“distrohoped”?

As in you hoped this next distro would be the one that worked well?

Sounds like S.O.P

I think you misread, OP is saying the system is using to little ram and too much swap.

Interesting, I’ve never seen this behaviour on Windows.

I’ve been using Syncthing-Fork for years. It’s better all around because it moves sync conditions to within each sync folder.

So my photos sync immediately (over any network or battery status), but my app config export folder (say my podcast app) only syncs on power and wifi.

Some people like to suffer.

I’ll go a long way to reduce my data exposure, but ffs, Windows and Office are the standard worldwide, for a reason. It’s just naive and foolish to fight this battle while you have enough pressure and time limits as it is.

And I run multiple Linux-based systems in my home lab, but my laptop is windows, because “ain’t nobody got time for that”, as Sweet Brown would say.

Microsoft published that script to Github.

Calling it piracy to use their openly published script is… I don’t know, incorrect?

The fork is much better anyway.

It moves the sync options into each sync folder/job. Lots more flexible. Now my photos sync on any network and any charge state, while less important things (downloads, etc) only sync when on WiFi and charging.

Only updates it should need are for weird changes Google decides to make to Android.

Hell, at this point if someone forked the fork, and charged a small fee for the Relay Server hosting, I’d happily pay.

Thanks, it’s been a while.

The 90’s? Locked bootloaders would’ve meant people woukdve simply bought different machines without a locked bootloader.

See the IBM/Phoenix BIOS war - it’s essentially the same thing. IBM didn’t want to license their BIOS to everyone, so Phoenix reverse engineered it. If I remember right, IBM was trying to lock everyone to using their OS.

Early Android (circa 2009) didn’t have locked bootloaders.

Google wanted people to experiment, which was basically free research for them. Pixel’s today are unlocked when purchased from Google.

Even my earliest Verizon phones weren’t bootloader locked - they didn’t start doing that for a few years (my last Verizon phone in 2012 wasn’t bootloader locked). And Verizon is arguably the worst vendor when it comes to bootloader locked phones.

That just sounds painfully inefficient (though we’ve been doing stuff like this for decades).

Arm isn’t as efficient at higher cpu states as x86, and running a VM you’re definitely going to up the cpu usage.

Still interesting to watch. And every use-case is unique. For the typical short-run process this is for, it’ll probably be fine.

Well, it is.

It’s a lot more work to use not-Google stuff on Android. Which I try very hard to do.

Now trying to get a family member to install and run anything not from the Play store is like pulling teeth.

It’s the convenience angle.

I have very experienced IT friends who continue to use privacy invasive crap, knowingly because they like the convenience.

So is termux a containerized Linux? (I haven’t looked into it yet, just on my list). I had assumed it was a VM, guess I was incorrect.

I wonder if maybe some kind of notification system for her, and you, would be useful (in addition to blocking).

Then maybe you can interrupt her, perhaps talk about it, or setup some tools for her to use to help manage stuff and learn along the way.

Guess what I’m going for is the learning/growth angle, rather than just automatic constraints (which hy themselves don’t teach or help us learn to manage this stuff ourselves).

Seems like there’s a need for all this for all kids, not just neuro-atypical.

Yep, an OS would need to be monolithic for a given device.

Something the computer world decided was a Bad Thing in about 1978.

The MDM APIs in android land are a hot mess

Ain’t that the truth.

I avoid Google stuff, actually going Google free on the phone I’m setting up now, so Family Link is out for me. And I try to avoid all-eggs-in-a-basket anyway.

Yea, it sucks. I’ve looked at a LOT of MDM for Android.

Hmm, I couldn’t find that anywhere. Thanks again.

Oh, cool. Thanks for the recommendation!