The movie “Mercy” huh

True, without 20% VAT German price would be ~1974 eur (=~2319 usd)

Pro 13 pre built with Intel

Germany: 2369 eur USA: 1499 usd

You can literally go to New York, eat a rye and pastrami, get your framework 13 pro, fly back and still be somewhat ahead

“It has a mic, so it’ll definitely have eavesdropping malware” is quite a logical jump to make. Everything has a mic nowadays.

I use the audio rooms feature with some friends quite a lot, where anyone can join and leave. Don’t know the official name. What’s an alternative for that? Will stoat work?

I might actually use this as my primary phone (I agree with others who say marketing this as a 2nd phone was a mistake) if it gets e/os/ or grapheneos support

Ah I see, that’s a long dreamed feature of mine. To be honest, I haven’t seen that feature work reliably in apps that do have it (eg otterrss)

Why do you feel uncomfortable with NNW?

Cory Doctorow regularly writes in his own blog, without any cookie banners: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/

I’ve considered this but only 1 Ethernet port requires a switch, so I’m not really sure

Can you elaborate on why?

I’m also postponing upgrading my rpi4 os to 64bit one, although it’d unblock a lot of my small projects since many docker containers don’t support the 32bit os anymore. I’m just very lazy.

Looks like old school counter strike 1.5!

This looks intriguing! How does it compare to Minecraft?

AppRaven is quite nice

I haven’t used them but umbrel looks promising: https://umbrel.com/

I’m using a synology and as others have said, it’s pretty friendly to non-techies, with lots of point and click configurations

Wallhaven?

This is my understanding and I’m surprised with the negative reaction. I think jellyfin is the better alternative being FOSS but this is not the reason.

I’ve never used jellyfin, but do they also host proxy servers? AFAIK plex does and its costing them money, hence the need for paywalling this. You can still use tailscale and reverse proxy to allow remote streaming

Depending on Core’s dialogue from now on, I’m cancelling my preorder. Pebble is either FOSS or it’s dead.