It sure makes things easy to host!

Wait so both ssdand mechanical drives have been sold out…

Thats not good.

Oh interesting! Ive done something similar but not didnt put as much effort.

For me, I just made an unending webpage that would create a link to another page…that would say bullshit. Then it would have another link with more bullshit…etc…etc…And it gets slower as time goes on.

Also made a fail2ban banning IPs that reached a certain number of links down. It worked really well, traffic is down 95% and it does not affect any real human users. Its great :)

I have a robots.txt that should tell them not to look at the sites. But if they dont want to read it, I dont want to be nice.

So other than matrix, is there any other open source system that people recommend?

Ive had a heck of a time with matrix for years. Im glad it exists, but its just not what I like to use. The signup process + logging in system is much too complex for a normal user.

It burns you out pretty quick. I have a popular library and had to turn off gh issues. So many llm/fake bug reports. Huge waste of time and effort. Github has gone downhill.

Interesting! This is what I was looking for thanks. Ill give them both a shot.

That looks interesting! If I want something like txt to speech ill keep this in mind.

I have a project with a raspberry pi 2 and small screen that works with the command line very well. I want to stay in there.

The issue with just using other txt options is that bookmarks, dictionaries, and just knowing where I left off would be difficult. Plus I only have a couple of mapped keys.

Yeah it sucks. I know there are alternatives like the orange pi that are cheaper but the software support just isnt as good.

End of an era.

Oh wow thanks

Oh yeah totally. But it deals with proprietary drivers…so im not 100% sure what the restrictions are there. The mapping could be done open source if there was a need/want.

Steam has some upsides most take for granted.

The work they do to get all the strange controller setups working (and let others make configurations) is a huge time saver when all you want to do is play your games.

Free cloud saves are a life saver when you go from device to device.

The Linux work they do is fantastic.

It goes on and on. But yeah the biggest deal is that if they ever go full corpo…we are in trouble.

Nice! GL and may you get good.

You already mentioned it but Fairphone + TMobile/Mint is a decent combo. The phone itself is fine with /e/. The only downside is the pictures/videos are not the greatest. I would recommend getting an actual camera/something a bit better if that is important to you.

I get the same coverage as my old stock android phone so its not a huge difference. I got the Fairphone 4 because the parts are easier to come by. They update the software ever month or so. No problems so far.

I used to do a ton of seeding on isos but it really took its tool on the old harddrive I did it on. I kinda stopped for a long time. I used to do it for the origonal Ubuntu isos like 8.04 or something like that. And puppy linux :)…

Ive never heard of apt-mirror, thats interesting. Ill have to take a look. thanks!

I made mine into a laptop. Its decent at doing most things.

Im having a heck of a time finding material. Any recommendations?

Im downloading this version of wikipedia: https://browse.library.kiwix.org/viewer#wikipedia_en_all_mini_2025-12

I only have about 100GB left-ish so I dont want to get a huge amount. I might just get ebooks and throw those on there.

Oh neat, its on yuno https://apps.yunohost.org/app/kiwix

I think a good test is to shut off your house internet and see what things you still need. Like actually disconnect the router and only go off your own infa. What can you get done, what things do you still need?

For me I found out:

1. All my software development packages, linux isos, etc… are ALL online. If I was unable to get on certain websites, I would be SOL in doing most of my software development. Even simple stuff like installing via apt would be VERY hard.
2. While I have OSM (open street maps), I dont have address info saved anywhere.
3. Most of my mesh stuff (meshtastic) has online tools for all the builds and deploys. Meaning if the website goes down im SOL getting new nodes out in the wild.
4. Entertainment is pretty much covered, since we dont have anything streaming anyways. We try to keep things DRM free to begin with so books/audio/movies can go to different places without worry.
5. Radio still works, so news isnt really a big deal.
6. I need to get a backup of some encyclopedias and/or get wikipedia somewhere hosted. That would be fun and informative.

Yes join the dosins of us 🥧