I've had a Mac rather than a Linux machine at home for the last five or so years. Before that the arch wiki saved the day for me so many times.

Reading this has me looking for a junker laptop on eBay.

Full disclosure this is my employer but I find HN is a bit GLP1 engaged so I figured it was a good share. Do folks here anecdotally follow this trend of not continuing these drugs long term?

Add to this list that it tends to not work while connected via a VPN. Not sure why but this makes me very skeptical of it.

Probably because their handling of VM networking isn't very robust.

Why should booting a Linux VM require network access right away.

Probably because it's trying to establish a network connection, and it might be running a networking setup that blocks until the network is up. Also, it's trying to run networking with the host so it can run things like the storage balloon driver and mounting the host filesystem.

that's sketch city. Why does it care? What are they looking for?

I'm thinking maybe they just want me to keep using termux over their sketchy shit

I dunno I just copied it into emacs. Another free short story to keep in my digital collection.

That was my exact reaction after opening this post...

This is a wonderful app. Thanks for making builds available via Obtainium. You will be getting a donation shortly. I will assuredly use this when I go hiking and fishing.

Thank you so much that really means a lot!

Beyond donating, the best way to support MBCompass is simply spreading the word. That helps more people discover it, contribute to it, and make it better for everyone.

I was going to ask. Is a goal here for users to self/locally host if they like?

Yes, you can self host if you’d like as long as you don’t make it public. Be sure to get the latest version from GitHub periodically, or not. If it’s working no need to update.

Thanks !

I'm not sure I understand. Are you implying we should not design our technology around serious edge cases that humans encounter in life? Why wouldn't we target people in crisis when we design crisis management information sites?

I’m saying no one will unless incentivised to.

Oh yes absolutely.

One thing that I would also suggest folks who are resonating with this piece consider...

Local copies of important information on your mobile device. Generally your laptops are not going to see much use. Mobile apps tend to fake local data and store lots of things to the cloud. We tend to ignore such things like backups and local copies nowadays. Most of the time we can get away without any worry here but consider keeping a copy of things like medications and their non commercial names for situations like this as well.

Syncthing is the way! Along with the Material Files app from F-droid, I finally get to have a file based workflow on Android.

You'll probably want to add localsend to the mix.

Syncthing is also great

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