I had an iPhone 5 for a few years, it was the perfect size for me. When Apple enlarged their smartphones with iPhone 6 I jumped back to Android because I had more options there. I went back to iPhone 11 Pro because it was again on the smaller side. After years of rejecting >=6’’ phones I finally gave in with Pixel 8 and Pixel 10…
Not sure if this is helpful or still too technical, but take a look: https://selfhosting.sh/foundations/getting-started/
My only issue is with banking apps and our national ID app which is very useful. I know some work, but I haven’t seen all that I have listed, so I would have to be the guinea pig :) I actually have an older Pixel phone with a shattered screen, I was planning to have it repaired, so I guess that’s where I can test GrapheneOS safely.
Signal and Telegram both offer comparable functionality without mandatory recurring fees
Telegram introduced a subscription named Telegram Premium a few years ago. You get similar functionality there – setting colors to your profile or groups that you’re part of, custom emojis (including animated ones), custom stickers, an indicator that you’re on Premium, custom profile statuses, increased limits for sending files, etc. There’s a lot more, I just listed some off the top of my head. They’ve been pushing people into Premium. Telegram is perfectly usable without that, of course. My favorite Premium feature is that you can require unknown senders to pay a fee to be able to send you a message :D Meanwhile, non-Premium users can get spammed normally.
People learn and change. Always better late than never.
I migrated from the US servers to the EU servers and while looking through my settings I noticed that my renewal was $19.80 instead of $12 last year. At first I thought that the EU servers are much more expensive and was upset that support didn’t tell me before migration, but it turns out that’s just the new price.
Thanks for the extensive explanation. I was almost certain you were joking about using Git for that purpose but it seems you are being serious :)
I will stick to my Restic backups for now. :)
Being a Linux newbie that idea did not even cross my mind. MIND BLOWN. In all seriousness, though, are there ever user secrets in ~/.config? It seems like a crazy & genius idea at the same time.
(I keep them in two Restic backups)
Weird, my pet said the same. Is your password also ************* ?
It is not a problem if they are on different disks, though? I hope so :)
I see you’re already getting downvoted and I will probably share that predicament. I get you, I feel alike. I used various distros over 20 years ago but never got really deep into Linux internals and I also forgot a lot.
I think AI can really be useful but not all models are equal (YMMV).
A couple of real world scenarios where I was having problems that were way above my head at this stage.
I encrypt my system disk with LUKS using TPM. I currently run openSUSE which has Snapper deeply integrated with the system. Because I was troubleshooting some issues and installing various packages I made some changes that I wanted to revert. Snapper is the fastest way for me, no manual reversal, no need to edit any config files, no leftovers. Just boot from a snapshot and roll back. I did that a few times. I had TPM auto-unlock set up but it stopped working. I tried re-enrolling but it still didn’t work. Of course I asked Sonnet 4.6 about that and after an AI-supported troubleshooting session the issue was resolved. It analyzed the logs, found the reason for my issue and explained what and why was causing it (in short: because I did not re-enroll the TMP key after each rollback, there were too many boot entries accumulated exceeding the systemd-pcrlock’s limit and causing all TPM predictions to fail silently).
Second thing was OpenVPN not setting up the DNS after connecting. It took me half an hour of troubleshooting with Sonnet 4.6 and it explained what was happening and proposed a few solutions. In the end it turned out that in my scenario I need Dnsmasq which is dead simple and helped me to resolve my particular issue. What’s interesting is that when I asked about the same issue on openSUSE’s sub on Reddit, a SUSE developer told me to use dnsmasq, too :)
Without AI I guess I’d just have to give up because no one was capable of helping me when I asked online (sure, maybe I didn’t ask enough or not in enough places). Without OpenVPN I cannot use this system, it’s mandatory for my job. I could switch to Fedora where OpenVPN 3 works, but I really wanted openSUSE.
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Like KDE Connect which uses only the local network.