Oooh, didn’t realize CoMaps was on Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps

I bought a NAS appliance once. I didn’t like it for basically the same reasons you listed. Since then I’ve moved to a regular Linux machine and it’s been great.

It’s probably worth it to get a whole other computer and run that 24/7. That way you can mess up your personal desktop and not mess up any of your hosted apps.

I had the exact same question! Thanks for posting!

Great timing! I’ve been meaning to search for a open source alternative to jira: https://openalternative.co/?sort=pageviews.desc&q=jira

Thanks!

AI is a really good demo for a lot of people, but once you start using it, the gains you can get from it end up being somewhat minimal without doing some serious work.

I’m so sick of “AI demos” at work. Every demo goes like this.

1. Generate text with an LLM.
2. Don’t fact check it.
3. Don’t verify it works.
4. Oooh and aahhh at random numbers and charts.
5. Higher ups all clap and say we could be 10x more productive if more people would just use AI more.

Meanwhile they ignore that zero AI projects have actually stuck around or get used in a meaningful way.

I’m not really worried about competing with the vibe coders. At least on my team, those guys tend to ship more bugs, which causes the fire alarm to go off later.

I’d rather build a reputation of being a little slower, but more stable and higher quality. I want people to think, “Ah, nice. Paequ2 just merged his code. We’re saved.” instead of, “Shit. Paequ2 just merged. Please nothing break…”

Also, those guys don’t really seem to be closing tickets faster than me. Typing words is just one small part of being a programmer.

I had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn’t 1 April… seriously, it’s called the furry phone furiphone?..

indexes is valid: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/index

One employee posted that the AI assistant started telling people that the restaurant was out of everything but drinks and sauce packets. A person attempting to order a Chalupa Supreme with onions from the AI assistant ended up with three chalupas, and when they tried to replace meat with beans, the AI simply refused.

So things are not going great, but that is not stopping Taco Bell from pushing forward with its AI embrace in one way or another.

Taco Bell: No, ¡más! 😂

😭 Daaaammnnn… this is gonna be the answer… 😭

The question wasn’t how to switch OSs without losing current capabilities

This is exactly the question. The article is about Google taking away software freedom, forcing developers to dox themselves, and forcing users to only install software from Google’s approved list.

Apple is already there. How would that help anyone?

one detail that’s often glossed over is that Kagi primarily functions as a middleman between you and other search engines, like Google. In other words, it’s what we call a metasearch engine.

Yeah, I’ve known this. I’m… ajdlfjk about it.

What it can do, however, is make content less visible or harder to find, based on the criteria it uses to filter and rank results from its sources.

Aaaand this is kinda the secret sauce. While the starting material is what you get in other places, Kagi allows you to improve it with your own rankings and filters on top. For example, every time I find an AI slop review website, I immediately downrank it in my results. I also uprank trusted sites. This at least tilts the scales in my favor when searching, instead of accepting what Google wants me to see.

But, yeah, I agree Kagi is not discovering new material not known to Google, but it does have a higher chance of surfacing it.

it’s not fundamentally different from what other search providers are already doing.

I haven’t compared search engine features in a bit. Maybe it’s time.

I encourage you to try SearXNG

OK, I will.

So, you monolingual? 🙂

Oh, thank god Apple lets users install whatever software they want—hey, wait a minute…

Seafile is an alternative for self-hosting: https://www.seafile.com/en/product/seafile_on_premise/

I haven’t tried it. Seems to be more efficient than Nextcloud. It also has way less features. So. 🤷

Nextcloud definitely seems solid… but let’s be honest, it is definitely a resource hog. I tried deploying NextCloud on a VPS with 2GB of RAM, with most features turned off. The instance was empty. After a few minutes, I started getting alerts that I was using 100% of my memory.

Nextcloud isn’t gonna work the way you expect it to with 2GB of RAM. It doesn’t seem like you’d be able to run this on some cheap, low powered device.

Someone rewrite it in Rust! 😅

Uhh… how do we stop using Android? I mean, these recent attacks by Google seem like they’re going to break GrapheneOS and friends, no?

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most things work out of the box now, especially on GNOME/Plasma

I don’t want my system to work 67% of the time. If my wifi card worked most of the time, I wouldn’t be happy. I’d like a 100% working system. This isn’t my first experience with HiDPI. I owned a Framework and returned it because it required fractional scaling and too many of the apps I use were either blurry or tiny. For me personally, that’s a dealbreaker. I understand other people would make that trade off though.

I 100% always attribute hidpi experience to the hardware. It’s a bad choice hardware manufacturers make.

• Should we only include a hidpi display? Something that we know before hand will definitely cause issues?
• Should the hidpi display be some weird resolution that will require fractional scaling? Something that again has a huge and well known history of not working well?

It’s easier for 1 hardware manufacturer to pick a Linux-compatible display, rather than expecting millions of individual devs around the world to update their apps to the latest GTK/QT/Wayland frameworks.

Even if you’re pro-HiDPI displays, you should totally blame the laptop manufacturers for not picking a display resolution that allows integer scaling. You’re missing out. It’s a way better experience.

what prompted you to buy this laptop in the first place

I wanted to buy a Linux laptop because I thought it would be more compatible with Linux. I tried System76, but didn’t like the build quality. I’ve previously used Dell XPS 13 and Lenovo X1 Carbon, both of which I like (and have excellent Linux support (and offer standard dpi displays)). Coreboot was another reason, I like that it’s open source. I also thought Coreboot would boot the laptop faster since it has less bloat, but that didn’t really pan out.

Obviously i can’t be online and have my pc powered on 24/7 as i have a life outside the web

You… don’t have to sit in front of your computer while it’s on… leave it on and go to work/school/sleep. Sharing is caring. 🙂