It all boils down to trust in the end. Trust they don’t keep records, trust they don’t share your info, trust the canary is real, … There’s always someone else you have to trust.

You want one with a canary on their website

I run Gemma4 12B on my RX9070 XT. it’s not permanently on, I just turn it on when I want to use it. Access it through a browser. Does what I want out of it. Nothing “agentic”.

I print my own bullets /s

What maintenance do you mean? run OS updates and pay the vps bill. that’s true for any self hosted application. which specific maintenance are you referring to?

Perhaps Nullsoft SHOUTcast

Been running one for many years, mostly issue-free. Had to request whitelists way in the beginning, but things turned out ok.

Check out this super great guide. https://workaround.org/ispmail-trixie

“can’t access this thing, server must be down”

The more I scroll fdroid, the more apps I install

I bought rechargeable AA lithium batteries. They have a usbc slot on the positive end. Really handy. They do 1.5V.

No, because EEE is about killing existing competing standards. OOXML came out of microsoft themselves.

What is on fdroid??

Nothing came of grok generating CP, so I don’t know if anything will.

What do you use NFC for? Because I literally never use it. Just curious.

You can’t prevent people from using older versions. New versions need to be tested, by the time this process is finished, upstream already released a newer version.

If you use the talking point of “own customizations”, did you get that from the mint thread and did you read it through? Software should come as is, but in some cases devs work slower or have other priorities so I understand bugs get fixed some other way. The whole pipeline from dev to user isn’t as simple as you think.

I’m not arguing any of that. Package maintainers are doing invisible and often thankless work. The way this person communicates really struck a cord.

We have been using simplex for years now, but my wife and son also have whatsapp because their friends are on there. This week I found out they also use it to message eachother, out of convenience… I’m not one to force, just a little disappointed.

I avoid Bottles out of principle because one of the devs doesn’t understand what open source means and harasses distros to remove older versions.

https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/issues/2345

Also referring to “inferior package manager” in that post.

Same dev harassed Mint for shipping Gnome Calendar in their repositories.

https://gitlab.com/linuxmint/pins/mint/gnome-calendar/-/work_items/1

Double digits! So happy, 1 in 10 desktops run Linux.

I use Remmina to take over Windows PCs but since it’s RDP it will lock the device. If you want the other person to be able to follow along I recommend rustdesk.