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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I quite like Fastmail. It's a bit expensive but the service is very reliable and they have a well established reputation. You can create masked emails using their domain or your own from the web interface.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As of the latest release (21), you can simply install microG on regular LOS and no longer need to install LineageOS for microG since it now includes the necessary signature spoofing support.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

If you don't need the GPIO then buy a small form factor office PC like a Dell Optiplex Micro or a Lenovo/HP equivalent. They cost about the same on the used market, are more performant without the ARM headache and use only marginally more power (maybe 5-10w more at idle).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ubuntu -> Arch -> Debian (stable) -> Fedora Silverblue -> NixOS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious, why do you use LVM with BTRFS and not just use BTRFS built in subvolumes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

btrfs snapshots are still useful on immutable distros to recover accidentally deleted data.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

You will hate Ansible if you are coming from Nix. I went the other way and Nix is 1000x cleaner.

Being able to actually reverse changes is trivial in Nix, but can be a headache in Ansible. Not to mention the advantages of writing in an actual language and not yaml full of template hacks. I personally don't see much future for tools like Ansible, there is considerable inertia working in its favor right now and it is absolutely true that it is widely used, but the future of configuration management is for sure more aligned with how Nix works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Similar to my scheme:

laptop = "laptop"
nas = "nas"
router = "router"

Then if there are more than one in each category I use nas-0, nas-1, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wow, to each their own I guess... Is this satire?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bangle.js watch is probably the closest thing, but I'm not sure how good it is compared to Garmin.

 

I'm looking to start testing out and developing for mobile Linux and am curious what the current best options are for used devices that support it.

I have done a bit of digging and the most popular choice seems to be the Oneplus 6, but it looks like supply has somewhat dried up and prices are creeping up on the second hand market... not to mention that it is starting to get a bit old.

I noticed that msm8953 devices are starting to get mainline support so tried getting lk2nd running on my phone (Moto G7), but couldn't get it to boot.

Is the (mainline supporting) hardware landscape really this bleak?

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