Have you tried Plasma-Mobile? https://plasma-mobile.org
Also regular Gnome works better with touchscreens than desktop KDE. And there is the Phosh spinn of it, but I am not sure if there is an easy way to install that on a x86 PC.
Edit: ah and there is Maui Shell https://github.com/Nitrux/maui-shell
That’s already a very low power solution. If you have external storage connected there might be still some saving potential, 3.5" HDDs use quite a bit of power, so do high end NVMe drives.
Software wise… maybe check the crons and reduce the frequency? Like your RSS feed reader probably doesn’t need to check every 5 minutes or so for new entries.
Sadly most Android tablets are too locked down to allow this.
There are however two upcomming Linux tablets that look very promising: the FydeTab Duo and the PineTab2.
I think this is something similar https://stablehorde.net/
Just to promote our https://slrpnk.net/c/memes community a bit. We need more Solarpunk memes here ;)
As nice as Nextcloud is overall, I recently decided to move to something without so much NIH syndrome and less enterprise fluff features.
Currently I think KaraDAV with an alternative Filestash front-end might be the best option. Both are quite lightweight, you can still use the Nextcloud apps, and Filestash has nice integration for Org-mode and OnlyOffice. Photo-albums in Filestash also look quite nice.
The author recently posted another one about stopping development of Pinafore in which he prominently linked this one. So I don’t think Lemmy had anything to do with it.
Indeed and their FAQ also addresses that. Also note that “cheap VPN” often come with traffic caveats in their ToS that make them of limited use for a self-hosted VPN service. But I agree it is a bit pricey.
Hmm, not what I expected from the “honest” in the title.
The hardware is soso, but the review makes it sound great. But the touchpad has gotten much better with the recent firmware upgrade, and I am getting closer to 7-8h battery life on normal use. Never had problems with it charging too slow either, but yes it is not quick-charge capable. But that is probably better for the battery longevity anyway. Maybe I should note that it charges slightly faster over the barreljack power connector than it does over USB-C.
As for Manjaro… dunno. PEBKAC? It never broke once on me on the Pinebook Pro. Sometimes you have to shut it off completely and not just restart it, but apparently that is an hardware issue.
I kind of agree on the uboot though, very limited options. It would be nice if you could boot alternative OS from the SDcard reader like you can do on the Pinephone apparently. Maybe I should try Tow Boot some time…
Edit: and I loled at the review section on the speakers… “fairly nice” is not at all how I would describe them. They are seriously bad (not that I care much though).
I don’t think this argument will get you many friends here ;)
It is anyway a false comparison. Its a bit like oil and water… of course if you want to look for similarities you can find them (both are liquids, you can drown in them, etc.), but in what really matters they are nothing alike and will actively repulse each other.
Of course you have the other dimension of the political compass and authoritarians are often more alike than they wish themselves, but that has more to do with the means employed than actual ideological similarities.
And last but not least, I totally disagree on point 2. People do get more heated about their more closely related out-group, but that mainly because those are not seen as a totally lost cause, while the very opposite ideological spectrum is not really worth to even discuss as it is so obviously just “bad”.
However, where the argument gets more muddy is when proponents on either side think they can “win over” supporters by taking over and seemingly subvert arguments of the other side. That is a common fallacy some people make, and it never resulted in a good outcome.
The big difference is that Oauth2 is usually optional and you can also easily host your own Oauth2/OIDC provider (Edit: but the client, Gitlab.com in your example would need to add your provider, so that is less practical), so while it is true that the usual Oauth2 providers are Google/Github/Twitter etc. this is just a convenience feature to make it seamless to sign up and is not forcing anyone to do so like in the case of email and sourcehut.
Obviously if a service would force you to sign up only via Google’s Oauth2 that would be about as bad as Sourcehut forcing you to use email.
Oh and requiring email once for signup only is a lot different from constantly requiring it to use almost the entire service, as Sourcehut does. A self-hosted email can easily receive the necessary confirmation email (sending emails is what causes the problems), or you could use some anonymous one-time use email service.
I think the problem isn’t permissive licenses in this case. It’s not like AWS is running Matrix servers themselves or so.
The government deployments to far have been highly specified (and non-federating) systems requiring a lot of customizations, little of which is suitable for upstreaming and for which these “non-contributing” companies were specifically recruited for in a competitive bidding procedure (that EMS either lost or chose not to compete in). They usually also require on-prem deployments making the EMS cloud service unsuitable.
I think what we see here is a mix of market miss-match, i.e. EMS wants to be a public service, but their actually potentially paying customers want closed walled gardens for highly specific use-cases and a VC funded over-growth of EMS as a company and thus unrealistic ROI expectations and staff expenditures.
I think what will happen is that their VC funders will force them to spin-off a government service company to compete in such bids and slowly by slowly the focus will become primarily this as a service to the general public is not sufficiently profitable and it is also hard to compete with Slack and Discord there.
And in the end all the open-source enthusiasts will be left standing in the rain as the open Matrix federation is so over-engineered and has been developed with a “make it work somehow, fix it later” mindset, that without significant developer resources it will break under its own weight sooner or later.
That makes it only marginally better. Compared to other ways to provide accounts, email is significantly more monopolized and centralized on a few large players and/or for-pay services.
For a service like Sourcehut that claims to be an alternative to centralized services that is just hypocritical especially since they do not offer to host email themselves.
So instead of signing up (which is literally two clicks with Oauth2), you prefer forcing people to use a system that is monopolized by Google and practically unusable without depending on some large corp?
If Sourcehut had at least some alternative way of using it, but email is the only way for pretty much all of its main functionality.
https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port has a link to the daily builds of the netboot installer.
But given the typical non-standard boot requirements of ARM SBCs, you are probably better off with getting a system image for your specific board from Armbian or a similar such non-official spin of Debian.
I recently looked at this, but for a regular Linux gamer I don’t see much benefit of using this over regular Fedora. With a little bit of tweaking you get 90% the same result, without being depenend on a project with a bus-factor of one.
I guess if you are specifically interested in game streaming via OBS it might be worth it though.
Edit: ah. My comment was about Nobara in general. But it basically applies to this Silverblue spin as well.
Odd question. Did you ever have a look at Github? Its a fully fledged social media platform.
AFAIK this is mainly focused on federating issues and issues comments, as well as pull requests for interoperability between forged. But I guess you will also be able to subscribe to reposity activity/release feeds and user activity feeds.
Mautrix has an imessage bridge: https://github.com/mautrix/imessage
But Apple being Apple, you need to run software on a Mac to link it. Luckily, hardly anyone around here uses iMessage, so Apple can go f*ck itself.
I get his frustration about large companies using core-js and not contributing back, but he is at least partially sleeping in a bed of his own making by licensing core-js as MIT.
The founding idea of Free-Software was always that everyone contributes a little and by using a each others work you can grow a foundation that is larger than its individual parts. For that to work you should use a copyleft license like the AGPL and treat any library you develop not as an end in itself, but rather as a tool for something else (and this something else might or might not be what you make a living with).