I’ve been trying to make sense of why multiple systems end up like this and how to design better. At an individual and small community level there’s decent good people. But once group size or resource pooling goes beyond a certain size more than human attention span, etc then rough edges are blown up.

It’s like small groups can operate on trust and direct feedback but once you get too big then rules and proxies start to dominate. And after that people optimize for those local rules instead of total system health.

Also in small groups you have individuals you tie to systems, but once too big you drop that association in addition to empathy when interacting with the system.

Maybe we need a more modular society focused on local good.

I’m emphasizing breaking free from identity ties to devices enforced by the hardware/radio. Not adding it to all devices.

It also limits open source competition in the phone market.

And the hardware. Your phone requires much harder power optimization in order to have a usable battery life. Same for size and heat dissipation.

Also politics related to the radio connection. Public cellular is tied to identity. It is structurally hostile to user-controlled, fully open, deeply optimized devices because the radio stack is certification-heavy, operator-governed, and privacy-hostile.

There’s also netbird which has reverseproxy setup options recently in addition to the wireguard mesh.

Self host on a VPS

Last night I did

Do you want database features? Or just markdown style note organization?

There’s a 3rd scenario which is not having the ability to detect when you are expected to lie to be nice.

Or it being extremely energy intensive to detect that situation.

Zorin OS is geared towards people coming frim Windows or Mac wanting to maintain UI similarity. They have a “paid” version where you just pay for tech support help installing + more desktop layouts, but the free version Zorin OS core is most popular and I’m sure the community here would be happy to help walk you through it.

If you have nvidia graphics card they have support for that during installation.

People put doom on microwaves, I’d call that general purpose computing.

After reading that… it only pertains to commercially licensed?

The bottleneck was human ego and people not actually having enough experience for designing complex systems. Or people without enough experience setting up people systems that interfere with those who can actually design the systems.

If switching from Windows or Mac and you want to keep similar UI for easy transition, check out ZorinOS. A friend of mine recently installed Zorin OS Core w/ nvidia drivers and is enjoying it so far.

I’ve been leaning towards appliance homelab too, but much earlier on in my journey.

I’ve avoided NASes for now and been adding powered external SSDs. May look into DAS eventually.

Probably quid pro quo with the saudis for more oil dominance

To drive up fake usage numbers for justifying the bubble they created to shareholders.

Just like Kim Kardashian

If you come from Windows or Mac and want to keep similar UI familiarity and ease of use then ZorinOS is pretty good. A friend of mine migrated away from Windows and installed Zorin OS core, choosing nvidia drivers during installation. They are very pleased with the experience so far.

1. Copy files to keep to cloud or other machine.
2. Prep usb drive with favorite OS installer (zorin, pop, mint, bazzite, fedora, nix, etc)
3. Boot into usb drive and wipe hard drive to put linux on it.
4. Copy desired files back onto your linux machine

Yeah agreed for most people migrating from Windows should be fine.

I just had a bias since I’m just used to making my own systemd services and udev rules for my work.

Ahh I see. Won’t the immutability impede work? I guess that depends on the type of work. But given OP is switching from Windows for first time it’s unlikely they’ll be wanting to mess that.

yeah Bazzite is also a fine gaming + typical work option

The key is systematic change via fear of the population. First step is removing the surveillance state infringing on free speech. Next #freeluigi