Best of both worlds – Debian + Nix home-manager. Debian gives you incredible stability and plenty of usage resources. Nix gives you anything too new for Debian and functionally confines the more experimental end of your config to user space.

How are “public shareable links” handled? Are you just saying links generate nicely when your version is exposed on the www or is there some kind of centralized back door for public access?

(just (try (guix (bro))):))

Next level gaslighting. “Is the MIT license in the room with us right now?”

Here’s a quick how to from Learn Linux TV

Wait a minute. Are you wanting to get a different computer? Or boot Linux on your Mac?

The Mac themes on KDE are pretty great, and so is the customizability. KDE makes things very easy to tweak until you like it. GNOME does not.

Personally, I use NativeAlpha (PWA wrapper) and tweak the permissions until it just barely works for my needs.

My favorite tip is to set the PWA default address to instagram.com/?variant=following – which is JUST the accounts you follow with no recommended content / doom scrolling fuel.

Fair, but I haven’t found anything that is useful whatsoever that I can self host.

Just use Last.fm

Since it’s actually open source licensed unlike grayjay then it’s already a step in the right direction

I mean, I could write one! I kind of just pieced it together from guides on the three individuals

Edit: back of the napkin guide below is basically in the OpenWebUI docs already! I use NixOS (btw) but docker/podman should work well.

OpenWebUI + Ollama setup – tl;dr docker run -d -p 3000:8080 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -v open-webui:/app/backend/data --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

OpenWebUI SearXNG guide – a little more involved, but not difficult.

You can self host that too ;)

OpenWebUI + Ollama + SearxNG. OpenWebUI can do llm web search using the engine of your choice (even self hosted SearxNG!). From there it’s easy to set the default prompt to always give you the top (10, 20, whatever) raw results so you’re not confined to ai results. It’s not quite duck.ai slick but I think I can get there with some more tinkering.

My understanding is it scrapes what it can’t meaningfully get out of an API. Public instances run into rate limiting, but private instances don’t really have that problem.

The main image shows mobile devices, but I don’t see a mobile device build. Are you planning to add releases with precompiled apks?

https://xkcd.com/2501/

I finally finished setting up my Nebula network! An overlay network, as opposed to a true VPN, but excellent for flexibility and remote access. For anyone wanting maximum control over your network with excellent performance, I highly recommend it.

Check out apalrd’s blog for a great tutorial if you’re interested.

For that workload? I quite literally run more than that on a (le)potato

+1 for both comments above.

Back up your current disk! If you do it properly you can always restore your current operating system if this experiment doesn’t pan out.

Fedora KDE is an excellent starter choice. The DE will feel relatively familiar coming from Windows and Fedora is very much a batteries included distro. Red Hat guides are excellent and very useful in that family.

That’s not even to mention declarative, rootless, podman containers via systemd or quadlet (the containers, too, can be NixOS)!

NixOS Containers can also be a good option if you don’t care about rootless.

Apparently I’m in the minority, but I love Logseq. I’ve used it with Syncthing for personal notes and grad school for the past three years with no hiccups. Maybe my success with it is partially due to nested bullet points already being how my brain works but the default paradigm is perfect for me.

The plain markdown files are organized reasonably, so I can straight up use Vim as my notes editor if I want.

Tags (#) create a new page to easily circle back to topics later without interrupting your thought pattern to make that structure manually. Once you leave edit mode for the line the tag becomes a link to that page. Some of my favorites are #clothes-that-fit (where I can easily embed a picture of the tag of what I’m trying on to look for deals online later), or #reading-list.

It’s just so useful.