I already switched from Windows to Mint a couple of years ago and liked it a lot. Never distro-hopped, though. Now I got curious and installed ublue Aurora on a laptop. This experience is both very smooth (flatpak) and strange (distrobox) and I’m not sure I already fully understand immutable distros. But I keep on using it, get more experienced and I certainly will never go back to Windows.

50 terabyte of family memories? Maybe trash 49 then. :)

Slightly provocative take:
Let it go, it doesn’t matter. The desire to hoard data is, like hoarding money, understandable but unnecessary. What do you do with all this media. You time on this planet is finite.

Efficiency is the exact opposite of resilience, because it removes redundancy and buffers.

I reccomend using DietPi as the OS for all this. It comes with lots of optimized software you can install by selecting from a list. Easy and fun.

I installed Aurora today. My first immutable experience.

I tried RSS a couple times but I don’t get it. There are so many different channels from one of my favorite news site alone. If I fetch them all, my RSS inbox is bursting from that one site. How do I sort through all of it? I can’t manage hundreds of new articles per day.

I like flac and I understand the human desire to get the best quality of everything. You can’t tell the difference between 25mb flac and 2,5 mb 160 kbps opus though.

Nah, you should dither them!

I went back from SherpaTTS to eSpeak because I liked the robot woman better. She’s easy to understand, takes up 5 mb on my phone and it’s a fun conversation starter.

Or 25 years, people habitually underestimate exponential growth

I like the oldschool way of tar, rsync and cron

Same here. I have KeePass database set to read only by default on my phone. I can override this but it minimizes the risk of conflict and I add new passwords on my desktop most of the time.

Ah, it’s on IzzyOnDroid repo. I’m using Neo Store.

Strange, my Neo Store opens it fine

Edit: It’s IzzyOnDroid repo

Tabs Lite let’s you search for songs, fetches lyrics and tabs, chords from the web and stores them offline on your device. You can organize all the songs in playlists as well.
Edit: It’s in IzzyOnDroid repository

KDE Connect! Share files, clipboard, links from one device to another, use your phone as a mouse or laser pointer.

I’m using Outer Tune right now and like it as well.

I was a long time OsmAnd user, I loved that app. After a couple of years I realized, I really liked the cusomizability, but in the end, I use like 5% of it’s features. I gave Organic Maps a try (now Co Maps after some community drama) and it was love at first sight. It’s the opposite is OsmAnd, a lightweight and super simple app to look for places and navigation. I miss like one, maybe two features, but I the usability is great and I won’t look back.