If I didn’t have my deGoogled Android (CMF1 with /e/OS installed by Murena) I would be interested, despite having 2 PinePhones I never used as daily drivers.

Unfortunately… for now my current cheap compromise is good enough. Hopefully I’ll want better in few months.

If your work doesn’t value you enough to give you the tools you need, maybe you need to reconsider your work.

I’m not being facetious, if your computer is used for work, not to watch random videos but to actually be productive, and you have a better way to do it, then ask for the right tool. It’s justified.

“desktop” version, but it’s just a wrapper of the webpage and you cannot do any offline listening.

Maybe mitmproxy could help there.

I relatively recently (a year or so?) switched from Ubuntu to Debian.

I felt like Ubuntu was bloating up and that sadly those decisions were done through the enshitification process. I went then “back to basics” and I don’t regret it at all.

I had the (wrong) preconception that Debian was “behind” or “slow” for “new” stuff but truth is, despite being “stable” most of what I care about is already in, even for things like gaming in VR. For the rest if I need something “edgy” then I can get the software via another mean than the package manager.

So… what made me change is a desire for more minimalism and the ability to test safely (files saved).

Maybe I misunderstood but the vulnerability was unknown to them but the class of vulnerability, let’s say “bugs like that”, are well known and published by the security community, aren’t there?

My point being that if it’s previously unknown and reproducible (not just “luck”) is major, if it’s well known in other projects, even though unknown to this specific user, then it’s unsurprising.

Edit: I’m not a security researcher but I believe there are already a lot of tools doing static and dynamic analysis. IMHO It’d be helpful to know how those perform already versus LLMs used here, namely across which dimensions (reliability, speed, coverage e.g. exotic programming languages, accuracy of reporting e.g. hallucinations, computation complexity and thus energy costs, openness, etc) is each solution better or worst than the other. I’m always wary of “ex nihilo” demonstrations. Apologies if there is benchmark against existing tools and if I missed that.

Thanks, you’re making our World possible!

Looks like another of those “Asked AI to find X. AI does find X as requested. Claims that the AI autonomously found X.”

I mean… the program literally does what has been asked and its dataset includes examples related to the request.

Shocked Pikachu face? Really?

Been there, doing that, cf https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/offline-octopus

Neat, let me know if you have questions or idea.

I did set these up a little while ago but I don’t have an on-going setting so I’d be happy to help and curious to see if something new can come out of those ideas.

What about containers with desktop, e.g. https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-firefox/ or another from https://www.linuxserver.io/our-images (based on Guacamole https://guacamole.apache.org/ AFAICT) with a mounted WebDAV (via e.g. NextCloud) for data?

Honestly that’s a tempting idea… but then I remember that installing a fresh Debian on my desktop takes me 1h tops, swapping my /home directory and configuring few key software, in particular the browser, too so… for me, not worth it for now.

Also in practice maybe I make a fresh install once a year, at most. Otherwise it’s quick Debian on remote machines, RPi, etc and then it’s pretty much per machine configuration.

That being said if I were to do it I’d look at rsync with a set of ssh keys and Docker/podman for containerization of whatever services serve the data, potentially behind a VPN so that I can use it all remotely yet more securely. In practice though… that ends up being a centralized Web server, which I already use as https://fabien.benetou.fr/ and that’s been good enough for me for years, more than a decade now actually.

Can you please elaborate a bit more on the use case and/or software you have in mind because maybe I don’t properly understand your needs?

So… do it?

Now to the question which distro, honestly it does not matter YET!

You probably don’t even know what a distro is (no offense) but what you did highlight clearly are the needs, namely :

• playing games
• popular
• not Mint because somehow it breaks (would be VERY important to understand why though)

… so that actually narrows things down quite a bit.

The most popular distribution are the easiet to find (I’m on Debian and SteamOS so I use Arch BTW) and that’s a safe choice indeed. Playing games does not narrow things down much as most distro, if not all, do not prevent against playing game and IMHO the optimization specific to gaming are pretty much pointless in most cases.

Your edit point that you are trying a distribution already so yes, please, do go for it. I do suggest though that WHEN things go wrong, like it did with Mint, you take the time to understand WHY. This in itself will help you to either switch to another distribution and arguably more importantly what even is a distribution and finally which one of the remaining ones (if you do actually switch rather than fix) are more appropriate for you.

Finally my last recommendation is to back up your data. That’s what IMHO make the difference between having fun distro hopping versus pulling hair out stressing that your last game save, or work notebooks, will not be deleted.

Have fun learning!

And here is transfer from my Web based wallet to my mobile wallet, again with the testing currency :

I warmly recommend anybody who didn’t use GNU Taler yet to do so right now, for free, in minutes :

GNU Taler provides a well done demonstration https://demo.taler.net/ that one can try right here in the browser, going from a virtual bank to their wallet and buying items in “KUDOS”. It does address quite a few points raised in different discussions here.

For others who might be interested, found https://tutorials.taler.net/dev/merchant-api/introduction#video-tutorial from the merchant standpoint.

Thanks again, if the wallet is “filled” by a bank transfer then I imagine anything able to do so, e.g. my random European bank that allow IBAN transfer, would suffice as long as my wallet itself has an IBAN or that the service provider hosting that wallet has one and then “store” the then “money” for it and allow me to spend it with other GNU Taler wallets.

Anyway I’ll explore through a recent technical talk indeed, good suggestion.

Thank you for taking the time to explain.

I don’t necessarily have to wait, it’s more a generic advice.

Can you please expand though, as I’m curious, why you won’t wait and you plan to use it?

Can you also comment on my follow up question, namely what are the limitations at the moment, both technically and legally? Basically does not living in Switzerland make a difference anyway for users?

Also… I’m wondering what that means in practice because if it’s online infrastructure then… it can be operating in Switzerland but both sellers and buyers, remotely or face-to-face, can rely on it to exchange money.

So… what are the limitations at the moment, both technically and legally?

Shouldn’t we gather feedback first from that experiment before scaling up?