I mean, I was already resigned to something that is limited to a bluetooth device that’s in range since I refuse to use Google’s service and I don’t love the idea of being locked in to any other similar vendor owned solution. So for my purposes it seems to fit the bill.

I’ve only just started digging into Meshtastic (I previously had a vague awareness of the existence of mesh networks but no specific knowledge) but it is looks like just my kind of hobby. I also do have a potential use case for it. On a recent trip, my partner was having trouble with her eSIM. There were a couple of instances where we were apart but not a long distance from each other. If I’m understanding how this works correctly, this would fill that gap.

I’ll research the device but at a glance this looks great!

The find phone functionality is more of a convenience. I can also do this via FMD (FindMyDevice) https://fmd-foss.org/

I updated my post to indicate it as optional.

I can recommend Debian or Fedora. They are both mature distros that are pretty easy to install and generally work well with minimal fuss and are easy to maintain. I often see Linux Mint recommend, including in this thread. I’ve never used it so I can’t speak to it. But I have every reason to believe it’s a solid choice.

As for transfer process, since you mention using spare disks, NTFS filesystems are supported and you may be able to just copy files off of them. I don’t know if bitlocker is supported.

Phone, wallet. Keys if I need to drive. YubiKey if it makes sense.

I quite like this idea, thanks! If I did this I could adblock all the rest of my network, which might help with blocking ads on things like smart TV’s. I could also DMZ that wireless network. I would consider their devices untrusted (not malicious, just not careful), and they wouldn’t notice the difference.

What I’ve found helpful, specifically to the threadiverse is to occasionally scroll through all and find communities that sound fun, interesting, or uplifting to subscribe to. And otherwise browse by Subscribed. Makes it a more pleasant, less doomscrolly experience.

It’s not perfect. This is still a pretty niche place so that’s not a huge amount of content. And it doesn’t solve the problem of the vast, soulless modern internet as a whole. But still, it makes one thing a bit nicer, and that’s not nothing.

Also this. On some unremarkable HP office PC that’s probably about a decade old. No ad filtering or anything as it interferes with others in the house. I’ve thought about trying a second unbound serving with adblocking for me, but haven’t gotten around to it.

I ditched Fedora because I didn’t like the way the wind was blowing. I mention because despite having a bias against Redhat, I agree with most of the sentiment in the comments. I don’t think the future of Fedora is in any kind of jeopardy and if you’re happy with the distro, you should keep using it.

I love Linux, but I admit these are valid. I’ve had some of these same issues.

Sleep mode that doesn’t work consistently,

I haven’t had any issues with sleep on my devices, but I have in the recent past on previous hardware.

WiFi driver issues, printer driver issues, touchpad driver issues,

My WiFi doesn’t work at all on my desktop. Though it’s worked on a live image from another distro so seems likely to be an issue with the distro’s distributed kernel, not a Linux one. I run a rolling release distro so won’t be that the kernel is too old. But don’t care so haven’t troubleshot it much. My printer requires the use of vendor provided drivers, which are only available for some distros. It works, but not a solution I’m happy with. Never had touchpad issues.

several different wonky ways to install programs instead of just double-clicking an .exe and pressing “next-next-OK”,

I think package repos > collecting and installing your software piecemeal from all over the place. But having to deal with repos, flatpaks, appimages, etc. can be daunting.

random shutdown of programs for no reason or error codes

Sounds like an OOM process kill maybe? That’ll show in your kernel logs if so. But no immediate visual feedback.

…the list goes on. And on topnof that, all the stuff that people are used to using that just doesn’t run on Linux at all.

If there’s proprietary software that doesn’t run on Linux that someone wants/needs to run and there aren’t any viable alternatives then yeah, probably a non-starter. There’s wine of course but it can be a crapshoot. No shade intended towards the project. It’s amazing what it can do, even if it can’t do everything.

Agreed. I generally don’t mind .ml.

Found myself curious enough to check.

As of this very moment, lemmygrad [dot] ml and hexbear [dot] net are showing on lemmy.blahaj.zone’s blocked instances list. Lemmy [dot] ml is not.

Edit: typo and no tankie hyperlinks.

Until they want to play a multiplayer game with their friends, that doesn’t work because of Anti-Cheat

It’s my understanding that anti-cheat CAN work in Linux and does with some games. The point is still valid of course. If a specific game someone wants to play doesn’t work, that’s going to be a frustrating experience. But still I foresee the percentage of Linux gamers will continue to grow. And gaming companies increasingly making sure to use anti-cheat software that does work with Linux, as that market share is becoming too large to ignore.

Death Stranding

I’ve hated tofu every one of the few times I’ve tried to prepare it. Undoubtedly because I’m doing something wrong. And it’s just OK when I have it at a restaurant. But this looks and sounds pretty good and straightforward. I’ll give it a shot!

I hope they pull through. Not because of any loyalty. I’ll buy whatever is providing the best value for performance at the time. But I don’t want to see a monopoly in the x86 market.

74 miles/119km.

I don’t consider that specific place home. While it’s not particularly far, I have no memories of it and it is different culturally. The state in general though I do consider home.

The 3b just has USB 2, so even with slow spinning rust, that’s going to be a bottleneck. But it’s probably still plenty fast as a remote storage device for media storage.

Edit: said I didn’t know OP’s use case but in re-reading they did say.

Kind of reminds me of Goblin Valley. I don’t think it is. Too green and rocks are the wrong color. But first thing that came to mind.

Might exist, or maybe there’s some API that I can utilize in which case I could script it. I’ve done a very cursory search but nothing stood out.

I would love something that would grab x most popular songs from an artist/genre/year range that I have in my music library and create a playlist file. For if I’m just feeling like some “greatest hits” style music. And I don’t want an LLM involved.

I share a good number of these. I don’t like tomato, olives, or anything fishy tasting. I do like anise flavored things such as black licorice.

The remaining stuff our tastes differ on.