If I was going to fall off the wagon after 2 years, I hope to gods it would be with something better than Bud Light.

Mine’s only for people I know personally, so it’s backed by my LDAP server and registration is disabled in Synapse. I use my regular onboarding process to create the new LDAP user and grant access to Synapse.

I just want more games to let you quit to desktop from the game without having to first “Quit to main menu -> Are you sure? (yes!) -> Loading screen + main menu animation -> Quit to Desktop -> Are you sure? (Yes, i’m goddamned sure!)”

I understand where OOP is coming from re: social media screenshots as memes but I’ll still have a bit of fun meme-ing the dilemma. No hard feelings, OOP, and I agree with you.

Here’s a write-up I read not too long ago and answers many of your questions, though the author is mostly concerned with getting data access going. Short answer is yes, most will “just work” provided you use the correct modes and configs.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/using-4g-lte-wireless-modems-on-raspberry-pi/

do linux apps working as contact list/dialer/SMS receiver/sender exist?

Those all fall under what’s called the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and is often problematic implementing in open source. If I recall, Ubuntu Touch has a (mostly?) working IMS implementation but I don’t recall if it’s universally functional or limited to specific devices/carriers. Some WWAN cards will allow calls/texts, but those are usually in “3G” mode which is rapidly disappearing as carriers switch to VoLTE or VoNR/Vo5G (which are basically just fancy VoIP).

If you’re willing to forego traditional carrier voice/messaging, you can use any number of messaging apps that work on Linux and/or combine that with a 3rd party VoIP provider for PSTN calling/phone number and SMS/MMS. Just don’t expect to get RCS messaging going; even on Android proper, you’re limited to Google Messages only.

If you’re going to post political memes in a non-political meme community, at least spell things correctly.

Nice! Those AllWinner boards are a little tricky to get going and have some quirks, but the price is great for the extra horsepower you get. Granted, I use the latest Armbian since the manufacturer’s images are all quite old.

130GB for the entire thing? And the pi doesn’t choke on indexing / searching it?

That was my thought. I knew it couldn’t hold it in RAM but thought it would be doing crazy IO and limited by being on SD, but it seems to not be a problem. Like I said, I don’t know how ZIM does it, but it does it well. Must have some kind of index that lets it fast travel to the correct blocks or something. I dunno lol.

how capable is the search engine (I assume it has one?)

Yep, it has search. It’s…okay but kind of primitive. It’s not slow, and if you’re searching for something that’s fairly unique (as far as keywords go), it does well. But if you’re searching something like an acronym where it shows up as a regular word in other entries, it’s a lot more hit or miss.

Yep, and I love it.

I’ve got a little Banana Pi M4 Zero (PiZero form factor but much more powerful and with 4 GB RAM) loaded up with, among other useful tools, Kiwix and the full Wikipedia dump. I just refreshed it with the 2026-02 full dump, so I’m caught up for the year. I’ve also got a lot of other offline docs loaded up (React, Bun, and the devdocs for several libraries I use) and it’s nice to have local copies of those instead of googling every time.

Surprisingly, the full ~130 GB Wikipedia dump works fine on a regular Pi Zero 2 with 512 MB RAM. I don’t know how ZIM works but it does work very very well.

Yeah, that’s what I’ve got, and I really like it.

I’m in the same boat. Got all the equipment in for my whole house solar installation and will be re-routing circuits to the new panel as soon as I have time so will have to turn all the power off for the duration of that.

I’ve got an Anker power station that should run my stack for about 4-4.5 hours by itself and can run it indefinitely while the sun is out while hooked into the PV panels. Those are (currently) independent from the new installation I’m about to start.

My UPS’s are also LiFePO4 models and can add an additional ~45 minutes of uptime. So hopefully 5 hours is enough to avoid having to shut anything down.

Ugh. Prob similar to the posters who are well aware political meme communities exist but insist on posting them here. There’s nothing temporary about those blocks, but I’m willing to let the horny posters get it out of their system and unblock them later.

A few weeks ago, “horny posting” became the latest bandwagon here, and I got bored of it, so temporarily blocked the handful of accounts posting the bulk of those. Usually these bandwagon themes fizzle out after a while, so I check back every so often to see when it’s safe to unblock them.

Yep, reasons.

“My deck is screwed off, and it looks fantastic”.

Would that make her kid a demi-Demi Lovoto or Semi Demi Lovato?

Adding this to my reaction image collection.

Was it because Blanche is a southern belle and said “you all” instead of “y’all”? Cause I had to grumble about that at first.

And Linux, but agreed lol.

Yeah. Lenin, Marx, Betty White, and the Golden Girls.