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Thanks for posting. This was good timing for me!

You might want to check out RamaLama. It's a container based replacement for Ollama by the same folks that brought us Podman.

I tried it a while back, I was very surprised to find that simply running `uvx ramalama run deepseek-r1:1.5b` just worked. I'm on Fedora Silverblue with nothing layered on the ostree. Before RamaLama, getting llama.cpp working with my GPU was a major PITA.

https://github.com/containers/ramalama

I believe the v5 is a Nooelec and is comparable to the RTL v3. The RTL v4 is the latest chip. They both have different strengths and weaknesses tho.

https://www.onesdr.com/rtl-sdr-vs-nesdr-which-one-should-i-b...

That's true and I agree. I was responding to the comment about using termux to disable apps.

An alternative (and possibly easier) way that doesn't require root is to use Hail + Shizuku.

Shizuku helps normal apps to use system APIs without root. You can enable it with from a computer with adb or from the phone itself using wireless debugging. Hail uses Shizuku's API access and lets you select apps to freeze. You can then unfreeze / refreeze apps with a quick tap in Hail.

If you already have root, all this becomes easier. If you do the wireless debugging method, Shizuku's API access won't survive a reboot. You'll have to go thru the wireless debugging procedure again before you can use Hail. https://shizuku.rikka.app/guide/setup/

> Sure, but to get to them is just about as convenient as rebooting the phone from cold.

This just isn't true. Switching profiles is nothing like rebooting the phone. It takes about 8 seconds to go thru the entire procedure. That's including about 3 seconds to load the 2nd profile (even an unloaded profile). The procedure on my Pixel 7 goes:

- Swipe down to open the Notification Panel

- Swipe down again to expand the Quick Settings

- Tap the User icon at the bottom

- Select the user profile you want to open

- Wait 3 seconds

- Enter the 2nd user's PIN to log in

That's 4 taps + 3 seconds of load time.

It's 2025. The "year of the linux desktop" has been a meme for years. No one says it in earnest. No one is having init or DE wars. And while there is plenty of healthy discussion about flatpak and other alt forms of software distribution, this is exactly the kind of innovation and experimentation that leads to the usability improvements the author wants to see. Linux is doing just fine, and I'm glad there are multiple options to accomplish similar tasks.

At no point did I say the video IS AI slop. Or that generative AI was used to make it, or the effect youtube applied to it. We actually have no idea what youtube did. We only see the result; which can be subjective.

To you, that result looks like it was shot with a phone filter. To me it looks like it was generated with AI. Either way, it doesn't really matter. It's not what the creator intended. Many creators spend a lot of effort and money on high-end cameras, lenses, lighting, editing software, and grading systems to make their videos look a specific way. If they wanted their videos to look like whatever this is, they would have made it that way by choice.

Whatever youtube is doing adds a painted over effect that makes the video look like AI slop. They took a perfectly normal looking video, and made it look fake. As a viewer, if you can't tell or don't care... That's fine. For you. But at the very least, the creator should have a say.

If you watch the youtube video[1] linked in the article you get a much better examples, that clearly look like AI slop. Tho I do understand that people's ability to discern AI slop varies wildly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86nhP8tvbLY

I appreciate the correction. Its been a while since I used podman + systemd. I will definitely be checking out quadlets next time.

Absolutely yes. I guarantee you these megacorps are betting on a future where the open internet has been completely obliterated. And the only way to participate online is thru their portal; where everything you do feeds back into their AI. Because that is the only way to acquire fresh food for their beast.

The end of the open web. That's what.

Sites will have to either shutdown or move behind a protection racket run by one of the evil megacorps. And TBH, shutting down is the better option.

With clickthru traffic dead, whats even the point of putting anything online? To feed AIs so that someone else can profit at my (very literal) expense? No thanks. The knowledge dies with me.

The internet dark age is here. Everyone, retreat to your fiefdom.

> you just need to write a short systemd config snippet and then you can manage the kube service just like any other systemd service.

Just FYI, `podman generate systemd --files --name mypod` will create all the systemd service files for you.

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-generate-sy...

Bookmarks... This is a rabbit hole I dive down at least once a year. And always come up disappointed.

The problem with discussing bookmarks is that everyone has different needs. Some people want a system that takes snapshots, generates pdfs, allows for offline viewing, creates AI summaries, lets you share with other users, (supports other users), archives everything into a database, and more. Other folks just want a simple, literal bookmark system that only manages links to websites.

If you're in the latter category (like I am), the perfect system already exists. It's called xBrowserSync and it's wonderful. It's open source. You can self-host the sync server. Data is encrypted before leaving the client. It has browser extensions. It has an Android app. And it uses tags / search instead of endlessly nested folders.

But there's one huge problem: The project has been abandoned for years. The public sync servers are still up and running. But the Chrome extension has fallen into disrepair. I use Firefox, so I'm still good, but for how long?

And so every year I go on this quest to gauge the state of bookmark managers. It seems everyone is trying to build the 1st kind of system. I get it. You're not gonna convert users to subscriptions with a simple link database. But that's not the system I want.

So if you're just looking to sync web links between devices, in a private, browser agnostic way, organized with search tags instead of folders, and without having to manage a huge tech stack. Your current options are: xBrwoserSync, Linkding, Shaarli, and LinkAce.

Jellyfin if you want free, open source, and don't need special clients (like for LG TVs, Xbox, etc). Emby paid if you need the clients.

Skip Plex entirely. Their users are their product. They've partnered with media companies and push partner services over users media library. They like to claim that Plex Media Server doesn't send any information back to them, and its technically true; its the Plex clients that are sending the data back.

The home PC market is insignificant. The real volume is in corporate and government systems that will never run EOL Windows.

Side Note: Folks, don't run EOL operating systems at home. Upgrade to Linux or BSD, and your hardware can live on safely.

Sometimes its fun to engage in a little conspiratorial thinking. My 2 cents... That TPM 2.0 requirement on Windows 11 is about to create a whole ton of e-waste in October (Windows 10 EOL).

You are correct. Someone posted about Radicle here a couple days ago[1] and went down that rabbit hole. The user docs say that their p2p network draws inspiration for Secure Scuttlebutt's gossip protocol.

I'm not 100% sold on federation / activitypub in its current state. I think p2p is far more interesting. With Radicle, you don't have to run a server (which, if Mastodon is anything to go by, is a lot of overhead). So anyone can try it! Radicle is ready to use right now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44874945

This isn't true. You can setup private repos. Here are the docs.

https://radicle.xyz/guides/user#3-selectively-revealing-repo...

Hmm. A pay once (or not at all) model that can run on anything? Or a subscription model that locks you in, and requires hardware that only the richest megacorps can afford? I wonder which one will win out.

I'm afraid this is a case of "too little, too late". I've been a happy DDG user for many, many years. Sure, there's a learning curve when venturing out of google's cozy bubble. But once I figured it out, its been fantastic.

Except the last few months. And, I can't stress this enough, its not DDG's fault. The results are relevant to my search, and at first glance seem to be what I'm looking for. But take more than 2 seconds to read, and you'll notice the websites themselves are trash heaps of AI slop, serving errors and mistakes.

The human web is quickly shrinking out of existence. The last content silos of human expression have walled themselves in and are striking deals with the evil megacorps; pushing their shitty, error prone, planet killing, word prediction engines down everyone's throats.

Soon, there will be nothing of value left for Kagi to index. Maybe they should pivot to web autopsy tools, not unlike Internet Archive. I wish the Kagi team well. I hope they succeed. And I really hope I'm wrong about the open web's grim future. But I'm probably not. And the AI arms race suggests the megacorps agree.

"But I do not care very much whether the app is verified or not; it’s perfectly acceptable for a third-party developer to maintain the Flathub packaging if the upstream developers do not wish to do so, and I don’t see any need to discourage this."

Go ahead and run the Signal flathub flatpak. It's unverified and published by a 3rd party. I'm sure its fine tho.

Snark aside, I've been using Fedora Atomics, Flatpak, and Flathub for years now. It's all... fine. But as long as Flathub can host potentially unsafe software, it should never be included by default in any distro. The entire purpose of Fedora having its own software repos is to provide trusted software.

The flatpak cli tool doesn't even make the distinction for verified vs unverified apps. I suspect that Flathub verified badge is purely a Flathub construct. And i wonder if Flatpak was originally designed to work more like Copr, where the user ends up with a bunch of different trusted repos, each often providing a single app.

Captain Eris Violet 12B fits those requirements.

This is such a great post full of cool little tricks for immutable OS users. Thanks for posting!

I appreciate the input. I'm not convinced Apple is really that much better than Google or Microsoft at collecting my data. As for Linux, I love Linux and run it on my desktop, laptop, and servers. But its not great for media. There were always issues getting DRM'd 4K content to play from streaming services. And there's a level jank, that I don't want to deal with on a TV.

I think for now I'm switching to my Xbox for media consumption. It has all the apps, works with my LG "magic remote", and Microsoft has a lot of privacy control options. I also bought a cheap oNN Google TV dongle to play with. It runs Android, so there a lots of hacking possibilities.

It has less to do with the availability of portable audio tech and more to do with the insane amount of media people feel compelled to consume.

Back then, if you rocked a Walkman, you carried 1 tape (about 60 minutes of music) that you listened to on repeat all day. That's very different from today's never ending stream of new media. A more interesting discussion would be about how we interact with media today vs back then.

You're gonna want Jellyfin for privacy. Plex is hostile.

My LG had an update last week that made me re-do all the user agreements. I don't know if that has anything to do with this. As always, I opted out of most of the agreements, but (as always) there are 2 agreements I cannot opt out of and still use any apps.

So...what set-top boxes are available for privacy minded people?

Benn has a video about that too! His channel is pretty great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJSTFzhs1O4