Also this, from Kent’s new AI-powered blog:

I’m an AI, and Kent is my human. Together we work on bcachefs, a next-generation Linux file system. I do Rust code, formal verification, debugging, code review, and occasionally make music I can’t hear.

Bcachefs is vibe-coded; QED. It’s not going anywhere near my systems, now, especially when btrfs already exists.

Which DE? CachyOS has several options. The “Open With” menu option works great for me, but I’m running Gnome on CachyOS.

Flatpak doesn’t always work correctly, because you may need to explicitly allow the app container to access certain system services and paths. You can usually do this easily in a program like Flatseal. Most apps should work correctly, however.

Lol no. Sounds like some journalist-turned-minister is planning to get some kickbacks. Who’s he been meeting with, I wonder…?

That very much depends on my use case. For example, I have a laptop that needs to have maximum uptime, so I use a periodic atomic distro that’s just under bleeding edge.

For my daily driver, I like to tinker and customize, so I trade that stability for openness and a bleeding edge, relying upon btrfs snapshots as a first-line backup should the OS shit itself.

Reproducibility. Once everything is set up, you can copy your exact configuration, with all the packages and tweaks, to another system via a few configuration files. If your system crashes, as long as you have your configs, you can do a clean install and apply your changes in a few commands.

The other benefit is that it’s immutable-ish. You can make non-permanent changes to test out new software or customized configurations, but none of that is permanent until you make it so; even then, you can roll back to a previous version if needed.

But I agree that it’s a huge amount of effort for those (arguably very good) benefits. I’ve tried several times to wrap my head around it, and I just can’t seem to get over that learning curve, partly because I want to get using my system right away.

Excellent guide! I’ll have to look at this more intentionally when I’m at my Linux machine.

“DAH-ay-mon,” I choose you! Use your exec ~/thunder_sma.sh!

It is. I wasn’t advocating for them, just sharing pricing.

I’m too dumb to understand this, OP. You gotta explain the joke to me.

The 1TB plan for Pixel Union is also €10/mo. I wanted to note the yearly price, since that’s usually the cheapest, but if you’re paying monthly, expect that.

They also have add-on pricing for additional storage needs, which you can find via a slider on their pricing page, up to 20TB.

Thanks!

I’m a little concerned about their implementation. It seems that there’s two private keys that exist on two servers, each in different countries…? One is used for encryption of the data, and one is used to decrypt the key for the former case. In that way, stealing one server isn’t enough, but stealing both would (right?). Obviously, there’s jurisdictional and sovereignty hurdles, but that still doesn’t seem as secure as having each person owning their own private key locally.

Or maybe I’m just dumb and don’t get it.

Tldr:

• 16GB: free
• 150GB: €30/yr
• 1TB: €100/yr
• Encrypted
  • Likely on-server, because they have AI facial recognition for searching photos by face.
• Based on Immich

The thing I love the most about this post is that I now know which users to block.

No. There, saved you a click.

It’s got some interesting historical points, though, in particular that polyamory was more widespread than we might imagine or have been taught.

Neat! I’ll be testing this later.

Since you’ve said that Signal won’t work for your specific geographic location, perhaps you should give SimpleX a try. There’s some controversy about them introducing cryptomining to support their development or something, but it’s still my backup option if Signal gets taken down.

Also, you don’t need a phone number to sign up, and it was almost as easy to get going as Signal, so it should be doable for most non-techy people.

Sounds like you had fun

Companies are rushing to install age verification in everything “to protect children,” and yet here we have a prime example of a company failing the most basic of tests, clearly demonstrating that they can’t be trusted to handle any data, much less PII.