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Depends on how much RAM your RasPi 4 has. And if you use HA-addons that use lots of RAM. You could also switch from PiHole to AdGuard. The latter is available as a HA-addon.

Maybe have a look at something like Docker to set up containers for multiple services on the same RasPi. Docker can also set up networking so you can route everything through something like OpenWRT.

Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware of that. I had a look at the commit history on Github, you're right.

Yeah, I'm not sure if you always need to apologize for other people. They have a Code of Conduct and that criticises exactly that. I don't want to warm up all the internet drama that happened back then. There was harassment involved, in my eyes probably mental health issues and a bit of persecution mania. You'd probably only make it worse. If you don't like how it turned out... You don't have to use that project. Just use another smartphone OS.

You missed that GrapheneOS got rid of Daniel Micay 6 months ago. (For the better or worse)

What's the pun?

I don't think so. I can't find any good information about those new 'open-source' kernel modules in any of the Linux wikis. Just news articles from 2022. Something isn't right there. It's either a marketing stunt and nothing changed or something else. I would dig deeper if I were you.

Concerning NVidia's history: Don't rely on them making user-friendly decisions. Especially when it comes to Linux. The usual drivers work. They have some hiccups and you're going to have some annoying issues with things like Wayland, if something major changes in the kernel you have to wait for NVidia but they'll eventually fix it. It's not open source and you have to live with what they give to you. It mostly works though and performance is great. I'd say this is the same with the newer 'open-source' drivers that just shift things into (proprietary) userspace and firmware.

The true open-source alternative is the 'Nouveau' drivers. For newer graphics cards, expect them to get only a fraction of the performance out of your GPU and having half the features not yet implemented, including power management. So your game will have 10fps and fans on max while it empties your battery in 20 minutes.

On my laptop Nouveau started to be an alternative after several years when development kept up and it got comparable performance and battery life to the proprietary drivers. But you might replace the laptop at that point. Waiting for NVidia or the open source drivers to keep up hasn't been worth it for me in the past. I did that two times and everytime I had to live with the proprietary drivers instead.

So my advice is: Be comfortable using the proprietary drivers if you want to buy NVidia.

Intel Arc got really bad performance reviews. It's not worth spending lots of money on them. But fortunately they're cheap because the gamers don't buy them (for that reason). I live with the iGPU that's part of my CPU. It's alright since I don't play modern games anyways.

But you missed AMD. There are some laptops available with the Ryzen 7040 series and it seems to be a fast CPU. They also made the integrated graphics way faster than before, albeit probably still not on the level for proper gaming. But I bet there are desktop replacements out there that combine it with an AMD GPU.

You're well above average. I'd say pretty good. One thing you didn't say: Are you often logged in into the services like Google, Facebook, YouTube, Discord, ... Because if you are, they can tie everything together with your account. And did you sign up for those services with your phone number? That'd be bad because it's a unique identifier. Regarding the phone it depends on which apps exactly you installed from the Play store. Most have trackers and there are shady apps out there. I also mainly rely on F-Droid and that's the way to do it. Another thing is email. If you use gmail, all your correspondence gets scanned, regardless of what you do at home. And you shouldn't use membership programs for discounts in real life.

Other than that. I think I do more or less the same things you mentioned. Plus I replaced the Android my phone came with.

To be more specific, it's a fork of Gitea.

Isn't there quite some information missing? Which scheduler is affected? What are the are the exact consequences since we're talking about latency in the first part of the article. Did it affect the AMD Epyc processors that run all the VPS?

In my experience nowadays video is often streamed with something like hls and pieced together with a javascript player. If that's the case inspecting the source won't help you much as its hundreds of 4s snippets or something like that. It could be worth a try but often times you really need a tool to do it.

Let me scroll through your phone, see if there are some nice pictures or chats, the google search history, browser history... Uuh what's that Lovense Buttplug App for? Do you have any medical conditions or mental health struggles? How do you approach people on Tinder? What's your salary?

YT-DLP always works great for YouTube and some other sites. There are also a few browser extensions around, called similar to Video Download Helper. But don't install the super fishy ones, I don't know which of them are good.

You need to try it. Don't just roll it out in your business. Try it yourself before. Get an old/secondary computer and install it, try your templates and workflows. See which version (distribution) you like. Get your E-Mail connected and so on.

I can tell you Linux isn't Windows or MacOS. For me, it works very well. I can do lots of things Windows users can not do or that are very cumbersome there, and I don't have any advertisements or privacy issues. It respects my rights and freedoms as a user. And I've had way less issues with my printers and stuff than my windows-friends. I've never had a virus on my machine. I can't tell you if it works for you.

I also don't like selling it. It's (arguably) better, faster and more user-friendly than Windows in many ways. But you need to find out if you can make use of it. One big factor against it would be familiarization with a different product. Except for that, I invite you to try it.

I've debunked that article before. Nearly every statement in it is wrong.

https://lemmy.world/post/7068568

It's written by someone who expected it to work 100% like the Windows on his PC he is accustomed to. But it doesn't work that way.

Completely agree. Lobbyism isn't a good thing. And we know who is going to win that battle if the one side rather sells their privacy than pay $5 a month for a service versus a multi billion dollar company that is happy to invest quite some money to get the politicians do what they like.

And I'm not a big fan of just letting capitalism do it's thing in general. It will probably not end up with a solution that is fair and benefits everyone. In my opinion lawmakers should be more proactive and also learn about the technology they need to regulate. We need some answers anyways. Even the industry struggles with questions like: how does copyright go together with AI.

I also struggle with all the recommendation algorithms and filter bubbles. And I think that's only getting worse and not healthy to society at all.

Could just be the natural course of things.

I mean, that article is way ahead. I think it wasn't for another 15 years or so until companies started to figure out collecting and selling data about people and using it for targeted advertising was THE best business model for the internet and network-connected devices in general.

And here we are. The internet is now dominated by a handful of big tech companies who do exactly that. And they provide us with nice and free services in exchange. I guess that's been going on long enough and aligns well with how humans work, so that nowadays nobody questions this anymore. Obviously you would, if that'd be a daunting, new thing with unknown consequences.

But 'they' got to us.

Maybe we can compare that to the recent discussions regarding AI? Everyone is speaking of it, how it will steal their job or herald the end / doom. I guess in 10 years nobody questions ChatGPT choosing what recipe they cook for dinner, because it knows exactly what's in the fridge and knows what you like better than yourself.

I suppose it's kind of the government's job to regulate things like privacy and taking advantage of normal people? The EU sometimes does that. But they also randomly mix in 'we need total surveillance to fight child abuse', as they tried recently.

Wow. 1983 was the year they launched Bildschirmtext here. I remember my dad doing banking stuff with that in the 90s. What kind of services were available in Ottawa at that time? Telidon? Wikipedia says it closed in 1985.

It's a bit like the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which some people mistake for an instruction book 🤔

I mean it's biased when we pick prophecies in hindsight. But she was definitely point on 40 years ago.

A Live boot USB Stick

Aldi Talk. It's prepaid and doesn't cost much. It doesn't use the best cell network, but it's quite alright. Years ago when I switched, it was the cheapest alternative and I stuck with it. Over the years they've updated their offerings and for the amount of data I use, I think it's a good deal.

If it's not an issue, it's not an issue. If you need to change the settings at some point, you could look up if there is a way to reset the password. Or sometimes there are tools that let you change the EEPROM settings from linux, without needing to open the BIOS. Depends on the hardware.