Su that’s why they never released 9 - it was too perfect and they wouldn’t make money in the future

Look, I’ve used Cachy. It’s great, pretty polished, looks nice.

But do not recommend an arch distro like that until you know person is more tech inclined.

Because a lot of Windows users are not, and they’re not going to want to open the terminal.

Cachy is best for those who like to more effortlessly tinker with their system, like messing around with Polkit so KDE doesn’t ask for a password every second.

Don’t forget, it’s not about what we’ve always wanted from an OS, but what the other person might want from an OS. When unknown, pick the simpler solutions, like Bazzite, Debian, or Mint.

That’s how I’ve gotten 8 people converted to Linux from Windows this year.

In case anyone wants to use something while waiting on some features for this, here’s an alternative set up:

Cheap Ikea ZigBee smart plug and an analog Bluetooth speaker(s) (like the Marshall ones) kept at on with volume set to max (and, if using a music player that supports it on your phone, you can keep bass and treble controls at max as well).

You can then turn on the smart plug, which will turn on the whole set up, connect your phone via Bluetooth, and play the music via a file manager that has a music organizer (if music is on your own server) and control volume levels and an equalizer on an app of your choosing. If you don’t want to wait for syncing to your Bluetooth, you can also do a quick automation so it turns on the speaker in the morning so it auto connects before you wake up.

At least, that’s how I have things at the moment.

Perhaps, with some soldering.

The issue is the firmware.

Didn’t know the HDMI cartel could afford bots / useful idiots

I agree it’s not that simple, but it’s just a proposed possible beginning to a solution. We could refine it further and then give the vet refined idea as a charter for a lawyer to them draft up as a proper proposal that could then be present to a relative governmental body to consider.

But few people like to put in that work. Even politicians don’t - that’s why corporations get so much of what they want - they do that and pay people to do that for them.

That said, view count isn’t the same as membership. This solution wouldn’t be perfect.

But it would be better than nothing at all, especially now with the advent of AI turning the firehouse of lies into the tsunami of lies. Currently one side only grows stronger in their opportunity for causing havoc and mischief while the other, quite literally, does nothing and sometimes advocates for doing nothing. You could say it’s a reflection of the tolerance paradox that we’re seeing today.

Proton isn’t social media.

If you can’t understand why big = bad in terms of the dissemination of misinformation, then clearly we’re already at an impass on further discussion of possible numbers and usage of statistics and other variables in determining potential regulations.

Just make the law so it only affects things with x-amount of millions of users or x-percent of the population number minimum. You could even have regulation tiers toed to amount of active users, so those over the billion mark are regulated the strictest, like Facebook.

That’ll leave smaller networks, forums, and businesses alone while finally giving some actually needed regulations to the large corporations messing with things.

They’re power hungry for about the same performance as AMD. At least the i-series

I think it depends on whether you work on actual defense systems rather than assault systems.

Anti missile systems for example.

Yes but also no.

As in, it is based on Debian, but it’s kinda like how a zebra is a horse

If you have issues with mint, try something based on Debian or Fedora rather than Ubuntu like Mint is.

For Fedora I recommend Bazzite if you do gaming and nothing too technical. Flatpaks make it easy to find and install software without messing things up. Otherwise Fedora Kiinoite.

For Debian I recommend Debian itself really. Also runs very well on much older machinery.

The lack of actual communists y’all follow.

They’ve always been the weird ones

Not sure I trust WD after the whole lying label NAS thing, the wiped drive accident, and more.

Yes but you have to find the now kinda rare used NVLink ideally

And somehow also more impressive than one Zeus per minute

Thanks for everyone’s help. Figured out I didn’t need the second Switch, just needed a router that had at least 2 LAN connections.

Thanks everyone. I tried ZimaOS (since apparently that’s what CasaOS is now?) but had issues figuring out the -arr services.

Currently trying YunoHost now, though for some reason it says my GMKtec G9 has a MMC/Micro SD?

I’ve seen the chart, but the problem is I don’t understand the point of some of the things in the chart. The installation instructions are also kind of lacking since I don’t understand Docker well, but it just says to install Cosmos via Docker. I could take a couple of days to learn all this and sacrifice my limited family time, for something I think has a potential benefit, or I could just install one of the other two.

If those features are extremely useful and important, then yes, I’ll have to learn it and I guess that makes Cosmos the best choice. If they’re not really needed, then I guess I should pick one of the other two.

Mostly I’ll be running Jellyfish, file storage and retrieval, and eventually probably something for Valetudo in the future. Also considering putting Waydroid in there somehow to run Stube on the TV as well. But would all those features be incredibly important to have something like Cosmos then?