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aside from the glaringly obvious, i.e. you’re incinerating the planet for shits and giggles, the thing is unsustainable. the best guess (as they’re hiding actual info) is that they have a capex in the ballpark of $1K/day/user. you’re meanwhile giving them $20/mo, if at all - no math on this planet can make that sustainable.

vulture capital and greater-fool-theory can only intermittently hold the bag, but not indefinite - sora was just shut down for that reason.

there’s so much shit to implement in linux, new shit to make, old shit to fix. preemptively adding this bullshit, without anyone even threatening any meaningful action, should be shot down in flames and this joker excluded from any and all FOSS avenues on account of spam and trolling.

I am sure the tali-fucking-ban are tali-fucking-banning women from using the computers by way of whatever passes for laws over there. is this bootlicker gonna implement “just a JSON field” to that end as well?

grow a spine, you corpo-fetishizing cowards. where’s the “fuck you, make me” attitude? what, california of all places is gonna ban linux? fucking lol.

I’ve used this exact thing in the past with stellar results, a Yoga (forgot model) with soldered RAM that couldn’t even boot continued to be useful for many more years.

as to reliability, if you already tolerate non-ECC RAM in your workstation, you’re fine; it’s astounding how present bit flips are in everyday use, even from supposedly non-defective hardware, so automated backups of the multi-version kind should be the first thing you set up on your workstation.

I gave up on mine for a privacy unrelated reason: they often reboot the thing remotely, for updating or whatnot. not a big deal per se, the problem - my local network stops working, and that I will not abide. so once I stopped using it, the rest (pihole, unbond, etc) came on its own and now I’m not going back.

you can mitigate a whole lot with

WINEPREFIX=~/Games/TheGame winetricks sandbox

eliminates links to home et al and houses all files in the prefix. also in the dosdevices folder there are links to root, home, etc. mapped to windows drive letters which (with the exception of c:) you can safely delete; this can also be accomplished with winecfg GUI.

if you ain’t got opensnitch or an alternative running, you can prevent network access with firejailas a command prefix (the one where you put mangohud and gamemode etc in).

that’s what syncthing is for. you can set it up to sync the Notes folder to your other devices in a read/write way or just one way, so you got your central repo.

also, qown has nextcloud notes sync built in.

why would you host anything? that’s just an app. QOwnNotes (stupidest name ever) stores .MD files that you can syncthing, rsync, copy, edit externally, whatever, allowing you never to be locked-in again. all the toolboxes can be turned off, netting you a UI that looks like apple’s notes.

I wanted to do the same for a dedicated jellyfin player box; a defunct laptop or mini PC that boots straight into the jellyfin-media-player (jellyfin desktop nowadays) in TV mode and was looking for just the bare minimum of packages to achieve this. gave up, curious how others solved it.

I am the first to pile on shit on people who are like buy new stuff, but in this instance, yeah, get a $20 laptop with a busted screen or sumsuch, install debian, and use it normally (docker compose).

you need the least amount of movable parts in this setup and yours is just too off kilter for a server.

not dealt with such a thing, but a decomissioned phone or laptop is the most obvious solution. they come with batteries, have seamless transition between power and battery, and you’re reusing shit nobody wants no more.

laptops you can get cheap when they have like busted screens and any reasonably modern (like decade old) can operate in sub-5W territory; coupled with a good battery, that should provide you with tens of hours of battery powered use, and you can expand that, with powerbanks and such.

alternatively, a cheap phone that can run postmarketOS or mobian. even lower consumption and more options to extend power availability.

radarr/prowlarr handle this plenty fine, no idea how they do it under the hood

the one with the stupidest name - qownnotes, it’s QT, so it isn’t an electron slob and integrates nicely into plasma. when you turn off all the cacophony of the zillion toolbars and stuff, it yields a distraction-free UI ala apple’s notes. I use it with subfolders but it’s got tags, so you can mimic the same functionality.

it’s got buncha stuff in it (its own nextcloud sync, AI summary support, etc.), which thankfully is/can be turned off.

jellyfin has the option to host your books, and with the OPDS plugin you can pull books directly off the server with compatible readers (koreader, moon+, etc), no need to copy things around manually.

tbh I haven’t read what you wrote past the pathetic “errybody tells me to off myself” so maybe chill with those idiocies if you want people to read your shit. also, “reviewing” the only alternative to the corpo spyware is like wading through the sewer and yammering about dietary preferences. take care.

my point is, we have already examples with years long headstart that shoulda replaced the unrepairable solutions - framework and fairphone. this thing is only relevant if it can replace existing solutions, like the current crop of use-once-then-throw-away printers.

them two demonstrated they didn’t even make a dent in the market, they just made the famous xkcd comic afresh relevant.

we don’t need a $1000 repairable framework; it’s repairable only with expensive framework shit that isn’t globally available, and - save for RAM, SSD, Wifi - is proprietary. so that whole “repairable” thing is just academic, and more of a sales slogan.

what is globally available are hundreds of thousands of discarded thinkpads, infinitely repairable machines of superior build quality, with cross-generational parts compatibility available worldwide that can be had for cheap. only thing is, you can’t make tonsa money from that.

we don’t need a $700 repairable fairphone with the same premise - only fairphone parts that with shipping cost stupendously - when there are millions of competent discarded devices that can be had for less than 10% of its price and whose parts are globally available for pocket change.

so, to apply this analogy, we don’t need another printer when there are oceans of discarded tanks in the form of old deskjet and laserjet printers, made in the olden times when planned obsolescence was just bad business; wanna opensource something, do it with the most common breakable parts.

as I’m writing this, I’m looking at a HP Deskjet 1280, a 20-year old fucking tank made outta steel and hard plastic that’ll outlive us both. its cartridges are forever refillable and the only thing that breaks here are some rubber bands that cost pennies.

finally, printer demand is in sharp decline, and thankfully so. reams of paper being daily wasted on nothing by businesses around the planet should soon be a thing of the past.

I am illustrating how two decades old stuff is still usable and you’re being obtuse.

there’s this community !mediatheque@feddit.org where movies and shows get posted, on arte, zdf, etc. the urls are usually geoblocked, but yt-dlp works without issues for the majority of them,

I really don’t know how to make this simple concept any clearer - there is NO need to make ANY more printers, of ANY kind, be they bio-compostable or not, running on angel tears and rainbows or whatever.

I dumpster dive and over the past six months I got five ancient printers (10-20 year old) that got thrown out, laser, inkjet and multifunction ones. all of them perfectly usable, work fine, easily serviceable (never done that prior to getting them), refillable with the cheapest options available. I struggle to see any application for which those things aren’t good for.