H Ramus

It’s not clear what split between bots and humans is but I’m gonna be bold and assert that bots comprise the majority of engagement. Those pesky inventions shouldn’t be allowed to write our holy language, they created nothing, contribute nothing and regurgitate the same verbiage slop. And ever more present in everyday life like in banking or other services.

This seems more human, idiots and all alike, agreeing or not, most comments seem from actual people. There’ll be a time when human engagement will be exploited at a premium as corpos seize and try to monetise ever more of the human experience. Federated platforms will be the bastions of human connectivity, these or other similar platforms without a profit motive. I’d rather engage with people.

Ads. It’s always ads. The festering pile of digital excrement that refuses to be cleaned up. It reproduces instead.

All of this stuff uses up a lot of space, around 200MB, which is greater than the standard root partition size in Openwrt. I run it on an x86 box (PC Engines APU2) and the internal SSD is 16GB. Every update I needed to expand the root partition size to be able to fit all the packages previously installed. I now build my own images with expanded root partition to avoid the hassle.

This is what I use. Openwrt with a USB HDD attached to it. Radicale2 deals with caldav stuff. Samba4 shares the HDD over the network. Zerotier gets me connected to the home network when out and about. Syncthing on my router and phone. When I charge my phone it automatically backs up my pictures and documents folder into the HDD. Separate offline copy of the HDD every few months for backup. Not as fast or dedicated as NAS but cost effective solution. Openwrt solves most of my networking needs.

Didn’t bother going through the hoops and installed EndeavourOS which is arch-based with some additional default applications.

For me, the best thing of Arch isn’t the distribution but the Arch wiki. An impressive piece of documentation.

I had issues with Manjaro and WiFi disconnecting. Also, Manjaro dropped hardware acceleration for video codecs. Eventually got too annoyed to deal with the Manjaro direction and moved to EOS. Everything is working fine barring a script to get the headphones volume to work (recognised as bass speaker in alsa paths). So far, EOS has been the set and forget type of OS for me.

Windows runs my laptop harder, uses more battery and the fans are spinning a lot of times whist it runs almost silent in Linux. I’ve settled on EndeavourOS which has given me a headache-free experience for my hardware (lenovo yoga pro 7 7840hs). Only keep widows for BIOS updates otherwise I’d have nuked that hodge podge of software melange.

If you’re really set on windows you could try tiny11 to remove most of the bloat.

Bought a Yoga Pro 7 7840HS 32GB 1TB. Everything works fine in Linux. Battery does 8-10h on full charge, good build quality, no issues with any parts. Running EndeavourOS after had some minor issues with Manjaro, WiFi connecting 1 minute after booting and some weird disconnects after a while. No such thing in EndeavourOS.

Running idle with minimum brightness, Bluetooth off, WiFi connected and keyboard backlight turned off consumes minimum 3.6W. Got it less than $900 around 4 months ago.

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