If you’re familiar with Fittrackee and/or Wanderer, any comparisons?

Yup. No-one (non techie) needs a specific Linux distro. They’re all easy to use for normie activities once installed.

Pretty sure YouTube’s beat scientists to this.

Debian. Used to use others but realized they all just added crap I didn’t want, or could add myself with a simple script.

I was a Slackware then Fedora, then Ubuntu as my daily drivers (whipe trying other distros, or Kali for specific purposes) before settling here.

Take the location limit off. Way too annoying for common OSM updates.

Same. I can barely even tell what “good” Ubuntu brings to the table other than the task bar icons, which I just add in with am extension.

All good suggestions, but mine is: Start with something redundant.

Do you use Google Drive? Set up Nextcloud and use both for a while.

Also, decide on user management first. It’s way better to have a central system for managing passwords/etc. Personally I use an Active Directory based off Samba4: https://github.com/Fmstrat/samba-domain because it’s got LDAP and expandable with Keycloak to OAuth and OIDC. This may sound overwhelming, but once you learn what they are, its fairly straight forward.

Fun story from before Rust was getting popular (years ago). So, I did a performance comparison to determine what language we should write our rules engine in. I compared Go, Rust, Node, and some others not worth mentioning.

At the time, I had experience with all but Rust.

Even knowing nothing, and working from scratch, the Rust POC was significantly faster. Just way, way, better.

That being said, I still chose Go due to productivity based on the language knowledge of the team to ease the transition (Go was closer to what they knew already), and while it was good for them to learn Go, I look back on it and realize Rust would have been a great opportunity to invest in their careers and have them learn it instead.

A hindsight is 20/20 experience for me.

Go to the source. Debian.

If you need banking apps, consider a cheap used/old Android phone with a VNC server on it, then noVNC pointed to that to get it on the web.

Unfortunately no, at least not that I can still find. It was really just a lap tray and I used industrial Velcro with adhesive on the back, along with an adhesive mousepad. The mouse holder is just from the box it came in.

The challenge was the lack of wireless for the single-handed hardware keyboard at the time, so a USB2BT module was needed, and those knobs I added at the top were for wrapping a wire from a tiny USB2.0 Hub for if I wanted to be wired.

Doing it again it would be 100% wireless with magnetic quick charge connectors on all the elements. (I got a million of them of different angles off Aliexpress and have them on all my travel items).

Admittedly I did this years ago, and had to use USB to BT adapters which was janky. Wireless keyboards are much better now 😉

Ahhh yea. If I were to do this with a backpack I’d probably make something folding. Having the tray is super nice for couch visits.

Hear me out, you don’t want portable, you want transportable. I made this. It’s a lap tray with cushion underneath and a handle, and everything attaches to it.

Oh man, total flashback to when I did this for Owncloud https://github.com/Fmstrat/shorten

This is called a “desire path.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

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Nice, I think I just saw you added one of my feature requests, so will have to give ot another look.

Not true at all. Consider that would also mean filtering legit businesses.

Everyone is at fault. People said they wouldn’t vote with inaction in Gaza. They chose not to take action, their fault. Those people didn’t vote, expected, but dumb, so their fault, too. Blaming JUST the people is a sure fire way to not correct course for the next election. Bernie has the right stance on this, as usual.