I quit on day two with two takeaways:

– Hardware must be well supported in fully-libre-land - I was trying to install on a Mac Mini and had to go nonguix pretty much right away. That kind of spoiled the whole effort.

– Profound meditation and enlightenment on the essence of Scheme is a must. I had one of those ‘no, this is where you don’t want a closing brace’ moments and my zen was blown out of the water.

I would have soldiered on, but personally I like Arch first and foremost because I can (and do) have a local repo by rsyncing a rotation of mirrors couple of times a week. Just in case the Internet dies one day, you know. I realised Guix was not really suitable for the apocalypse use case, so after that brace episode I decided to stick with what my spine already knows.

After all that is said – I really hope you fare better :D

I did! John Marley Centre for Music and Media 2000-'02 represent :3 It was still 2" tape and patching outboard at the time though.

Whatever you end up using, have JACK sync 'em up. I used to have two Macs, one for recording with Nuendo and one for doing MIDI sequencing and programming. They synced via MIDI sync and there was always issues. Now I have everything on one Linux machine (Ardour records and mixes, Reaper sequences MIDI and Renoise does beats and other sampling related stuff) and with JACK the sync is seamless <3

I’m thinking Waydroid or something alike with Gapps installed with a burner G account. That can be spun up when parking app or work benefits app are needed, as these are the only two normie apps in my life that require the googly bits. Same drill as I do with GrapheneOS now - second user profile with Google enabled that only runs a minute if i need to pay for parking or a meal :)

Ok, interested. Looks like a project to support with real money. I’m in.

If the price of their product feels steep, it’s not that bad actually. I paid over 600 € to f@ckin’ Google for a device to run GrapheneOS on :o)

Yes, or SSH keys or any other means of user authentication. The cool thing in this technique is that it’s twofold and you (as an attacker) can cherry-pick the info given. If you walk up locally to someone’s running system, you could skip the first half and go with the ‘hey, can you resize this XFS image for me’ bit.

The technique described here is only a concern if the ‘bad actor’ has access to a user account on your machine in the first place.

The dev’s VSCode application installs a helper package in /root/.vscode-server. Separate copy for every user that connects. It runs a bunch of ‘node’ processes that often stack up more used CPU time than MySQL. I’m not a fan…

Thanks, that’ll come in handy!

I guess it’s worth mentioning that once (only once) I’ve seen ripgrep bring a whole LAMP stack production server to a full tilt. A dev using VSCode (which has rg as part of its ‘trojan horse’ vscode-server it installs and runs as root on any server it’s used to edit) did a search and ripgrep went into some kind of death loop hogging 100% of all cpu cores. Probably rare, but kind of shocked me. All our servers now babysit vscode-server with cgroups…

The sharp uptick of crap flown around 2.6 piques my interest. As does someone’s introduction of ‘retard’ into the vocabulary shortly prior. Must have been popcorn times.

The only caveat here is the fire-hazard non-removable lithium batteries.

Here too. Free 2012 Mac Mini that’s been servering away for a couple of years already 24/7 on UPS power. Gets a deserved smile every time I look at it :)

I’m looking at replacing my 2018 desktop machine (a Thinkcentre Tiny) soon with one of the new AMD 395 mini-pcs. When that happens, the Mac Mini will be retired…

Sailfish OS is really nice, but only available for select Sony Xperia phones officially. Also native apps are few in number, but when I used it there was enough for basic needs - really good navigation app, ok Matrix and Telegram, official email app was excellent, the browser was workable. I think I got an Android parking app working too. But this was a while ago.

Had to look it up XD Just regular papa and mama bear with cubs :)

Amateurs.

(90-packs due to two bodybuilder household – amateurs, as in not professional :)

I’ve been keeping a sandboxed chromium on my machines only to access Facebook. For everything else I use qutebrowser.

When chromium started doing this (letting it access my keyring was not an option), I decided that instead of looking in the config or switching to firefox, it’s time to finally drop Facebook from my life. Problem solved, hundreds of megabytes freed :)

Has anyone not mentioned Openbox yet? Window decorations look like the NeXT style, just colourful.

Since getting my first fragile smartphone (HTC Hero, 2009) I’ve zero phone drops on my soul. Guess the question is why drop phones? Daddy buys new one?

Kudos, I think that is a great DIY solution!

A coworker who’s a quarter of a century younger than me is well on the way towards that ideal. Libreboot and all. I caught the bug and decided to start with Guix on my home server, but it turns out a Mac Mini is not the platform to go fully libre with XD The itch does persist…