100% user error.

If you work (as in LITERALLY GET PAID TO DO SO) back/front end, IT or devops there’s absolutely no excuse to expose your digital self like an absolute fucking idiot not checking where the fuck are you & what the fuck are you running.

LibreELEC takes the win for me almost every time. Extremely efficient. Kodi has the bare minimum but there’s an add-on for your niche needs & Article Fuse 3 is insanely polished now & hands down THE best Kodi skin ever.

I run the official Jellyfin add-on for TV + series but still have Elementum for p2p streaming & I could also use Jellyfin’s music library but Kodi can just access the shared Navidrome root folder. I prefer multiple ways of accessing the same folders than leaving it all to Kodi or Jellyfin.

But I digress. LibreELEC can be the powerhouse you want or the barebones you need.

I’m outside the US. I brought several broken Pixels Pros & fixed them with Chinese parts. I run GrapheneOS on all of them. None of my money went to Google. I even sold one with GrapheneOS still installed & the buyer understood what that meant.

You don’t need to trust ungoogled phones, you just need to trust the forensic analysis, cyber security reports & new patches that point towards a cryptographically safe environment.

I hate Google as much as any of you Lemmies but there are ways. Plenty.

Ah y antes de que digan mamadas de privilegio y así… gano en axolopezones y estoy a la mitad entre bajos ingresos y pobreza 🫠

In short, yes.

That’s it that’s the whole answer honestly. As with anything Linux there is a ton of progress being done by very few people & your milage may vary.

Read the wikis, watch the hands-on videos & you’ll get an idea if it’s ready enough for you. But, imho, it’s a good project & totally worth it for me as it is.

The mad lad. He’s an international treasure. He has that CGP Grey about him that makes him one of my Hall of Fame educators/YouTubers. Can watch ANYTHING he makes for days.

Ian is a legend. I’m so glad I saw his knot’s 30th anniversary video 2 decades ago & never looked back to any other kind of knot on regular shoes. Hiking & survival/useful knots is another whole story (one that I still am endeavoring into).

I haven’t watched any videos about dishwashers ever since I don’t own one but I’m 100% sure we’re talking about Technology Connections.

Linus has decided what Linux is & isn’t since forever. It has his fucking name on it for a reason. Linus decided Linux means AI code so Linux has AI code now. No way around it. We can only pick up until a specific version of the kernel when no LLM was used but after that, all future Linux Kernels will forever have LLM code in them.

No distro is going to stop using new kernels, everyone downstream is essentially powerless on this decision. The Linux Foundation is HUGE compared to 90% of the distro’s workforce (volunteers). Only IBM & Canonical surpass it & they are NOT going to maintain the next Linux fork for the next 30 years.

Linux means AI code now and for the foreseeable future. To my demise.

It is but it also means they are actually doing stuff for their users, I want to see et grow into something more thorough in the future, for now it’s progress.

Love me more EU tech independence alternatives. Been using them for a month when I first read the rumors that led to the 404 article.

Given Mozilla’s AI stance I can’t see it as an improvement. I never want to side with NOT-Mozilla but the way they handled the Firefox AI stuff was messy at the bare minimum.

As a direct Proton Mail replacement I’m migrating to tuta.com. Which funnily enough just got a Thunderbird add-on recently.