For that one time when systemd-logind crashed on every boot on an unmodified CentOS install because of an OOM.

Yeah, one man did hours of profiling and the other made the patch more elegant lol

Well, DRM is not the problem here, I don’t trust the games too. DRM or not, they can do what they want with my data.

I’m not saying DRM is good but it’s not in the scope of this post.

Which hypervisor? I tried booting a physical install this year with VirtualBox and two decades ago with VMWare Player and both times ended up with damaged bootloader that was unable to boot from bare metal

I wrote something myself because I wanted PGP support, but saw some apps on Google Play (I’ve been still using it back then). I can’t recommend anything, sorry.

For calls - yeah, tough stuff. I’e been looking to do the same thing you did, and found there are GSM USB dongles (modems) that can work with Asterisk to forward calls, so you’d use a raspberry pi instead of a smartphone. But I never implemented it, people gradually stopped calling me and there was just no motivation.

For texts with parcels etc I have an old phone in a drawer which forwards texts to my email. Doesn’t leak anything because it does not move.

Are you aware that using the same device with different SIMs is not helping your anonymity because IMEI is the same?

Power to you for not having GSM enabled on your phone though

Sunshine sounds pretty decent but yeah, one step at a time. Thank you.

Sunshine in general sounds very tempting, I don’t play AAA games so an old laptop may be sufficient for most games, and the desktop clients are free.

I doubt the potentially malicious games will have code sophisticated enough to bypass a sandbox, just because majority of users don’t have a sandbox for them, and I’m not paranoid enough to fear targeted attacks. Other than that, the game shouldn’t have access to my home directory or network.

Amazing, this way I could restrict network access with normal tools like firejail instead of fiddling with Flatpak. I’ve never heard of this tool before: https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/

That is an interesting idea, I was about to buy a GPU for AI, right now I have one whose primary feature is not using a lot od energy. Am I going to need a dedicated monitor for games if I set it up this way?

Would be so much shorter with a щ

I ended up using khal/ikhal. They’re CLI programs. I haven’t found a GUI one to work this way.

I’d book a flight through a travel agency if these still existed. Booking online is pure dread to me. I’m too young to have ever seen a travel agency but the concept of not having to deal with Ryanair and Wizzair is very luring.

I got a cheapest Android smart TV and never connected it to the internet. On HDMI1 there is Amazon Firestick for the occasional Netflix use. On HDMI2 there is Kodi for every day watching. Because of how modern TVs work, both these extra boxes can be steered with the TV remote.

It is great as a private communication app for a close group. I’m running my own server because you have to trust your server operator with metadata, and because I found random public servers to be too short-lived for sustained usage by non-tech people.

Alright then, I guess it’s time for attempt #3 with the newly acquired knowledge. Thanks!

Why?

Since when? I made two attempts over many years and an elaborate offlineimap and msmtp setup was needed both times.

Alpine is an email client.

Mutt is a maildir reader which you can use as a part of your DIY email client.