Grew up on it. My dad set up a Ubuntu 4.10 PC for my brother and I when we were 3/5 (no internet, obv), and it stuck.
Used Windows for a brief time in highschool to be able to play online with friends.
Went right back to Linux when going to university. Will never change back, both for ideological reasons and because Linux is just better.
Next step: NixOS on a phone
Baby steps: I wish it was mandated that any software receiving even a penny in public funding must be open source down to the last byte.
I just started working at a new place, and my closest coworker has my deadname. Threw me for like half a second, but hasn't been an issue at all otherwise.
I always sort by new comments.
Containers != services.
I don't think I am better than anyone. I jumped into these comments because docker was pushed as superior, unprompted.
Installing and configuring does not an expert make, agreed; but that's not what I said.
I would say I'm pretty knowledgeable about the things I host though, seeing as I am a contributor and / or package maintainer for a number of them...
DNS over TLS and similar are only encrypted to the first (local) DNS provider, and of course that provider knows the query as well.
It protects against 3rd-party eavesdroppers between you and your primary DNS provider, but does nothing for privacy beyond that.
Oof.
My employer pays a buttload of money to CircleCI - for extensive checks (build, lint, formatting, full test suite, as well as custom scripts for translation converage, docs,... for the full tech stack) on every push. Reviews start only when everything passes.
I think you have given me a new-found appreciation for the reasoning behind that decision... 😄
I put about 150 hours into NixOS before I was really "done" setting everything up. (Of course, it was completely usable way before that.)
The biggest advantage to me is that that was the last time I will have set anything up. If my laptop or PC or both get thrown into an incinerator tomorrow, I will go buy replacement hardware and will have my exact same setup done in less than 10 minutes.
I used to have serious anxiety about losing my setup with Arch - over the years a lot of config amasses, and sure you can back up your dotfiles, but you better do that after every change, and don't forget to manually track your changes to /etc, /usr, and so on.
Right now, I am enjoying the most seamless development setup I've ever had. That being said, you will have a BAD time unless you embrace nix shells for development (at which point the pip/venv stuff becomes easy, too)
You are right, it's a steep learning curve and you will have to invest some time initially, but it frees you up in the long run
Ohhh I have a feeling you will enjoy this video:
It's about a dofferent piece of software, but still highly relevant.
Yep, same here.
Samsung TV cannot reach the internet. Nvidia Shield is running Flauncher as the default launcher. I watch all my content through Jellyfin and SmarttubeNext.
I have not seen an ad in years.
(Not the person you responded to)
I'm curious, what exactly are your issues with the AI implementations the poster above you mentioned?
Because to me, they seem like very specific usecases where they actually offer benefits. It doesn't seem like someone just went "everyone is doing ai... Let's slap ai on Firefox so we stay one of the cool kids!".
Example: I live in a country where I don't speak the language. Instead of using a plugin for Firefox which translates e.g. government sites by sending them to Google translate, FF has been handling this locally for a couple of months now. Seems like a win to me.
Similarly, I imagine that vision impaired folks will receive a real benefit by not having to deal with the way-too-large number of websites not providing alt tags for images.
If (yes, I know, big IF) the models FF ships are indeed ethically trained and run fully locally... Then I kinda don't get the issue
Actually... From a data-loss POV, it's actually pretty much fine; since the server only serves an e2ee file anyways, each end device's data is sufficient to recover everything.
I.e. if you host Vaultwarden, log into it on your mobile device, save all your logins; then fuck up the server, it doesn't matter, because your mobile device not only still has everything, but also does not need a server connection to export everything in a way that can then be imported again on a new server installation.