I use qemu/kvm with vm manager. There’s a lot of other options too. Most of them are valid indefinitely.

I use the Win11 LTSC IoT Enterprise Image, because it cuts out most of the usual windows bloat. Maybe have a look at massgrave.dev.

Honestly, I’d give the cool gadgets to China.

You can hand over a USB device fully to a Windows VM. That’s how I update my Yamaha stuff.

… sure. Nothing here is wrong, but there’s ways to try and mitigate that. And then it’s kinda an arms race, and vigilance.

Good as a general recommendation.

I also feel like the risk levels are very different. If it’s something that performs a function but doesn’t save/serve any custom data (e.g. bentopdf), that’s a lot easier to decide to do than something complicate like Jellyfin.

I do have public addresses for Matrix, overleaf, AppFlowy, immich because they would be much less useful otherwise. Haven’t had any problems yet, but wouldn’t necessarily recommend it to others.

I’d never host any stuff with “Linux ISOs” on a public adress, that seems like it’d be looking for trouble.

Yes. Strip searches suck. This is about publically sexualising people against their will. That also sucks.

And some people seem to be hell-bent to put much more scrutiny on the person being sexualised than on the person sexualising them.

The way the many societies treat nudity is a problem, but that is a wholly separate issue from people getting ‘undressed’ against their will.

I was thinking of the Firewall, and was a bit surprised - seemed outside your normal wheelhouse. This makes a lot more sense, lol.

That building looks kinda like a stick of ram from the front.

I am already self-hosting Matrix for my friend group. I suppose where just gonna move more and more stuff onto there. Doesn’t fix the issue, but you don’t have to go quietly.

Sure, but that’s a different issue, not covered under ‘imagine using Android’, I’d say. Also, as you said, used sales exist. One could argue that those also make a new Pixel more desirable, but that’s out of scope for me personally.

Few things one could ever do are perfect. I also think ‘rewarding’ Apple for recent decision, or at all, isn’t sensible or deserved. I also think that one or a few hardware sales probably aren’t going to have a significant effect on a corporation that size.

There are few tech products you can buy with a clean consciousness if you look at production and recycling practices as a whole. I still think buying a pixel, in whatever way, and putting Graphene on it, in this current moment, lands you with the best compromise between privacy, security, and freedom from ads and surveillance. But that’s subjective.

Android is still free enough for Graphene and other custom roms to be based on it. Which I feel is still a better option than iOS.

I have a windows VM for Adobe products, etc. Works fine for my usecase. If you need full GPU Acceleration (e.g. for Premiere), it gets a bit more complicated, but is doable still, as long as you have an iGPU or second GPU.

cloudflarestatus.com, seems to be hosted on AWS. Probably just got hammered because there was suddenly a lot of people caring about CFs status.

Yeah. What it probably won’t have will be the hoch res camera array for look-through the Vision Pro has, but as long as you’re more interested in it as a productivity tool rather than something that reproduces all the Vision Pro “sparkle”, I definitely see potential.

The vessel was built by Oceanco, a firm that’s done such a good job that Newell just decided to up and buy it outright in August

A yacht - and a yacht builder.

I’m pretty sure this is mostly supposed to be a gaming headset, with non-gaming applications being more of a bonus. The vision pro on the other hand seems more marketed as a anything-but-gaming headset.

Custom Roms like Graphene, Calyx are the answer. And there are quite a few finance apps that do work, look it up for the ones you actually need before switching.

Compared to the Pixel / Pixel Pro, the Performance difference is pretty much nil because they’re all on the same SoC.

Not really a drop-in replacement for video meetings. For that, Jitsi would be more sensible.