I always get confused by this analogy because my mind goes to beer representing open source (the ingredients aren’t secret, and you can brew it yourself if you want to). “Free Coca-cola” would work better, like you’re not paying for it right now but only one company knows how to make it.
unlike other sites like DDG actually has its own crawler whereas most alternatives are just frontends for google/bing
Just so you know, DDG does have its own webcrawler (DuckDuckBot). It takes results from that, and the Bing API, and other sources, to generate results.
Also, they pay Bing for results from the Bing API (which as I understand it gives configurable access to the Bing index) and so even the results that do come out of Bing are quite different than you’d get compared to just a “frontend for Bing”.
I just tried this and it was blurry until I logged out and back in!
There’s some instructions here but basically:
sudo apt install zram-config
append to end of /etc/sysctl.conf:
vm.swappiness = 180
# disable swap readahead (since using zram swap)
vm.page-cluster = 0
Can check these have been applied with
cat /proc/sys/vm/page-clusteror.../swappiness
I also live in Europe
My x1 carbon, with tlp and kubuntu, idling with screen on estimates 20 hours battery life. Haven’t had the patience to test it yet.
If you run iCloud and syncthing on the same machine you can point syncthing at the icloud folder, and you’ve got a way to sync icloud to Linux.
Also there are plenty of Ubuntu-based distros that look different!
I’m basically doing the same, but those “pending update, close the app to avoid disruptions” popups are kind of disrupting.
Been using rsnapshot for years, has saved me more than once
This looks like the kind of thing I would like to use, but I’m already tied into the plain markdown files “ecosystem“. Maybe I can import my stuff into anytype?
It solves a bunch of stuff caused by IMAP being a bit of a mess. Top of the list of JMAP benefits is:
[JMAP] is stateless. It doesn’t need a persistent connection, which is better for mobile use, which may have intermittent network access and where battery life must be conserved by turning the radio off whenever possible.
I’ve just been trying both and the Tailscale web dashboard is a lot more polished. Tailscale also uses wireguard instead of something proprietary. But I’m wondering if the zerotier iphone app might use less battery because I’ve heard tailscale has a problem with that.
It’s not just about trusting the code (which anyway isn’t a small task to review it, and all future PRs, and run your own builds from reviewed code) but also there are some people who will avoid Russian developed stuff at the moment for moral reasons, you know, because of the whole Ukraine thing.
The colours are better
This might not be a factor you care about, but Adguard is developed in Russia.
Have thought of doing this before. I only read halfway through but enough to confirm what I expected - too much work!
snapcast is the best
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