Hell, even here in Belgium, we take the green option to get all of our electricity from wind and solar (of which there is a ton) and it is slightly MORE expensive.

Plus tons and tons of people, like a significant portion of the population, have solar panels and batteries with grid feedback.

Electricity prices have only gone up, even when it gets cheaper for the company. Energy companies are universally corrupt and full of shit

Except network scanning is the furthest thing from “just works” on atomic fedora based distros. That is an essential usecase for many or most people.

I like fedora atomic and I run bazzite, but can’t break is quite different than “just works” in my opinion.

Don’t get a tablet if you already have a Linux laptop or a dedicated workspace.

Get a drawing pad. They are better, more cost-effective, have a better feel (non-display versions), have better pens, and you aren’t restricted to neutered programs offered on android/iOS.

Wacom is traditional, but expensive and their pen tech is kind of aging at this point, but they always work flawlessly.

XPPen is the great value alternative (with even better stuff on the top end). i have an XPPen Deco Pro Gen2 and it is an absolutely great pad with the texture of paper, and their little macropad with a scroll wheel works well. The downside is that you need a screen, but it is quite ergonomic.

The few actual artists I know use the XPPen Artist Pro series which is a drawing pad with a screen, and then they just plug it into their laptop and close the lid. Not as portable, but generally as good or better experience

XPpen also has good Linux drivers. They work in the kernel by default often, but the macropad and pressure sensitivity customization won’t work globally without their drivers.

XP-pen has much more cost-effective options that are just as good nowadays since wacom hasn’t innovated in like 15 years lol.

They also work out of the box in Linux, but for all of the shortcuts, they also have driver packages for every distribution and if it isn’t available, support will package the newest version for you (in my experience) in your chosen format and then send it to you and update the driver downloads.

The XP Pen Deco Pro Gen2 is an absolute beast for a drawing tablet.

XPPen also has a android drawing pad but that is normal android I think.

If OP wants the drawing tablet experience with a screen, they can also get XPPen Artist Pro display tablet series which of the few artists I know in real life, are what most of them use.

An actual drawing pad is much better than even an IPad for drawing, and you can also use whatever program you want (like Krita), not just the neutered programs that come on iOS or android.

Do you think your ISP and cell phone providers aren’t companies?? 😂 in america it was made fully legal like a decade ago for them to spy on you 24/7 and sell all of that information to the lowest bidders.

Here in the EU it is better, but still not great…

Also, privacy conscious? SMS, MMS, and cell calling is like the least private you can get IIRC.

This is similar to what I do.

I have a USB drive with the whole bootloader + decryption keyfiles on it. I remove it while it is running as everything is stored in RAM and already booted.

Downside being it has to be plugged in to update the boot partition during an upgrade.

Fitotrack sadly doesn’t connect to my Polar H10, but the interface is much nicer than open tracks or runnerup in my opinion.

Liftlog is another fitness app that is a simple weightlifting tracker and is very beautiful UI-wise though it isn’t available of FDroid sadly, but the play store.

Gadgetbridge I believe is more of a replacement for the apps of respective smart watch devices and then integrates with things like FitoTrack and Open tracks via manual exports. I think it also gives trends and stats, but I can’t remember, it has been a while.

Just a note that dry canning is pretty bad and has a much much higher chance of botulism than other canning methods. (Botulism spores must be kept at-heat at 160C dry heat for over 2 hours, not the oven temperature, but the full temperature of the medium itself)

It doesn’t matter here much because it is already powdered, shelf-stable mix, but in general.

https://extension.psu.edu/dry-canning-is-not-recommended

https://extension.sdstate.edu/why-behind-unsafe-canning-practices

https://yesicanned.com/dry-canning/

https://nchfp.uga.edu/blog/dry-canning-raw-vegetables-is-an-unsafe-practice

It’s funny, because often they aren’t prettier. Well optimized and well made games from 5 or even 10 years ago often look on par better than the majority of AAA slop pushed out now (obviously with exceptions of some really good looking games like space marine and some others) and the disk size is still 10x what it was. They are just unrefined and unoptimized and try to use computationally expensive filters, lighting, sharpening, and antialiasing to make up for the mediocre quality.

Technically you could get current live data (current step count, current heart rate, etc…), but any historical data, activities not connected to the smartphone, probably some UI features, etc… would simply not work and have no chance of working because they have an on-IC encryption module and encrypts everything into unreadable binary blobs before sending it to their cloud server to be processed. I think each of the developers sold their fitbits because it would be a bad experience, so there is nobody to develop the integration.

https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/issues/504

So this one is fitbit’s fault for being a shitty cloud SaaS company lol

London population: 8.8 million

Twin cities combined population: 3.6 million

London public transport: pretty damn good, connections everywhere, not an insane price

Twin cities public transport: almost non-existant, insane parking prices

London police: sometimes reasonable and lightly armed

Twin cities police: notoriously corrupt, heavily armed, use constant excessive force on civilians

Mystery solved.

For the low low price of 50€ for a 30g part!

And you are often paying 140-200 for a pi nowadays to make it have the same usability as a laptop (pi, power supply, sata hat, data drive because SD cards simply fail after a while under server IO) while you can get cheap used laptops for 0-100.

So unless you are running it for more than half a decade (which rarely happens with selfhosters for a main server), you are probably spending more in total on the pi.

Some people need the space if they don’t live in a city and have lots of children or dogs or tools and then an electric SUV is much better than a ICE van or truck.

Especially if that home had terrible bus and train connections because of the decades long fight of the country’s right wing party to defund and dismantle the public transportation network in order to privatize it for their corporate interests.

Gadgetbridge is pretty good as an alternative if it supports your watch.

My Lemmy instance admin apparently is also a home assistant contributor. Cool!

OK, so how will blocking google services and Microsoft work when all of our banks rely on google services for their apps, all of our companies run on Microsoft tools and cloud services, and the fact that most of the population uses messenger or whatsapp?

Great step, but will it be enforced? What can our government do against companies with revenue half of our GDP?

I would be interested in how things like MATLAB and octave compare to R and python. But I guess it doesn’t matter as much because the relative time of those being run in a data analysis or research context is probably relatively low compared to production code.