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I do the same, but then you should have two copies, encrypted-at-rest and one offsite.

This is wonderful. You should be proud. It's a fun recreation and it was fun to use. Back when I was using XP (2004-2010), I had a 19" black CRT monitor. Once I got a laptop, it became a second monitor. I got whatever the family didn't want and the few things I scrounged from used computer stores. In 2010, I jumped to Windows 7. The theming of Windows XP always reminds me of seeing it for the first time, how colourful and inviting it looked.

I like having my media locally, non-drm and under my control as well. I've grown-up in an era when media flowed freely on the Internet (music, tv, movies, books, academic papers, games and software). It takes a minimum of effort, but it's also not sorcery. It's just a collection of files sitting on a hard drive. I then have layers of software (docker containers) to serve those files and keep databases with metadata listings up-to-date. I also enjoy cataloguing and maintaining my own media. It's a passion and a pastime. That's why I continue to save media.

Unfortunately, I usually find out about things that directly affect my employer (government) on local subreddits before I find it through any other source. I will read CBC/Radio-Canada and TVO (public broadcasters for Canada and Ontario)

Even a regular mobile connection 4G-5G can feel spotty with connections/disconnections dropping for a few seconds. I spend some time every summer in rural Haliburton Highlands/North Hastings (middle Ontario), cellular reception is hit and miss, one bar maybe two, voice calls, when successful, sound awful and text messages frequently stay unsent (or send multiple times inexplicably). Unless you can afford starlink, or drive into the next town and hit the library wifi, you're out-of-luck. As you're driving cell service will drop depending on elevation. A quick check of facebook messenger and maybe loading a webpage for information. Forget a fancy app.

I actually like this idea in theory. Except, it wouldn't allow for students to find flexible part-time work.

As an example, I was a university student in Canada ~15 years ago. I lived with my parents, driving 30 minutes each way to attend classes. I had car insurance, gas, a cell phone, tuition, parking and books to pay. Tuition was costing 6000$ a year over 5 years. Being in humanities, I chose my own course schedule. I would often have classes 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday. I would work nights and weekends 25-33.5 hours most weeks..Most part-time employment worked around student hours and allowed some flexibility. Once I graduated and had a full-time salary position, I had much more free time and struggled to not feel lonely in filling up that time.

Wow. The ease-of-use is insanely good. I haven't figured out yet how to move clippy to a different location on the screen (rather than centred), but it works well. I have multiple models downloaded and am chatting already!

beets, it's ridiculously good, https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#

ListenBrainz has filled that void for me. My profile here, https://listenbrainz.org/user/iPodSmypod/ Blog post on the topic: https://theonlyblogever.com/blog/2025/scrobbling-libre.html

Exactly.

Just today, I finished migrating all my local services from my Windows desktop to a new machine running Ubuntu 24.10. I can now shut down the entire Windows machine and boot it up without Internet access as needed. Seems like as good a time as any to run Linux on the desktop.

I want to do something similar, but I have multiple compose files, one per project, I haven’t figured out how to script this yet in subfolders.

It's awful.

Story time. My wife and I were vacationing in Portugal last summer. She left her purse in a uber car on the way to the airport. The driver found the purse and dumped it after taking 20$ and some costume jewellery. We tracked it to an abandoned parking lot later that day using an AirTag and we ended up finding it using the Location app. We have AirTags in every bag now and we change the batteries on a schedule.

My Canadian constitution isn't very fond of grits. But, "when in Russia..." I suppose.

I created an account in 2022, but had been a regular reader much earlier. From Slashdot in 2002 to Digg in 2004 to Reddit in 2010 and now HN. Happy New Year (+30). Here's to a personally productive 2025!

Same here,

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I agree, in a sense. Windows has had mostly .exe (.msi) packaged installers that run their own install scripts to place files and modify the system to run the software. The software vendors all used the same format. Installing software was a practised exercise of double-clicking on a installer.exe file and then hitting next a bunch of times.

OSX (before the App Store model) had .dmg disk images and installer files, where you drop the entire application into a folder and that .app file contained everything the application needed to run. Easy enough to install applications.

But, what happened when you wanted to update a program or application? You went an manually downloaded the application or found the update button in the context menu and updated. This meant that many users would not update very often. Because the process was manual and because you were never sure what would work or when the new version would refuse to work with your hardware or OS version. Even with an app store, you still need to open the store app and click update or look through menus to find which software packages need updating.

For a long time, as both a Windows and OSX user, I saw the benefits of both approaches. Now, as a Linux user, I can update my entire system, with one bash alias I can update my chosen installed applications, but also my operating system files, and my flatpfak apps or containers and even my firmware (fwupd). It has changed the paradigm of computing for me. It makes me feel like a superhero. I don't have to worry about an update breaking my system. Better still, I don't have to manually update my operating system separately from each application I've chosen to install. I can do it all from the terminal and I can see all of the changes my system will make. It has been a great experience. Do things sometimes break? Yep. But, they broke on the other OS's too. I take it as a learning experience.

Maybe I've just talked myself into trying an immutable os.

I have to agree. I've been using standard notes, and honestly, will probably end up just paying for it.

I do hope someone can port this to gnome extensions.

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I would say creating sexual, pornographic or depicting criminal acts with AI generated images and videos using photographs and media of a person without their consent is morally wrong. It will however, only get easier to create and manipulate images. It is going to become automatic and the barriers to entry will be reduced. The social default will be to assume that everything is a AI generated or manipulated. It will not matter if the content is real.

I have no idea. If you’re on the same LAN, I assume you can use LocalSend, although I haven’t had any luck with it on my corporate, segregated, network. I’m betting it doesn’t work with complicated configs or MAC address filtering.

As others have said, I use a combination of LocalSend on all my devices (Win64, Linux, iOS…) and a Syncthing folder that I call QuickSync and added as a shortcut to all of my file managers a few years ago. Syncthing, in particular, works so well that you don’t even notice it, until you have a file conflict. It’s a great solution to have files synced easily.

I did the exact same thing.

Me!

I managed to set one up for my in-laws. It works well enough with their smart tv (a plasma lg from 2010) that they can say “Alexa cable tv” or “Alexa Die Hard” and it will turn on the tv, find the streaming service that has the movie, and start playing. The voice incantation does have to be fairly specific and it did take some practice to figure it out.

This domain name is unfortunate.

I've had a Framework 13" Intel 12th Gen for about two years now. It's my personal machine, so it doesn't get a ton of use. It's been quiet as a web surfing and desktop syncing machine. I use it to administer my other computer around the house. I even used it to host a steam game trivia night and some light gaming without issue. I've switched out the hinges and will probably switch mainboards and displays at some point in the future.

Does it have battery life like the macbook or those new arm machines? No. Does it have the same performance for RAM as soldered options? Probably not. But if they introduce an LPCAMM2 variant, it will be more competitive.