I have little love for Canonical, but I wouldn’t go that far. What makes an OS ‘the Windows’ of something is in my eyes the heaps of useless surveillance, which ubuntu lacks.

I’ve been using opensuse tumbleweed for quite some time on my systems, and been pretty happy with it, in case you need an endorsement.

Also, all of them (I’ve seen) have a new account, and all their text output seems LLM generated, with them claiming it’s cause english isn’t their native language and they need LLMs to translate - on that note, that’s suspect to me, cause translating a human written text, at least with dedicated translation services, tends to retain a human structure. This feels more like they’re generating the whole message.

Doesn’t apply here, but some also had a story about “working in X trade for Y years”. It all feels very disingenuous, very much like marketing. I’d be surprised if even half of these projects are still around in two years time.

Rant over, just something that grinds my gears.

That’s pretty interesting. What version of Android are you running, and on what device, if you feel comfy sharing that?

If you can prove that, you’d probably have a nice story on your hand. I don’t think there’s currently a known way an app can bypass system permissions for contacts on current Android/iOS.

Could well be, but I think they’re mainly just xenophobic, which is more than enough explanation for their support for the failed referendum. I don’t think they used road capacity in any serious ways in their campaign for it.

The Swiss actually have really good public transport, all in all. They also have a lot of conservative shit heads, but you can’t really draw conclusions about transport in a country from one conservative propaganda poster.

I have run qemu successfully on a mobile Kaby Lake processor. Was a 8th gen i5 with 4c/8t, though, and the system had 32 gigs of Memory.

With that setup, I ran Windows to use Lightroom, went pretty smoothly.

So, like, the architecture can do it, but with 2c/4t and almost no Memory, you probably can’t do much on the host OS while running the emulator, and whatever you emulate probably also can’t be very heavy.

It’s a grift. The athletes that took part where mostly at the end of their careers and wanted a paycheck before retirement. The company behind it now uses the brand to sell medication. I’d be pretty surprised if they’re still around in two years, let alone in ten.

That might be the case. And you might in fact be perfectly well intentioned (though, as you might have found this community isn’t, on average, very into closed source software).

On the project site, this post, your replies, I have read nothing that sounded like genuinely you. It all reads like marketing. Or, more precisely, as if you have a LLM write/rewrite your responses. This, to me, makes them feel incredibly disingenuous. You might just sound like that naturally. In that case, I’m sorry.

If you want to win over this community, a good avenue would probably be open sourcing your application and arranging for some form of donation.

Edit: Also, you didn’t state that it’s closed source in your first sentence?? Well, you did in the first sentence of the reply to the comment that called out there not being source code on the repo, but the cat was out of the bag at that time.

An unkind observer might suspect the goal to be having the aesthetic of an open source or at least source available project without actually being one.

Websites I use regularly:

• sites I write or maintain myself
• federated social media
• my bank (they have my ID already)
• code forges maintained by others
• a Swiss e-commerce platform, alibaba, local electronics retailers
• YouTube

I suppose such measures might affect retail sites and YouTube, but I can get the stuff I need locally, and being off YouTube, I’ll certainly have the time for it.

Geizhals, Hardwareschotte, etc. are pud by the stores per click. If a stores budget runs out, they stop being displayed. Seems like a mid solution.

Huh, Authentik was what I used before Kanidm. Wasn’t anything wrong with it per se, but there where a lot of moving parts and complexity rhat didn’t really serve a purpose for me.

I thought about kubernetes or proxmox, but I don’t really see any reason to. All my containers are controlled via podman quadlets, and either run on a single machine locally, or on a VPS.

On how you want to slice up the hardware - I feel like there isn’t one right answer, and I’d do whatever feels most comfortable to admin for you. I feel like for homelab workloads, any half-reasonable setup should work fine, just make sure you have good backups.

On SSO - I have never tried Authelia, but am personally very enamoured with Kanidm. It’s very lightweight, and has pretty good default settings.

On reverse proxy - I personally use Caddy, but Traefik is good too, and can do more stuff out of the box. I just mount the certs I need readonly in the container of the service that needs them. Clunky, but works well enough for me.

That site seems like satire on first glance, but these days I’m really not sure.

I have worked with sites that used a lot of tracking products. Usually, the only thing that mattered was the design of the site, and whether there was any friction. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a marketing campaign that successfully used tracking data beyond what you have either way (who bought what product, what product sells how much).

I don’t use any tracking beyond looking at normal sever logs for any of my sites.

I have seen “consent banners” that pretty much say “no consent needed, we don’t do shit”, which I usually found slightly charming. Tended to unobtrusive, dismissable, and with no interaction required to use the site.

If the people you want to have access have static, exclusive ip addresses. Which is pretty unusual, these days.

Graphene on a Pixel 8a. One of the few currently viable options, in my eyes.

I mean, you can have a look at recent merged PRs. With proprietary engines, you just don’t know.