If this is so convenient, why wasn’t it made a part of a newer C standard?

What about the oven?

Linux is not what it used to be.

When you think linux (on the desktop), don’t think nerdy terminal thing… Think a bit more complicated Android when using gnome and when talking normal use. You still can use it for advanced features like self hosting, but for advanced things you would need terminal. Regarding normal use, I installed it for my mom… No complaints, no viruses, she is super happy since people today mostly use a web browser.

Mini PC can be used for selfhosting, yes. Server is a ‘role’. It’s not necessarily hardware. So you can selfhost a bunch of things on rpi, Linux phone or actual server hardware. Subscribe to selfhosted community and see what people do there. Easiest is maybe to start with network file share to work with windows (in Linux world this is called samba).

Self hosting will not come always with a gui and you need to learn things like podman (a container engine), but recently a management tool called cockpit bacame very usable. I think i saw that they even have samba configuration GUI, but I’m not sure. Anyway, Cockpit is a web tool, so if you have it enabled, you can fix and change things from another computer. Check the screenshots: https://cockpit-project.org/

If Arte Works via a browser, install Firefox and that’s it.

I use a mini PC from HP, elitedesk or prodesk not really sure, with Intel 8gen cpu. Size is like 2x 100g chocolates. I would advise against this specific micro pc - due to some hp firmware stupidity - it causes HDMI to not have Sound out-of-the-box. Some manual configuration is needed (if you do opt for it, I can tell you how to fix it).

To avoid these problems. I would go for AMD CPU of 4000 gen of later. That kind of pc on willhaben costs roughly 200-300eur.

You can check also afbshop they tend to have refurbished equipment for really good prices with warranty from time to time.

Since we are in the privacy community, maybe not. I only proposed it for convenience and if this didn’t cross your mind.

Privacy aside, with PS5 or Xbox you get a device with two features. Plus new games are insanely pretty, I really like Forza 5. Since this is not what you want, I can propose maybe one alternative, better fitting for privacy community: use Linux Box in the form of a mini PC and get a USB optical drive.

A while ago I was considering a similar thing, just instead of dvd, I was considering blu-ray. Couldn’t find really a cheap one which works with 4k, so im sticking with mini PC option and an Xbox

What about BluRay Player in the form of PS5 or Xbox Series X?

Did not think of doing that.

I guess i never expected anyone to have a fcking JavaScript on a simple page as that

https://isitdns.com/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

Another happy hetzner customer

Not an expert on the topic, but I guess this will come down to companies providing the services (meta, signal, telegram…) to embed the scanning.

If they don’t force google/apple to implement it somehow for all outgoing messages (traffic?)

Google removing sideloading conveniently plays into this…

EU regulation to scan all messages on user devices

I just hope Americans will not decide to bring more freedom and democracy to canada as they did to other countries for oil

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

In general you are not allowed to have private repos if you don’t contribute to open source.

https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/

They do recognize that private repos are sometimes needed, so there is a guideline.

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Pulseaudio was introduced in 2004. How come it took almost 20y for it to be replaced if it was that bad?

Implementation, being what it is, improved the situation compared to alsa and other things before it. Again, while not perfect it made things better for everyone.

It’s funny that this is a thing attributed to poettering as bad since things before were way worse… why not throw Sticks and stones at those people?

I really don’t get it.

And all of these things are optional. The fact that distro people and companies select them is because they solve real world problems.

People are idiots.

Poettering got death threats for systemd.

Is it really breaking it? As far as I’m aware, it’s more like gnu. It has components and you can select what you use (here meaning distros and packagers).

People mistake this for a monolith because it’s all named systemd-thing. Integration, like you said, was and is needed. But what if all those separate utilities and services are actually disconnected and speak some protocol different to pipe? Does it make it less unixy?

And poettering is an absolute good guy here. Pulseaudio wasn’t perfect, but did it improve things compared to what was there before? Sure it did. Even now, pulesaudio protocol is used within pipewire and it works just fine.

Perfect is the enemy of good. And while all these tools might not be perfect, they are the best in the Linux world.

This is the key to a painless transition.

1. Dual boot should be ok. If and when you decide to fully switch, I’d say it’s better to do a reinstall. Messing with partitions always comes with disclaimers. A bit advanced topic if you are interested: when you resize partition usually data needs to be moved, depending what you do with it, so it will wear your ssd; also you should be aware that you must install windows first, Linux second because windows doesn’t really play well with others and be sure NOT to format EFI partition when installing Linux.

You have alternatives to dual boot: VMs. Run Linux on bare metal, then boot up a VM if you need something only windows can provide. Gnome has a new VM tool incoming.

2. No idea for audio, but Photoshop has alternative, gimp. Wether you like it or not, it’s another story (people I know really really hate that one). For digital art there is a tool called Krita that runs on kde. People really enjoy using it.

3. NTFS has one thing that Linux doesn’t really like - it is case insensitive. Linux normally works with case sensitive filesystems. There was recently a rant by the Linux overlord about case insensitive filesystems, so you might want to stay clear of it. It’s ok to use it on a thumb drive though.

Edit: minor typing fixes