I’ve found that my most immersive dreams have me feeling as though I woke up in the dream without waking up in real life. Maybe that’s when the implausible dream scenarios end and a real-life types of events start happening. There’s been a couple times I wake up missing the people I knew from those dreams.

Minimalism. Compared to AOSP, Google components and pings removed. Compared to other privacy GSI ROMs, no weird, quirky, or flashy functions or themes the author decided to bake in.

Luggage aplenty in the airport, just have to make yours more trouble to get into. Which is why I put a keyring through both zippers rather than a lock.

My bigger concern is being able to identify my luggage at a glance, so I paint all of the edges on mine neon yellow.

Whatever the choice, there will be trade-offs. From a technical standpoint, there shouldn’t be anything wrong with the upcoming Motorola phone with GrapheneOS as long as the bootloader is still unlockable and relockable so that the user can install a known good copy of GOS instead of trusting what Motorola put on it.

Not strictly, that was just a BIOS option. Can’t guarantee every laptop comes with it. The power button was situated on the lid though, so I had to bodge it into the lower chassis.

This is amazing and stupid easy indeed. I already have to manually download yt-dlp periodically (Debian btw), might just switch to this instead.

I always forget the extensive options and syntax for yt-dlp and this is perfect for when I don’t quite care enough about some videos to download in the default highest quality or if I don’t care about the video part at all.

The halftop I used was a Thinkpad and Lenovo has an online BIOS simulator. I followed it to the display output settings and set it to default to HDMI out instead of the internal LCD. Which then let me do everything including BIOS configuration on an external monitor.

As useful as any mini PC. Unless it’s one that refuses to boot without a working battery or requires you to jump through hoops to get display out blindly.

Self-hosting aside, I had one during the work-from-home times. I wanted to easily move my setup from room-to-room, but not worry about the built-in screen being in the way of my nice monitors/CRT/TV or ruining the battery by leaving it plugged in all day.

A laptop that I use every now and then today was already manufactured when I was 10 years old.

As much as I trust them with passwords. Which is not too much trust. Implementations of passkeys also tend to be frustratingly bad.

As long as you have a strong backup strategy, I would recommend full disk encryption during installation, especially if for a laptop. Peace of mind with negligible cost on modern hardware. Even accessing the encrypted disk from a live USB takes only two extra commands compared to an unencrypted disk. As long as the LUKS header doesn’t corrupt, hence the need for good backups.

My schools in the US:

Only English for all of elementary school. Starting in middle school, students can choose to take Spanish, French, Latin or German (in descending order of popularity). A bus would take you to one particular high school in the county for Mandarin, Greek, Russian, Japanese, etc. For the advanced diploma, you needed to take 3 years of a foreign language course. The full sequence offered for Spanish, French, Latin, and German takes 6 years.

This is one of the mundane scripting tasks I would have my local LLM help with. I would still read through and make sure I understand the resulting script before running it.

Wanted to, but lacked the motivation to learn it. Was stuck on one occasion without nano, so I pulled up the vim cheat sheet on my phone.

Not going after a bug though, it’s just the way the included battery meter in Xfce (and other X11 battery indicators I’ve found) works, while things like Android track usage over time to give a better estimate.

But based on the other responses, it looks like I’ll have to cook it up myself.

It’s scary to think about it, but I don’t dwell on it since I can’t do much about it without really disrupting my life.

As a daily LibreOffice user, I agree with you on the UI. I can’t even keep track of how many different settings menus there are and each of them are a labyrinth unto themselves. What ended up saving my sanity was setting the UI to single toolbar and purging every unnecessary button in Calc and Writer. Might be unpopular, but I then arranged the remaining toolbar features the way they do in Google Docs. For Impress, I set it to the tabbed ribbon-esque interface.

Not that I’m aware of

That is correct, IIRC, the mismatch does limit how much of it can run in dual-channel. Even if a single stick is natively 24 or 48 GB, there is additional strain on the memory controller. It is the way it is on my setup since I had planned an upgrade to a full 64 GB and was holding off until a good deal on the remaining 32 GB kit, which will never come unless the AI bubble bursts.

I should’ve known he was an iPad kid