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The "minimal" part is incorrect; it is a super complicated container. The number of moving parts don't leave me with any confidence that I could keep it running or fix any issues going forwards.

Mainly for security. I was originally looking at CoreOS but I liked the additional improvements by the UBlue team. Since I only want it to run containers, it is a huge security benefit to be immutable and designed specifically for that workflow.

The Ignition file is super easy to do, even for just one server (substitute docker for podman depending which you have):

Take a copy of the UCore butane file:

https://github.com/ublue-os/ucore/blob/main/examples/ucore-autorebase.butane

Update it with your SSH public key and a password hash by using this command:

# Get a password hash
podman run -ti --rm quay.io/coreos/mkpasswd --method=yescrypt

Then host the butane file in a temporary local webserver:

# Convert Butane file to Ignition file
podman run -i --rm quay.io/coreos/butane:release --pretty --strict < ucore-autorebase.butane > ignition.ign

# Serve the Igition file using a temp webserver
podman run -p 5080:80 -v "$PWD":/var/www/html php:7.2-apache

During UCore setup, type in the address of the hosted file, e.g. http://your_ip_addr:5080/ignition.ign

That's it - UCore configures everything else during setup.___

I switched and was very glad to do so. You increase your security and so far I haven't seen any downside. Every container I've tried has worked without issues, even complex ones.

Wonderful response, and I agree completely. It echoes the thoughts I've tried to convey to friends in their 20s, but much more eloquently than I have managed.

Rootless Podman :) It requires you to learn a little bit of new syntax, for example, the way you mount volumes and pass environment variables can be slightly different, but there's nothing that hasn't worked for me.

I'm using this on uBlue uCore, which I would also strongly recommend for security reasons.

That wouldn't stop page views from being counted.

Why not Actual Budget, which is also self-hosted, open-source bucket budgeting based off YNAB, however it appears to be a lot more mature.

They also transparently run the project on Open Collective which I like: https://opencollective.com/actual

🙄 Sounds a lot like this classic example where residents complained about headaches, rashes, nausea, tinnitus, etc from a cell tower, only for it to be revealed that it was not powered up:

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/11099-massive-revelation-in-iburst-tower-battle.html

"Headaches, nausea, tinnitus, dry burning itchy skins, gastric imbalances and totally disrupted sleep patterns..."

At the meeting Van Zyl agreed to turn off the tower with immediate effect to assess whether the health problems described by some of the residents subsided. What Craigavon residents were unaware of is that the tower had already been switched off in early October – six weeks before the November meeting where residents confirmed the continued ailments they experienced.

The standalone Google Pay app will be shut down.

Google Wallet (which is almost certainly what you're using) will still be functioning as normal.

I got your exact same answer, but then I tried again prefacing the question with:

Can you help me with a puzzle?

This changed the answer drastically:

Great! Let's solve this river crossing puzzle step by step. The key is to find a sequence of actions that gets the man and the goat safely across the river without leaving the goat unattended with something it might eat.

Given:

• A man and a goat are on one side of a river.
• They have a boat.

Step-by-step solution:

1. The man takes the goat in the boat and crosses the river.
2. The man leaves the goat on the other side of the river and returns alone in the boat.
3. The man gets out of the boat on the original side of the river.
4. The man gets back into the boat alone and crosses the river again.
5. The man and the goat are now together on the other side of the river.

Therefore, the man and the goat have successfully crossed the river using the boat, without leaving the goat unattended on either side of the river.

You neglected to quote the most relevant part of the article which answers your own question regarding Monero:

Proton Wallet is in a strange position. I've spoken to a few sources who suggest that privacy features like CoinJoin, which can mix Bitcoin in order to better anonymize transactions, were intended to be included at launch. The crackdown on the ill-fated Samouri Wallet project by U.S. authorities last April certainly put a damper on privacy in the Bitcoin space, and likely made Proton wary of introducing such features to the public.

Proton suggests this themselves, stating on their website:

"Coinjoin is considered the best solution for improving blockchain privacy. It works by mixing your BTC with other users’ BTC in a collaborative self-custodial transaction where you get back the same amount of BTC that you put in but on a different address that cannot be easily linked to your previous address. However, in 2024, in what many consider to be a regulatory overreach and attack on privacy, some of these Coinjoin services have been declared illegal in the US and EU. The future of financial privacy may therefore be decided by ongoing litigation in the next decade and privacy advocates should support these efforts."

This situation likely soured Proton on other privacy-friendly cryptocurrencies like Monero as well. I get it, financial privacy is an extremely challenging task for any company to take on. We can't expect Proton to take on the risk of offering a completely anonymous payment service in the current legal climate, but it begs the question: why enter the financial space at all?

While not particularly revolutionary, the fact that they provide a unique HD wallet address every time you receive funds through your same email address does provide additional privacy as no one can see your previous transactions. Even when those are rolled up together later it does make it harder to associate an exact total balance with you. If you used your wallet for smaller spending rather than making a single large send from it, that makes it harder still.

Sure, I would have liked them to add Monero too, but it gets thorny when you're a regulated company dealing with that.

Or Linux Drive...

You're replying to my comment about Actual Budget, the very open source budgeting solution?

As someone new to Linux, what would be a few reasons that you prefer this to using the built-in GUI file browser?

all I saw was pricing [...] can you really blame me?

I mean I really can. They don't have any paid option so you definitely didn't see any pricing. They only have a big open source message:

https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-home/zenbook/zenbook-14-oled-um3402/

22 hours battery life.

AMD.

Slim, gorgeous. Runs Linux like a champ.

I have bought only Asus for my last 4 laptops (previously I was Thinkpad), and I have never regretted any of them. Since switching from Windows to Linux earlier this year (Aurora-DX) I have had no issues.

If you want to go even smaller and lighter, this one is awesome but is Intel and doesn't have as long battery life.

Do you understand what enshittification is? It's a slow descent over a long period. You add optional, privacy-respecting AI now, and over time, (like a decade,) it becomes more shitty until eventually all your data is opted in to centralized data harvesting or wherever.

I'm an Unlimited paid Proton user, and these new trend worry me too. Enshittification is a slow process. I watched Google turn from "Do no evil" to what they are today, and I'm too tired to want to watch the same entire process happen again to Proton.

uCore spin of Fedora CoreOS:

https://github.com/ublue-os/ucore

• SELinux
• Supports secure boot
• Immutable root partition (can't be tampered with)
• Rootless Podman (significantly more secure than Docker)
• Everything runs in containers
• Smart and secure opinionated defaults
• Fedora base is very up-to-date, compared to something like Debian

Firefox’ tabs are MASSIVE

You can change the tab size.

Go to about:config and change browser.tabs.tabMinWidth

Here is clockwise. One arrow is going to the right and one to the left.

Edit: Proton has REMOVED the P2P tick from the VPN on this plan since I took the screenshots below. That sucks.

I would gladly pay like 5€ monthly for little storage, VPN and few email aliases)

Includes VPN with P2P and streaming, Drive with 15GB, Proton Pass, etc.

https://proton.me/mail/pricing#compare-plans

In Edge (and maybe Chrome?), open the menu for any website, then go to Apps > Install this site as an app.

Boom, webpage as standalone program. They appear on your start menu and you can pin them to your taskbar. I do this with all my frequently used tools and it makes things much faster to arrange them all on a screen or get back to them.

Bonus tip: You can use Win+1, Win+2, Win+3, etc to instantly switch to that pinned app on your taskbar.

And from the article in the OP:

I got ahold of the Copilot+ software and got it working on a system without an NPU about a week ago,

I needed to use multiple messaging apps for different people

Beeper is a lifesaver: https://www.beeper.com/

You can self-host if you prefer: https://github.com/beeper/self-host

Any cloud is a secure backup on Linux if you use rclone crypt :)

It works with Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive, and countless others to create an encrypted cloud storage, where the cloud provider can never view your file contents.

Here you go:

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fsignal-politics-software-criticism%2F

The explanation is the second-to-last comment before it got locked. 🤦

This hysteria is really stupid.

WineDB says all their apps are "Garbage" status - eg does not run.

They're not really comparable since Bitwarden has the source available for auditing and Proton Pass (server) does not.

so your TV doesn't bother you.

Many TVs have a constant "no wifi connection" visual error if it's not connected.

It was for me. Been using Windows for 20 years, installed Aurora after all the MS craziness this year and haven't looked back.

In my case it's turned out to be a whole lot better - my laptop runs cooler, battery last about twice as long, and I no longer have any issues with going to sleep when I close the lid.

Here it is:

https://www.classicpress.net/

Edit: Proton has REMOVED the P2P tick from the VPN on this plan since I took the screenshot below. That sucks.

Here is a link: https://proton.me/mail/pricing#compare-plans

I'm running ProtonVPN on Bluefin from a flatpak with zero issues.

Edit: Proton has REMOVED the P2P from the VPN tick on this plan since I took the screenshots. That sucks.

That is incorrect. Here is a link: https://proton.me/mail/pricing#compare-plans

As a counterpoint, I installed Bazzite on a Blade 14 for a heavy gaming friend who was leaving Windows, and they have had no issues whatsoever.

I personally use Bluefun, and again, no issues at all. Incredibly good experiences on both.

I can't imagine what you mean by needing more work to configure, they both worked out of the box with no configuration.

Try clicking either of those links.

Regardless, this is a thread about self-hosted open-source budgeting, which is why I linked to Actual Budget. I have updated the first post to be the Github link instead to prevent confusion.

On mobile it is the most visible object on the screen, and very annoying:

4-J-yo

I mean in your linked thread it says:

I have some 15K notes in Obsidian and it runs fine.

I personally have 4000+ notes in Obsidian and it runs fine 🤷

Here's also Obsidian with 100,000 notes and it performs fine. This test is also 2 years out of date.