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  • It might not be applicable to you but in many cases single board computers are used where there is minimal changes in files in day to day basis. For example when used for displaying stuff. For such cases, it is useful to know that after installing all the required stuff, the SD card can be turned into read only mode. This prolongs its life exponentially. Temporary files can still be generated in the RAM and if needed, you can push them to an external storage/FTP through a cron job or something. I have built a digital display with weather/photos/news where beyond the initial install, everything is pulled from the internet. I'm working towards implementing what I've suggested above.

  • It definitely is a major consideration, mostly because things work more seamlessly when they belong to the same ecosystem. With my past experience, it is very difficult to switch from one to the other and that is why I'm consciously making an effort to rely more on open hardware/software.

  • I just want you to consider one more aspect of it. I've seen this discussed and backed up with scientific articles but I'm too lazy to find and include them in my post. Basically, all your cravings originate from your gut and your gut is ruled by the bacteria that have made your gut their home over the years. You've colonized your gut with a particular set of bacteria by giving them what you eat.

    Now, if you change that food pattern, these bacteria, that control the gut, will make your body release chemicals that will make you crave for food that will keep them alive. Realise this and act accordingly. Being conscious about it has helped me overcome many food related 'addictions' i had like that of soda, of wafers. I still fall prey when I consume sweets continuously for a few days during festivities. Everytime it is the same struggle against the cravings, but I realise I'm just fighting against the settlers in my gut, brave it for a few days and notice my cravings become dull over time. Probiotics like kimchi, saurkraut, kefir, kombucha etc. help to some extent but ultimately it is more of a mind game.

    Make what you will from my advice, but it does work for me. I wish you all the best in your fight against your gut settlers.

  • I've heard good things about H2O AI if you want to self host and tweak the model by uploading documents of your own (so that you get answers based on your dataset). I'm not sure how difficult it is. Maybe someone more knowledgeable will chime in.

  • It's been many years since I read it but the 'explanation' in Lee Smolin's 'The Life of the Cosmos' sounds the most convincing to me.

    I'm the book, as far as I understood it, he suggests that theory of evolution applies on the biggest scales too. New universes form when a black hole collapses. Our Universe is just one of the universes that all have slightly changed values of the universal constants, like the way evolution works. There are many universal or physical constants in science, some of the most widely recognized being the speed of light in vacuum c, the gravitational constant G, the Planck constant h, the electric constant ε0, and the elementary charge e.

    There is a very narrow range of these constants where 'normal stuff' of the universe like formation of matter can happen and heat death of the universe can be avoided. We just happen to be in the right universe with the perfectly balanced constants, in the right corner of it, at optimal distance to an optimally sized star, tilted at an optimal angle, with a moon at the right distance to help evolve life capable of developing a fediverse where we can mull this over.

    Evolution, nothing special about it.

  • No, I got that but like I said, it is just a force of habit for me to use private window during my web use. I need to use internet on multiple systems as part of my work and it's just become natural for me to open a private session to search and do stuff and not to leave any login sessions open by mistake.

    But I reading the replies makes me realise that it must be android's aggressive battery saving tricks that kills Firefox active private sessions. But it is sad that I'm noticing this only for Firefox while Brave browser is exempt. Maybe because it is chromium based.

  • I'm trying hard to make Firefox my main browser on my phone. Out of habit, I browse in Private Mode and bookmark stuff I want to remember. Every so often though, Firefox closes the open private tabs when switch between apps. There is no real way to replicate this so I can submit a bug report. I'm not sure what I can do about it.

    Good of them to bring the add ons though, I'll keep persisting with the fox.

  • I think I'm not aware of the exporting/publishing part and that's the cause of my woes. I get everything running on the machine with unrestricted access, move to the machine with restricted access go "docker compose up" and get stuck. I'll read up on exporting/publishing, thank you.

  • Thank you for these links, they look just right. Most tutorials I come across these days are videos. Maybe they are easier to make. These tutorials that allow you to tinker at your own pace seem better to me. Will you mind if I reach out to you over DM if I get stuck at something while learning and am not able to find the right answer easily?

  • I'm not much into new year resolutions, but I think I'll make a conscious effort to learn Docker in the coming months. Any suggestions for good guides for someone coming from VM end will be appreciated.