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  > if you think switching from gmail is hard, just wait until I actually did switch from GMail so... I feel like I'm a relatively good place to talk about precisely this problem. It *also* was very easy because I used my own domain back then. I switched from GMail to Proton and nobody noticed. I didn't have to change 1 single account or warn 1 single person. OP is not talking about switch email providers in general but rather a very specific case which is indeed problematic but is n...

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  Love that quote "We're going to search your house. We don't have a warrant, but we paid your landlord $100 to give us a spare key. So now we're searching your house without a warrant," by Laperruque

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  fabien@debian2080ti:~$ history | sed 's/ ..... //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail # with parameters 13 cd Prototypes/ 14 adb disconnect; cd ~/Downloads/Shows/ ; adb connect videoprojector ; 14 cd .. 21 s # alias s='ssh shell -t "screen -raAD"' 36 node . 36 ./todo 42 vi index.js 42 vi todo # which I use as metadata or starting script in ~/Prototypes 44 ls 105 lr # alias lr="ls -lrth" fabien@debian2080ti:~$...

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  just that the mobile Proton Mail app does not support fulltext search. I know why, but I still think it’s doable the same way as in the web browser If your mobile has a modern Web browser I’m pretty sure you can do full text search in there too. Also FWIW it’s a constant struggle for everyone. Corporations do their very best, both technically but also with marketing and lobbying, to make it nearly impossible. We have to learn, help each other, vote and it will never stop. Still, each step...

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  IMHO LLM usage isn't coherent with independence. That being said I wrote quite a bit on self-hosting LLMs. There are quite a few tools available, like ollama itself relying on llama.cpp that can both work locally and provide an API compatible replacement to cloud services. As you suggested though typically at home one doesn't have the hardware, GPUs with 100+GB of VRAM, to run the state of the art. There is a middle ground though between full cloud, API key, closed source vs open source...

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  Bought a 2nd-hand Pixel 8 to put GrapheneOS on it, not sure if that counts. Feels old, more ecological, cheaper and more private. Not sure how repairable it is but in theory I can use it for up 7 years so hopefully by the time I need to repair it I wouldn't even want to.

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  I like risky sports (relative for some people it might be boring) but when I have to work or even play I want stuff that just works. I can’t imagine using a laptop and wondering every day if this is the last update to my OS I might get. Sure Apple laptops might be great hardware, you might love the design, etc but just the fact that this question exists make it impossible to consider such hardware. TL;DR: I don’t know and I don’t want to care. Please support OEMs who are not making money by...

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  CoMaps can export a GPS Exchange Format (GPX) route. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GPX and that can be used to get most of the data your need. I imagine you could write a spreadsheet or online to do your visualization. I also bet others already did it. I've done something like that for hikes to plot the path in 3D for WebXR. As others points out GadgetBridge if you want additional data, typically biosensors for heart rate monitoring, is great to see which hardware is supported.

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  So glad I moved from iOS to /e/OS (last year) then to GrapheneOS (last month).

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  Linux on desktop, self-hosting and GrapheneOS too. I have a few smart watches, namely PineTime and Watchy by SQFMI but... honestly I don't wear them anymore simply because I try to be as minimalist as possible. In fact just yesterday afternoon I was wondering if I could do without GrapheneOS because I might actually NOT need a phone. So... what do you want out of watch? I can recommend both but honestly it depends on your need.

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  Sadly FUD as ANYTHING that is NOT increasing profit for surveillance capitalism, i.e Google, Meta, etc is a win for privacy! Of course /e/OS could be better, GrapheneOS could also be better (including on security) but the big picture is that still ANY of those solutions is making surveillance capitalism, the loss of privacy for profit and power, less efficient. That's good for all of us who, being on Lemmy or other federated instance, believe we do benefit from having more privacy, or at le...