Bypassing the battery?

I have a couple in my Bitwarden (Vaultwarden)

But I already have issues with Android trying to force me to use the system Passkey provider, and companies like Apple only supporting their own device’s built in manager for Apple accounts.

Installing anything. Updating. Formatting drives.

For most streaming? Yeah.

Give me a good 4k Blu-ray though. High bitrate 4k

They should but they wouldn’t be optimized for touch or small screens

Check your disk access usage maybe? Like if you store things on an external drive with USB2 or something you’re gonna have a bad time with multiple videos/high bitrate stuff because you’re saturating the bandwidth of the connection

I mean some small part of it is dino. But yeah by biomass it’s mostly plant.

I regularly forget to update it for 8 months and it has never broken for me

AWS

save money

lmao

+1 for Immich - it’s actually great

And you fully control the service?

Which is exactly why I never installed Plex and went straight to Jellyfin

from nokia candybars and palm pilots to having a an always on camera, microphone, location and wifi sensor controlled by foreign advertising companies

We could build things with all that tech outside of those group’s control. That’s what brought you here to the Fediverse isn’t it?

For example I like Smart Home stuff. I’ve got dozens of devices I can control through my phone or automations etc around my house. My lights even. But I only like it because I control it thanks to FOSS stuff like Home Assistant. It’s local. Not reliant on external servers and works exactly how I like. If you bought cheap-o wifi gadgets that all rely on 20 different apps you’d have a really shitty experience and all your data harvested and your lights not turning on because whatever company shut down.

We can take control of phone tech in a similar way. Unfortunately I doubt we will as a whole but I think it may be possible for the more technically minded to carve out a small niche in the hellscape.

Most Android apps can be run under a mini-VM in the Linux systems I’ve tried - but some apps won’t function well that way (banking, NFC tickets, etc)

(non-Android) Linux phones aren’t really ready for daily driving even for relatively advanced users - but it looks like we’re gonna have to deal with it anyhow

Hell yeah

I doubt it’s possible to have them all installed and have a functioning system anyway

You’re good. If you like your setup please don’t feel like you need to change. Ubuntu will serve you just fine.

Now if you just like tinkering or configuring…

The main drawback of Ubuntu is mainly that people don’t like Canonical, the company behind it. They can be very opinionated in their decisions. Also many prefer rolling-release distros (like Arch, or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed) where you get much quicker software updates over Ubuntu and other traditional distros.

I can sympathize with being frustrated but that’s silly