I used the 2nd option to connect a macbook pro 17 2006 to my desktop; can’t let go of that stupid thing, no idea why. can’t remember having issues with the cursor displaying (also Plasma, Fedora desktop + arch 32-bit on laptop), but the lag was annoying and the fans wouldn’t stop hollering (Core 2 Duo and ATI X1600 struggling to keep up) so I tore it down. before that tried using an android tablet to same end but also gave up as it wasn’t useful for anything.

this is an insanely professional-looking project, the (potential) vibed-ness notwithstanding. sadly, unless there’s some post describing what for and how claude & friends is used, not even thinking of touching that.

a year ago I could get the Poco F1 and Oneplus 6T at those prices. SDM845, 8 GB RAM, fast storage, widely available, fully postmarketOS and mobian supported, some Halium options (Ubuntu Touch) along with LineageOS et al. nowadays even faster ex-flagships can be had in the $50 region. that’s what you get when you wanna experiment and tinker, not 10x that to get the same feature set.

they’re latching on to the “go euro” trend, hoping this will send some wind in their sails. it won’t.

they need to fully opensource the thing and invest in supporting the tinkerers and the enthusiasts. what they got now with only some experia models and paying for licences and whatnot couldn’t be more of a deterrent. I can assure you, you’re not losing paying customers with giving the OS away, every tinkerer is gonna bring you at least 20 paying customers.

the only way you’re gonna sell those things is by having a wide and knowledgable user base that will work as your sales people. ubuntu has been at this for, what, three decades and is still lightyears away from being a household name. jolla’s gonna need fucking eons with this spiel.

when those early adopters iron out the bugs and port shit over, then the normies will come calling and then they’ll go how can I get this without the tinkering and flashing and touching someone’s used yucky phone, and then jolla can go here you go, give us bricks of cash.

the idea that we’re gonna shell out 10x the price of a postmarketOS-capable handset to beta-test the thing, I mean sure that’s possible; it’s just not very likely.

I’m commenting on your shitty takes. second, if you’ve spent decades (that’s plural yo) on this planet, then you’re familiar with the concept of a hyperbole. a hyperbole is a purposefully exaggerated statement in order to draw attention to the importance of an issue. e.g. I could eat a horse - no you couldn’t, you’re just mildly inconvenienced with what you think is hunger.

consequently, there’s a distinction to be made between actual calls to violence (of which I haven’t seen any on this platform) and vividly voicing disgust and anger.

first off, please announce that the video is from that brody clown so people can not click on that slop; needless to say, I ain’t watched it so I don’t know or care what points was made in it.

second, what OP is doing in OP and his bonehead comments is purposefully pushing a strawman argument, false dichotomy, red herring, and all the other logical fallacies in order to posture as a hero or whatever they got going on between their ears - if you’re anti this bullshit “law” then you are also pro physically harming poor FOSS “contributors”.

this fucking “contribution” shoulda been shot down like any other troll/bullshit plaguing every other FOSS project beset with ai bots and carma-farming typo-fixers and the like, and if by some mistake their “contribution” was accepted, here’s a chance to reverse it.

cali ain’t the world, which by and large ain’t got no such idiocy on the books. and if it did, I wouldn’t bootlick my way to submitting a patch to incorporate it; I would, in fact, oppose it any way I could.

that clown of a “contributor” has a history of simping for the backwardest ideas, antithetical to FOSS and I don’t care one bit what he has to say on any one topic.

what’s “linux”? which DE?

in general, using the “powersave” governer, available in Plasma and Gnome. the former can be activated automatically, the latter manually or with an extension. one of the largest consumers is the screen brightness, so you should focus on that.

also, undervolting helps if you have compatible and capable hardware.

~] cd /
/] ls
Programs
Users
System
Data
Mount

very macOS-like, wish this would take over. am a convert from that side of the fence and tried a decade or so ago to reform linux by way of symlinks to something similar to this but gave up after a reinstall or two, too much hassle. just like CMD-C/V, relearned the new way.

to all y’all with the “it’s just a text field”: what if the field is “race”? “sexual orientation”? “jerks_off_to”? what the fuck has a system managing daemon got to do with any of that? and why would you preemptively put it in there without even a pretense of a fight?

fuck you make us! make linux illegal, in Cali of all places. guess how long that will last?

yeah, e.g. fedora has by default a root and home subvolume. the caveat is, standard installers are either incapable of allowing you to install to a subvolume or are super-cumbersome, as that’s currently not a top UX priority, so, a manual install process (with e.g. debootstrap and the like) is often needed.

btrfs. aside from useful things like on-the-fly compression and deduping, the thing has subvolumes; think partitions as folders, so you don’t have to pre-size them. so e.g. your root (system) and home (user files and settings) are in separate subvolumes, which a) allows for easy backup/migrations and b) nothing stops you from installing a completely different OS (or several of those) in their respective subvolumes and then mount your home to each of those.

so you can have e.g. fedora and debian and arch, all on the same file system, using the same home, with all your shit available at all times and they don’t interfere with each other.

I gave up on mine for a privacy unrelated reason: they often reboot the thing remotely, for updating or whatnot. not a big deal per se, the problem - my local network stops working, and that I will not abide. so once I stopped using it, the rest (pihole, unbond, etc) came on its own and now I’m not going back.

that’s what syncthing is for. you can set it up to sync the Notes folder to your other devices in a read/write way or just one way, so you got your central repo.

also, qown has a nextcloud notes sync built in.

why would you host anything? that’s just an app. QOwnNotes (stupidest name ever) stores .MD files that you can syncthing, rsync, copy, edit externally, whatever, allowing you never to be locked-in again. all the toolboxes can be turned off, netting you a UI that looks like apple’s notes.

yeah, you’re safe. either boot to the installer, open terminal, enter command, reboot, or, hold down command-s before clicking on the usb icon. that will boot into single user mode, which is way faster.

you got two graphics chips in there - Intel HD4000 and Nvidia GT650M. the system is supposed to switch amongst them based on load, but that doesn’t always work as expected and the Nvidia chip is always powered on, using battery, emitting heat, etc.

by entering this variable, you turn off the Nvidia chip entirely and the system runs off the reliable and super-supported Intel HD4000, which is hella plenty for the majority of use cases.

I got one of these and running on the Intel graphics it performs like it was built for linux; with Nvidia, total shitshow.

also make sure to implement the wake/sleep scripts to turn off/on CPU cores if it takes a long time to wake from sleep.

the GT650M/GT750M in 2012/2013 models are beyond useless nowadays, using either noveau or some ancient nvidia driver version. that’s for wayland, it’s somewhat better with X11 but you’ll lose a buncha stuff regarding HiDPI and touchpad etc.

so what @waffle@sh.itjust.work said, only it’s way simpler to do that - disable discrete graphics via an EFI variable. you’ll lose video out but gain a way less power hungry machine, running way cooler.

of all the shit out there, that’s what needed attention?!

I am the first to pile on shit on people who are like buy new stuff, but in this instance, yeah, get a $20 laptop with a busted screen or sumsuch, install debian, and use it normally (docker compose).

you need the least amount of movable parts in this setup and yours is just too off kilter for a server.

not dealt with such a thing, but a decomissioned phone or laptop is the most obvious solution. they come with batteries, have seamless transition between power and battery, and you’re reusing shit nobody wants no more.

laptops you can get cheap when they have like busted screens and any reasonably modern (like decade old) can operate in sub-5W territory; coupled with a good battery, that should provide you with tens of hours of battery powered use, and you can expand that, with powerbanks and such.

alternatively, a cheap phone that can run postmarketOS or mobian. even lower consumption and more options to extend power availability.