utopiah @ utopiah @lemmy.ml

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Some apps are still done this way, e.g. transmission the BitTorrent client, but also ALL self-hosted Web apps. Sure it might feel a bit much to install containers on your phone "just" for that, or having to go through REST API despite being on the same actual device, but still it provides a TON of app.

Anyway, yes I agree that it is often a better model. Still a lot of apps, e.g. Blender, Inkscape, etc do provide a CLI interface. So one can both use them with a GUI or without. It's not decoupled like transmission but arguably it covers most needs.

The "struggle" is because Apple and Google refuse to do so as they built the platform to give themselves priority.

One can trivially do so on a Linux phone, e.g. PinePhone with PostMarketOS.

Source: I did it. Plenty of others do through the usual ways, e.g. pipe in the console but also with things like https://sxmo.org/docs/user/sxmo.7.html#HOOKS

foss spyware is still spyware

Honestly it's a bit trickier. I listened to the podcast episode and my 1st thought was like "Damn... obviously bad" and during the FOSS part I couldn't but think "Ah... for my photo with missing EXIF GPS data... that'd be neat" specifically because I'm using Immich to host my photo on my server. Now Immich has face recognition, cf https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/main/machine-learning and more. Would it be wrong to extend it?

I also like ANBERNIC RG28XX and PinePhone/PinePhone Pro with or without the keyboard/battery extension.

SteamDeck.

My biggest concern is that I have a bunch of games installed on various drives that are all Windows (NTFS?) formatted and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to run them on Linux.

I'd check https://www.protondb.com/ and if they your favorite ones are native/gold/platinum then... move on. I'd initially NOT erase my drives and, assuming you have either patience and/or a fast connection, just let it re-download and install overnight, then enjoy. If need be bring the saves back (but again via Steam, should just work) and only once that's done, erase the Windows partitions. This is a no risk process. Honestly some games will not work but IMHO this isn't the question. The question rather is... will you have more playable games than time left, if so, then considering moving even without 100% coverage.

Why VPN? How does Stemio work and what's the content coverage compared to e.g. PirateBay or CloudTorrent?

FWIW I'm been using PmWiki on https://fabien.benetou.fr/ (and other of my wikis) for a decade now and it covers most of your need (no DB, track change via wiki page history, link and back-links, tons of recipes to extend) but also has some down sides (PHP, even though improved a lot since early 2000, isn't exactly popular at the moment, own syntax that's close to markdown yet isn't it, not the most popular wiki engine and relatively complex). I'm also using my Gitea instances https://git.benetou.fr/

Honestly though I'm not really sharing this as to advocate for PmWiki and/or Gitea but rather to highlight, and even think as I share, that I don't have a single tool for both. Sometimes I need notes, sometimes I need code repository, sometimes I "just" keep files in my ~/Prototypes directories. I'd love to have a "unified" solution that manages both notes and code but so far it seems each specialized tool, including issues on repository, does a better job. Maybe it's just the habit. Anyway it brings me to the question to you :

what do you actually expect the unification of those tools would bring?

Edit: I also use NextCloud to edit documents I need across devices or share with others. Same here, I could "just" upload such files (e.g. photos, rich text, spreadsheets) to my wiki as attachment and yet somehow I use this dedicated tool.

Cool tech but I don't get it. Who cares for ghostly 3D re-creation of moments? It demands so much more than snapping a 2D photo for a result that can be qualified "strange" at best.

I find XR much more interesting for things that are otherwise impossible, say traveling through the solar system or the human body, playing a rhythm game while punching things in the air, etc.

This is totally overblown. They are not "worlds", it's usually 10x10m spaces at most, nor photorealistic, so much is left out, there is not animation, no physics, etc.

PS: FWIW I tried some splats in XR, and I also did some photogrametry few years ago. Again it's an interesting process but it demands a lot for a result that few non-tech people would genuinely be impressed with to the point of replacing their holidays photos with.

Drivers are 535 on stable, cf https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers so it's definitely not the very latest yet even though drivers are important I doubt (and please share benchmarks if I'm way off) there is a radical performance difference.

A base Debian would (if it even works) probably less FPS than an current gaming distro.

Can you please elaborate on why? I'm running Debian stable with NVIDIA drivers and... it "just works". I'm using Steam to get Proton and game content (e.g. was playing Elden Ring minutes ago). I didn't tinker much so wondering what I could be missing.

FWIW did you try https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/435.17/README/powermanagement.html ? Namely enabling nvidia-suspend.service/nvidia-hibernate.service nvidia-resume.service services?

So... any petition or open letter to sign?

Mind expanding just a bit through? IMHO it's not orthogonal in the sense that either your backups are :

• unencrypted and thus your is are safe (you have copies you can access despite losing your keys) but not secure (someone else can read the content too)
• encrypted and thus your data is NOT safe if you lose your keys but secure

Isn't it?

No.

I spend a significant amount of time on other things, e.g. NOT using BigTech, no Facebook, Insta, Google, etc where I would "volunteer" private information for a discount. I do lock the physical door of my house (most of the time, not always) and have a password ... but if somebody is eager and skilled enough to break in my home to get my disks, honestly they "deserve" the content.

It's a bit like if somebody where to break in and stole my stuff at home, my gadgets or jewelry. Of course I do not welcome it, nor help with it hence the lock on the front door or closed windows, but at some point I also don't have cameras, alarms, etc. Honestly I don't think I have enough stuff worth risking breaking in for, both physical and digital. The "stuff" I mostly cherish is relationship with people, skills I learned, arguably stuff I built through those skills ... but even that can be built again. So in truth I don't care much.

I'd argue security is always a compromise, a trade of between convenience and access. Once you have few things in place, e.g. password, 2nd step auth, physical token e.g. YubiKeyBio, the rest becomes marginally "safer" for significant more hassle.

Recent 535.216.01 seems to improve that.

FWIW if you switched once then next switch is RADICALLY easier.

Indeed, very convenient. Just noticed they also now provide a JS/TS way to access models https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lmstudio.js so might try that soon, especially if they conveniently support RAG.

Probably a bit too technical but I wrote (and keep on updating) https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence which does include some of those, as mentioned here by others, e.g. GPT4All, LMStudio ,tlm, localAI, Ollama, etc.

If I can somehow clarify this to help you, please do ask.

Whatever machine is hosting the Immich server will be doing all the processing

By default yes but it's possible to do remote ML, cf https://immich.app/docs/guides/remote-machine-learning so my "ideal" setup would be all on RPi5 BUT initial ML tasks (because it's going to be > 100GB of photos at first) either directly on my PC with GPU or remotely (cf guide).