(1) sometimes, yes. It really depends 🤷

(2) And some stuff like the camera api is different from what mainline linux uses, so you need a special camera app etc. And the Android kernels lacks some features like virtualisation afaik.

(6) I haven’t tried it, but it seems to be mainly for running desktop linux distributions.

(8) Again, device specific. There are basically no standards in the ARM space for that, especially for old Android devices.

In theory much wider hardware support.

1. Unlikely but can happen. Some vendors like Fairphone will fix it for you if you send it in for service.
2. No that is not true, but the most popular Halium based distribution (Ubuntu Touch) has some other peculiarities that make this harder than it should be. They have experimental Snap support now though.
3. Ubuntu Touch is a good start as it supports many devices that are cheap to get. Dual booting is quite hard to do, so not something for beginners.
4. No idea, sorry.
5. Android has a lot of hardware specific battery optimizations. But overall it isn’t that bad… the people that complain probably got an old device for testing with a bad battery.
6. I think that is a feature in the latest Android 16.
7. About the same.
8. Device specific and probably not.
9. Afaik no.

Please close that case properly 😭

Given the memory optimization mentioned in the text, it looks a bit like there will be a 8GB ram version of the Steam Frame. Makes sense really, as it will make it significantly cheaper and for people mostly using it to stream from their main PC it shouldn’t matter much.

You could probably put Anubis in front of your reverse-proxy, but then you need something else in front of it that handles TLS certificates. So maybe something like this: HAProxy->Anubis->Nginx.

This is the botPolicy.yaml that we use on slrpnk.net :

bots:
  - name: known-crawler
    action: CHALLENGE
    expression:
      # https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/expressions
      all:
        # Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
        - userAgent.contains("Macintosh; Intel Mac") && userAgent.contains("Chrome/125.0.0.0") # very old chrome?
        - missingHeader(headers, "Sec-Ch-Ua") # a valid chrome has this header
    challenge:
      difficulty: 6
      algorithm: slow

    # Assert behaviour that only genuine browsers display.
    # This ensures that Chrome or Firefox versions
  - name: realistic-browser-catchall
    expression:
      all:
        - '"User-Agent" in headers'
        - '( userAgent.contains("Firefox") ) || ( userAgent.contains("Chrome") ) || ( userAgent.contains("Safari") )'
        - '"Accept" in headers'
        - '"Sec-Fetch-Dest" in headers'
        - '"Sec-Fetch-Mode" in headers'
        - '"Sec-Fetch-Site" in headers'
        - '"Accept-Encoding" in headers'
        - '( headers["Accept-Encoding"].contains("zstd") || headers["Accept-Encoding"].contains("br") )'
        - '"Accept-Language" in headers'
    action: CHALLENGE
    challenge:
      difficulty: 2
      algorithm: fast

  - name: generic-browser
    user_agent_regex: (?i:mozilla|opera)
    action: CHALLENGE
    challenge:
      difficulty: 4
      algorithm: fast

status_codes:
  CHALLENGE: 202
  DENY: 406

dnsbl: false

#store:
#  backend: valkey
#  parameters:
#    url: redis://valkey-primary:6379/0

I think I just took it over from Codeberg.org back from when they still used Anubis. Nothing really relevant to Lemmy specifically and it is only in front of the frontends, not the s2s federation API.

It seems though like there are some crawlers that use 3rd party hosted alternative frontends to crawl (unintentionally?) through the federation API, so something in front of that would be useful I guess.

Maybe a Loomio instance linked to the chat would be best?

Hmm, odd that this one has 84V output. That’s AFAIK beyond the typical 48V battery charging voltage.

The problem with converting back and forth is both efficiency and that you need a seperate buffer battery (or at least super-capacitor).

IMHO, maybe the best idea is to just buy a so called balcony solar kit to feed into your regular home power circut and then charge as usual from a regular outlet.

63V DC output 🤔

Not hundert percent sure, but you are probably dealing with a nominally 48V battery pack.

Instead of converting back and forth DC/AC/DC, I would look for a solar charge controller that can charge 48V Li-ion battery packs.

The only problem might be finding a suitable plug if you don’t want to cut it off your existing charger.

If you go the RO option (not necessarily the best), be aware that if the tap water is chlorinated you need an active carbon filter before the RO membrane as the chlorine will otherwise damage it. And that active carbon filter will likely need replacement quite often.

I don’t really get what you mean. These are clients that connect to a S3 storage.

There are many options.

I have been looking into this for other reasons: https://codeberg.org/shroff/phylum but it might do the trick for you.

Or this one: https://www.filestash.app/

Not only that, but if you run the server in your home, you get 100% efficient electrical heating as a side effect.

High speed to replace airplanes and uncomfortably short flights/uncomfortably long drives

Yeah, those are profitable in Europe, but at the expense of everything else and they soak up all the state funding for rail infrastructure development. But they only go between major cities and rarely stop on the way because otherwise they can’t compete with flights time wise.

I think people need to start defining what they mean with “high speed rail”, because in Europe the high speed rail connections between larger cities are about the only ones profitable, so much so that it goes at the expense of regional medium speed rail connections. In addition the construction of the rail lines that allow to go faster than 200km/h are highly profitable as well and the money spend on that is missing for the maintenance of the normal speed regional rail links.

But I acknoledge that in many places regional rail that goes between 100 and 200 km/h is considered high speed rail.

https://wiki.slrpnk.net/articles:whatissolarpunk

I thought it was Slurpnik?

Thanks for sharing this!

No, but I am looking forward to try Lepton on my Linux phone.