If you need to keep windows around, you can also do what I do for my VMs. Download Win11 Enterprise IoT LTSC from massgrave.dev. Doesn’t have Bing search in the search bar, just local, no Co-pilot, no bullshit.

I’d prefer not having to use it at all, but some software just doesn’t play nice with wine yet.

LLMs are stateless. The model itself stays the same. Doesn’t mean they’re not saving the data elsewhere, but the LLM does not retain interactions.

Yup, typo. It is lit, though.

I have deployed LiveKit for my homeserver yesterday. I’m not gonna lie, it does involve a bit of work, but once it’s running it is very seamless.

Curiosity Stream is fine if you are looking for a service that let’s you pay to stream nature docs. The rest, I’d probably avoid. Some of the because they suck, others because there are better alternatives.

Edit: Commented thrice due to app issues.

Yeah, I usually approach this stuff from the standpoint of someone who is already actively self-hosting. For people stuck in Google/MS, it is certainly better.

Vaultwarden is free. Bitwarden is free. Bitwarden Premium is 10€/year.

For what it offers, Proton is pretty expensive. They are also making inter-operation with other services difficult or impossible.

There’s much worse, but they aren’t that great either.

I use qemu/kvm with vm manager. There’s a lot of other options too. Most of them are valid indefinitely.

I use the Win11 LTSC IoT Enterprise Image, because it cuts out most of the usual windows bloat. Maybe have a look at massgrave.dev.

Two plans, both unlimited calls and data. One is 30€, the other 15€ (the more expensive one has significantly higher speeds), on two different networks.

Depending on the moth, I tend to use 50-100 GB/month.

You can hand over a USB device fully to a Windows VM. That’s how I update my Yamaha stuff.

Meh, I actively use it. I get why it might be unintuitive to someone newly switching.

… I actually like being able to copy a website and middle clicking to open it. I don’t think it’s a problem, it just needs to be telegraphed to the user better, and togleable.

Yes. Strip searches suck. This is about publically sexualising people against their will. That also sucks.

And some people seem to be hell-bent to put much more scrutiny on the person being sexualised than on the person sexualising them.

Yeah. From experience, even moderately powerful laptops can run a win11 ltsc iot VM pretty easy, and that runs everything you need that wine can’t.

For reference, my current laptop has an 8th gen i5, 32 GB RAM. I use the VM for Lightroom, affinity. Runs perfectly fine with 4 Threads and 16 gigs of RAM.

The way the many societies treat nudity is a problem, but that is a wholly separate issue from people getting ‘undressed’ against their will.

You just have to Flash coreboot, I have three chromebooks deployed with family, one with mint and two with Endeavour. Even Touch and audio drivers work for those specific models (Acer Santa and Asus Babytiger).

What annoys me with Tuta is that they make PGP encryption very difficult (they don’t implement it at all, you have to use external solutions, which is made more difficult because you can’t use external clients).

They argue it is less secure than their solution where they send non Tuta users a link and you give them a password. I argue that PGP is something people would use, while their solution isn’t.

Proton does implement it, but I also have my gripes with Proton. Both of them feel like they want to build a walled garden / avoid being inter-operable.

I seem to remember that steam depends on the official nvidia drivers, so that might still be fumbly if you use their platform.

I wouldn’t worry about the far-left - there doesn’t seem to be a single far-left politician with a platform in the US. I’d be more worried about the mayority of people currently in the legislature being either far-right or enabling said far-right people. Those people will still be there after Trump.

That building looks kinda like a stick of ram from the front.