Completely correct. It’s a useful tool for people protecting their precious memories, not an ongoing protection of an OS state.

Cryptomator has an android app, haven’t used it in anger (It’s not a backup until you restore successfully), but it’s there.

If you encrypt at home it doesn’t matter where you do offsite. See Cryptomator for an easy platform agnostic approach. Why trust the bastards?

Ah, should have updooted darntootin, oh well. Still, OP, a bit more detail (like I encrypt with rclone, would have been nice.) Cool. Got my own system, but anything that helps…

Likely true, there are use cases, this is probably not one. Still, I like to go to 600 if varnishing.

It’s not hard, but can be time consuming, break the task up. Rough out a shape in pine (soft, easy to work, make a second from hardwood later if you want once you know what you want) with chisels or whatever power tool you have access to, e.g. drill with grinder attachment (and a vise or some other way of securing the wood, screws work). Then just get different sandpaper grits and sand by hand, start with 100 or 200, then 400, then 600 or 800 and if you still don’t think it’s smooth enough, 1200 will get you there. Probably take a few hours, but you’ll have a handy new skill, and can refine over time.

brain anthropy

case in point ;)

Sweet.

I love fully local stuff, but the LLM part seems very expensive. Even for such a simple thing as managing our lights and music.

So, the simple things should just be voice command (not recognition, limited vocabulary), <wakeword> kitchen light on, what’s todays weather (assuming you automatically download it and have it there, needs TTS like whisper). That can run on a recent potato. Somewhat more complex things need full voice recognition e.g. Play me x songname by y artist. Laptop CPU should handle that fine. You’ll only need a full LLM for more general inquiries, e.g.<wakeword> What mess has Trump made today?, which will need web access seeing as small LLMs don’t have a lot of world knowledge (although you can self host Wikipedia and point it at that).

If you have a desktop computer and a GPU with 16+GB VRAM (or even smaller using RAM and a MoE LLM) that’ll do the job with reasonable smarts e.g. Qwen 3.6 35BA3B, Gemma 4 12B or 26BA4B. You may have to wait a minute or two. Mine pulls around 55W at idle (7800XT) and does double duty as a NAS and gaming rig, or you can have it sleep most of the time and let the laptop wake it up when necessary.

It already is, this beats the NSA and OpenAI et. al.

Word of advice, it’s best to make a new user for a new DE, lets you go back easily and avoids conflicts, basically necessary with KDE -> Gnome.

If you’re actually already on an atomic fedora (as evidenced by rpm-ostree) you can have a look over here. There are also a few other images around but most seem old and unmaintained.

Looks interesting, and I thought KDE when? But, of course, it’s already there as Karousel. On the list of things to audit when I feel like futzing with UI again.

I was thinking just patch it out entirely, then you have no need to maintain a fork, just a script. Yours sounds fun too, but it’s not like it’s actually connected to anything at this stage, worth keeping in mind if it ever does become something.

FFS, just make a patch.

Just get a domain and point it at a provider. Now you’re not locked in and can switch at will upon enshittification. Get one of the offline mail archive services like OpenArchiver. Job done.

If you feel the need to dumb it down, ‘statistical parrot’ works OK. I’m happy with the original.

Valheim has a local server you can set up that has it work offline. Shame it’s not on gog, but it’s on Humble which I don’t believe has online checks like Steam, but I had it working with steam offline mode.

Why would you do that?

Because you hate yourself?

Oh, right, you found a tool (self reflect) that let’s you do it with zero effort. FU…

Could sub Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V and Enter and be an old school dev ;)

Miss my Zaurus clamshell (don’t forget the rotating hinge for tablet mode and a pen), definitely was ‘Actually Carry’.

Why is this idea so hard, it’s the difference between pocketable and not.

Personally I take any ‘age check’ I can’t get around with a VPN and a browser ID string (or whatever the kids find next) as evidence of egregious enshittification, and my answer is to stop using that site.

But I’m in a privileged position where I don’t need to for work, never did facebook et. al., dropped reddit (and slashdot before it) except for niche, mostly read only stuff that I can drop in a heartbeat and am a non USian. The vasty majority of internet users are not.

The article is right, this is going to cause headaches at the least and breakage at the worst. Once 99% of the population has accepted this (95% of non phone users), they’ll come for linux, rewriting and refining the currently broken legislation. The politician class globally hates free speech and private communication, this is another big nail in the coffin.

I have some hope that the internet will treat de-anonymization like censorship and route around the damage, at least for quite a while. Sturgeon’s law also applies, at least 90% of the internet is crap, and the proportion is climbing fast with AI slop, but it’s also the greatest single step in freedom of access to (useful) information ever and I don’t want to lose that, and we shouldn’t have to pay for it with voluntary surveillance.

Remember, there’s a bunch of other choke points that can be used to the same effect as OS, ISPs, DNS, fingerprinting, search engine, the list goes on. It’s just that Microsoft, Apple, Google actually want this for the data harvesting potential so OS is easy.

At some point there will be a need for internet 2.0 built with anonymity and encryption baked into the bottom layers, perhaps it’s time to start building.