Yeah, its damn solid. In the same vein I am testing the atomic release of fedora, really hard to break that thing, same goes for bazzite.

Now i’m thinking … an atomic release of mint would be … wow

I’m one of those morons that really hates himself so is running systems that are highly optimized (hardened, custom kernels, no systemd) and all I can say, yes, mint cheff’s kiss

https://forum.level1techs.com/

The one thibg I’d wish I’d known when moving from google that self-hosting is bliss. For everything else there is tuta and nextcloud.

Its the meat in a shit sandwich. If you dont like chrome based stuff, what choice is there.

I hate that this happened, F. Mozilla for this, but its not like I can just dust off netscape or something.

Librewolf while I wait for the enshittification of the internet services to come full circle.

Yup. Go back a version of xfreerdp. Done.

sudo dnf downgrade xfreerdp (or whst ever is the name of the package)

TL;DR - No trust. None. For anyone or anything.

Extreme you say? Sure, maybe. But we’ve been burned so many times, yet we still say things like “oh but its convenient”. That simply means most people dont care or dont have the time to deal with it, which is fair.

I don’t blame them, in this day and age, we have PLENTY to worry about, other than our online privacy and anonimity.

Personally, I’ve went with the scorched earth approach. Foss, privacy respecting, self-hosted, encrypted. If I don’t have control of it, I will keep it in a different place than the things I have control over.

Unfortunately, for most, this comes at a very large technical overhead. Frankly, I don’t see other ways forward. Look at france, sweeden, UK, they all want backdoors and the encryption keys to everything.

The way forward will be trustless, self-hosted services. The next steps are to simply lower the technical bar, because even as a skilled engineer, sometines I hit my head against things that need a serious amount of figuring out.

Making these services easy to host and use would be amazing. Trust nothing.

I don’t imagine there are many alternatives?

I love it. But this part on their website has me scratching my head:

“Your purchase includes a 12-month Sailfish OS full license subscription valued at €59.88 (€4.99/month), granting access to all releases, commercial components, and feature upgrades. After the first year, you can choose to continue your subscription and support Sailfish OS development further. Even without renewal, your device will continue to function, but future software updates and commercial component upgrades will not be available.”

So does this mean they will be cutting the security updates or just feature updares? Because cutting security updates after a year is a bit of a dick move.

I get that you can always apply patches yourself but … it rubs me the wrong way.

I’ve been saying this for ages. Golf courses need to go the way of the dodo.

I get the “sport” but if you ever go over some places on google earth, they stand out like a sore thumb.

There is barely any affordable housing, but sure, lets keep our neighborhood-sized opulence “parks”, that a few rich people can take advantage of sometimes.

Get fucked by a cactus.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.ghostsq.commander/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostcommander/

Ghost commander

This animation style is nice, whats it called?

Yes yes ok… I know.

On the phone. Where power saving is important. Where oleds are commonplace now. Where individual pixels turn off when fully black. I think a pixel that is off will use less power than one that is on, no?

But beyond all that, isnt it just a preference? Some people like white mode, others like dark. We dont all have the same eyes and brains.

I personally dont like light mode one bit and go the extra mile to get dark mode on my devices, but i dont care if someone else uses light mode. Cut it out, let people do what they like.

What the fuck are you on about? Jesus christ, we get ragebait in here too now?

Know your usecases. Thats it. Linux isn’t hard if you do.

But no, let me recommend the jet engine service manual to my 6 year old that is learning to read. You’re going to have a bad time.

For the record, since this post and most comments irked me, arch is fine. I’m using arch on my workstation/personal rig for years. Fedora on the laptop because I need a stable work thing. Alpine VMs on the homelab because it needs light and stable.

USECASES!

I second the fedora kde spin. Been using it for years on my work laptops. Hasnt failed me yet.

Hey man, I wasn’t trying to be a jerk, I was trying to make a joke. Sorry if it came off badly, probably not my best phrasing. I guess there’s a joke to be made about my jokes in there somewhere.

Truth be told, I’m salty about proton, not necessarily about what the ceo said (that too), but its like a canary in the mine, isn’t it, a portent of things to come. So many companies are bending the knee, ufortunately.

I used to pay for proton becase it saved me time and piece of mind, now since I left I have to self-host everything, because I no longer want to move my shit around every time something goes the way of enshittification. That means time and effort spent on setting up and maintaining everything. Its a chore.

Thats why I made the joke the way I did, because I’m salty, I didn’t cook it proper. You have a good one and take care out there stranger.

Congrats! From one trump kneebender right to the other. Is this a speedrun attempt?

Well done. I appreciate the fuck out of this place.

Maybe I chose the words badly. I meant that want to live in a civilized place, i have been an expat for 10 years and I just want to put down roots with my wife. So far we have been moving with the jobs and I had enough. Thats what I meant with my colourful language.