It's kinda liberating to peek under the hood and confirm that society, like the internet, is mostly held together with figurative duct tape, that someone put there as a temporary fix that became semi-permanent. The concept of technical debt for software and technology projects exists everywhere, including in the backlogs of what our government agencies, court systems, and corporate organizations are doing (and what they simply haven't done yet).

But the whole thing is still pretty resilient. The individuals who make the decisions that feed into the unimaginably complex web of interdependent relationships and rules might not actually understand every detail, and mostly aren't even benevolent actors who want the best for everyone, but the system as a whole still trudges along, mostly making life better than if the system didn't exist at all. And once you learn how at least some parts of it work, you can make some changes here and there for the better, either for yourself or for the people/issues you care about or for the entirety of the system.

You're implying they have any. Faith isn't a requirement nowadays

Quite a coincidence that, Asahi just today announced Fedora Asahi Remix

They are planning an official release on end of Aug, and plans to maintain it too as an upstream-first manner

The learning curve is more like a vertical cliff face.

I had experience with headless servers before 2010, but lots of things have just changed, not least of which is the availability of good documentation. A big chunk of knowledge out there is in the form of informal blog posts or Stack Overflow/Quora/Reddit threads that don't give version information so you don't have a good sense of whether the information is still current. And then quite a few of the people doing things are just shoving everything into a container and blindly following commands they pasted from somewhere else, so it's not clear which instructions are vestiges of some earlier process that is no longer necessary, which are just cargo cult steps done simply because they watched someone else do it, etc.

Photos are one of the few things I don't entirely self-host yet. I host Immich, but I also proxy through an original Pixel, so I have unlimited Google Photos storage. It's hard to give that up. I assume Google will make the decision for me eventually though.

I've been meaning to figure out the best/most affordable off-site backup, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

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The Asahi Linux project would like a word…

I actually just canceled my preorder for the AMD Framework. I decided I didn't need a new device if I could stretch out the life of this laptop for as long as it stays alive. My next new machine will probably be Framework, but that might not be for years.

Or a Framework.

Or a thinkpad.

That's great that hardware support for Windows-oriented laptops has made the progress it has!

The reason why I basically quit Linux in 2015 was because my hardware lost support from nvidia's proprietary driver, and I never could get nouveau or the others to play friendly. That's on top of the fact I never got bluetooth or the webcam to work (not that I ever intended to use those), and the proprietary Broadcom wifi driver didn't seem to work as well as Windows. And the CPU/thermal management was atrocious, with progressively worse battery life over time. So I gave it up.

So my experience with a 2017 model of Macbook, using 2023 versions of all the firmware/software, is actually better than where I was in 2015 with a Dell laptop that literally shipped with preinstalled Linux in 2010. I think all I need to do is get past the initial setup of the non-standard or quirky hardware, and I'll be in a better place with this laptop today than I was with my laptop in 2015.

If the typical off the shelf laptop available today is a one click installation with the typical beginner-friendly liveUSB installer, that's great. It certainly wasn't true in 2006 when I first switched, and wasn't true in 2015 when I gave it up.