I’m gonna be the problemXY guy and suggest you get a normal laptop, like a thinkpad T14 and friends, without a discrete GPU and get an EGPU setup; you can get a DIY rig in the $50-100 region, dependent on the interface, and you get a ton of benefits:

• you’re not limited to gaming laptops. you can get a laptop that’s portable, has a long battery life, and widely available on the 2nd hand market, is easy and cheap to upgrade, fix, repair, etc. everything gaming laptops fucking aren’t
• your options for GPUs rise dramatically, including reusing shit you already got laying around
• way, way more powerful than laptop discrete graphics with practically unlimited vertical upgrade options

it bothers me immensely that javascript backed Gnome that I can’t make run fluidly and jerklessly on competent desktop hardware is the default on underpowered mobile hardware, making Android and iOS level fluidity practically unattainable in the foreseeable future.

edit: I run pmOS on a SDM845 with 8 GB RAM and fast storage, tried em all on edge (gnome, plasma, phosh, plasma mobile) and it’s a 5 fps stuttering mess. that’s before I load something to said RAM, like a browser or (dog forbid) an electron app.

holup, you can’t send fucking images with a free account!? def no videos with that “limit”.

I’m already in the process of moving my corpo stuff to XMPP but this should precipitate a total exodus, both private and business shit.

why would swiping away an app not kill it? why would you do that? leave it be until it’s done wtf

how much RAM you got? on my two A15 phones with 6 and 8 GB RAM nothing extraordinary happens in that regard, whereas my A15 4 GB RAM tablet can’t handle a lot of open apps and OOM kills some in the background.

edit: you seem to be trying to run android apps like desktop apps. that doesn’t work here. how things work is most apps are dormant when they don’t have focus and when they receive a push message e.g. “you have a new message”, their handler wakes up, fetches stuff from the server and updates local state (and then optionally displays the notification).

so you either need to install unified push and get apps that support it or have e.g. microG implement a subset of Play services so that GCM/FCM works with “normal” apps. the third option, what you may be doing, is having every app excluded from sleep and doing their own updates checking.

the example where you close an app and then go “why app closed” is unrelated.

gOS threat model is “everything everywhere all at once” - nation state actors et al - and from that standpoint, yeah, eOS and lOS and whoever else is lacking.

but the vast majority of users have a threat model that can be boiled down to two things:

1. a lost/stolen device doesn’t compromise me - the fucker can’t get at my stuff and/or impersonate me, and
2. free from apple’s/google’s reign - I control what stuff runs on my phone

both easily accomplished with lineageOS and derivatives running on a $50 phone. if you truly want to spend four digits annually on Newest & Best, you do you, I’m good.

“rebooting” is not a thing ova here. yeah, you can accomplish that but that’s not what you want. utilising something like InputRemapper + e.g. Plasma shortcuts, you can launch a big-picture UI, like steam or plama-bigscreen when it’s ready or somesuch, when you press a key combo on the controller or mouse or keyboard or any combination thereof.

it’s using mpv under the hood, so I guess it should be able to play audio headless. I’m using allcast to cast to it and control it.

I’m using macast as a media renderer, for video and audio. don’t know if there’s a docker container for it.

because they used to be special. “I run linux”, matrix text on boot, typing shit in the terminal, “I’m in”, awe-inspiring shit to an onlooker…

but nowadays, anyone can run ubuntu or mint or whatevs and our hero ain’t special no more. so here comes the ultimate delimiter.

looks easy enough, will try, thank you.

tbh, looked at the thing some while back and noped out when I saw “java” in there; absolutely irrational, I know - just can’t stand the thing. cool that there’s an alternative.

don’t know about that latitude, but for the thinkpad you’d do well to disable the nvidia graphics in BIOS setup. intel graphics is adequate for daily stuff and you can actually use the thing as a mobile device i.e. on battery,

mint uses X11 which should be considered legacy at this point. wayland (Gnome, Plasma) has all the touch and dock/undock and rotate and pen etc goodies. try it out from a liveUSB and decide for yourself.

this one, OP. no need to introduce the horror that’s a:

• hosted app (why?!)
• client app is electron crapware
• the client app doesn’t even have full functionality, you have to use the web UI for some tasks

edit: I’m obviously speaking about the bitwarden/vaultwarden horror. keepassXC is none of them things.

I used enpass for years and was a happy user. one day it prompted me for some re-authentication bullshit security theater. although in that instant it was an easy task, took me all of 10 seconds, it demonstrated a scary amount of power they had as I couldn’t bypass it and access my data. from that point on, its days were numbered.

the second issue is the export functionality that was seriously lacking and I had to resort to 3rd party converter tools to convert it to keepassXC; no way that flew by their QC, it had to be intentional.

you’re running way too old a distro for what you want. debian 12 has its merits as a server, you install it and leave it be and it just works.

what you want - fluidity with power management, dock/undock, etc - although achievable with tweaking this and that isn’t being worked on, not on X, not on debian 12, so it’s not like those things will eventually get there. so you need a semi-modern distro, like ubuntu or fedora or even trixie.

wayland isn’t new, it’s default on a lot of distros since 2021 or so, so you can be sure that your use case was previosly met and solved. costs you nothing to boot e.g. F42 off a USB and try it out (has to be 42 as earlier live sessions default to X11). if you have lots of RAM, add the rd.live.ram switch so it copies the image to RAM and everything is super-snappy for testing and it doesn’t touch your SSD.

piracy didn’t start with the internet and won’t end on it. like with porn, it always finds a way.

you lack reading comprehension.

again, as with telegram, the shit I give zero fucks about (the groups, rooms, channels, whathaveyous) are encroaching on the things I give a ton of fucks about - the private, 1-on-1 comms. what are the odds this will be the only thing they’ll freemiumise in the long term?

anyone successfully managed to import chat history from one instance to another? heard it’s possible, don’t know of anyone actually doing it.

gnome sushi (installed by default in gnome) handles the press space to preview file. not a fully fledged editor but still miss the thing in plasma.

is as scam. if you’re already receiving unsolicited shit, what’s the thought process behind being courteous with them motherfuckers? go nuclear on them, that whole industry lost its benefit of doubt privileges a decade ago.