I use Tumbleweed on my main PC, mostly because I remember upgrading systems being a bit of a pain back in 2008 and I rather liked the idea of rolling release. SuSE also made snapper, a BTRFS snapshot manager.
The only time I’ve had problems with my PC is because of NVidia driver updates.
Aeon looks interesting though. Going to look into it deeper. I’m in the process of switching my main work computer from Windows 11 to Linux, and I’m contemplating what would be the best option for stability and maintainability. Nix has been appealing but it feels like that might suck too much time on maintenance, one of the reasons I want away from Windows.
I don’t care so much about the origins of an OS honestly, but since fedora is owned by Red Hat and IBM I don’t want to touch it. Particularly given IBMs involvement with AI and other such bullshit.
Oh, this looks interesting! And it doesn't require you to use some bullshit third party provider to sign up, unlike Tailscale. Nice!
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So I spun it up on my VPS. The install script they offer on Github is super nice. Gave you a snippet to plonk into Caddy, and voila. It's up and running. It's very reminiscent of Tailscale.
I'd never heard of these guys before. The Ryu looks interesting! Nice with another company based in Europe too, and it sounds like their business is going well. Will keep my eyes peeled!
Didn’t know they had a model like that. I picked up a Knorse from Weredog recently. Turns out that particular model got so popular they got backlogged. 😞
A lot of modern printers are hooked up to your router either via cable or WiFi rather than directly to your computer.
UPnP stands for Universal Plug and Play. It allows devices on a network to find each other easier. In some cases, UPnP can also do port forwarding to let external devices or services access your network easier. It’s not that uncommon in say video games where different video game clients need to talk to one another.
I’m honestly not sure why a printer would do that. Incompetent or malicious printer manufacturers perhaps. There is plenty of proof for the latter.
I'm not sure I'd put foot fetishisation in the same list as genocide, but I'm not really into either of these things so I'm perhaps not the best person to ask.
Honestly should be a EU level thing. A lot of products here in Sweden are labelled with country of origin but if it's from multiple countries it might just say "from apples grown in the European Union" or something similar.
Gmail is simple (albeit not necessarily easy) to replace, it's just an email service and there are tonnes out there. I've heard great things about Tuta, but I use Proton. With hindsight I would've chosen Tuta. Proton has put money into developing some BS cryptowallet and has LLM features I don't care for.
Adobe is a bit trickier, I admit, at least if you need it in a professional capacity. Some would suggest Affinity, but I won't. They were bought up by Canva, there's a bunch of AI bullshit there now, and while it's free, you should expect enshittification. I'm not putting time and effort into learning a tool that's going to be yoinked away.
Adobe is also trickier in the sense that they have a fuckton of products. If you don't need any of their products in a professional capacity there's always that alternative.
For Notion there's also a lot of alternatives. Logseq, Appflowy, Affine, Obsidian.
I think the important thing to remember is that when changing a tool you'll also often need to change your workflow. Some tools have similar workflows, others work completely differently, and some might give you tools you didn't know you needed. It's always going to involve a bunch of work though.
I'm personally in the process of trying to get away from Adobe's Substance Painter. I was never particularly fond of the application, it's honestly quite shit, but it's also decently unique in what it does. Yeah there are tools similar to it but none that match fully.
There are usually guidelines and maintainers that are in control of the project althat do control these things. That system has worked pretty alright traditionally, but it’s become more cumbersome now that anyone can generate garbage and basically automate “contributions.”
It means that real contributions get drowned out in the noise and the maintainers that have the final say in if a PR gets accepted or not get overworked.
We should tax corporations and use that to fund FOSS. It’s ridiculous how much of modern tech is built on the work of FOSS maintainers without the corporations paying back to it.
I use Tumbleweed on my main PC, mostly because I remember upgrading systems being a bit of a pain back in 2008 and I rather liked the idea of rolling release. SuSE also made snapper, a BTRFS snapshot manager.
The only time I’ve had problems with my PC is because of NVidia driver updates.
Aeon looks interesting though. Going to look into it deeper. I’m in the process of switching my main work computer from Windows 11 to Linux, and I’m contemplating what would be the best option for stability and maintainability. Nix has been appealing but it feels like that might suck too much time on maintenance, one of the reasons I want away from Windows.