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That was a great read. Let’s hope the author is right with most of it, especially the part where they predict an upcoming focus on teaching media/information literacy as a tool of societal resilience.

Give them some time too thoroughly fuck up Github, sorry i meant M$ CoreAI.

FairEmail is the Gold Standard right now imho. The learning curve can be quite steep though.

There are no phones with working encryption (a must imho and a lot of others) except the ones I listed in my initial comment. iPhones are no option because they are not unlockable. Samsung recently announced they will remove the option to unlock the bootloader as well. They also have a very broad and everchanging lineup of phones.

Google Pixel has been more of a hardware and software reference to developers than a Phone people would usually buy up until the redesign with the Pixel 6. There are so many hardware and software features that make it the perfect device to develop against (up until the recent events lol).

I’d recommend you to read their own documentation on this topic.

mentally unstable individual

Got any links on that?

Edit: nvm, found out about Daniel Micay being difficult to communicate with on the one hand and his history of being harassed and swatted on the other.

while only running that OS on… checks notes… Google’s phones…

They obviously don’t do that to please Google.

Fairphone 6, especially with /e/os is not an option atm from a security standpoint. But then again, no phone is except iPhones and Pixels (and more recent Samsung phones).

Fairphone 6 does not keep up with standard Android privacy/security patches and has no secure element to provide working disk encryption for typical users not using a strong password, among other flaws.

Regarding privacy, Murena is shilling their own proprietary Apps as alternatives to Google.

/e/OS includes numerous non-private apps and services. The Murena voice-to-text service included in /e/OS even sends user speech data to OpenAI with no local option compared to Apple and Google both offering offline speech-to-text support via local models which users can make sure is always used:

https://community.e.foundation/t/voice-to-text-feature-using-open-ai/70509

Taken from the Graphene OS forum

I always point people here: https://youtu.be/uPYjJYQEFSg

Hard to give you hints when we don’t know what your background is, so here is some basics:

For starting selfhosting I’d recommend getting comfortable with the linux command line at first (this may help: https://www.linuxcommand.org/). Set up a VM in Virt-manager / VirtualBox / VMWare / whatever hypervisor you want, install a Linux image (I’d recommend plain Debian without desktop environment). Now you have a sandbox where you can toy around. If you’re on windows you can use WSL2. If you’re already on a linux desktop, toy around there.

If you already got some hardware like a raspberry pi or old Laptop, get that up and running with a distro of your choice, plug it into your network and SSH into it, then you have got your playground there. Get the basic commands in like ls, pwd, cat, tail, touch, mkdir, rm, … And some things you can do with them. Check out their respective man-pages.

After that, install some packages, change configs (I’d recommend nano over vim for starters). From now on, there are no boundaries of what to do. Set up your first basic webserver with apache / nginx / caddy, install docker / podman and containerize / get some images, set up pihole, nextcloud, jellyfin, do whatever you like… Congratulations, you are now “self hosting”.

Maybe some day switch that Raspberry pi out for a thin client as seen in the picture from OP and install a hypervisor like Proxmox on it. If you got all that, which may take a while, you can consider networking and firewalls IMHO (you could get a cheap router that supports OpenWRT to learn about these things). Don’t open ports to the internet as long as you’re not 100% sure what you are doing. You can set up a VPN with DynDNS on most modems / routers connected to your ISP though, opening up your self hosted services only to you / anyone with access. Or use something like Tailscale / Twingate.

I could go on, but like I said, self hosting and home labbing is kind of use case / requirement specific.

Including the walled garden?

Kind of. But hopefully at a slower rate / more reversible manner than the rest of the world.

Germany has become kind of a safe haven for a lot of Open Source projects. What’s so bad about it?

Buy a used 1l mini PC like the Lenovo thinkcentre tiny (or similar Dell or HP models). You will have to spend a bit more, but you could get one with a pretty capable Intel CPU from gen 7 or 8 upwards for virtualization with Proxmox.

If you’re really just looking for a x86 SBC, get a Radxa with an Intel N100 or something similar. They sell at about your price limit with low specs on Aliexpress:

https://radxa.com/products/x/x4/

Don’t worry, the rest of the world will follow suit in a minute

ls on smol screen, ls -lah on big screen.

I have played the remasters of 1 and 2. I believe they are very close to the base game but a little more optimized / polished graphically speaking. So I’d say go for it. 40% is not nothing, but I played the first game 2 or 3 times until now anyway.

There was great potential in the story, I was just underwhelmed by the ending. The setting in the clouds was cool, but honestly not quite comparable to Rapture. It was also pretty short.

Same experience for me with infinite, forcing proton results in a better performance than using the native Linux build.

BioShock 1: GOAT

BioShock 2: also good

BioShock infinite: great visuals and gameplay, story was meh

We can extrapolate this further to:

BioShock 4: literally don’t care.

What I care about though is Judas, the new game by former BioShock lead developer Ken Levine.

Sorry for being nitpicky and thanks for naming them all. I just assume the term average is equivalent to mean average in peoples heads. For uneven distributions, like wealth or life expectancy are I assume, mean average in itself just wouldn’t be a useful measurement.

From Wikipedia:

Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.

What you described would be the median, not average. Those can be very far apart, a good example is the distribution of wealth. Put 10 homeless people in a room with Bill Gates and everyone’s a billionaire on average.