Man the more I learn about KDE, the more I love it.

Agreed. The internet is a utility at this point. Its required for many things included services the government runs already.

I’m only just now feeling like my life is on track and I’m almost 30.

Meanwhile my partners friends both have a nice house, great jobs, and just had a baby. Everyone’s path is different man.

My advice is just do your best and enjoy the ride. Count all the good things in your life. Take a minute, put down your phone and just be with your thoughts.

Depends on where you live. If you can find a large enough building and renovate maybe. A pre existing building with all the machines already there would likely cost much more.

Running a business isnt really simple though. Lots of things to take into account. Taxes, overhead, inventory, maintenance, customer service, and thats just off the top of my head.

Bottles.

Without it, I wouldn’t be able to run addictive keys on Linux. I paid for the software back when I used Windows and since I’m able to use addictive keys on Linux, haven’t bothered trying to find an alternative.

That said, its the only use case I’ve had with bottles that just works. Other programs ive tried are more hit or miss.

Ive had issues with this as well. Still have had no joy.

What DVD drive are you using? Ive read the hardware is also important, but I’m no expert.

I gave Niagara a try and wasnt really for me. Nova was also my jam for a long time.

Not a feature of GrapheneOS but I’m not a fan of the default launcher. If you want a better one, I like lawnchair. Its on fdroid and is much better IMO.

Also the Articicons pack is great too if you like the look of icons being all the same.

I’m still messing around with self hosting llm, rn ive settled on using lumo from proton if I use an llm.

When I have run llm, I used koboldcpp. Works pretty well, depends on what you are doing and what models you use. Forget which models ive been using off the top of my head

Pick a project you like and donate what you think is fair. The fact that you are donating at all is great man.

I donated $50 to the Dev of the Automation app on fdroid. My car automatically tries to play any media that I had playing before it connected to the car. No way to turn it off, happens on any and every phone ive used. Finally I found this app and made an automation that pauses media after a few milliseconds once the bluetooth connects.

I felt a $50 one time donation was worth it cause they helped me solve one of the most annoying things i deal with. No idea why someone thought that a “feature” shouldn’t have a fucking off button but here we are.

Drop shipping has become a really big thing online. I just watched a video about people creating fake sad stories to push “handmade products”. All cheap mass manufactured shit from China.

Hard to find legit businesses right off the rip since it seems everyone is trying to scam these days.

Not to mention there are plenty of mods that you can add to make it more tuned to how you want it.

I personally use cloudflare. Never had an issue with them.

I’m with you there. Plumbing I would avoid. I could do it, but like you said, flooding or just water damage in general makes me think twice. Gas I would be more ok with but even then I’d be wary of it.

Exactly. I’d recommend everyone try and fix things themselves at least sometimes. I try and fix small things I don’t want to have to buy again if I can.

Sometimes it makes sense to pay someone, but its a good skill to have.

If you like working with your hands, look into education for the trades. People that do trade jobs are only getting more and more rare these days so theres a good chance you can get a job that way and it pays waaay better than retail in a lot of cases.

Also like others said, knowing someone is also ideal.

I’m making chilli right now and put black beans in it. I like black beans in my chilli.

Please anyone feel free to correct me if I get anything wrong.

From my understanding, Apps dont change based on the profile they are installed in. They are the same exact app regardless of profile. Profiles just serve to separate apps for different users and further separate apps from each other with them being in thier own directories.

Not all apps that you install from the Google playstore require google play services. Some apps will run just fine without them if the developer decided not to use them during development. If they did decide to use googleplay services, the app may function OK or completely break. Just depends on the app in question.

As far as I am aware, updates will happen separately for profiles. Most apps that are installed via googleplay will install automatically. Same goes for fdroid apps in most cases unless specified otherwise.

I’m not sure what you mean by your last question, fail how? Fail to open or update?

Also, profiles aren’t really necessary for grapheneos to separate google play services from other apps or whatnot because they are already sandboxed. I dont use them myself for this reason.

I personally don’t consider my skills quite good enough to be compensated for if I’m honest. And I like helping people here on Lemmy, especially for a opensource project. I can’t contribute as much but I do what I can.

So yea shoot me a DM and we can see what works.

If you need a simple icon, I’ve done some graphic design before for the loops community on Lemmy as well as others. If you DM me, let me know what you’d like, I’d be happy to help out, no charge.