2026 will be the year of the linux phone

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There’s a saying in German - “Der dümmste Bauer hat die größten Kartoffeln”, the dumbest farmer has the biggest potatoes

I have an old HP Omen laptop that I use as a sever, removed the battery because it started getting a bit spicy but other than that it runs just fine for multiple years now.

I use mine as an application server without much storage since it only has space for one nvme ssd and one 2.5" SATA drive.

If you are that far away make sure you have someone with basic Linux knowledge around there to restart it if necessary. And it sucks in LOTS of dust, so be prepared to clean it about once per year

Yep, my company allows me to use Linux but for Compliance Reasons I need to have Microsoft Defender installed and running. Still beats Windows 11 by a mile

mfw I read one of Cory Doctorows books

You can use the Gecko webdriver for Selenium

not too sure that’s a good thing

The Mediterranean countries disagree

dom0 is the administration qube which handles the graphical desktop, i/o and hardware devices. So if you’re installing dodgy software in dom0 you go around a lot of the sandboxing that qubes offers.

I’ve been selfhosting Gitea for years now and it’s great, but I also don’t really collaborate with anyone else so YMMV. Originally I wanted to go with GitLab utb it’s too resource intensive for my use case

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Not a huge fan but systemd does a lot of stuff necessary to run linux. Of course there’s more than one way to skin a cat, but it makes sense to have systemd as a dependency. Recall does exactly zero essential functionality to the OS that would justify making it a dependency to something as important as explorer.exe on Windows.