Thanks, wasn’t aware of this

Oh that’s pretty unfortunate

I fully agree.

Probably also a good opportunity to mention that BerryBase also lets you pick up your stuff at their Berlin Adlershof location. Never tried it though, I don’t live in Berlin.

I recommend Geizhals, it’s a German price comparison website, but there is also a UK, Austrian, and Polish version. Not only does it show you the website where a product is the cheapest, but most of the stores listed there are also European, so it’s a win-win situation.

We have some pretty nice online stores for PC hardware here in Germany, for example Mindfactory or Caseking. If you’re looking for electronics in general, check out Conrad Electric, Reichelt Elektronik or Pollin Electronic. BerryBase is focused on Raspberry PIs and other DIY electronics stuff. Sertronics, the company behind BerryBase, also operates another online store called Tecgarden, which is more focused on consumer electronics.

You know what’s even funnier? There’s even an official mirror on Azure DevOps. https://dev.azure.com/massgrave/_git/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

All of this can easily be circumvented by using a VPN or seedbox, as well as an adblocker.

+1

Is there any advantage of doing that over just using an Email client like Thunderbird or FairEmail?

“Proper” mobile Linux has never been a serious thing except maybe during the Nokia N900 era (It was released in 2009.). So I don’t really get what you’re trying to say with that statement.

I’m talking about developments such as postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch/UBports, Phosh (mobile GNOME), Plasma Mobile, etc.

I see so many people here on Lemmy who are desperately waiting for Linux phones to replace their iPhones or Android phones, without realizing that idea is absolutely utopian and unrealistic.

An image-based system would be the bare minimum to achieve basic security, but there would still be so many security issues compared to Android and iOS, that I don’t think Linux phones are worth putting time and development effort into.

AOSP is a fantastic base for open source mobile systems. The FOSS mobile development community should rather shift its focus to AOSP, develop a good understanding of it and get familiar with the code, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with mobile Linux distros.

I know about the security issues in desktop Linux, but I still think secureblue fits that level of the iceberg pretty well. I would put Qubes there as well.

Just fyi, you need to use two tildes to for strikethrough. With only one tilde you get subscript.

You basically verify your account yourself, by adding a link to it on your website with rel="me" HTML attribute.

https://joinmastodon.org/verification

You could add secureblue. I would put it in the same category as GrapheneOS and Vanadium.

Chromium-based browsers have arguably better security than Firefox. https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html

Vanadium further improves Chromium’s security by disabling the JS JIT Compiler, using a hardened memory allocator (GrapheneOS hardened_malloc) enabling ARMv8.5 MTE, and applying other hardening patches (https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/tree/main/patches).

The secureblue project maintains a hardened Chromium build for Linux called Trivalent, which uses most of the patches from Vanadium, among others. You can get it from their repo: https://repo.secureblue.dev/secureblue.repo

Photoshop ❌ Microsoft Paint ✅

your (very expensive) license is tied to a USB stick

Not true. You can link it to your Unraid.net account using Unraid Connect: https://docs.unraid.net/account/link-key/

Sure, it’s not perfect, but still the best option for beginners.

Unraid is great for beginners.

HomeBox is perfect for your use case. You could also try InvenTree, but I think HomeBox is going to better suit your needs.

Thankfully though, the US != the entire world