It’s massive, what of it?

Not on GrapheneOS :)

Proxmox. I’ve been using it and deployed jellyfin in a container, they have a bunch of one-click deployments and it’s great. Or you can just use a VM to group Docker containers together. Having a beautiful web interface is huge, Plus being able to access that interface from anywhere via WireGuard/Tailscale is great.

If you do choose to go down this route, there is a “no-nag proxmox” script somewhere, and it will disable some warnings and give you deeper customization options. Well worth a look!

I’m out of the loop, what is the advantage to coreboot?

So glad you just mentioned this - I’ll have to take a look!

Yes! It runs on an old gaming PC for me, without flaws

I’m torn. On one hand, $60 is an incredible introductory price for the 4 GB model. On the other hand, it still falls behind the Orange Pi 5, which can be found for very reasonable prices similar to the 8 GB model, and is still even more powerful. There’s no doubt the community support will be outstanding as it always has been for the Raspberry Pi, but as somebody who’s seeking out the highest performance for x86/64 gaming (box86 and box64), I don’t know if I could justify getting a weaker SBC. I still might grab a couple of the 8 GB models to add to my proxmox cluster…

Just to clarify, not to start a whole debate, but it’s not truly free. You are paying for it through taxes which means it’s probably cheaper for the average person, which is fair, but you pay a heck of a lot more in taxes than some other countries. Here in the US, generally low income people will qualify for “free” healthcare and university (or if not, universities will typically cover the majority of tuition with grants). Kindergarten through 12th grade is covered by taxes for everyone as well. I do like the idea of requiring a certain percentage of properties to be high-density, that way you don’t have a developer building exclusively luxury properties and screwing everybody else over.

That could be interesting, as then the corporations would still be paying for a percentage of repairs directly

I’m lucky - I’m in a Midwest town as well (between 1500 to 3000 people) in the US. A couple of years ago, fiber got installed. I’m getting about 900Mbps down and 99 up, no data cap, for $84/month. Before that I also had Mediacom, and the data cap was infuriating. So glad I could switch!

I would argue that’s actually a good thing for the average user. Computers and other personal electronics have become so reliable that you rarely have to delve into those tools as an average user. You can actually see the trend of simplification and everything but Windows - Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android are all immutable operating systems where user data and applications live separately from a read-only operating system partition. This is obviously not the case for all Linux distros but the point still stands.

Working in IT, I’m glad to see that despite the move to immutability in the Linux world, I actually have access to more tools than I did on base Ubuntu. blendOS and NixOS allowing you to spin up an operating system of your choice in a container, pull down whatever programs you want, all without cluttering your system? It really is the best of both worlds. Plus I still need a rock solid system, Knowing that I will always be able to apply an update without anything breaking is a huge win for all users. Back to the original point, technology has become so reliable and easy to use that you feasibly can just open your browser every morning and leave it at that. No hassling with clearing cache or anything, it just works.

True, we’ve gotta be the ones to push friends and family to fight that

This reminds me of watching the movie about Professor John Nash in health class. For the next 3 days all any of us could talk about was “what if I’m making you up?”

(For those who don’t know, it’s a movie about him and his experiences with schizophrenia)

But there are private and open source alternatives to these things. Home Assistant is the way to go for home automation, same with Apple’s HomeKit (all local communication via your network only)

I have everything set up to do this as well, but on my Pixel running GrapheneOS I would suddenly lose all network access until I turned TailScale off and back on on my phone. That’s the one thing preventing me from switching over (also certs, since some next cloud applications don’t play nicely with the default cert)

It should be worth noting the tail scale uses wireguard on the back end

Anything scanning messages or media on my device is an absolute NO if I don’t control it.