the local transportation authority doesn’t offer pkpass files to download, the kind of file you need to work with fosswallet and similar apps, and the only way to use this digital card is to create a google account and download google wallet.

I’d go to an actual kiosk of the local transportation authority and explain that I do not have a phone yet hope to use the Deutschland-Job-Ticket or whatever my employer currently pays for and let them figure it out. Germany is actually pretty big on NOT being tracked, that’s why cash is still pretty important there, more than in most places, so I’d be surprise if they expect everybody (not 99.99% of people, but actually 100%) to have a smartphone that is up to date. In Belgium for example there are usually physical card equivalents for most things that usually require a smartphone. It usually requires going through extra hoops, e.g. paying for the physical token and eventually get the money back when given back, but there are actually alternatives.

Best of luck, please share results here and elsewhere if you do, or do NOT, manage as it’s showing to others a pragmatic path and if not where to push back.

It’s not really an “App” but tools like ffmpeg or sox or lame can do that no problem. It might take a while to convert your entire collection though … but depending on the size might just take a night or, few nights.

If you have a ridiculously large collection and do want it “on demand” you could also use e.g. inotify to monitor directories, e.g. ~/Music/ForPhone/ so that any file added to that directory gets converted.

FWIW I’d use a phone with a microSD card as those days one can get a 1To for less than 100€ so probably no conversion needed even for a large collection.

Edit: based on a recent conversation I’d try transcoding capabilities of LMS https://github.com/epoupon/lms cf https://lms-demo.poupon.dev/settings from their demo instance

Thanks, to go back to the source https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai which claims :

• No logs
• No data sharing
• Zero-access encryption
• Not used to train AI
• Open

… so I’m not claim it’s efficient, even useful, but at least it does seem pretty coherent with the values that one (like me, being a Proton customer for years) would expect out of the company.

Edit : I can not find the repository so AFAICT it’s not actually open source, even though they do list the core of it, namely models which are open.

FWIW the transition is :

• rely on OS default hosting, e.g iCloud
• disable iCloud and use another “cloud” provider
• self-host as cloud provider
• give up on Apple devices entirely, and go on to remove any other device that tries to do so
• enjoy, help others to do the same

P2P more?

Honestly try whatever you want, from Godot to bash on the command line (I’m not even joking) then while doing so, write down what you learn and, as importantly, what is missing. If something is missing and it’s a very VERY big deal for you to re-implement (say 3D engine, or VR support, or cross platform support) then and ONLY THEN do look at other engines. See which ones out there do have both what you needed so far AND what is missing. Do NOT think ahead of all the “cool” things you “might need one day” because you would then look for the “perfect” engine for a project that does not even exist in your mind.

TL;DR: it does not matter, pick any, build, share, iterate and pick another one whenever you want to.

Our pleasure, if you have ideas or suggestions both on topics or how we discuss them, please do share.

I’m using SoundCloud via the browser. I enjoy the suggestions, keeping things fresh.

For offline on mobile I use their app which does have an offline mode for your “Liked” songs and specific playlists.

If I wanted an offline library proper, I’d sail the high seas but I personally do not feel the need for it for now.

It does it if you do it right after the OS installation then whenever you plan to move on and diff the two.

instead of searching and installing all your apps one-by-one

And… that takes what, a good all 5 minutes?

Honestly unless you either re-install an OS frequently (which is a weird thing to do on a day-to-day system) or plan to go offline for a long period of time I bet you’d spend more time finding a “solution” then not doing so manually.

I’m not you but when I install a fresh OS (maybe once every couple of years, at most!) on my desktop (not counting other devices, handheld, servers, etc) I install

• Firefox (if it’s not already by default, if it’s ESR then I might get a different update mechanism)

…well honestly that’s it!

Then yes as I start to work I add KDEnlive, OBS, Blender, Cura, OpenSCAD, etc.

My point being that I can’t imagine a moment when, as you start the OS you actually need all the other software at the same time. You usually need one, then another, e.g. Inkscape to edit a PDF document you just received, then you pass the extract image to e.g. LibreOffice Writer.

So… not having everything from the start is IMHO a good moment to consider what you actually need, keep things lean.

TL;DR: there are technical solutions but on a desktop connected to the Internet it’s not worth it.

PS: I do personally keep my bash history or my ~/bin/ and ~/Apps/~ directories across installations (because I do keep ~` on a dedicated partition) with some AppImages in but honestly I don’t rely on these.

I imagine legally speaking, if you care for that, the license key is enough but depends on your jurisdiction, if you care for this kind of things. That said as the pace OS deprecates doubt it’d be useful.

Not slides but I discuss the topic with a friend at https://video.benetou.fr/w/p/q8C2p1Aky9uVPrPShMrAxK so feel free to have a look and let me know if you have questions.

At some point if they have ridiculous restrictions one might consider … doing the test in person, in a room provided by the actual school or that THEY provide the hardware.

Anyway IMHO the bigger point is that a lot of my own inaction (I won’t speak for others) came from fear of problems that rarely, if ever, materialized. I would recommend to move on and if the problem does actually arise then consider solutions at that point.

I uninstalled Windows on my SSD years ago (despite paying for it, forced by OEM deals), didn’t regret it once. In fact, I wear it as a “badge of honor” with pride. When someone tells me I “have” to use Windows for whatever reason, I tell them I can’t and that usually leads to interesting conversations.

VM might be enough

Sure it’s beyond a proof of concept and others will definitely heavily rely on it yet my point still stand, i.e no one is supposed to install this built app directly. As I also said yes it’s wrong to rely on Google and Apple in general but even more so with talks of EU sovereignty so I’m not giving them any slack for that. What I’m still insisting on is that this repository is not the app people will have to use.

Here https://github.com/zudsniper/VLRH/blob/main/download-isos.sh#L3

KDE connect for me works very well. I even use it on my VR headset to share video recordings to my desktop then upload on my video server, really nice workflow.

Here is my instance https://video.benetou.fr/ but it’s not a community. It’s just me posting videos, sometimes live streaming then keeping and sharing the record.

Believe Microsoft, believe us… but verify.

I assume (but I haven’t tried nor do I want to touch any of these) that you could verify using novel sequences, e.g. type in what you assume is isolated “This is a sentence and…” then try completion. You might get a result e.g. “is grammatically correct” or “I like potatoes”. You can try that few times just to get some sample. Try then to try in the other context you assume might actually not be isolate, e.g. your browser “This is a sentence and noise is blue.” and repeat that several times. If “noise is blue” never ever appeared before and it now does then you can safely assume that regardless of what Microsoft said, there is actually no isolation.

TL;DR: trust but verify. Yourself. Now.

Related thread https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/14859-play-integrity-after-2025