Instead of one super chunky battery, how about a laptop with replaceable batteries, in combination with a UPS?
UPS is so you can actually replace the laptop battery with a spare one , even during a power outage. Just run the laptop on AC from the UPS while changing batteries. Or see if you can find a UPS with a long lasting battery. Entry level ones only have like 15-30 minutes of battery life though, since they're more intended for safe shutdowns or brownouts.
This sounds like a FOSS utopian future :)
There's a few projects that have started towards this path with single-click deployable apps, you could even say HomeAssistant OS does this to some extent my managing the services for you.
I believe one of the biggest hurdle for a "self hosting appliance" is resilience to hardware failure. Noone wants to loose decades of family photos or legal documents due to a SSD going bad , or the cat spilling water on their "hosting box". So automated reliable off-site backups and recovery procedures for both data and configs is key.
Databox from BBC / Nottingham University is also a very interesting concept worth looking in to:
A platform for managing secure access to data and enabling authorised third parties to provide the owner authenticated control and accountability.
Thanks for the clarification.
Are there any plans for a built-in sync feature in the future?
Thanks for explaining (For some reason my mind went to Dodge Challenger the car, not the Challenger shuttle)
I never new there were that many ignored warnings for the Challenger shuttle disaster. It remains an important cautionary tale to this day. The poor crew never saw it coming
That's brilliant! I always forget KDE Connect also works fine PC <--> PC, not just PC <--> Mobile
I'm glad to see more manufacturers making non-SUV EVs :)
It's not a cardinal sin, it's called being a brave pioneer :)
Anyway, fwiw I've noticed something similar where steam just (re)starts all of a sudden while playing. Like I notice the game gets sluggish, then focus changes to the steam client, complete with the "new offerings" sale popup that comes when starting steam. And I did have steam overlay UI freeze completely recently but restarting the game and steam fixed it.
Kubuntu 22.04, X11, nVidia 3060 with 525 driver
Well worth a read. The video swapping between Wayland compositors with a single button like it was nothing is freaking magic.
Plasma 6 and Wayland looks so promising :D
Firefox 1.0
Not only was it better than IE6, it was also free! Not sure how aware I was of the libre aspect initially, but around the same time I also dabled in (Mandrake? Mandriva?) Linux, which exposed me to GNU, GPL, and the idea of copyleft.
And then there was VLC.
Gaming on Linux and even general use on Linux has come a LONG way the last few years. The number of "it just works" scenarios go up, and cases requiring some tinkering are getting fewer and fewer. All without license keys, ads in the start menu, forced updates at inopportune moments, and general enshitification
That said, I wouldn't say gaming is "better" in Linux, but in many cases it's on par with Windows. Probably the two most notably weak points are VR support, and certain AAA games anti-cheat not allowing Linux/Proton (even though it's technically capable of running)
No they're not, in fact Cosmic is almost ready for Alpha release (Sorry, couldn't help myself)