• ~/Prototypes for … my prototypes, typically either starting from an empty directory or cloning a repository and adapting it for my needs. I have this directory on nearly all my devices, desktop of course but also NAS, server, phone, standalone XR headset, etc.
• ~/Apps in addition to ~/bin, typically binaries but all AppImages

FWIW I’m not recommending or not this service but they are :

• based in the US, yet
• provide international roaming
• e-SIMs (so nothing to send)

so it might be interesting in some cases for people not living in the US.

Well there are guardrails from what I understood, including :

• executing commands (off by default)
• executing commands without user confirmation (off by default)

which are IMHO reasonable but if the person this happened to is right, there is no filesystem sandbox, e.g. limited solely to the project repository.

Can’t talk about AMD but I’m on NVIDIA and I always followed https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers and never had issues others seem to be having. I typically hear good things about AMD GPU support, on Debian and elsewhere so I’m surprised.

Now in practice IMHO GPU support doesn’t matter much for NAS, as you’re probably going headless (no monitor, mouse or keyboard). You probably though do want GPU instruction set support for transcoding but here again can’t advise for this brand of GPU. It should just be relying on e.g. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/AMF

Finally I’m a Debian user and I’m quite familiar with setting it up, locally on remotely. I also made ISOs for RPi based on Raspbian so this post made me realize I never (at least I don’t remember) installed Debian headlessly, by that I mean booting on a computer with no OS all the way to getting a working ssh connection established on LAN or WiFi. I relied on Imager for RPi configuration or making my own ISO via a microSD card (using dd) but it made me curious about preseeding wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed so I might tinker with it via QEMU. Advices welcomed.

PS: based on few other comments, consider minidlna over more complex setups. Consider Wireguard over tailscale (or at least headscale for a version relying solely on your infrastructure) with e.g. wg-easy if you want to manage everything without 3rd parties.

That’s a strange argument, why do you and lots of people replying here believe they are NOT tracked over WiFi which are themselves relying on ISPs?

If you don’t trust your ISP why would you trust random ISPs more?

As mentioned on another Lemmy server IMHO and as the vibe coder mentions in his video the main problem isn’t that LLMs suck in general (hallucinations, ecological costs, lack of openness for the most popular ones, performance, etc) but rather that this specific tool made by Google does not sandbox anything by default.

Copilote

Is it the Mexican version? /s

Pay for stuff if you want something reliable and supporting your privacy. Sure test the free tier to make sure it fits your requirements but please do consider not sticking to it.

Might be Filen (don’t know of it) or Hetzner Storage Box (~10e/month for 5TB iirc) or Proton Drive (Visionary customers have a large quantity, e.g. >6TB) or whatever else you prefer but if you do not actually help people providing services by funding their work they you are supporting BigTech and their “free plans” that comes precisely at the cost of our collective privacy.

IMHO fix whatever you can, donate it all locally (HackerSpace, RepairCafe, Linux non-profit, etc) as there are quite a few people dedicated to refurbishing computers for schools, people who need a computer to find work, etc.

Then for the tinkering aspect, keep one, that’s enough.

Honestly even 1 isn’t really required. Pretty much everything listed here can be done more efficiently without an actual physical computer :

• your current computer can be a server, just turn off the screen or even accept (which I’d argue is a fair assumption) that at night it will be off. If you want external access put WireGuard or another VPN on it.
• Want to test distributions or anything else? QEMU or containers, no need for actual hardware

Sounds absolutely stupid… and yet my (gaming) desktop (model CORSAIR ONE i180) remains untouched after nearly 6 years. I still play indies to AAA to VR with it. I still work with it, specifically VR prototyping, so dev.

If I were to give it away or use as a self-hosted server with GPU used on e.g Immich or video transcoding it would still do pretty well.

So…IMHO it’s not a bad take but damn I remembered I paid a LOT of money back then. As other pointed out if you can afford it, sure. If you are not a professional then probably not.

main quality criteria is that it’s doing what it needs to and it’s covered with tests.

Might want to read on TDD, it’s been around since last the last millennium (OK 1999 according to Wikipedia, point is, it’s not new).

Nitpicking but a line is missing IMHO namely The code of the program: should also suggest which file to edit, e.g potato.go. It might be obviously to anybody working with Go but for others it’s not.

So infuriating.

Technology is, rightfully, seen as a tool of control.

It should be a tool for emancipation, gaining and increasing agency. It’s been “sold” as such only to then gradually yet inexorably do the exact opposite.

This is deeply dangerous because it erodes trust in both governments and technology.

That being said, it’s not new. It’s been done before, it will be done again.

Consequently what could be done is to refuse any technology without safeguards, including the potential dismantle of the entire ecosystem in place the second it’s being abuse. It should be impossible to have mandatory usage without matching “canary in the coal mine” that force the system to stop AND the person responsible for it to also be removed from their function.

FWIW makes me wonder how much work would be required to have this as a Web container, e.g. Dockerfile with

FROM debian:13
RUN apt update && apt install -y qemu-system-x86 qemu-utils
WORKDIR /linux-inside-out

then https://github.com/container2wasm/container2wasm#container-on-browser

Edit: FWIW the image of Debian 13 with QEMU and its utils is ~1.1Gb

Very cool, reminds me of https://jsandler18.github.io/tutorial/boot.html

Half a dozen people said so already but I’ll repeat :

backup your stuff.

You are like a tightrope walker on a high line without security. Sure the view is amazing, yes you feel free… but a misstep and that’s it.

How? Well depends what your data is but start simple, copy your most important files, e.g. family photos, personal notes, etc (NOT HD movies from the Internet… not anything you can get elsewhere) on a USB stick you go stuffed in a drawer.

Once you DO have your stuff saved though, please, pretty please DO go crazy! Have fun, try weird stuff, bork your installation… and restart from a neat safe place. It’s honestly amazing to learn, so deeply empowering for yourself and those around you. Just make sure your data don’t suffer from it.

reMarkable isn’t about replacing books. You can have a PocketBook with KOReader for 120EUR. It’s not a price per book comparison, IMHO it’s a price per sketch and thus ideas, work, presentations, etc because that’s where reMarkable is unique, low latency e-ink writing.

For “just” reading there are plenty of alternatives, including cheaper alternatives.

Had one from the start and also had a reMarkable 1, 2, Pro and e-readers with e-ink. I did discuss all that before so feel free to check my comment history. You can also check related prorotypes at https://fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Eink including for the PineNote.

Now on your questions :

how usable is the pinenote with Linux?

Last time I check it didn’t run well enough (basically CLI only) so I’m still on their stock Android OS. Worked great. According to other comments it seems fine now and I’m familiar with KOReader and a bit Xournal++ so I’ll try again.

How hard is the install process?

Easy, I didn’t do anything ;)

Can an average Linux user/self hoster use it daily?

Well in my case yes but again Android, so if you are familiar with it, e.g. adb then it’s easy.

How’s battery?

Fine but power management kind of sucks so it will not go to sleep properly and thus waste battery. It’s also heavy so honestly I wouldn’t travel with it.

Couldn’t find many reviews online…

Again, I did share on Lemmy quite a bit. I do warmly recommend it if you are a tinkerer who doesn’t travel too often. If you are a minimalist who wants to get things done then IMHO reMarkable is better.

The version of Debian it shipped with had a bug where I couldn’t install any software updates without deleting some random lib64 directory. Once I did that, everything was fine.

Neat, I’m still running the stock Android but I’ll try. How long ago did you do that? Is your fix documented somewhere?

I don’t see ads but if I were to, and despite all my precautions some would be on topic based on my past behavior I would methodically dissect to find out the leak. Namely I would try to automate the process :

• identify a place showing ads
• take an action, e.g. search or browser, on a verifiable unique topic (in order to prevent from generic suggestions, e.g medication during flu season)
• verify if the ads become relevant
• enable/disable any of the tools used, repeat