True! Some level of distribution is essential for the resilience and doesn’t eat too much of efficiency.

In fact, I’ve been contemplating on the possibility of small, neighborhood data centers. They could both reliably provide local information services, as well as on-demand computing power.

Much as renewables are most efficient in a grid, hardware is most efficient in a data center.

Can we distribute and become autonomous in both? Yes. Do the times hint we might have to? Also yes. Is it optimal? Not really.

When you self-host, your hardware sits mostly idle, waiting for you to need it. In a data center, that same piece of hardware could serve so many more people, each with their own schedule. The data center approach is more environmentally sustainable, as it makes better use of the hardware, and so requires much less of it for the same output.

Unfortunately, though, there are also big, huge externalities. Dependency. Abuse. Roadblocks. Advertisement economy. This is what mostly drives people to owning their own data and infrastructure. It’s not a bright, perfect future for everyone. It’s a necessity of time, not a perfect solution. Granted, it might be fun to fiddle around with.

That said, I do self-host, and I do own my solar panel. Such are times!

Seems to be a general feature of Slavic languages.

Although it would prolly be “never do not”

“We will cast out the […] fascists”

Is this the resignation statement?

preparing champagne

No, but such companies see it as a pocket change and if it does get popular, they’ll benefit immensely from all these people buying AI tokens.

They could go and put all this money into any other distro (like Linux Mint, which is incredibly popular and takes a lot of work to make, yet runs on ~$10k a month), they just don’t see what’s in it for themselves.

Indeed! Trying to move my stuff to my Pixel and use it more, even if some wrinkles are there.

Please note Fairphone 6 is not properly supported yet, but the effort is there.

Any question being asked in good faith is worth answering. Something that might be obvious to you, night not be equally obvious to someone else, and vice versa.

Every person has missed something virtually everyone else knows. It’s totally normal, and providing venues for such questions to be answered goes long way towards building a cohesive view and good understanding of the matter.

Reporting from el cheapo, Pixel 3a: calls work flawlessly, had a little tinkering to make cellular Internet connection work with my provider. Looking at PostmarketOS Wiki, plenty of phones now work perfectly well as, well, phones.

As a fellow postmarketOS user, it’s not fully ready for prime time, though it surely works.

If you need banking apps (not just bank in your browser), native popular messenger apps (Waydroid is there, but it’s way from perfect) and stuff like such, postmarketOS and mobile Linux in general are still not ready for you.

If you want to explore the alternative and ready to make some sacrifices in a quest for independence, you should absolutely give it a spin. Many well-supported devices (Pixel 3a, Pocophone F1 etc. etc.) are old and extremely cheap to buy on the secondhand market, and will offer you a decent experience.

Or go Linux phone altogether. For the most part, it all works now!

What are the apps? Chances are, you’ll have plenty enough of savvy userbase even without this BS.

Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority, the one making sure the green lock on HTTPS sites stays green.

Veracrypt is an encryption software.

The technology allowed us to do such things for a while, actually. The problem was cost. What finally brought these devices to the market are insane economies of scale driving prices into an acceptable range.

A lot of the technological breakthroughs we have are not only due to science and engineering, but also economy. Humans figured how to produce very complex stuff VERY efficiently, and this allowed us to move the latest developments from the lab to enterprise, and then to consumers.

SSDs and flash storage are brilliant, pretty much textbook examples of it. So are chips, LEDs, solar panels, and much more.

On that note, would you imagine in the 70’s that we’ll have LEDs everywhere and that they’ll practically replace most other sources of light? This is, like, insane tech for the time.

Nice!

Thanks!

Love the fact about RSS. Wish everyone could show up with such numbers!

What a life!

Didn’t know about WordPress automatically making RSS! Will put it to use.

Oh, I’d love to take a look at yours! But, of course, only if you’re comfortable sharing ✨

Woah, that’s a solid set! Thank you! I even know a few of these folks :D