Kvaesitso is totally underrated and fucking awesome. Can 100% recommend it and is totally unique.

• FOSS
• Customizable
• Very capable. E.g., you can convert units or have an inbuilt calculator by using the spotlight search
• Smooth and beautiful animations
• Plugins
• Minimalist

Does this count too?

I already posted this on !balconygardening@slrpnk.net. .

I’m purposefully growing duckweed on my balcony.
I’m doing !hydroponics@slrpnk.net, and by doing that, I have lots of waste water with still good fertilizer in it.

Duckweed is one of the fastest growing, nutrient densest and least demanding plant out there, and you can just scoop it out with a strainer.

It’s exponentially growing and if you don’t wanna eat it, it makes great organic fertiliser or animal feed with lots of protein and micronutients!

CasaOS isn’t an OS, it’s just the web interface you install afterwards you have Debian or whatever running

I can recommend you Debian, since it’s the “default” for many servers and has a lot of documentation and an extremely big userbase.

For web interfaces, I can recommend you, as you already mentioned, CasaOS and Cockpit.

I used CasaOS in the beginning and liked it, but nowadays, I mostly use Cockpit, where I have the feeling that it integrates the host system more, and allows me to do most of my maintenance (updating, etc.) quite easily.

CasaOS is more aesthetic imo, and allows you to install docker containers graphically, which is better for beginners.
I personally do my docker stuff mostly via CLI (docker compose file) nowadays, because I find it more straightforward, but the configuration CasaOS offers is easier to understand and has nice defaults

I replied to @muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee and understood the question like “Is distrobox as secure as QubesOS?”, which I replied with “No”.

I’d say Fedora Atomic is definitely a bit more secure than other distros (e.g. Ubuntu, regular Fedora, etc.) for reasons you mentioned, but if you are a user that thinks that only Qubes offers the security you need, than there’s no alternative.

I can recommend you Secureblue tho as a good middle ground.
It’s Fedora Atomic, but hardened, a bit like GrapheneOS. Still viable for comfortable everyday use, but much more secure.

What’s your problem with the image based OS?

If there’s really anything you need, you can layer it or build your own image quite easily.

You don’t run a VM for everything with Bazzite, Distrobox is more like Flatpak or WSL in that regard.

It also isn’t much more secure, it’s just that everything is a bit more contained and comes with their own dependencies.

Testing alcohol by scent or by flame are neither guaranteed nor safe methods, however, to test for the presence of methanol more effectively, you can apply sodium dichromate to a sample of the beverage. To do so, mix 8 mL of a sodium dichromate solution with 4 mL of sulfuric acid. Swirl gently to mix, then add 10 drops of the mixed solution to a test tube or other small container containing the alcohol. Swirl this container gently a few times, then waft the air from the mouth of the container towards your nose by fanning the air toward you with a hand, with the container placed roughly 8-12 inches from your face. Take note of the scent: If it is pungent and irritating, methanol is present in the alcohol. If the scent is dominating and fruity, only ethanol is present, and the beverage is safe.

Source: https://www.sciencing.com/test-alcohol-methanol-8714279/

Thanks for the summary!

https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx

There is also F-Droid for FOSS software if you’re interested, and Obtainium for stuff that’s not available on F-Droid. Maybe check that out?

I’ve also got my first “Hot chicks in your area, click this link for a hot chat 🥵” message in my inbox.

Guys, we’ve made it. We’re officially mainstream now! Yay!

I’ve tried pretty much any FOSS launcher out there, and I always return to Kvaesitso.

It feels very natural and smooth, while being minimalistic and extremely functional.

Especially the search is the best there is. The built in calculator (“1+1”; “3 inch in cm”; etc.) is so fucking useful and finding stuff is blazing fast.

Whoops! Then it is even older, you’re correct.
Then it’s a 2012 model.

I hate Apple with passion, but my GF has a 2013 Macbook, that is still getting security updates and is totally usable.

I replaced the spinning hard drive a while ago with a fast SSD, while using Clonezilla to copy the content and partitions of the drive.

And you know what? It started like a rocket. It has an Intel CPU, but I don’t think installing Linux would have made it much better, especially UX wise.

MacOS is more than half the reason most people buy a Mac and not a cheap laptop.

Still nice meme tho. It’s way more relatable than I want to admit it.

Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Why not just use both? Install Windows, create a Linux VM, and inside the VM, another Windows box, with active WSL too of course.

Depending on your use case, some high performance polymers like PEEK or Ultem (PEI) can have many advantages that metals have, but are still considered plastic, so you can print them relatively normally with SLS or sometimes even FDM printers.

Printing metals is often way harder than polymers, due to high temperatures needed, and post processing is also way harder.

What are your needs?

Awesome! I didn’t know this existed, but I definitely have to check that out. Thanks!

KDE Connect has a remote feature for presentations. Maybe one can create a small interface/ WM for it?

For example, Niri WM, configured with just left, right, and laserpointer as confirmation button. Based on uBlue, so it updates itself. Does that sound practical?