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What does full-stack mean here? Phone is fully produced in Europe? Software and online storage fully provided by European company?

edit: I want this phone, I have reserved a slot in the coming batch.

Just posing as an average Joe here, someone who does not host their own storage, calendar, contacts, phone tracking, remote wipe, the "free" features Google and Apple are known for on their phones.

Neat! I'm already using openwebui/ollama with a 7900 xtx but the STT and TTS parts don't seem to work with it yet:

2025-05-05 20:53:15,808] [WARNING] [real_accelerator.py:194:get_accelerator] Setting accelerator to CPU. If you have GPU or other accelerator, we were unable to detect it.

Error loading model for checkpoint ./models/Lasinya: This op had not been implemented on CPU backend.

Regarding Startpage: https://www.startpage.com/privacy-please/startpage-articles/...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210729190016/https://support.s...

The original link is dead for some reason: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...

TL;DR: Startpage appears owned by an ad company? https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.bizjournals.com/losa...

Could someone explain to me how an ad company and a privacy company work together? Seems like opposing interests?

Maybe Ecosia will be a good alternative later on: https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/

Another suggestion would be https://searx.space/

Good question! I assumed it was US only but things have changed a while back after it becoming popular it seems. Going by https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Because everything in Signal is end-to-end encrypted, we can rent server infrastructure from a variety of providers like Amazon AWS, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, and others while ensuring that your messages and calls remain private and secure.

I question the use of an instant messaging service hosted in another country for your armed forces, is that a good idea, especially now?

As good as Signal is I mean, you will want something under your control.

How does the Bitwarden client handle loss of connection to the Bitwarden or Vaultwarden server?

Last I checked the local cache is gone after so many days, leaving you without your credentials.

A combination of local password manager and a file sync service of your preference seems a good option as well.

For what it's worth, I'm happy with using Btrfs on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and the provided tooling like snapper and restoring Btrfs snapshots from grub, saved me a few times.

SSD used: Samsung SSD 970 PRO 1T, same installation since 2020-05-02.

I would assume the people working in the Chinese factory have _some_ time off to go outside said factory? Or have the ability to turn in their notice and leave for a different job?

Agreed on the fact that both seem like a corporate hellhole one way or the other.

Disclaimer: have not played Starfield yet, still on Baldur's Gate 3.

The game suffers an endless amount of video and audio stuttering issues unless you run it from an SSD or an NVMe

The recommended MINIMUM requirement for storage is to use an SSD, per https://store.steampowered.com/app/1716740/Starfield/ :

System Requirements

    Minimum:
        OS: Windows 10 version 21H1 (10.0.19043)
        Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7-6800K
        Memory: 16 GB RAM
        Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5700, NVIDIA GeForce 1070 Ti
        DirectX: Version 12
        Storage: 125 GB available space
        Additional Notes: SSD Required

My previous PC had an SSD, I would rather not go back to running my OS/applications from a HDD.

That said, ensuring your games run on minimal hardware goes a long way, Blizzard does/did this for their games.

as opposed to crashing the whole system

Depending on your definition of 'the whole system' this is not entirely true.

The AMD driver for example will reset the GPU and force a xorg restart: https://paste.debian.net/plain/1290344

Now this does mean all desktop applications don't close properly, so I restart the PC to a 100% sure stability is at 100%, it didn't cause a kernel panic like the GPU crash would do previously.

I've had this crash happen only twice in ~90 hours of play time.

GPU: 5700XT

Driver: Mesa 23.1.5

You can setup a VPN through desktop mode.

I've put together a howto for wireguard: https://zaggy.nl/nextcloud/s/yGW9SinMCoWcNZN

It's no turnkey solution, you can probably find an easier howto for popular VPN services and wireguard.

Personally I've been using the jellyfin client on my steam deck, which works well, add the dock and you have a home media machine.

That's fair, I would recommend a MacBook, Chromebook or iPad to senior folks, even though I loathe the companies, they're perfectly fine for those who do not want to tinker.