The M1 Air is the best deal in computing.

I don’t have any plans at the moment but I welcome anyone who would like to fork the project for this. Happy to try and make things easy for you.

Yeah, the mythical Samsung phone that still gets six years of manufacturer OS updates

Generally, the hardware in a small, power-efficient, SoC embedded device is going to be a lot more particular and a lot less general than your gaming computer’s motherboard. It’s harder to write general OS software for specific integrated systems rather than a big set of chips which provide an individual chip for the BIOS, specialized chips for the PCI ports, etc., all of which have become more standardized over time.

Tailscale is a nice way to set up a private network between your machines. It’s perfectly fine.

Full disk encryption is something you really want to have when your computer is lost or stolen.

"It's a good filter" is often just an excuse to not improve the UX. You hear this way more from open-source technically-inclined folks than you do from folks who care about building a product that people want to use.

Email has the benefit of legacy. Lemmy does not.

I tried to solve this a tiny little bit by giving my own instance a clean and friendly frontpage, but I think I still need to do more work to attract people who aren't fedi-inclined.

Links between instances often don't work as intended, and there's no good way to redirect me from some-other-instance.pub/c/cool-community to my-instance.pub/c/cool-community@some-other-instance.pub automatically.

HYPE