Same here. I had been sticking to Ubuntu flavours for over 15 years.

I started 28 years ago with Slackware 3.0, then Gentoo, Ubuntu, took a detour via OS X, then back to Ubuntu, now Arch.

OP never said anything about being light on money.

It’s actually easier when you don’t have to plan your travel around your work schedule.

They are offering a free battery swap if you are affected. Or $50. Or $100 off a new phone.

Sounds like they’re picking the cheap route out of a full recall on a pretty old phone.

Well, sure. If you did it wrong the first time around. For everyone else, just run “btrfs scrub <device>”

Use a modern filesystem that manages file integrity for you.

I use btrfs.

Don’t forget to scrub and checksum your drive before making backups. You don’t want to copy over rotten bits.

Same goes for the backup. And the backup’s backup.

Maybe I can submit a proposal for risc-VI 🤣

No need! You can make your own custom extension! If the silicon doesn’t support it, then you can provide firmware to emulate it.

It’s a protocol for hosting music libraries.

Think of it like your personal Spotify backend.

I’m running navidrome to serve music to tempo on my devices.

Knew several as I was wrapping up uni. Had lots of fun partying and doing local trips with them.

I married one and moved to her home country for a few years. Now we live together in a third country.

All I see is refitting sailboats and retro video game history.

I much enjoyed it back in the day. Nokia even had their own app store for it and gave a nice financial incentive for the first hundred or thousand apps.

I feel Jolla & SailfishOS is the spiritual successor.

I’d try Bodom, population 0, if other than cities are allowed.

Or possibly Santa’s village, population 2 (if you exclude the elves)

Whatever you get, get at least two and do RAID1/5/6. They will break.

Speed shouldn’t be an issue for streaming media.

Inspired by xkcd’s thing explainer I generated a list of how often words appeared in subtitles on opensubtitles for my target language.

I whipped those into a database, added manual translation for the top-1000 and started quizzing myself with a tiny php script.

It was more fun to code than to actually quiz myself. I think I played the top-100 before I got bored.

Standardized firmware isn’t something that’s specified in the ISA, is it? It’s just shitty phone manufacturers.

Asus had some x86 phones a few years back. I haven’t dug into them, but I doubt they had a full bios/efi.

pine64 arm devices have u-boot, while a bootloader does fullfil a subset of the uefi spec.

Integrated GPU is not a dirty word anymore.

AMD’s system-on-a-chips with RDNA2/3 pack almost the same punch as the discrete cards with the same architecture. See steamdeck as the prime example, but there’s quite a few boards, boxes and laptops with the same.

My desktop, laptop and homelab all synd my important stuff over syncthing. They all do btrfs snapshots three months back in case an oopsie would propagate.

The homelab additionally fetches deduplicated snapshots of my VPS weekly, before syncing all of the above to an encrypted hetzner storage for those burning-down-the-house events.

I need to feel productive. Be it a programming project or woodworking. Just creating something new instead of maintenance like oil changes and mowing the lawn. Creating something new.

Also, take a walk in the forest. Get out on the water. Both are great therapy to disconnect from the mental todo-list of things going on around the house.