Never tried unison or resilio can check. As for seafile, that is what I had before. At some point I realized I was getting several issues with desktop mostly, and the storage was only accessible from seafile wich in my case I am not OK with. Mostly was the inconsistencies between oses

From my experience in the past, ups are done to be constantly on, and as far as I know, usually they have failsafe mechanism in case something is not working as intended. Laptop batteries do not have such extensive protection from what I know. However, if an ups is getting old (around 5 years or so) is probably best to change the batteries (if the model allows it)

That is true, however there are 2 things

• battery of this machine is toast (holds up for half an hour or less)
• as someone mentioned in another comment: unattended laptops with batteries can be actually bad. Batteries on certain cases can leak and cause fires, so for me, if it can work without it great, otherwise I have to drop the idea

I am planning after installing Ubuntu server and get some setup done, to actually sit it out and understand how much the fan is going and how I expect this to be an issue. Since my backups are probably going to be once in a week or so, I do not expect the laptop to have a lot of work (for now is just for file backup, no other services in there except tailscale)

At a later stage I will have to design a strategy to access and make sure is OK. Probably I am going to stick to tail scale and make sure no matter what both tailscale and ssh always start. Sure there can be issues but if minimal services can be guaranteed then it should mostly ok

You are not wrong with the vps. Although I am quite worried that my data stays with me no matter what. Not that I have state secrets or anything, but my stuff is my stuff. And to avoid issues with encryption and such, your own device most of the times is king

For sure not :D. I will be installing something such as ubuntu server, so I do not expect this issue (I don’t remember if the laptop has power saving via bios, but need to check)

Thanks for the pointer. Indeed I should probably see first the homelab communities as well

This is a good point actually. I will need to check the laptop can run without battery at all (back in the day I remember this was possible, nowadays I am not sure)

You are for sure right. I did find gaps on my solution right now which is:

• I have several external disks that only have the information once (some of then quite old).
• if I aggregate all of those in one spot I for sure need more space
• right now the ssds are grouped into a lvm to make a logical volume of 3TB (at the time this was OK since I was testing it out for a while). However, one disk fails and I have a problem on my hands.
• decided to look into ssd prices and my eyes started get watery at how expensive would it be (thus, coming to the realization regarding disk types. Didn’t mention before since my post was getting WAY too long).

Since I get this now, I am trying to understand better the landscape of solutions that can potentially fit.

This was some great insight. I know some countries out there culturally the parents are “ashamed” they have disabled kids and simply the kids do not get out of the house often, but I was not aware how things can be on an institution level.

I think this is very much it yes. I run bazzite on my laptop as is such basically an atomic distro. That’s it

He started using gentoo. Never came back to reality

This is also a good perspective. One thing I was thinking just now: at some point, side loading on iOS will be a thing. I wonder at that time we can truly use an iPhone without an account at all (not even to install stuff), but my guess is, considering their track record, they will do the wildest malicious compliance possible…

This is a very difficult question. In general, stuff such as microg tries to provide a layer that “translates” calls from google services to something else and tries to give a response back. However, as you can imagine, not all calls are there because either: they are not documented, or people at microg didn’t have the time/manpower to do them, or it requires some sort of authentication method(s) and/or keys that google holds of. For situations like this, most of the time there isn’t really a good solution for this. You either:

• try to use a web version of whatever you need to use
• check if there is some sort of wrapper for that service that you can use (I.e. something like fritter from back in the day, to access “indirectly” to twitter)
• have a separate device that have the google services as expected

I am aware this does not answer your question, but graphene os for instance does have the full (sandboxed) google services available for install (even this on certain edge cases can give issues, but its rare). Other Roms such as divest and calyx use microg instead. Either approach have good and bad things, but as far as comparability goes, sandboxed services is always better.

Didn’t look iode before. I am not a fan of iode in general (as principle, as an os is probably a good daily driver). From what I see, the phone available from there that I could get would be the fairphone. But the lack of relocking after installing calyx is not exactly amazing

Quite frankly, considering the daily routine of a lot of people, this is probably the best thing to do. REST! Nobody will do it for you

I still prefer this version of the meme (which one day I will totally print it and put it on the back of my work laptop)

What a fantastic website not to visit

Depends. Some women cannot have enough milk production, some have over production. It’s a bit of a gamble most of the times. In countries like Brazil there is a sort of system where is possible to donate milk in case of over production, and in case you don’t have or not enough, you can have some of it (not sure about the details, but for me this sounds great).

As for people saying formula is better than breastmilk, believe or not, Nestlé is to blame for this. Back in the day they touted that all over the place, and at some point, they got penalties for saying such bs. The fun part? They are using the EXACT same tactics on some under developed countries so they can sell more. Quite frankly, Nestlé is really up there on companies to despise ( Exxon is possibly the top one, but Nestlé is not really that behind)