Of course, in fact you do not have to change right now, or even next month. Instead you are in a great position when you already have a device because it means you can take the time you need to prepare for a transition without any rush. The problem IMHO is … if you repeat the cycle. If in few years, or whenever you do change phones you say, again “Switching isn’t necessarily easy or doable for everyone” while having done nothing to change your situation.

Please, don’t rush a change and make it painful. Take the time and use the resources you have… but do something, even if a small thing, to go where you want to be. Do not stay stuck in a place you do not even enjoy.

No worries!

GraphineOS

GrapheneOS

Honestly… I come from iOS, using for nearly a decade. Yes that stuff is secure, yes that stuff is (or at least was) stable, yes that stuff is slick to the point of being a status symbol… but DAMN does it suck for interoperability!

Every success of bringing the Apple ecosystem to interact with anything is just so ridiculously hard… for in the end bringing very little.

Do yourself a favor, switch to (deGoogled) Android to enjoy KDE Connect, adb, scrcpy, etc just working out of the box, copying normal files the normal way, however you want. Try “just” Linux if you can’t but on mobile that’s not for everyone.

Again, I celebrate this success and all ways, e.g. iSH or Homebrew, that help to tinker, manage, work with Apple hardware but honestly I suggest ignoring it entirely. Just rely on software and hardware that actually provides the bare minimum to be interoperable. Not this.

Instead use this, and iSH, Homebrew, libimobiledevice, and the rest to transition AWAY from that locked ecosystem.

Hard to fall behind what? None of them is making anything interesting. Best they can do is provide some text that sound superficially plausible, is statistically correct and yet have 0 reasoning.

Nobody is “ahead” of anybody except is managing to do so with even more data while wasting even more resources.

Maybe more importantly of the participants in that race demonstrated that to keep on doing so will actually solve any of the problems that have been discovered along the way.

FWIW rsync also works on mobile phones and VR standalone HMDs, via e.g. termux or ish … so it’s really on working fine on… pretty much anything with a terminal and a connection really.

Warmly recommended.

Also if you need more than solely the last version, check rdiff-backup.

Indeed, and it … worked, in fact still does, exactly as expected.

surprisingly convincing

Why though? It’s literally designed to be convincing.

It’s a small thing but between that and recent CloudFlare/AWS/Azure outages self-hosting feels a lot more like a necessity than something nice to have.

1. you owning a domain, e.g. familyname.potato , does not prevent you from owning 10 other domains. How you chose to use each is up to you. With whom you share each also.
2. which services? I don’t understand. I typically use e.g. ProtonMail on my domain but I can have for each a different mail provider. I don’t see what somebody knowing which service uses is a problem as long as that service is secure.
3. I’ve been using my own domain for years, maybe a decade now (can’t recall tbh) and had 0 problems, including with banking and public administration. Nobody knows even what it is or who owns what, just that it works.
4. no idea, I know I’d use a free ProtonMail account if I needed sth disconnected from everything else
5. your CV should be something public anyway, you’re trying to prove your are somebody with skills they can trust. If you have problems linking your skills with your identity something feels off. I have 0 problem saying I can do some locking picking publicly. Anyway your CV is also a temporary document. If somebody doesn’t visit your domain the moment they open your CV, chances are that years later it’s entirely irrelevant.
6. yes, I have multiple domains because I don’t have to have 1 identity. I can share only professional things with you and personal things with others, or vice versa. Having different domains, and subdomains, for that help me doing so.

Became quite trivial, e.g. took me 15min to get CopyParty on a Debian on a Banana Pi running RISC-V https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/@utopiah/115332958192905605 and staying headless performances are fine.

Yep, that’s the point of https://lemmy.ml/post/39238406/22339896 but it’s “just” an FPGA though "Precursor - Mobile, Open Hardware, RISC-V System-on-Chip (SoC) Development Kit "

Ah… but then that’s not enough, you need to insure that the supply chain itself is 100% free! For example if you are using an Intel CPU, how can you verify it does what it says it does?

Enter precursor.dev ! Check this out if 100% free is not enough for you.

PS: honestly do what makes pragmatically your world, and that of the ones around you, better. Hopefully it is toward free software but IMHO if you have more agency with usage (which yes does overlap significantly with this) then it’s a powerful step to keep on doing so.

yet to get my first. I had been considering the Meta Quest 3, but Meta.

Perfect then

I don’t know how many 9s I do … but I don’t care. We should not think of metrics of uptime or scalability like BigTech, we’re not them. We’re not “selling” the same “product”. To me it’s about agency, empowerment, creativity, privacy, not uptime.

All my services are fine. I self host. Yes I’m quite pedantic about it. :D

You can also run kiwix-serve to provide offline Wikipedia, StackOverflow, Project Gutenberg and more. Even on a very basic device search works as indexing is well done.

Remove the battery.

One should hope, and the tinkerer community, me included, is eager for both of these features.

Regarding new content I posted https://www.uploadvr.com/valve-isnt-currently-working-on-a-new-vr-game/ countless times because to me that’s maybe the biggest bummer. I have several headsets so I don’t need “yet another one” that is roughly equivalent. I need something genuinely different. A flat SeamOS (no immersive features to KDE Plasma) is boring but understandable, no new content from the quality only Valve (unfortunately) seems to be able to produce makes me think I’m not in rush. Just like hand tracking or WebXR we can hope for surprises but it mostly shows it’s considered a thin terminal for Steam, nothing more, and I have already few of these (thanks to Alvr, Wivr, CloudXR, but also just Steam streaming).

At uni I logged on a thin terminal that would then connect to a computer with hundreds of users.

You think of your computer as a desktop but in a reality it can be a lot more than that. Hundreds of users could simultaneously use it without bothering you (assuming resources are sufficient).

Obviously that also means you shouldn’t be able to see or edit files from other users

You, like most of us to be clear, are just using it in a very very limited way.

It costs pragmatically nothing to keep this model working and it seriously limit usage to remove that. Now if you do want, you can autologin and skip all this but at your own risk.

TL;DR: a desktop is just a server with a screen, mouse and keyboard, nothing magical about it. If a server can handle hundreds of users, so can your desktop even if that’s not how you use it.