I keep an extensive, unorganised mass of random notes and thoughts in Obsidian, and also a separate extensive unorganised pile of notes and thoughts in a paper notebook, thus ensuring I don’t know where anything is and rendering the whole process futile.

Oh yeah I know. It’s just one of those money/time things I’ll get around to eventually.

Same here, I have an old Pixel 4a that still gets security updates from GrapheneOS. Banking apps and Amazon don’t seem to like it, but I don’t mind just doing those on my laptop anyway.

I’m on my second Lenovo in a row, they seem to be really good for Linux. Actually the previous one did get a drink dumped on it too, and it didn’t phase it at all. The 5 key is a little sticky sometimes but otherwise works fine.

I might be tempted to get a Framework for my next one though, if I can get the cash together for a 16.

Yeah that’s what I do. I use filen because it’s nice and easy to use and I got in early and got a good deal on a lifetime plan (actually two because you could stack them at the time, I dunno if you still can), but yeah I encrypt everything locally first before I upload it so it doesn’t really matter if it gets stolen or whatever.

If you do that then I don’t think it really matters especially where you put it.

Mine was a Spectrum 48k lol. And not the disk one, the one that ran games off an audio cassette cause we weren’t rich.

As a sidenote, you can get around the VPN block with Redlib by just adding safe- to the start of most reddit URLs. So like instead of reddit.com/r/linux or whatever you can do safereddit.com/r/linux and it should work without needing a login.

I think the TV series of Station Eleven is better than the book. Not that the book is bad at all, but the show is something else.

Oh that’s handy, thanks! I only have like 3 things as appimages but I already switched them over lol

Personally I tend to go AUR first, then Flatpak and then Appimage if there’s no other choice. Snaps never lol

The reason being, I find that Flatpaks sometimes have issues with not being able to access certain things in the filesystem which can cause problems. That’s presumably by design since they’re sandboxed and you can fix it with Flatseal or whatever, but it’s an extra level of fiddling that I can’t always be bothered with. I do prefer Flatpaks for certain things that are messy with dependencies though (looking at you, Steam.) Appimages I don’t really like because I hate having to go and check manually for updates for each one, it feels too much like Windows to me. But there are a couple of things that only have Appimage versions so I’ll suck it up.

Snaps I just find to be a huge pain in the ass, and I’ve never found an app I need that doesn’t already have a version on the AUR or as Flatpak or an Appimage, so I really have no need for them.

The thing that helped me felt very counterintuitive, but I ended up just picking one family member as a ‘main’ character, and letting the rest run on their own.

My instinct is always to try and micro-manage everyone in the household, which gets stressful quickly. If I focus on one person and let the rest just generate their own stories I tend to last a lot longer.

Oh yeah I do other more complicated things when necessary, that’s just my day-to-day thing for when I need to grab a copy of a video quickly!

Or at least space them out a bit. You get one set for the first 5-10 years, and then the second set has to last you the remaining 60-70.

Getting a new set at like 35-40 seems like a more sensible system to me.

I could see it being useful for like an office or something, where you do a big roll-out to a bunch of people. I’d assume having the system files be read-only and (presumably) the same on every system would eliminate a lot of guesswork for IT troubleshooting.

It’s funny how as soon as two competing projects (Life By You and Paralives) start to get closer to release they suddenly care about improving stuff they’ve ignored for 10 years lol

Hmm, not sure exactly. I’ve been using Llama3 because it seems to give decent results for most things quickly, but I haven’t really done much coding with it outside of some simple bash scripts TBH.

I’ve been using GPT4All and quite liking it so far.

TBH I just set an alias to alias yt='yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4"' and then yt [URL of video] is all I need to type.

Yeah I think just general data harvesting for Microsoft. Also I’d suspect if you were doing something like pirating TV shows maybe you could get busted that way even with a VPN? If the AI is set up to recognize it and report it I mean.

Maybe Gamepass if it got big enough?

I think Gamepass installs games to an encrypted location so you can’t go in and access them for mods etc. (someone will correct me if I’m wrong I’m sure, I don’t have Gamepass but I think I read that somewhere), and Microsoft owns a lot of big titles now (everything from Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda etc.) so presumably going forward they could make those incompatible with Proton.

That’s a lot of ifs though, and they presumably wouldn’t be able to do anything about older games that are already out there, and that’s assuming that pirates don’t just figure out how to crack them, they are a clever bunch.