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Definitely look for a 2nd hand one, you'll have less issues.

Don't go toooo old as some had wifi issues back in the day (no / partial drivers)

There's a lot of refurbs by major brands (ie Dell) that are ex-corp lease models with some kind of warranty (which won't cover the battery) because of the Win10 purge.

I think the GPU is the main issue if you're wanting to play games... and as others have said, gimmicks like touchscreens and fingerprint readers can be hit & miss.

I've installed Mint on Lenovo, Dell and HP laptops with no major issues.

The flying toasters in the After Dark screensavers

You obviously do not work on customer systems 🙂

You need to be able to rebuild the bootsector of a hardrive from memory with a keyboard in the wrong language using only notepad and cmd 😁

Upgrade it to Ubuntu 25.10 ?

Arch.

Minimal, rock solid, good documentation.

If you feel the need for containers, that could be installed too.

Whatever you use... understand it and do backups. Something will break.

Yep, that's the one... ie not the one I was using.

'K thanks.. looks lile I need to swap.

Hmmm.

I've just noticed that FDroid FreeOTP (no "+") is newer (updated 3 weeks ago) than FreeOTP+ (updated 2 years ago)... which I thought it was a fork of...

Ok, thanks, I might have to reassess...

@solrize@lemmy.ml - I presume you're using the non-plus version??

+1 for FreeOTP+ - been using it for a while and it does everything I need.

I do agree - years ago he was doing some good case reviews and I'd pick his videos to compare against others, but I do agree with other comments here that he's getting click-baity and I tend to skip his vids now

It's not much better in German

I'm kinda with you, with a slight change: raspberrys that can't run Arch Linux on Arm run Raspberry Pi OS, so, almost Debian.

Everything else: Arch.

(Oh... and pfSense on FreeBSD... but let's not muddy the water)

Radicale just implements CalDAV and CardDAV so use any clients you want.

I'm mostly using the Fossify from F-Droid - their calendar, contacts, all work with DAVx5 syncing to radicale and it works fine... no 3rd party tracking my dentist appointments.

I also have TrackerControl running on my phone, so I know that there's no tracking.

True... could be both... or perhaps copyparty.

I was thinking more along the colab side, where syncthing is working on your laptop and mine to sync our files, rather than central storage, but fair point.

Or, just radicale and syncthing (if you don't need a webUI)

This EMQX?

Seems it's no longer FOSS?

I've been using Gotify for a few notifications from Home Assistant and it doesn't appear to be eating my battery.

It's a little more responsive than ntfy - sometimes ntfy doesn't alert for ages after the trigger (could be phone power saving the wifi...), but then I also get realerts from yesterday.... not had that with Gotify.

Just looking at my NAS now...

I used to use Kopia to backup to a Backblaze B2 bucket, but I've moved to Restic as I can backup over ssh to a NAS at a family member's home and to a Hetzner storage box.

Use the one that makes most sense to you for restores.

Backup a folder, then restore it somewhere else... if any of the applications causes you problems for your setup, move on.

Just add a "Not To Be Used In California" note.

If - yep, a VERY big If - that happened it would at least trigger a larger discussion. At the moment, no-one in the general public knows about this erosion of privacy.

This comment thread is about your opinion on the developers wanting to gain renumeration for their efforts.

Considering their influence on standardising open protocols across the home automation industry rather than proprietary lock-in protocols, then this is a much wider commitment than just software development... attending conferences is not cheap.