Yeah, same. I have literally zero use for it outside tinkering, and knowing myself, I’ll play with it for a couple of days, then forget it in a drawer, rinse and repeat every handful of months. It’s just expensive enough that it feels pretty wasteful to do so lol

Technically, no, indeed. On paper, most (outside UNIX purists) refer to it (and MINIX) as Unix-like, as they don’t share much from UNIX outside the underlying philosophy. Ritchie himself still thought of Linux as mostly Unix in essence. Same kind of Ayckchyually, basically lol

The Docker engine itself, meaning the dockerd daemon, its APIs and the docker CLI, are all under Apache 2.0. The non-free parts are mostly in their Docker Desktop offering, which is mostly a convenience GUI and not absolutely necessary (the easiest, on Windows and macOS, probably, but not the only one) to run Docker on most platforms.

Hmm. My old phone died after hitting the floor, unfortunately… Maybe there’s some older, relative it capable device I could find…

To be perfectly honest though, I’m having so many issues with AA I’m not too attached to the specific product. It’s been randomly dropping its connection and reconnecting ever since I bought that car (2017 Hyundai), and nothing works to fix it. I tried multiple phones, tons of cables of variable quality, a wireless adapter, none of it fixes it. Meanwhile, my wife’s iPhone is working perfectly great on the same head unit and USB port. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I just don’t know of any half decent alternative…

It’s not just GPS though. Notifications, music, podcasts and general media control, handling calls…

GrapheneOS sounds really interesting, but I’d need some kind of alternative to Android Auto - could even be a new head unit with some other piece of software… Fumbling around with a small phone screen while driving is a (physical) security nightmare in and of itself.

Oh, for sure! But I’m a developer myself, so like most of us, I tend to take my technical opinions as gospel by default 😉

Sometimes it can be fun to push your limits or see how far you can go down some personally motivated rabbit hole. Just saying, I’d never do it with bash myself. Don’t get me wrong, I write bash scripts all the damn time, but the second it gets more complicated than aligning a handful of simple commands without too much output parsing BS, requiring some obscure awk one liner nobody understands after 2 days, I bail out to something less awkward.

I’ve been working as a dev for 8+ years, been programming for much longer. Yes, many things are possible with bash. Many things are also possible using straight assembly, but nobody does that - for good reasons…

Many of those problems you mentioned have well established, open source solutions that should not end up in lost work or data. Building things yourself also has the downside of maintaining those things, and dealing with your own (inevitable) failures yourself too. I’d rather trust established solutions for things as complex as provisioning than roll my own. But whatever works for you.

If I were to write that much code by hand, I’d just choose something saner than bash, purely from a language perspective. That’s all.

Hmm, Cloudflare themselves seem to say it’s not.

What WARP Is Not

From a technical perspective, WARP is a VPN. But it is designed for a very different audience than a traditional VPN. WARP is not designed to allow you to access geo-restricted content when you’re traveling. It will not hide your IP address from the websites you visit. If you’re looking for that kind of high-security protection then a traditional VPN or a service like Tor are likely better choices for you.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-warp-plus/

Which is exactly my point. Not all VPN companies are trustworthy (I’d say most are not, tbh). You’re still stuck trusting some third-party. The problem lies elsewhere. VPNs are a band aid.

Oh, for sure, but to me it’s “building a car with a screwdriver” impressive. It’s impressive that the feat is doable at all, but why one would subject themselves to this eludes me haha.

My first thought every time I see a pure bash project: “wow” followed by “but… why”.

I get that we have bash on most machines, reducing dependencies, all that jazz. But it’s so painful to do anything nontrivial with it. There are so many small potential papercuts and edge cases, I’d rather pull my teeth out with a pair of pliers than code more than a simple script in it.

I since switched to tldr (for the offline/caching functionality, I think?), but for the longest time I just used a wrapper function that did exactly this in my shell configuration. Something a bit like this:

function cheatsh() { 
    curl cheat.sh/"\$1" 
} 

You can find something annoying and not hate it. Linux itself is annoying in so many ways, yet I love it.

Almost like something/someone can do some good on one side, and also do stupid stuff on the other. Wild concept, I know.

Yeah, fair enough. My point still stands though: VPNs are a mere band-aid to the underlying issue, not a solution. You’re merely shifting your trust from your ISP to another company, not fixing the problem.

That’s DNS

So with this, you would use your internal GPU for the host OS, you dedicate your powerful GPU to a VM, then you can access it from the host?

Free VPNs should be avoided at all costs for many reasons, and the alternatives are an additional service to pay for, to fix another service you already pay for too that doesn’t work the way it should work in the first place.

I don’t see what’s ineffectual about the complaints. Of course people will, and should, complain. Loudly.

Declarative vs. imperative does require a large paradigm shift for sure. I’ve used some of these provisioning tools before, but I’m still very much a noob with NixOS. They go further than what I said, they have their own abstractions on top.