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Last edit: 31. Aug. 2021, 23:05h
CovPass now also available without Google services for e.g. Sailfish OS with AD
One of the currently most important apps was unfortunately not yet readily available for Sailfish’s Android support, because it uses Google services. We are talking about CovPass. This has changed today because from today on CovPass is available without using Google services (which was unnecessary from the beginning it looks like) thanks to some open source developers also for smartphones without Google services. (besides SailfishOS based ...
Last edit: 08. Aug. 2021, 22:33h
Sailfish OS: Major apps, services and new section at PW3d
My new daily driver, the Sony Xperia 10 II with Sailfish OS got a nice cover and little by little I find more and more interesting and important apps for Sailfish OS (often called SFOS). Since the system doesn’t contain any bloatware and leaves practically all decisions to the user, you naturally have to take care of the corresponding software installations yourself in order to be able to activate one or the other feature. To keep this as ...
Last edit: 30. Jun. 2021, 19:15h
Sailfish OS: The European smartphone OS
Lately, I have been looking around more and more for a replacement for my Microsoft Lumia 950XL, which I still love, but unfortunately no longer has sufficient app support. Since Mr. Nadela from Microsoft, in his infinite wisdom, has unfortunately discontinued Windows 10 (mobile), I can no longer buy a successor with Windows 10 (mobile). A few months ago, WhatsApp unfortunately left the platform and again a few months later Threema. For a long ...
Last edit: 11. May. 2021, 21:41h
A:M Rendering Benchmark with the AMD Ryzen 9 5900x
Today I’ve got my new Ryzen 9 5900x CPU along with a new motherboard (Asus Prime B550-Plus) and a BeQuiet! Dark Rock 4 and replaced the corresponding components in my previous build. (previous components: Asus Prime B350-Plus, Dark Rock 3, AMD Ryzen 7 1700) Rendering speed went up about 1.7 times in single-core rendering. For now, I can’t conclusively answer multi-core (about 1.5x, but that should increase significantly when A:M Netrender ...
Last edit: 09. May. 2021, 12:18h
A new CPU: My new Ryzen 9 5900x
Man was that a struggle. For a few months now since the new AMD Ryzen 5xxx series processors came out, the prices for these processors have been just ridiculously high. The 5900x, for example, came out in November 2020 and was supposed to cost $549 (MSRP) according to AMD. You can usually convert that roughly 1-to-1 into Euros to estimate the price in Germany. That sounds bad, but it is usually not as bad as you think at first, because these ...
Last edit: 11. Apr. 2021, 16:53h
Keyboard stands like to break...
The day before yesterday, my 1.5 liter water bottle fell on my upturned keyboard. It was locked, but the force of the impact alone caused the little stand for raising the keyboard to break, and so the usual keyboard wobble started. Normally this would be the moment you buy a new keyboard because a 2.5cm by 1.5cm by 2mm thick piece of plastic with no moving parts broke. I found that somehow... wasteful of resources. So I fired up my 3d printer ...