Free as in herpes.

Most smaller brands don’t have the excess funds to lobby, etc.

Not sure I’ve seen the same latency with installing things but I’ve also layered very little. Doing things the immutable way is definitely more challenging but I don’t mind the challenge. I think I have more fun configuring than actually using my system.

I’ve been mostly happy with Bazzite (Fedora based) but sometimes the immutability aspect can be frustrating. I might say any old distro with a regular Timeshift backup is good enough. OP already said they tried Mint, which works well with Timeshift, and I don’t know if it’s improved with it’s update frequency.

Converting CO² back to O² by atom smashing.

Anyone know if Google Voice is encrypted? I can read copies of my texts online so I’m thinking no. I’ve felt like the service has outlived its usefulness for me and that would be the final straw.

I agree. This can’t be the solution. It also doesn’t not have to be part of it either.

With a bit of a double-entendre, “It powers the world”, since it’s the most common server platform.

More funny: “It’s not an OS. It’s a hobby.”

I call it a “necessary evil”.

Yarn and Tamagotchi. 😒

This one also a bit chilling:

A data scientist can tell most of someone’s life story given their zip code, and we try not to think too hard about why that’s always the most predictive feature in the model.

Ugh. So it looks like I can’t even do this with Termux. Gotta dig out one of my few cables that does data transfer.

I get to sleep in on Sundays. Otherwise it’s basically the same as how I was brought up.

Are you saying that the bulk of inefficiency comes from network traffic?

I don’t think the ideas are all that bad BUT once again we’re glossing over the fact that we’re taking extremely simple tasks and making them less energy efficient on the order of hundreds of thousands. If this kind of thing takes off, at best we’d see companies start to go bankrupt because they can’t keep up with costs and at worst we’d ramp up carbon emitting energy production.

Right. When a request comes in, Traefik, for one, will hold the connection until the service is back up then forward the request as usual. This works for UIs as well. You’ll get a temporary loading page then redirected to the requested UI when the service is up.

It probably would work well with those as long as the startup time was quick (my containers come up almost instantly) and the initiating clients can handle a bit of latency. I didn’t notice any hiccups in my use at all.

Not useful on its own but https://sablierapp.dev/ was really useful for me in getting back resources from some of the heavyweight containers I use. For those unfamiliar with it, Sablier can stop containers that go idle and then spin them back up automatically when a request comes in. It requires Traefik, NGINX, or Caddy running always so it could complicate your server but for me I couldn’t do without it.

What year is it?

I just became a subscriber on Patreon.