I personally think it is unwise to do it now. Times are just too unstable and who knows what will happen. Recession is upon us and the inflation is huge. Do what you think is best for you, if you are an expert in your field there shouldn't be any issues but if you are "replaceable" then be careful. Whatever happens, make sure to invest in yourself because that is the only way to fight inflation.
Personally I want to store my notes as local files and manage them using some open source software, if possible version them using git. Although there are plenty note taking solutions available I find it hard to find something truly exceptional. In total I have used Vim Wiki and Cherrytree the most. Tried most of the tools available and generally most of them offer either too much or too little. In my opinion Notion is a mess.
I am not surprised that much by this news. Red Hat paid him well, and there are not a lot of companies that would offer more for the kind of job he does. I am sure this feels like a step forward from his perspective. He will still be able to do what he wants, work on something interesting, and continue to trigger the Linux community.
This makes perfect sense, especially on some minimal arch install with a tiling window manager. This way you can delegate most of the GUI stuff to the browser and have less stuff installed locally. Nextcloud is also something that can be hosted locally, it can help with calendar, image gallery, contact management, e-mails etc.
disagree, he doesnt explain how he backups stuff but I guess it is a on external server (otherwise he will lose everything in case the laptop is lost). If you are using an external server you might as well setup everything there (ideally a raspi/minipc). I have a lot of devices (tablet, mobile, laptop, desktop and home media) and being able to use all services from all devices is pretty convenient.
Using a service like rsync.net (happy customer here!) gives secure and safe backups but without the ability to run services. Which also means pretty much no matter how much I mess up, I can't expose my data to the Internet at large by mistake.
I will (and do) run Internet-facing services, but I can definitely empathise with the desire not to. And I'll only do it myself if the benefit over keeping it private outweighs the risk.
(author) I backup my stuff to three different USB hard drives in three distinct locations, plus rsync.net. All via borg. This works well, is cheap, and a lot would have to happen for me to lose all the data.
Of course this self-hosting approach does not work if you have many machines, but I have just my Laptop plus my phone.
I am not able to share screen while on wayland session. Sadly i really need that functionality for work so i use x, that is the only issue i have with wayland. Good news is that they only plan to do this in gtk5 hopefully things will get better until then.
You can absolutely run pipewire for screen sharing while running something else for an audio server. If your distribution doesn't provide this as a supported setup, I suggest you check with them.
