Seconding Matrix, if you like the idea of chat rather than forum post format. You can also use the account in the Matrix network at large, quite a few techy hobby groups there, and of course one-to-one chat.

Hope it’s Fairphone.

Okjokull’s plaque is haunting.

Western society tried to enforce cleaning and actually progressing in one of my abandoned projects, maybe some light reading, on me? Because that’s what I wanted to do. In stead the day just kind of disappeared.

Yesssss, finally. Wish I had my FP4 with me to try.

Endless Sky is wonderful, though the mobile version is a bit clunky (not even an “official” version afaik, but stitched on the ongoing-development FOSS game).

Yup. Hence why all the talk of ironclad security guarantees, though I don’t even know what they could be at this point to be trusted. NATO membership and bilateral agreements with US, UK, and France? But so long as no serious guarantees are on the table, the question remains moot.

According to Wikipedia, the planetary boundaries -concept has been around since 2009, with some renaming and one variable change (“chemical pollution” to “novel entities”. The original Nature (feature) paper that I dug up doesn’t describe the methodology, but that it hasn’t faced major criticism so far would suggest it’s pretty valid for the kind of tool that it is.

Aren’t spot price electricity contracts available in the US (I assume)?

Notice that even the source has to admit that the hypothetical territory losses would be for “security guarantees and peace”. And since no ironclad security guarantees are in sight, the question is moot.

IMHO they “should” take a deal like that too. Even after WW2 for Poland itself, and definitely Finland IMHO, that lost territory but weren’t directly absorbed into the SU, I’d imagine the SU meddling in the decades after was the even more painful part.

It also isn’t necessarily the kind of “should” that implies loss of support otherwise, just that if I/they were in that situation, I/they’d take such a deal. I certainly think it should be up to the ukrainians themselves, and would continue to support them whichever choice they made, when it may come available.

I may be slightly envious.

Clay teapot.
Aged sheng pu’erh tea cake.
A good steep of a dan cong tea (so rare).
Live opera experience.
Vegetable patch.
Slushie.
My favourite pair of shoes (I did).
Alpaca/silk dress (yup).
Orgasm.

To be fair I always wanted more than one cat, just had to start with one.

Device-wise, have you considered separating your project and personal computer? You could coreboot a small light Chromebook as a personal, ultraportable device, and get a hefty laptop or even a desktop for the hard stuff.

Chatwise, there’s Matrix, XMPP and SimpleX at least. And Briar and Session. But Signal with its phone number registration is the easiest for others to jump to.

And yes, it’s a constant balancing act between privacy and convenience… and the IA of the security triad, and open source principles. Just like with most things, there’s no perfect solution, you just learn to live with the least bad ones.

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To me the value has come mostly from “ok, so it sounds to me you are saying that…” and the ability to confirm that I haven’t misunderstood something (of course with current LLMs both the original answer and the verification have to be taken with a heaping of salt). And the ability to adapt it on the go to a concrete example. So, kind of like a having a teacher or an expert friend, and not just search engine.

Like the last time I relied heavily on a LLM to help/teach me with something it was to explain the PC boot process and BIOS/UEFI to me, and how it applied step by step on how successfully deal with USB and bootloader issues on an “eccentric” HP laptop when installing Linux. The combination of explaining and doing and answering questions was way better than an encyclopedia. No doubt it could have been done with blog posts and textbooks, and I did have to make “educated guesses” on occasion, but all in all it was a great experience.

Yup! Even just LUKSing a partition is hacky. And I lose things often, so it’s an important thing to me.

I didn’t realise iodé supported relocking on FP4. I don’t suppose it’d also happen to support microG in work profile only, deleted from the personal profile?

Because I’d love to return to ethical hardware from Graphene/Pixel, and the lack of FDE on Ubuntu Touch really rubs me the wrong way.

TIL chemists clearly got confused by D(ex)/S(in) and R(ight)/L(eft).