Yeah I’ve had real trouble learning to use Darktable.

It is not really straight forward off the bat, but once you get used to it it is really good 👍👍

Didn’t watch the video, but I want to give Darktable a recommendation 👍 Great photo editing software!

According to Blue Systems employee Aurélien Gâteau, “Blue Systems does not have a business model, at least for now”.

Nice

It looks familiar to the windows one too, which I guess is good to win over windows users :)

Allright, here is my thoughts :)

All tech you list is relevant, but if you’ve never used any of it before, maybe pick out a small subset and learn that to begin with instead. It is exciting and I want to be an expert on all of these aswell, but it is really a lot. Better to be an expert on 3 things than to kind of understand what 30 different things do. When you get comfortable with some basics like for example Ubuntu server and Docker, you can then move on to something else depending on what your priorities are.

On the topic of hosting stuff for family and friends; Really make sure you follow best practises for backups. 3 copies on 2 different devices and 1 copy must be off-site. If you only play around, backups are optional, but as soon as someones memories, important documents or similar relies on your stuff, you better have proper backups.

What are your current status? What do you know today? :)

Really good speech. Glad you shared it.

This sounds like a very sane bit of both approach.

Support plugins so anyone can extend however they like, but integrate the most popular plugins into the software.

I like it.

This looks awesome! I’ll look into setting this up when I get back into my running habit again.

I have been using microG since maybe 2021 and the only thing not working is payments in apps and some apps that use android wallet API calls and maybe some other specific API.

I run iodeOS which makes managing microG simple. I don’t have to do anything. It is just part of the OS.

Took you a week to get your graphics working, eh?

I recommend YunoHost for anyone who wants this sort of thing. Very simple to use.

This might be a good alternative if I get tired of YunoHost some day though!

Voyager is the best of all I’ve tried as well

I was not awsre of this.

Sad read…

This is part of an android keyboard plugin, i think. But might be able to use in other ways as well.

https://voiceinput.futo.org/

Have a look :)

“Pls read wiki” is not very user friendly imo.

If a noob really shouldn’t use it, put a clear warning or something in the beginning och the installer process or clearly on the download page.

Expecting every potential user to go through your wiki is not reasonable. I am rarher comfortable with many distros, but I have only ever visited their wikis when stuff breaks.

I have read websites and been through the instellers for the distros many times though.

Sounds cool but difficult to maintain 😄

I’d say the simplicity, fully auto updates combined with the very low resource consumption is the USP.

Very hands off. Very lightweight.

I would love to see this in black and white.

The contrast of the bright reflections in the water vs the fine texture of the mallards feathers… I think it could have potential!

I agree that the private assistant thing falls apart if only using a green/yellow, but O don’t think that compute should be bolted on to these devices.

I have had an home assistant green for soon a year and it is great for what I need.

If I want the whole AI-thing I wpuld lile that to be run on a separate device that can be reached by the HA-green.

You mean Beabian?