In general, I support your stance. The devil is in the details, though, so to speak. You can only get so much evidece first-hand, and need to believe others about the rest. How do you distinguish fraudsters from honest bet mistaken people from people knowing the truth?
Fundamental logic skills also imply that atheism is a belief “God doesn’t exist!”
As an upgrade, try agnosticism: “Do we have good evidence that God exists?” So far, the only argument in favor of atheism I know of is the Occam’s Razor (those manifestations of God could also be explained in other, possibly simpler ways).
I’m running my email server on a POCO F1 ex-Android phone (running PostmarketOS now).
I wish I could get NixOS running on it, then I’d move other things also there.
Here’s a couple of pointers to get started:
top in your terminal to see what’s taking CPU.top -o RES (or what’s easier, run top and then press M while it’s running) to see what is taking up RAM.… though unfortunately, it’s mighty probable that the only significant consumer of memory and CPU is your browser. Get uBlock Origin, it helps web pages be lighter and eat less resources. Don’t open too many tabs at once - learn to use bookmarks efficiently, instead (folders, bookmarks toolbar and whatnot).
Reminds me of the programs that make the kernel drop FS buffers in an attempt to free up RAM. Or hog as much memory as they can in an attempt to have unused things swapped to disk. Yeah, they free up RAM all right, but at the expense of actual speed.
Most of the time, this junk is actively harmful. Forget it, modern Linux uses optimized defaults.
You can get more performance out of your hardware by switching to from heavyweight to lightweight programs - for example, instead of Skype (which uses Electron), choose some other way to chat like irssi for IRC. Instead of Gnome, choose i3 or dwm or something like that. You need a bunch of tradeoffs and learning, though, to really get the most out of your hardware.
Windows has a pre-built index as well (or at least it has a search indexer service that enjoys as warm a CPU as possible). That doesn’t appear to improve the speed of search, though.
In Linux, the locate command is crazy fast. I am amazed at how slow search is in Windows, compared to this.
I can drive my manual and eat at the same time just fine, thankyouverymuch :) I think I once submitted a pull request while on the road…
Having an unauthenticated relay imposes the responsibility to configure it correctly (the “only certain addresses” part) and protect it (the “accessible outside the local network” bit). Are you sure it’s not accessible? Did you remember to test with IPv6 too? Will it remain protected after the next time you mess around with your firewall for some totally unrelated reason?
If it works - good for you, but be mindful of all the baggage that comes with a new service.
You’re trading one security issue (profileration of app passwords) to another one (an unauthenticated relay). Is it worth it?
Yes, basically, except for the fractional amount of kids. Got my MSc for free (actually I got paid tuition to study, heh (living in Europe has its perks)). Now working in software engineering, happy with my life.
That said, I realize I’m an outlier, having many acquaintances with substantially harder lives. I’m deeply grateful to fate.
I can’t be sure it’ll last, though, so I’m trying to branch out into gardening now (while I have the money to spare for it). See if I can get a livable amount of veggies out of my farmland, some day. It won’t be enough to sell, but perhaps our family could earn subsistence level of calories out of our land…
The last time I needed to boot a PC that didn’t have a screen, I built a NixOS installation image with SSH access. I added a user, sudo access, and prepopulated authenticated SSH keys, something similar to https://nixos.mayflower.consulting/blog/2018/09/11/custom-images/
It was about as easy as configuring my own NixOS system.
Dwarf Fortress and Cataclysm: DDA generate some crazy plotlines, full of narrative, twists, and character development. How come no writer has converted a character’s story into a novel, yet?
Environments are per-process. Every program can have its own environment, so don’t inject secrets where they’re not needed.
I’m using bubblewrap to restrict access to FS.
Trying to decide between The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind (OpenMW), Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, doomscrolling in Lemmy, or doing some work instead. So far, work has been winning, but I’m not sure of continued success.
Oh, I totally agree my solution is not “proper” - it’s a homebrewn solution, full of duct tape and shoestrings. That said, it does everything I need to do. Which features of “proper programs” would you be missing? Perhaps I could add them for my own use.
Did gou look into what takes up the most memory? You could downgrade from the modern browser with 500 tabs to netsurf with 500 bookmarks, perhaps, or similar. Many modern websites don’t work there, though.
Instead of Gnome, I’m using Sway, at the moment it’s taking up 236MB resident.
Do you need that mail client to run 24x7? It’s better for mental health to check mail when you decide (once in the morning), not when some rando wants to sell you cannabis oil (best cure for any ailment!) - or you might find something tiny that checks for email and shows a desktop notification, so you know to launch your mail client.
Alacritty likes to munch memory, Foot takes up much less, but Foot doesn’t render some colors correctly, for whatever reason.
Shop around, there are more options than just changing the Matrix client.
I wrote a Bash script that uses rsync to copy data elsewhere.
It gets launched by a systemd timer, but cron would also work. At first it creates a btrfs snapshot of source, for consistency’s sake.
Then it copies stuff. It’s incremental, ie. unchanged files get hardlinked, not copied (-link-dest against the latest symlink) into date-specific directories that present the full view of the filesystem.
Finally, it cleans up the source snapshot and rewrites the latest symlink to point to the freshly made copy, if successful.
I could share my script, if there’s interest, tho it might look a bit messy. Oh, and these rdiff-whatchamacallits probably do the same thing in a more professional manner. I wrote mine to learn rsync.
Play video games - Cataclysm:DDA or Dwarf Fortress (tho I stayed on the pre-Steam version as it’s lighter on the CPU).
Learn a new programming language at https://exercism.org
Read a book - tons of free ones around the interwebs, legally or not, as you desire.
Install a new operating system. Try Haiku or OpenBSD. See if your phone is compatible with PostmarketOS. If not, Termux + SSH + port forwarding in your WiFi box, set up a webserver and publish something. Host a Gemini pod.
Learn a craft. Repair something that another person would toss. Start a sourdough culture - it takes a week to mature (read up on how to do this right), then bake a bread. Homemade bread is approx 16× tastier than run-of-the-mill commercial stuff.
Take a walk somewhere you haven’t walked before. Find the nearest forest lake and arrange a picnic. Take someone with you on the 2nd trip.