I think a good compromise is to include an open source maintenance fee on projects when used in a corporate or for-profit environment. Another option I like is to offer business support as a subscription.

It doesn’t need to be super-expensive, but at least that would ensure some continuity for development.

It’s also an issue in the eReader market, notably Onyx Boox.

It’s also not just about freedom of information, but also about sovereinty. Can’t be free of the hegemonic influence of the USA while using platforms made by closed-source companies located there.

Unaffordable to a consumer.

I really hope we’ll see TVs with DisplayPort one day.

I’ve always been interested in Linux, and for my home server it’s been my OS for the last decade, but for the workstation I found myself dual-booting. With the advent of atomic distributions such as Fedora Kinoite, Universal Blue, Fedora CoreOS etc using the concept of OS images through OSTree / bootc, combined with containerization through flatpak and podman is a great step forward stability and reproducibility.

My desktop has been switched to Aurora (Universal Blue) for more than a year and I couldn’t be happier.

Basically a nothingburger…

• Gadgetbridge
• Tubular
• Seal
• TIDY
• Breezy Weather
• Open Link With…

Some of my favorite apps are on F-Droid and nowhere else.

These apps are for the privacy-minded people, by privacy-minded people who will absolutely refuse to be tied by name (or digital signature with an identity verification process) to their apps.

And then there’s the problem of making legally gray apps (emulators), now someone needs to be tied to that app, which makes then easier to find, or if an app starts to irritate a government or corporation, then they can find who published it pretty easily (likely without proper the proper legal oversight/subpoena) even outside of the Play Store.

What the fuck Google.

You either have

• Easy to use
• Will eventually lose support
• May remain unpatched or
• Require more maintenance
• You can run the OS of your choice
• It’s your responsibility to ensure it remains patched

I decided I wanted something long-term, and bought a NAS appliance I can boot my own OS onto it, so I went with the Ugreen DXP2800.

I’m running Ubuntu LTS, with Cockpit as the webUI to manage parts of it, and my web services are all running through podman containers (aka quadlets).

There’s a bit of a learning curve, which is the price I was willing to accept.

You may want to have a dead man’s switch so that the server shuts down without your intervention, or there’s the possibility that a forensic team could retrieve the encryption key in RAM through some physical attacks.

I host a couple of encrypted snapshots in the cloud (stuff that I can’t afford to lose), but it’s still vastly cheaper to host a massive amount of data locally.

The stuff I have locally mostly stuff I can recover elsewhere (yarr), so redundancy without backup is good enough cost-wise.

Universal link so that you remain on your own instance: https://threadiverse.link/dubvee.org/post/3788765

Godspeed to @ptz@dubvee.org, hopefully we’ll meet again virtually some day 🫡

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$30 per year of extra support, or for free (at the cost of your privacy) if you connect your Microsoft account.

And another great thing about Markdown: if the system doesn’t “support” it, it’s still totally readable. The formatting doesn’t get in the way of readability.

Self-hosting isn’t only just about owning the mental, but it’s also the freedom to configure things the way you want, and to be sovereign of your data.

Seems like a good time to introduce a breaking change, jumping from 0.19 to 1.0.

Until then https://lemmyverse.link/feddit.org/post/5390705 ;)