It’s interesting to see how much nixos grew over the last 2 years, even though the distribution exists since 2003.

This one looked great!

25 years ago the system was setup as a quick temporary solution.

If I understand well you want to have the same OS, software, configuration and files on different devices.

You could have a look at nixos.

I’m doing something similar, I have a computer in my office for work and a laptop at home for personal use and a bit of work.

I have a config shared between the two computers, they share similar modules but also have their own specificities.

This way when I configure VSCode for example I get the configuration synced on both.

For synching my files I’m using a synology NAS.

Same experience on my Fairphone 5, first crashed the OS when I tried accessing the gallery.

Now it is working but the pictures have like dead pixels on them.

From another article

The GDM724x is removed for supporting the GCT GDM724x LTE chip based USB modem devices. This driver was merged back in 2013 but is being removed now as the driver isn’t being maintained and yields a maintenance workload, the manufacturer GCT doesn’t respond to any emails/support, there doesn’t appear to be any of the said chips easily available for purchase, there is not any hardware documentation available, and no apparent usage of this driver remaining in the Linux community. Removing the driver clears out 3.6k lines of code and lowers the maintenance burden for other kernel developers.

There was also a vulnerability discovered in July linked to this driver.

So yeah I understand that they chose to remove some drivers from the kernel.

It sound like a cheaper alternative to the Fairphone. It’s great, I’m excited to see more smartphones focused on repairability.

I have a synology NAS with all my documents and family photos. I’m using the synology drive app on Linux and synology photo on android.

All of that is backed up on Backblaze

Factorio !

It looks like they are still selling almost 7000 copies per week !

https://gamalytic.com/game/427520

Fairphone is minimum 8 years.

I would look into the Surfaces, you can find a cheap second hand one and install Linux on it.

Yes, and make sure that the background in dark mode is really black.

On some apps you have “Dark mode” and “Amoled Dark”. Make sure to pick the amoled dark.

For me it made a huge difference in battery life.

Nope, definitely not.

I did not read the name of the community before posting.

I’m using Google camera app on my galaxy S10. It’s the app that is used in the google pixel but ported for different phones.

Jeremy Soule made some soundtracks.

Guild wars 1 and 2, Skyrim …

I recently found one of the liveCD I received with Ubuntu 8.04 on it. Canonical was sending them for free for people interested in Linux.

I was in high school and tried it on my first computer, it was my first connect with Linux and honestly I think that without Ubuntu I would not have discovered Linux until much later in life.

It releases on my birthday !

I don’t think I have a choice then, I’ll have to get it on day one.

Is it really a drop in the bucket b when we take the value per vehicle ?

If we compare Ford to BYD for example.

In 2023 Ford sold around 2 millions cars and BYD around 3 millions.

For Ford only 72 608 cars out of these 2 millions were EV (3.6%) For BYD it’s was almost 1.6 million EV (53.3%)

In 2023 Ford got $9.2 billions from the US government to produce EV, so around $126 000 per EV sold in 2023.

$126 000*1 600 000 = $2 trillions ! So unless BYD received more than $2 trillions dollars from the Chinese government in 2023 it means that each EV sold by Ford is more subsidized than an EV sold by BYD.

This is not an analysis, I took huge shortcuts in this comment and might have done mistakes in the calculations.

The argument of China subsidizing EV is always coming back but I would be curious to know the comparison with the US.

The US are subsidizing EV too I would not be surprised if the amount of subsidy per EV produced is much higher for US manufacturers than China.