I’d look at wireguard / tailscale / headscale and hide your services behind a vpn

EU is behind the restrictions for vaping liquids, not Sweden. :)
https://health.ec.europa.eu/tobacco/product-regulation/electronic-cigarettes_en

Yeah, they had started limiting what you could buy in Sweden as well. My last time mixing I bought a silly amount of 18mg/ml 10ml strong menthol bottles and large 70/30 PG/VG bottles and ended up with my own 3mg/ml mixture that still tasted menthol, although not as overwhelmingly so.

I think part of it is something else - ease of use and ease of access.
The “world that makes sense” product exists already:
https://www.elementvape.com/box-mod-kits

While I was vaping I mixed my own liquids though, as the cost savings was immense and I could easily lower the nicotine mg/ml on my own until I quit it altogether.

Yeah, if there’s a full system failure without any backups and no option to get the system operational again then I would land in clone the drives before trying to restore data from them.

1. RAID is never a replacement for backups.
2. Never work directly with a surviving disk, clone it and work with the cloned drive.
3. Are you sure you can’t rebuild the RAID? That really is the best solution in many cases.
4. If a RAID failure is within tolerance (1 drive in a RAID5 array) then it should still be operational. Make a backup before rebuilding if you don’t have one already.
5. If more disks are gone than that then don’t count on recovering all data even with data recovery tools.

Here’s another one putting the blame on them not investing in OpenAI:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/how-chip-giant-intel-spurned-openai-fell-behind-times-2024-08-07/

At the same time Intel is definitely entering the race, and more competition is always nice:

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also appeared at the Intel event, where he announced that his company will use Intel’s relaunched foundry to make future chips.
In 2022, the US government passed the CHIPS Act promising $52 billion to reinvigorate domestic chipmaking and secure silicon supply lines.
According to a Bloomberg report, Intel is in line to receive $10 billion of that money.

• https://www.wired.com/story/intel-ai-reboot-future-us-chipmaking/

Or this piece about creating an open-source software competitor for Nvidia, among other things:

Also importantly, Intel is spearheading a consortium of heavy hitters that are developing open-source software which can interface with all AI chips.
Such software would eliminate Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) biggest competitive advantage: its software, which enables its chips to be easily managed simultaneously.
Intel’s consortium also includes Arm (NASDAQ:ARM), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, GOOGL), and Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO).
It expects to unveil a finished product by the end of this year.

• https://investorplace.com/2024/06/the-sleeping-giant-awakens-intels-ai-push-signals-a-comeback/

Corporate / Enterprise AI solution with quite a customer/partner list:

[…]customers and partners, including Bharti Airtel, Bosch, CtrlS, IBM, IFF, Landing AI, Ola, NAVER, NielsenIQ, Roboflow and Seekr.

• https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1689/intel-unleashes-enterprise-ai-with-gaudi-3-ai-open-systems

They’re starting to release tools to use Intel ARC for AI tasks, such as AI Playground and IPEX LLM:
https://game.intel.com/us/stories/introducing-ai-playground/
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/discrete-gpus/arc/software/ai-playground.html

https://game.intel.com/us/stories/wield-the-power-of-llms-on-intel-arc-gpus/
https://github.com/intel-analytics/ipex-llm

Personally I wouldn’t count Intel out of the game just yet, gonna be interesting to see what happens during 2025-2026.

So it’s a lightweight laptop but lacks the battery time to work on the go. (6 hours)

I imagine the youtube link is about the following:
Discord is firing back against MapleStory devs over copyright infringement and users are caught in the crossfire.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/social-media/discord-is-firing-back-against-maplestory-devs-over-copyright-infringement-and-users-are-caught-in-the-crossfire

Kinda similar in size to the new Sony Xperia 10 IV and Sony Xperia 10 VI. It’s a step in the right direction, but I really want them to shrink down a bit in height too.

Last time I tried my banking apps didn’t wanna play nice with LineageOS. :(

If only they could make it another 20% smaller I would count it as small as well. 6.3inch screen isn’t small in my world.

Definitely smaller, but how’s Unihertz track record regarding security updates? That’s the last part of the puzzle for me, I want a phone that’s safe. Otherwise I could still use my old XZ1 Compact. :)

Well the Sony XZ1 Compact got IP68 even with aux input and a microSDXC slot so I don’t think combining the SD Card with water resistance should be a problem. The swappable battery would probably be worse.
Regarding bloatware I’ve gotten used to using adb and the uad to remove it when buying a phone. https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater/tree/main

Keepass2Android doesn’t have it yet, but seems to be working on it
https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android/issues/2099

Strongbox seem to have their implementation done for iPhone
https://strongboxsafe.com/updates/passkeys/

I was thinking about trying another ROM on my old XZ1C but my banking apps wouldn’t run properly if I did that anyways.

I can only imagine that your conviction is wrong. If we were large enough a market to make a nice profit then I imagine the smaller phones would still be around.
With all the video that’s being consumed through phones today I kinda understand why most people prefer a larger screen too. I have friends who has neither tablets nor computers at home and if I didn’t have both of those I might even prefer a 6 inch screen myself.

Yeah, I’m using the Sony Xperia 10 IV right now and while it is better than many phones I’m reminded of how much better the XZ1 Compact feels in my hand everytime I use it to startup some music.
129mm vs 153mm in height and 65mm vs 67mm in width - it’s amazing how much a difference those 2.4cm in height does for me.

That’s a cool project and it did have a small screen, I give you that. Might be nice to only have to worry about answering the phone for 5 hours a day too. ;-)

Vaultwarden is a nice self hosted bitwarden alternative
https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Some prefer using KeepassXC and sync the database between devices
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/keepass-vs-bitwarden-server.html

The profits gained from sales of .io domains has come under increasing scrutiny given that the UK’s control over the archipelago itself is under threat.
Chagossian refugee groups (former inhabitants forcibly removed in the 1960s and 1970s) petitioning the UK government for the right of return have recently extended their grievances to the return of the .io domain as well (Chagos Refugees Group United Kingdom et al. vs. Internet Computer Bureau Limited Citation 2021).
Additionally, Mauritius is also attempting to gain control over .io by petitioning IANA for redelegation (Bowcott Citation 2022).
However, while these groups fight for control over the .io domain, a recent UN ruling challenging British sovereignty over the island threatens the existence of the ccTLD itself.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23738871.2023.2238723

While I agree with you in that ICANN will probably save .io through some policy change it isn’t as easy as just saying “screw all our policies, this ccTLD is now a gTLD.” considering the fighting going on regarding it.