Then it’s arguably delegating some of the cost to the final user, large streaming companies spending a bit less on IXP contracts while viewers have to have newer hardware that might need a bit more energy too to run.

Thanks for the clarification, it makes me wonder though, is it bandwidth saving at no user cost? i.e is the compression improved without requiring more compute at the end to decompress?

So… a lot more people now have :

• 4G/5G on the go and proper broadband at home and office and even in unique location (sadly via MuskSat for now…) other ways to get data
• very capable devices in mobile phones, (mostly Android) clients e.g. video projector or dongles, of course computers
• human eyes… that can’t really appreciate 4K on average

… so obviously we should NOT stop looking for more efficient ways and new usages but I’m also betting that we are basically reaching diminishing return already. I don’t think a lot of people care anymore about much high screen resolution or frequency for typical video streaming. Because that’s the most popular usage I imagine everything else, e.g XR, becomes relative to it niche and thus has a hard time benefiting as much from the growth in performances we had until now.

TL;DR: OK cool but aren’t we already flattening the curve on the most popular need anyway?

Use ffmpeg to record audio from your desktop (which will include the meeting) then pass it to whisper.cpp or other text-to-speech FLOSS solutions. No need for “AI” or Windows software for that kind of tasks.

You might want to check sshfs but overall yes rsync works well. I just uploaded 200Go yesterday, no failure.

On my LAN if I want to share without downloading them then I rely on MiniDLNA/ReadyMedia for DLNA/UPnP meaning it works with VLC on desktop, obviously, Android video projectors, mobiles, etc.

Guess it depends on your usage but I stopped using Samba when I didn’t have Windows machines on my network. Never looked back.

Others have said it before but basically : what is YOUR (not me, not your best friend, nor your colleague, etc) threat model?

To clarify that means WHO is actually trying to threaten your security?

Typical for most people it would be :

• scammers trying to get pieces of your identity or your local cryptocurrency wallet or resources they can use to repeat that on to others.

For some people, like activists or political journalists it would be :

• national actors, e.g. governments, with their surveillance apparatus, who might end up on a list with a set of conditions that would trigger some automated scan to get e.g. Signal logs

For very very few people, say Edward Snowden, who within the previous group actually did trigger some action :

• actual team of hackers trying to hack into their devices

So as you can imagine if you are part of group 1, 2 or 3 then way you will protect yourself is totally different. What you will also have to protect is also different, e.g. if you have no cryptowallet but are traveling you might have to protect your phone physical phone and its data.

So… if you are serious about this, take a cybersecurity class. There are plenty available but how a computer works, software and hardware alike, is precisely what makes them simultaneously powerful and also dangerous. There are plenty of ways to break security (e.g. return oriented programing), plenty of ways that practically impossible (e.g. encryption) due to the very nature of computers (i.e. computational complexity) which IMHO makes this one of the most fascinating topic. Ask yourself come the credit card in your pocket (costing few bucks to make) can’t be cracked by the largest super computers (costing billions) on Earth?

TL;DR: no offense but you don’t seem to be ready for the answer without getting the basics first.

If your computer boots when plugged in (not only by pushing the power button) it would be feasible via a connected plug, but you’d still need a small computer, e.g HomeAssistant on a RaspberryPi, to convert the HTTP request to ZigBee, or a WiFi plug but I’m not sure which one would handle an HTTP request, if any.

The discussions here are quite passionate so a bit of a reality check :

“PineStore has also discontinued the PinePhone Pro which was talked about in the last recent blog post. TLDR, sales were low”.

So… people here say they do want one, but clearly not like that one.

Also recently the crowd funding of https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/liberux-nexx--3 barely reached 10% of €1,434,375 Fixed Goal with just 135 backers.

So… also clearly not that one either.

So what accelerated development do people not just want to claim they do want, but actually pay for?

Baking apps: pin the websites

Typically if you want to check your account status sure, that work. Maybe do an IBAN transfer, if somehow 2nd step auth via their app isn’t required, but typically mobile payment, even if it’s not really mobile (e.g. scanning a QRcode on a desktop) requires their app. So in theory yes, in practice for most of the things people use banking daily it’s closer to mobile payment IMHO, which is basically owned by iOS/Android AFAICT.

I fallback to a deGoogled phone precisely because Linux phone isn’t up to my expectation in terms of convenience for now.

You can check my post history but just during the last few days :

• replied to “Why did PinePhone fail” as I have 2 of these https://lemmy.ml/post/35398519/20774482
• discussed on banking apps, authentication bottlenecks on iOS/Android https://lemmy.ml/post/35398519/20854067

… so yes, not there yet

PS: on “assistant” (I really think the naming is over-blowing capabilities) I have been using HomeAssistant daily for years now. I have a Nabu Casu on my shelf… and didn’t even set it up because it was either 3rd party service dependencies (not why I rely on HA) or a very complex setup. So… I would recommend not looking there, at least few months ago when I received mine, sadly.

100% get your point and indeed agree. I think verification overall is pretty much tied to iOS/(Googled)Android so my (probably naive) hope is that physical token or passkeys that are NOT platform or service dependent gain traction. That’s why I got excited when https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/23656 was recently merged. I still have to test it but anyway more and more of the services I use online (self-hosted or not) are now behind “Log in with a device” and/or WebAuthN where I feel I can properly login, using e.g. YubiKey Bio or NitroKey, without anybody in the middle “owning” my identity or at least the verification step. I believe this is pretty much the “last battle” to have secure interactions without a central (commercial or not) actor in the middle that can use this to reshape our behaviors and interactions.

It’s not rude but it’s incorrect. I have a deGoogled phone and do mobile banking with it. I don’t know for how long though but just to say it’s possible today.

Yes though I do recommend relying on a bank that does not force its customers to use Apple or Google only. I hope they’d be a way to disclose that beside just name & shame.

Right or https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/valve-appear-to-be-testing-arm64-and-android-support-for-steam-on-linux/ is also pretty positive but until it’s actually done and does support banking apps (which might not be possible due to a lot of restrictions, e.g Google services, signed ROM only, etc) then everybody will remain on the fence.

Good to know for the PPPro, would you know, PmOS indicates the support as partial https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_Pro_(pine64-pinephonepro) I should try again at some point.

Been using the PineTab 2 by Pine64 regularly since it’'s out, even bringing it on holiday, and it’s been good. Some minor problems (e.g. no WiFi initially but now working, still no integrated BT for now but dongles working, etc) but honestly for that price ~$200 from Hong-Kong or ~400EUR from EU store with warranty) I think it’s excellent value for money for a tinkerer.

So… you receive plenty of great technical advice, I won’t go there.

I’m sure your title is wrong. I know for a fact that there is plenty of things you did with Linux that looked until then impossible. They do look impossible to most people today. So… yes there are plenty of things you don’t know how to reliably do but you eventually will manage!

I did read a bit from the Greater Good Science Center in Berkeley https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/ and there was a piece specifically on “everytime” or “always” as basically shortcuts during arguments that reframe the situation incorrectly. You surely meant to say “I often get frustrated trying new things on Linux” instead. It sounds like I’m nitpicking, yet simply rephrasing gives a totally new outlook to the situation. We all, literally ALL of us, do struggle when we try something new. We often fail but if we keep on trying, get methodical about it (what was the error message? did I try something similar before? how does it actually work? who could help me? etc) then you are bound to succeed.

So no, you are not the problem. No, you are not an imbecile. No, you do not always fail!

Good article, I’m running Docker on my server (a dozen or so self-hosted services like PeerTube) but Podman on my desktop (for e.g. Immich) and prototyping. Honestly I should switch my server to Podman too now that most hurdles, e.g. compose support is pretty much on par and rootless practically always works.

Did it fail?

Yes… it did. I have both (details in this post) and I’d love to use either daily yet I don’t do it. I also don’t know anybody who does.

Was it useful? Absolutely but IMHO the fact that the 2nd version is not fully usable (camera, power usage, etc) without active progress despite being a 4 years old specifically targeting tinkers is not a success. I’m genuinely wondering who would want a PinePhone 2. I’d love to but based on what happened with the Pro, I’m not sure I would despite using my other Pine64 on a daily basis.

I have both the PinePhone and the PinePhone Pro, IMHO :

• lack of Android apps (yes, I know, weird to open with that but for a lot of people, that’s the 1 thing, not actual calls or SMS) despite Waydroid because it didn’t exist initially then requires higher specs
• bad power management : the battery is small so without spot on power management one ends up with less than a day of normal usage, that’s a show stopper for most
• lack of updates : the PinePhone Pro was available without camera support, no big deal, most were expecting based on the initial pace of updates that it would eventually come but even today checking https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro it’s either Not implemented or Not working

… so with all that very very few people used either as a daily driver and thus even less probably invested time to make it actually usable.

It’s amazing as a tinkering device with connectivity… but in practice I went instead to a deGoogle Android phone (with /e/OS by Murena). I still have other hardware by Pine, e.g. PineNote or PineTab2, so I do enjoy they provide a very valuable service to the community and I’ll keep on, probably, getting more from them but one has to be pragmatic about the software limitations coming from a company that basically does not provide software for the hardware they sell.

Coincidentally enough the FSF just wrote https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/the-software-we-have-to-use-at-work-must-respect-our-freedom