I will now pronounce it as ex-bo-ex

can’t spell slaughter without laughter

Just on Firefox, dedepends on how old we are talking. Gen z? Probably not as they’ve mostly know Chrome as having been the best web browser. Old Millenials and young gen x know it as the next IE alternative after Netscape died. Old Gen X maybe depending on how old. Gen alpha and boomers, no way.

If knowledge of both is required, then even less so. Anytime I bring up Linux I get the feeling that it is like bringing up religion with a stranger.

*downgraded

No worries. I took the easy route (TrueNAS apps) instead of straight learning docker or kubernetes or podman at the start of my self hosting journey. I’ve been slowly moving out of TrueNAS and am glad given the recent developments. We all gotta start somewhere.

I would recommend taking apart something that is already broken and ressembling it to get comfortable before self assembling something at the difficulty scale of a modern laptop. Either way that tablet looks cool, I’ll wait to see how everyone likes it. I’ve not been one to like beta testing hardware.

Looks like you can buy all the parts from Pine and assemble one yourself except for the battery and speakers. Sourcing a battery and speakers shouldn’t be too much trouble compared to a mainboard.

https://pine64.com/product-category/pinebook-pro-spare-parts/

Yeah, I’m waiting to see what the ARM based laptops can do in the role as a couch computer. If I were to bet on which laptop now would fit your needs, check out a Pinebook.

So long as there are businesses needing laptops and on regular upgrade cycles, I would believe there will still be surplus for us. Let someone else pay the new car tax. I’m buying used until prices improve.

I have used ThinkCentres for a router and Nextcloud setup, a year behind refurb ThinkPad for mobile work, and server parts deal hard drives in my NAS.

I bought an old Lenovo hotel front desk computer I was going to turn into a router, but it didn’t have a pcie slot. So after I got the right computer and turning that into my router, I used that wrong computer as my nextcloud host (Debian, docker, AIO Nextcloud). It works well enough for people seeing my availability, family calendar, file server front end, and CardDAV. I don’t think it of be able to handle video/audio calls because of the hardware though.

Nextcloud does almost everything you want. Be aware though that is is pretty dang fragile. You can export calendars and have both public and private web access for calendars.

After he invented the internet

I met Al Gore as a kid, does that count?

It doesn’t get more hipster than the open source equivalent for the original alternative OS for PowerPC Macs (BeOS). The BeOS guys might still have been kicking around if Steve Jobs didn’t come back to Apple

I have an instance running, but haven’t had a ton of time to dedicate on getting it the way I need it. I need a calendar that is accessible anonymously via the web for people to know my availability. File server, CalDAV, and CardDAV I was able to get separate solutions for.

The nextcloud AIO instance that hadn’t been working since September suddenly started working after I updated it. This was all after their forums did fuck all to help except tell me to get gud. I knew the problem wasn’t on me or my config and I feel so vindicated

The examples you’ve given are of a regulatory system that has been captured by private interests.

All regulatory systems are captured by some interest whether it be private corporations to families to ideological groups.

These are the interests that need regulation, they have turned on its face a system that is meant to protect the people from them and are using it to protect themselves from consequences of their own exploitation. Regulation isn’t exploitation by default.

Hard disagree. Regulation by it’s design is meant to change something and with that change something will be made to have a disadvantage.

Exploitation happens when regulation is written in ways that entrench incumbents or erode civil liberties.

That’s what regulations do.

The solution is not to get rid of all regulation,

It is the only fair thing to do, all other options are about trying to create equity and usually failing at best and making it worse.

it’s regulation that constrains power rather than concentrating it.

Not in practice. This isn’t a recent history thing either.

Your examples are a symptom of what is wrong with the current system, not a demonstration of its function.

Ignoring reality doesn’t make thing right though.

And I’m telling you that this is done via regulation and not just naturally and isolated by corporations alone. Regulation is exploitation in practice.

Doesn’t change the fact that exploitation is being done by the hand of regulation.

This story popped up in my feed: https://lemmy.world/post/43568135

You don’t think that regulation won’t be exploited? It’s how the safety and environmental regulations drove all car manufacturing into 3 companies here in the USA. Bigger companies pushed for the regulations because they could withstand the change to force their competition out of the market.

One OS monopoly in my lifetime was already bad enough, I’ll pass on having another.

You cool with Colorado’s proposed OS level age verification?