I am not aware on any on device ones that aren’t tied to a service (e.g. Ente does it on device because of E2E encryption meaning they can’t do it on the server) but I think you need an account or to self-host the service.

There are options (other than ente) if you can self host, but (other than ente) the server will be doing the processing.

It may be both a factor of who you live with (the ones itching to get back to the office either lived alone or with people they didn’t really gel with), and could have also been the length of time we were in lockdown (we had one of the strongest in the world - for the first 6 weeks or so even McDonald’s wasn’t allowed to open). After a couple of months of not being allowed to leave the house and having no face to face contact with friends or family, I can understand the desire to get back to the office. The people I have in mind mostly lived close to the office, too.

One other factor may have been that our remote working infrastructure was in no way ready for the entire organisation to work from home with a couple of day’s notice. Video calls were just not possible for the first stretch as the work computers were all VPNed through a potato.

No problem! I’ve used it for years, though my home assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4 is now doing the pi-hole thing with adguard instead as the original one was having issues. Though you get weird DNS quirks when the machine running DNS also relies on the internet.

Plus that time I did a dumb thing in home assistant to see what would happen, and it brought the internet down.

So I am keen to get another Pi. I highly recommend keeping it on a dedicated device you never touch except for updates!

This was also my experience during the main sweep of the pandemic. It was so great getting to cut the commute and be home. Something I have luckily managed to largely continue. Prior to the pandemic my kid was in daycare pretty much 7:30-5:30 so it was really nice to not have to do that, plus during our lockdown we used to go for a family walk at lunchtime.

While some of the single guys I worked with hated staying home and were straight back in the office the moment they were allowed.

I ran it on an original Raspberry Pi B which has the same RAM and a slower CPU than the original Zero! It was still in use as a Pi-hole (running the DietPi OS) until recently where it seems to be dying or not keeping up.

I’ve had exit interviews, and I’ve had jobs where I wish there was an exit interview. It’s possible to give feedback without burning bridges, and I don’t think I’ve ever left a job on bad terms.

Ah right. It was a solid 10 paragraphs long so I didn’t make it.

Vote privacy can be tricky in an environment where every vote gets sent to thousands of instances and needs to be verified as legit via the ActivityPub protocol.

Piefed does a good job of this I think. If vote privacy is enabled, they create a second account that is used only for votes. Other instances see the votes and can validate them against the vote account but it’s not tied to the actual user (except in their home server database).

A benefit of this is that the vote account for the user is always the same, so you can still track vote manipulation, and ban the vote account if needed.

And apparently Jim ain’t gonna make it.

No you’re right. Cook your veggies at the time you’re eating. Many can be cooked pretty quickly in the microwave if speed is the intent.

Do you have a freezer? Meal prep for 5 days, but freeze half into portions. Do two preps once to get some in the freezer, then just do it once a week from then on. If you do something different each time, after a few weeks you’ll be able to eat something different every night.

Pick things that freeze well. I find saucier things or minced things freeze best. Lasagne, stews, pulled pork, minced beef for burritos (if you’re adding rice, probably cook that on the day you eat it. I would avoid freezing rice I think.

Many Indian and westernised Indian dishes will freeze well, but I’d go for the vegetarian ones or test freezing smaller portions of dishes with hunks of meat. E.g. I find cooked chicken doesn’t freeze well, it dries out.

Haha I just searched up this person using Google Drive as swap 😯

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/rrb7gk/you_cant_download_more_r/

I traced this back to a particular rogue website. But yeah I think GNOME uses more RAM anyway, then having everything containerised in Bazzite is extra RAM I’m sure. Then having like 5 chat apps, Steam Firefox, etc open was easily eating up my 16GB RAM. Of course more RAM means more is used because unused RAM is wasted RAM, so it’s hard to judge one system against another.

That sounds like a performant way to run a system!

Possibly related? https://github.com/canonical/checkbox/issues/727

GNOME being killed by oom-killer in Ubuntu. I guess for some reason GNOME was killed for me instead of Firefox? Even though I’m on Bazzite.

I know my wife had some computer in her family earlier than we did in mine, it had a black and green screen (as in the screen only showed those colours). Not sure what it was, but it must have been the 80s I’d guess.

Looking through the wikipedia page for the Apply II I’m pretty sure one of the variations is what we had at school that I was referring to. I find it really hard to remember back that far, though!

I used Windows through to when I got a Mac for a while and used OSX (it was during the intel CPU period and I dual booted Windows). I had tested out various Linux distros over the years and always had a live linux CD just in case I needed to rescue a computer, but didn’t use it as a daily driver until I got my current laptop about 3 years ago. I switched from Windows to Linux cold turkey, no dual boot. I figured most things are in the browser these days anyway. The only thing I’ve never solved is that my scanner will scan at 1200DPI in Windows but never more than 300DPI in Linux. I have drivers downloaded from the Brother website but it doesn’t help 🙁. So I have to use my wife’s Windows laptop if I want to scan photos.

It’s hovering more like 1.7GB right now, with 1GB shared RAM (I don’t really get what that is in regards to the 1.7GB in use).

I’m also running Bazzite, a gamer-focused linux distro, but it is special. It’s an atomic distro, meaning instead of the traditional way of updates where the update program installs each of hundreds of components, in an atomic distro you get the whole update as a block. All files except the user space are read only, and so almost any application you install will instead be a containerised flatpak because otherwise it might get overwritten by an update (you can still install things the old way, sort of, but it’s heavily discouraged and a last resort.

Steam also has a *.deb for Debian based distros (e.g. Ubuntu or Mint in addition to actual Debian). A native application probably uses less RAM than a containerised version, I’m guessing.

Don’t let my weird system put you off. Linux is a fun adventure! For me, jumping around different distributions from time to time is part of the fun 🙂

Ah so cached is the disk cache and it sounds like this is not part of the “used” memory.

It sure does. I’ve never cracked 30GB RAM before. The site is doing something weird, for sure. Though I feel like Firefox should catch this before the OS crashes.

Looks good, thanks!