Wha, why?

I didn’t get the C2 from Jolla. I got a third party device from a third party seller.

https://buy.jolla-devices.com/product/sony-xperia-10-iii-sailfish-os/

Sony Xperia 10 III from Jolla Devices.

The Xperia 10mk3 is one of the better (or the best?) supported SailfishOS device.

Jolla’s SailfishOS does work in the US on Mint Mobile. Source, I own a Sony Xperia with SailfishOS. I live in the US.

• where do I buy music?
• what device do I use to listen to music?
• if I use my phone, which apps should I use to listen to my music?
• if I use a dedicated device, how do I transfer music to it?
• if I use a dedicated device, how do I play the file formats I want?
• what’s a file format? which should I choose?
• what if i want more music than my device can hold?
• what is self-hosting?
• if i want streaming, what services should I use? How do I install them?
• what if I want android auto/carplay support?
• if I do streaming, what apps should I use? On Android? On iOS?
• what if I want an algorithm to help me find new music?
• how do I fix metadata that is wrong or add album artwork that’s missing?

(All questions answered in the video, btw.)

Wow, pretty comprehensive. Nice.

Qobuz is BOTH a music store and a streaming service.

Aaaah, the PS1. I have a good memory of visiting my cousin in Mexico City, where he told me he had someone tinker with his PS1 so he could play pirated games. Next time I visited, I brought my PS1 and it worked!

SailfishOS is a (non-Android) Linux phone that may be viable right meow!

SailfishOS runs fine (well?) on the Sony Xperia or the Jolla C2.

I just bought one a few weeks ago, but I haven’t had time to fully set it up yet (my house has been falling apart). I’m in the US with Mint Mobile and calls and SMS work. Camera works. Battery life is pretty decent. They have an Android compatibility layer that integrates pretty well into Sailfish. I was able to install F-Droid on it and then Bitwarden and Molly (Signal client) so far.

One of the more trickier apps I may need to install is Tailscale… but I’m thinking maybe I can switch to Netbird and use their reverse proxy and remove the need to install a VPN client on the phone altogether.

I’m not a heavy smartphone user, so for me I’m thinking this might be a viable path to take.

p.d. Yes, you can bring up a terminal. :)

Is this still the case?

Yeah, 100% agree.

While not the ideal right now, I think Codeberg shows promise.

They’re working on federation: https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation

Although, sure, it doesn’t seem to be their #1 priority. However, compared to GitHub this is a great step.

Also, again compared to GitHub or GitLab, Codeberg gives me more confidence because they don’t seem to be a commercial organization: https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/what-is-codeberg/#what-is-codeberg-e.v.?

So “getting bought” or having to “please investors” seems less likely.

We need federation and open standards, 100% agree. GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc are on the opposite side of that mission. SourceHut’s answer to federation is email… which I think most people will not like.

I’d love to hear about a source forge that is:

• non-commercial, non-VC backed to avoid enshittification
• FLOSS, self-hostable
• has federation today (or is even open to working on federation)
• doesn’t have awkward federation UX (like email)

No, really, I’d like to know. Codeberg is the only I know that approximates that list.

Waffling on moving to Codeberg because it’s not 100% perfect means supporting GitHub and drops the possibility of federated forges to 0%. Moving to Codeberg makes the future of federated forges go up to greater than 0%.

• option 3: self-host Netbird control plane
• option 4: use Netbird’s reverse proxy

Yes, yes, yes! It’s increasingly looking like Codeberg is going to be the destination lots of people will move to.

Also, direct link: https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/project-migrated-to-codeberg/

I’ll share more details about where the Ghostty project will be moving to in the coming months. We have a plan but I’m also very much still in discussions with multiple providers (both commercial and FOSS).

• GitLab -> too enterprisey, danger of enshittification, if not already there
• SourceHut -> too different
• BitBucket -> lol
• Codeberg -> GitHub without the bullshit

I was able to sign up for netcup without any hassle! 🙌 No passport requirement.

Thanks!

I need to start doing this… I think I recently got flagged for not using AI enough…

Let’s see! 🤞

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I’m in the US and when I tried migrating from DO to Hetzner, I got asked to upload my passport to prove I’m not spam or something. Same experience with OVH.

Is this a thing for all European hosting companies? I ended up finding some Canadian hosting that would just let me sign up and pay like normal.

Exactly what I’m feeling… I don’t know of any companies that aren’t drinking the koolaid. My friend recently got laid off. He suspects it was because it was constantly pushing back on AI slop from other engineers.

I’ve been skipping the AI questions on recent company surveys… a few days ago, my manager directly asked me for “my thoughts on AI” during our 1:1… kinda freaked me out… I didn’t say anything bad about AI, but I also wasn’t gushing over how much I love AI (I hate AI)… I feel like they’re watching me a little more closely now… I’m going to start answering that I love AI on our surveys now… 😢

I don’t feel like they genuinely care about discovering if AI works. The AI questions are usually like: “Do you like AI?” and the answers are like “A: Yes”, “B: FUCK YES”, or “C: omg please more AI!”

Huh, just from browsing the homepage, this seems to be more for searching local files.