What are these Linux laptop providers going to sell if they can’t order anything from the factory that lets them change the software because reasons

Just updated my pinephone the other day. It’s not spectacular in terms of usability. It does the bare minimum at the bare minimum.

Fdroid itself and every package they host will have to be signed.

Maybe there are still workarounds, like enabling dev mode on your phone, but still tedious.

imho the biggest roadblock is more general applications. Most desktop apps don’t scale well or at all to mobile screens, but it’s better than nothing.

You distribute the code without your key and a built package that is signed. This isn’t exactly rocket science.

Anyone who forks the code will have to use their own key to install a package they built.

It’s just unnecessary red tape.

That’s an interesting insight, thanks!

You can bump 10 years ahead, my car doesn’t have tracking 😄

This always givea me a 404

They key is to diversify. Use different types of storage media, and duplicate your efforts and bury then duplicates somewhere else.

If you can choose only 1 I would choose tape archives. Vacuum seal all your media, whatever they may be. Throw in some of those dehumidifier packets. Moisture will be your biggest enemy.

If possible, also add the means to be able to read your media after a long time. Add a couple of raspberry pi computers, vacuum sealed and dehumidified-by-packets again, and usb readers or HATs for the media you chose (though I doubt you will find a cheap tape drive with USB connection, the only option I found was £9000).

Over the years, as new technology gets developed, in particularly interface connectors that will replace USB, I would add converters if possible or just keep them around. Nothing suspicious about having some USB/sata/sas to <new technology> converter in your house.

Or, you know, you could always go with m-disc. Burners are cheap (40€ to 160€) and discs are cheap (4x 100GB costs 100€). For potentially 140€ you could store 400GB on a solid solution. Would still add a reader and devices as described above.

What is this even trying to say?

When we had to team up for lab assignments I was working with a like-minded guy and we did everything Linux when the assignment didn’t specifically specify that we had to use windows. The teacher was constantly updating the wording of his assignments and asked us to put a little bit of windows in there. We were way ahead of the rest of class and had plenty of time left to switch the windows parts in and out like nothing. That was 12 years ago.

If it was possible on Linux we used Linux, if not then we used windows. We used a very pragmatic approach, but favored Linux where possible.

Minecraft and the Smurfs

Those happen to be the things a child should not be exposed to

You make 100 euro per month?

6km, I drive …

I’ve traveled to Italy many times, vacationing. I live in a country where schuko is dominant and I’ve never had to use an adapter. These are all old legacy plugs, I bet you can still buy them to replace existing plugs, I don’t know, but I’ve stayed in hotels and rented rooms (staying with people basically) and I haven’t even put any thought into it.

Tell me about your collection

MS paint used to have a spray paint tool. I spent a lot of time using that tool to fill the entire canvas.

Doesn’t look like gnome in any way. That task bar looks like windows 11. Gnome doesn’t have a task bar. The “bar” of icons on the left are discord servers.

Yeah man, have some self respect and wipe it down regularly.

That’s not the only meme it’s referencing, OP.

DRRR DRRR

I have mini-ITX board in a mini case. 4 bays, 16 GB RAM of DDR3-L and a slow but very low TDP CPU. This thing is very low power but it’s on 24/7.

Runs home assistant with zigbee, rtl433 and whatever it detects over the network. A few older game servers (minecraft, minetest/luanti, quake 2), miniDLNA, … Arch Linux, so rolling release and always up to date with the latest versions.

Served me greatly and I haven’t upgraded because it still does what I want and I can’t find any modern CPU with a TDP this low.