Does it work offline?

*Bored

Yes, you can easily do that. Set the container name and make them on the same network. Used caddy and whole bunch of Selfhostable services with it and I reverse proxy as

container_name:port

No its on 4.x I think.

Podman actually run fine on Debian 12. Though the packaged version is a bit old. Does not support podman compose command. Though podman-compose works.

One of the main reason I switched to podman was its compatibility with firewalld. Haven’t used rootless docker, but podman and podman-compose gets the job done for me.

This this right here.

People at postmarketOS is working on Linux for smartphones. They are using Gnome. There is your answer.

I am not self hosting an LLM, but running on my laptop with Alpaca. Google’s Gemma 2B. On my hardware its pretty slow, but kind of gets the work done. My hardware is getting old, need to upgrade soon.

Yes. Having used both, ultrasonic have better accuracy and much faster unlocking speed. Works better with wet fingers in my experience. Also when you unlock your phone at night, you won’t be blinded by bright white light.

But it is not an absolutely essential feature. The other will get the work done in budget to midrange phones.

Kind of good if it means drop in price. Didn’t need the AI features anyway. But an older modem? That’s not so nice.

Oh no we have lots of thermometers left over from Covid, how about we put them in your phone instead?

I am gonna simplify it. This contains a lot of generalisation.

A distro or distribution is like Windows or macOS. When you want to install applications you mainly look for applications (they are generally called packages in linux) that are built for these distros. Major ones are Debian (Ubuntu comes under this), Fedora and Arch. Here the Debian/Ubuntu is the most user friendly with lots of guides and forums to help you get going. Most applications that has a Linux version will support Ubuntu. Major advantage of Debian is that, its stable. Because of this, core files that a system needs to run will be thoroughly tested and will not break. If you are testing the waters, you should go with distributions like Debian 12, Ubuntu 24 or 22.

Okay, coming to Desktop Environments, for now you only need to know about two, KDE, & Gnome. They are the GUI that you interact with. They come with basic GUI applications like a file manager, Terminal Emulators, etc. If you like window 10 style, you can go with KDE and Gnome is a little different, but its the default option in Ubuntu I think. You can install any DEs on any distributions but may require some know how. So DEs are for basic utility and Look and Feel.

Image: Gnome on Debian 12
Image: KDE on Debian 12

Major DEs are almost safe.

Go to flathub and check the permission of the application that you want to install. Normally they won’t have access to root directory, but could access your home dir. If they had any malicious intent, they could mess with your personal files.
I think there is another application that can restrict the permission scope on flathub itself.

Sad day indeed, bitwarden going shady and this.

I feel like they are trying but its still OPPO after all.

I think it has to install vscode extensions, which is sad.

Do install size mean unpacked size?

Don’t connect them to the internet. Problem solved.