
Ironically, if Google were upfront about how it would handle the shutdown, it likely would have increased consumer confidence enough that Stadia may not have needed to be shutdown.
I use Radicale for my calendars, reminders, and contacts precisely because of how minimal it is. It has been very reliable for me and is very easy to back up and restore since it is just files.
iOS Reminders app synced with Radicale server.
Progressive Web App
VirtualBox still does not support Apple Silicon well. UTM is a great free and open source alternative.
DokuWiki. Everything is a text file that can just be copied to a web server. It doesn’t even require a database. And since all the wiki pages are plaintext markdown files, they can still be easily accessed and read even when the server is down.
Fedora will not get Plasma 6 until 40 releases next month in April.
I wish Debian had a version with more recent software that is suitable for regular use. I know many people use Testing and Sid, but Testing often has delayed security updates and it’s not unusual for Sid to break. And both get weird around the freeze for the next release. It would be great if there was a version like Tumbleweed that was constantly rolling and received automated testing to prevent many of the problems Unstable experiences.
I currently use Tumbleweed on my computers and Debian on my servers, but I would love to use Debian on everything.
Roku supports Miracast, so it should work.
They switched to USB-C last year with the iPhone 15.