i wonder if rootless podman would have the same permissions problem … something to try out

interesting, i wasn’t prompted or anything, from the documentation there’s the ollama/ollama:latest image and the ollama/ollama:rocm image but either way ollama will do its own detection and silently fallback to CPU if anything even smells wrong, haha

i’ve noticed a few people are not using the official ollama images 🤷

you think that’s bad? wait until you find out all the places where electron has been installed … :P

I couldn’t understand Microsoft’s motivation here at all, until this reminder (from the linked article):

This development doesn’t bode well for Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, who saw the company miss the platform shift to mobile devices and tablets and desperately wants to avoid chalking up another failure in yet another momentous platform shift.

it makes so much sense to me now

emphasis on “desperately” for sure

it’s a good point about pessimism, I should try harder to not spread it

you’ve put together a pretty useful table there!

RE voting with our wallets, I was mostly referring to this: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-13-consumption-choices-marginal-benefits-66edd5d9a82e

oh, sorry, now I understand the question

yes, devices available in CrowdSupply tend to philosophically align with my values: owner is in charge, no subscriptions, cloud connectivity is not a thing or completely optional, schematics are open, drivers are open, etc

so they aren’t usually interfered with at a functionality or technological level

but they’re popularity and availability are subject to interference: we’ve already had multiple governments ban or consider banning the Flipper Zero for various reasons

and we have various media codec patents and DRM requirements that prevent truly open devices from being able to be used for popular purposes like streaming video content which pretty much guarantees that only industry-approved devices will ever gain wide distribution and popularity

I don’t think it’s too tin-foil hat to suggest that if a truly open device did gain popularity somehow, that we’d see IP lawsuits or import restrictions or mandatory modifications (e.g. countries attempting to mandate a government-operated surveillance app preinstalled on over smartphone)

seems good?

I bought my Precursor on CrowdSupply :)

I’ll probably buy more stuff in future there

and I’m also a big fan of https://mntre.com/ although I’m waiting for the next model that’s currently in development

what’s frustrating is that we can’t really vote with our wallets, and any right-to-repair or consumer-is-in-charge movement is going to be limited by intelligence agencies, corporations like John Deere, Apple, and the entire entertainment industry

really, unless it’s a Precursor-style open chip and able to be verified by the consumer that it hasn’t been tampered with, then we’re already putting an awful lot of faith in the primary CPUs in our systems, anyway

• https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor
• https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-xous-a-pure-rust-rethink-of-the-embedded-operating-system

there’s also so much mistrust of TPMs that every verified damage wrought by them ought to be very well documented by now

TPMs are certainly worthy of our vigilance, but it seems like we should be spending more energy pestering CPU and GPU vendors for better behaviour

to help communicate and troubleshoot what is broken here, we need to think of Wayland as a protocol just like HTTP is a protocol

saying “Wayland broke X” is like saying “HTTP broke X”, which is possible but not likely to be what you’re actually trying to say

rather, we need to be talking about the implementation(s) of the protocol, not the protocol itself

e.g. “HTTP broke X” -> “Google Chrome broke X”

e.g. “Wayland broke X” -> “GNOME broke X”

does changing to a different dark vim theme help?

thanks, i hadn’t actually heard of ntop / ntopng before!

i believe ntopng works everywhere independent of whether calico is installed or not (and even calico is a Kubernetes-compatible and Kubernetes-optional system, just like ntopng)

but, calico whisker displays networking information made available by the rest of calico, so it’s able to give you a live display of when a firewall rule managed by calico is allowing or blocking traffic

i think this particular feature is absent from ntopng, but i could be wrong

yeah, when I say “far far too long” I think I’m on roughly the same window of time there 🫂 that said, still manage my nftables firewall on my other systems with firewalld and those concepts of zones has never really clicked in my brain

i did try cilium first, but it currently doesn’t work on Raspberry Pi 4B nodes: https://github.com/cilium/proxy/issues/1027

and now that my understanding of calico has improved, i appreciate that it works outside of Kubernetes, too

I’ve ordered one of the new Pebbles, but in the meantime, I have a PineTime: https://pine64.org/devices/pinetime

I’ve even given some to nephews and nieces because they are durable enough and so affordable that we don’t need to worry too much about them

This probably depends on what you mean by “smart”

In the old days, dumb phones were defined as devices that shipped with a set of features with users generally being unable to add new features themselves

And smart phones could be extended by users because they allow installation of apps, etc

But I don’t think this applies to smart watches: it seems like the difference here is that a smart watch goes beyond “dumb” by having phone/internet connectivity to display more than just times and dates

I agree

But how many paying customers need features that are not in the online/cloud versions of Office?

Sure this is a shrinking number of people?

Agreed

I think Windows is primarily a development environment for Xbox, just as macOS is primarily a development environment for iOS Everything else of value from Microsoft is available via the web/cloud (even Office)

Eventually, Microsoft might even decide that it’s more profitable to abandon Windows completely

I actually just switched from Bazzite to Bluefin on my devices, even my gaming PC

Mostly because I wanted a more minimal/essential experience with less pre-installed packages

I’m sure I’m sacrificing a little gaming performance, but nothing noticeable by me so far

:shrug:

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

Can I ignore flatpak indefinitely?

Sure, at least until software you want to use is flatpak only, e.g. Bottles